Especially when you consider the two coaches that are right behind Kirby in salary.

Dabo Swinney: requires a QB that’ll be drafted in the top 12.

Lincoln Riley: has never even won a playoff game.

At one point I thought Dabo might be Sabans replacement. Now it looks like Dabo can't build a team. He is more of a single star player coach and when that player is gone the program falls apart.

Go Dawgs!!

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https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/40071715/ncaa-pay-more-27b-settle-nil-antitrust-suit-sources-say

Strange to see Bama not in the top 3 to win the SEC.

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Bill Self said today that the Big 12 is officially moving to 20 league games.

Keep in mind the Big 12 meetings were in Arizona last week, so this was likely confirmed there.

Michael Swain  (@MSwain247) May 6, 2024

Wrong thread?

Don't think 20 teams will only be basketball. Unless there are 4 basketball only skools around?

Big 12 is moving from 18 conference basketball games to 20 conference basketball games.   20 games not skools schools.  Unless I'm missing something.

Maybe I'm missing something

And skools is how I meant to spell it

Go Ducks!

Meh...games/teams, schools/skools.

They ain't here to play school

For a lot NIL will be the best job they ever have

Geez that confused me for a split second seeing Oregon in a Big 10 Championship odds maker list.

"DUUUUH! they're in the Big 10 now!"

He built his NC teams.  Losing really good coordinators and assistants is what hurt him.

They’re here to be the NFL’s minor league.  NCAA bought in, conferences bought in and now the universities have bought in.  The goose got squeezed too hard by too many wanting more golden eggs.

utah and k state probably have the 2 best coaches in that conference.

California and Stanford in the ACC.  

If Gundy can find his mojo he could do quite well in the new Big 12

SMU too (and for no TV revenue), and they have better odds to win than either of the pac 12 additions

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That’s an interesting way to lose your job

and get smacked down in the courts...

That's one approach I didn't see coming.....

Can they restrict that?  NIL isn't supposed to be under university control lol

I don’t think he can restrict it.  It’s unfortunately not going to get him top recruits, either.  These 18 year old boys have been pumped up by espn that they deserve lots of money and they need it immediately.  ESPN loves the drama and story potential this is creating.

Not sure how much NIL money potatoes can provide anyway.  G5 schools are gonna struggle against the piles of P4 cash

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He’s right.

TCU is less than 18 months removed from the biggest blowout in the history of bowl games, which also happened to be the biggest game TCU has ever played, and TCU’s HC is firing strays at La Tech “not playing the same sport” as an SEC powerhouse.

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Pot meet kettle.

I’m not sure what one has to do with the other.

Dykes is correct. He’a not denigrating LaTech, he’s pointing out a reality.


Of course, it has been this way for decades… the money is just (more) public now.

Of course it’s a reality.  The comment however resulted in La Tech catching strays for “not playing the same sport” as an SEC powerhouse and the comment was made by the coach of a team who was the victim of the grandest example of a team “not playing the same sport” as an SEC powerhouse and it happened less than 18 months ago.

Wonder what the score woulda been if La Tech had played UGA in the championship game?

With the exception of the blown coverage (that resulted in TCU scoring their only points of the game), Georgia played a pretty much perfect football game, but TCU also appeared woefully unprepared and collectively looked like a deer in the headlights.  I doubt La Tech would have done worse than a 58 point defeat.

All too true, but La Tech might have had to shut down their program for a few years to rebuild their literally broken roster after that.  They went 3-9 that year BTW.  TCU most likely made it to that game because they planned around Michigans sign stealing techniques, which worked well in the first half.  

Really fun part of the TCU/LA Tech is that HCs are both former players and/or coaches under Leach.  Sonny Cumbie is La Tech HC

And here are the programs that have increased their "outstanding athletics debt" the most over the last 6 years (Amount of new debt; public schools only):

SDSU  $308M
Penn St  $114M
Arizona St  $103M
Ohio St  $96M
Florida  $69M
Auburn  $68M
Georgia Tech  $62M
So. Alabama  $59M… https://t.co/KN8XUxJ3Eq pic.twitter.com/nhI5fMyd3i

Jeff Fuller  (@jjfuller72) May 6, 2024

Outstanding Athletics Debt 2022-23 (All FBS public schools per Sportico)
1📷California$439,363,996
2📷Arizona State$312,890,623
3📷San Diego State$308,480,551
4📷Ohio State$300,826,274
5📷Illinois$291,882,647
6📷Georgia Tech$285,200,253
7📷Texas A&M$269,163,500
8📷Michigan$250,581,000
9📷Washington$244,444,707
10📷Iowa$235,125,162
11📷Alabama$226,784,979
12📷Colorado State$225,120,000
13📷Texas$209,659,000
14📷Minnesota$197,418,303
15📷Cincinnati$196,685,884
16📷Oklahoma$186,567,840
17📷Colorado$186,270,597
18📷LSU$180,255,092
19📷Clemson$176,885,000
20📷Oregon$173,897,163
21📷Penn State$172,556,298
22📷South Carolina$164,250,000
23📷Auburn$159,705,459
24📷Arkansas$154,614,645
25📷Florida$150,120,000
26📷Washington State$145,650,998
27📷West Virginia$144,545,532
28📷Ole Miss$136,570,358
29📷Georgia$136,374,597
30📷Purdue$130,784,572
31📷Tennessee$129,425,869
32📷Missouri$128,447,827
33📷Florida State$127,910,900
34📷Arizona$124,545,000
35📷Houston$115,938,485
36📷Iowa State$114,262,531
37📷UCLA$113,068,503
38📷North Carolina$108,214,904
39📷James Madison$106,383,912
40📷Indiana$103,424,579
41📷Kansas State$102,701,566
42📷Mississippi State$101,922,458
43📷Wisconsin$101,421,914
44📷Utah$101,205,305
45📷Louisville$97,537,950
46📷Virginia Tech$94,668,000
47📷Kentucky$89,417,658
48📷South Alabama$76,043,483
49📷App State$73,848,664
50📷North Texas$73,649,908
51📷Oklahoma State$70,981,333
52📷East Carolina$70,056,146
53📷Michigan State$68,685,154
54📷Troy$63,000,116
55📷Old Dominion$62,121,361
56📷Texas Tech$59,395,539
57📷Connecticut$58,797,445
58📷Western Kentucky$58,278,750
59📷Oregon State$58,094,180
60📷Rutgers$53,865,000
61📷Akron$50,067,332
62📷Texas State$49,936,741
63📷Massachusetts$48,338,923
64📷UCF$47,105,065
65📷Utah State$44,499,045
66📷Nebraska$40,868,156
67📷FAU$36,991,063
68📷Fresno State$34,612,794
69📷South Florida$32,690,723
70📷Boise State$32,641,900
71📷NC State$32,419,789
72📷Kansas$31,908,884
73📷Charlotte$28,635,000
74📷Louisiana, Lafayette$26,407,275
75📷Toledo$25,333,242
76📷Virginia$24,939,741
77📷UTEP$21,627,000
78📷Coastal Carolina$20,495,993
79📷Georgia Southern$19,782,587
80📷Southern Mississippi$18,271,458
81📷UNLV$14,409,982
82📷UAB$13,290,000
83📷New Mexico$12,995,803
84📷Western Michigan$10,234,725
85📷Maryland$9,811,366
86📷Nevada$9,173,000
87📷Marshall$7,925,157
88📷Central Michigan$7,377,669
89📷Louisiana Tech$6,815,000
90📷Memphis$6,533,567
91📷Air Force$5,809,775
92📷Middle Tennessee$5,565,762
93📷Miami (Ohio)$4,122,717
94📷Eastern Michigan$4,002,089
95📷UTSA$3,355,594
96📷Louisiana, Monroe$2,814,826
97📷Hawaii$2,034,395
98📷Kent State$1,578,479
99📷Ohio$1,228,588
100📷FIU$21,090
101📷Wyoming$0
102📷Buffalo$0
103📷New Mexico State$0
104📷Arkansas State$0
105📷Ball State$0
106📷Bowling Green$0
107📷San Jose State$0
108📷Georgia State$0
109📷Northern Illinois$0
Total$9,896,661,765
Average$90,795,062

It essentially is an arms race, and has been for quite some time.

Shocking how much debt some of the schools have, especially for their on field results ...

Not True.

UGA blew out FSU 63-3 to beat their own record of UGA blowing out TCU 65-7.

It’s the second biggest blowout!

South Alabama is an outlier on that list since it’s a relatively new football program.

Extremely interested to see how the PAC-12 teams moving to the B1G handle their transition. Particularly how they hold up to the physicality over the course of the season.

It’s one thing to square up against a B1G team in a bowl game. It’s another to play a schedule that goes Ohio State, Wisconsin, Michigan, Penn State, Michigan State, Iowa when you’re used to a schedule that goes Arizona, Arizona State, USC, UCLA, Stanford, Oregon State.

I have a personal theory but time will tell.

Tip of the cap to National Champion Michigan Wolverines. All this * talk is what it is. But the playoff ensured that they won it on the field & having watched all of the playoff games, there is no doubt that Michigan was the best team. They were a veteran, disciplined, physical, extremely well coached & deep squad. No * from this Buckeye.