PFHokie

criticism). She's great at managing her team on the court and knowing who needs to be out there.

Staines-on-the-Thames. A very entendre considering it's Ali G.

A dead ball. Daley made the shot and it should have counted. It left VT with 5 seconds to make a play. That's not a lot of time to call a set play.

Weaver had very thin skin and that's no way to be a leader. Seth was abrasive and Weaver couldn't handle that. I think that it's one of those things when you have a guy like Weaver who was very old school. He didn't feel respected. Seth didn't handle the situation very well either. There was an incident in which Seth's wife kind of got involved in a public place and I think that might have been the last straw for Weaver. Seth is doing great. Might have been the best thing for him.

We need to keep her as long as possible. That was a tight game. Everyone sharing the ball and finding the open shooter.

Her timing is great.

She does a lot on the floor that doesn’t show on stat sheet.

Too much money involved and the judiciary has issues with too much money being in 1 or 2 places. That’s just a fact. It will end up being the Big X and the SEC versus everyone else.

There are a lot of things that can happen in two years. No one is sitting around and doing nothing.

This question is rhetorical.

What do you get back? Winning football games? These guys have most of their investments tied up in potential. Gas and Petroleum has been a profitable business for over 100 years. These guys have so much money and their profits are so high, they got money to throw away.

I think they are frozen by the lawsuit. The only conference that would take them at the moment is the Big X12. Neither is interested in that.

I would think at this time, I would go with Petroleum versus Silicon Valley. The reason why is that we know that there is going to be a huge demand for oil and gas but we don't know that about high tech. High tech has fallen on it's face a couple of times in the last 30 years. I don't trust the Googles, Metas, Microsofts of the world. A lot of the wealth that comes from that sector is based on speculation and not on actually results.

Dude doesn't have a clue and this whole thing is about money, not academics.

Now, I think SMU is a great addition for expansion. That school has beaucoup money and can be powerful. SMU in their heyday owned a tremendous amount of prestige in Texas. I came from the area and people in Texas wanted an alternative to UT and A&M. TCU, Houston and Texas Tech just haven't been able to move the needle. If the ponies are going to ride then there's a lot of people who will jump on. Cal and Stanford just don't fit and I think they will look for the first way out if another western conference becomes viable.

They have no idea what is going on and neither do the mainstream college football analysts. They speculate as much as the goobers do. Here are the main factors regarding the ACC: 1) The SEC and Big X are not touching FSU or Clemson while the lawsuit is in place. Otherwise, they become a party to that case. 2) The SEC and Big X want to hold tight right now. They want to see how their expansions look when negotiating TV contracts. 3) I don't think that anyone really wants to join the Big XII. They will not see huge TV money and the money is diluted with the number of teams. 4) The TV money is getting more scarce. ESPN is over committed and is looking for strategies to right size the amount of money they are paying. I'm not saying that they won't get big money but I could see them move to a more personalized TV subscription service instead of their one size fits all. 5) If the SEC and Big X continue to expand, I see a huge anti-trust lawsuit and or politicians getting involved. 6) I still see an eventual Premier League type of system with 72 teams and relegation. I giggle when people say that academics play an important role in future decisions. Come on...

I could see a +10 jump but +20 is absurd.

What makes me the angriest is the lack of integrity shown by FSU and Clemson. It feeds into what has become the elasticity of tort laws in this country. We have become a society where if you aren’t happy about something then you can just sue to get out of the situation. I’m not talking about a consumer, I’m talking about large corporate like entities with billions of dollars. They signed the deal. They need to shut up and live by their word. Weasels.

** Edited by PFHokie at 7/20/2024, 9:53:45 AM

A particular region is going to have more interest in a regional game. There are only about 4 teams that can pull viewers away from those matchups. You have to have some bows to equity or what other format you put together will end up in the courts.

I’ve been thinking about the best way forward in the future college football play arena. Here’s what I think we’ll see going forward: 1). Split football from the rest of college sports. Let’s face it, VT swimming versus Kansas swimming is just not worth the travel expenses. Some sports need to be some what regional. I don’t know about basketball. I would need to think about that. 2). Consider lumping all the P5, some G2 and independents into one big league. Then, organize regional divisions. The number of teams and divisions can get sorted out. 3). So, organize it into 9 team divisions. Everybody plays everyone else in division (8 games). Then play 6 out of division games. How to determine which 6 out of division games. I know determination of an equitable out of conference schedule will be difficult but not impossible. It’s being done this year with the national championship playoff tournament. 4). Win your division and move up into a super regional playoff. Move forward until there’s a top 8. That’s your championship playoff. 5). You have to have relegation because not allowing the other schools a chance is going to create an inequity and it becomes an antitrust issue. 6). Each last place team (based on some sort of point calculation), would play an extra relegation game against a non premier regional opponent. Determining a non premier opponent would be difficult but it should start with a point system and then move to a last 3 year average point system so that one bad year by a good team doesn’t get you relegated. I think this is somewhat equitable and keeps some regional flavor. There are a couple of things to figure out like determining the non divisional schedule and various point systems or maybe regional committees for relegation decisions. Let me know what you think. I know this is the Euro futball model but it does have it’s merits.

Not that it means a thing. I think it’s a toss up between the following: 1). Stay where we are and let the legal situation drag on for years. Clemson and F$U won’t be able to do anything as long as the ACC’s lawsuit is in tact. 2). Break away with the six other programs and join the Big XII. Honestly, I don’t see a huge upside in doing this. There will be like 18 schools splitting revenue. It would be non regional and I don’t see much of a huge demand. I think we stand pat for now. Hard to imagine that the Big 12 is the end game.