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The B1G may extend an offer to those NorCal and Northwest teams on a crap end of the stick deal as it pertains to their cut of the pie. They might not have a choice. This is entirely the PAC-12’s fault. They had the choice to eat or be eaten and they got ate. The Big 12 was there for the poaching when Texas and OU left.

Agreed here. Attendance at Stanford Football is pitiful (though it is better when they are good). The same could be said for Rutgers and Maryland though. Do 95% of sports fans in NYC really give a rat’s ass about Rutgers? Or DC fans about Maryland? Their additions brought those markets anyway (granted it was nearly ten years ago now). I will say that UC Berkeley has many more local supporters of their sports. They’re a much larger school in terms of student population, with an alumni network much more likely to stay in the Bay Area after graduation. They’re also geographically much closer to both SF and Oakland.

Just looked it up. The starting QB for Toledo in that game is now the Director of Sales for an Ohio battery manufacturing company.

It’s not like they didn’t deserve it. They lost to freaking Toledo.

I wonder if Martha is realizing just how bad she and WCF were if 9-8 and a win in Lambeau gets fans from booing Sheila relentlessly two years ago to chanting her name in training camp.

I thought my reply posted earlier. I don’t think it’s an apples to apples comparison between television eyes on PAC-12 games to B1G games. I’m not saying that Stanford-Cal would draw what Michigan-USC would, but it would draw much more on the B1G Network than what the crappy PAC-12 Network deal provides. Stanford and Cal both have plenty of alum in New York and Chicago who would tune in. The Nebraska-Northwestern game in Dublin got 4.42 million for crying out loud. I think those PAC teams see their ratings double overnight on the B1G’s deal. If you gave Kevin Warren (or I guess Tony Petitti) a truth serum, I honestly don’t know if they would say the addition of Rutgers and Maryland was worth it, and whether they would do it today. Streaming continues to increase, but cable still exists, and is in many cases is a foundation for the streaming. Nothing we have seen says they are done using TV markets as a basis for $$$ in expansion.

I wondered when I heard this if they were actually talking about Gibbs. I thought it could have been Bijan edited creatively to make it seem like Jahmyr. I do think it’s clear they thought very very highly of Gibbs.

Stanford and Cal combined would definitely bring all of SF, San Jose, and Oakland. Stanford doesn’t bring a lot of local eyes, but Cal does. And if Rutgers on their own can bring NYC, I think Stanford on their own could probably bring the Bay Area. I think almost all of the schools bring some degree of money to the table. Even just an extra game every Saturday per two teams increases money. The problem just becomes dilution of the money.

The gross money would increase substantially with the addition of the SF, DC, and Miami markets, along with Notre Dame. The problem would arise with the per school share. Twenty-four cuts is a lot of slices of pie. There would likely need to be some form of revenue sharing agreement with the incoming schools (sans Notre Dame) that allows for the existing schools to ensure they’re not “sacrificing” their slice. The PAC-12 schools would still increase their money even without getting a full 1/24.

I love this, and it would also provide a route for the Big Ten elite to protect its coffers while expanding if they introduced a different revenue sharing system for the A-tier and B-tier schools. If A-tier was apportioned 2/3 of revenue and B-tier 1/3, then the Michigan/Ohio State/Penn States could maintain or increase their revenue sharing while still expanding. I would probably want to see B1 play A12 and B2 play A11 in postseason games though rather than just waving them up and down. Of course it would never happen though. The Iowas, Michigan States, and Wisconsins of the conference would be afraid of possible relegation (and subsequently losing their job) and the Rutgers, Northwestern, and Marylands would be dead set against the notion.

Colorado and Prime Time to the Big 12. Is this the straw that finally breaks the PAC's back? They had their chances to survive and floundered them. I don't believe that they couldn't have poached Big 12 members in the aftermath of Texas and OU leaving for the SEC. No one to blame but their own leadership. I maintain that the Big Ten should offer Stanford, Cal, Oregon, Washington, Miami, Duke, and UNC, in one fell swoop. Invite Notre Dame as #24 with a 24-hour deadline (I think they finally would, the money would be too great) and Virginia if they decline. B1G East: Penn State, Maryland, Rutgers, Miami, UNC, Duke B1G North: Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Northwestern, Purdue, Indiana B1G Midwest: Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Notre Dame B1G West: Stanford, Cal, Oregon, Washington, USC, UCLA Play every team in your division every year. Play every team in one rotating division every three years. Eleven conference games, one effectively preseason non-conference game. Teams like Iowa could keep Iowa State if they want or schedule a cupcake. To take it a step further, coordinate with the SEC and coordinate a new body, separate from the NCAA, for football only. Have the B1G Championship be a four-team mini-playoff that leads into the new College Football Playoff.

Tom Kennedy was waived today. Who will fill his shoes as the preseason darling to put up great stat lines against bad competition only to get cut?

Maybe. If they wanted to keep him off the field though, they could. I mean, nothing says Burrow has to participate in X number of preseason or training camp snaps. It’s not unprecedented for coaches to not play their starting QB through the entire preseason. Campbell has come close, I think Goff only played like one series last preseason.

With the number of massive injuries and massive injury scares that have happened in less than a week, you have to wonder if teams will start adjusting their training camps. If you have to go quarter speed this first week, leading to half speed, leading to simulated games, leading to full on practices, that's what you need to do. You can't risk losing guys for long periods.

Gun to my head, yes. If I am Holmes and I have the choice though, I wait. Not that I don't have faith in him, but I want to see what I've got in Hooker first (even if just in practice), and I want to see how far Goff can get us this year. If he meets or surpasses expectations, he's going to get a monster deal, and he'll have earned it.

Is there any data supporting that night games are more dangerous or result in more dangerous behaviors (e.g., binge drinking)? I feel like if young students are going to drink on game days (which, spoiler alert, they are), it might even be better for that drinking to be spread out across a day where they are eating, are active, and are doing stuff, rather than them waking up at 6:00am to start drinking before a noon start and be plastered by 10:00am. I could see arrest data increasing with night games, but there is a chicken and the egg problem there because you're increasing the time of the event. Of course more arrests will occur from 12:00pm to 12:00am on a night game day event than from 9:00am to 4:00pm on a noon game day.

Coming soon to Allen Park.

We are probably going to get to see like two or three quarters of Nate Sudfeld football on August 11th. Can't imagine Adrian Martinez will get more than a cursory glance, he's destined for the practice squad if he makes the team.

I like Mahomes less and Cousins more through four episodes. I find Cousins' wife unbearable though.

brand new lions.

Cautious optimism scares me. If I put my hand on the stove again will it burn me?