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Have you heard of Dwile Flonking, maybe this should in the next Olympics?
WB: Thoughts on SMU over 'Bama?
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anonymoose
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Alabama did not schedule anyone hard in nonconference this year.
As usual.
The most over rated team of all is the joke called the Texas Longhorns. Squeaked by Vandy and lost twice to the only big dog they had scheduled in SEC play. No Vols, No Ol' Miss. No Bama. No LSU. No Gamecocks. Unimpressive against the hogs.
And they complain about Indiana.
Texas won't be around long.
In fact I'm laying down on the money line they won't survive Clemson
And they complain about Indiana.
Texas won't be around long.
In fact I'm laying down on the money line they won't survive Clemson
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They will not defeat Clemson. Mark my words
ExpressLane
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All kids that play sports for college should receive the exact same stipend. Getting a free education and $$2,000 a month should be enough. Don't like it? Then go dig ditches for a living.
True, but as I said before it has, or at least will, moved beyond the educational base that feeds it, no longer school’s teams, but professional teams playing with an institution’s name, hired by the school if you like. Within time that reality will be understood and you’ll know it when the NFL starts scheduling games directly in competition on Saturdays.
Clemson won’t compete, one and out, deposit bet, they also didn’t play the tougher teams in their own league
cawacko
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These kids are almost free agents every year now. It's like an annual negotiation with your school or you go to the portal. People call that player empowerment and a progressive model going forward.
Not sure the benefit of the NFL spreading themselves thinner to compete with college football (by scheduling games at the same time). What's the benefit to them? It's their feeder system, why would they want to put them out of business?
But has nothing to do with the institution, only matter of time before the schools decide it is tarnishing their purpose
And the NFL has money to gain, if the complete they will win, the major TV markets aren’t going to tune in Alabama v Mississippi and such if major NFL teams are playing
cawacko
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Why are they trying to compete with college ball? How is that their competition? That doesn't make any sense. What is their benefit to putting them out of business?
I wouldn’t say trying at the moment, but as college becomes more professional, less identified as amateur, why wouldn’t the NFL look to capture their audience? NFL plays three days a week now, and they are never going to be overexposed, so what would stop them from expanding their coverage if there is money to be made?
As far as feeder leagues, sure that is college’s purpose for the NFL now, but just like the NBA and MLB, they could adopt a similar model without being restricted by rules and regulations
cawacko
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I have never heard anyone suggest the NFL should or would do this. Looking it up, I understand why now - The Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961. It doesn't allow them to play on Friday nights or on Saturday during the college season.
So unless you're aware of some movement to have this legislation over turned, it's not something that is going to happen.
Interesting, but they have, Black Friday games, foot in the door, and it is undecided if games played overseas fall under the law
Not saying this going to happen any time soon, but if events transpire as I believe, and college football evolves into one super league of say twenty teams, it is a whole new ballgame with different rules. At that time the NFL isn’t going to sit on the sidelines with the dollars involved
cawacko
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Why The NFL Is Playing Its First Friday Opening Week Game Since 1970
The Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers will play the NFL's first Friday opening week game since 1970. It is also the league's first game in Brazil.
www.forbes.com
Can the NFL schedule games for any night of the week?
As I said, not now, but sure seems like they are preying on the perimeter, just twenty years ago a Thursday, any Friday game, or NFL games coming from overseas would have been unheard ofWhy The NFL Is Playing Its First Friday Opening Week Game Since 1970
The Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers will play the NFL's first Friday opening week game since 1970. It is also the league's first game in Brazil.
Can the NFL schedule games for any night of the week?
Still say, it is only a matter of time, that Sports Broadcasting Act, six decades old, could face the same fate as the Fairness Doctrine, Glass Steagall, and scores of other limitations that raised hurdles for powerful entities in making money
Wait till private equity gets involved via novel options (https://www.espn.com/college-sports...-kendrick-perkins-consumer-protection-experts), doubtful the schools will have any control