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Bad Gopher said:
This actually turned my stomach when I heard it live. Paying players was sold as justice but has predictably become big bags of money for the few-- the minority of programs and the vast minority of players. It's the worst of the unregulated free market. Put another way, only a minority of programs and players would have voted for this outcome, but this is what we all end up with. Money rots everything.

Whether or not it benefits the Gophers is way down my list of interests. Sports is most interesting when it's competitive. That's most of why MLB has lost its historical popularity. College sports has always had its haves and have nots, and now it's that on steroids. You're already seeing a decline in popularity. They're killing the goose that lays golden eggs.
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Bingo. Consult the NFL.

I’ve been saying this since the call for “justice” by people who stand to make a lot of money off the players. Rules established to benefit a very few, while the masses don’t benefit at all and may lose if the trends of guys leaving programs and not reconnecting with another continues. The old system functionally assured a degree of the player honored his commitment and did the work. Not so much anymore.
 

Ope3 said:
What's more surprising and I think perhaps a bigger impact in the lack of any Mid-Majors is the fact that the Big East & ACC Combined have just 1 team represented (Duke). Additionally, other than St John's going out 2 rounds early according to seed, it's not that surprising.

Those 2 conferences have dominated for 40 years and greatly impacted NCAA's popularity as a whole in huge media markets throughout the Eastern Coast.

1 year is not a trend, but man I have to think it will have a significant impact on ratings/streaming numbers short term.
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I think the Big East will figure this out. They will have a pot of money and won’t need to share it with football. This year is an anomaly for them. ACC maybe not.
 


Holy Man said:
Bingo. Consult the NFL.

I’ve been saying this since the call for “justice” by people who stand to make a lot of money off the players. Rules established to benefit a very few, while the masses don’t benefit at all and may lose if the trends of guys leaving programs and not reconnecting with another continues. The old system functionally assured a degree of the player honored his commitment and did the work. Not so much anymore.
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Anarchy is no way to run a sports league, professional or amateur. Even with free agency, the major sports leagues are highly structured, regulated and enforced...by necessity, to avoid chaos and anarchy. I usually don't favor legislative solutions, but this might be a case where something needs to be imposed for the sake of functionality and integrity.
 

Bad Gopher said:
Anarchy is no way to run a sports league, professional or amateur. Even with free agency, the major sports leagues are highly structured, regulated and enforced...by necessity, to avoid chaos and anarchy. I usually don't favor legislative solutions, but this might be a case where something needs to be imposed for the sake of functionality and integrity.
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I think 2-4 year revenue contracts with the school and if you leave there is a buyout for a school to drop you or you or your new school pays.
 


Question: Would Niko come here if he didn't feel at least decent about our nil situation going forward?
Does that mean our nil situation isn't as bad as media portrays, or at least that Niko feels good about nil situation going forward?
 


Holy Man said:
I think the Big East will figure this out. They will have a pot of money and won’t need to share it with football. This year is an anomaly for them. ACC maybe not.
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Yeah, the revenue sharing should in theory be more of a boost to the Big East.

ACC yeah several uncertainties. NC lost a key player to Arizona. They Wildcats are still playing. The Heels are done. It's just a singular example, but still.
 





MaxyJR1 said:
A week after playing in the NCAA tournament, St. Francis announces all sports are moving to D3.
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Hartford did that a couple of years ago. As the power conferences gobble up the money, look for more of this to happen. D-1 sports are very expensive.
 

DarthGopher said:
He did what????
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Harris transcript from previously unreleased Police Report:

"I was in Thailand playing ping pong in Ding Dang. I was in a real high stakes game in some opium den. Turns out, the guys I was playing aren't the kind of guys that like to lose. After I beat 'em, they beat me. Worked me over pretty good. And this is hard to say ...they held me down and shoved a ping pong paddle up my a--. It's never been the same. Damaged goods...been shitting pancakes ever since."

No charges were ever filed against Bad Gopher but he knows what he did...and it's time to forgive.
 

Slim Tubby said:
Harris transcript from previously unreleased Police Report:

"I was in Thailand playing ping pong in Ding Dang. I was in a real high stakes game in some opium den. Turns out, the guys I was playing aren't the kind of guys that like to lose. After I beat 'em, they beat me. Worked me over pretty good. And this is hard to say ...they held me down and shoved a ping pong paddle up my a--. It's never been the same. Damaged goods...been shitting pancakes ever since."

No charges were ever filed against Bad Gopher but he knows what he did...and it's time to forgive.
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What happens in Ding Dang stays in Ding Dang.

Geez, you just watch The Hold Steady turn that into a song lyric and rhyme it with something!
 
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GophersInIowa said:
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Is the B1G handling this very differently than the SEC? Less transfers. Easy to identify three out of the four, but not so much the SEC schools. The B1G is more likely to shift to the SEC model in the future to better compete, right? Sad, but likely.
 

Ope3 said:
What's more surprising and I think perhaps a bigger impact in the lack of any Mid-Majors is the fact that the Big East & ACC Combined have just 1 team represented (Duke). Additionally, other than St John's going out 2 rounds early according to seed, it's not that surprising.

Those 2 conferences have dominated for 40 years and greatly impacted NCAA's popularity as a whole in huge media markets throughout the Eastern Coast.

1 year is not a trend, but man I have to think it will have a significant impact on ratings/streaming numbers short term.
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The ACC is in huge trouble because of their lower football revenue and they know it. It impacts both football and basketball. Isn't all the money the SEC has generated in football what has elevated them in basketball?
 

SeaBee_Gopher said:
The ACC is in huge trouble because of their lower football revenue and they know it. It impacts both football and basketball. Isn't all the money the SEC has generated in football what has elevated them in basketball?
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Yes, the funding and backing by the SEC Network has turned it into something beyond Kentucky (and Donovan's Florida era) this century.
 

MaxyJR1 said:
Equalize for power conferences but not for mid majors.
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Who cares?

College sports finally is running how it's been for 50+ years, a business.

I don't think anybody would say this current iteration is perfect, but it's a whole lot better than the big lie - saying they are students first.
 

Slim Tubby said:
Harris transcript from previously unreleased Police Report:

"I was in Thailand playing ping pong in Ding Dang. I was in a real high stakes game in some opium den. Turns out, the guys I was playing aren't the kind of guys that like to lose. After I beat 'em, they beat me. Worked me over pretty good. And this is hard to say ...they held me down and shoved a ping pong paddle up my a--. It's never been the same. Damaged goods...been shitting pancakes ever since."

No charges were ever filed against Bad Gopher but he knows what he did...and it's time to forgive.
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"We are not so different, you and I. I've had all kinds of things shoved up my ass. I got over it. You will, too."

Best part is it was delivered by Cloris Leachman. :)
 




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