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NCAA - slowly ruining football (rules changes - merged)

but the NCAA passed on doing that. They had decades to adapt and failed.

This is what happens.

I'm enjoying watching it burn, myself.
100, I've lost hope. That ship sailed.

There are reasons why no other country, to my knowledge at least, has any market for college sports. Universities in lots of developed countries don't even have sports teams. <mind blown explosion sound effect>

It was a good run.
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SEC (It just means more.. even its losses are wins)

This goes back nearly 50 years at this point. Whenever ESPN became a thing, the ONE thing that they absolutely knew was that they needed College Football. The Big 10 and Pac-10 were already tied into the Rose Bowl and national broadcasts. Oklahoma and Nebraska from the Big 8 were also nationwide. So where did that leave the fledgling network? The SEC. So E!SPiN hitched its wagon to that beleaguered conference, and they promoted it and promoted it and promoted it. And they always WILL promote it. Because that's their bellcow. But NIL and the portal have destroyed E!SPIN's football hegemony. The B1G and PAC programs have ALWAYS had more money than the SEC. BUT they (mostly) followed the rules. The current CFP runs through ESECPN until the end of the 2031-2032 season. In the current expansion negotiations, the B1G doesn't even need to take the hard line. They just need to wrestle control of the CFP from ESECPN. Which they can and will do.

The entire State of Alabama only has two billionaires, and both of them are Auburn supporters. NO ONE in the SEC can outspend Ohio State, or the Cheaters up North, or Oregon, or Washington, or USC, or even freaking INDIANA. They can't even outspend Northwestern or Purdue. Even Rutgers and Maryland can basically spend with any SEC school except UT and aTm.

OKAY. I'm rambling. My bad.
The sec is about to become Texas, aTm, then everybody else. Maybe Vanderbilt. Florida and Georgia could scrounge up some donors but still unlikely to match big ten alumni money.

Of anyone is inspired by what Indiana did its Vandy.
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OT Zen Michalski (National Champion; transfer to Indiana; National Champion)

Just sayin': I'm just guessing that he knew he wasn't going to beat out Montgomery, Tshabola, Padilla, and VanSickle for an OG position. In his case I don't think it was about NIL money. He had already earned his degree at Ohio State in "sport industry". He had one more year of eligibility left; so he "took a chance" and transferred to his home state team. He just wanted an opportunity for more playing time in his final year in college.
He really didn’t even play much this year to be honest…..tons of injuries saw him getting some PT. He was third string entire season…
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People to Punch, Pet Peeves, and General Vexations (mega-merge)

Sticking to driving I've got 3 gripes which I have witnessed recently. 1) Backing out of a parking space like a mad demon and not looking to see if someone is coming. I've had 2 incidents recently where a person backing out of their space too quickly almost collided with me. 2) People who park in spaces that are reserved for others. I'm seeing more and more people without handicap plates parking in handicap spots, parking in spaces reserved for employees of the month. 3) On the street where I live there's a street that runs north-south that has the right of way. The cross street have yield signs. Out on my morning walks I have seen numerous drivers disregard these yield signs and blow right through. There's an accident waiting to happen.
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