Good thing FSU is known for their rigorous academics /s
Good thing FSU is known for their rigorous academics /s
In your example, Fox gets sued by X school for interference with contractual relations.I imagine that it starts with FOX saying, “ya know, you all could make more $ if you replace x school with y school”. That could’ve been happening throughout all this expansion but it hasn’t so I’m not convinced it will happen. Hopefully we’re at least a couple decades out before it does for Illinois’ sake!
One scUM is more than enough.Remember, if Florida State thinks that ESPN wanting Alabama (of ESPN's bell cow conference SEC) instead of them in playoff influenced the committee at all, that is a massive tiebreaker.
Plus I can arrange a 20 team into five convenient four team pods with FSU and Notre Dame. (I can do this for other additions)
Pods:
Atlantic- FSU, Penn State, Maryland, Rutgers
Pacific- Oregon, UCLA, USC, Washington
(the other are more flexible, I could rearrange it)
"Old West"- Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Northwestern
North- Michigan, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin
"Old East"- Indiana, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Purdue
Schedule TBD (but I have a couple of scenarios). By the way, this will be more useful in nonrevenue sports.
I also toyed with Original Ten vs Newbie 10, but we need a different team than Notre Dame not to screw over Nebraska.
In that case, too late! USC is scUM west and Washington has some scUM tendencies....One scUM is more than enough.
True.In that case, too late! USC is scUM west and Washington has some scUM tendencies....
So true. I went to grad school at Washington and they certainly do have "scUM tendencies".In that case, too late! USC is scUM west and Washington has some scUM tendencies....
How so crow? I lived in Seattle for 6 years and found the alumns and fan base in general rather benign. Much different than interacting with scum fans in both Chicago and Austin.So true. I went to grad school at Washington and they certainly do have "scUM tendencies".
Obviously your experience with the Husky "alumns" and fan base was different than mine as a student.How so crow? I lived in Seattle for 6 years and found the alumns and fan base in general rather benign. Much different than interacting with scum fans in both Chicago and Austin.
Yes. Just curious what you experienced. Did they have a holier than thou attitude, entitlement, or something else? They seemed like Wisconsin fans to me.Obviously your experience with the Husky "alumns" and fan base was different than mine as a student.
Entitlement, arrogance, condescension, and the local media regularly putting down the Big 10.Yes. Just curious what you experienced. Did they have a holier than thou attitude, entitlement, or something else? They seemed like Wisconsin fans to me.
Didn’t seem to care too much about sports relative to the Midwest.
I’ve posted this before, but it’s frankly beneath a “professional” to treat viewers per game for ONE season as an overly meaningful stat. Rutgers is guaranteed three games on FOX-type channels every season vs. OSU, Michigan and PSU. Their ratings while on BTN or FS1 are WAY worse than Illinois, for example.not citing this guy as the authority, but he knows stuff:
One of my nieces is married to a former ASU basketball player and his brother was a USC defensive back. The DB was giving me a little flack about my Ducks one day and I just reminded him that Oregon was 13-7 vs his trojans over the last 30 years. And one of those trojan wins was vacated. But yea, U$C people do have a bit of an attitude. Just nice to quite them on occasions.I've lived in PAC 12 country for 12 years now. First in Phoenix and now in Denver. Have had many friends, acquaintances, coworkers, clients, etc who are PAC 12 alums. The only ones who seemed particularly entitled and elitist have been the USC grads. Everyone else is fine.
I look forward to the B1G squashing USC and UCLA. As a Ducks fan (both my kids go there now), I will remember that USC and UCLA tried to keep Oregon out of the B1G.One of my nieces is married to a former ASU basketball player and his brother was a USC defensive back. The DB was giving me a little flack about my Ducks one day and I just reminded him that Oregon was 13-7 vs his trojans over the last 30 years. And one of those trojan wins was vacated. But yea, U$C people do have a bit of an attitude. Just nice to quite them on occasions.
I look forward to the B1G squashing USC and UCLA. As a Ducks fan (both my kids go there now), I will remember that USC and UCLA tried to keep Oregon out of the B1G.
Funny enough, UCLA is the new Nebraska in basketball now. Pretty rough year for them so far…
UCLA plays at Nebraska on November 2nd this fall. That's about the only potential cold weather exposure LA schools have in 2024.Yea, I think it was primarily U$C that really wanted to keep Oregon out of the B1G. They are tired of loosing to the Ducks. Hope your kids are doing well here in Eugene. Looks like we may get our first snow of the year tomorrow morning. Probably won't last the day. I wish your kids well. I'm looking into funding my grand daughter's post grad at Oregon. We've got to see what she can get on the scholarship front. She was honor's college as an undergrad. I'm not wealthy, but I certainly will dig a bit deeper for my G daughter.
And yes, let's see the LALA schools play in some cold weather.
If it's below 50 degrees they think it's cold.UCLA plays at Nebraska on November 2nd this fall. That's about the only potential cold weather exposure LA schools have in 2024.
Same way here in north Georgia. I play in a men's golf league. The summer number is 35-40 players. In late fall as the temps fall to the 50s, the number starts to gradually thin out. By late December, there's 6-8 born and bred yankees like me still playing. Tee off as soon as the greens are clear of frost.If it's below 50 degrees they think it's cold.
Same here in the winter as soon as the frost is off the greens we're good to go. When I lived in PDX my regular foursome use to always play on New Years Morning. Sort of a tradition with us.Same way here in north Georgia. I play in a men's golf league. The summer number is 35-40 players. In late fall as the temps fall to the 50s, the number starts to gradually thin out. By late December, there's 6-8 born and bred yankees like me still playing. Tee off as soon as the greens are clear of frost.