2023 College Football thread

[Jeff Lebowski]

you mean Larry Scott?

AKA, the official scapegoat for the P12 disaster.

[Applejack]

AKA, the official scapegoat for the P12 disaster.

Official scapegoat and actual facilitator of the sink.

[Applejack]

We talking The CW money?!

Nothing like that!!! But there is some money coming in from ncaa tourney shares and rose bowl appearances, so I've heard. I think they'll keep the pac2 alive just for that.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Official scapegoat and actual facilitator of the sink.

The blame should begin and end with the university presidents.

[old_gregg]

It is led at the institutional and organizational levels by inept, delusional, self-absorbed elitists whose ivory tower approach to running a conference lacked any sense of practicality. That is why it’s going away.

[Omaha 680]

I read somewhere that the new clock rules were supposed to result in 7 fewer plays for each team, on average, and the ostensible reason was for "safety" - to reduce wear and tear and concussion risk and all that kind of stuff.

Correct. They have rebranded the game reduction efforts to mean fewer plays because all of their efforts since the play clock changes many years ago have never reduced the overall duration of broadcasts; the rule changes have only replaced broadcast time with commercial time. Last year college games had on average 25 more plays than NFL games. So at least this new rebranding makes sense where the old effort to "reduce game length" was always fake.

By the way, one sure fire way to reduce broadcast lengths substantially (if they cared about that) would be to ditch the cumbersome and disruptive NCAA replay review model in favor of something closer to what the NFL does. But excessive college reviews are prime commercial time so they will never do that.

[Applejack]

The blame should begin and end with the university presidents.

yes, they enabled him. But once the guy got the richest tv deal ever for a conference he (rightly) had a lot of breathing room from he presidents. And he took it and cashed in.

[Jeff Lebowski]

yes, they enabled him. But once the guy got the richest tv deal ever for a conference he (rightly) had a lot of breathing room from he presidents. And he took it and cashed in.

Tell me now Larry Scott was responsible for the P12 presidents turning down the $30M offer one year ago - and countering for $50M? Because that was the true nail in the coffin.

[Omaha 680]

Tell me now Larry Scott was responsible for the P12 presidents turning down the $30M offer one year ago - and countering for $50M? Because that was the true nail in the coffin.

For real. If the Pac 12 presidents couldn't recognize independently that the record deal larry Scott got the first time around was more a function of general contract explosion/inflation than the inherent value of Pac 12 athletics, it's more evidence of the general mutual fart-sniffing attitude that permeated that conference until its dying breath.

[Moliere]

Let’s go Duke!

[myboynoah]

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[Omaha 680]

Let’s go Duke!

I find Dabo to be in the running for most annoying coach in America any given year so it's always a good day when Clemson loses.

[Omaha 680]

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Good grief...and Utah fans continue to forge new connections in their new conference.

[USUC]

Good grief...and Utah fans continue to forge new connections in their new conference.

This was in my timeline this morning

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[MartyFunkhouser]

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JazzyUte has always been a fucking idiot. By the way he is getting trashed by Ute fans for that tweet, and rightfully so.