WoolyBully

I would imagine that to be the case. The novelty of the OCS would be short lived, so we're back to making USF football meaningful again.

Top 25: the new stadium would garner X-amount of interest, but playing a top 25 team (obviously this is one of those monied teams that people have actually heard of) would bump that up to +X. A win over a top twenty-five ranked opponent in a new stadium would bump that up to ++X.

It's a good win but may not necessarily warrant hype. U of SF needs twenty-eight more wins to erase the Scott Stain...to be at .500. Each week is an opportunity to work towards that statistic. I'd like to think that there are more wins, like Saturday, this season and hopefully Vegas was wrong (reminder: preseason O/U @ 4.5), but I'll just wait before I buy into any measure of hype.

Brad, thanks for hosting the happy hour.. Always hopeful for increased attendance - just like at Ray J. Interesting to see that my non EEO compliant avatar apparently misled some of the population. . Respectfully, Sam the Sham

So, what we want to do is put the 'student athlete' myth to bed once and for all. End of story: enroll at our school and participate in our football program, for however long you want - you can transfer elsewhere if you don't like it here. We'll pay you a salary, and you agree to pay for books & tuition for x-number of classes. This applies only to the big money machine of football; we'll keep the girl's tennis and softball configurations as is. Maybe it's time we split off this particular division of our corporation.

I'm a huge proponent of sophistication. I feel that the fifteen minutes of fame for the uncultured and naive is completely exhausted.

I'm in.

That has potential. No feed, no water, no NEED FOR A SHOVEL AND WHEELBARROW, no vet bills. Brought to you by the U of SF College of Smart Kids Engineering.

So, once you OWN (or lease) this bull, exactly what do you want to do with it? We're you thinking of imitating Ralphie? Wanna just look at it? I'm not seeing this as a value-added component.

Well, on the plus side, the Pac II will really save a bit of money on the wrestling tournament: only have to mint gold and silver medals, and no third-place finisher on the podium. As a bonus for the fans, you can actually take in every match of the tournament and still go out for dinner!

Wait a minute?! What's going on here? I thought you guys were fully erect nipple over Deion Sanders...remember how starry eyed you were that he was going to have an office at Fowler Avenue and how dejected you were when what was never going to happen actually never happened? How can this be? Are our football emotions that shallow? Say it ain't so!

Perhaps having Deion Sanders on our "me too!" list constitutes enough of a relationship to broach perhaps scheduling a game with Colorado. Then you get eyeballs. Apparently, that Buffaloes Rams event last week was the highest rated college football game in history.

Ab-so-lutely. That's the objective.

Maybe. But given the residual animosity some have towards the last time taxpayers had to chose to fund a stadium, maybe the enthusiasm for moving a baseball team thirty miles to an already NFL, NHL, and NCAA city was somewhat more tepid than was publicly let on. Kind of like put up an obligatory minimum effort just to say "Ok, yeah - we participated but, oh well...".

- Conference realignment is - first and foremost - about the football bidness. Plain and simple. Touting academic excellence is a fig-leaf, so the process doesn't look so much like the bottom-line business it really is. Who-plays-who on Saturday is what pays the bills. I could trot out that tired old adage about filling the stadium to watch a kid do a chemistry experiment, but I won't. Any university has a lot of moving parts, and at times, those parts seem to be working against one another. It's an interesting observation as to where schools fall academically within conferences, but I don't think athletic conferences really consider that when it comes to expansion. Lemme ask you: if another part of the equation was cutting schools that don't perform heavy lifting and contributing to the bottom line, you think their academic prowess (AAU inclusion) would be enough to save them? I'm dropping Best & Brightest University because of their perennial losing record and bringing in Middle o'the Road University because they have a better football program that does generate eyes on screen (which is what advertisers want)? Which is more important - not in the grand philosophical sense of what a university is - but in the bottom-line business?

That seems reasonable. Texas and A&M are the big draws, much like FSU & Florida are in Tampa. Although USF is in Tampa, I suspect that a poll of the bay area populous would show more interest in Gainesville & Tally-hassle, as we see with local media coverage. Serve your market's interest.

I've got a team of analysts working on this very product as we speak. In order to drum up interest in attending games, I'm considering a means of replacing these Morgan & Morgan billboards with this info. I'll get back to you with the details.

Poking the ESPN estimator tool, some of U of SF's odds-to-win numbers have gone up: ...the highlighted cells are the ones over 50%, but Rice & Uconn are not difficult reaches (as of 12:19 a.m. 9/18/23).

'Cause that's how upsets work!

The online copy would not be discounted. That's the direction the organization is headed - 100% online. As soon as feasible, the paper rendition - which only gets published on Wednesday and Sunday - will be discontinued. But I wouldn't bet on the 'transportation fee" dollar value disappearing! OK, you no longer have to pay $50 admin fee for your ticket, but the base price of a ticket is going to increase $50. See! It all works out!

Yes, because when you've had four abysmal losing seasons, pulling the upset - after losing to G5 Western Kentucky - might not necessarily be the "finally arrived" marker. The news is P(x), everybody else - get in line. Tomorrow, 'Bama QB consternation will be the topic on the airwaves / podcasts, not USF's field goal.

Pretty sure the agreement is (a) fully digital or (b) digital with physical on Wednesday & Friday. There are different e-versions depending on market (e.g., Pasco, Hernando, etc.). And there is different content between the digital and print editions, with much more content online.

It would have been clipped and shoved into WB's "interesting USF stuff" box in the hall closet.

I'd say that's accurate. Although the IPF & OCS are huge on Fowler Avenue, the big story - the HUGE GIANT STORY - is (a) how close the game was because of (b) the QB situation at Bama. Power conference football versus infrastructure development at a G5. It's not a commercial opportunity, it's a game.