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Hey nav, pretty cool.
I’m an avid skier so over the years I’ve become more interested in reading about all the effects that create the snow storms out West. I think I’ve even learned a little along the way. What’s most fascinating — beyond the science itself — is how varied all the different models can be, and how few “experts” end up getting it right.
If I had it to do over, I’d have majored in something to make me qualified to study avalanches in the winter and chase tornadoes in the spring.
Cow, no special insights. I remember hearing or reading a comment Doeren made about his scheduling philosophy. It could be Deb or a combination of factors. Either way, it’s the season ticket holders who suffer.
Better get used to this type of scheduling, it seems to be Doeren’s preference.
I imagine Presby will be optional for season tix holders like Richmond was last year.
I imagine this is a precursor to eliminating divisions. Especially considering after last week’s NCAA meetings it looks like the Power 5 will have more autonomy to dictate its own championship structure.
This is good business for the league and adds intrigue for the fans. It will certainly eliminate the problem of a 75% capacity crowd at C-F (or 50% capacity at Kenan) against a non-rival on a travel weekend.
The NASCAR model is a good comparison.
NASCAR knew it could expand its audience into new markets because its core fan base wouldn’t stop watching just because they stopped racing at North Wilkesboro. They also realized even back then that TV matters more than race day attendance.
It’s been the same with Swofford’s new ACC.
Some of you guy’s may remember that there was a faculty movement years ago that wanted NC State to be the “MIT of the South”…. And some of you may know that the same crowd had a whole lot to do with the dismantling of our athletic program in 1990.
Well… today it looks like “the other part of their dream” might come true…
At times it hasn’t seemed too far from both parts becoming true.
It precedes the 2003 expansion by a full decade.
It traces back to the early 90’s when the old Southwest started its death spiral and the independents started looking for a home with old Bowl Coalition ties.
Arkansas left the SWC for the SEC. Independents like South Carolina, Florida State, Miami, Penn State and Virginia Tech (among others) found conferences.
The ACC, B1G and SEC each expanded — the SEC tested out a (near-catastrophic inaugural) championship game. The Big Eight absorbed part of a dying SWC to form the Big XII. The Big East (until then a basketball-ony league) added football-playing members.
Then they all sat down with Notre Dame and negotiated the Bowl Alliance and then the BCS.
Then they negotiated TV deals and had to streamline to reconsolidste their power, which required once-partners to raid each other.
It was inevitable the moment the SEC and Big XII showed the financial success of the championship games.
And I don’t think it’s over.
It’s a difference between salary and compensation.
Their salary may be zero but their compensation is far from it.
^The 3-year rule for baseball is a MLB rule, not an NCAA rule; same as the NFL. The NBA would have to dictate that rule, not the NCAA.
To this day, I can still imagine the voices of Ernie, Skip, Pete and Don on TBS broadcasts. You got to hear them all every game because they swapped radio/TV after the sixth inning each game.
The voting is so subjective that there’s a variety of asinine reasons to snub a deserving player. The same folks who didn’t vote for Biggio are probably the same morons who argued Trout deserved MVP over Miggie because Trout’s WAR was higher.
Ken Gurnick admitted he didn’t vote for Maddux because he doesn’t vote for anyone who played during the PED era. Disregard the notion that Maddux ever sniffed a PED, based on Gurnick’s previous voting his logic is inconsistent at best.
I’m not sure billionaire owners in Texas are the football authorities they all think they are.
Clearly Texas couldn’t get any of its top choices (Saban, Gruden, Fisher), as McCombs proclaims. So, it’s at least plausible to suggest that all these supposedly top jobs — USC, Texas, Penn State — aren’t getting their top choices because of the millionaire donors they’d have to deal with.
Nothing says ACC battle like playing a team closer to the Lake Michigan shoreline than we are to the Atlantic coastline.
I think it serves as a perfect example of why so many folks thought Saban would go to Texas: he seems more geared for building than maintenance.
• Implicit racism colors this entire episode. One of the most horrifying aspects of the exploitation of high-level college athletes, especially football and basketball players, is the vastly disproportionate impact on African American “students.” Too many black athletes with unrealistic dreams of NBA or NFL stardom arrive on campus unprepared academically and are allowed to depart with little meaningful classroom education. Walter Byers, the first executive director of the NCAA and now a critic of its practices, has described the “plantation mentality resurrected and blessed by today’s campus executives”—painful words, carefully chosen. Would UNC have tolerated the thorough undermining of an entire academic department other than Afro-American studies? Hard to picture. Could Nyang’oro and those who presumably aided and abetted him have come up with course titles any more likely to please skeptics of black-oriented scholarship?
This is the part no one in the mainstream media will touch. It’s toxic to even suggest it. The Carolina Way has effectively promoted a system of fraud that keeps dozens of young (mostly black) athletes — moneymakers — eligible while effectively ensuring they lack the basic education skills to ever be employable if they don’t succeed as professional athletes.
Pretty funny, Dan Kane on Twitter taking a shot at the NYT for putting the story he broke two years ago on its front page yesterday.
