Economics_Nerd82

Mark Snyder: http://www.cfbdatawa...hp?coachid=3790 Willie Taggart: http://www.cfbdatawa...hp?coachid=6512 Mario Cristobal: http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=4228 Houston Nutt: http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=1765

How would I-AA talent translate to "BCS"?

Tony Dungy's name gets throw around a lot... Aren't his kids old enough yet that he can come back to coaching?

What kind of salary range are we looking at for a new coach? Should DW wait to see what kind of TV money the conference gets first?

Interesting website with record, contract information http://www.coacheshotseat.com/CoachesHotSeatRanking.htm

Any chance Greg Schiano wants to pull out of the NFL?

Instead of 100 threads about wishful coaches, lets have 1 thread for it all. Lets keep the official thread for hard facts and news reports and this thread about wishes and dreams.

http://www.testudotimes.com/2012/11/30/3710478/crazy-probably-false-realignment-rumor-41235321-georgia-tech-heading

Theres no way they get GOR voted out. It would strictly benefit Texas (Texas Tech) and Oklahoma (Okl State). Thats likely at most 4 votes. There is no reason for any of the others to vote for that (especially since most of them might be left on the outside looking in). Unless we start talking Mega-Mega conferences going to 20-24 teams, then I don't see that happening. Maybe after GOR like you said, but I would almost wager my car on the fact that they won't get the GOR reduced or repealed. Is it a majority vote or a super majority vote?

I'm sure like everything else, a lawsuit or two (or 100) can start to whittle away at the power of a GOR

You are under no obligation to disclose everything you are told... but, you are always eager to tell us what you know but yet you never mentioned Syracuse until now... EDIT: unless I missed it some where

If someone wanted to give information and hide their identity they would just tell a reporter off the record.

Not going to say he doesn't have connections or anything, but it looks like that guy just setup his twitter account. Shady? I'll let everyone decide that for himself.

He is saying Kansas, Syracuse, and ND are the new rumors/speculation to the Big 10.

I have lived in both cities. USF is more popular in Tampa than UCF in Orlando. Even when Dante Culpepper was playing there there wasn't a buzz about them.

Don't forget about the armed forces network. lol

This is a dated article, but it outlines a lot of the money, tiers, rights, etc. http://espn.go.com/b.../post/_/id/705/

I think the biggest wall college football may run into is that they are ultimately going to lose a lot of fans. All the fans of the schools that are about to get completely ostracized are either going to grow more and more disinterested in the sport or change who they root for. I for one will never root for UF, FSU, or Miami. I definitely wont go to any of their road games or bowl match ups. Ratings overall may spike for a few years, but as the fans on the outside grow more aware that they went from having a small chance to do something to having no chance I think they popularity may dwindle. I agree. Always disliked all 3. It isn't necessarily USF/UCF/FAU/FIU fans becoming UF/FSU/UM fans. It's future 'fans' who are growing up currently. Sure, they may go to USF in 5-10 years, but they'll be fans of those other schools.

Why would the Big 12 go to 14 though? If they had their own network I would understand, but NC State (regional appeal at best) and a sanctioned Miami (with dwindling national appeal) isn't going to push the needle that much on a Tier 1, Tier 2 deal. Taking FSU and Clemson is good enough to definitively knock the ACC well below the Big 12, and good enough to get the championship game and renegotiate their contract with two "national" teams added. Just my two cents though. Why is Clemson national and NC State regional? I would say they're both regional.

Academics has nothing to do with who the Big East is adding. I think they are looking at Market size, fan base, and potential to grow (massive undergrad enrollment See UCF and Houston). Oh, I know that. I guess I was asking does the Big East see that as a benefit?

Wouldn't Navy also bring in the Baltimore TV market? Or is that one in the same as Washington, DC? Same, they cover both markets. I love Annapolis, it is an amazing place. Is that like saying Tampa-St Petersburg? Or do they have seperate cable providers? I ask because if 1 school can bring 2 distinct markets, that is a windfall for the Big East.

Also, the Big 10 loves AAU schools. Is there a benefit to that? Or is that just another preference? We lost Pitt and gained Tulane. I would presume this isn't factoring in at all since we picked Houston over Rice.

Isn't GA a little out of the way for the Big 10? I thought they wanted contiguous states? Even if they add Virginina.

Wouldn't Navy also bring in the Baltimore TV market? Or is that one in the same as Washington, DC?

If these super conferences expand their in-conference games and start playing the "lesser" left out competition in the little conferences, I can imagine this having massive atheltic budget implications for I-AA schools who depend on those pay day games. Not to mention the left out teams that have higher operational budgets for stadiums and the like who will feel a crunch. It won't matter Econ_Nerd. It's all about selling games and not sharing the pie. Once the conferences go to 16 (if they go), there won't be a need for 1-AA games. It will be about ratings and having two 'brands' play one another. A 1-AA team is not a 'brand'. Furthermore, I think it will get to the point that scheduling a 1-AA team will be poison to your SOS and therefore, no one will dare play a 'lesser' school. I think this is about ESPN and Fox having something akin to the NFL where 'every game matters' and every game can be hyped. I agree. But, what I am saying is that those athletic teams that before relied on those pay day games for their funding will suffer.