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Which brings us back to the fact that no one on earth cares at all about how many aac teams you beat, everything always comes down to what you do against the P5. Ecu et al may as well be citadel and at least from an attendance perspective would be better off being FAMU.

That’s a fair way to look at it if the tv networks see it the same way if they don’t then we are stuck with the same amount of money or less with the added benefit of it being divided more ways and with the added bonus of having to compete with more teams for the same goals we already can’t obtain

I’d be happy enough to begin discussing if we are returning back to the National stage and getting back to where we decided to nuke the program, 1000 aac wins in a row wouldn’t get me or most people to think we are in a better place than we were 12 years ago.

Either that or we will have the most over developed section 8 house with no hope of ever being financially solvent when the market crashes down and our remodeling is valued at zero dollars which we were counting on using the sell of the property at a gain over the house and remodel to pay the contractors with and now we are sitting at a net negative, one or the other.

I think you are kind of missing my position but it is probably because I am not conveying it quite right. I value the AAC at exactly zero so I honestly put no weight on the games, winning the conference is but a means to an end to playing and hopefully winning another valuable game. If we managed to win the aac and won zero p5 games or didn’t play in a NY6 game I wouldn’t be excited or celebrating and if I had to choose between beating Florida or Texas in a season vs winning the conference I would pick those wins every single time without question. No one discusses their big wins against AAC teams and no one remembers or cares about winning the little league championship. There was probably a sling champion among the sheep herders and it probably wasn’t David but no one gives a **** or writes stories about them however David gets got be king and live on forever because he beat Goliath and that’s actually a competitor people give a **** about.

Athletes have a much smaller window than even a coach and their contracts are not as inequitable as coaches, maybe baseball is closest. Guaranteeing large portions of the contract without any expectation of performance or having equally severe penalties for leaving is pure insanity. FSU certainly has felt the impacts of their coaching contracts and I think it’s more impactful than you expect to even money schools. It is entirely weighted to the coaches and even Clarence Thomas commented on the insanity of them as amateur status of the students is defended tooth and nail while the coaching contracts continue to balloon.

It certainly involves beating teams I care about and I honestly can’t remember a time when that happened under CWT, I think it happened a couple of times under CCS and I’m certain that our current coach hasn’t done it because well he has beaten exactly one FCS team. Being in a P5 conference obviously gives a coach more opportunities at success but if we beat Florida or Texas win a conference and then beat a P5 team in a NY bowl I am going to be just as happy with the coach as I would be had we actually been in their conference. Beating Tulsa, Tulane, ECU and UCF just doesn’t do it for me and that doesn’t feel like the pinnacle of anything because it used to be expected. We need to not only schedule the games that get people excited but we actually need to try winning one again which we didn’t need to be BCS to do.

Until I see a higher top to this mountain I’m going to stick to my belief that it was the actual pinnacle, if we haven’t found it in over a decade and a handful of new better coaches I’m not quite sure it actually exists for us. I dream of a day of one day sniffing that plateau and it seems so far out of reach that the thought of something beyond it almost seems unfathomable.

But if you could get a decent coach to sign it, which in the current market you wouldn’t, it really doesn’t need to be much more from our perspective. The biggest issue I have with coaching contracts is that they are not equitable, sans Rick Petino’s contract. Both parties are free to leave at any time for any reason but if it’s the school’s choice you owe most of your contract and if it’s the coaches decision they owe pennies on the dollar. That is complete nonsense because both decisions are being driven by performance and only one comes with a stiff penalty for reacting to the same cause.

It depends on what that one page says, if it’s simply you are an at will employee that gets paid this amount per day it could be handled in a sentence

Doesn’t sound like something I would say, I believe they honestly believed CJL was holding them back unfortunately time has told a different story and the donors that filled their ear with those fantasies didn’t stay around much longer than the time it took to figure out they guessed wrong. Sometimes the pinnacle can look like a plateau but if you don’t figure out that you are on top it can be hard to stop your momentum downward following that one last step you felt you had to make to get on top.

I am being optimistic

We should have said out of an abundance of caution we are remaining at 40 percent capacity for all events besides the Florida game because we here at USF put people above profits in every situation except for the one where profits may actually be available

Well you didn’t have pixie dust, so there is that

Thanks for that, our happiest recent memory involves Birmingham, Al. I think I’m going to play a fun game of how many sleeping pills do I have to take in order to wake up from this nightmare.

I think I liked the original story better I think I’m going to choose to remember it that way

Just don’t let it happen again could you imagine what kind of world this would be if you can’t trust anonymous strangers names peterman on a sports message board to accurately present their hs 40 times? It’s a slippery slope from there to total anarchy.

Absolutely not

All of them or would we have to be the best of those?

In the same way Terri Schiavo was sleeping beauty.

I’ve come to enjoy the sad days, if not for those we would have no days at all.

This isn’t operation warp speed it’s definitely better to pump the breaks and make sure that you are sure that you are sure, I would hate to take advantage of money borrowing effectively at zero dollars and then having to pay it off with with over inflated dollars when we could instead wait and pay 2x the project.

They made an announcement, had a zoom call, had renderings and even a digital walk through video I think we can all agree that should be enough movement for at least a couple of years, plus if things aren’t working just say Covid and it’s not your fault.

According to the alt text of the gif it is from the hallmark channels when calls the heart which I assume makes her Erin Krakow.

I know I know pick me