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Ultimately, be it in the department of D1 membership, bowl systems, or whatever, a balance needs to be struck between raking in cash and preserving a quality product that people will want to watch.
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You're talking about the shit league Garry Bettman has put together for the NHL, right?
Yeah, there's a lesson there but I don't think anyone involved in college football will learn it. Investing in sports teams for the very wealthy has supplanted investing in US businesses. The money is quicker and with the local community paying the capital investment costs, its a no brainer.Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.Comment
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Wonder how Kelly is going to spin this? Honestly, who wouldn't like to knee a rogue cop in the stomach?
?I don?t take vacations. I don?t get sick. I don?t observe major holidays. I?m a jackhammer.?Comment
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But we need the Illinois', Northwestern's, Purdue's to pad their win totals by winning a bunch of OOC games so they can go to a bowl game...
Agree, may as well make the MAC, Sun Belt, MWC, CUSA another division but allow the power conferences to schedule only up to 2 games against them a season. They aren't on a level playing field, neither on the field or at generating dollars. Boise, Utah, and TCU are all in major conferences now, depending what you think of the Big East.Comment
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We'll see if hockey recovers. Enough people understand this.Originally posted by Jeff Buchanan View PostComment
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Hockey needs to recover? From what exactly? The seasons since the lockout have made Bettman look brilliant
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Hockey will be ok and yes I do think its a regional sport. Im also a hockey snob and Bettman NEVER looks brilliant.
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Hockey already recovered. The question is whether it will stay on its feet or decay again.Comment
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Exactly. I tend to think it will be OK long term. The league has never had more TV exposure and revenue is at an all-time high. One big question is whether parity will help or hurt long-term interest from fans.Originally posted by Hannibal View PostComment
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My prediction is that the NHL is going to go back into the tank unless the league gets a new commissioner.Comment
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The BE Commish was forced out today. I have to wonder if another shoe is about to drop.
At this point, if you're Boise State, do you rethink things? Louisville is almost certainly gone to the Big12 this summer. The new playoff situation is going to eliminate automatic qualifying conferences. So no auto bid for the Big East champ. So what, at that point, is the attraction of flying all over the country to play Memphis, Temple, Cincinnati, Central Florida, and Rutgers in football? Isn't the Mountain West at least as good as those teams? Hawaii, Nevada, and Fresno are all there now and Boise could bring San Diego State back and add Houston as well.Comment
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A good example of why the Big East is a hot mess
One of the biggest stumbling points has been how the television money would be divided among the basketball and football schools. Last year, at the spring meetings in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., one proposal suggested a 75/25 split -- 75 percent of the money going to football schools, and 25 percent going to basketball schools. One athletic director at a basketball school raised his hand and wondered why the numbers were not flipped, since hoops is the reason the Big East exists in the first place.
You can imagine how well that went over in the room.
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That conference (Big East) needed to be cut in half a long time ago...
ACC and Big XII did it for them. ;)Comment
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Texas A&M Athletic Director Bill Byrne is expected at a Tuesday press conference to divulge details about his exit plan from Aggieland.
Byrne met with coaches and other officials with the athletic department late Monday afternoon.
A&M System Board of Regents last week gave the university’s president R. Bowen Loftin the go-ahead to negotiate Byrne’s parting after more than nine years at the helm.
Byrne has one year left on his contract, but both he and Loftin previously have suggested the departure will come much earlier. The CEO of A&M sports wrote last week in his weekly newsletter that he’s looking forward to announcing his next step soon.
The press conference is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. Tuesday on campus.
The move comes as A&M is set to debut in the Southeastern Conference on July 1.
Chatter about a move to the SEC surrounded Texas A&M through 2010 and 2011. Byrne had gone on the record in 2010, saying that the Big 12 was the right place for A&M athletics.
“It is my sincere belief that staying in the Big 12, where we compete in the same time zone, get our athletes home from competition at a decent hour, and where they can play in front of their families and friends, are all very important things to consider,” Byrne said in a June 2010 column posted on aggieathletics.com. “Our athletes and coaches have skin in the realignment game, and all our coaches and the vast majority of our student-athletes want to stay where we are. That was a key decision point to me.”
The SEC buzz heated up in 2011, and on Sept. 26, it became official that A&M would join the prestigious league.
Byrne told The Birmingham News in March that he regretted the school’s tenure in the Big 12 was ending, but called the move “brilliant,” and that the SEC “screams stability.” He also riled up some fans in the same article when talking about the demise of the A&M-UT rivalry.
“I feel badly about that,” Byrne said. “I’m very foolish. I assumed — and it was a rash assumption on my part — that our friends over in the state capital would want to continue playing us. It turns out they didn’t think we were as much of a rival as we thought of them.”
Byrne hired Mike Sherman as football coach in November 2007, after Dennis Franchione resigned under the controversy of an insider newsletter. Sherman went 25-25 in four seasons. The team was a preseason top 10 pick in 2011, but went 6-6, including a loss to Texas on Nov. 24. Byrne stood behind Sherman.
“We need to set aside our disappointment and build from here,” he wrote in his Wednesday Weekly column on Nov. 30, 2011. “We all need to remember our coaches and players put us in position to win all our games this season, and once we take the emotion out of what went wrong, we will find a way to fix it.”
“I love Mike Sherman,” he told The Eagle that same day. “I think he’s a great football coach.”
On Dec. 1, the Austin American-Statesman reported Sherman was going to be fired. Sherman was on the road, recruiting. Byrne fired him by phone. After an eight-day coaching search, Byrne hired Kevin Sumlin away from the University of Houston.
Byrne arrived at A&M from the University of Nebraska in December 2002 with an impressive resume of building up athletic departments. He saw much success in the non-revenue sports. He gave the athletic infrastructure a lift, and in working with the 12th Man Foundation, he raised the funds to build the McFerrin Athletic Center and Cox-McFerrin Basketball Center, and to renovate Olsen Field.
Byrne’s basketball and track and field hires paid dividends. He lured Gary Blair in 2003 to rebuild the struggling women’s basketball program. In 2011, the team won its first national championship. He hired Billy Gillispie and then Mark Turgeon, who led the dormant men’s program to six consecutive NCAA tournaments. And he hired Pat Henry, who has led the men’s and women’s track and field teams to three consecutive outdoor NCAA Championships.
Byrne also hired Rob Childress as baseball coach in 2006, and the team reached the College World Series in 2011.
During his time at A&M, the Aggies won 42 Big 12 championships and 15 national championships (seven for equestrian, six for track, one for golf and one for women’s basketball). The football team went 58-54, won one bowl game and finished one season ranked.Grammar... The difference between feeling your nuts and feeling you're nuts.Comment
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I can just picture being in those negotiations and Seton Hall telling West Virginia that they contribute more to the conference than the Mountaineers do and deserve an equal if not greater share of all tv revenueOriginally posted by WM Wolverine View PostComment
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