Jon Joseph

I'm guessing that the young man was not trying to transfer to Clemson, FSU, NC State, or VA Tech?

Keep on swinging boys!

I'd Schill like to know (sorry) how Oregon voted on possible expansion into the Central time zone. I like that Schill is between the lines touting Oregon moving to the B1G but where is the money coming from for this to happen; especially, after Kevin Backstabbing Warren left the conference without a finalized media deal in place? Among other foul-ups, Warren promised the broadcast of the B1G champ game to NBC when he had no right to do so. Ditto his promise to NBC that it would broadcast late-night games through November without checking in with his bosses and ADs who are opposed to playing late beyond the first week in November. If UCLA is not having 2nd thoughts UCLA president Block (Head) and AD Jarmin are not paying attention. As we are seeing with Larry's legacy, the shortfall in the media deal may be the tip of the iceberg.

Res Ipsa Loquitur - This scathing article on Kevin Warren's performance as the B1G commissioner speaks for itself. Larry's twin brother separated at birth? How do the consultants who recommended guys like Warren, Larry, and Mike Bohn escape litigation for gross negligence? Why do conferences and teams hire consultants when ADs are being paid very good money? Hickey: Turns out former B1G commissioner Kevin Warren might actually be a damn idiot SATURDAYTRADITION.COM Kevin Warren's parting gift to the Big Ten is a media rights contract that won't be worth as much as initially reported -- thanks to Warren.

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Go Ducks! All the way to Omaha.

It's a golden age for Bo and other "student-athletes" but not for college athletics as a whole. However, I have no beef with college athletes' right to own and market their NIL. The NFL has a team salary cap but no cap on what a player can make off of his NIL.

Mrs. P, I agree with you 100% in regard to Klatt. He is a front man for Fox so he is going to espouse the company line.

Based on the comments from many members of Congress I agree with your forecast.

CU changed its policy on transfer credits to enable Deion to raid the portal. But even Stanford does not have the same admissions standards for quality athletes. I know this because a former Stanford golf coach, Wally Goodwin, explained to me that he had close to carte blanche in taking in 2 golfers a year. These guys were not dummies but they did not have the grades and board scores of most applicants admitted to Stanford.

And the NLRB piling on does not help. Can't these people understand that they are throwing the baby out with the bathwater and that the people who will suffer the most from these are people of color and females? There is just no way IMO that a number of schools granting athletic scholarships today will continue to do so if athletes are found to be employees.

NCAA president Charlie Baker is trying but I guess that he will get no relief from Congress.

I replied to this great take by JC on his site. Briefly, the conference should have already filed a counter-claim against the terminated executives and cross-claimed against Scott. But paying this guy $1.5M in severance does not help if the conference ever goes against Scott. SMH at the continuing financial mismanagement of the conference with only (Eat) Crow and Block (Head) left from the gurus who hired the guy in the first place and then enabled his spendthrift ways.

Chun is rumored to be on the shortlist for the SC job. Does Rob have his hat in the ring? He did when the UGA and TX A+M jobs came up. BTW, take a look at Rob's Org Chart and tell me there aren't some savings there. Commissioner GK hired consultants to help with the media deal. If the 'commissioner's job' rotated among Pac-10 athletic directors an AD could do the same and would there be a drop-off in productivity and results? What does a conference commissioner do all day long?

The ship is at the dock still awaiting its cargo. Keep the baby Faith.

I don't know but I do know that I hope this 'problem' arises often in 2023.

I think we will see the games vs CU, and USC, in Seattle and in Salt Lake City in prime time on ESPN.

How do you make money in any business or as an individual? Buy low, sell high. And media companies have to buy inventory and flip it to advertisers at a profit. Not so easily accomplished in today's economy. Your great comment explains why I don't see a B1G bid coming for OR/UW before Fox knows the details of the new media deal.

Spot on. I very much doubt that ESPN wants to surrender the west coast market to arch-rival Fox and the LA market. Which will draw the most viewers? Purdue at UCLA or UW at Oregon?

An interesting dichotomy. East Coast fans may be asleep yet the networks want the inventory because it still draws more eyeballs than anything other than an NFL broadcast.

Tan, I think it depends on the opponent. A Friday night kick-off against USC, UW, Utah, UCLA, Oregon State, and a big-time OOC opponent, is going to sell out. Against Hawaii, I think there would be empty seats. This season's game versus Prime Time would definitely be a Friday night sell-out. But I feel the pain of people traveling from Portland and man, I miss when CFB was played in the sunshine.

Good take. But especially with the problems the B1G is having finalizing its new media deal does Fox really want to be spending more on B1G inventory? Fox just took it in the shorts with a close to a billion-dollar judgment against it from non-sports media activity. This is a big number for any business to swallow. And today's economy is not as robust as even a year ago. Fox is only the middle-man in its media deals. It has to sell off the conference media rights it has bought to advertisers to make a profit. The Pac-10 deal is obviously, taking a long time but this is not a seller's market and I'm certain that GK wants to have a deal fully nailed down before bringing the deal to the conference as a whole. The conference does not want to have a Kevin Warren-like egg on its face. As to Warren, this couldn't have happened any better. I wonder if the Pac-10 is reaching out to UCLA to see if the Bruins are having 2nd thoughts.

A lot of this depends on the site doing the rankings. I like that Charles uses Rivals but Rivals is often a tougher grader than the 247 composite rankings. Of course, at the end of the day, all of the highly-ranked kids arrive with potential and they have to be coached up.

College Football News has the Utes winning 9 regular season games. So much of the 2023 season is riding on whether QB Rising can make a full recovery from a bad ACL tear suffered against Penn State in the Rose Bowl. Even if Rising is healthy with out-of-conference games versus Florida and at Baylor and conference road games at Oregon State, USC, and UW, and with home games versus Oregon and UCLA, I see an 8 and not a 9-win regular season. https://collegefootballnews.com/cfn/utah-utes-college-football-preview-2023-breakdown-prediction-top-players-win-total Man, the Pac-12 is top to bottom loaded in 2023. No easy day.