Twelve game play-off seems like a terrible idea. Just completely destroys what makes college football great.
Can’t wait for that #5 vs #6 matchup in November that isn’t even an elimination game.
Not directly involving athletes, but USC will pay >$1B in the case of a gynecologist in their student health center. He treated a friend that went there.
In PAC-12 non sex abuse scandals, ASU in trouble for recruiting violations involving athletes visiting during the covid “dead-period” last year. C’mon, Herm.
Eta the USC doctor was a racist, too.
If the ASU situation gets ugly enough, I think there’s an outside chance the University President, Michael Crow, ends up out. His management-speak bs is tiresome, and I’d hope they find a replacement with a semblance of a soul, but snowball’s chance on Mill Ave of that.
What is it about groups like the NCAA/FIFA/IOC that just breeds utter corruption?
Huge money, free labor, heavily emotionally involved fans who actively refuse to see reality.
Power imbalances?
I was looking forward to cf for the first time in a long time. Lol me.
I’m not making this argument but you could say the exploitation is so out in the open for college football that you can’t really ignore it like you could slave labor making something you consume that you only have a vague awareness of.
Biden is president I’m sure he solved all of that by now
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Yeah, sure. But a lot less so if someone pissed in it. I’ll follow the Devils and be as happy as possible when they beat SC, crush UA, win 10, and then are excluded from bowls and get sanctioned into oblivion.
I was naive enough to believe Herm was running a clean program and that this one time Crow’s spiel meant something. I don’t like being lied to.
https://twitter.com/jessenewell/status/1414210400846032897
most programs secretly pay players to come to campus, it’s so bad at kansas they secretly paid them to leave
Alabama football coach Nick Saban hasn’t officially named Bryce Young the Crimson Tide’s starting quarterback, and yet Saban says that Young is already approaching $1 million in endorsement deals.
According to reports, Saban told the Texas High School Coaches Association’s convention on Tuesday that Young, a sophomore, is due to make "ungodly numbers."
While Saban wouldn’t divulge the specifics of the deals Young has signed, Saban said the total compensation is “almost seven figures.”
"And it’s like, the guy hasn’t even played yet, Saban said, according to The Athletic.
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Bunch of chatter about Texas and Oklahoma wanting to join the SEC. This has to be some sort of scam, right?
Does not sound like a scam.
There is definitely real discussion going on between tptb.
A&M gonna end up paying Jimbo that massive contract for nothing.
If this happens Bama almost certainly goes to the East.
Reading up on this and, got damn, ESPN has lost 48 million in 5 years on the Longhorn network.
I’m against it for obvious reasons. Texas not being able to buy their way back into glory should be something everyone appreciates.
Frick Texas.
Since this would collapse the Big12, Baylor / WVU should throw their hats into the ring here too and try to bounce Texas.
What do you mean? By not having Texas on espn? Or something else
As in ESPN paid the LHN to broadcast their games and haven’t recouped their costs.
I’m quoting football diehards but it’s pretty easy to believe.
They tried to rival the sec network with a single school that has constantly underperformed in the sport that matters the most.
Gotcha I’m following you
lol wazzu
More like pozzu amirite
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ESPN says Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC is going to happen:
This seems bad. Destroys the Big XII, SEC gets even more massive, ACC/PAC/B1G will have to escalate the arms race. End up with like one or two mega conferences, college sports feels shittier.
My question is what happens to the middling conferences like the American? Do they snag lower end B12 schools like KState? Or does this mean the better American football schools like Cincy/UCF/Memphis get to join a P4 conference? I care a lot as a Wichita St. fan. I am scared of them basically being shut out of March Madness going forward if the mega conferences do what they should and essentially end the NCAA.