Re: easiest to hardest: Amazing in almost every instance the huge gap between the hardest game and the easiest game. -Captain Obvious
I see that Taulia Tagoviola, Tua's brother claims an SEC team offered him 1.5M to transfer. Now we all know it wasn't the school that offered that it was some representative of a collective. I just wish he'd have taken the next step and named a name. Same thing happened with Drake Maye who Mack Brown claimed he was made offers, again I wish they had just gone a head and said Joe Blow represening a collective made an offer. Granted unless they recorded it whoever they name would just deny it, still I'd like to see it come out.
Yeah I guess by not naming names, Tagavolua can just make the statement and walk away. If he did say who had made the offer there would be a whole lot of noise to follow and maybe even legal action.
If they name names... then the offer is off the table. If they don't, they always have a nice fallback.
I believe half of this rumor, Oregon and Washington have long been assumed to be ultimately headed to the Big 10. I don't believe that the ACC Media Rights that all the teams signed will allow any ACC team to leave. The buyout is just huge over 100M to leave and it doesn't expire till 2036.
well it does smell like ********, but if the past 8 years have taught me anything... if it stinks like ******** and sticks like ********, it's probably true.
hahahaha we have censors now? oh my goodness, I may turn that into an art form if I have to spend any more time in a hospital..
Skip Holtz signs with Northwestern to tutor their new head coach. Sources: Northwestern to add Skip Holtz to staff
Interesting move, to tell you the truth I'm not sure what Skip can do though. I mean "help" train the interim HC, what does that mean? Is he the sort of defacto HC coach now? Whose in charge. Skip is a heck of good coach, not up to dad's standard but still a good coach. So I guess he can help the new guy. But if I'm the new guy I'm not exactly sure I'm happy to have him looking over my shoulder.
One of the FSU board members has said that unless things change with the ACC Revenue, they are gone. Can't compete at the level they want with that revenue and have lawyers looking at how to break the deal. I don't know of course but I'll be shocked if they can. The whole grant of rights thing came about when Maryland was able to leave and it didn't cost them much. Rest of ACC got together and willingly signed a deal that would prevent any team from leaving with out a significant penalty. I've seen 300M as the number to leave.
Big Ten and PAC Conferences have officially opened talks for Washington, Oregon, Stanford and California to join the Big Ten per Yahoo Sports.
Wow. If they do join, that brings you to 20 teams. Do you stick with divisions? Big 10 West USC UCLA CAL Oregon Washington Stanford Nebraska Iowa Minnesota Everybody else in the East?
If someone suggested to me in the mid 90’s that a conference primarily consisting of state universities in decaying rust belt states would financially overpower the then PAC 10, I would have considered that person as certifiably insane with a room temperature IQ. Sort of feeling like I am now living in Bizzaro World where reality has inverted.
I won't be shocked if none of this comes about this August and then gets tabled till next Spring. That's pretty much how things worked when Texas/OU bolted from the B12. B12 was dead, B12 had to expand who would they get, what about media rights, etc. 2 years later B12 has expanded by now 5 teams with a new media deal that isn't the B10 or SEC but is one that keeps the league in play. However I doubt if we ever see a Nat'l Champion out of the B12 and same for the Pac12 if they end up staying with 9 teams. If we do it'll have to be some magical year from some team. TCU making the Championship game was sort of that type of year until reality bites and the face a team with more talent at every single position. It will be a B10 or SEC team every year from here on out. The money will allow better facilities, pay for better coaches, bigger recruiting budgets, bigger NIL collectives. Top players will want to be in those leagues. Sure there will be some good talent opt for ND/B12/PAC9 but not enough to make them as talented as the top teams in the B10/SEC. Top 10, make the playoffs sure, win the whole thing will have to be an upset laden playoff knocking out the best teams. Like a wildcard winning the WS or Super Bowl, which has happened. Personally I'd like to see football separated from the other sports and do their thing. But leave Basketball and the rest of the sports in the traditional geographic centric conferences so those teams don't have to travel coast to coast during the school week.