Search results

Tafai and Roy probably the projected starters. Regardless, losing a serviceable OT always blows for depth purposes.

Damn. That reminds me. I have a rarely-used $35 monthly carwash subscription I need to cancel!

There's also this Midwest team in maroon and gold with a weird rodent mascot that would be fun to see challenge. ;)

42,000-44,000 is probably the right figure. TV and streaming is so good that attendance isn't what it used to be. Plus, peoples' backsides have gotten bigger rapidly (fewer seats in the same space). On a side note, maybe Ozempic will make Williams Arena's tiny bench seats relevant again.

The advantage of selling to a PE firm is receiving a shit ton pot of money today in exchange for the future's uncertain profits. If the business model stays extremely profitable in the future, then everyone criticizes what a poor decision the sale of future profits was. If everything crashes in...

Non-profit accounting for a college is full of misleading things. For example, athletic student financial aid expenses charged to the athletic department aren't actual cash costs. For example, the incremental true expense in allowing a scholarship athlete to attend classes already being provided...

The NFL officiating process is even worse than college to the point of looking corrupt. Please don't model them for anything!

As I posted on some other thread, I still don't understand how providing a full scholarship plus personal expenses plus millions in program costs (coaches, staff, travel, facilities, etc.) for non-revenue sports provides a net benefit to a D1 university.

I assume this is just the top of D1? It sounds intriguing, but I'm skeptical that it could work. The new college minor leagues would need to make money to work. I doubt a single college soccer program operates anywhere near a profit currently. Would schools continue to fund a soccer minor league...

I'd be happier if one of my teams was in this list of Midwest champs, but still!

I'll keep saying, the CFP screwed up the whole bracket by seeding Boise above Clemson. Nice season, but they would have been an underdog to all 11 other teams in the CFP.

I prefer to use the final Sagarin ratings for "Recent" and "Strong Recent". At least this year.

Ryan Day's sphincter is puckering.

OSU receivers are so good. They scoop up eeeverything.

What I've always wondered is how a D1 university benefits AT ALL from providing a non-revenue sport athlete a full scholarship and living costs plus the hundreds of thousands in extra expenses per athlete that can go with that. D1 Men's football and basketball are great marketing and produce...

I'm pretty sure I've heard softball at some southern or West Coast schools were profitable. Softball gets quite a bit of air time on ESPN in the spring. Edit: I take that back. I checked EADA and no softball programs technically operated at a profit per their data. Schools like Florida State...

The revenue sharing lawsuit was about athlete name, image and likeness. Let's face it, the true fair market value of NIL for your average cross country, rowing, swimming or even the 3rd string offensive lineman is worth exactly zero. I don't think we're done with the lawsuits.

The bolded is where we're headed if non-revenue sport athletes are legally entitled to the same compensation as the football and basketball players generating the revenue. Revenue generating sports like football will operate as separate legal entities from the universities.

Distributions won't be spread equally among all athletes in athletic departments as they exist now. It won't happen. There's too much money involved. Let's say pro-rata distribution among all athletes does happen. That scenario would give a big advantage to universities that cancel all men's...

First of all, what the DOE put out is only guidance. The lame duck DOE mind you. In other words, it's bullshit and not law. Secondly, if I understand it correctly, the whole purpose of the original lawsuit regarding TV revenue and NIL was that athletes (mainly football) felt the schools were...