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2011 College Football Part II: Bowls, The Rematch, and Recruiting >Tebow

Re: 2011 College Football Part II: Bowls, The Rematch, and Recruiting >Tebow

Lynch is going to be a first round draft pick in 2014. Assuming his mother and his girlfriend don't finish killing each other and then him.
 
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Bob Gray said:
Glad to see they're scheduling tougher games. Too bad the system in place really doesn't incentivize it, but kudos to the Irish for doing so.
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Their regular season TV money from NBC trumps anything they could get from a BCS bowl or Football Four participation, so the "system" (grab all the money you can!) does incentivize a tougher regular season schedule. The rest of the football powers get to point an laugh at Notre Dame's lack of postseason success, Notre Dame gets their $$$ - what's not to love? :D
 
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LynahFan said:
Their regular season TV money from NBC trumps anything they could get from a BCS bowl or Football Four participation, so the "system" (grab all the money you can!) does incentivize a tougher regular season schedule. The rest of the football powers get to point an laugh at Notre Dame's lack of postseason success, Notre Dame gets their $$$ - what's not to love? :D
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Every school in the Big Ten, Pac-12, Big XII and SEC make more TV money then the Irish today, and the renegotiated TV deal in the ACC may surpass them as well. You could say the rest of the schools are having their cake and eating it too.
 
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bronconick said:
Every school in the Big Ten, Pac-12, Big XII and SEC make more TV money then the Irish today, and the renegotiated TV deal in the ACC may surpass them as well. You could say the rest of the schools are having their cake and eating it too.
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Yup. The Irish staying independent isn't the enormous financial boon it once was, though maybe they can still leverage it again?
 
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Bob Gray said:
Yup. The Irish staying independent isn't the enormous financial boon it once was, though maybe they can still leverage it again?
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I hope so, but we've been living on old capital for a long time.
 
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From what Swarbrick says, they've given up on it being a financial advantage and now hinge their independence on 1) being in the ballpark on $ and 2) a path to a national title. If those change, they'll have to consider giving it up. So if they can somehow shove through a "Conference Champions only" 4 team playoff, look out below.
 
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Kepler said:
I hope so, but we've been living on old capital for a long time.
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You probably have a better sense for it than I do, but I can't help but think that given the lack of major on-field success for quite awhile now for Notre Dame, they just don't quite carry the cache they used to with the average college football fan out there? There was a time when they were thought of as one of the handful of the most elite programs, but it's hard to think of them in that framework now.
 
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h/t to mgoblog, but this made me LOL, mainly because like most of the country, I view Jim Delany as evil genius scum.

You realize this makes you Mubarak, right? Jim Delany:
Delany defended the Rose Bowl and compared the coming changes in college football to the Arab Spring, the revolts that erupted across the Middle East and North Africa last year.

“Not all change is manageable,” Delany said. “You want to control change. You want evolution, not revolution, because you don’t know what the unintended consequences will be.”
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As always, Jim Delany should not say things.
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Liberty University (FCS - Big South) has announced plans to make the jump to FBS. More details will be revealed at a Monday presser.

I think they're nuts.
 
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joecct said:
Liberty University (FCS - Big South) has announced plans to make the jump to FBS. More details will be revealed at a Monday presser.

I think they're nuts.
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And they want to play FBS football.
 
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http://floridastate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1364755

Florida State on the market. The fact that the ACC kept tier 3 basketball so Duke and UNC make bank while selling Tier 3 football to ESPN is unsurprising, and should be unforgivable for the handful of schools (FSU, Miami, GT, VT, Clemson) that actually care about football.
 
joecct said:
Liberty University (FCS - Big South) has announced plans to make the jump to FBS. More details will be revealed at a Monday presser.

I think they're nuts.
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My money is on them building themselves up to be the Notre Dame of the evangelical crowd. Only thing is that they would have to be in a conference for several years before they could go independent like Notre Dame or BYU.
 
bigmrg74 said:
My money is on them building themselves up to be the Notre Dame of the evangelical crowd. Only thing is that they would have to be in a conference for several years before they could go independent like Notre Dame or BYU.
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Jerry Falwell always said that he wanted LU to be like Notre Dame. Trouble is if LU wants to be successful in sports they need to look like an SEC school.
 
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