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Much better.

Yes. Accuracy is worse.

Missed two open receivers. Irons has to play better. The standards are higher.

I respectfully disagree. There will just be another division. G5 schools need to do everything they can to complete against the likes of Northwestern and Wake Forest because those teams will be their competition. MAC schools beat lower level P5 schools annually. It's a realistic landing spot for all parties.

At the highest level, it's already an exclusive club. There are less than 10 schools with any shot to win a national championship. When the super conference is created, that is the one thing that won't change. They can have their money. The rest of college football will remain the same. It could be improved for the rest of colleges because they can finally stop chasing the Holy Grail and setting into a level of college football they can realistically succeed in. I'll still go to games because I like college football and I don't really care who is playing or about their shot at winning a national championship. This is the main reason I really don't care about conference realignment. It has no meaningful impact on my life. Casual fans lives won't change because they will watch football on TV regardless. Degenerate gamblers will bet on anything regardless of a super conference or not. Alumni will still follow their school.

How does a mountain of money equal fatality?

SMU is a joke of a program high dollar donors are able to keep afloat.

Depends on how you define success. Success and failure in college athletics is now defined in terms of dollars. Television executives and their willing dupes, athletic directors, could easily make this happen. Not only will it happen, under the current definition, it will be wildly successful. Americans love the NFL and it's business model. All colleges will do is duplicate it. It's about 10 years away.

Where is this all going? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.si.com/.amp/college/2023/08/30/college-footballs-inevitable-conclusion-is-a-40-team-mega-alliance

It's only a matter of time until the AAC had the rug pulled out from under it.

We are witnessing the death throws of independent conferences at the highest level. Teams are looking for landing spots. Within 10 years, there will be one super conference, run by one commissioner who is charged with gobbling up as much money as possible for the member schools. It is reported SMU gave up all rights to ACC TV revenue for 9 years. Stanford and Cal are only getting 30% of the total. Basically, these schools needed a place on the bus for when a super conference becomes reality. I'm hoping Wake Forest can trade games against Clemson, FSU and Miami for SMU, Stanford and Cal. Wake Forest fans love games against institutions they believe are equal in academic standards to theirs, in the hope of winning.

JD was a great guy. Never gets the credit he deserved from people around the University. He achieved actual greatness by actually winning something meaningful.

MAC kicker sighting.

MAClike implosion by OU at the end of the first half.

Watching College Gameday. Feeling disappointed ESPN has turned it into the same talking over each other buffoonery as the rest of the network.

More like the Mona Lisa. Not a beauty, but a lot of people appreciate it.

You mean AAC.

Week 1 of college football is different than any other week because of the unknown. For many teams, disaster unfolds in the form of turnovers, miscommunication leading to defenses giving up big plays and general folly. Mental preparation is the key and would be surprised if Temple was better prepared mentally than Akron, but you never know what Week 1 brings.

The future of the Zips is bright. The future of the MAC is medium gray.

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.