Recent content by billybud

Poor BC...they have only beat Fordham...

They have holidays in Alabama too...you don't have to go to Saudi Arabia for a Holiday Bowl...heck, the annual Hajj this year is November 29...as the Bama faithful flock en masse to Auburn. Seriously...American sports must be developing some legs...annual football game in Dublin, Duke playing...

ABC/ESPN killing Fox/NBC in viewership....thanks to their SEC product...

I had to look it up...but Amherst is 92 miles from Boston and 56 miles to Hartford...I had no geographic sense of distance in Massachusetts.

I dunno...Appy State campus can give them a run for their money.

Hey...I like Greenville for a three day stay....like the Reedy...good food...traffic is awful if coming into downtown area on a Friday afternoon. In the way back, our boy played soccer at Clemson and we would stay in Clemson...sometimes Highlands or Anderson. My brother lives on the lake...

Tallahassee is relatively isolated from population centers...8 hour drive round trip from Orlando...Tampa, St. Pete, Clearwater..and more to cities farther away..Lauderdale, West Palm, Naples, Ft. Myers, Miami.. Now that Tallahassee hotels double their prices on game weekends and demand 2 night...

Things change...when I was born, FSU was a girl's school. The migrations from the north had not started...I now live in the mountains of North Carolina and my neighbor friends from NY State follow the Yankees and Buffalo, my neighbor from Minnesota follows Minnesota and the Vikings...And my...

Ohhh...you are confirming that the northeast is pro oriented and that the old hack about college football in the NE not competing with pro fans has real legs ? Hey...do the Savannah Bananas count ? When I was 12, the closest MLB team to Pensacola was St. Louis or Washington. And no NFL in...

I have wondered about location...Clemson is a small town built around the University...but they pack in 80,000 for games. Tuscaloosa (114,000) is in the middle of nowhere yet the pilgrims flock to the shrine...and Auburn ..another small college town with no large population centers nearby.

Interesting Forbes take on the local economic effect of a team moving "up conference" in realignment... https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbooksauthors/2025/10/09/how-college-sports-realignment-can-create-hidden-real-estate-opportunities/

Great game. I like the all blue uniforms.

As I said. Best Miami team in a decade. They are being touted as a playoff team. Will they finally win the ACC after 21 years? Odds are good but a 6 point win over FSU wasn’t awe inspiring. They have a better QB, a higher payroll. Yet, after all the FSU turnovers, they allowed a claw back...

Miami has their best team in a decade... Could this be the year? After proclaiming when they entered in 2004 that ACC meant the All Canes Conference...will they finally win the championship?

NFL has private investors...they put up some guard rails...limit of 10% of value...for the Bills, that would be about $300 million. https://fortune.com/2025/01/22/private-equity-investing-nfl-buffalo-bills-miami-dolphins/