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Yep. Become an earner instead of a leech.
Who are you? JH is going to have an aneurism when he sees this post.
Yep. Become an earner instead of a leech.
Who are you? JH is going to have an aneurism when he sees this post.
Of course, this all assumes the cable TV gravy train continues. And there are hints that it won't.
The SWC basically ceased to exist and 4 schools from that conference merged with the existing Big 8 to form the Big 12. For the ACC to cease existing, some big name schools would have to depart and leave schools like Wake, GT, VT, and UVA with their dinguses flopping in the wind.
Well, yes, ceased to exist by that name, dropped the other schools, picked up better schools and started another conference. Call it what you want but it is all the same thing. The SWC was made up of 7 schools from Texas and Arkansas and was a pretty good conference which ceased to exist in 1996. Florida State came to the ACC in 1991. Penn St joined the Big 10 in 1990.
All this could happen if & when ESPN quits paying the big revenue they are paying as their subscribers continues to fall or as the other conferences start their own secession from the NCAA and make their own form of NCAA basketball & football tournies and make their own rules--"he who has the gold, make the rules" and soon they could tire of the NCAA's thick & mindless rulebook. Plus possibly like letting schools like UNC do what they want and following no rules at all.
Well, yes, ceased to exist by that name, dropped the other schools, picked up better schools and started another conference. Call it what you want but it is all the same thing. The SWC was made up of 7 schools from Texas and Arkansas and was a pretty good conference which ceased to exist in 1996. Florida State came to the ACC in 1991. Penn St joined the Big 10 in 1990.
All this could happen if & when ESPN quits paying the big revenue they are paying as their subscribers continues to fall or as the other conferences start their own secession from the NCAA and make their own form of NCAA basketball & football tournies and make their own rules--"he who has the gold, make the rules" and soon they could tire of the NCAA's thick & mindless rulebook. Plus possibly like letting schools like UNC do what they want and following no rules at all.
It's really not.
Of course, this all assumes the cable TV gravy train continues. And there are hints that it won't.
Agreed.
Legit basketball programs exist in pretty much every conference, and we seem to be incapable of having a legit football program after using up all of our luck on that one team. I'd rather watch us actually compete with lower level teams than be a laughing stock. And, frankly, I don't like the obscene spending on football facilities. It just looks like misplaced priorities to me.
The SWC basically ceased to exist and 4 schools from that conference merged with the existing Big 8 to form the Big 12. For the ACC to cease existing, some big name schools would have to depart and leave schools like Wake, GT, VT, and UVA with their dinguses flopping in the wind.
The Big Ten will probably get a sizable bump from Fox.
Agreed.
Legit basketball programs exist in pretty much every conference, and we seem to be incapable of having a legit football program after using up all of our luck on that one team. I'd rather watch us actually compete with lower level teams than be a laughing stock. And, frankly, I don't like the obscene spending on football facilities. It just looks like misplaced priorities to me.
And here you have the WF mentality that explains why Wake fails at every revenue sport. No competitive desire among a large portion of the fanbase.
Well the Texas way of thinking is that the SWC added the Big 8 and dropped most of their conference, but that's not the reality. The reality is that UT, aTm, Taco Tech, and Baylor (the last two being hangers-on with connections in the Texas state legislature) joined the Big 8 and the conference was renamed. Texas had driven off Arkansas with all their power playing and reduced one school to permanent godawful status (SMU) by getting them the death penalty for doing the same thing every other school in the SWC was doing. The SWC was the joke conference among all the major conferences. The Big 8 did not need those 4 schools so much as they needed the Big 8, but strengthened its hand and recruiting footprint for schools other than OU and NU by adding Texas schools.
I just read that the Big 10 is about to get about $250 million from Fox for HALF of its media rights. In comparison, ESPN and ABC currently pay $100 million a year for priority of broadcasting BIG football. That is crazy money.
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Closing-Bell/2016/04/19/Big-Ten.aspx
Keep pumping up that balloon until it pops. The money paid by the networks for sports rights can't continue.