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If you lose fans in the stands, have no division titles to play for, you'll eventually sink in TV ratings, too, and the golden egg will break into pieces. The conferences, NCAA, presidents, ADs, coaches, all put greed ahead of common sense and rational administration of the game. West Coast...

No Spring game? Fans mean less and less.

Anarchy! The NCAA has to go back to the Supreme Court to restore order and sanity. The most important thing is when will the B18 re-establish divisions instead of letting 18 teams swing in the breeze?

Rap is not music - it is bad poetry. If the word "monkey" was shouted multiple times in the "song" he has nothing to worry about.

Despite drawing 75 to 90k fans who pay for tickets, Nebraska may cancel their popular spring game because of portal poaching by other coaches watching the game on TV!

CBS Sports reports that Duke is paying QB Darian Mensah $4 million a year on a two-year contract! This is all insane. Gophers could buy a QB for half a season with all their NIL funding together. NCAA has to get back into the courts and go all the way back to SCOTUS to return sanity to college...

The only way to stop NIL is to revisit the Supreme Court and show them what a disaster they have brought to school sports. They might reconsider or refigure.

An odd thing about the '77 season's Rose Bowl: Minnesota beat both of the teams, Washington and Michigan, leading one TV announcer to quip that it was the "Gopher Bowl."

Oh, no! He should be paid as "assistant head coach" and get an impressive raise. It's all about money now and the U has to dish out and not just for coordinators.

My dad took me to see Bierman's final years at the U after I showed an interest in the warriors I saw in the Sunday peach sports section. I liked military history and football looked like it was military: offense, defense, helmets, physical struggle, casualties. The first teams I saw were the...

Gophers 27 VT 23

Except it is.

Plus three of the four games were icebox games. Move these early games to bowls in warmer areas and have an even field of play for both teams. There are 50+ bowls - lots to choose from, doesn't matter if they are unknown.

NCAA should go back to the old rules on transfer - show some spine, tamp down the anarchy and bad faith.

I agree - VT is 6-6 but had close losses to very good opponents. I think the game will be competitive, and in a big downtown stadium, and if it's not raining the temp may be moderate (52 average daytime high, 32 night at this time of year), plus Charlotte has a lot to offer in restaurants...