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Yeah same. I was thinking about it. Best friend lives in Tampa and he’s a big Ute fan. Didn’t pull the trigger either. Glad I didn’t.

There you go.

Given the cards he was dealt it looks to me like Yormark has come pretty close to maximizing his product. He took the B12 from the verge of collapse to 3rd-most-stable of conferences and apparently most stable outside the 2 dominant conferences. At least for now that is.

NIL is not salary. No professional leagues have a cap on endorsement deals. That is precisely what the courts ruled to be illegal in regards to college athletes.

The NBA has aggressive salary capping yet the Jazz can’t really compete with the Lakers because of this. There is no way to make it equal. LeBron can make a lot more $ playing for the…[Read more]

I don’t “hate” the big 12. But let’s not sugar coat it. We were driving a Porsche (BMW, Ferrari, or whatever high end car you like), and how we’re driving a 2005 Hyundai. They both get the job done, but there’s bound to be disappointment.

I think this is an oversimplification to some extent. The Big 12 did well to jump ahead of the PAC. But they also had an easier time doing so.

To be blunt, the Big 12 had a bunch of unwanted leftovers who were going to be happy to take whatever decent deal they could get. If they couldn’t get a deal, then probably at least half that conference…[Read more]

NIL is 100% outside money and the schools are not supposed to have anything to do with it.

Each school has a “collective” of boosters who pool their outside money and contract with specific players.

Conversations between the school and the collective’s are apparently allowed since I’ve not heard of anyone being accused of violating the NIL rules…[Read more]

When Cam Rising is on our roster, it becomes much harder to attract a portal transfer who wants to be #1. I believe Whitt said a month or so ago that they had been very active in the QB portal during the offseason but couldn’t get traction with starter-level guys because they knew this was Cam’s program. I love the guy and would want nothing more…[Read more]

Thank you Tony!!!

We play Houston too. It sucks. Hopefully they fix it.

I do wish we played either BYU or Colorado this weekend or even TCU. But it shouldn’t ever be some team on the East Coast who we have zero connection with.

Setting aside Cam coming back or not, I hope that someone in the medical field has a serious talk with him about how the injuries he has sustained playing football may impact his physical health the rest of his life.

The B12 lost Texas and Oklahoma and survived with lesser brands than the P12 would have been without USC. Give Yormark credit for outmaneuvering Kliakaff.

And I agree, the P12 has been mismanaged. But one of its biggest issues has been fan apathy. Cal, Stanford, and UCLA barely have fans at games. Its embarrassing. The B12 has survived because…[Read more]

So much sour grapes on here haha.

Too bad Tulane lost today. I was really hoping the B12 was going to get skunked with the committee.

Here’s a better article on it.

Kliavkaff was a dope and overestimated. Even if the Pac 12 lost USC, Oregon, Washington, and UCLA, if it would have secured a TV deal first, it could have collapsed the big 12 and then poached the best remaining teams from there. The survivors of the Pac 12 and a few big 12 schools would have been a better c…[Read more]

He definitely accelerated it. The conference may have always collapsed anyway, but he cut in line to secure a TV deal that sealed its fate.

https://www.si.com/college/usc/football/big-12-totally-out-maneuvered-pac-12-by-getting-early-media-right-deal-done