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That report is nonsense on its face. Oregon State and Washington State are "P5" schools and likely will run off with a lot of Pac12 $$$ soon. They can then offer the ACC or Big 12 the same deal that SMU did and will be admitted into one of them.

Reply to the Superconference post by Billy Budd: This is the reason the SEC did that (adding independent South Carolina and Southwest Conference member Arkansas to get to 12 schools). There was that NCAA rule that 12 member conferences (who could not have a round robin play them all) were...

I think FB will be OK with a schedule having more variety (regional and well-known national opponents) and bringing in recruits who would like to play in those games for UConn, a good school with a catchy name - many years ago I first heard "UConn" mentioned on TV in conjunction with sports and...

Kent State wins 51-41 with attendance 12,120. Buffalo won 31-9 with attendance not given but weather should have been nice for visitors.

I've read various things about all of this but here is a good contrarian site: https://electroverse.net/

And if "climate change" has more to do with the SUN (and the looming "grand solar minimum") then there's nothing anyone on EARTH can do about it (except maybe not shutting down electric generating plants). Just an aside.

Since you are a Villanova fan, you may or may not like to read about this: https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/28029070/lawsuit-makes-another-attempt-wages-all-college-athletes

I read only "the Door into Summer" by RAH, in HS - about a guy in suspended animation "waking up" some 30 years in the future although I did see the movies "Starship Troopers" and "the Puppet Masters" based on his books of the same name. I recall seeing the book "Revolt in 2100" about a 2nd...

This will likely be like Floyd in 1999, head up the East coast, but never make landfall in Florida, scaring people into Southeast Georgia (took me 8 hours to drive 80 miles) - hopefully it will make a big right turn and head out to sea. We have flood insurance but will have to evacuate, living...

Keep in mind that the SEC (not a fan) does not use the same fanciful accounting method of the Big 10 (14), which includes a portion of gate receipts as part of their payout to pump up the numbers. Neither the SEC nor the ACC do that I have read.

No CPA here, but yes, that is a funny way of accounting ... smoke and mirrors I suppose.

As the Dude would point out, you are not alone: look at UCF, Cincinnati, Houston, UMass, Rutgers (at least in the short run), Air Force (but USG), Central Michigan (MAC), too many others to list - look at the "total allocated" column, which is $$ from the school, student fees, etc.

I will have to give credit to the "Dude of West Virginia" for this USA Today link about 2017-18 school finances from the NCAA for 230 schools: https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances UConn is number 52 on the list. Recall that there are 65 P5 schools. I believe only public schools are on...

One more thing - the more these schools earn, the more they spend, "keeping up with Joneses", and yes, CFB coaches salaries are completely off the charts when much of their success comes from the players and the strength coach - getting a P5 or major G5 head coach job these days is like winning...

Right. From the ACC public schools (conference rank, national rank, school name, revenues and expenses) there is this from Wikipedia for 2016-17 (the 7 private schools do not report their income and expenses) ... 1 13 Florida State University $144,514,413 $143,373,261 2 22 University of...

Well, the women do have 11 national championships so there is that ...

I think no one really knows. To get Biblical on you, we "see through a glass darkly" - still a great quote from economist Oskar Morgenstern of Mathematica, Inc. while testifying before a US Senate committee in 1972 about funding the Space Shuttle: "things are hard to predict, especially the...

I hope you will be back although to be true, if I supported one Big 10 (14) team it would be Michigan State. I once had the privilege of seeing them play in person when I lived in Tallahassee. I guess I support the underdog in many but not all cases - probably why I'm here. I don't dislike...

Here's another one:

Maybe my all time favorite, by an NYC kid (like me):

Neither does the SEC - the only P5 conference not to do so, but with their money (pioneering the first FBS confence championship game) and football (mainly through AL) and even basketball (mainly through UK) performance, probably don't need one. Now ideally ND should have gone with the Catholic...

This is a valid point - it is a legitimate fear. I have read that when the NCAA Division I schools (351 of them now per Wikipedia) vote on issues, they may resent the 65 P5 schools but most of them vote to approve P5 initiatives (like giving more money to student athletes and allowing the Big 12...

I should have added that I read the AAC schools also are having to spend some money to get ready for participating in the new ESPN TV contract, maybe not so much as the ACC schools with their new network, but again that is some money that could have been used elsewhere. While I am not a...

My surmise from reading opinions on this site is that you guys will be better off in the long run, especially if Fox ups the per school payout in the NBE as some expect, as almost all of your teams will have lower travel costs; this includes the FB team too - recruits want to play against the...

The several funny comments here about being too "out of shape" made me remember a guy in his 40s who was a walk on for FSU in the 1980s when Bobby Bowden was coach - no joke, this guy whose name I cannot find was an exercise fanatic and Bowden said he was in great physical shape - period.

I thought you folks might like these comments from The Sporting News: "That breaks down [to] $6.94 million per year per AAC school, a jump of more than $5 million per year per school. By comparison, according to the San Jose Mercury News, the Pac-12 Networks, the Power 5 conference's own media...

Now I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn last night, but recovery from a lumbar strain or even sprain for a young woman should not take too long. Years ago I had self-diagnosed sciatica (pain radiating down the outside of one leg) from lifting. I stopped lifting, did bed rest for a few days over a...

Very true - the complete calculation is as follows: 60.0 (mi/hr)(5280 ft/mi)(1 hr/3600 sec) = 88.0 (ft/sec) exactly (add as many zeros to the result as you care to write). In the time it takes to snap your fingers, you travel 88 ft at that speed. I always "share" this with my students and I...

Yes, and it is likely FSU, Miami, South Carolina, and Virginia Tech would have joined an Eastern FB conference in the early 1980s as they were all independents then. Pitt and Penn State had great success in those years. And yes, it was Oklahoma and I think Georgia that sued the NCAA to manage...

As I understand your situation, it seems to me that if (i) the on-field/on-court "product" can be mildly to moderately improved, and (ii) current students do not go into open revolt over athletic fees, then the University will be able to continue to compete athletically and carry your brand...

ESPN lost two million subscribers in 2018. Very interesting as a long term trend, may mean the BTN, SECN, LHN, PAC12N, and soon to be nascent ACCN are all on borrowed time. Still 86 million left, however concussion lawsuits and other problems may endanger college sports as you have known it...

And, on the other hand, there is also this: Head Trauma in High School Football May Be More Complicated Than We Thought

I realize the alternate views here (a minority I think) are mainly to go independent FBS/FCS + BB in the new BE as opposed to dropping FB, but a case can be made for FB too: Banking on college sports

Yes and people are voters too. If politicians slash funds only to G5 schools in a state, they will not be re-elected.

These are outstanding comments IMO. In Florida alone, USF already has more students than FSU and UCF has more students than UF. UCF will soon have more students than Ohio State and graduates 15,000 per year - they (and other G5 schools) will have grads all over their states and in the state...