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I was in the arena in San Antonio for Bynum’s drive against OKST, so that one!

Longer commercial breaks don't help us. Pretty much every game is on TV now, so it's at best zero-sum to add more commercials for GT: we get more TV revenue, everyone else does too, it's a wash-out. I think it's actually worse, though: ACC games don't get as many eyeballs as others = ACC games...

5'10" outside of sports would be plenty tall to not get a height penalty, respect-wise, but I honestly have no idea how tall the average ref or coach is. Seems like he's taller than Gregory and shorter than Pastner, per Google, but he's got the badass-looking factor going strong in that pic!

Appearance (height, attractiveness, body profile) makes a difference in people’s careers and influence all the time. It’s because of subconscious respect, not physical fear.

Stupid newb money question - lotta talk about not being able to recruit in terms of paying players and NIL. What happened since Hewitt was bringing in high-4 and 5 stars? I’m assuming there was under the table stuff going on to keep up with the Joneses, how’d it dry up? Or was he just a...

A high caliber coach - of the sort GT used to be able to attract - could’ve built up the talent level by now especially with the portal. That excuse is dead now. But the program was left behind in the money race - from various bad decisions many of which happened before Johnson - plus made a...

So otherwise we’ve got, what? Standord Vanderbilt TCU Baylor Northwestern USC And looks like BYU is joining the Big 12. So that’s 7. But still, yeah, pretty lopsided.

Let’s put in place limits on commercials, maybe that’ll trigger a renegotiation (downward) of those new SEC and B1G contracts since the broadcasts are less valuable now. Win win! In all seriousness I’m not against the proposed incomplete pass change because right now it’s a bit of an advantage...

What did Anderson and especially Marbury (I’ve only seen good news about him in the past decade or so) do to be in that category?

I wonder if TV money will continue going up, to the point that even a basketball-centric ACC could get bigger paydays in 2028ish than they do today with the football schools. I personally doubt it, since Bally's whole business plan was betting on "this line goes up forever" and they lost that...

Grabbing a few PAC schools purely to open negotiations would be something, I guess. But what's left? Oregon has the whole Nike thing but are any of Oregon/Stanford/Cal/Washington bringing in that many more viewers per game than today's average ACC program? CFB just isn't the same on the west...

I don't even think more schools have to be involved yet. They could just be testing the waters, seeing who agrees with them. 13 years is a long time if some parties to the agreement are already rumbling about it. That's why I dont' believe that nothing will happen until 2036. Yeah, that's what...

Maybe naive question, but does it also make sense if you know your coach is likely to get poached to do this purely as a "get a bigger buyout when he leaves" move?

I don’t think GT football survives the dominos falling in an FSU-less ACC without being one of the teams leaving.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/35728303/florida-state-ad-says-lagging-acc-revenue-change Some interesting tidbits in there suggestive of a couple things: Possibly FSU wants uneven revenue sharing? Possibly thinking about how to challenge the GoR in court? Nothing about...

I dunno, how many did Calvin Johnson have?

I’m not a Georgia resident but I would hope that most politicians response to “were spending a bunch of our money on an institution that is no longer serving the state as much as it used to, or could” wouldn’t be “lol screw off, go dawgs.” If hating GT was a major factor they could’ve been...

The heavily-managed insanity that is middle school/high school these days is maybe the only example of a "race to the bottom" that's also kinda a "race to the top." But with the same zero-sum ruin-it-for-everyone result that at the end, all the extra work everyone's doing compared to twenty...

Yeah I heard the same story but had the same question. Especially since a lot of returns go down the side of the field…?

As I understand their play from when they bought the Fox Sports RSN was to “overpay” because they believed the rights they had would be worth more to cable companies than they historically had been. Seems like they were wrong, and the cable and streaming companies told them to pound sand. It’s...