[On a scale of 1 to 10...]

I am at a 10 for supporting my University and at a 2 for player support. So I would say overall a 6.

[SFA May Return to Southland]

That was an extremely smart move. More teams, especially the FCS teams, need to look at regionalizing. 

[House v. NCAA settlement winners and losers: Athletes take monumental step, non-revenue sports at risk]

On 5/25/2024 at 6:24 AM, TIgreen01 said:

The Jared Mosley appearance on Matt Mosley’s podcast is posted here and worth a listen.  Sounded like non-revenue MENS sports will take a hit but football and basketball will continue on.

FIFY

[Texas State $23 Million Stadium Naming Rights]

Happy to see any G5 grow

[Grand Canyon and Seattle to WCC]

As much as it is discussed for the G5 conferences, it isn't very smart for the FCS conferences not to realign into regional groupings to try to reduce costs.

[Who was playing QB at your first CFB game?]

16 hours ago, greenminer said:

I remember hearing the name Toraino Singleton at RB.

OT - What a colossal waste of talent

[Morris signals it is over]

5 hours ago, NT80 said:

I don't think Congress has the expertise or time to deal with organizing a sports entity anything.

FIFY 😈

[Morris signals it is over]

20 hours ago, untjim1995 said:

I quit it all after 2022. It just sickened me to watch everyone with any talent just transfer away to the highest bidder. High school football has more staying power and name recognition than G5 football. And that won't change until/unless the portal rules get changes, which won't happen. 

Greed killed college football for me. I just can't stand watching it anymore.

While not stopping all college football watching I have stopped in the last couple of years watching P5 versus P5 games. Thanks to ESPN Plus I get all the football coverage I would like and watch G5 games and even FCS games.

I am also glad we have some of the facilities built we do because for other schools similar to ours it's a problem now balancing the donations to the schools infrastructure along with the rent a player payments to get players to stay.

 

[Morris signals it is over]

Eric Morris on 365

 

 

[Morris signals it is over]

47 minutes ago, Cr1028 said:

Because you aren’t saying it is difficult to compete, you are saying you have zero chance. It is the same as Dickey saying “I hope President Bataille remembers how much we are getting paid for this game when she looks up at the scoreboard tomorrow.” 

I can see how it looks similar, but I would say that with today's landscape, it's a different world. It's one thing playing against schools with larger budgets, but when you start having your best players picked off year after year when they can get paid, it adds a variable that Dickey or other coaches in the past never had to deal with. He did not have to deal with the fact that schools could pay players to be practice squad members more than most G5s can afford to pay players.

[Morris signals it is over]

8 minutes ago, meangreenfaninno said:

I wonder if this isn’t going to force a lot of middle tier programs to reevaluate football budgets.  Why spend that much money on a I-AA league?

When this happens, and it impacts Title 9, and they start cutting women's sports, maybe that will get the "powers-that-be" to start caring again. 

[Morris signals it is over]

3 hours ago, Cr1028 said:

Very defeatist attitude. Maybe you feel that way in private but saying it publicly doesn’t exactly endear you to fans.

How is this the defeatus unless you're a delusional fan who doesn't realize there's a significant difference? For years, people come on here and ditch and moan about coach talk, and then a coach finally says something truthful and something that everybody knows is true, and then people want to bitch because he says that. I did not see anything he said about giving up, but I did see him commenting that we have to find different ways to do relevant, which is the same thing so many on here moan about constantly.

[Morris signals it is over]

On 5/8/2024 at 3:57 PM, MeanGreenZen said:

The guy just lost every good player on his team to schools who gave his players more money. Anybody reading this article already understands the reality of what he is stating. The sooner a new G5 system can be implemented, the better.

Don't let reality get in the way. You have P5s paying their squad members who might never see the field during the game more than 95% of the G5s can pay their best players. The other reality is we have an alum base that, for the most part, does not care about athletics. He is not being defeatist or delusional like many fans when he says we have to find another way to make this work.

['24 Transfer Commit: DL/DT, VJ Bronson; AR St.]

3 hours ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

[UH Challenging the NFL]

Good for them. There is no longer a Houston Oilers or a team that wears that design. As usual the NFL believes they own the world and should be able to do anything they want to do. Kudos to the U of H

[AAU membership]

The second factor for Nebraska -

Second, the university focuses heavily on agriculture research, a priority for a land grant institution. But in the eyes of the AAU, most agricultural research is not peer-reviewed, competitive research, so it is “not considered as highly,” AAU spokesman Barry Toiv said, compared with medical and economic research.

[Pac-2 Cherry picking MWC and raiding AAC takes a hit]

9 hours ago, NT80 said:

An Auburn article speculates a depleted ACC would simply backfill.  But this is seriously a stupid alignment of coast to coast leftovers....

"There will be a big game of musical chairs played when the ACC crumbles, but unlike the Pac-12, there is a contingency plan to keep the ACC alive: Memphis, Tulane, Wazzu, Oregon State, UConn, and USF making the jump from the Group of Five ranks."

https://flywareagle.com/posts/acc-ensure-survival-having-at-least-15-schools-fsu-clemson-leave

 

By the time the SEC, Big ten, and Big 12 pick the teams they want from the ACC the rest of these teams will be left like the pack and will not maintain a designation of a power conference

[Transparency?]

34 minutes ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

She makes it sound like CJ felt Coach Hodge was not 100%-honest (transparent) with him.   

I can't imagine that being the case, as Coach Hodge seems to be very up front & open with his players.

Overprotective Parent Speak translation - My son should have been the center of Coach Hodge's universe. He should have had all plays run through him and had a say in all team activities. After all, my son is great!

[Doesn't seem new, but unlimited transfers]

9 hours ago, Greenrex said:

Tim Pernetti's (new AAC Commissioner) remarks regarding exploring more corporate involvement seems interesting and innovative, sort of. Getting some heavy-hitter businesses on board with their big advertising/public-relations budgets. They get to splash their logos all over the AAC venues, ceremonies, uniforms, etc in exchange for some NIL type moola.

I don't know, it all just feels weird and uncomfortable to this old fat guy.

 

I applaud his effort to become innovative. Let's try something like this - corporate sponsors provide a pool of money that is made available based on performance in the league and all-conference teams. Graduating players would get their bonus in the year it happens, while players with remaining eligibility would get their bonus at the beginning of the following football season once school has started (which would mean that they are still enrolled in the same school where they performed and gained the all-conference honors). This would perhaps entice players not to bolt once they have success.

[Head coach, not anymore]

This seems to be the norm that we will live with in college football. But in Dion's case, when you recruit players with a sales pitch on doing what is best for "me," don't be surprised when they have no loyalty to you.

[Lesser Reasons for Transferring]

It looks like unlimited transfers are going to be approved across all sports with no sitting out. The only condition will be that you cannot transfer mid-year in a sport and play for two schools in the same academic year. Supposedly, this will be tied to maintaining educational levels that are supposed to ensure the student is on the way to completing school. Total Bull Shit! Not one person, including presidents of universities, gives a crap whether or not these kids are graduating from school. We all bitch about the NCAA, but remember, the NCAA is controlled by the college presidents. I cannot wait till some of these kids who transfer 4 times in a five-year career start suing because they never got a degree.

TWO TERMS THAT SHOULD NEVER BE USED AGAIN

• Student-athlete
• "For the good of the game"

[Final Pac 12 Settlement]

Or, OSU and WSU use the money to make a deal with the Big 12

[SB vs. UT Arlington (3/26/24)]

I have a question out of curiosity. On many of the games you see multiple trucks and cars parked along the Outfield. Are those areas where they are charged or is that free access to the game?

[Clemson files lawsuit against ACC over 'exorbitant' exit fees]

I've been searching for articles about when Clemson and Florida State were forced to sign the agreements to be in the ACC and get information on the lawsuits they filed, trying not to take the money.

[Doesn't even look like Rogers will start at Cal]

16 minutes ago, greenjoe said:

I hate NIL.

NIL in theory is not bad, Rushing out what is being called NIL has turned out to be a total cluster F