Jim Johnson

Yup. The Big 12 ... which will start playing in 2025. Big 12 Adds Affiliates in Lacrosse, Rowing - Big 12 Conference BIG12SPORTS.COM The Big 12 Conference has added three affiliate members in women’s lacrosse and two in rowing for the 2024-25 academic year. Florida, San Diego State and UC Davis will...

Gotcha, my browser has trouble displaying the sarcasm fonts sometimes ... Just as a note, however, Duke has less than 7,000 undergrads.

Tulane has 14,000 students... more than Wake Forest and Boston College... and almost as many as Duke and Miami.

When they lose FSU and Clemson, ESPN is going to renegotiate... so the pro-rata additions won't matter.

They've been an odd number overall since 2014... thanks to ND. Adding SMU made them an even number... except in football --> which was your point about being an odd number currently. I bet they lose 2 and add 3... WSU and OSU to help with Stanford and Cal ... (on paper, a merger with the Pac 12 which lets the NCAA units transfer)... and then I hope that 3rd is USF to keep two teams in Florida ... but I suspect adding New Orleans might have just as much appeal.

This is evident just looking at basketball... the fourth- and fifth- year players on a team like Oakland manhandled the more talented, but significantly younger, players at Kentucky. Sure, the talent difference was remarkable... but when the game gets more phyiscal, that difference can be mitigated. A lot of people like to compare the top college teams with bottom NFL teams... "Alabama could beat ..." this year it's U Conn could beat some NBA teams. No. No they could not... 18-22 year olds could not beat teams that are just as talented but 8 to 10 years older, stronger, and more experienced. Consider how many rookies go from college to starting their first game and succeed. For every CJ Stroud there's plenty of Ryan Leafs... and there is even more disparity for the late rounders.

As @Outlaw said ... it's all about the Benjamins. An extra $40-50 million per year means being competitive across the board. FSU sees a day when their baseball ... girls soccer... and other sports (not to mention football) are among those left behind in their respective sports.

I counter to say this: the fact that Horne, Weaver, and Boyles left for greener pastures shows that CCS/CJS could recruit NFL-caliber talent and develop them enough so they had the opportunity to transfer. If CCS and CJS (and their respective staffs) were that bad, none of their recruits would A) transfer to schools with better opportunities to showcase their talent ... or B) be considered draftable. USF is not going to recruit more than a handful of potential NFL-caliber players under the best of conditions... heck, getting one per class would be outstanding in the AAC. I think the terrible game management, terrible game planning, and all the losses have jaded you.

Now now... Jimmy Horne and Xavier Weaver are going to be drafted for sure. Spencer Schrader and Dwayne Boyles might.

This is wrong... it took 12 votes before they added SMU, Cal, and Stanford.

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Yes. Miami does not have much of a fanbase outside of South(ern) Florida... USF would allow the ACC to get viewers in the Central Middle Florida that UM does not attract. (FSU currently covers those markets for the ACC).

They won't be able to afford the exit fees or break the Big 12 Grant of Rights ... they're in the Big 12 for a while.

When I said "For Fox and ESPN - 4 to 8 slots is likely enough." I meant Fox Corporation and Disney, not the networks. Fox has three networks, plus BTN which itself often broadcasts multiple games at the same time. ESPN has four (five if you count ESPN News) plus the SEC network has it's own alternative channel. And another thing to consider ... ESPN and CBS will continue to broadcast games for conferences outside of the P2.

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Sounds like a captcha was added for security... any ideas where it came from @Brad? Did you add captcha to the login process as well as a timeout feature?

That's ambitious. Time slots are three hours... so there would be at most eight per week per network for OTA broadcast (cable and broadcast): Thursday night (7:00pm and 10:00pm) Friday night (7:00pm and 10:00pm) Saturday (12:00 Noon, 3:00pm, 7:00pm, and 10:00pm) But there aren't THAT many West Coast teams to have three "after dark" games across all of the networks... when you factor the limitations on some networks that have other prime time programming and other sports (such as auto-racing, golf, baseball, college basketball, NBA, NHL, etc) during some of these time slots. Still, for Fox and ESPN ... having 4 to 8 slots per week is probably enough. 48 teams (2 x 24 conferences) would be 24 games in season... but if all 48 play non P2 out of conference, that would be 48 non-conference games to televise.

I missed this part of the tiebeaker: When comparing records against a single team or collective tied teams (before ties are broken So it's not just Tulane, but all of the 5-13 teams. Both Memphis and SMU are 4-2 against those five teams. So then it reverts back to the record against FAU because of part d: d. If the tie cannot be broken after continuing down through the last team or teams in the standings, revert back to comparing records against the top teams in order and allow winning percentage to prevail even if there is a comparison of unequal games. Only then, if the percentages are both 1.000, is 2-0 better than 1-0. However, the reverse is not true – no team gains advantage when all have a .000 winning percentage (0-1 is never better than 0-2). Thus, Memphis #5.

UAB and SMU, right. The loser will be 11-7 with Memphis.

No, it's one at a time. I missed something in the tiebreaker if UAB wins, because SMU has already played (and beaten) UAB once... and the tie breaking procedures (as pointed out to me on another message board) says when one team is 1-1 and the other is 1-0 or 0-1, that team is skipped. So this is the procedure between SMU and Memphis, if UAB wins - it comes down to who finishes #10. UTSA with a win; Tulane with a Temple win. #1 USF - Both 0-1 #2 FAU - Memphis 1-1, SMU 1-0 #3 Charlotte - Both 1-0 #4 UAB - Memphis 1-0, SMU 1-1 #7 UNT - SMU 1-1, Memphis 0-1 #8 ECU - SMU 2-0, Memphis 1-0 #9 Tulsa - Both 1-0 Possible #10 seeds: UTSA - Memphis 1-0, SMU 0-1 ... UAB + UTSA win = #5 Memphis and #6 SMU Tulane - SMU 2-0, Memphis 1-1 ... UAB + Temple win = #5 SMU and #6 Memphis

Memphis' 1-1 record against FAU gives them the tie breaker over SMU. UAB's victory over USF, gives them the tie breaker over Memphis. Therefore . . . If SMU wins #4 SMU #5 UAB #6 Memphis If UAB Wins #4 UAB #5 Memphis #6 SMU

I hope USF works with the City of Tampa to get 50th street widened to two lanes with a center turn lane before the OCS is built. Given the donor lots that will be close to the stadium will be most easily accessed from 50th and Holly (rather than 50th and Elm) it could be a bit of a bottleneck mixing donors with the general public who may not know where to turn.

That is exactly what the Southwest Conference use to be. Southwest Conference - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG