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Interesting Nick Saban quotes in this ESPN article: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39623503/how-alabama-moved-nick-saban-kalen-deboer-49-hours

Nice to see Patrick Cobbs moving up. A lot of would-be tacklers are going to have green tire tracks on them this season.

Great to see some North Texas gear above all that worthless junk from OU and UT. I haven't seen the logo before that looks like a kicking tee with a cowboy hat. How long has it been around?

Congratulations, @FirefightnRick! You've come a long way since Pauline G. Hughes Middle School basketball.

Very matter of fact. Now tell us where babies come from.

Arizona State head coach Kenny Dillingham was asked about coaches leaving college football and complaining about the state of the game. "I literally spent nine years of my life doing anything to become a coffee boy. So don't give me the 'Oh, it's hard to be a coach right now.' Yeah, it's hard. Then quit." https://www.on3.com/college/arizona-state-sun-devils/news/kenny-dillingham-fires-back-college-football-coaches-complaining-yeah-its-hard-then-quit-arizona-state/ We used to have someone in UNT football with that kind of moxie. I wonder where Diet Coke Man is today.

I've been expecting the Big10/SEC/Fox/ESPN fatberg to drop the cellar dwellers like Vanderbilt to make room for a few more money machine programs.

I blame fracking for our foundation troubles.

What Wyoming brings is a respectable G5 team that has been to four bowls the past five years and won three of them. Gimme more home and homes like this.

Apple would pay me what I am worth to Apple. I would not work for Apple in exchange for a free college education. I am fine with college athletes being paid salaries, job requirements, benefits and limits on when they can switch schools. That would be way better than the NIL and transfer portal free-for-all. I like athletes getting paid but when they can take the money on Monday and quit the sport on Tuesday that's all kinds of wrong.

When people give me a Puking Eagle for a comment like this, I can never tell whether I made them puke or the state of college football did.

If playing their sport was only worth a free education, Nick Saban wouldn't have amassed $150 million in career salary as a coach. There wouldn't be all these billion-dollar TV broadcast deals. You can't let that kind of money flood in and expect your actual product -- the players -- to be doing it without significant monetary compensation. There are a lot of college sports where the players only get a free education. Even some tiers of college football. We could all start watching them instead and say to hell with the P5, er P4, er soon to be P3. Instead of doing that I'm trying to get over my fear of needles so I can get me a Chandler Morris back tatt.

There's blame to go around. The ADs offered crazy money because it took crazy money to land a top coach. Have any of those coaches given back a big chunk of their salaries to the betterment of college football or student athletes?

Saban saying that a coach's contract is an example of solving the problem is hilarious. Coaches began this money grubbing era of no loyalty by getting ridiculously huge salaries and leaving their jobs the nanosecond a bigger one came open.

The legal weaknesses of the grant of rights have been known for so long law review articles have been written about them. Here's one from the Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law covering all the different mistakes made in the four-page contract. https://www.troutman.com/a/web/344419/Wilhelm.pdf

The incentive for the ACC to work out a deal is to avoid the risk of losing in court and having the grant of rights ruled unenforceable, letting any school leave with no compensation to the conference. The links above explained how both sides take a huge risk letting these cases reach a court judgment.

The postgame handshake after Texas A&M Commerce's 76-72 win over Incarnate Word escalated quickly. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39561066/incarnate-word-commerce-players-get-big-brawl-postgame-handshake If UNT needs somebody who can rush the passer, No. 8 on UIW gets past 20 blockers at one point.

I was expecting the ACC-Florida State dueling lawsuits to become haggling over price. Didn't think it would be so soon. The original grant of rights that was supposed to be an ironclad lock against schools leaving the ACC is only four pages long: https://cdn.theathletic.com/app/uploads/2022/07/01185531/ACC-Grant-of-Rights-1.pdf I've signed longer contracts to write a book.

I give our SMU pal here a hard time, but I am starting to enjoy the idea of the Mustang faithful swimming in the cold Atlantic, trying desperately to convince Rose there's room on the floating door after the sinking of the TitanACC. We, like the rest of the G5, are the poor bastards in steerage.

The additions of Cal, Stanford and SMU was about preventing ESPN from triggering a clause to renegotiate its TV deal if the ACC fell below 15 schools. FSU's lawsuit against the ACC is hammering the conference for adding these schools, calling it another self-serving decision that helps the conference at the expense of its existing members. SMU, Cal and Stanford are bringing down the average TV viewership of ACC games, which isn't helping anyone in the ACC get closer to financial parity with the SEC and Big 10.

SMU is in a Power conference FOR NOW. When FSU and the other bigs leave, the ACC is the next Pac-12. SMU got in the Power 5 right when the ESPN/Fox/SEC/Big 10 fatberg was trying to create two superconferences to form an NFL-sized competition that screws over everybody else.

The reason FSU is still in the ACC is because it only sued the conference five weeks ago. Maybe that seems like a long time to an SMU fan because five weeks is 25 percent of the time you've been a member of the conference.

SMU made the cut between the G5 and P5. Now it's the P4 and the ACC is in an existential crisis to avoid it becoming the P3. Good luck buying your way out of that.

The smart money is on Florida State getting out. Once a conference power decides to leave it always happens. I don't see the ACC surviving at the P5 level when FSU and the other big dogs leave. ESPN and Fox Sports want two superconferences. They'll gladly decimate the rest of the P5 to make that happen.

As a CFL fan I don't think Mason Fine has gotten enough of an opportunity. A lot of the time he was brought in, things were hopeless.