First of all ESPN can shove it. All 4 picked JMU. Not the team that best them twice and won the regular season. Not the team with huge momentum. Whatever. Lunardi can eat a bag of dukes. March 9th 11:30am on espn +, it begins. Survive and advance. Take the stairs. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-...

Notre Dame has their own category and gets in the playoffs if they are deemed good enough without any conference. It won't be much longer before the true big boys start making their own TV deals etc. like ND. These conference heads think they are the big dogs but really they are road blocks for the ...

First of all ESPN can shove it. All 4 picked JMU. Not the team that best them twice and won the regular season. Not the team with huge momentum. Whatever. Lunardi can eat a bag of dukes. March 9th 11:30am on espn +, it begins. Survive and advance. Take the stairs. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...

All teams who would have made the playoffs since 2014 if the 12 team model had existed.

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I really believe that interest in college sports will fall off and then ESPN will panic and try to fix the whole mess. By then it may be too late. It really is odd that the people making all the money off college sports don’t view this as an issue. NIL could work but a flat out uncontrolled free fo...

NCAA head says it's doom and gloom for sports if student athletes are paid.


https://fortune.com/2024/02/24/ncaa-col ... rview/amp/

One option could be the ones that feel they are the top 40 money makers form a 20 team east and west conferences make a semi pro or minor league system. Then the rest of us could get back to college sports except athletes sign scholarship contracts that pay them tuition plus some extra and have a sa...

Lol, the ncaa just needs to pack it up. Take their ball and go home. Love it or not the ncaa governing abilities are almost gone. https://tennessee.rivals.com/news/court-rules-in-favor-of-tennessee-striking-blow-to-ncaa-s-nil-enforcement "With the decision, recruits and transfer players can now nego...

I think we need to play more ECUs and Cincinnatis of the world. Throw in some UCFs and low hanging ACC fruit like Wake. While I love the big games, the name of the game has now been changed. We have to try to adapt to it.

Think about all these football players...the vast majority won't go pro, but they'll always be able to show/tell their kids, grandkids and everyone else that they were a playable character in a video game. And that is very cool. This^^^ Sometimes it's about the novelty of something. I'm sure we've ...

What I take out of that articles playoff prediction was that there was only 1 G5 team. That's it. We have to run the table and not trip up at all for one spot. This model keeps the money exactly where they wanted it.

So they are discussing the idea of the major conferences having multiple auto qualifiers. 4 sec, 4 big 10. So realistically 3 sec, 3 big 10, 2 acc, 2 big 12, 1 g5 Aq, then 3 at large that would probably go to p4 teams. When they start bringing in non champion AQs from the p4 they aren't even hiding ...

The 2 pac are going to play 6 games with the mountain west in the way notre dame uses the ACC. I would have to assume they would get the nod in cereal polls over other G5 as the mountain west is a solid conference most years.

Welp, here we go.


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The way sports games, especially football is going, I wouldn't put anything past them. I could see them making each conference its own paid DLC. The players that demand NIL payment for being in the game would each cost $1 as their own DLC with star players being 2-3. You oay extra for a team soundtr...

Win the conference, it's all that matters. Rpi, polls, power ranks, etc just don't matter for a sunbelt team. Otherwise, enjoy the NIT.

"All 10 FBS conferences have signed on. That includes the Power 5 conferences: SEC BIG 10 BIG 12 PAC-12 (if it still exists) ACC As well as the lesser known “Group of 5” conferences: C-USA MAC Mountain West Sun Belt AAC" https://collegefootball.gg/ea-sports-college-football-25-game-everything-we-kno...

This rpi has us at 55

https://basketball.realgm.com/ncaa/info/rpi-rankings

Back in the bracket, but again as the AQ. This kind of stuff should make it clear our only path is to win the conference tourney. Anything else is a pipe dream. 1 game at a time.

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High point was wildly in debt last I had heard. Their campus is pretty ridiculous. Iron fencing all the way around with a number of amenities. Lots of jersey license plates.