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College Football 2010: Dude, Where's my Conference?

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The Big Ten has a ton of viable Championship sites. They have domes (Detroit, Indy, and even Minneapolis), outdoor venues (Cleveland, Chicago, Green Bay), and if you wanted to stretch the traditional footprint for championship venues, you could include Pittsburgh and Cincy, too.
 
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blockski said:
The Big Ten has a ton of viable Championship sites. They have domes (Detroit, Indy, and even Minneapolis), outdoor venues (Cleveland, Chicago, Green Bay), and if you wanted to stretch the traditional footprint for championship venues, you could include Pittsburgh and Cincy, too.
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I so loathe the HHH for the NFL, but I suppose the game day experience (loud music, dance competitions during TV timeouts, etc....) wouldn't be as obnoxious as for Vikings games. However, even as a MN fan I think there are better options than MPLS given TCF wouldn't be big enough.
 
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Slap Shot said:
I so loathe the HHH for the NFL, but I suppose the game day experience (loud music, dance competitions during TV timeouts, etc....) wouldn't be as obnoxious as for Vikings games. However, even as a MN fan I think there are better options than MPLS given TCF wouldn't be big enough.
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Well, it certainly wouldn't be on the top of the list, but the market would be great if the Vikes got a new stadium. Given that the championship game is a one-off event with only two teams, that makes it more viable for a single game event like this, as opposed to more involved tournaments like basketball where a more central location is important.
 
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Money ruining the college game

Personally, I really think the NFL and NCAA should work together to keep the Agents off of the campuses. Agents hurt the interatity of the College Game at the D1-A level, and it does give the NFL a black eye when one of their young stars gets busted for doing illegal stuff back in collage, ala Bush.
 
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While I generally detest Nick Saban as a rule, he is right about the agents. I would happily support a suspension of 2-3 years for an agent whose actions lead to a player losing his eligibility in instances such as what we're seeing this summer.

You want to sign a kid after he declares for the NFL Draft? Great. Go for it. Best of luck to both of you. I hope it works out for the best. You want to front a kid $10K in the summer of his sophomore year and help cost the kid his eligibility? Let's shut your water off for a few years so that you can't represent anyone for a while. Let me know how that tastes.

Look, I realize that some of these kids aren't naive angels, and that some of them know good and well what they're doing along with the resulting consequences, but these agents can be responsible for their own actions. They're grown men, too.
 
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While I generally detest Nick Saban as a rule, he is right about the agents. I would happily support a suspension of 2-3 years for an agent whose actions lead to a player losing his eligibility in instances such as what we're seeing this summer.

You want to sign a kid after he declares for the NFL Draft? Great. Go for it. Best of luck to both of you. I hope it works out for the best. You want to front a kid $10K in the summer of his sophomore year and help cost the kid his eligibility? Let's shut your water off for a few years so that you can't represent anyone for a while. Let me know how that tastes.

Look, I realize that some of these kids aren't naive angels, and that some of them know good and well what they're doing along with the resulting consequences, but these agents can be responsible for their own actions. They're grown men, too.
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Saban speaks out when his best defensive player is under investigation. Not a likely coincidence. I wonder if 'Bama or other teams get clobbered like USC? One can always wish for consistency, can't one?

That said, no doubt agents need to be brought under some sort of control.
 
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This is getting way out there and probably won't happen, but is there any way the NFL can step up and suspend any player that is convicted of violating NCAA Rules?

If Goodell is serious about using image as a means of punishment, I think it would be fair game... That would also make the players think twice... Right now, they don't really lose anything at all when their violations are discovered... They could care less about forfeited wins and taking down banners...
 
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Bob Gray said:
Saban speaks out when his best defensive player is under investigation. Not a likely coincidence. I wonder if 'Bama or other teams get clobbered like USC? One can always wish for consistency, can't one?

That said, no doubt agents need to be brought under some sort of control.
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Well, I've felt this way for quite a while. As for Alabama, they've got some serious NCAA monsters in their closet. If the NCAA came calling again, the good ol' boys down in Tuscaloosa aren't going to like the end result one bit.

It doesn't bother me that Saban is the one bringing the message here because I feel that the message is extremely accurate.
 
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RaceBoarder said:
This is getting way out there and probably won't happen, but is there any way the NFL can step up and suspend any player that is convicted of violating NCAA Rules?
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No, because the NFL didn't have any jurisdiction regarding the NCAA rules in the first place. That was before the terms of employment began.
 
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Hammer said:
Well, I've felt this way for quite a while. As for Alabama, they've got some serious NCAA monsters in their closet. If the NCAA came calling again, the good ol' boys down in Tuscaloosa aren't going to like the end result one bit.

It doesn't bother me that Saban is the one bringing the message here because I feel that the message is extremely accurate.
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Yah, if the NCAA were really serious, you're likely to see vacated titles a much more common event.
 
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Well, considering that NCAA doesn't sanction a National Championship in what we know as D-1 football, I suppose that you can't take something away that wasn't awarded in the first place. I'm not sure how many double negatives there are in that sentence, but we're going with it.
 
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Well, considering that NCAA doesn't sanction a National Championship in what we know as D-1 football, I suppose that you can't take something away that wasn't awarded in the first place. I'm not sure how many double negatives there are in that sentence, but we're going with it.
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Well, then whoever do whatever was done to USC to others who are similarly as ill-behaved.
 
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If the violations merit such, then by all means go for it.
 
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If the NC$$ cared about stuff like this, the only D-1 programs south of the Mason-Dixon line would be Vandy and Rice.
 
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If the NC$$ cared about stuff like this, the only D-1 programs south of the Mason-Dixon line would be Vandy and Rice.
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Agreed.

The whole thing does make you wonder what USC did to get on the NCAA's bad side?
 
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