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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 3940530, member: 1145"] [URL='https://lmtribune.com/sports/another-earthquake-leaves-college-football-teetering/article_3927f1bc-49fc-5f6a-b037-9ba2b372596a.html']A view from a small town in the Mountain west.[/URL] The best quotes: "Well, we all know how much gentlemen's agreements and non-contractual commitments are worth in the cut-throat world of college athletics." "When Oklahoma — ranked No. 2 behind the Crimson Tide in The Associated Press preseason poll — and Texas come aboard, the balance of power will tip further in its favor. That's great for the SEC. It's not so good for college football." And the only way that will change is if the Big Ten and Notre Dame can overcome their historic self-absorptions. If not, then what the SEC hath wrought will become essentially permanent. And because football doesn't just drive the bus; football buys the bus and pays for all its upkeep and hires the driver and the clean up crew, 1 league with total domination of football will eventually start dominating basketball - because it will be able to buy out the best coaches over and over, and arrange for the best NIL deals for top recruits, over and over. There is a professed SEC poster (he claims Auburn, which fits him in terms of trash) named JRsec that I have long felt to be one of those paid Big Ten internet activists. He is going hogwild over this. The boasting of SEC godlike status is expected, but he has is now talking about how the SEC will have ESPN make goo-eyes at the Pac, to woo the Pac away from Fox and its BT ties, which will allow ESPN to refuse to give the ACC anything. It should be obvious to anyone who has thought about all this that that is the only way that the BT can stay as wealthy as the SEC and hope to equal it in football: have ESPN make certain the ACC is unstable, allowing the BT to take the most valuable ACC members. If ESAPN is not dumb as a post, it is figuring out how to maximize extra money for the ACC with the look-in. If the SEC is not dumb as a post, it is behind the scenes talking to the ACC about more contests between the two leagues in all sports. [URL='https://lmtribune.com/sports/another-earthquake-leaves-college-football-teetering/article_3927f1bc-49fc-5f6a-b037-9ba2b372596a.html'] [/URL] [/QUOTE]

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