clt is hearing that the parents of fb players at appy are complaining about lack of food for the team. the school isn’t providing enough meals and the players are eating fast food
Man that would suck. I like Wilks a lot.
Interesting piece (NOTE: pay walled) about the UNC-CH vacancy. Seems there is a power struggle involving several parties, including BOT chair, chancellor, AD, and until he was fired, Brown. Whew!
They don’t care. They’re celebrating their 22nd WSOC Natty won tonight. One more than all other NCAA teams combined.
Belichick to UNC CH.
Please god let this happen.
Charlotte observer will have 5 dedicated beat writers to this to please their Chapel Cheat overlords.
FWIW, Observer doesn’t have a dedicated Tar Heels reporter. That ended a good while ago.
Of course, whatever happens, Scott Fowler will be all over it. After all, he tweeted about Belichick + UNC-CH while attending yesterday’s presser for Albin.
Apparently Belichick and the Heels had a 5 hour meeting yesterday. Definitely giving the folks at ESPN something to talk about! 
Has there been a confirmation from any well known source?
I only care because we have to play these twats.
Sounds like an ultimatum.
Thats a shit show of a power struggle across the board.
How much longer are these numbers / $ dollars sustainable? Is everyone pushing to get in the final 30 teams? Lot of programs are going to have a lot of debt and be outside looking in one day.
It cant be sustainable. The only reason Purdue can even hope to do this is they play in a league with Ohio St and Michigan.
It’s like 20 schools/brands that can do this. Maybe another 10-15 that can hang in there and do it but its a stretch. The rest are just riding on the coat tails of the larger programs.
And more importantly IF a school starts the threaten to join the elite club the folks at the top take steps to limit that - see SEC actions now.
It will be sustainable, for the Final “30”.
ESPN will pay fewer mouths more money for them but much less than ESPN has to put out now.
No idea how the fans of the bottom 15 of that 30 will like 1-11, 2-10, 3-9 annual records, but their U’s will be banking still.
Correct. That’s all this has ever been about. Contraction.
The truth is, ESPN/Disney has been hemorrhaging money for a while now and they have been given the directive to get their costs down. That also involved firing most of their on air talent, to the point where apparently they have no one left who knows a damn thing about MLB (or so Twitter said just yesterday).
When it comes to CFB, they quite likely have done literal P&Ls on each individual FBS program (or at least far enough down the food chain to make the point) to gauge who is and isn’t a worthwhile investment of their money, and then to get rid of all the others. That’s why folks like me have been saying 30-40, because that seems to be the rough cut off point. And it’s why Jay Bilas won’t shut up about it because he is there to sell the narrative that this is “necessary”, in the same way that it was “necessary” to contract (remove / delete) clubs like the Oakland As and KC Royals from MLB 20 or so years ago, to make the MLB rights contract more valuable to ESPN’s bottom line.
“Small market” MLB teams survived by playing moneyball and making the postseason which thwarted ESPNs plans. I am not sure that we can do the same in a much more crowded and complex landscape that features so many more already baked in inequities. The truth is probably not, and ESPN will get their way, and Jay Bilas will die of smug overload as dozens of FBS programs wither and die after they are booted out.
And like others have pointed out, many of them probably will have done so with huge debt obligations, that they took on to stay relevant, still weighing down their balance sheet and now miniscule cash flows, which will lead to financial ruin.
What an awesome time to be a college sports fan. Isn’t ESPN just the most super awesomest? (You too Fox Sports).
Yep, ESPN firing a good bit of sport-specific talent resulted in a clueless Stephen A. Smith overseeing the AJ Dybantsa commitment segment on First Take yesterday - “I thought you were going to pick North Carolina.”