Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

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I'll bet you're a formidable chess player. Seriously.
Well, once upon a time when I played a lot, I was okay for an amateur. Anyone who really knew what they were doing would have thrashed me LOL.

But I do like strategy, game theory, that kind of stuff - mentally challenging and fun. Trying to see how it all fits together from the points of view of different players with different goals, different tools, etc. Play a lot of grand strategy computer games, and that's kind of my role here in the business. Big Sun Tzu fan.

It's been seriously interesting watching Yormark and what he is doing, he absolutely has a strategy (stay close in football, leverage bball to gain advantage) and he is executing it quite well to date.
 
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The gist is WSU plans to continue to spend at current levels and the Wash BOR and taxpayers will have to subsidize that expense. I am sure the Iowa BOR would do the same for Iowa State . . . or not.



HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED HOW San Diego State, Fresno State, Boise State and others in the Group of 5 compete so well against Power 5 schools when their media rights revenues are one-sixth or -seventh the size? It’s because their schools underwrite them at $20 million or more per year.

WSU is going to be sitting at that same table at the conclusion of this school year. And if it's not, then the true challenge in athletics will have only just begun.

As my old friend Glenn Osterhout wrote on these pages a few years ago;

  • "For those who may want to discount the importance of athletics, it is empirically proven that it is the single-best marketing tool a university possesses. Right or wrong, the fact is that winning teams elevate the image of the entire university. It's why student applications to WSU skyrocket when we're successful in sports and why donations to all sectors of the school climb when we're going to Rose Bowls and NCAA Tournaments."
In many ways, the athletic department ought be viewed as a marketing expense for the broader university.

The old adage is that athletics is "the front porch of the university." It's an adage because it's true. Sports fuels the entire system. It's why San Diego State and so many other schools with modest media rights revenue invest heavily in athletics.
 

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Well, once upon a time when I played a lot, I was okay for an amateur. Anyone who really knew what they were doing would have thrashed me LOL.

But I do like strategy, game theory, that kind of stuff - mentally challenging and fun. Trying to see how it all fits together from the points of view of different players with different goals, different tools, etc. Play a lot of grand strategy computer games, and that's kind of my role here in the business. Big Sun Tzu fan.

It's been seriously interesting watching Yormark and what he is doing, he absolutely has a strategy (stay close in football, leverage bball to gain advantage) and he is executing it quite well to date.
To really find out what is happening, we need to track Yormark's jet to see where it is going and where it is coming from.
 

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Local sports guy here (Omaha) had an interesting thought. Florida State thinks they are wanted in the SEC. But, ESPN has the rights to their games for 13 more years and FSU only gets $30 million a year all that time.

Why would ESPN want FSU to just change neighborhoods, and then they have to pay FSU $60 million every year. Meaning, it's not going to be easy for anyone to leave the ACC for quite a while.
Man, it’s just mind blowing to me that the market is so inflated that FSU wouldn’t be a value-add for the SEC. The same FSU that went to 36 straight bowls, won multiple NCs, has multiple Heisman winners, etc.

Everything is built on a house of cards it seems.
 

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Man, it’s just mind blowing to me that the market is so inflated that FSU wouldn’t be a value-add for the SEC. The same FSU that went to 36 straight bowls, won multiple NCs, has multiple Heisman winners, etc.

Everything is built on a house of cards it seems.

Bobby Bowden ain't walking through that door
 
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Bobby Bowden ain't walking through that door
They really took a nose dive when Jimbo left.
Shoot, Florida (outside of a few flash in the pan seasons under Mullen) hasn’t been the same since Urban Meyer left. Miami hasn’t been Miami since the early 00’s. There’s a power vacuum in the Sunshine State.
 

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They really took a nose dive when Jimbo left.
Shoot, Florida (outside of a few flash in the pan seasons under Mullen) hasn’t been the same since Urban Meyer left. Miami hasn’t been Miami since the early 00’s. There’s a power vacuum in the Sunshine State.

Central mother ******* Florida, *******!
 
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They really took a nose dive when Jimbo left.
Shoot, Florida (outside of a few flash in the pan seasons under Mullen) hasn’t been the same since Urban Meyer left. Miami hasn’t been Miami since the early 00’s. There’s a power vacuum in the Sunshine State.
It is always, ALWAYS, about the coach.

Some schools have natural advantages and some don't. But the coach is what makes the program great or underwhelming.
 

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It is always, ALWAYS, about the coach.

Some schools have natural advantages and some don't. But the coach is what makes the program great or underwhelming.
Very true. I’m thinking of other schools who fell hard after with a bad hire/s. Cal after Tedford, Nebraska after Pelini, Texas after Brown, USC after Carroll, Tennessee after Fulmer, Virginia Tech after Beamer, Mizzou after Pinkel, Notre Dame between Holtz and Kelly. Some of these programs have bounced back, some really haven’t.
 
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Very true. I’m thinking of other schools who fell hard after with a bad hire/s. Cal after Tedford, Nebraska after Pelini, Texas after Brown, USC after Carroll, Tennessee after Fulmer, Virginia Tech after Beamer, Mizzou after Pinkel, Notre Dame between Holtz and Kelly. Some of these programs have bounced back, some really haven’t.
How could you forget the immortal Ron Prince?
 
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They really took a nose dive when Jimbo left.
Shoot, Florida (outside of a few flash in the pan seasons under Mullen) hasn’t been the same since Urban Meyer left. Miami hasn’t been Miami since the early 00’s. There’s a power vacuum in the Sunshine State.
It always seems like there is always one Florida school that is good, and then the rest of them are down. Then they rotate who gets all the talent.
 
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“Within three years, Apple felt we would vastly succeed where everyone else was but the Big 10 and SEC and be closing that gap. I thought let’s take some short-term pain but the long-term gain looked really good for Washington State. Apple discussed putting $100 million in the first year into marketing this. Those of us around a while have remembered the genius marketing Apple has done again and again … their track record of success is really good.”

Some of the inside story coming out from his perspective anyways.
 
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That's UCF to you. Didn't you get the memo? NEVER call them Central Florida, they are UCF!

I think they are pretty sensitive to being thought of as a directional school . . . .
There used to be (still is?) a British clothes/fashion biz called French Connection UK - they branded as FCUK.

Maybe Florida Central can brand as UCFK.
 

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