Jim Johnson

The 5-7 is only for 2024 and 2025... so the PAC will not be more than two teams, and will not get an AQ. By the time the MWC and PAC2 do something, the new CFP contract ... which may or may not have any AQ teams... will apply.

Based on the last four years... I am expecting the schedule tomorrow.

Two different philosophies pictured above: 1. By creating scarcity, you have the potential of increasing future demand because people will have FOMO. 2. By creating exposure, you have the potential of increasing future demand because people will become FANS. Both sides have their merit.

The betting public is expecting a close FAU win that just barely hits the over: Spread --> Moneyline --> O/U

In principle, I agree with you... but the 2007 WVU game was "sold out" but sold 2,000+ SRO tickets and people could walk up and buy tickets. So there is precedent.

The record attendance is 10,444 back in 1991 when USF hosted the Florida Gators (I was there as a sophomore). The current capacity is officially 10,411.

As a resident of Raleigh I can say ... no. I mean it's not a 0% chance.... but there isn't enough sway to get ECU to that level. ECU doesn't carry that much influence in the state house.

I don't think they add 1... I think they add 4 or more ... any media partner post 2027 will need as much inventory as possible... they may need to add 6 or 8 even.

Gotta love a sold-out Noon kickoff on the World Wide Leader.

I did. Once... and Mia O'Brien liked the post. HA!

Here are the voters who added USF to their ballot. JB Ricks is at Spectrum News here in Raleigh, NC Mia O'Brien is at First Coast News in Jacksonville, FL Dave Borges is at the New Haven Register in New Haven. CT

You know... Google has a lot of information. It doesn't have THAT... but it has a LOT of information. Like this for example:

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner Johnnny. Last year it was Feb 21st. It was the latest the schedule was released since the American first started as a conference in 2014. 2022 - Feb 17th 2021 - Feb 18th 2020 - Feb 18th 2019 - Feb 7th 2018 - Feb 13th 2017 - Feb 9th 2016 - Feb 9th 2015 - Feb 19th 2014 - MARCH 11th

The university's motion to dismiss will be heard in North Carolina on March 22. Now that will be March Madness.

"Lost to CMU, UMass and Maine | Beat Memphis, UAB and Charlotte"... (Or "beat FAU" if that happens next week)

You are correct. This could also have the most wins ever in conference play and have the best overall record... and the chance to finish as regular season champions for the first time ever. (Best conference finish ever was 2nd, which happened a few times.) USF is in the 48th season playing basketball in a conference... there have been just 8 winning seasons. Complete list of USF basketball seasons with conference records above .500 (there have been 3 seasons at .500 in conference play)... in all but one season, the Bulls went to the NCAA or NIT. 2011-12 - 12-6 in Big East [Stan Heath] (this is also the most wins and best overall record .667) -- NCAAT 2000-01 - 9-7 in C-USA [Seth Greenberg] -- NIT 1991-92 - 7-5 in Metro [Bobby Paschal] -- NCAAT 1990-91 - 8-6 in Sun Belt [Bobby Paschal] -- NIT 1989-90 - 9-5 in Sun Belt [Bobby Paschal] -- NCAAT 1983-84 - 9-5 in Sun Belt [Lee Rose] 1982-83 - 8-6 in Sun Belt [Lee Rose] -- NIT 1980-81 - 8-5 in Sun Belt [Lee Rose] -- NIT Hypothetically, if USF wins out that would be 24 wins, which will match the most ever (2018-19 - 24-14 [Brian Gregory]). One more win in the conference tournament and/or post-season would eclipse that mark. The best ever overall winning percentage was 1975-76 when USF was an independent and finished 19-8 (.704) [Chip Conner]. The 1982-1983 Lee Rose coached team finished 22-10 (.688) overall. The 1983-1984 team missed out on the NIT because they lost in the first round of the conference tournament, and the 5th place UAB ended up winning it. So the Sun Belt sent two teams (reg season champ VCU and tourney champ UAB) to the NCCAT and two more teams to the NIT (2nd place and tourney runner up Old Sominion and 3rd place South Alabama)... all four had better overall records than USF ... leaving USF on the outside.

Well, "streaming" services like Sling, Hulu Live, YouTubeTV already pay "carriage fees". In this way, are cable companies. The other services are "a la carte" ... not sure what Congress could do to make Netflix pay ESPN if there is no ESPN content (live or otherwise) on Netflix.

There are estimates that subscriber base for cable will be less than 50 million households by the end of the decade... at some point A LOT of cable networks are going to fold into their parent corporations' streaming services and the volume of programming will decrease.

Disney bought out Comcast Universal last fall... so now it's 100% owned by Disney, and since Fox licenses Fox shows to Hulu -- and Fox owns Tubi, but they have not put a lot of sports programming on it.

I will be there as well!

Yes. USF recently voted to make this change and join the others.

USF is getting about $8 million from the AAC television package. If a streaming package for USF athletics is $50 per year, that requires 160,000 subscribers... that's A LOT of people considering USF has ~20,000 season ticket holders for football and ~5,000 annual fund donors.