Jon Joseph

Same Stuff Dennis Dodd. How low can you go?

For Oregon this appears to be easier said than done.

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ESPN, CBS, and close to all other major media entities have gone in this direction. And here I wanted to give Denni Dodd a keyboard full.

This is pure Eval. How about NO! And who will suffer most? Young people who come from homes with tough financial circumstances. Charles nailed it noting the negative effect this will have on non-revenue sports. FUCA, FITA, group insurance, possibly union dues, payments to a state retirement fund, and administrative hearings if a starting player drops down in the depth chart. How about filing a complaint against your fellow employee professor for grading too hard? How many university administrations are going to accept this? Put a life jacket on the baby being thrown out with the bath water. Say hello to Ivy League/D3 scholarship policies; no athletic scholarships. But perhaps, this nonsense will lead to NCAA president Charlie Baker finding relief on the federal level. Saint Mary's has to pay its athletes and Gonzaga does not? UCLA has to pay its athletes but Michigan does not? Sports that operate in the red will have to share 'revenue' with their athletes. Whatever happened to basic economics in the state of California? Do politicians pay the least bit of interest to athletic department bottom lines? Pay attention to Title 9 that without football scholarships in the calculus will ipso facto eliminate many women's teams. No wonder so many women representatives abstained from voting but where was the courage to vote against this insanity that the California Board of Regents uniformly lobbied against? NLRB and now this? College sports governance has not changed incrementally in recent times. It has experienced a vortex of change. This change could signal the end of college sports. College sports becoming D3 club sports with more stray dogs in the Coli watching football than fans. I salute CA for having NIL foresight but this is over the line.

With a 12-team playoff, this does have merit. But even with a 12-team field you want to make sure as a conference champion you are a top 4 seeded champion or get a spot in the field if not a conference champ. Also, what will the broadcast situation be? Do not want a lot of night games conflicting with one another. If eyeballs count and they do, the FCS, G5, and a B1G or SEC P5 team seem to work the best. And who knows? The conference could stay at 9 teams. The 2 new teams if added will come in at a lesser share but that is still money the 10 teams, especially a school in the financial shape of Wazzu, can use.

Please, drop the Alamo Bowl and have the Pac's best team not in an NY6 Bowl play in Las Vegas. The Ducks are already playing too many B12 teams and the Alamo Bowl just shoves more money at a conference trying to destroy the Pac-10.

Could happen ut also H+H with Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, and Wisconsin could happen. And would games versus NW draw fewer eyeballs than a game with Baylor?

In 24/25 the teams with 1st round byes will get the same share of proceeds as teams 5 - 8.

Good point but in 2023 FSU plays Florida and LSU, and Clemson has a one-off and a H+H series vs Georgia. It's the ND enabling deal that is holding up the ACC from playing 9 conference games and not, IMO, the fact that Clemson, FSU, Louisville, and Georgia Tech play an SEC opponent every season. ND should be required to play a 13-game regular season schedule and ACC teams that do not draw ND in a particular season should add a conference game. Please stop enabling Notre Dame. The playoff committee should not be composed of 10 conference commissioners and the ND AD,

Why? I think the Apple broadcasts of the NFL and MLS are fine.

Notre Dame vs Toledo was on Peacock and not offered for free.

None of those that you have that I also have are 'free.' Monthly or annual payment is charged. I do not have Peacock. Even with Paramount, I had to pay extra for Yellowstone this season. But in most cases, you are buying an all-in package and not one-off events. It will be interesting to see if Peacock will offer UW at MI ST as a one-off or require you to buy the entire Peacock package. The top 32 or so CFB teams get together. Form its own network and sell games on a pay-for-view platform. Start printing the money. Unfortunately, I think this is where CFB at the top level is headed,

This season's UW at Michigan State game is being broadcast exclusively on Peacock. The wave of the future and if you don't get it in the water you will be sucked out to sea by the tide.

And UCLA is giving the Pac a $3M Holiday on the way out the door. And Merton Hanks gave this hibernating Bruin, hibernating since Terry Donahue (RIP) left Westwood, the easiest 2023 conference schedule. For some absurd reason in 2023, the conference continues to honor the Cali scheduling agreement.

Great take. The SEC is staying with 8 conference games in 2024 to be revisited in 2025. Spot on that playing 8 when no school that won the playoff played 9 conference games is the way to go when in the committee's mind the SEC gets a scheduling bump playing 8 or 9. But it's not like the SEC is avoiding solid OOC opponents down the road. Florida plays FSU every season, Utah in 2023, and down the road plays NC State, Cal, CU, and Notre Dame. LSU opens against USC in Las Vegas in 2024. (A Pac-10 team couldn't get this gig?) Has a return game versus UCLA, and has games scheduled against Clemson, ASU, and Utah. Tennessee has future home + home series with Nebraska and Washington. A+M has a home and home scheduled against Notre Dame. Alabama plays Wisconsin, West Virginia, Ohio State, Arizona, and Notre Dame. Georgia plays Clemson, Louisville, UCLA, FSU, and Ohio State. Auburn plays Cal, UCLA, and Miami. My feeling is that down the road SEC commissioner will get what he wants, 9 conference games. The schedules above have many Pac-10 teams on the slate including playing games at UW and Utah, not easy outs. And Arizona playing Bama in Tucson? If Utah can convince SEC teams to play in SLC there is NO justification for Mullens having Oregon play 6 B12 teams OOC in the next 6 seasons. Charles so aptly points out that Oregon was the seventh most-watched team in the nation in 2023. This will not be the case for the next 6 seasons and this falls at the feet of Rob Mullens. A guy making close to $1M a year plus bonuses and perks and with a huge support staff should be booking quality OOC opponents and not making excuses. Giving a boost to B12 scheduling for the next 6 seasons is senseless business. Why not ask Brett Yarmack and the B12 for another punch in the chops?

UW is the author's best bet. But with games against Utah and Oregon and games on the road at USC and Oregon State, I have my doubts. The Ducks will definitely be in the mix. 2023 Pac-12 championship odds, picks: USC favored but Washington, Oregon State have value - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM With an elite quarterback and a salty defense, Washington is a smart bet in 2023

And streaming has the potential to get this woman and the Pac-10 finances better balanced. To reiterate, a reasonably big-time OOC game, UW at Michigan State, will be broadcast only on NBc's streaming network, Peacock. A wave of the future. Who knew the surf would be up in E. Lansing?

This is the former AD at AZ, Battle who is now with Bma helping AZ out with a big-time-sold-out game in Tucson.

B1G - Ohio State won the first playoff title. Clemson has won twice. B1G - CBB has not won a title since 2000. ACC has far more than 1 CBB title since 2000. The B1G is big because of its location and huge numbers of alumni and alumnae and not because of success on the field and on the court. Swafford, in order to accommodate Notre Dame's independence buried the ACC in an awful media deal. 1st thing the ACC should do IMO is to stop bending over for ND. Require ND football to join all the other sports, other than ice hockey played in the B1G, in the ACC, or get lost. The ACC football champ has to play 13 games while The Irish play 12. And for the ACC to play 8 regular season conference games because of the ND deal is lame. As is justifying 8 games because Clemson, FSU, Georgia Tech, and Louisville play an SEC team every season. In today's CFB world a marriage between the Left and Right coast schools, 2 conferences that care about academics, makes sense.

That's old Bama. Bama plays the 2nd game this season with Texas and has a number of big-time H+H OOC games on future schedules. Not a big-time game as of today but Bama has a H+H scheduled with Arizona.

Interesting that the UW at Michigan State game will be streamed on NBC's Peacock and not shown on linear TV. Will be very interesting to see the number of eyeballs that watch this game. 1st game other than an occasional Notre Dame body bag game to be streamed on Peacock.

No offense directed at you, Texas Tech and its great fans, Lubbock (an underrated city,) and the great Buddy Holly but with the B12 commissioner Yarmack doing all he can to destabilize the Pac-10 I'd like to see Oregon buy out of the TT, Baylor, and Oklahoma State games in favor of No. Texas, UTSA, and SMU. Why should Oregon, not to sound elitist, give a boost to B!2 team schedules when a slimy commissioner is doing all he can to crater the Pac-10? And it's not just Yarmack, all B12 presidents have voted in favor of adding more teams and in favor of westward expansion. Play the 3 above teams instead of B12 teams and the OOC schedule would be no worse than that of UCLA and Michigan. And with the 3 substitutes most likely all 6 games would be played in Autzen. Mullens has come up with 6 B12 OOC games that today, make him look like a sucker. Having said this I too am happy that the game in Lubbock will be a night game on big Fox but it will be going up against Texas at Bama on ESPN. A game that will draw far more eyeballs. The game would be more watched if it kicked off at 11 AM Central time as does the OK/TX game every season. And it makes zero sense to send the Pac's 2nd best team to play a B12 team in a bowl game in San Antonio. All the best to you. It is great to have you on the Forum.

I very much doubt the committee will punish SEC and B1G teams for playing SOS-deficient schedules. From the committee's POV Mizzou at Vandy is a tough game. The 2 leagues, follow the money, will be propped up just like the B1G is propped up come the CBB tournament and the SEC is propped up in this season's baseball tournament. The SEC and B1G are almost assured of having 3 teams apiece in every 12-field playoff field. The conference champ and 2 others. In 2023, Michigan, Ohio State, and Penn State are in. Georgia, LSU, and Tennessee are in, and also, possibly Alabama. The rich will simply get richer and while more fans will likely be interested until the season's end the G5 will place 1 team in the field and the ACC, B12, and Pac-10 will be fortunate to have 2 teams in the field.

Sure looks like the SEC will stay at 8 conference games for the next 2 seasons at least. A 1-7 model means that rivalries like Bama vs Tennessee will not be played every season. It Just Means More? Maybe to guys down south selling chicken spit. As I have noted elsewhere, come 2026 although it will mean fewer dollars for the ACC (teams that do not have ND on the schedule, B12 (although I am loathe to do anything with the B12,) and perhaps the top 2 ranked G% teams, hold their own post-season tournament All games are played on campus except for the champ game. With Little Power 3 subsidizing the Power 2 will only expand with an expanded playoff field.