sportsmed86
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Michigan has played 1 game in prior CFPs so maybe they aren’t a mainstay team, eh?yeah it was gonna be cool to have some new playoff blood this year, but nope we got 3 of the 4 mainstay teams
Michigan has played 1 game in prior CFPs so maybe they aren’t a mainstay team, eh?yeah it was gonna be cool to have some new playoff blood this year, but nope we got 3 of the 4 mainstay teams
I don’t guess this will lead to more realistic contracts for coaches. I’m pissed if I just supported a coach with a big contract, bought him a bunch of elite players then have to pay him a guaranteed contract after he doesn’t win. If I’m a ( big enough) booster wanting return on investment I leverage the coaching contracts better and put money into the players. The coach gets his money if he wins with them. I entice the coach by letting him know we will deliver the payroll for the players.I cannot imagine in a couple of years that boosters at a 6-6 SEC team or BiG10 team are going to continue to be enthusiastic about ponying up millions to keep their best players or get new better players with the hope of improving. There will be donor fatigue, especially if results don’t improve after dropping big cash.
My understanding is that they will still want some bottom feeders athletically. When Cam Lemons, who I dislike strongly but is right about some stuff, was explaining what will happen when (not if) the ACC is raided and the landscape shifts to a professional football league, he said they will want 10 or so additional schools to be the equivalent of what G5 is now, easier games to schedule at the start of the year. His assertion was that schools like Wake would be brought along to fill that role, but I don't think so. I think it'll just be the biggest 4 ACC schools plus Oregon, Washington, and maybe BYU (huge national religious fanbase).The “simple” thing here is not understanding that there are not 8 more schools that the Big 10 and SEC can add to increase the pot enough that each school will make more money than what they are currently making.
Cam Lemons doesn’t know anything more than anyone else does about these issues.My understanding is that they will still want some bottom feeders athletically. When Cam Lemons, who I dislike strongly but is right about some stuff, was explaining what will happen when (not if) the ACC is raided and the landscape shifts to a professional football league, he said they will want 10 or so additional schools to be the equivalent of what G5 is now, easier games to schedule at the start of the year. His assertion was that schools like Wake would be brought along to fill that role, but I don't think so. I think it'll just be the biggest 4 ACC schools plus Oregon, Washington, and maybe BYU (huge national religious fanbase).
He is just floating theories, man.NJD lives to make WF fans feel crappy about being WF fans. It gets old. He's not as smart, well-connected or clairvoyant as he thinks he is.
Would argue he knows more than your average fan, but that's not hard since most fans understandably just want to watch their school win and don't obsess over this stuff. His type of attitude is also exhibit A of why we are where we are (only cares about football and football money, pretends to be a social justice warrior about how football players deserve to be paid while showing 0 interest in the rest of college athletes and what happens to them in this NFL 2.0 mess).Cam Lemons doesn’t know anything more than anyone else does about these issues.
Well, then go follow Rutgers (that seems like a thriving athletic program...) or pro sports rather than fixating on predicting armageddon for WF athletics. FWIW, this has been a theme that others have tried to push onto WF fans for more than 30 years. Through football expansion and realignment. WF can't keep up. Well, WF is still keeping up.Would argue he knows more than your average fan, but that's not hard since most fans understandably just want to watch their school win and don't obsess over this stuff. His type of attitude is also exhibit A of why we are where we are (only cares about football and football money, pretends to be a social justice warrior about how football players deserve to be paid while showing 0 interest in the rest of college athletes and what happens to them in this NFL 2.0 mess).
It really only takes reading and research to know what is going to happen in general. The details are the only thing left to determine (which schools are invited before the break is made, do they eliminate all non-football sports or maintain some/all of them in the new organization, does the new organization regulate roster movement and player payment in some way, do athletes have to be enrolled in classes at all, etc.). For those that follow Conor's new board, he just wrote his own rather sad explanation for why college sports are ruined and are on a pretty transparent death path.
And the ACC still exists.Well, then go follow Rutgers or pro sports rather than fixating on predicting armageddon for WF athletics. FWIW, that has been a theme that others have tried to push onto WF fans for more than 30 years. Through football expansion and realignment. WF can't keep up. Well, WF is still keeping up.
What do you mean keeping up? On the field, yes 100% we can keep up. That doesn't matter though. This is not the same as the past 30 years.Well, then go follow Rutgers or pro sports rather than fixating on predicting armageddon for WF athletics. FWIW, that has been a theme that others have tried to push onto WF fans for more than 30 years. Through football expansion and realignment. WF can't keep up. Well, WF is still keeping up.
You spewed the same theme on the 247 Boards for months. Now you are trolling here. It gets old.What do you mean keeping up? On the field, yes 100% we can keep up. That doesn't matter though. This is not the same as the past 30 years.
Not intentionally annoying just soul crushing as a huge sports fan to see this death spiral. Wake football imo will struggle to go bowling next year (ceiling raises considerably if the offensive line exceeds expectations), but 2024 and 2025 can potentially be very fun years indeed. With Shah providing Forbes with a salary budget for basketball now I expect that to take off towards national relevancy too, but in this mess of a landscape basketball doesn't matter for shit since it actually loses money for most schools.You spewed the same theme on the 247 Boards for months. Now you are trolling here. It gets old.
WF is in the middle of its best run ever in football. WF is nationally competitive is every sport that it fields a team except for women's hoop and volleyball, and there is hope for optimism there as well.
Going on and on about how the ACC will break up, and WF will be left in the dust has been around for decades. It hasn't happened yet. If it happens, it happens. WF will make the best of it, but stop trying to beat everyone down here about how the future is hopeless. WF will field a football team next year; according to recruiting rankings, WF is bringing in its best football recruiting class ever.
Without divisions, WF will have a better chance to get to the ACCCG. In 2024, if WF wins the ACC (which it almost did last year), WF will be in the CFP. Beyond that, things change every year. Maybe they change for the better for WF and maybe not. We shall see.
Your act of crapping on those that support WF athletics is tired. If the ACC busts in 2029, and WF is relegated to the Sun Belt, come back and gloat. Until then, STFU.
Not intentionally annoying just soul crushing as a huge sports fan to see this death spiral. Wake football imo will struggle to go bowling next year (ceiling raises considerably if the offensive line exceeds expectations), but 2024 and 2025 can potentially be very fun years indeed. With Shah providing Forbes with a salary budget for basketball now I expect that to take off towards national relevancy too, but in this mess of a landscape basketball doesn't matter for shit since it actually loses money for most schools.
We almost won the first half!!Ehhhh, we got to the Acc championship last year. I think it’s a stretch to say we almost won it.