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  1. Not really because some schools (Notre Dame, Ohio State and Michigan come to mind) have alumni (and t-shirt fan) bases spread across the country. They turn on televisions from NYC to LA. Is Ohio State's worth related solely to the size of the Columbus media market? Is Houston a more valuable college sports property? Do better.
  2. Look on the bright side, Reno. You probably don't need to worry about Michigan sniffing around Alford next month. #BattleBoned
  3. Right as he's being given intelligence briefings again. Hmmm?
  4. Since he's equally splitting inter-conference games, he's actually doing everything to pump up the G5 numbers. UNLV was given half the viewership from the Michigan game as opposed to the percent that they actually drove which was what? 5% of the total? At the end of the day, if the G5 brought more value to the playoff than 9%, they wouldn't have taken 9%.
  5. This is all about which conferences turn on television sets, and to look at it dispassionately, it would seem like the SEC/B1G are getting slightly underpaid (58% of the payout for bringing 64% of the television sets) while the G5 were given a nice bonus almost 50% higher than their true market value--9% of the payout for bringing 6.3% of the television sets.
  6. Ohio State would be absolutely insane not to give their interim guy the full time gig. Wonder if they'll make the wise choice and hire the guy who could be a twenty year coach for them or go chase the flavor of the month (Alford?).
  7. No, she couldn't...not in the least. She's 6' with absolutely no vertical leap. Her game is based solely on being a dead-eye with her 1950s style set shots. All any team would need to do is put an athletic 6 foot guard who's a good defender and has a good leap on her. All those set shots (if she even catches the ball) would get swatted back in her face. Perhaps there might be a couple of defensive breakdowns where she could get a clean shot, but how many minutes does she eat up to get her 6 or 7 points. Oh, and one more thing, she becomes a gigantic liability the second your team goes on defense.
  8. Absolutely! It's not even D1 men. If she brought that six foot tall, half inch vertical leap, 50's set shot game to a competitive playground in NYC, Chicago or DC, she would be absolutely schooled, shut down and sent away. She's been great for the women's game, so let's just leave it at that and not try to make her into some kind of Hoops Superwoman.
  9. Clearly you don't understand liberal arts colleges. You understand that there is a difference, but beyond that, you think that not being major research universities somehow inherently makes them inferior. Try again because the best liberal arts colleges are harder to get into than the best public universities, they have larger endowments when measured on a per-student basis and they put larger percentages of their graduates into elite law, medical schools and Ph.D programs. In addition, you never have to worry about having a 200 student class taught by a graduate student. I have always been a huge proponent of the UC campuses, but if you think that being a graduate of UC Davis is perceived as being more prestigious than having gone to Claremont or Pomona, you're sadly mistaken.
  10. UCF isn't even the best directional Florida. USF just made it into the AAU. UCF is nowhere near admission.
  11. Yep. In the halls of NASA, lowly graduates of the Ivies, MIT, Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, Stanford, Berkeley and the other UC campuses, Purdue amd the other B1G schools, Carnegie-Mellon, U-Dub, UVA, UNC, Rice, Texas et al know to make way when a vaunted UCF grad passes by.
  12. Not really. There are playgrounds in Chicago where she would get absolutely schooled. Any points she scored would solely be off catching a pass in the open and firing off a quick shot before a defender could get close. She's an incredible athlete in her sport, but she'd have the same amount of success crossing over to the men's game as a female power lifter would.
  13. Good luck phVcking with the B1G and the SEC on this. Great way to end up being discovered in a dumpster with your severed testicles crammed into your mouth.
  14. I'd go to Cincinnati over Houston. Cincinnati is actually a great old city, and they've done a lot to revitalize older downtown neighborhoods. I've been to Houston once, and it was just endless miles of soul-sucking sprawl.
  15. The notion that Cincy would carry the Cincinnati market was ludicrous. If they're good, they might squeak out a small plurality over Ohio State, Kentucky and Notre Dame (Cincinnati is heavily Catholic) in terms of viewers and fan support. That being said, that support evaporates if they're not winning, and even if they are winning, it doesn't extend outside the metro area to the rest of Ohio in the least.
  16. Only thing that will put ND into the B1G is if their path to the playoff is blocked. Their new tv deal keeps them close enough in revenue, and they don't need the B1G academic alliance anymore to get an AAU invite.
  17. Unless there is a complete breakaway, the G5 will get a team in every year and maybe a second in a fluke year where the B12 champ is ranked 20-25. That being said, they're almost certain to play a road game in the first round.
  18. The areas that would be left out are 1. The Northeast which doesn't give a damn about college football and 2. the Great Plains and Intermountain West which have very low populations. They'll cover the regions they need to cover which are the Southeast, Great Lakes, West Coast, mid-Atlantic and Texas
  19. Yes, though there has been some talk of relegating the bottom team, which would almost certainly result in Georgia occasionally replacing Italy. Supposedly, South Africa wants in because they don't like the drastic time changes of playing New Zealand, Australia and Argentina.
  20. Also not moving even close to the top 50 academically. Whose spot are they taking? U-Dub's? A UC campus? Ohio State, Wisconsin or Purdue?
  21. Only thing shocking about this is the fans of schools like BYU, Cincinnati or Baylor that actually think they will get a ticket when the Great Separation happens. My assumption has always been 2 twenty to twenty four team divisions (SEC and B1G), which leaves between 6 and14 golden tickets.
  22. Rooting for the All Blacks is like rooting for Notre Dame, Duke, the Yankees and the Cowboys.
  23. Talk about a cultural mismatch. I for one will make the drive up to watch Aggy, their whatever the eff the guys in the white suits are and their fake army roll into Madison. Hilarity will ensue.
  24. I think that was a holdover from the decades that it was a non-conference game. UT-ATM was always on Thankdgiving weekend though.
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