makes sense to me... SEC will have more teams 10-16; big 10 16 -24 just because they are all ass
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makes sense to me... SEC will have more teams 10-16; big 10 16 -24 just because they are all ass
This is a fight between ESPN that runs and controls the SEC and broadcasts all the playoff games and Fox Sports that owns a majority share of BTN and broadcasts the B10 wanting to get the option to broadcast playoff games.
That's my point though, if you pick any 15 schools from the P4, there will always be some that are hot, and some that were recently hot that get above average ratings. Doesn't matter which schools you choose. Of the 8 schools you mentioned, idk how much Oregon moves the needle when Phil Knight stops writing blank checks. LSU is certainly a bigger fanbase than ISU, but I'm not sure how statistically significant that actually is when a lot of the boost in prime time comes from casuals. That leaves 6, and if Alabama didn't have such a long pedigree I would say take them off too, but at this point they have a lot of residual momentum so sure.
Lot of "ifs there, Knight has set up a trust to keep supplying Oregon with money long after he dies. Even if you get 24 schools it's not enough programing, 12 games a week are not going to be enough.
For the vast majority of the schools the time and the network you are on factor in as much as the team, but not for the top 10 to 12 schools, they will always find an audience.
If they break away occurring, then both the ACC and B12 have to hold firm and cancel all games with the two leagues and then push to make sure that this is everything just not football. The problem for the remaining schools are there are going to be some that want to get into the new NFL light league and will drop their current league if they can. That is why it will come down to how the by-laws of each league are written. The ACC held onto Clemson and FSU as they tried to sue and leave, so there was something there to have stopped them.
I guess it now up to the SEC and B10, are they willing to take the next step and leave the NCAA?
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NAACP urges black athletes to boycott schools in certain states, mainly targeting the ACC and SEC.
www.espn.com
NAACP urging athletes, fans to boycott over voting rights
The NAACP on Tuesday launched the "Out of Bounds" campaign to urge Black athletes and fans to boycott some public universities over voting restrictions.
That sounds great, but money talks and as long as the B10, SEC and a few other schools have plenty of NIL, the athletes are going to follow, no matter their skin color. That fact has hurt the SEC, once they had cornered the athletes in their footprint, figured none of them would want to play in the cold weather in the North, but once NIL started in, they quickly found out the kids would play anywhere for the right amount of money, and for the most part, the northern schools had a lot more money to give outNAACP urges black athletes to boycott schools in certain states, mainly targeting the ACC and SEC.
NAACP urging athletes, fans to boycott over voting rights
The NAACP on Tuesday launched the "Out of Bounds" campaign to urge Black athletes and fans to boycott some public universities over voting restrictions.
Looks like the Big 12 found their Tony Altimore. Where was this guy during the PAC crisis?
And it didn’t have to be this way. Greed killed it. The dumbest thing is that everyone would be making more money if they just all banded together.
Where would that money be going? To the arms race ? Gross
As long as we yearn for the amateurism of yesteryear, the big business of college football was going to be unraveling at the seams
The NFL has an agreed upon salary cap and everyone plays by the same rules. Would this new league play like that? Would tOSU and Michigan ever agree to play nice and not use their financial advantage? Probably not, that would make this new league more like the MLB, teams would spend whatever they want and most of the teams would only have a shot at winning it all every once in a blue moon. The big market teams will always just pay the small market teams players more to keep their advantage.
Jamie stirred up the bad guys.
sports.yahoo.com
With college sports more in disarray than ever, Big Ten left searching for answers
The SCORE act is dead and there's discord everywhere as college sports' leaders seek help from anywhere they can get it.
I'm glad we have JP on our side.. i know we all have our quirks and he definitely does somethings that not all agree with. But I feel with his credentials and how long he's been in the game; his opinion is getting some eyeballs.
I didn’t view athletes as indentured servants before either. They were getting free schooling, free meals, free clothing, free room, etc. Now one could argue that they should make more since the ncaa profits millions on them, but that’s still not happening since their wages are made off the backs of fans.
Most of their wages are actually made off the back of the media dollars. The really good ones are the ones getting real NIL in addition to the rev share.
Also here’s a hint, every single dollar any athlete or sports team makes is off the of fans, specifically fans eyeballs however not their backs
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Most of this NIL is coming from some wealthy alumni or person liking the university willing to throw millions at the school.
JP on this list of luminaries in support of Cruz/Cantwell sponsored bi-partisan Fed legislation.
Notably absent are the Fox and ESPN puppets:
No matter what league they are in, Ohio State will always break the rules if it meant a big advantage for them. They always broke whatever rules existed.
