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Wow. If Wisconsin is preventing a player from completing a clean entry (within 48 hrs) and transfer at the bequest of a butthurt donor (that doesn’t want to pursue normal legal action to enforce any NIL contract) this is doubly bad. This is before any lawsuits arrive challenging the legality...

^ This story doesn’t make sense.

The bottom line is there are interested parties, many of them JDs, that are twisting Title IX to not only include any tv publicity rights revenue share but ALL NIL revenue due to collective and athlete association with the schools, from which the schools indirectly benefit. I suppose, from a...

The NFL is a monopoly (collude in exceptional ways in a marketplace) and a monopsony (controls who is employed or contracted) that has barred public ownership of franchises. To protect ownership interests and leverage they colluded to ban public ownership of teams. So, the city of Oakland for...

Sports betting effect ? The product is actually pretty crap compared to days gone by, or CFB. In terms of percentage of media viewers not absolute numbers I believe the percentage share is down from the heyday 70s/80s/90s. My 2 cent opinion. As far as allowing public ownership of entities...

House settlement lead plaintiff hired gun/hopeful soon-to-be billionaire Kessler weighs in, curiously states antitrust claims have been resolved 🤔 Not too late to blow this thing up, folks. Blank sheet. Blue sky. I may be the only one that finds this hilarious, but c’mon. Chaos...

The legislation is interpreted by politically appointed bureaucrats. If challenged in court the legislation/rule is interpreted via oftentimes tortuous logic by attorneys/judges, to fit their preconceived bias and outlook. There is zero chance this new rule interpretation will survive the...

Going back to 2011 the threats of antitrust lawsuits brought the owners to the table. The players have given up way, way more than they ever should have. So have fans. Why NFL fans and their congresspeople allow the ownership model to continue is one of life’s great mysteries...

To a person of a certain age TSR time had more to do with Gary Gygax than ambulance chasers.

We’re approaching this all wrong. The officiating crews should be getting the pay for play deals. Holding, interference can be applied in creative ways. Let’s not overthink this. Work smarter not harder 🙃

If Vikings fans could be made to understand they can possibly buy a championship…

Thanks for this; always interesting to see how our preconceptions evolve over the year. Very, very few sportswriters or poll-takers ever go back and publicly roast themselves over their preseason opinions. The run game issue was probably the biggest deviance from expected.

There are at least two generations of sportswriters and ADs with confirmation bias to overcome.

ASU Texas was an epic game, they definitely belonged. The spread on that game was 13.5 points which illustrates the common man/conventional wisdom knows nothing. As far as Boise getting a bid ahead of eg Penn State it’s solely because they won their conference. I think that’s a better system...

In a hypothetical world where antitrust law were applied, the proposed ~20M salary cap did not exist and programs were free to spend any amount on player salaries what would the coach contracts naturally settle at? I’d guess about 1/3 to 1/5 of current? Coaches are important and a very, very...

Base pay 400K+ supplemental income 380K last year (plus bonuses). For all intents and purposes the supplemental income is salary. Fleck’s base salary is also 400K + 5.6M + bonuses including ~ 1 million in yearly retention. In a more perfect world the assistants might get paid more, head...

But, how do you determine the top seeds?

I didn’t think they looked great. They looked good/very good but far less than the juggernaut people expected. I’m not going to budge on this.

Money >> coaches now. It is what it is. Plenty of good coaches out there.

Two losses should disqualify a regular season as “great” but I think good people can disagree on this.