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College Football 2022: “Here’s a twenty, bury two.”

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Slap Shot said:
The problem with this is that "what it has become" mostly only applies to the biggest schools and biggest tournaments, and those tournaments are not going away. Also Div II and Div III have been playing national tournaments for decades and are still mostly a "mom and pop" operation compared with the Amazon like behemoth of the BCS and March Madness. I mean let's face it even the Div I hockey tournament is quaint by comparison.
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The point is it would roll back even further than what you think is a deal breaker. And I can't see that in any way being bad for the students who want to play sports. The whole apparatus will simply be disconnected from the vampire squid that took over the mindset sometime between the 50s and the 70s. Pretty much everything you imagine is "essential" to college sports would go away because it is not only unnecessary but antithetical to college sports.

What would be left would be schools bussing their kids to other schools within small regions, playing short seasons, before very small crowds. Sports would have zero ROI except insofar as they are part of the fulfilment of a college student as a full person, like the arts or science.

This is an instance where eliminating costs also eliminates the predatory influences that use those costs to corrupt the system. Not unlike... oh pretty much everything else, but let's start small with something inconsequential.
 
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UC board of Regents saber rattling about not letting UCLA go to the B1G. Odds are it is just that, but worst case, they just snag Stanford instead.
 
Scott Frost says there are 15-20 total vomits from lineman during practices under their new position coach. I don’t think that’s a good thing there, Scott…
 
Btw, random question for anyone who has donated to their alma mater's athletic department...

Is radio silence beyond the initial automated thank you email the norm with collegiate donations? My general experience with others is you at least get put on the mailing list for future donations and an annual newsletter or something describing the impact of your donations. I know colleges already send out all their standard mail to alums, so maybe they feel that's sufficient. And my piddly 3-figure annual donation is chump change even for an Ivy athletic department, but it's also making me less likely to continue donating.

So just curious if my experience is typical or if I'm in the right to be slightly annoyed...
 
unofan said:
Btw, random question for anyone who has donated to their alma mater's athletic department...

Is radio silence beyond the initial automated thank you email the norm with collegiate donations? My general experience with others is you at least get put on the mailing list for future donations and an annual newsletter or something describing the impact of your donations. I know colleges already send out all their standard mail to alums, so maybe they feel that's sufficient. And my piddly 3-figure annual donation is chump change even for an Ivy athletic department, but it's also making me less likely to continue donating.

So just curious if my experience is typical or if I'm in the right to be slightly annoyed...
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I donated once to Cornell for hockey-related stuff. I have never been able to untangle myself from their cough development (begging) initiatives.

Tie it to a brick, throw it anonymously through the Provost's window at 2 a.m., and drive away fast.
 
Kepler said:
The N is for Nowledge.
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One time I went to a conference in Minneapolis and wore my Big Red t-shirt. The lady at the airport thought it was Nebraska and for football. You're right next to U-Minn, why is your first thought football, where you haven't been relevant since the 40s, rather than hockey, where you're a perennial power? This is the hockey state, right?
 
French Rage said:
This is the hockey state, right?
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It's a hockey state, relatively.

Hockey is still small potatoes, no matter where you go. And while Minny isn't exactly famous for gridiron greatness (at least since 1940) I'm sure the football fans still dwarf the hockey fans. The only place I can imagine this isn't true is, as loathsome as they are, Mass.
 
Kepler said:
It's a hockey state, relatively.

Hockey is still small potatoes, no matter where you go. And while Minny isn't exactly famous for gridiron greatness (at least since 1940) I'm sure the football fans still dwarf the hockey fans. The only place I can imagine this isn't true is, as loathsome as they are, Mass.
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I mean we can't throw stones either, I'm pretty sure football donations at Cornell still rival or even beat hockey donations, despite a far worse history. It's just weird to see.
 
Kepler said:
It's a hockey state, relatively.

Hockey is still small potatoes, no matter where you go. And while Minny isn't exactly famous for gridiron greatness (at least since 1940) I'm sure the football fans still dwarf the hockey fans. The only place I can imagine this isn't true is, as loathsome as they are, Mass.
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1960. Champions
 
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