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Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

How is all this picking up steam so fast out of no where with every scenario excluding anyone whos not in the haves effective immediately?
 
This opens up a lot of anti trust issues with the G5 and others. Essentially, if they take private equity, the are going to be subject to anti-trust accusations.

I just don’t see the rest of college athletics willing to allow this kind of consolidation. Also, that also opens up the league as a for profit enterprise.

Just way too complicated.
 
Alum86 said:
Agree. Didn’t we just turn our noses at a FB only invite because it was “not a good fit?” Join now, worry later.
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The PAC as newly reconfigured isn't part of the 70, but it appears that Project Rudy does include Washington State and Oregon State, at least when they started working on the proposal. The schools in the P4 Conferences total 67, plus ND makes 68. The other two must be Washington State and Oregon State.
 
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JohnFSilver said:
This opens up a lot of anti trust issues with the G5 and others. Essentially, if they take private equity, the are going to be subject to anti-trust accusations.

I just don’t see the rest of college athletics willing to allow this kind of consolidation. Also, that also opens up the league as a for profit enterprise.

Just way too complicated.
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The 70 schools, for the most part, represent the largest schools in a state. I doubt that senators or congressmen from those states will support anti-trust action Initiated by the DOJ. Yes, there may be other schools of consequence in these states but it won’t move the needle from a political perspective.

if we have a PAC offer we should take it Now.
 
Fight fire with fire - round up the royalty in college BB and take over MM. There is big money to be made once we get the NCAA and its plantation control of MM out of the picture.

In the meantime, I hope Benedict is doing more than "monitoring" the situation...
 
Sea Goat said:
Fight fire with fire - round up the royalty in college BB and take over MM. There is big money to be made once we get the NCAA and its plantation control of MM out of the picture.

In the meantime, I hope Benedict is doing more than "monitoring" the situation...
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The problem is all the royalty outside of UConn is already in the P4.

Remember in the past 50-60 years, UConn and nova are the only two non-P2/3/4 schools to win basketball championships.
 
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Sea Goat said:
Fight fire with fire - round up the royalty in college BB and take over MM. There is big money to be made once we get the NCAA and its plantation control of MM out of the picture.

In the meantime, I hope Benedict is doing more than "monitoring" the situation...
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Those same 70 schools will join to take over the basketball tournaments also. This is a scenario many here were concerned about and why they felt it necessary to save football. There were detractors, mainly basketball focused yarders, who did not believe it could happen. This is a possible future.
 
Stinger92860 said:
Those same 70 schools will join to take over the basketball tournaments also. This is a scenario many here were concerned about and why they felt it necessary to save football. There were detractors, mainly basketball focused yarders, who did not believe it could happen. This is a possible future.
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Right. In one group you'll have UCLA, Kentucky, North Carolina, Duke, Kansas, Indiana, Mich St, Louisville, Indiana, and the rest of the P2/3/4.

In the competing tournament you'll have UConn, Villanova, and SDSU and maybe Gonzaga.

Tough call as to which tournament will get $$$$, eyeballs and press coverage.
 
Why would the SEC/B1G do this? It literally gives them nothing. They already print money. They control their own destiny. Why give away money to Private Equity?

They've already won. There's no need for them to change anything at all.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
The problem is all the royalty outside of UConn is already in the P4.

Remember in the past 50-60 years, UConn and nova are the only two non-P2/3/4 schools to win basketball championships.
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UNLV
 
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EdgewoodNHV said:
Why would the SEC/B1G do this? It literaly gives them nothing. They already print money. They control their own destiny. Why give away money to Private Equity?

They've already won. There's no need for them to change anything at all.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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THIS is our best hope. Sankey has alluded to this already.
 
Sea Goat said:
Fight fire with fire - round up the royalty in college BB and take over MM. There is big money to be made once we get the NCAA and its plantation control of MM out of the picture.

In the meantime, I hope Benedict is doing more than "monitoring" the situation...
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Benedict is the opposite of monitoring.

He’s moved team for AAC to bjg east, tried big 12 3 times. Had convo with pac-2.

I mean, he's doing all he can .
 
JohnFSilver said:
I mean, he's doing all he can .
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The knee-jerk defense of every failure:
"Well we did all we could."

How do we know that? Well, because something we wanted to happen didn't happen and claiming that you "did all you could" sounds better than "we were not successful."

I'm not saying Dave could've done more, I'm just saying a sad face with the quote "we did all we could" is the family crest of failure.
 
CL82 said:
The knee-jerk defense of every failure:
"Well we did all we could."

How do we know that? Well, because something we wanted to happen didn't happen and claiming that you "did all you could" sounds better than "we were not successful."

I'm not saying Dave could've done more, I'm just saying a sad face with the quote "we did all we could" is the family crest of failure.
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Nah.

This may sound like reason and logic, but it's not. When people negotiate, they negotiate either from a position of weakness or a position of power. In most of these discussions, which one do you think Benedict is operating from??

In the one situation where he actually could say no (Pac12 football), he did. It's maybe worth it to find out more about why. But if you think that he could have done any better than getting Yormark and a few of the Big12 presidents on our side, then what else do you think he should have done do make it unanimous???
 
CL82 said:
The knee-jerk defense of every failure:
"Well we did all we could."

How do we know that? Well, because something we wanted to happen didn't happen and claiming that you "did all you could" sounds better than "we were not successful."

I'm not saying Dave could've done more, I'm just saying a sad face with the quote "we did all we could" is the family crest of failure.
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I think you know how i feel about it. UConn should have long ago approached the ACC With Cal/Stanford type offer. Instead we got quotes of the we "we know our worth and don't want to be lowballed" variety. As soon as Clemson and FSU started chirping, they should have offered to take a reduced share. Should have been 1st in line. But at this point, it feels like whatever.
 
noeynox said:
I think you know how i feel about it. UConn should have long ago approached the ACC With Cal/Stanford type offer. Instead we got quotes of the we "we know our worth and don't want to be lowballed" variety. As soon as Clemson and FSU started chirping, they should have offered to take a reduced share. Should have been 1st in line. But at this point, it feels like whatever.
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Follow along with me as it pertains to the ACC:

We're. Being. Blocked.
 
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