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Would a standalone SEC have a monopoly? Would a stand stand alone SEC stifle competition? Does a stand alone SEC not have freedom of association?

Yup, the person who has no other option. A bad option is better than no option. Would I borrow money on those terms? No. Would I borrow money to someone who's only option was someone who would only lend on those terms? Hell no. But I get the folks who could get the credit were glad for it...

I'd like to see overtime games settled by "kill the carrier."

I wonder if the "desperate" and the "dumb" were so critical of him when they needed access to funds and his bank was their only life line? Its easy to look down your nose if you don't count yourself among the "desperate" or "dumb" or see these transactions from their perspective. His business...

Why not just eliminate the turnover rule and treat it like a fumble between the goal lines out of bounds? Ball is brought back to the point of fumble - ball can't be advanced by a fumble. That would leave as the only turnover exception a fumble out of the back of your own end zone (resulting...

USD is a pretty small university and the med school is very small. There are certainly ties between the med school and the medical center (along with the Avera Health System), but it is not an integrated resource like the U and the University hospital.

This is how I remember it. He seemed to think $35 million was going to build a Big 10 Stadium, wanted his name on it in perpetuity, and obnoxious control over the project.

Right. It's my no means "premier" but it isn't non-existent. It also doesn't have the same infrastructure as a University. It is a health system. Granted, health systems can and do bring in huge sums of research money (see Mayo Clinic) but the mission of a health system are not the same. The...

Sanford Health is not T Denny Sanford.

They do, actually. A lot of what T Denny donated was to establish Sanford as a premier research institution. I don't know that they've achieved "premier" status but they've definitely jumped big into the research game.

NDSU should schedule SDSU but bottom rung FBS teams from the MWC have avoided scheduling MVFC teams for years now so it's not surprising they won't.

Does anyone really believe that Big 12 is on the same economic level as the P2? One would assume the Big 12 took the best deal it could get for something like this. Its not a huge sum but its not nothing. I wouldn't sell the name of my business for a lousy 1% increase in revenue but what...

The gap between the B1G/SEC and the ACC and Big 12 is huge. This is gross but for the member institutions, it's still real money they didn't have yesterday. For a school like Iowa State, that's 1% more revenue for doing nothing but wearing a jersey patch. It's not like there isn't precedence...

There are a lot of reasons I quit reading the Strib. Souhan wasn't good as a reporter. He was a terrible columnist. The whole outfit seemed run in similar fashion.

That must be metric dollars since you're so close to Canada. The website says $10,400,000, of which $10,000,000 was a "match." By my math, that still leaves NDSU $7.5m in the hock to join a conference competing with CUSA for least relevant in the FBS. Congrats.

Great research. Can you easily calculate the number of combined seasons to 10 win season ratio and combined seasons to BCS/NY6/CFP ratios? Omitted from this list is 2020/2021 spring season FCS champ Sam Houston State who has gone 15-23 over three seasons work ones 10 win season.

It's a short term GOR, and Air Force and UNLV are supposed to be paid a ransom to stay. It sounds like the MWC and PAC litigation will be settled soon, the terms of which may very well determine whether MWC can deliver what UNLV and AF are owed or expect, and if not, particularly with PAC...

I would be surprised if any more eyes see an NDSU game in the Twin Cities. A casual fan will really need to search for them. Who turns on CW when they sit down on a Saturday afternoon (or late night?) looking for a football game. CBS sports presumably requires an upgraded cable(or streaming)...

I think the concern supposedly being addressed by freezing conference membership of the P4, and the reason schools like Minnesota are in support, is to prevent the blue bloods from forming a super league and leaving behind not just the G6, but also have not P4s like Minnesota.

Underreported aspect of the proposed legislation - essentially freezing P4 membership. Everywhere supported by schools like our dear old Ivy in Dinkytown, who fear a media entity ir other actor, plucking the must valuable college brands for a super league...