Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

[UpstateVol613]

It’s happening.

 

[VolInDayton]

What a Moran…the SEC isn’t merging with the ACC lol…that would be like dating down.

The SEC is going to take Clemson, FSU, Duke, and UNC and laugh about a merger. College sports is losing its soul which is why so many people preferred it to Pro sports

 

[beneVOLence]

It took me all of 5 seconds to determine that she's certifiable - wow.

Don't look up and watch the whole video because it will just unnerve you to think that there are people running around like that all over the place. If your not packing a gun right now, it will make you think about doing it.

 

[Devo182]

The SEC is going to take Clemson, FSU, Duke, and UNC and laugh about a merger. College sports is losing its soul which is why so many people preferred it to Pro sports

Just awful. The conference model is so clearly broken. Just imagine if the NFL let divisions rule everything...you'd have 1 division with the Pats, NY teams, LA teams, Bears (markets are EVERYTHING!!) while letting all the "smaller markets" like the Packers, Titans, Saints, Bills, and Jaguars be in a 2-3 team division and just die off...

This is all so stupid. Zero strategic vision for the future of the entire game. Just selfish shortsighted greed for a few.

 

[TheMagnificantOne]

The SEC is going to take Clemson, FSU, Duke, and UNC and laugh about a merger. College sports is losing its soul which is why so many people preferred it to Pro sports

Nah...as long as the pageantry is still at the core...it will never lose it's soul

People are so dramatic

 

[Devo182]

Just hope this mobstrosity takes until 2025. Don't want to see the like of Toots, Wanya, and Gray dragging us next year. No no no thanks.

 

[DarthVol1]

The SEC is going to take Clemson, FSU, Duke, and UNC and laugh about a merger. College sports is losing its soul which is why so many people preferred it to Pro sports

This whole thing reminds me of how NASCAR blew itself up at the peak of its popularity. Over built tracks in markets they had no base. Left old loyal tracks and fan bases. Made TV the number one focus and forgot about people that actually came to races. Lot of parallels with what CFB is heading towards. NASCAR still trying to find its path back to relevance.

 

[SSVol]

Just awful. The conference model is so clearly broken. Just imagine if the NFL let divisions rule everything...you'd have 1 division with the Pats, NY teams, LA teams, Bears (markets are EVERYTHING!!) while letting all the "smaller markets" like the Packers, Titans, Saints, Bills, and Jaguars be in a 2-3 team division and just die off...

This is all so stupid. Zero strategic vision for the future of the entire game. Just selfish shortsighted greed for a few.

NFL is a corporate entity that can set and enforce its rules. NCAA doesn't really have any authority beyond what the conferences grant it. It had simply become the guardian of amateurism, which NIL has effectively killed. There is now a power vacuum and nature abhors a vacuum. The conferences are scrambling to fill it, but are also using it to optimize the bottom line.

Funny. NIL was just about kids being able to make a little money on the side, but has ended up being the small smooth stone now embedded in the NCAA's forehead.

 

[butchna]

Just hope this mobstrosity takes until 2025. Don't want to see the like of Toots, Wanya, and Gray dragging us next year. No no no thanks.

Toots is at Bama. Don’t see any of those names dragging anything.

 

[Orangeburst]

NFL is a corporate entity that can set and enforce its rules. NCAA doesn't really have any authority beyond what the conferences grant it. It had simply become the guardian of amateurism, which NIL has effectively killed. There is now a power vacuum and nature abhors a vacuum. The conferences are scrambling to fill it, but are also using it to optimize the bottom line.

Funny. NIL was just about kids being able to make a little money on the side, but has ended up being the small smooth stone now embedded in the NCAA's forehead.

With a Wrist Rocket

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

So epically beautiful

I think that pic of Mt Moran from Oxbow Bend is the best I've ever taken, I think the mountains have an almost ethereal look to them thanks to the early morning light and a real faint mist...and there was no filter used.

 

[tnvols72]

Did Paul pull that out of his Elephant Ears

he has never taken them off

 

[Devo182]

NFL is a corporate entity that can set and enforce its rules. NCAA doesn't really have any authority beyond what the conferences grant it. It had simply become the guardian of amateurism, which NIL has effectively killed. There is now a power vacuum and nature abhors a vacuum. The conferences are scrambling to fill it, but are also using it to optimize the bottom line.

Funny. NIL was just about kids being able to make a little money on the side, but has ended up being the small smooth stone now embedded in the NCAA's forehead.

Exactly. That's why the system is broken. Greedy conferences only looking out for themselves rather than the ongoing, national sport, as a national entity - such as pro sports have - would do. There is no one looking out for parity and balance.

Don't care who the entity is, but this divided power model is clearly showing all its problems.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

IDT it matters so much how the divisions shake out. The endgame is to create big ratings with high-profile pairings every Saturday, so expect everything to be filtered through that lens to maximize ratings/dollars. The conferences and networks are going to look to preserve or resurrect old rivalries, create new ones and shape storylines that can drive interest and pre-sell games. That's what the conferences and schools have been discussing.

I wouldn't be surprised to see UT pick up Auburn as a division rival, keep Bama/TSIO as a division or crossover game, add Oklahoma as a manufactured rivalry game and Texas as a UT-UT matchup (Battle of the UTs ). Networks can build storylines and frame narratives around all of those, while creating marquee matchups with teams supported by large, loyal fanbases. And they can promote them across multiple marquee sports with a built-in appeal for for MBB, WBB, baseball and softball, as well as football.

It really is a no-brainer...I don't really like it, but I get it.

 

[Catbone]

I feel like now we're essentially going to be the shi**y school who gets paid big money to be the destroyed by big school. Like Alabama playing Sam Houston State or some crap...

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

Central is awesome. Had Rendezvous a long while back and definitely agree. The driest ribs I’ve ever had. Was damn near jerky. Absolute worst BBQ I’ve had. Do like their sauce though.

Buy Rendezvous rub and sauce. Definitely great stuff.

 

[Devo182]

Toots is at Bama. Don’t see any of those names dragging anything.

already forgot. All those "red teams". Unoriginal shmucks.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

I feel like now we're essentially going to be the shi**y school who gets paid big money to be the destroyed by big school. Like Alabama playing Sam Houston State or some crap...

 

[UTProf]

Don't look up and watch the whole video because it will just unnerve you to think that there are people running around like that all over the place. If your not packing a gun right now, it will make you think about doing it.

I looked it up because of your post and after watching the whole unedited interview I actually feel sorry for her. She's clearly had some sort of psychotic break that is beyond just a crazy ex-gf/ex-bf doing crazy ex things. The press putting it all out there and exploiting someone who is so messed up that even the courts said she was unfit for trial and later declared unrestorable (meaning that she could not be given enough drugs and therapy to get her well enough to aid in her own defense -- most people who are declared unfit are later declared fit) just feels like a barbaric form of exploitation. This was someone that anyone could tell was in desperate need of psychiatric help and instead of helping they exploited her condition for cash. If she ever does get well she will have this hanging over her for life. Someone in authority should've stopped it before it began - it's no different than telling reporters to go interview the kooks on the Alzheimer's floor and bring us the craziest one you can find. We'd all be mortified by that and we really should be mortified by this too. This interview never should've happened.

As an aside, if you ever see the pictures of her from before this break with reality it's night and day how much she changed. She was once pretty. I'm assuming between jail and the anti-psychotics she gained weight but she was once a really pretty young woman with no look of crazy that she has in the interview.

 

[RiotVol]

We owe them 10+ years of screwing.

Paul Finebaum believes Clemson's brand has 'gone down a little bit' as Oklahoma, Texas reportedly head to SEC

This is the thing that could help us get our recruiting ground back. Their rise coincides with our swan dive into the asphalt.

 

[Cosmo Kramer]

Jay Hardy to Liberty. What a Loser

 

[captainfalcon777]

I wish they would get run and most of that bunch never be seen or heard from again!

Hmmm, God forbid women have a voice lol...

 

[Nashvegas31]

The realignment stuff does make me think why are teams like Iowa/Iowa St not in the same conference. That seems like a no brainer that they would have already been tied together

 

[Jimmy Football]

Jay Hardy to Liberty. What a Loser

 

[Dudley Smith]

Above the law