@ItsABullLife4Me The highest spending/best supported have to band together.
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Ben Petersheim
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Ben Petersheim
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Historian; Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. John 17:17
Oley, PA Katılım Mart 2009
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@MountainBull27 All hypotheticals. But say the P4 invite doesnt come and our options then are:
A. Stay put in the AC
B. PAC
C. My eastern best of the rest hypothetical
D. Other
Whats your pick?
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If we get stranded in obscurity give me this much more elite version instead:
North:
UConn
James Madison
Liberty
Miami OH
Navy (fb only)
Army (fb only)
South:
USF
Tulane
Memphis
Coastal Carolina
ECU
Louisiana
Dayton (no fb)
VCU (no fb)
YouShallNotPass@OsuFoolOfATook
The PAC-12 was never built to stay down. A national brand. Historic identity. Major-market reach. Serious investment. This isn’t a Group of Five conference chasing relevance — it’s a former power rebuilding with purpose. ⚡️ The next step toward POWER. #Pac12 #PAC12Expansion #CollegeFootball #CFB #ConferenceRealignment #NCAA #CFBPlayoff #PowerConference #WashingtonState #OregonState #BoiseState #SanDiegoState #FresnoState #UtahState #Gonzaga #ColoradoState #TexasState #Tulane #Memphis #USF #UTSA #WichitaState #AmericanConference #AAC
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I’m told P4s are absolutely impossible to schedule. I’m told JMU has pulled off the modern equivalent of walking on water
JMU Football@JMUFootball
Bring on the Hoos! The Dukes will face Virginia in 2028, and have moved their game against North Carolina to 2031. Read More » tinyurl.com/uhhjf7j5 #GoDukes
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@zachmckinnell Half of Sun Belt/C-USA/MAC will be back down.
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Some interesting numbers here... The uncomfortable truth is that most of these programs (plus a few more) really belong at the FCS level, but would rather pretend to be FBS programs just to have that "FBS" label
Sam Herder@SamHerderFCS
Smallest FBS football budgets in FY25 (2024 season) Akron: $8.2M Louisiana–Monroe $9.1M Ball State $9.4M Kent State: $9.7M Sam Houston: $9.7M Kennesaw State: $10.6M Miami (OH): $11M Eastern Michigan: $11.1M LA Tech: $11.3M WKU: $11.4M
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@Genetics56 A B1G and SEC breakaway would give me Raw vs Smackdown vibes from the WWF days after they split into two networks competing separate from each other. I’m pretty sure it was all fake storyline but it was cool as a fan.
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After 3 plus years of talking about an eventual breakaway/splintering/fracturing the truth has finally come out.
I know my haters will not say I was right and the idiots who bashed me are not going to comment to apologize.
GIF
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It will eventually be AFC vs NFC between the two conferences for football playoffs. Things have to evolve between the various steps to the eventual end point.
JaredW@JaredW67913667
SEC only playoff is being brought up again. We’ll see what happens next week Could just be public negotiations, wanting a new subdivision or a breakaway in some form whether that’s leaving the NCAA which I don’t believe will happen, at least in full, or doing the conference by conference governance. One question I do have is in the hypothetical situation where the SEC did their own playoff, could they essentially buy their way out of the CFP contract early? @Genetics56 @ImmaculateView
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@JonJonnymac34 Misleading article which is noted in the article itself.
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Two things:
1. We’re SIXTH? What???? That’s a nice surprise. Would’ve thought we’d be way lower.
2. Colorado State at #1 is a complete shocker to me.
HERO Sports@HEROSportsNews
Here are the biggest football budgets for G6 schools in 2026 (some teams are to be expected, others might be surprising) herosports.com/fbs-top-25-gro…
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@pass_blind @ImmaculateView @RacketRockRoll What actually happens is WWE (Big Ten) goes even more national and crushes every other territory because of superior markets/zero regulation.
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@ImmaculateView @RacketRockRoll You know it’s never black/white when billable hours benefit & courts are involved
But this will be good for ratings. Instant production differentiation & identification. Realignment to P2 has helped, but this galvanizes P2 v P2 interest.
IMO a big brand jumps to better CBA
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The news breaking out of Georgia right now is pretty big. I dont have the time right now to fully dive into it but I will later today.
The one thing I want to get out right now is that Autonomy is not the same thing as Independence. This isn't the SEC leaving.
It is the beginning of the push to Autonomy. I have a very basic example for folks to try and help understand what that means. As I have told some others, think "designated hitter" rule in MLB. The two Leagues are still both part of the same organization, neither of them is Independent from MLB yet they have this difference between them. It is an autonomous decision.
Now with the Autonomous Conferences, they are going to approach rule making conference by conference on concepts that Anti-Trust protections would have helped them on.
More later but for now, I will once again post this below so that you can see this was already in motion. Its just that what happened in Congress now seems to be pushing this forward.
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@HMardenborough @RossDellenger @On3 Correct. Congress must get involved at this point. Issue is who is leading.
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@RossDellenger @On3 This overall issue actually very much needs Congress. But it does not need the nonsense they have been pushing. There are multiple public policy choices only Congress can make but so far they are not taking it at all seriously.
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College sports’ seven-year lobbying effort for a federal solution is down to its last gasp.
The latest flop is another reminder of Ronald Reagan’s famous quote: “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
More in our @On3 weekly sports biz column
on3.com/news/inside-th…
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@BBd0nk3y @DanWolken Progressively wrecked the NCAA. Then waged a media and legal campaign against the NCAA.
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@DanWolken “If Congress doesn’t rescue us from our own inaction and ineptitude”
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“If Congress doesn’t act as they should”
What planet do these people live on? Goodness gracious the arrogance.
Matt Hayes@MattHayesCFB
UGA president Jere Morehead with some groundbreaking public comments on state of CFB, to reporters after athletic board meeting: "If we don't get federal legislation in my opinion, we're going to have do this conference by conference because we can't allow the wild west to continue any longer. I'm prepared next week in Destin to be ready to vote on creating an SEC mechanism, SEC rules that we have to do if Congress isn't going to be act as they should. We just cannot continue down this current path, We have waited months after months for congress to act and it hasn't occurred yet."
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@theoxycleanman @BenScottStevens NCAA is aligned. The conferences are not aligned.
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@BenScottStevens We need a complete ncaa realignment. 12 regions, 2 divisions in each region, no conference championship, win the region go to the playoffs. Also salary cap
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My official stance:
I will only ever support a 24-team CFP if EVERY FBS conference champion receives a bid.
That’s access.
Pete Thamel@PeteThamel
Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti on a 24-team College Football Playoff: “Inside our league, there’s a deep commitment to 24 and the access.” He says the desire access comes from the investment programs are making.
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@JadenJankowski2 @dilanesper No need to have detailed succession plans when you can run for another term.
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@dilanesper Running for a 3rd term is the giveaway. If he was afraid no one could possibly fill his shoes, then he'd done a bad job succession planning in a time when it was one of the most important things he needed to do.
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This is the best pro-FDR thread and it isn't wrong in particulars, but I think it weighs the importance of some of his actions wrong. The 3rd and 4th terms, dealings with Stalin, and Japanese Internment are much more important than this thread argues.
Sean T at RCP@SeanTrende
Given that @jaycost and I are doing a presidential ratings podcast (among other things -- check out @aei_STpodcast!), I hate to get ahead of myself but: FDR is genuinely a God Tier president. I say this as someone libertarian-ish, so I don't really *want* to. But it's true. 1/
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@sinman_84 Reasonable debates can be had about Wilson and Versailles. I probably wouldn’t put most of the blame on Wilson either internationally or domestically even though he has his share.
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@Ben_Petersheim @JonahDispatch I'm open to the argument that he screwed up the peace with his handling of the Treaty of Versailles, but IMHO the 🇺🇸 was justified in finally entering the war in 1917.
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@sinman_84 His last two sentences are genuinely foolish positions.
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@JonahDispatch @souljagoyteller Why is Wilson blamed for the U.S. entering WWI when the declaration was passed with bipartisan majorities? Hadn't Germany provoked it with the return of unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmerman Telegram? Not to mention the bombing of Black Tom Island.
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@hulsey_ryan @RBrookhiser Doesn’t Catton focus almost solely on the Eastern Theater? Especially the Army of the Potomac? Foote gives plenty of time to the other theaters of the war outside Virginia.
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@ZaxxonGalaxian @AstorAaron Your overwhelming concern is gerrymandering; that's not my primary reason/s for expansion.
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@Ben_Petersheim @AstorAaron No, the larger house would be gerrymandered just as easily and Mike Johnson would still control what comes to the floor and what votes are taken.
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We need a Constitutional Amendment (or maybe several) that does the following:
1. Bans Presidential pardons after Election Day (and before Inauguration Day)
2. Bans partisan and racial gerrymandering
3. Bans redistricting mid-decade
4. Requires Congress to increase the House
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@ZaxxonGalaxian @AstorAaron The power in the seats and the body would be significantly different.
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@Ben_Petersheim @AstorAaron Literally nothing would change now if we had 870 representatives and it was 440-430 Republican.
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@mikenelson586 More like the Carthaginian reply to him: "whichever you prefer".
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Like Marcus Fabius Buteo before the Carthaginian Senate
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Now Trump is announcing peace and war in the same statement. It’s completely incoherent batshit lunacy.
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