BCS 2013-14: This space for rent

[RaceBoarder]

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Can anyone give an example of a cartel that does good things? Selling drugs and manipulating oil prices do not qualify.

Hookers & Blow! What more could you want

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For those not following the O'Bannon trial, it's awesome so far. It is a bench trial and the presiding judge does not follow athletics at all, so she is asking the NCAA witnesses all kinds of questions. She hasn't suffered through the NCAA propaganda year after year, so she is having a really difficult time understanding why, for example, Nike can pay a coach millions of dollars for a shoe deal but none of that money goes to the players.

Today was a monumental day. The NCAA's own expert witness (who is being paid a huge sum in "consulting fees") called the NCAA a cartel, but a cartel that does "good things" not bad. Can anyone give an example of a cartel that does good things? Selling drugs and manipulating oil prices do not qualify.

[MavHockey14]

Meet Chuck Martin.

MavNation!

[bigmrg74]

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Meet Chuck Martin.

[Spartanforlife4]

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Big Ten announces football championship will stay in Indy through 2021.

Indy seems like a good venue, but I would like to see them take five years off at some point and hit up the other stadiums in Big Ten country. Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, GB, Minneapolis. Maybe alternate so Indy gets it five years and the other cities once. But they would probably want to limit it to indoor stadiums, which means Indy, Detroit and Minneapolis are the only options. However I just realized that Big Ten country now includes Philly, Fed Ex, and the Meadowlands. So never mind, keep it in Indy.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Alabama series was cancelled not because Alabama was worried about a nine game schedule, but because Alabama wanted to play in Tuscaloosa and then a neutral site, rather than East Lansing

I'm hardly an MSU fan, but this just confirms my wish that Saban and Alabama get slapped with NCAA violations so harsh, it sends the program into another 15-20 year dormancy and makes Saban unemployable.

[Slap Shot]

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It's nice to see that big gold chains are still in style.

[French Rage]

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http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...with-crab-legs

Apparently the way to defend against Jameis next year will be to disguise your defense as grocery store aisles and he will get easily lost.

[bigmrg74]

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Alabama series was cancelled not because Alabama was worried about a nine game schedule, but because Alabama wanted to play in Tuscaloosa and then a neutral site, rather than East Lansing

And some how I get the feeling that Alabama wasn't exactly jumping at MSU's suggestion of Ford Field was they??

[French Rage]

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Kinda funny how the asking price for cupcakes has gone up... It does beg the question: "Where is the limit to that?" I mean, what happens if the lower level BCS schools figure out that they can start asking for $2 million or more? Where does it end?

I like it. "What's an undefeated regular season really worth to you?"

[RaceBoarder]

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Alabama series was cancelled not because Alabama was worried about a nine game schedule, but because Alabama wanted to play in Tuscaloosa and then a neutral site, rather than East Lansing

Kinda funny how the asking price for cupcakes has gone up... It does beg the question: "Where is the limit to that?" I mean, what happens if the lower level BCS schools figure out that they can start asking for $2 million or more? Where does it end?

[French Rage]

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Alabama series was cancelled not because Alabama was worried about a nine game schedule, but because Alabama wanted to play in Tuscaloosa and then a neutral site, rather than East Lansing

Godammit what a ****ing bunch of *****s.

[Spartanforlife4]

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Alabama series was cancelled not because Alabama was worried about a nine game schedule, but because Alabama wanted to play in Tuscaloosa and then a neutral site, rather than East Lansing

[Bob Gray]

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I note that LSU gets no credit for adding ASU...

There were some unique dynamics at work there, as there's the history of moving the LSU-ASU game to Tempe after Katrina devastated Louisiana back close to a decade ago, with all game proceeds going to hurricane relief.. The home-and-home had been scheduled for I think 2015 and 2016, but LSU had asked to get out of that series. It's a little surprising that it took this long to nail down the new home and home. I hope it doesn't get cancelled again, given how far off it is now.

[Spartanforlife4]

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According to a text to a reporter from the AD Hollis, Michigan State is also close to locking up a neutral site game in 2023 and a home and home in 2025 and 2026 with Notre Dame. Some of the kids playing in those games are in kindergarten today if you would like to feel old.