Recent content by swede2

I would think it will intensify reclassifying forward for high and talent to maximize revenue earning years (under the assumption that high end talent will also play professional sports).

The same guys that are making money on AAU/Club sports, etc., have a new marketing opportunity: Athletes that aren't getting the college offers they like now pay to play in a new, post HS club league in an effort to improve their athletic attractiveness to schools. Its not unfathomable. Is...

Their 2027 class is about on par for past classes. Top FCS teams generally recruit against and very often win recruiting battles against bottom rung FBS teams. I don't think NDSU's recruiting will change much at all unless someone dumps an enormous amount of money into NIL. There may be a tad...

I would think it would be worse now then it already was. Even though there isn't much daylight between the MVFC and MWC competition-wise, a good player at a FBS will almost certainly have a better market for his services in the portal than he would have at FCS.

While there might be constitutional issues implicated, the cases that threw open the current pay for play are were roited in the Sherman Antitrust Act. It is entirely within the peragative of Congress to make changes or exceptions to the act and abrogate the result of the lawsuits. Even to...

I've argued elsewhere that we've hit the Fleck ceiling and that we ought to satisfy ourselves with mediocre expectations so I won't repeat any of that here. But I bring it up only because so many people point to 2019 as rebuttle for my assertion. The fact that 2019 is still, all these years...

AFA and UNLV could go earlier if MWC can't deliver on it's promise. That would occur if PAC is successful in the poaching litigation. PAC has a healthier media rights deal (UNLV) and AAC has the other service academies (AFA). Do SDSU and the Montanas want to be FBS? I'm an SDSU grad and fan...

These These really aren't multiple sources - they essentially parrot each other. I'm not really in deep thinking mode right now but a big note on the data is "expecting.". Even under the rosy scenario that didn't come to pass (media rights), where did the $34 million come from?

For the average fan, 10pm (or later) kickoffs and navigating the various streamers and linear carriers to find a game, will suck. The MAC isn't a sexy league, and MACtion isn't ideal, but having eastern and central time zone opponents is a positive.

Word is that the Mountain West was ready to add NDSU, SDSU, Montana and Montana State last off season and was willing to subsidize their entry. At the time, it appeared that UNLV and AFA were leaving. Instead, MWC is paying a significant sum to keep those schools in the fold. When the lousy...

NDSU avoiding SDSU.

BFD. 20 year old kids going to do 20 year old stuff.

Sure, they'd still play each other but G6 isn't going to give up CFP money potential. But the price of buy games probably goes down. FBS teams get closer to seven figures from P4. FCS close to $300k. If P4 and G6 would become different categories, does P4 still pay MAC school 7 figures? What...

I don't think G6 would ever willingly walk away from the P4. I think the money is too great and a lot of schools pimp their football teams out to fund the athletic department. I don't know how well that works any more with revenue sharing but we'll see. Its too bad that the bowl system isn't...

The 40th best FBS team doesn't make the CFP though. The Bisonville bizarro universe has been puffing its chest about beating horrible Minnesota teams in what amounts to a lifetime ago in college football and that the U "refuses" to schedule NDSU as a result. Meanwhile, both the AD and HC at...