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If you're an Ole Miss football fan, you know the drill by now. Fresh Taylor Swift music, like the album that dropped Thursday, means fresh Lane Kiffin content.
The Ole Miss Athletics official account on X, formerly Twitter, posted a parody back cover for Swift's album "The Tortured Poets Department." ...
...It checks most of Kiffin's usual boxes, saying goodbye to the retiring Nick Saban, highlighting the transfer portal, shouting out his dog, Juice, and throwing shade at Mississippi State.
There are a couple of fun surprises, too. Australian punter Fraser Masin got a reference. So did Lane Kiffin's launched clipboard from a 2020 win over South Carolina.
The players know that Coach Time was just building the team as a vehicle to showcase his own kids.Skinypupy wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 11:50 am Both Deion and Shedeur Sanders have been going after players who transferred out of the program on social media.
I cannot stand the entire Sanders clan and hope CU goes 0-12 this year.
I don’t think that will make it easier to get players to transfer in.Skinypupy wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 11:50 am Both Deion and Shedeur Sanders have been going after players who transferred out of the program on social media.
I cannot stand the entire Sanders clan and hope CU goes 0-12 this year.
I'm becoming more and more convinced that's the only reason he is there. It would not surprise me one bit if he simply bails after his kids are done this year.LordMortis wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 12:31 pm Am I reading that subtext correctly? Coach Sanders is basically saying "screw this program I'm in charge of, as long as my son is a star, that's the only thing that matters."
Get ready for more bowl games, not less, as college administrators continue to push for more postseason access in all sports.
That's what Bowl Season director Nick Carparelli believes is next after the College Football Playoff expands from four to 12 teams this fall -- and potentially 14 in 2026. Why? Expansion is the hot trend in all corners of college athletics, and the NCAA transformation committee has made it clear more postseason opportunities are desired in all sports.
"When I speak with head football coaches and athletic directors and conference commissioners, it's very encouraging. You know, I think it's more likely we add bowl games than subtract bowl games," Carparelli told 247Sports
I assume NIL money?
The incident he was sued for occurred when he was 15. He probably was 18 when he started getting the NIL money.
IN this case, it's because his Dad (responsible) is rich.
I can’t wait to play in the “Tostitos XII” conference.The Big 12 is exploring selling its naming rights to a title sponsor, with potential revenue of hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of the deal, sources told ESPN on Thursday.
The commercial sponsor would potentially take the name "Big" out of Big 12 and replace it with the sponsor's name. It could end up as one of the largest commercial deals in collegiate athletics history, not including media rights.
The Big Dick's Conference is begging to happen!Skinypupy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2024 2:18 pm L-O-fucking-L
I can’t wait to play in the “Tostitos XII” conference.The Big 12 is exploring selling its naming rights to a title sponsor, with potential revenue of hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of the deal, sources told ESPN on Thursday.
The commercial sponsor would potentially take the name "Big" out of Big 12 and replace it with the sponsor's name. It could end up as one of the largest commercial deals in collegiate athletics history, not including media rights.
And if they need it, the B1G and SEC will command FAR larger deals. But boy howdy is it getting tougher to be a college sports fan as it gets professionalized for money everywhere before it implodes completely when the TV money dries up and streaming doesn't make up the difference.JCC wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2024 5:04 pm The (for now) "Big 12" is trying to close the revenue gap with the Big 10 and SEC. While their new name will almost certainly be derided, it will also add to their coffers. Given their 2 marquis programs are now in the SEC, I think it's a smart move. One wonders if they will change the name in a way that they don't misrepresent the number of teams they have anymore. (Not that they are the only ones. Hello Big 10!)
Just more absurdity in the most absurd sport. (And still my favorite.)
The NFL will not be able to "consume" college football. And they would be fools to try. And I am sure they are way too smart to even want to do this. Why would they want to meddle with a league that provides almost all of their future talent, many of which come in as huge stars, before they have made a nickel from the NFL? The one weekend of the CFP "battling" with the NFL will probably be eliminated in future seasons - especially if the CFB games rate significantly worse - which is highly possible.
The NFL is fine with players sitting out bowl games, the CFP may end up with that as well.By starting the playoff earlier and ending later, college football has trespassed on NFL terrain, and the folks on Park Avenue aren’t happy.
That became clear last month, when the NFL released its schedule for the 2024 regular season and slotted two major matchups for Saturday, Dec. 21 as a counter-programming sledgehammer.
The Chiefs-Texans showdown is scheduled for 10 a.m. (Pacific) on NBC, opposite the first game of the CFP’s opening-round tripleheader.
Then comes the Steelers-Ravens collision on Fox, at the same time as the second playoff game of the day.
Those two CFP games are on TNT and will generate perfectly acceptable ratings. But the casual fans required for blowout viewership could prove elusive.
The back end of the CFP schedule avoids direct conflict with the NFL, but there’s an eight-day break before the semifinals (on Thursday and Friday) and a 10-day gap until the championship (on Monday).
There’s only so much oxygen in the media ecosystem, and the NFL undoubtedly will consume all but a fraction.
It’s bad enough for the CFP that the final weekend of the NFL regular season falls between the quarterfinals and semifinals.
Even worse: The entire NFL wild card and divisional playoff rounds unfold between the semifinals and the championship game.
How many fans will re-engage with college football on the evening of Monday, Jan. 20?
Washington and Oregon are entering the Big Ten as half-share members in the media rights bucket, with each school expected to receive roughly $30 million from the conference in 2024-25. (The half-share existence lasts through the remainder of the decade.)
That indicates a full share of media rights next year, through deals with Fox, CBS and NBC, will be worth about $60 million.
Now, let’s apply UW’s math to everyone else.
The Huskies expect $42 million from the conference, based on the presentation to the regents.
If we add the half share of media rights revenue the Huskies will not collect ($30 million) to their total revenue figure ($42 million), it suggests the schools receiving full shares — including USC and UCLA — will collect checks worth about $72 million from the conference.
That represents a 20 percent increase over the most recent distribution figure available.
Alternatively, they want to rename the Fulmer Cup to the Kirby Kup!Georgia's Smael Mondon, Bo Hughley arrested on reckless driving charges in latest traffic-related incidents
Twenty people associated with Georgia's program have been arrested since the start of 2023
It's going to ruin the experience of watching the Scooters Coffee Frisco Bowl and the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl.Scuzz wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2024 1:28 am I haven’t got used to watching MLB teams with commercial ad patches on their jerseys, and that are small. I can only imagine how ugly college jerseys will get.
So I heard a story tonight about how Oregon has an unlimited NIL budget because Knight wants to win a championship before he dies.
the Georgia coach did discuss punishment. According to Smart, players involved in off-field incidents like traffic arrests are subject to fines from the program's NIL collective.
"Our Classic City Collective for over a year has been substantially fining guys for those things," Smart told Dawgs247. "That's not something that's new. That's something that has been going on that's outside of my jurisdiction and they decided to do and implement and have done to a considerable amount. We're searching and trying to find the best ways."
Yet.ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 2:34 pm I'm not sure I have a big problem with that, assuming it's spelled out in the NIL agreements they're signing. There's a caveat in the article about employment status that is interesting from a technical perspective, but I don't think it's fundamentally unfair to the players. If an athlete agrees to an NIL contract and that contract has a mechanism for fining them for certain actions, it seems like a pretty straightforward matter. It's not like they're being fined based on performance on the field.
