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You are wise to be scared. You would also be wise to bet the farm on the UNLV ladies though.
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Temple University involved in Gambling?
Headbutt replied to Gonzagafan2021's topic in MWC Sports Forum
This one is a little out there. A. It’s Vanderbilt, they’re unlikely to win anyway. B. He’s a benchwarmer. He’s not gonna be able to throw a game that he likely won’t be in except for kneel downs. -
Get help.
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The T on Scott was legit, especially after they had just done the same to Medved for the same tantrum. Agree that the call on Becker was BS, but so were 90% of all the calls made in that game...both ways. Very poor officiating today. Good game Zoomies, tough as usual.
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Fox to do prime time Friday night games this Fall
Headbutt replied to RSF's topic in MWC Sports Forum
Friday night college football became a thing while my son was playing HS Football. It pissed me off, then they moved some of the HS Football games to Saturdays and I had an even bigger conflict. Never missed a HS game of course, and after a while it just wasn't a big deal. Go to the HS game, go home and watch the recording of the college game (sometimes I could skip commercials and halftime fast enough to see the end of the college tilt live). It just wasn't the big pain in the ass that I was so outraged about initially. I think it's great the the MWC will have (probably 1 or 2) games on Friday primetime. I hope they pick the compelling matchups instead of just going by school names. Boise v Nevada isn't likely to pull in the respect for the conference that a more dramatic outcome will. -
This actually will become an important case, or if Dartmouth doesn't push back the case that follows this one will be an important case, whatever. As employees, some university is going to sit down and negotiate the benefits package, and what the employees have to contribute to it. You know, a coaching staff, a training staff, tutors, tuition costs, etc. None of that grows on trees. As @RSF put it, it's just Dartmouth. Different labor laws, entirely different galaxy financially (from an athletic standpoint) but the resulting court cases will have rulings involved that will be used as precedent when it does spread to large public universities and conference. I'd hate to guess how it will all shake out, but there will be off-season entertainment for the rest of us for a while.
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Dude, they OWN the NCAA. They can easily keep the NCAA and relegate us to table scraps in order to retain membership. Hell, they're already doing it. If there is a split, they will take the CFP, the Dance, and 90% of TV. The rest of us can all split away, but we'll still lose 90% of TV. TV is money. I'd love to break away as an amateur association, and I'm willing to see the amateur sports fight through the reduced budgets. IMO, it would be a better product, but I'd bet almost every AD in G5 and lower P5 would disagree with me.
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I bet they get it. LOL at the marketing though. It's all about more nurses...nursing school gets less than 4%, but it's all about the nurses.
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So, there will be a bowl game at "The Armadillo"?
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No timeouts yet from Dutcher. Either he figures there's something special coming, or it just is what it is. Tim Miles, while at CSU, once said that there are about two games a year that he'd lose no matter what, and two games a year that he'd win no matter what. His job was to coach the rest of them. I wonder if Dutcher is seeing a "no matter what" loss in this one.
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Crazy talk!! Outlandish! could happen.
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@SteedLaw's plan is full of holes, but he nailed one thing. At this point the twins should be working on how they're going to get absorbed by the MWC, not deciding if they're willing to associate with us. They can't afford to do anything different, and stringing us along is elitist and stupid. They do one thing better than the MWC, recruit. That's a temporary thing now. The Pac fell apart a while ago, they should be past denial by now. I suppose that since the Pac isn't really disbanded until July 1, they may be waiting to make their intentions known but any assumptions they have of leading the charge to a new power conference are fools gold. If they're everything they seem to think they are, they should've just taken that Big 10 offer. Oh, wait.....
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Unequal revenue distribution for MWC basketball?
Headbutt replied to MissionTrails's topic in MWC Sports Forum
I'm in rare agreement here. -
Unequal revenue distribution for MWC basketball?
Headbutt replied to MissionTrails's topic in MWC Sports Forum
Fair enough. I do agree that it was absolutely a necessity to get the MWC back on TV. If you remember, CBS had bought the contract from Comcast and decided to sit on it as opposed to televise it. Part of rectifying that was the threat of lawsuit from the MWC, but part of it was ESPN jumping in for Boise. So they earned it. Originally we all got the Boise bonus if we could earn our way onto national TV, but that changed and it became a windfall for Boise. Everybody signed off on it so I can't complain about that, but it's relevancy has changed. As a CSU fan I can't complain that we're actually a contributor as opposed to a beneficiary (not even close), but I think the landscape has changed and I think it's time for Boise to become an equal member of the conference. Lot's of opinions out there, and almost none are without merit, but I believe that as we enter a new landscape we all need to strive to be equal partners in the business side of this equation. Especially as we look to absorb OSU/WSU under whatever flag that happens. The MWC is the most compelling western conference in college athletics, as long as we remain a solidified conference. $1.8 million is a lot for Boise to give up, but I think there is much more than that to be had as an equal member of the above conference. Without the parity, there will remain instability. -
Unequal revenue distribution for MWC basketball?
Headbutt replied to MissionTrails's topic in MWC Sports Forum
No hate for Boise, just the deal. It does a lot of harm IMO just from a solidarity standpoint within the conference. The only fans that see it as fair are Boise fans. We're just fans, but I can't imagine that 11 other university executives see it much different than us. I do believe that conference solidarity is important, especially when it's so rare in college athletics. Yeah, we can parse the breakdown of how the postseason $$ should be divvied up all day, and when (if) some resolution does happen, more people will be unhappy than happy no matter how it shakes out. The theory is simple though. You should get paid if your conference has team(s) in the dance, and you should get paid if your conference goes to the playoffs or bowl games. However, the teams that make that happen should be paid on a much better level. They earned it, but if they want it all they should go indy. -
Unequal revenue distribution for MWC basketball?
Headbutt replied to MissionTrails's topic in MWC Sports Forum
Well, we'll agree to disagree on Boise deserving the extra bonus money just for being Boise. As far as the postseason, I'd split round 1 tourney money equally. After that, the team that advances starts taking a bigger share with the rest split between conference mates. I don't have a formula but for instance a round 2 appearance gets the team 25% of the money, the conference splits the other 75%. Working up to a final four team keeping the whole bag of cash. For football, give the team that gets there 50% of the net (I say net because by the time they pay for their ticket allotment, the gross can be ugly). Split the rest equally among the conference mates. This keeps some cash flow for the less fortunate teams to try and grow into a contributor, while rewarding the team that actually earns the money. I don't believe you can just play winner take all. That doesn't benefit the conference and doesn't help the bottom of the heap work towards the top. -
Unequal revenue distribution for MWC basketball?
Headbutt replied to MissionTrails's topic in MWC Sports Forum
The conference already subsidizes bowl expenses, and the NCAA handles tourney expenses. I'm not opposed to unequal sharing of post season revenue though. I just don't like paying "show up" money to any particular team, as in we get more because our field is blue. -
Baylor did all that? All by themselves? Damn they're good!!! Why does Baylor hate Boise???
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Unequal revenue distribution for MWC basketball?
Headbutt replied to MissionTrails's topic in MWC Sports Forum
I agree with Wicker. Dump Boise. -
Somebody needs to tell WSU/OSU that the powers that be aren't interested in some new power conference. Can't blame them for trying, but they should know by now what their fate is.
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Well, they did say that an FBS stadium was not in the cards. https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2023/08/23/north-dakota-fargo-dome-renovations-ndsu-bison-football You currently seat 18,700. It doesn't look like even getting much over 20K is an option.
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San Diego State's D-Line Coach Merry-Go-Round
Headbutt replied to AztecAlien's topic in MWC Sports Forum
What changes? Serious question. I'm just not seeing any potential changes that would actually create more opportunity for the G5, just the opposite. The closest I can come up with would be a drastic reduction in schools in the power conferences, thereby restricting how many coaches/players they can actually poach. That would still leave them taking the best of both categories as individuals prove themselves.