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

[Ldandy]

It's amazing how it took over 100 years to make college sports into what they are today but only needed three or four to completely ruin it. Constant realignment, pay for play, opting out mid-season to preserve eligibility, transfer portal/tampering, private equity involvement, cutting sports to the bare bones to avoid paying players. It all sucks.

 

[uconndogs]

“Core function……of academics…..”

Honest to god I have no idea how someone could let this b*s* come out of their mouth. Tuition is going through the roof and is partially subsidizing athletic departments so they can build professional sport franchises.

It’s all so broken, stupid and sad.

 

[Fishy]

"Arizona State received a $51.7 million subsidy from the school to break even..."
I assume this means received from the state. ASU is trying to go B1G.

SEC and B1G are the majors
The rest are AA and AAA

lol…..no, that is not what that means.

This feels like it’s hard for you.

 

[Kolumbo]

lol…..no, that is not what that means.

This feels like it’s hard for you.

Actually that's not what it means. after looking into it, the ASU athletics department received the subsidy from the University. Thanks for the effort though.

 

[Fishy]

Actually that's not what it means. after looking into it, the ASU athletics department received the subsidy from the University. Thanks for the effort though.

It is funny though - people see ASU $52M in the hole and it's "they're in it to win it!"

We have a deficit and they think we're going to cease to exist.

 

[CL82]

UConn ahead of its Time with subsidy. I wonder if all the media heads will mention how Arizona St can’t compete with a big subsidy and if that is a worrisome sign,

No, they will instead, say that it shows the commitment that the state has to Arizona State competing at the college athletic highest levels.

Then, the next story will talk about how UConn has a deficit...

 

[Purple Stein]

So it's only been 50 years since you've lived in Big 12 country. You're really up to date. I live KC right now you rube. I've ridden tons of bike races from Salina eastward.

You don't have to be in Western KS to see Sunflowers. And Manhattan is still surrounded by an empty Prairie. The drive into Manhattan off of 70 is sobering.

I had no idea you were in KC. Was just out there last summer. If I had known I would have bought you a beer and extolled the virtues of Joe Fagnano!

 

[LetsGoUC]

Some solid respect here on ESPN's most popular show.

 

[HuskyHawk]

So it's only been 50 years since you've lived in Big 12 country. You're really up to date. I live KC right now you rube. I've ridden tons of bike races from Salina eastward.

You don't have to be in Western KS to see Sunflowers. And Manhattan is still surrounded by an empty Prairie. The drive into Manhattan off of 70 is sobering.

Loads of Sunflowers off K-10 between Olathe and Lawrence. Never thought of them as a western KS thing. Fishy should have said "wheat". Corn is Iowa and Nebraska.

I'm somewhat partial to the Flint Hills and tallgrass prairie, although that's 50+ miles south of Manhattan. What the hell road can ride on east from Salina? Old 40 or whatever?

I imagine there's some buyer's remorse about UCF. ACC ended up needing SMU football. Should UConn be in one of them, yes. We've said it for a long time.

 

[hank970]

All that chatter about the view of cornfields that the presidents of so-called "B12 crap schools" can see from their office windows, and then somebody posts this in another thread. No doubt the irony escapes you folks, but here's living proof that it's alive and well in teeming, metropolitan Storrs.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

So it's only been 50 years since you've lived in Big 12 country. You're really up to date. I live KC right now you rube. I've ridden tons of bike races from Salina eastward.

You don't have to be in Western KS to see Sunflowers. And Manhattan is still surrounded by an empty Prairie. The drive into Manhattan off of 70 is sobering.

I can't believe you are using the fact that you live in Kansas as a flex.

 

[Drew]

 

[HuskyHawk]

All that chatter about the view of cornfields that the presidents of so-called "B12 crap schools" can see from their office windows, and then somebody posts this in another thread. No doubt the irony escapes you folks, but here's living proof that it's alive and well in teeming, metropolitan Storrs.
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Wait until you find out that we have cows. I’m not sure claiming some significant insight about a land grant university with a school of agriculture having a corn field is the Winning argument you think. So does Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan State, K State and every other such school.

 

[Vowelguy]

I can't believe you are using the fact that you live in Kansas as a flex.

Most people who say they live in KC live in Missouri.

 

[CashewCrew]

Some solid respect here on ESPN's most popular show.

I love Seth

 

[hank970]

Wait until you find out that we have cows. I’m not sure claiming some significant insight about a land grant university with a school of agriculture having a corn field is the Winning argument you think. So does Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan State, K State and every other such school.

Sorry, but I'm not the one who made disparaging remarks about ag schools. That was Fishy. He called them crap-schools in Podunk settings. Not sure why he'd make a remark like that. Sour stomach, maybe.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Most people who say they live in KC live in Missouri.

Not the smart ones

 

[HuskyHawk]

Sorry, but I'm not the one who made disparaging remarks about ag schools. That was Fishy. He called them crap-schools in Podunk settings. Not sure why he'd make a remark like that. Sour stomach, maybe.

Nah, he said that about Houston UCF and Cincinnati. None of whom are AG schools.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Most people who say they live in KC live in Missouri.

Does that actually matter to some people?

 

[ZooCougar]

I can't believe you are using the fact that you live in Kansas as a flex.

I don’t live in Kansas though. Missouri is so much better /s

 

[ZooCougar]

Does that actually matter to some people?

Tell us you have never left New England without saying it.

 

[ZooCougar]

Wait until you find out that we have cows. I’m not sure claiming some significant insight about a land grant university with a school of agriculture having a corn field is the Winning argument you think. So does Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan State, K State and every other such school.

UConn is literally an ag school too.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Not the smart ones

Mostly Mission Hills, a few other Johnson County towns, some near KU and KState, some Wichita aeronautical types, and some massive farm owners??? Otherwise …???

 

[HuskyHawk]

UConn is literally an ag school too.

We meant "UConn" so yes, that was my point.

 

[ZooCougar]

Mostly Mission Hills, a few other Johnson County towns, some near KU and KState, some Wichita aeronautical types, and some massive farm owners??? Otherwise …???

The people aren’t any dumber or smarter than any other place else in the United States on the whole in the metro area.

And many of the “rural” areas are quite a bit more affluent than most people realize.

 

[JohnFSilver]

The more we get away from realignment the stupider it gets that UConn isn’t in the ACC. All because BC doesn’t like UConn and Clemson and FSU got butt hurt because they aren’t the SEC.

 

[The Viking]

Cuse doesnt want us either

 

[HuskyHawk]

The people aren’t any dumber or smarter than any other place else in the United States on the whole in the metro area.

And many of the “rural” areas are quite a bit more affluent than most people realize.

My Uncle's log cabin house in the Flint Hills might remind some of the house in Yellowstone.

 

[ZooCougar]

My Uncle's log cabin house in the Flint Hills might remind some of the house in Yellowstone.

Funny you say that because I am pretty sure the current owners of that Ranch made their money in the KC area. I know some people who stayed on it in the first couple of seasons.

 

[Ha Who]