This is getting silly. All the rules changing for football. Best scenario would be for football to just spin off. Unfortunately it will not happen..
They’re just begging to get football spun off…A $250M price tag: How SEC coaches will pay their football players
Hanging over this year’s college football season is the historic concept that'd permit schools to directly pay their athletes.sports.yahoo.com
SEC football coaches saying they anticipate $15-17MM being paid to football players. That’s going to leave $5-7MM for hoops and whatever other sports they pay.
The question if the lawyers that sue under Title IX try to argue 1/2 of the amount needs to go to women athletes. I think the distribution of $22 million should only go to the sports generating the revenue ( football followed by men’s basketball and then women’s basketball) but given some of the previous rulings on Title IX that may not hold.A $250M price tag: How SEC coaches will pay their football players
Hanging over this year’s college football season is the historic concept that'd permit schools to directly pay their athletes.sports.yahoo.com
SEC football coaches saying they anticipate $15-17MM being paid to football players. That’s going to leave $5-7MM for hoops and whatever other sports they pay.
I would go to the B12 all sportsNot disagreeing with you about Texas vs Oklahoma but going forward, I think things will be different, perhaps very different. I don't think it's smoke & mirrors at all.
1. Texas and Oklahoma for the first time ever are now in the SEC. Will they still be all that? I'm not so sure. First, they will likely have more losses than before. Second, it's the SEC. Will SEC fans be so quick to accept them rascals? Third, Alabama is the king. Alabama-Auburn, Florida-Georgia, those are SEC rivalries.
2. I know if we were in the Big 12 I'd sure be watching a lot more of Okie State, Arizonas, Kansases, Colorado, Utah. Just as Cincy, Houston, UCF fans are likely doing. Long time Big 12 fans may not care so much about Texas-Oklahoma anymore. So that rivalry may have lost a lot of fans right there in its own footprint.
3. UConn is sitting here as one of the premiere blue-chip programs in the country. One of our biggest rivals? Creighton. Freaking Creighton! 10 years ago I didn't give a rat's ass about Creighton. 20 years ago I couldn't find it on a map. Point being, conferences can create great rivalries and the Big 12, top to bottom, is an excellent conference with no dead weight.
You can almost see a scenario where it is spun off for a decade and then maybe they come back. Idk- just saying just seems like this will eventually get to that point and then when they have their own smaller fishbowl for a decade do the SEC fans still love the product the same at the end of the decade? Do ratings cool a bit because it’s become a smaller / more regional product?They’re just begging to get football spun off…
I would like a Ferrari F8 Spider. I assume we are making a wishlist.I would go to the B12 all sports
We would need a minimum of 50% with a graduated increase plus NCAA BB bonus
With Football playoff money that’s > $25,000,000
The fact that it wasn't coming from a West Virginia basement was a good clue.Folks.
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This would be a smart move by the SEC…IMO the next big move is UNC and Virginia to the SEC in about 5 years.
Why is that a smart move? The longer it takes, the more games being streamed vs linear, the less value Virginia and to a lesser extent UNC have. I’d argue 5 years from now UVA isn’t even in the discussion.This would be a smart move by the SEC…
Why isn't it in the SECs interest to just stay where they are? Only thing i can think right now is you take members to deny them to other organizations.
I think there's a reason the SEC isn't going to move. New members, even schools like UNC don't move the average needle for the rest of the conference.
I’m not a big college football fan.. I’m more of a college basketball fan.. and those schools along with Duke and Syracuse are the the biggest basketball brands in the ACC in my opinionWhy is that a smart move? The longer it takes, the more games being streamed vs linear, the less value Virginia and to a lesser extent UNC have. I’d argue 5 years from now UVA isn’t even in the discussion.