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A big problem with streaming is latency. The bigger the audience, the longer the lag time. Right now, it averages 44 seconds for big games.

One of my friends here is the Fox Sports programming lead who has an office at the Auburn Athletic complex. I asked him what he thought and he just shook his head. GT is one of many schools who are used for programming content. It really doesn't matter if we win, lose or have anyone in the...

First, what do you expect him to say? The ACC is in trouble, run for your lives? No, he's the AD. He'll give some vague, but mildly positive, statement that says everything is fine. The reality is the same organization (ESPN) that is going to be driving any future ratings goals is also going...

You are playing checkers on a 3D chessboard. The question is not about local ratings. It has been about, and continues to be about, can CFB produce 7-10 games of marquee value that will have viewership at the lower end of the average ratings of NFL games? If the answer is yes ... people will...

So, to put this to bed, I asked Payroll. After they stopped laughing, here's the process: - The Compensation Committee periodically reviews pay ranges by grade and classification against like universities. They typically submit recommendations prior to an August BoT meeting. - The BoT votes...

ESPN networks accounted for 54% of all college football viewing ... up 4% from the previous year. A quick read suggests that ESPN's coverage model for CFB is different from the NFL because of the local demand of various college teams. So the strategy is to promote Game Day by Home Depot (a...

My best students are the athletes. Why? First, every student is required to bring their phone to class and on each phone is a tracking app. The classrooms are enabled to track the attendance of each athlete in real time. The Athletic Dept knows where every athlete is during class hours and...

Well, I know the process and it is VERY difficult to arbitrarily hand out faculty raises. Most raises are simply due to a change in status from one instructor classification to another ... which is all automatic and has zero to do with athletic performance. It's easy enough to check. I'm in the...

I think he was pulling your leg. It's very tightly controlled by the state budgeting and state ethics commission. It is much more restrictive than in Georgia.

I teach at Auburn and disagree. Like most places, there's a formal process. Football performance is not part of the process.

Good Lord. There has been ZERO interest on the academic side to support athletics for 40 plus years. The Hill sees their peers as MIT, CalTech, Urbana, Berkeley, Carnegie-Mellon, etc. The President of Tech gets ZERO bonus for the performance of the athletic teams, but mucho dinero for how much...

I think this is the most accurate perspective yet. For over 100 years, three conferences, two world wars, a pandemic ... we are still largely playing the same teams. I don't think that will change. The money will change ... but we will probably still be playing sports against like-minded teams.

UNC going to the SEC was a bit of a surprise to me but ... the SEC is swimming in so much money, football can't absorb it all. Auburn just gave Bruce Pearl a $50M contract for basketball. (Remember the days of paying a coach $300K, a shoe contract and a tv show?) Targeting the ACC to take over...

Fair enough. But isn't the party that determines the majority of the value the same for both; e.g., ESPN? I would think they would restate the values and simply offer a present value buyout of the rights which ... once paid, would pretty much obliterate the ACC. Fun to speculate, but the...

But here's a question. I read an article yesterday that speculated that FSU, UNC, Miami and Clemson will bolt for the SEC. Why? The enhanced value of the SEC rights will compensate for the GOR buyout. And ... here's the question. The ACC, without those three, would as a consequence, suffer...

Random thoughts ... Sanity being heaped upon NIL ... the jury is still out here. What I read/hear is that almost no one (except Jimbo Fisher) is happy with NIL infecting CFB the way it has. I'm confident things will eventually converge towards something more equitable, but ... that may not be...

I don't think we have the money to do it. Which means we need a totally different way to think about how we hire and compensate coaches. IMO, Tech has two options for coaches: 1) Up and comers who are inexpensive (no track record) or 2) Those close to their past due date and are looking to...

Exactly. Which is the problem with most college football teams. In business, once you decide on a strategy ... it will take 7-10 years to fully implement it. You have recruiting talent, training, aligning sales/marketing/operations, recapitalizing, managing facilities, etc. So a CEO has to do...

Did you read what Gold1 said? My comment was in response to his. I think the GT player's point was ... yes, it is so different that it no longer appeals to me. That was my takeaway from his body language.

That's fine. They could do that and still have executive offices anywhere they want.