Tandaian

I wouldn't be broken up about Dana retiring. I'm ready for a new coach. Dana has been a Power 5 coach for 25 years. He has 17 NCAA bids, with Covid year cancelled. 3 sweet 16 runs, 1 great 8 run and 1 final 4. Dana is a very good coach, but if there is an upgrade out there... I think he has run his course, and we won't win a championship with him.

It seems like 2029-2031 will be an interesting time. TV contract expiration. Mountain West expires 2025-26. B1G TEN is the 2029-30 school year. Big 12 is the 2030-31 school year. AAC is the 2031-32 school year. SEC is the 2033-34 school year. The SEC is the SEC, but being last might not be a great place to be. I also don't think 10+ year contracts are going to happen again. B1G TEN did a 6 year contract. That seems like about right. The ACC settlement sets it up, so teams can leave. It will still hurt, but not as much.

Where did this idea of pharmaceutical companies won't be able to advertise on TV? The closest article I could find was from a couple weeks ago, where a proposal of new drugs couldn't be advertised until 3 years after FDA approval. That is a far cry from no advertising at all. The law hasn't even passed yet. I don't think we have to be concerned about advertising money.

I'm not a fan of the B1G TEN announcers being so biased against, UO, UW, USC and UCLA. They aren't even trying to hide it.

The road trips are very similar to what happened during the Pac12 and your travel buddy. Oregon combined tOSU and Penn St. with one flight. Same with Michigan and MSU. The same with Iowa and Wisconsin. Teams coming west will either play UO/UW together or USC/UCLA together. There are one offs in both directions, but typically the B1G TEN did try and get two teams scheduled together when they flew long distances.

Imagine a scenario 20 years from now, where the B1G TEN and SEC have been getting more than twice the money over the ACC and B12 from the CFP. Are teams from the ACC and B12 really going to be competitive even with auto bids? I guess auto bids aren't really my point of contention, it is the unequal sharing of money. Auto bids do entail some extra money, but not enough to overcome the TV contracts and the extra money teams get with wins. Heading down a path with 2 super conferences and only 34 teams is going to cause the downfall of college football. The B1G and SEC are so greedy, they don't see what it eventually does to them. The reason why the NFL is the most watch sport in USA is because it tries to make everyone .500 by being equal.

I'm not interested in creating the have's vs the have nots more than it already is. It is silly to give auto bids. Most years the B1G TEN and SEC are going to have 4 teams anyway, so why make it permanent? By giving the B1G TEN and SEC 60-70% of the money also will eventually kill college football. Look at the NBA and MLB. You have only a handful of teams that can win the championship and that is with revenue sharing, but both leagues essentially have no salary cap. I don't really watch either sport because it is essentially the same 5-10 teams every year. With the CFP, you are not sharing revenue equally and you have no salary cap. You will have the B1G TEN and SEC separate themselves even more from the ACC and B12. When you have only 33% of the US interested in the sport, it will eventually die. Why would the ACC or B12 be interested in watching something where none of their teams have a shot of winning?

Still no new money for the league as a whole. Clemson, Miami, UNC and Miami will get a larger chunk, which comes at the expense of the other schools.

Is he willing to take a salary cut? I didn't hear him fight to stay in the Pac 12. They could do better about game start times, but UCLA had the same turnaround time last year in the Pac 12.

Since, when did teams get allowed to play 13 regular season games when it didn't involve Hawaii? The author of the article, Justin Phillips, didn't mention dropping another game. Week 0 only includes teams that play Hawaii or play out of the country. The author also mentioned SOS was used in making up the CFP teams. Apparently, he didn't watch any college football games. If that were true Indiana and SMU most certainly wouldn't have been in the CFP. It is really too bad no research was done for this article.

No conference is awarded an automatic qualifying spot. The new look PAC doesn't have 8 teams, so they aren't considered a true conference. Once the PAC gets 8 football teams, then they are a conference and then if they are 1 of 5 top ranked conference champions, then they get an automatic bid to the CFP.

It is pretty clear the CFP has been very clunky this first year. The seeding will have to change. The #1 and #2 seed should never open as underdogs in their first game of a playoff format in any sport. They have to change who gets a first round bye or they need to reseed after the first round. The CFP also needs to stop holding to tradition with either placement of teams or dates of games. Georgia was the #2 seed and was forced to play in New Orleans instead of Atlanta because the SEC champion usually plays in the Sugar Bowl. Having the big 4 bowl games play on December 31st or January 1st has to go. It is clear 25 days is too much for the teams given a bye. Every single team with a bye had no idea a football game was being played until either late in the 1st half or the 2nd half. Schedule for the CFP should have the 1st round 1 week after the conference championship games. Sorry, Army/Navy. The Quarter finals 2 weeks after, so the teams with a bye have a normal bye to get healthy. The Semi finals can be held on 12/31 or 1/1. What it would have looked like this season. 1st round 12/14 - 12/15 Quarter finals 12/21 - 12/22 Semifinals 12/31 - 1/1 Finals 1/13

Looking at the list of All Americans and looking at their stats, I find it hard to argue with that list. When the Ducks win the CFP, everything will be right in the world.

Just saying.... Oregon played in the first NCAA men's basketball championship game in 1939 and Oregon played in the first football playoff championship game in 2014. The Ducks are destined to be in the Championship game this season.

It will be interesting to see how the CFP ranks teams. I'll just compare Alabama and Clemson, the #12 and #13 in the AP poll. Clemson has lost to UGA (9-2) and Louisville (7-4). Best wins Pitt (7-4) and Virginia (5-6). If they beat South Carolina, it will be their 2nd win vs a Power 4 team with a winning record. Alabama has lost to Vandy (6-5), Tenn (9-2) and Oklahoma (6-5). Best wins UGA (9-2), South Carolina (8-3), Missouri (8-3), LSU (7-4). Alabama's losses are worse than Clemson's, but their wins are better than Clemson's, even with the 3 or 4 auto non-conference wins some SEC teams have. I honestly don't know who is better between Alabama and Clemson.