Recent content by crewbear742

Greg Flugaur didn't make anything up. He was referring to the fact that the ACC implicitly offered to settle with Florida State in one of its motions.

He is saying that he doesn't consider UConn a peer or near-peer competitor of Boston College. He's right, and that's why his comment grates. He looks at UConn the same way UConn looks at UMass. If Jim Mora made similar comments about UMass, this board wouldn't even blink. I fully expected BC to...

Colorado was the key piece in a very complex game of Jenga. It was the school that could pry open the PAC 12. The other schools didn't want to be known as the school that took down the PAC 12. But Colorado leaving gave Arizona cover to follow. Arizona's departure satisfied the concerns of the...

There is something of Norma Desmond on this board. The faded forgotten silent film star clutches at the hope of restoring her stardom through the abysmal script she is writing. She is possessed of a false hope for she refuses to see the structural realities that time and circumstance had...

It isn't hard when you wore Air Force Blue.

Yes. That is why UCONN is on the outside of realignment looking in. That is why UCONN has buried itself in a marginal basketball conference pretending it is still the 1980s. I get it. "Basketball Strikes Back" and all that. Football is the sport that destroyed Paradise and you want your pound...

Since the issue is framed in terms of equal pay, the actual equation should be "Equal pay for equal value created." Women's Soccer doesn't come close to creating equal value. Women's Soccer simply isn't that popular. There is sort of a quasi "Labor Theory of Value" in play here. The idea is that...

It was awful. Fortunately, this is why God invented the mute button.

MLB wants long term stability in franchising, certainty in quality of facilities, and geographic rationalization. I think mostly they want to stop paying for players who have no realistic chance of making the major leagues. These are all reasonable concerns. I'm not sure why an expenditure of...

Why is Cy a Bird?

Cyclones. Don't besmirch the Hawkeyes by confusing them with that lesser University in Ames.

Who is going to kill it?

The only practical difference between the two proposals is the identity of the eighth team. The five P5 champions are virtually always in the top 8. The two at large candidates will naturally come from the top 8. So the only difference is this. Do you take the last team from the top 8 as well or...

Memphis and Cincinnati are pretty evenly matched. I have two games to prove it. Do you remember the game between Ohio State and Cincinnati? What Ohio State did to Cincinnati could probably be prosecuted under international humanitarian law. If LSU is as good as OSU, do you think LSU would have...

Just take the top eight. Consider this year under such a scheme. The play-offs would consist of the five P5 champions, Georgia, Baylor, and Wisconsin. That's a reasonable selection of the best eight teams in college football. The scheme suggested in this thread would require Memphis to replace...