Which is why I disagree with the talk about joining the ACC in 2011 being a "mistake" because we should have tried for the B1G instead. If people would just rather be in that conference for geographic or affiliation reasons, that's fine. But there was no guarantee that the B1G was going to be one of two super conferences just a decade later.
Absolutely. Syracuse did what they had to financially at the time with the least amount of friction cost. had they waited and the BIG said yes to Rutgers, imagine the hindsight then!
I think a “no class” model would be incredibly easy to compete against. After all, one is college football, the other is not.
I am here for ALL the Hockomock League banter!Absolutely. Syracuse did what they had to financially at the time with the least amount of friction cost. had they waited and the BIG said yes to Rutgers, imagine the hindsight then!
I hate reallignment yet it's the only thing I love to banter about on this board so i'm a self hating person
If there was a hockomock league message board i'd be arguing about Milford and Attleboro joining too. (that's a joke for Scooch)
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(OK, I'll bite) Come on, that Johnny Depp thing is a bunch of crap!
I have never heard about this before. Can you tell me more? What did “close” look like? Was there a Board of Trustee vote or a feasibility study?
"Stifling opposing viewpoints" and pointing out silly and illogical opinions are not the same thing.
It's not silly or illogical to think that our conference, our athletic department and our football program are all in adverse circumstances. Maybe they will all turn out for the good, but right now, they are spinning sideways.
I agree that we have seen better times on the Hill, but I have also seen much worse. The walk out on Ben, Crumbling Arch, the push to deemphasis football. Being left behind in the first ACC expansion, two sanctions, Bernie Gate, Grob, having to play in NYC to make ends meet. The diminutive nightmare, Covid and so much more.
I totally disagree with what you've posted, especially the highlighted portion. The players won't have degrees, whereas they already have those worthless ones you decried now.
I fail to see how giving athletes free tuition, room and board as well as many other perks hasn't been pay to play all along.
Yes, that's exactly what will happen in regard to team ownership. Universities own patents that make them money, usually by getting payments from companies that actually "manufacture" what the patents cover. They currently plow that back into the school. Under the semipro system, they'll have to pay taxes on what they make from football offset by what profit goes back into athletics at the school.
It's not Gavin Newsome as much as it's the Regents of the University system and the legislature. Yeah Mark Warner made all those grand pronouncements that seemed to get VPI into the ACC, but it was the whisperings of the legislators into the ears of the UVa hierarchy that carried much more weight.
The only thing spinning sideways is your hot take.
Well the minute SU spins off FB and BB for profit is when their donations nosedive.
I can't imagine seeing SU do that. There will be a long list of schools that don't because there will only be about 20-30 that do. Top of the list of those that will: Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Ohio State, and (with this latest move) Southern Cal.
The Alabamas and Ohio States want the chaos because it serves their purpose of getting out from under the NCAA, so they can do whatever they want. They don't want fairness, they want the money.
They are already raking in the money. Right now it is tax free, last thing the schools want to do is pay taxes. They will do whatever they can, just like the rich to avoid taxes!!
It's not enough and they've got to share it equally. That's totally unsatisfactory in their view. They believe (and they're probably not wrong) that the extra money they'd get, even after taxes were paid, would be more than what they get now.
What is not being discussed is that Networks have been underpaying for decades and are still underpaying. Football is sait to drive the bus, but more likely, the networks float that to keep the number of negotiations down and under control. I've sports are viewed heavily and that is what brings in the serious revenues to the networks.
