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BoiseStateOfMind

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  1. Maybe he's playing dominoes in his mother's basement in between writing these tweets.
  2. Or that they wouldn't notice him furiously tapping away at his phone if he was.
  3. Not saying I expect Stanford and Cal to join. But MHver3 has been a realignment troll for a long time, not a real source.
  4. Louisville is the #48 market. The largest TV market in West Virginia (Charleston-Huntington) is #79. Academics, as always, were just the official excuse to pretend that the TV executives weren't making the decisions themselves.
  5. This is a colossal waste of time for all involved. The ACC is toast as soon as SEC/B1G raid it. Cal and Stanford will be screwed all over again in five years or less.
  6. They should have kept that same energy when the PAC had chances to expand or get a more competent commissioner in charge. That would have done more to help them than spending too much money they didn't have on a stadium that will be half-empty.
  7. I just made a post the other day about how that wasn't prudent either. $175 million is only the sticker price, by the way. The real cost is estimated at more than $324.5 million over the next 50 years once you add in interest payments, operating costs, and future upgrades. OSU signed on to this because of all the PAC-12 ticket sales they thought they were going to get over that time span, which have now evaporated. OSU was one of the strongest supporters of Larry Scott and one of the loudest opponents of expansion, so they did a lot to create the financial mess they're facing now.
  8. Because they didn't just bring the stadium up to code, they also spent another $153 million to add a shiny new football complex they couldn't afford. They don't even care about college football or sports in general, but they still fueled the out-of-control facilities arm race because... why? It obviously didn't help them in recruiting, because they've still sucked every year. And now they have the most athletic debt of any public school in the country.
  9. https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/2023/08/michigan-regent-pokes-ncaa-mall-cops-for-standing-idle-during-big-ten-expansion.html Setting aside that I didn't see Michigan rejecting any B1G expansion over the past decade. It's futile at this point to hope for sanity to return to college football. And these schools did it to themselves. They sidelined the NCAA so blue bloods wouldn't have to play by the same rules as everyone else. They let FBS football devolve into a beauty pageant for three television executives. Now the only people with the power to shape the sport will only ever think in terms of short-term ad revenue. It isn't fixable anymore, it's just going to be a slow-to-medium decline until it's eventually replaced with the NFL G-League.
  10. They're called non-revenue sports for a reason. It's not everyone else's fault that Stanford's priorities were backwards for decades. You'd think by the tenth time they won their precious Director's Cup and nobody outside of their campus noticed or cared, it would have sunk in for them that they were doing it wrong. And these are supposed to be the smart people?
  11. I think you're giving the schools themselves more agency than they actually have anymore. This is all being controlled by the networks now and the schools have no choice but to go along.
  12. It's TV markets and that's it. Everything else is just an excuse the networks use to let the other candidates down lightly. That even goes for facilities: the ACC didn't care that Miami didn't even have an indoor practice facility, let alone their own stadium, when they added them, but the Liberty Bowl will always be used as an excuse to keep Memphis out. Miami is the #18 market, Memphis is #52.
  13. Last year's chokejob against TCU is probably the peak of what they'll ever do with Harbaugh and they know it. That's why they're so salty.
  14. Biggest win in Boise State recruiting history!
  15. I don't feel bad for any P5 coattail rider getting kicked to the curb. They all looked down on anyone outside of their club for decades while never earning their keep themselves. It was even worse than hubris with the PAC, too, it was political. They thought they were above ever sharing a conference with religious schools or flyover country. They sat on their hands and expected it all to just magically work out for them because they were so much better than everyone. Meanwhile, they were totally wrong and stupid the whole time. Why should anyone feel bad for them? The SWC, Big East and Big 12 were more sympathetic because they at least tried.
  16. I'm not anti-business, but running college football purely as a business is going to kill the golden goose in the long run. Without tradition, small-town fans, regional rivalries, it's just going to be the NFL with worse players, and nobody will watch that for the same reason why they don't watch the XFL. I saw a tweet the other day summing up this whole realignment mess perfectly: the entire fortunes of athletic departments around the country are now riding on whether or not three people like them enough to let them keep playing big-time sports. I don't see how this is sustainable without destroying the product.
  17. My point is that there's not much value in being content filler for obscure cable channels. A better argument for programming scarcity would be the late-window timeslots, but "PAC-12 After Dark" was actually a big part of what killed the conference. People on the east coast weren't staying up late for those games, which in turn made them less valuable for the networks. I agree that the PAC leftovers need to act quickly, but not because of some window for owning the west coast. It's because they're in difficult financial situations and/or have limited options.
  18. They're also paying pennies on the dollar for the MWC. Only $270 million when the power conferences are getting paid billions. And the next deal will probably be even lower with the way things are going. The fact that so many of our games are buried on the CBS Sports Network tells you the real story about how much the networks value our product. I'm not just saying this to be a jerk, it's the harsh truth.
  19. USC and UCLA are a big market and the B1G already scooped them up. The networks obviously don't care about the rest of the state.
  20. Counterpoint: if owning the west coast had any real value, we wouldn't be here discussing this because the PAC wouldn't have imploded. And I think the B1G would rightfully claim that they own the west coast anyway. I used to think the Big 12 was foolish for not challenging the PAC on their turf, but now it seems obvious that the networks would have steered them away from it because there's not enough money in it for them.
  21. If either of them were that attractive, wouldn't they have been invited already? Cal in particular adds nothing at all. They would just be another Northwestern riding on the B1G's coattails, but with a catastrophic financial situation too. Where's the value?
  22. Can only speak for myself, but I already lost hope before this. All anyone cares about in realignment is TV market size and Boise isn't a big enough market. The networks are hell-bent on turning college football, a small-market sport, into something it's not, and there's nothing anyone can do to change their mind.
  23. I don't buy for a minute that UW and UO give a crap about those rivalries. But on the off chance they're serious, Wazzu and OSU can't really afford to turn down any game that's guaranteed to sell tickets.
  24. Honestly, college football is a misnomer at this point. It should be called ESPN Football because that's what it really is. The colleges themselves are just pawns in the networks' grift.
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