jgtengineer
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What's wrong with Pat?
There is one word that will bring in the dollars and is the exact reason why the playoffs will expand beyond 12 - and that word is HOPE.How much fun would it be for conference champs to have auto bids this year? We would still mathematically be in the running.
I'm guessing he is popular with the younger generation.Pat McAfee is a joke! I absolutely cannot watch Game Day any more.
Real shame that we take Stanford and Cal, we should have gone for Oregon and Washington right after USC and UCLA decided to leave.I think the Pac 12 in it's final year is overall the strongest conference. A real shame that conference is dissolving after this season.
How do you know we didn't? Maybe the ACC tried and they got told no.Real shame that we take Stanford and Cal, we should have gone for Oregon and Washington right after USC and UCLA decided to leave.
Agree but don’t think it will need 20 teams. The best team is almost always among the P5 champs and certainly always among the top 10, including conference runners-up/at-large. I think an 8-team playoff is sufficient and takes only 3 weeks to finish. Of course, this assumes the selections beyond conference champs avoids political choices for DEI.There is one word that will bring in the dollars and is the exact reason why the playoffs will expand beyond 12 - and that word is HOPE.
Once you give people hope you’ll keep them engaged longer, fill stadiums, and rake in the bucks.
I have been calling on an expanded playoff since I was 8 and realized how screwed up the entire sport was as I sat there in my pajamas watching #1 play #7 while #2 played #5. None of it made sense until I was older and understood how the bowl execs needed pay back for all the freebies they gave away all year to the AD’s, school Presidents, and coaches.
Close your eyes and imagine a time in the future when a GT team is playing November games that mean something more than just “momentum for next year” and where a loss on the Saturday after Thanksgiving doesn’t destroy our hope. That is what is coming - a legit playoff with 20 plus teams beginning in early December and running thru mid January until the NFL playoffs begin.
I can’t wait and am so happy that the next generation of fans won’t have to endure the absolute garbage of watching Champions be crowned by a sports editor at the Tacoma Daily Press or a team that plays a 2 game season and gets an invite to the private 4 team club. Let them all earn it by playing real teams for a month and the team that survives gets the trophy.
The perception is that the B1G was way ahead of everyone in their expansion plans and the ACC was being reactive. That may not be fair but the two conferences have given completely different public statements before, during, and after the realignment shuffle.How do you know we didn't? Maybe the ACC tried and they got told no.
ACC did look into Oregon and Washington after the USC/UCLA announcement. This was well covered at the time.Real shame that we take Stanford and Cal, we should have gone for Oregon and Washington right after USC and UCLA decided to leave.
Read an article a few years ago, higher education journal I believe, that listed all the schools that would not exist in the next 20 years. After it came out a lot of junior colleges and community colleges became four year institutions and added programs like nursing. Many smaller private schools won’t make it as well as public schools in sparsely populated areas.I expect the money problem at AZ is just the beginning of money problems all across higher education over the coming years. Many, many will fold as the institutions they are today. They will not be missed IMO. Technology/engineering institutions will survive I'm guessing.
Right now we are simply in a new place monetarily.
In some places, the Presidents act as if the job is to run off the donors. Odd times.The main job of any President in this day and age is build the endowment and get alumni donations up.
Many people have said for more than five years that ESPN's business model is not sustainable.Five years ago, how many people forecast money tightening at ESPN?
This is exactly why I am of the opinion that GA Tech needs to just let the factories go here. Atlanta already has one pro team. We do not need another. We can really enjoy a good college football team, though, made up of actual S-A's.I think the end of that Yahoo sports article is the most telling.
Whatever new shape college sports takes, White hopes that higher education and major college athletics — a link that is under as much tension as ever — continues to persist.
He’s not sure it will.
“We have a 107-year history where we’ve successfully tethered higher education to sport and it is at risk,” he told committee members. “We are approaching an irreconcilable position between the academy and college athletics. That is frightening.”