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Please don't.

Frankly, I cannot believe that people that routinely sign multi-million dollar contracts would be dumb enough to sign a GOR at any point. Maybe if you are a Big 10 school it makes sense. But why would you lock yourselves into the ACC or Big 12? Stupid, really.

We seem to have less "winners" each week. By design, or are things getting tougher? Who makes the cut? Someone with more energy than I needs to come up with a list and the end of the spring of who made the cut and how many times. Then we can cross reference with performance during the season. Not what I would want to see, but it would be hilarious if the big grit winners ended up stinking it up during the season.

I meant the exit fee from each team that is leaving.

I was concerned about the 14 years, but getting $10mil up front makes that much more palatable.

Football students need a lazy river to "recover"? I don't think I would pay $2500 just so six tailgates per year can happen in a lazy river. I can find a lazy river to use far cheaper than that.

I still miss the legendary Chris Cosh.

I thought at first it was "hoping for 2025 but it might be 2026." In any event, kind of curious the two schools are headed for the same time frame, although that is largely because the two are at the same point in the project. However, of all the AAC schools, these two seem to be the ones looking at this right on the heels of the previous B12 expansion, and there were some comments about future expansion and facilities being needed, etc. I guess my real point is it starts to feel like maybe some discussions behind the scenes have taken place. Or, chicken or egg, the fact that Memphis and USF are pushing hard in the stadium arena is what makes them top of the rumor mill.

Pure coincidence that both schools are hoping for a 2025 completion date?

We are in May. Isn't it a bit early?

Scott has been underwhelming. I have no idea why he couldn't immediately recruit for a struggling team. I mean, it's not like there was a pandemic going on which kept the coaches from visiting players and players visiting the school or anything like that. Anyone holding that against him is being really unrealistic.

Virtually impossible to enforce. Alabama will never get investigated, while USF will get sanctioned.

I agree red state has nothing to do with this. 95% of college football players are not in it for the money. Most of them know they will never get to the NFL, and are happy to play. There is not alternative for the star players, so they are making their money. This is capitalism, and we are a capitalist society. So I see no use in blaming the players. The problem is that the NFL and the NBA to a lesser degree don't want a farm system, so that leaves kids with nowhere else to go if they have NFL talent. College baseball only has kids that aren't good enough yet to turn pro or really want to go to college, so that works the way it should. Same with most other sports. Kids should be going to a university to get an education, and many things like sports can be part of that experience. But selling yourself to the highest bidder shouldn't be. Brad and I don't always agree, but it happens once in a while. Don't pay players! And get off my lawn!

The answer is both. We can now dispense of any pretense that college sports (at least at the D1 level) is about amateur sports. Sports teams will merely represent a university wearing colors and logos, but these aren't students in the classical sense. At this point, I don't even care if they attend the university. Club sports are now the classic school sports teams, NCAA is huge business with paid athletes. Let's just be real and stop pretending. Go Bulls!

Isn't Bob Shoop reversed Poohs Bob? Hey, take that to the Mad Cow!

To play the other side of the coin. CCS guys should be JRs and SRs this year and dominate at least the 1st string. The two deep is loaded with young players and transfers brought in by CJS. Just look at that defense. Things should turn positive this year, but you need a lot of guys in the system for two, three four years to have real success. We aren't really there yet this year. Should start next year if things are more stable.

She taught English at Hillsborough High for many years. And is also a published author.

LOL. We actually figured out a weird scenario where if someone saved the file before everyone had played their games that week, the league file would crash. May not have been exactly it, but something like that. Knew someone in a position to do something about it, and passed it along. But then they shut down the game before they fixed the bug. Life is weird.

Did that with a group from work. We would pick a conference each of us drafting a team to start. Then we would play three seasons, or five, I don't remember. Something like two or three games per week until we got tired. Head to head games had to be live. One guy would spend hours on the playbook, then substituting the optimum players for each play. Then a glitch would blow up the league file and he would get all upset. LOL

You two have it covered? Awesome! I'll save my money for the season ticket deposits.

More like $290mil from what I understand. But the reality is that there will no doubt be financing involved. So we really don't need all of it from donations. Not sure how much is needed in donations to be enough to get it going, though.

Will your $5mil donation be announced soon?

On top of the Morsani $5M This might belong in another thread, but seemed worthy to highlight.

Returns next year! I am hoping it looks and plays more like the NCAA instead of Madden. NCAA always seemed more realistic to me.

I built them into national champion contenders several times in NCAA Football 14.