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    Clemson wants out of the ACC too...(shocker)

    Of course, what they'll never mention is if the ACC's GoR can be broken anyone's can be broken, including (especially?) the Big XII's. I may need to see a chiropractor about how I've hurt my neck from shaking my head so much at the series of "words of wisdom" from the Big XII.
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    2023-24 Coaching Carousel

    Sprinkles are for closers.
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    SEC = garbage conference

    Lefty Driesell on Adolph Rupp's then-record number of wins - "I'd have that many wins, too, if I coached in the SEC."
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    Slightly OT: compression sleeves and leggings

    One of the best pieces of medical advice my former primary care MD gave me was to start wearing compression socks. My legs feel mucho better after I put them on each day.
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    Slow death of the ACC takes another major step

    Umm, uh. The Yankees play in Toronto.
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    Slow death of the ACC takes another major step

    The SEC was the area before the pros moved in. They don't have a team in New Orleans anymore because Tulane chose to leave. They don't have a team in Atlanta anymore because Georgia Tech chose to leave. Would they love to still have teams there? I think so.
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    Slow death of the ACC takes another major step

    They should remain valid because the GoRs are contracts between the schools and the conferences and not with a carrier like ESPN or Fox.
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    Slow death of the ACC takes another major step

    The NCAA can't act on conference realignment because the member schools won't let it.
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    Slightly OT: compression sleeves and leggings

    Oh, so that's what they are! I thought they were yoga pants. My mistake.
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    Clemson wants out of the ACC too...(shocker)

    Nowadays a lot of those folks are called "non-revenue sport athletes".
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    Clemson wants out of the ACC too...(shocker)

    You're preaching to the choir, Reverend. Look at CFB now. It's scary when you think about how many players think they could play in the pros and how many actually even get to a training camp.
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    Clemson wants out of the ACC too...(shocker)

    Sounds like minor league baseball.
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    Clemson wants out of the ACC too...(shocker)

    Paid players who don't have to attend class are the eventual endgame the bluebloods of the SEC and B1G want and are working to create. The universities will own franchises like the Universities in Mexico City (Pumas) and Nuevo Laredo (Tigres) do in the Mexican soccer league.
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    Clemson wants out of the ACC too...(shocker)

    They already have - "Why should we subsidize Vanderbilt?" Nick Saban.
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    Clemson wants out of the ACC too...(shocker)

    They have a seat at the big boy table until the figurative price of being there (class attendance becoming optional) becomes too high and they excuse themselves. And to me it's only a question of when it becomes optional not if it becomes optional.
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    Clemson wants out of the ACC too...(shocker)

    Superb analysis. The highlighted is the key part. If GoRs are invalidated as a whole, then no conference is safe. I keep harking back to this. People love to say, "Why would anyone leave the big money of the SEC and B1G?" The reply is, "For even bigger money of a bluebloods-only...
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    UVA scored 84 on Cuse

    It actually was that high?
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    UVA scored 84 on Cuse

    Well, here's what one said -
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    All Time Greatest MLB Player at each Position

    Back when it was a physical magazine and I subscribed to it, Sports Illustrated had an article bemoaning the fact that third basemen are the least represented position players in the HoF. They kept tying it to the Abbott and Costello routine, asking a question about why are third basemen so...
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    Cornell vs. Princeton

    He was able to put it in the absolute most difficult place for a goalie to stop it - belt high on the off-stick side.
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    ACCT Games for Mar 15-16

    Very much so. :(
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    ACCT Games for Mar 14

    Don't forget this one.
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    ACCT Games for Mar 14

    Virginia plays BC.
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    What ACCT seed is "best" for Syracuse?

    When Les Robinson was the coach at NC State and the ACC was nine teams, the 8 v. 9 game was called the "Les Robinson Invitational" because he was in it 4 out of 5 years.
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    Pat Forde nails what is going on

    It won't be the Alabama Yellowhammers semipro team playing in a deserted Legion Field in Birmingham against the Tennessee Hounds, it will be the Alabama Crimson Tide semipro team playing in an at-capacity Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa against the Tennessee Volunteers semipro team. There...
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    Pat Forde nails what is going on

    I think you may have it backwards. What breaks away from the NCAA wouldn't be "college football" anymore, but a minor league for the pros.
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    5-7 Format Confirmed for 12-Team Playoff

    Oh, that's definitely on the horizon. And it won't be just G5 schools. They will create that pay-for-pay division with requirements so onerous that a lot of Power Conference schools will opt out.
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    FSU vs The ACC

    I've got to go with "They're bat-sht crazy." They've always had an inflated sense of self-worth. The only one who could be whispering in their ear is Fox because they have the B1G. ESPN has the SEC and ACC so they don't have anything to gain with a move and Bristol, CT, probably knows there's...
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    5-7 Format Confirmed for 12-Team Playoff

    The government will be forced to step in if the tried to cut out the G5. Congress would demand antitrust action be taken and the last thing CFP execs want is to be seated in front of TV cameras explaining why the G5 was cut out.
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    FSU vs The ACC

    Ding! Ding! Ding! Hold all those calls ladies and gentlemen we already have a winner.
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    FSU vs The ACC

    If the ACC's GoR is invalidated, than anyone's GoR can be invalidated. I may have posted this before. Everyone says, "Why would any team leave the big money of the SEC or B1G? Answer - "For the even bigger money of a conference of only bluebloods." This puts Fox and ESPN into a dilemma...
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    5-7 Format Confirmed for 12-Team Playoff

    They've got absolutely no problem with that because it allows them to keep their independence. Sankey was a genius in proposing this. It took away any reason to reject it (because 2 SEC teams wouldn't be given byes) and it assured that ND would not join the B1G or ACC.
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    Lax Pick ‘em: Week 4

    Unless he drops out of school for the semester someone will get him for a year when he finishes at Cornell.
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    2023-24 Yankees Off Season / Spring Training...

    5 field goals and only 1 TD is totally not acceptable. Oops. Sorry. Wrong sport. :oops:
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    FSU vs The ACC

    If that's what he thinks then the Big XII (and every other conference for that matter) is in just as much trouble as the ACC. The Dud from WV during realignment was touting their GoR, as assuring the survival of the Big XII because the ACC didn't have one, and then suddenly said it was an dead...
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    NIL Law update

    FIFY. The NCAA can only do what its members allow it to do. That's why it had to sit on the sideline and watch the debacle that conference realignment has become and not act upon it. Then, if they talk about formulating rules for the membership to approve, the courts strike them down because...
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    NIL Law update

    There have been several peer-reviewed studies that show that athletic success has no bearing on donations to the academic side. It does increase the number of applicants, however. I can't speak at all to how private schools do things, but for state schools, many (most all?) have to deal with...
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    NIL Law update

    If anything the opposite could happen because the non-rev sports athletes are much more likely to give money to both sides of the house than the rev sports athletes. University hierarchies are paid to care about the academic side of the house and they will take actions based on that...
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    5-7 Format Confirmed for 12-Team Playoff

    Under rules announced previously, a team had to be a conference champion to be one of the 4 teams getting byes. Using last season as an example, if Louisville had beaten FSU, but was not ranked in the top 4, both of them would not have received 1st round byes. FSU's ceiling would have been #5...
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    ACC Games for Feb 17

    Tony Bennett explains the technical called against him at his postgame presser (45 second mark). The last one was called 10 years ago.
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    2024 bowl projections thread

    I'd like to know his reasoning behind having UNC play Cal in the Sun Bowl. Is it just because they don't play in the regular season or did he mess up?
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    RIP Lefty Driesell

    He was a great competitor and definitely livened up the conference. My favorite Lefty quote (speaking about the record number of wins Adolph Rupp had at Kentucky), "I'd have that many wins, too, if I coached in the SEC."
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    2024 Schedule...

    IDK one way or the other, since "everyone" trades game films. At the very least, they could ask for the film, especially since SU's FB team has an entirely new coaching staff.
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    ACC Games for Feb 12-14

    Looking more and more like he'll retire. He was sitting on the bench in disgust instead of in the team huddle during TOs against us. I was stunned to see that, especially since he was one of Terry Holland's assistants.
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    NLRB Dartmouth ruling

    Hammer meet nailhead.
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    NLRB Dartmouth ruling

    Baseball is an excellent model for them to follow, but good luck in getting the pro teams' owners to start viable minor leagues.
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    ACC Games for Feb 12-14

    TBF, a poster on our board noted they were minus 2 starters, both nominees for DPOY, and one of them is their leading scorer. They still may not have won, but they might not have lost as badly.
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    Why is Colsey’s kid at UVA?

    You're right. Duke won again. :(
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    LAX TV/Streaming Action for Feb 9-11

    The schedule on our and the ESPN websites lists the Michigan game as being on the ACC Network.
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