JabbaNoBargain

Such a shame

Also worth noting the Zags are getting a FULL share as a basketball only member.

Number I’m hearing for new TV deal is about $7M-$8M/team. Time will tell. Going to be entertaining watching OSU come in 5th in the new 8 team G6 conference.

Football and football. IMO we’ve become a “football school” but have zero titles, which is something that anyone can throw in our face and there really is no comeback for it. Basketball (both teams) would be nice as well Sad as it may or may not be, all the other sports really don’t move the needle. IMO, if you ask an average sports fan “who won the last championship?” in baseball, indoor track, etc, they’ll probably have zero idea unless their team happened to be the one.

All theory until there’s high level productivity. Hope he recovers but this is a dude with identical stats all 3 years he’s played at two schools. There’s always the hope of a breakthrough though, high upside.

Which of course is now leading to the unintended consequence of players staying in college until they’re 23+ on a regular basis. Be interesting to see what happens.

Who could forget the shining moment for Ballooning or Life Saving? Chess and Kite Flying also had their glorious appearances. The Olympics have a long history of the host country getting a shot with some sport that won’t last. This is actually on brand and imo is at least an actual sport. BTW I believe FF is part of the 2028 summer games. 2028 LA just around the corner!

So many conundrums. Clearly needs to be a cap, yet no one is authorized to create, let alone enforce one. And yet no matter the rule set, it’s the same teams always on top. I mean, when has USC not had 4 and 5 star talent the last 25 years?

Just curious why would people not watch OBD on Peacock? I’m not a fan of the service or anything, but it comes for free with my Xfinity internet, and would cost $8 for a month if I didn’t get it for free. To me, seeing a Duck game or two for $8 is less than a trip to Starbucks…so I’m genuinely curious why no Peacock?

Right on. IMO - As soon as things moved to a playoff instead of a massive bowl system by invitation, the notion of a “league” with 130 teams for the “big boys” became ridiculous.

One thing he’s right about, the conference championship game is devalued and should just be eliminated. The minute the field expanded from four the conference championship games became as meaningful as bowl games, imo.

https://maaw.info/GadgetsandGames/APFinalFootballRankings.htm Fun game, pick any random year from 1950 on. It’s almost impossible to land on a year that doesn’t have a top-10 with at least 6 teams currently in the Big-2. More often than not you’ll find 7-8 such teams. If FSU, Miami, and ND were to move to the big-2 the ratio becomes ridiculous.

Final Poll History I get into this stuff quite a bit, but take a look at 2001 and 2025. A good sampling of different eras spanning a quarter century. It’s pretty much the same list. The precipitous drop of Colorado really stands out when looking year to year, youch. Just a wild guess that this will look 90% similar in 2035. The same schools will all continue to adapt, though they’ll almost all be in two much larger conferences, most likely

Spot on article. It seems like there will be years when what you have on the roster at QB will be better than what’s out there in the portal market, and I think this was one of those years. We’ve had a history of great and not so great transfers at QB. IMO this is the beauty of the college game, no one knows for sure.

Sort of? Two strongest conferences get the most teams in. Seems to generally be assumed 10-2 in the SEC/B1G is better than 10-2 in the ACC/B12, but the sample size isn’t large. Would ND ever qualify at 9-3?

I say good! Hopefully another piece of the puzzle towards joining a conference. They don’t have the incentive to do so right now, but scheduling the likes of WSU and Bowling Green instead of the USC’s of the world might help change their tune….maybe.

It’s difficult to imagine 10-2 in the B1G not making the playoff. 9-3 will eventually happen

In my world (and I cut the cord years ago), this only has meaning if/when it becomes the only way to get ESPN.

System designed for a different era, up there with bowl games imo.

As someone who previously lived in NC for a number of years, the reason BB is at UNC IMO is because UNC isn’t serious about football. They figure if it doesn’t work they’ll at least get an uptick in season ticket sales for 2 years…if it works out that’s an unexpected bonus.

I’ve really stepped away from getting involved with the names of specific recruits until they show up for fall camp…that being said, don’t we have a very full room of very good QB prospects and not a single senior to be? In the transfer age, it seems a year too soon to add a 5-star QB out of HS. Just my hot take, but I get that coming in second is never fun.

Well in hindsight, one observation from last year is that Jabbar Muhammad was nowhere close to as advertised. He was supposed to be a first round, shut down a side of the field kind of guy, there was a reason we brought him on. Secondary seems like it was actually pretty sub-par but we masked that for the most part against teams with a lot of relatively poor QB play. I would think/hope our young talent will really start to show in the secondary this year.

Most entertaining spring game since Marcus’ coming out party imo. Feels like we have 4 good QBs, but it’s always fun to watch people fall in love with the backup(s). I left the game feeling like we had a pretty clear #1 based upon upside and clear arm talent. Not trying to knock Novasad, as I think we’d do great with him, but he was 5 of 9 with the bulk of his numbers coming on one pass. I’m not drawing any conclusion from that. I’ll be surprised if we don’t lose him though, he seems very capable of being a starter on a top-20 team. My biggest takeaway is that it would be shocking to not win at least 10 games. The offense will do Oregon things no matter who is at QB, and I think the D will be as good as ever.

I’m not big on baseball, but was mesmerized by your updates! This calls for a stealth visit to a Beavis board!

BTW - I’d like to thank CU for really doing their part in helping the historic PAC succeed. CU hasn’t won a bowl game since 2004, when they took home the Houston Bowl trophy.