ADs are reportedly preferring an 8 team playoff when the current deal expires after '26. Five major conference champions and top rated Group of Five get auto bids, two at large teams selected by the committee.
Will we never get away from the goddamn popularity contest bullshit?
Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
ADs are reportedly preferring an 8 team playoff when the current deal expires after '26. Five major conference champions and top rated Group of Five get auto bids, two at large teams selected by the committee.
Will we never get away from the goddamn popularity contest bullshit?
No.
This has been another edition of Simple Answers to Simple Questions.
I really haven’t had any issues with just 4 teams except for the year UCF won the natty despite not being invited
But even with that being said expanding the field is great!
Undefeated Natty.
UCF claimed they were the best undefeated CFB team in the country that year, and the Colley Matrix backed 'em up. If they'd had one loss, they'd be on the same tier as the "actual" champion, which they would lose (and did lose) in votes to.
They rules lawyered their way to it, and it pissed off everyone that already thought UCF was getting too big for it's britches, which means it's a success.
So, the PAC-12 is going to do a conference only schedule in this literal fever nightmare, let's see the opener...
(reads listing)
What the fuck? We're fucking opening with the Battle for the Bell? What drunk goose came up with that?
(And yeah, we should not be having a fucking season in the first place, which is the first obscenity in the schedule. Putting one of the major grudge matches as the fucking opener is a distant second.)
So, the PAC-12 is going to do a conference only schedule in this literal fever nightmare, let's see the opener...
(reads listing)
What the fuck? We're fucking opening with the Battle for the Bell? What drunk goose came up with that?
(And yeah, we should not be having a fucking season in the first place, which is the first obscenity in the schedule. Putting one of the major grudge matches as the fucking opener is a distant second.)
If Michigan Ohio State happens it's happening early in the season. Utter madness.
Self-righteousness is incompatible with coalition building.
So, the PAC-12 is going to do a conference only schedule in this literal fever nightmare, let's see the opener...
(reads listing)
What the fuck? We're fucking opening with the Battle for the Bell? What drunk goose came up with that?
(And yeah, we should not be having a fucking season in the first place, which is the first obscenity in the schedule. Putting one of the major grudge matches as the fucking opener is a distant second.)
If Michigan Ohio State happens it's happening early in the season. Utter madness.
It's because they know damned well they won't finish the season, so anything on the back end of the schedule isn't happening.
Also because it will be harder to cancel the season with a grudge match coming up than it would be if the big games are already over with.
I was looking, and almost all the PAC-12 grudge matches are preloaded. You have two openers (Battle of the Bell, Territorial Cup), Civil War is in week 4, and Battle of the Bay is Week 5. Only the Apple Cup is at the end of the season.
Rutgers is looking like to level the ultimate CFB parental threat with their outbreak jeopardizing the Big Ten season. "We brought you into this world and we can take you back out of it."
That’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off.
Threatening in the sense that their outbreak is bad enough the Big Ten can't just ignore it as a player or two got unlucky and pretend everything will be fine.
UCONN has officially cancelled their CFB season for this year. I will not be surprised if a bunch of the smaller schools begin following in their footsteps. Now that someone has been the first, the damn is open and I think other schools will be willing to do the same.
Big Ten schedule is out, M/OSU the weekend before Halloween. Definitely a rush to try to get the big TV draw in before they have to shut down. Plus side, they fixed the thing where Michigan State and Ohio State are synchronized home/road finally. Which was almost definitely done just because everyone else in the Big Ten hated Dave Brandon as much as Michigan fans did.
Self-righteousness is incompatible with coalition building.
It also doesn't hurt that they have a greater than average chance of not winning a single game this season anyway.
The bigger thing is that UConn makes their money on basketball, not football.
Naah.
Nothing is bigger than the annual ConFLiCT.
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Ah yes, the rivalry almost nobody has ever heard of, including most people who go to the schools involved
In June 2015, Diaco had a trophy built for the series and announced it on Twitter. UCF had not been aware of it beforehand.[6][7][8] The Knights' head coach and interim athletic director George O'Leary dismissed both the trophy and the motivations for a rivalry between the two teams.[9] Diaco responded by saying, "They [UCF] don't get to say whether they are our rival or not."[3][10] The New York Post said that Diaco created the "worst rivalry in sports history."[11]
The teams played three times during Diaco's tenure as head coach and twice following his announcement of the trophy. Connecticut won in 2014 and 2015. UCF won the 2016 game, and proceeded to exit the field without acknowledging or accepting the trophy.[12]
Fucking LoL
knitdan on
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
One of the richest athletic department in sports has asked that - even though season tickets won't be available this year - would season ticket holders please contribute the same amount as a gift to the UM Athletic Department.
Harbaugh did take a one-year 10% pay cut in line with other senior positions at the University, but still stands to make something like $6.75 million this season.
Meanwhile Michigan Medicine already lost 1400 full time positions and I don't believe the full details of the academic side's economic recovery plan have come through.
That seems like a non-story? He's asking for help, because duh. The institution at large is financially independent from the athletic department and will almost certainly be begging for money from alums (though they can get fucked until Paul Schmidt is suspended and investigated, as far as I'm concerned).
Self-righteousness is incompatible with coalition building.
That seems like a non-story? He's asking for help, because duh. The institution at large is financially independent from the athletic department and will almost certainly be begging for money from alums (though they can get fucked until Paul Schmidt is suspended and investigated, as far as I'm concerned).
It's a non-story. UT Athletic Director did the exact same thing two weeks ago.
I also imagine the OSU players are getting paid pretty well already so they wouldn’t really see the system as exploitative.
Actually this is a reason for them to sit out
A lot of OSU’s guys don’t really need to play to get noticed, and can avoid injury before getting their pro contracts
Tuf probably isn’t getting paid, and has no pro career ahead of him, and everyone here also hates him for sucking enormous shit so he’s not in the OSU->talk radio pipeline
Have to admit to being very proud of the conference for doing this. It'll suck not having any MACtion this season, but keeping people safe beats any kind of sports all hollow.
Commissioners of the Power 5 conferences held an emergency meeting on Sunday, as there is growing concern among college athletics officials that the upcoming football season and other fall sports can’t be played because of the coronavirus pandemic, sources told ESPN.
Several sources have indicated to ESPN that Big Ten presidents, following a meeting on Saturday, are ready to pull the plug on its fall sports season, and they wanted to gauge if commissioners and university presidents and chancellors from the other Power 5 conferences — the ACC, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC — will fall in line with them.
Willing to bet the commissioners are more concerned with the growing unity movement by student athletes more than COVID
Yeah, rumors I’ve seen are that the unity movement is forcing uni presidents to confront the idea of liabilities that the colleges clearly weren’t prepared for.
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Or , something something, "A Real Schiano Man" would embrace the CORVID!
Will we never get away from the goddamn popularity contest bullshit?
No.
This has been another edition of Simple Answers to Simple Questions.
UCF claimed they were the best undefeated CFB team in the country that year, and the Colley Matrix backed 'em up. If they'd had one loss, they'd be on the same tier as the "actual" champion, which they would lose (and did lose) in votes to.
They rules lawyered their way to it, and it pissed off everyone that already thought UCF was getting too big for it's britches, which means it's a success.
(reads listing)
What the fuck? We're fucking opening with the Battle for the Bell? What drunk goose came up with that?
(And yeah, we should not be having a fucking season in the first place, which is the first obscenity in the schedule. Putting one of the major grudge matches as the fucking opener is a distant second.)
If Michigan Ohio State happens it's happening early in the season. Utter madness.
Dogs and cats living together.
Also because it will be harder to cancel the season with a grudge match coming up than it would be if the big games are already over with.
I was looking, and almost all the PAC-12 grudge matches are preloaded. You have two openers (Battle of the Bell, Territorial Cup), Civil War is in week 4, and Battle of the Bay is Week 5. Only the Apple Cup is at the end of the season.
That’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
And even then avoiding FSU too.
Threatening in the sense that their outbreak is bad enough the Big Ten can't just ignore it as a player or two got unlucky and pretend everything will be fine.
The bigger thing is that UConn makes their money on basketball, not football.
Nothing is bigger than the annual ConFLiCT.
Fucking LoL
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wolverines/2020/08/06/michigan-football-season-tickets-warde-manuel/3311119001/
One of the richest athletic department in sports has asked that - even though season tickets won't be available this year - would season ticket holders please contribute the same amount as a gift to the UM Athletic Department.
Harbaugh did take a one-year 10% pay cut in line with other senior positions at the University, but still stands to make something like $6.75 million this season.
Meanwhile Michigan Medicine already lost 1400 full time positions and I don't believe the full details of the academic side's economic recovery plan have come through.
Fuck your solidarity!
It's a non-story. UT Athletic Director did the exact same thing two weeks ago.
Yeah no shock here
Tuf sucks and has no future so its easy for him to be the spokesperson and hopefully get some personal benefit out of it
Clemson is the only school I’d rank worse than OSU in terms of expected shitty response
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Actually this is a reason for them to sit out
A lot of OSU’s guys don’t really need to play to get noticed, and can avoid injury before getting their pro contracts
Tuf probably isn’t getting paid, and has no pro career ahead of him, and everyone here also hates him for sucking enormous shit so he’s not in the OSU->talk radio pipeline
Not get any MACtion, like the rest of us.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
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How badly will the NFL fuck this one up?
As long as something brings them in touch with reality I don't care what moves them toward canceling sports during a pandemic.
Yeah, rumors I’ve seen are that the unity movement is forcing uni presidents to confront the idea of liabilities that the colleges clearly weren’t prepared for.
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