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Mr. Tibbs
the juiceman cometh said:
Don't disagree at all, but I don't expect that historical tie to survive the corporatization of college athletics. And if I was a cynical corporate exec reading the room one conclusion I'd make is in the current climate, being firmly on either side of the line you're pointing out, but particularly on the side of the line the Big 10 currently occupies, is a risky proposition.
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there really no longer is any such thing as cultural fit . it’s about football revenue and what schools can make the pie larger , so the slices everyone gets after expansion are just as large .

The B1G is going into Florida at some point and they could very well take the U & FSU .

Florida , as a state , is more important than any other state in our league right now .
 
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Curbelo Fanboy
HereSoIDontGetFined said:
This was all inevitable though. If you were going to make the sport fully amateur, then it needed to be that for everyone involved - coaches and administrators included. Yet for years, the highest paid state employee for 80% of the states was the head football coach at the flagship university. And they could just leave when they wanted to get paid elsewhere. It was complete nonsense.

Someone was always getting paid because of college athletics, and for that hundred years, that part was never equitable. So you either get rid of the pay altogether, or you make it equitable.

There's ways to make this better but going back isn't one of them.
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It was inevitable for a long time & it was accelerated once the tv rights fees started to explode in the last 20 years or so. Once the millions started turning into billions & high level D1 coaches are paid in 8 digits it was gonna be a bridge too far. I do sense a breaking point at some point for the "mid level" schools. Think lower level D1 football/mid major basketball where some of those schools may reach a conculsion that the juice ain't worth the squeeze any more. $20 million is chump change for the big boys but at a Toledo or Buffalo thats a lot of coin.
 
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