Extremely well said. Great post!
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Dellenger reminds me thereâs no 70 team Super League on the horizon as long as Sankey and Petitti are involved. Their respective egos - both individually and collectively - wonât allow it.
Ross is right - they are driving the car!
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Wolken giving his 2 cents and then some:
Just seeing this. Pretty much says it all. Any Super League via a separate PE entity (re: independent of the Big Ten and SEC) is DOA:
It would be foolish for the SEC to give up their baked in advantages to join a 70 team league. Why elevate the Big XII and ACC to your level voluntarily?
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Not really a big surprise considering the contraction of the WAC that will leave it with 7 members next year. In addition to Thorntonâs time with the AAC, he was also an assistant at Winthrop.
BTW, in his lone game at Halton as a college hoopster in 2006, led Xavier with 16 pts and 10 rebs in an X-Men win. It was the Niners first ever loss in A-10 play.
clt is preparing for LIV cfb
You just contradicted yourself. You specifically said G5 fans, which I said, yes, they donât care about G5 fans.
For the most part the regional rivalries are intact from THEIR perspective. Texas is still with Texas Am, UM is still with OSU, UGA is still with UF, Cal with Stanford, AL with Auburn, Minn with Wisc, VT with UVA, USC with UCLA, Ar with ASU, ole miss with MSU, UNC with NCSU, Ind with Purdue, UT with Kentucky, Oregon with Washington. Of the most recent changes, maybe Okl leaving OSU was a big deal as far as regional rivalries?
And the fans and sponsors write the checks for the networks. And I âwrite checksâ to Callaway golf and Adidas sneakers.
Weâll just have to disagree with this. Thereâs no world where if the league gets a bigger contract = the networks got them by the balls.
It is looking/feeling very similar.
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Oregon and OSU is a bigger rivalry than anything we have in this state and way bigger than O and WU and its gone, OU and OkSU, Texas and A&M was dumped. The majority of the rivalries you mention are in the two leagues controlling everything in the B10 and SEC.
I dont think they care what any fans want at the end of the day. Absolutely not G5 fans, not smaller P4 fans and they dont care about the big brands fans because at the end of the day they think it doesnt matter people will still buy it.
Yes we do. IMO they are playing a game of chicken. Networks think that it doesnt matter what they do. Fans are stupid and will watch no matter what they do. Maybe they are right - the NFL is pretty stupid these days but people are still watching. If the new world has something that levels the playing field I think it could work. We will find out.
I think the networks have the leverage in which teams to add. If conferences want more money and that money comes from network partners then they do what TV wants Conferences already do this - school ânoon game sucks, our players hate it, our fans hate it, its too hot, but TV says do it so we are doing it.â Now once the tv deal is locked in with what ever schools then its def a partnership.
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Probably main reason Thornton left:
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This is going to backfire on them so bad.
I CANNOT WAIT to see the day when the royalty of CFB have to schedule 6 home 6 away and kick the shit out of each other.
Iâm sure the vast majority of the B10 and SEC will LOVE fewer home games and losing records.
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