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Again and again you make crazy stupid leaps. Where did he say this?So you think an athletic department would be better off if its school had less rich alumni?
Again and again you make crazy stupid leaps. Where did he say this?So you think an athletic department would be better off if its school had less rich alumni?
This is why I think the smart move for the B12 is to take us now independent of what the Pac 12 schools do. We will see if that happens.That conference isn’t going to see much growth or attention If they don’t get into the big east coast markets. They know it. If they can gain ground in the east, and become relevant in New York City, they will be in a much stronger position when the ACC falls apart. They need to stake a claim to it while they can.
Yes. That's exactly what I said. (Could someone tell me why I bother pretending you can have real dialogues with certain posters?)So you think an athletic department would be better off if its school had less rich alumni?
The reported cooling has nothing to do with us. Waiting on the pac has just taken the momentum out of the whole thing, which the pac quite possibly did on purpose. Yormark wants us in the conference. His reasoning is significant. They need a region with substantial eyeballs. Too much of that conference is in the middle of nowhere or is redundant.
Yes. That's exactly what I said. (Could someone tell me why I bother pretending you can have real dialogues with certain posters?)
If nobody leaves the PAC 12 then the Big 12 doesn’t need us at all.
This is kind of over.
You are the one that argued that rich alumni were not a good thing for an athletic department. Don't project that on me.
Why do you play along?What I said is you can't assume that rich alumni translates to alumni giving. I guaranty you that the average Clemson or 'Bama alum at any income level gives much more than the average alum at the same income level from any university north and east of State College, PA.
But I need to stop wasting my time on this. When it's convenient you pretend you don't understand the difference between inverse, converse and contrapositive. I still believe you're smarter than that.
I hope the chatter that we've been telling football recruits that we will be playing in the Big XII isn't true, because that's going to hurt our reputation on the recruiting trail.If nobody leaves the PAC 12 then the Big 12 doesn’t need us at all.
This is kind of over.
I got the impression that he believes the event will benefit UConn, while believing your view will hurt UConn. But I didn’t notice that he and the many others that shared his view conclude that you hate UConn.I am pointing out that he keeps rooting for an event that will be very bad for UConn's realignment chances.
The BYU AD said expansion has to be decided before the football season starts. You’re absolutely correct.For those in favor of the B12, it seems every day that goes by without an invite causes people to panic. But, from the timeline I was given, late August is when something would be announced (if it is going to happen). In other words, you should sleep just fine tonight, tomorrow night and several nights after that.
Sigh. I get it. I'm like Charlie Brown running up to kick the ball.Why do you play along?
Arguing with a 4 year old is about as pointless as it gets.
Miami, literally, bought their final four team. Egregious enough that Jim Laranaga had to answer questions about it. It also caused Miami to leapfrog everyone into the final 4.Everyone is buying their team.
The SEC schools will powerhouses in recruiting because they were willing to hand a bag full of cash to someone's dad or mom, and didn't care about getting caught. Now, handing a bag of cash to someone is not cheating. The SEC's main competitive advantage for recruiting is gone. Does a Mississippi State or LSU really have the financial firepower to go toe to toe with a city school for a player when that city has dozens of corporations that would be interested in NIL as part of a broader marketing budget?
Who gave you that timeline?For those in favor of the B12, it seems every day that goes by without an invite causes people to panic. But, from the timeline I was given, late August is when something would be announced (if it is going to happen). In other words, you should sleep just fine tonight, tomorrow night and several nights after that.
You say that like it's a crime. Buying a team has, like marijuana, been legalized. Get used to it.Miami, literally, bought their final four team. Egregious enough that Jim Laranaga had to answer questions about it. It also caused Miami to leapfrog everyone into the final 4.
This speaks somewhat to your latter point, too, but teams that basically only bought in like Miami did are a pretty repeatable (and bad) model.
Waylon is under the impression that only SEC teams were handing bags of cash which is hilarious.You say that like it's a crime. Buying a team has, like marijuana, been legalized. Get used to it.
Everyone is now playing the NIL game and I agree with Nelson that it actually levels the playing field somewhat. We had a very unusual final four this year, and now St John's is back like it's 1985 again. Who knows what our football team is now capable of with these knew (lack of) rules. We just need a P5 stage to stand on and things might really take off for Mora and the team.
Waylon is under the impression that only SEC teams were handing bags of cash which is hilarious.
There was nothing unique about the SEC. They were all doing it in every conference. Think of any team in college football that was really good for any period of time or has always been good and there was massive cheating. Even well respected academic schools like Virginia who were never too good in football were cheating like crazy.Certainly not the only ones but the SEC was definitely blazing the trail for everyone else to follow. The money thing has been going on forever and even with "good guys" like John Wooden. At least now the hypocrisy and criminal nature of it have been eliminated.
I used to think changing the rules so that paying the players was legal was a bad thing for college sports but now I realize I was very wrong, the old rules were making criminals out of everyone just like prohibition.
Someone inside the athletic department. Look, I‘m not an insider, don’t claim to be one, nor do I care to be one, but with this particular topic, I wanted to check to see if it had legs or was pure garbage so I reached out and that was the timeframe I was told.Who gave you that timeline?