Recent content by champs99and04

The program did itself no favors with the hires it made following Edsall's departure, but that's besides the point. Every program makes bad hires. Recovering from them becomes much harder when the rest of your league takes its ball and goes home. The PP hire was a disaster that brought all...

I think a lot of us became basketball fans well before the football program upgraded to FBS, which probably skews the results some. Also skewing the results is the fact that the football program's never really been competitive outside of maybe a four year stretch under Edsall. It would have...

If conferences were still 8-12 teams like they were intended to be, this might work. Unfortunately, you're never going to convince anyone that a league consisting of Alabama, OU, Texas, Georgia, LSU, etc. should be limited to two bids in order to make room for clearly inferior teams. It makes...

What a circus. I'll never understand people who insist on trying to turn the CFP into March Madness. Football is a violent sport. We don't need to see Arkansas State play Michigan for the same reason we don't need to see China's military in action against Slovenia's. God only produced so...

I think the ACC is going to be the reason the ACC breaks up. The half of the conference that takes football seriously (Miami, Clemson, FSU, NC State, Louisville, VT, and maybe one or two others) is going to bolt for the Big 12 as soon as it can. The rest will disperse in whichever direction...

That's true. All bets are off after the B1G ditched its 100-year-old contiguous model to chase LA $. At this point I see no reason it won't eventually explore expansion in states like Texas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, and Colorado. I wouldn't even put it past them to flip a school like...

Yes, but markets can vary significantly based on restrictions and regulations. There currently are none in the sports ticketing business. Whether there should be, I don't know. But even if you discard the food analogy, my point is that the market for sports or concert tickets isn't really...

Prices didn't go up over 300% because of the market. Businesses have simply gotten much better at manipulating it. (You could argue that manipulating the market is part of the market, but for the purposes of this discussion it would be disingenuous to act like these events are priced in the...

It's quite the concept, isn't it? For as much as I begrudge the SEC for killing the original Big 12, at least it still makes some sense geographically. The B1G is on another level with its contempt for tradition and common sense.

This is why I think the Big 12 is so well-positioned long-term. It's carved out an identity as the natural backstop for schools that either aren't quite prestigious enough for the B1G or not quite good enough for the SEC, yet still have proud histories with large, passionate fan bases...

Yes, it's been a talking point for years, but not to the level it was last season. And the reason I make the distinction is because I think it's caused some people to overstate the problem. It isn't like we're talking about Zion here. He's consistently averaged over 40 MPG in the playoffs and...

While Luka hasn't been in ideal playing shape for some time now, it's not that unusual for the weight/conditioning of an NBA star to fluctuate a bit. Look at Harden, Embiid, Draymond, D-Wade, etc. Even guys like CP3 and LeBron have looked a little heavy at times. Despite the extensive cardio...

The minutes his sophomore year are a little skewed because he got hurt vs. Hall and then didn't play a full load for a bit after he came back. Plus, the team was so dominant that there was rarely any need to play him more than 25 minutes. At his size he was never going to be able to give you...

I think UNC leaving would be the death-knell for the ACC. FSU and Clemson have already been very vocal about wanting to jump ship, and at that point, it starts to look a lot like the Big East circa 2011. Depending on how much the TV deal craters, schools like Syracuse and BC would have to...

I think that Big East coach is exactly right. There will be a few programs here and there willing to move heaven and earth to sign players, especially if they're ushering in a new coach. We've already seen it recently with schools like Kentucky, Louisville, NC State, and Indiana - places where...