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A Dallas Cowboys game would easily out rate Texas vs Texas A&M. The NFL could flex a premier game into a Saturday night spot. Primetime NFL Saturday games would drive the best college games into the afternoon where the TV rights are less valuable. There will still be enough money for solid gold toilets in practice facilities, but the big schools might have to cut back to 3 coaches per position. Television networks are currently running college athletics. None of this is out of the world of possibilities.

It is true that college football in general has gotten better, but that's largely a result of the transfer portal. Everyone is missing the giant elephant in the room, the NFL. They already dominate football watching on Thursday night even while putting out a bad product. If they decide Friday and Saturday games are a great way to grow their business (it is and they will) the networks won't have the money to pay top dollar for college because ratings will go to the NFL. Edit: Unusually good editorial out of the Charlotte Observer. https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/luke-decock/article278059432.html?taid=64d2c90266d1df0001ffc212&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter

It is true that college football in general has gotten better, but that's largely a result of the transfer portal. Everyone is missing the giant elephant in the room, the NFL. They already dominate football watching on Thursday night even while putting out a bad product. If they decide Friday and Saturday games are a great way to grow their business (it is and they will) the networks won't have the money to pay top dollar for college because ratings will go to the NFL.

Disney stock has been in decline for years now. They are going to have to place a huge bet on pay per view college football. It will test the dedication of the casual football viewer who is already paying for the NFL. If football is your favorite TV show, you may settle for free games in lieu of paying a premium for games.

If you mean screwed out of the same amount of money the other conferences are making, then yes. I wish we could get screwed that hard. Do they still have enough money to run their obnoxiously large athletic departments?.....Yes. They will have to pass on solid gold toilets in their training facilities, but they will be fine. This is sort of the point we have reached. I'm missing the part where all of this money translates to being able to complete at the highest levels. Miami made the final four of March Madness. Wake Forest made the final 3 of baseball. Virginia won men's tennis and UNC women's. Wake Forest won the women's golf championship. They have many other schools who compete at the highest levels of their sports. We've gotten to the point where schools are not competing on the field for championships but simply for revenue. They get fans all spun up about revenue, but it seems as if the revenue has reached its maximum impact for winning. Now they are just buying LED lighting, replacing one year old carpeting in offices and general stupidity. It's become utter insanity.

Lawyers have been looking at it for years now, and I mean big city law firms. There is no out. FSU is screaming so loudly because there is nothing else they can do, much like a child who isn't getting his way.

Three interesting points you pass along. First, the ACC is not screwed. The conference is stable and doesn't need to grow. They are swimming in money. Maybe they can't afford gold plated toilets in their football facility, but they will be ok. Trimming the fat indeed. Some day the highest level of college football will be played by 30-35 schools. This is just the beginning of the fat getting trimmed. G5 schools MUST find another path. ND should immediately jump into the ACC with both feet. It gives them a much needed home and the rest of the conference the extra money they are looking for. I think someone mentioned Stanford and ACC. Terrible idea. Bad for ACC and Stanford. A better idea is Stanford to the Big 12 and WVU to the ACC. The ACC should have admitted wvu years ago but they were afraid the Mountaineer would dominate the league immediately like VA Tech did. The tried to pass it off as wvu not having a big enough endowment, but everyone knew that was crap. They were scared. A great rivalry like The Backyard Brawl could happen every year. Rivalries like that are great for conferences.

Maybe we could carve out a better path for ourselves. The three schools you mention are on the verge of becoming some of the of the most irrelevant schools in the Big 12 and P5. Think Vandy.

This all looks very convoluted, because it is. I think what is happening is much more simple. The P5 schools are going to dominate whatever playoff they create, smaller schools will create a number of illusions for themselves and it will destroy the regular season like it has in college basketball. The people who run college football won't care because it will add up to more money. The steps after that will be to consolidate money within the P5 schools and give the boot to the rest of the schools. Eventually, G5 schools will be forced to start their own division. They should avoid the ultimate embarrassment and do it now.

The PAC12 is done. I forgot about the AAC. That's all you need to know about that conference. The ACC isn't going to do anything. FSU's posturing in recent weeks is laughable. They overestimate their importance in college football. FSU would get killed in the SEC. The ACC should bring in WVU.

No. His solution is much more predictable.

Colin Cowherd just gave the most common and laziest reason for solving the problems in college football. Anyone want to guess? First one to get it right gets, absolutely nothing.

All of this is temporary until the P5 schools only play each other in their own division.

All of this is temporary until the P5 schools only play each other in their own division.

4-8 would be underperforming. 5-7 would meet expectations. 6-6 would exceed expectations but not out of the world of reality. 7-5 would almost be a miracle, but an early season win against Temple could gain enough moment to make it possible. 8-4. No way. Temple is a very important game for the season.

On the bright side, it's more than you could say about anything at the Rubber Bowl.

No. Just stale air.

It smelled like mold.

Good app. Simple and let's me see only what I care about.

I'm in Akron for a day/night for business today. Walked campus and went to the bookstore. Campus looks good. I like the new logo on the merchandise I bought at the bookstore.

It's interesting how mistakenly we remember things. I was thinking of the Zips victory against them and thought NW probably had a bad season. In fact, they went 8-5 that year, won the Big Ten West and played in the conference championship. In fact, Akron beat a really good team.

In the Snow Bowl of 1987, you wouldn't have seen the field.

I don't think many schools are looking for players who contributed to a 1 win season. NW built a palace of a practice facility on Lake Michigan and it's probably the nicest in the country. Yes, the nicest in the country. They will get players. When I first heard this story I doubted Fitz would be involved. Looks like I was wrong. It's extremely hard to win at NE and he won a lot. Probably the best Big 10 coach during his time there. Anyone can win at places like OSU and Michigan. They are football factories. NW is a school for dorks.

I'm hoping this horrible trend is over across college football and we donated the white helmets to a needy high school. They look like the guards uniforms from The Longest Yard.

Road uni- White tops, white pants, gold helmet with the Z Home uni - same as road only with blue top. The jersey should always say Akron. The pants should always have the new logo on the side.