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    He deserved better than Patricia. I don't think he ever would have been a Darrelle Revis or Sauce Gardner (... or worth the 3rd overall pick), but he could have been better than he was with a real coach at the helm.
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    If the Detroit Tigers can play Florida Southern College to start their season, why can't Michigan play West Bloomfield HS if they wanted to?
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    We are getting to the point where the Big Ten has to consider speaking with the SEC about breaking away from the NCAA in football, breaking away from the current CFP, and making their own body. Like the AFC and NFC, meet in the CFP National Championship. We are already at the point with 16 in B1G and 16 in SEC to make a practical 32-team Major League College Football League.
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    Maybe they’ll prove me wrong, but I don’t think Chicago is nearly as good as they seem to think they are. They aren’t one piece away. Lots of patchwork across the roster.
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    I don’t think it would work in perpetuity. Though I think they probably hoped that Rutgers and Maryland would be generating more money for the conference by the time they received a full share.
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    Last year in row 20 I sold two games (Thanksgiving and Vikings) and recouped half my cost for the entire season. I can’t even imagine what row 7 this year will fetch (not that I’m looking to sell).
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    Rod Wood just announced on 97.1 that for the first time in Lions history, they are sold out of season tickets.
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    Oh I see now. My assumption is that they would rework the deal based on an influx of schools. They might not with just a single addition but if they expanded to 20 or 24 I would think they would want a new deal.
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    Why would it stay the same? Even if Stanford vs. Illinois or Washington vs. Purdue isn’t drawing what Penn State vs. Michigan State does, it’s still a game on regional television, drawing eyes and making money. Ten conference games with their addition may not add 1/4 of what eight conference games makes now, but it won’t add nothing.
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    I think not moving it enough makes sense. I think if you add four teams, you're going to inherently generate more money. Those two extra games in conference play every week don't go unwatched and they don't lose money. I think it's fair to question though if you're Michigan, Ohio State, or USC (among others) whether adding Stanford, Cal, Oregon, and Washington moves the needle in terms of per school compensation. To use made-up numbers, if you have a pie of a billion dollars split amongst 16 schools, you each make $62.5 million. If you add four members who bring you $200 million, you now have a pie of $1.2 billion split amongst 20 schools, where now you each make $60 million. I think that's the concern of the B1G foundational members... If you're a Stanford, Cal, Oregon, or Washington, the day may come where you are offered $10 million in the cemetery of the PAC-12. At that point, it seems logical to accept a deal where you take $25 million in the B1G, while the other 16 split the remaining $1.1 billion. Everyone gets more money, though the newcomers on a pretty crappy end of the stick.
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    I think more teams = more games = more eyes = more TV money. The question is whether that add money makes 1/x+1 increase. I think the remaining PAC schools ultimately take a lesser cut to avoid being homeless.
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    Could be an interesting attribute when running routes if Goff can still see him
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    Can't wait until technical issues affect the CBS broadcast and bars nationwide turn to Nickelodeon.
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    It feels intuitively like the things he has down right now is the stuff you can't teach, which I think is good. The six-game suspension sucks, but I don't think it will derail his season or anything. He'll get this whole camp to workout with Goff and learn the playbook, and he could play full games in the preseason if they really wanted him to. It feels like "QB not on same page as WR" is a pretty standard issue in late July.
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    Nebraska actually got booted in between the time they accepted the Big Ten’s invite and the time they formally joined. So they were an AAU member at the time they were invited to the conference. And the political line probably has some truth to it, they were the first public university to ever get the boot. And the only schools ever booted before them were *checks notes* Catholic University of America and Clark University.
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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.
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    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.
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    Just looked it up. The starting QB for Toledo in that game is now the Director of Sales for an Ohio battery manufacturing company.
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    It’s not like they didn’t deserve it. They lost to freaking Toledo.
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    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.
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    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.
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