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At this point with NIL, scholarship limits are not as meaningful. That's why I am a proponent of more stringent roster limits. Along with a progressive system similar to what you described - in the same vein as the NFL's draft order system. It won't fly with the factories though. Last time...

Second this. Wife and I brought ponchos - they helped a little but it was an unrelenting tropical monsoon for most of the game.

There's a related thread on the Recruiting Forum. I made a very similar comment in that thread. To the point that, instead of raising the scholarship cap, the NCAA should have lowered the roster cap instead - if they wanted to help schools that struggle to compete with the factory budgets.

Oops, I didn't intend for it to sound like the same journalists who work at the AJC are now getting paid by the click. I was generalizing about the state of the profession, and my comments were directed more to the rise of the random YouTubers/Tweeters/clickbait becoming prevalent in media and...

What is killing good journalism is the change in how they are compensated. Instead of building up a good reputation over time, while drawing a salary at a reputable media outlet, they are now incented based on how many clicks. The more outrageous or off-the-wall their content, the more they get...

Out of curiosity, I just checked the price and availability of Club seats from either the GT ticket office or StubHub. They're completely sold out from GT for a season where we don't play uga at Bobby Dodd. That's an indication that they're not overpriced. Some are available from StubHub for...

Wife and I had season tickets in CL3 in 2014. Besides what you said (all true), another factor is the free food and drink combined with the comfortable air-conditioned club with table seating. Back then you could not bring alcohol into the stands. So you could skip the free beer/wine or miss...

You mean like this game? (skip ahead to 50 seconds in) This was the first video that popped up in my Google list. Of course it may have been one of those rare exceptions. Edit to add: I don't doubt that white and gold are the uniforms most associated with Tech's 1950's teams. But those...

Sounds about right. It's also reasonable to assume that the other conferences have similar pro-rata clauses, so the ACC is not really closing the gap with our recent adds. Although there is likely a small relative benefit to the ACC from SMU taking nothing for 7 years, but I haven't done the math.

This is from a reporter so take it for what that's worth - but it specifies what the additional schools should bring to the ACC'c media deal.

Thanks for sharing. Based on your example, I stand corrected regarding the use of the term "guarantee" in media contracts. Perhaps we will be able to confirm if it is used in the ESPN agreement if the redacted version being given to FSU is made public.

I'll chime in. All I can say is that in my experience with lawyers, they try to avoid using the term “guarantee” because it can to open up a can of worms. I seriously doubt that the ESPN agreement uses that word. There may be a payment schedule tied to some performance criteria, but the...

Bear in mind that the CFP isn't necessarily stopping at 12. And much of this realignment is about positioning your team to be in the top tier of college football when the dust settles. That is a reason that Clemson and FSU desperately want out of the ACC now, even if it means a harder path to...

I recognize now that my initial response to you wasn't clear. I agree that the SEC east has been weak, especially with UF's decline.

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I tried to look at this with the Knight database numbers, but I think they are skewed due to the ACC having so many private institutions that don't report. That would tend to bias the data toward the larger budgets of the state institutions and the football factories of Clemson and FSU. Miami...

Auburn was in the SEC west up until this year when they've abandoned divisions. They play Bama every year, as well as uga as their cross-division rival. So their schedule included Bama, uga, LSU, Ole Miss, TAMU, etc, etc every year. Typically a top-ten SoS.

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You may want to check that.

That's what I'm hoping.