Green Otaku

Those look great from a purely visual standpoint, the clean design of this year's uniform makes the green really pop. The only thing I don't like is the script on the helmet, and the odd/ironic choice of it saying "Mean Green" while wearing black. Wings logo on a black helmet would have looked better to me.

Agree, there is no need to expand right now with AFA out of the picture. I don't think the AAC should do a defensive move to block the PAC, let them go if they want. In the future JMU. App St., or VCU as a non-football make more sense to me.

I'm not sure what this means. I was answering BigWillie's question about how concerts get the audio right. What is your experience with running live sound?

What's Texas St.'s budget? The only report I could find was $37m. I'd think that travel would be a huge drag on the program, especially being on an island.

Having these collectives outside of the schools really opens up these situations where people can promise things and not deliver, or say they never agreed to them. Think about it, a faceless organization outside of the school with no oversight, they don't have to disclose what they pay, you don't get to specify where your donations go, it's akin to throwing your money into a void. I'm surprised this kind of disputes hasn't happened more honestly. NIL needs to be brought into the school's AD to make things transparent. Instate contracts in 2 year agreements, and 1 for grad/senior transfers. If you want the player buy out the contract.

Concert have the highest quality equipment since that's the main feature of the show, they can't afford to have bad audio. They also have more control with placement, putting the speaker line in front of the microphones so they aren't looping back into the mics to create feedback. It could just be the audio equipment at DATCU isn't the highest quality. Maybe the wireless signal isn't strong enough with so many people in the stadium, it could be the mic placement on the ref being poor, it could be the person running the board isn't mitigating the frequencies to prevent feedback, or it could be that the system isn't tuned properly for the environment. It's hard to know without knowing what they use, how it's set up, and how it's run.

If true we need to demand better from the AD. There's no reason for such poor scheduling.

Hoping to be surprised, but ready to be underwhelmed by who they can get.

Man I hope he gives the defense a big boost.

According to that post we are missing about 5 more games?

Doubt that happens as well too, there seems to be a lot of bad blood now. Also whomever stays in the MWC has incentive to do so to collect some big checks from departing schools.

I don't think Gonzaga does much for them, over half of the BE is equal to Gonzaga IMO. Plus I'd imagine their fanbase is heavily on the east coast, and going west would be a huge deal for them.

This whole saga has been bizarre, it's why you don't air your dirty laundry in front of the whole country. Now the PAC looks incompetence, greedy, arrogant, stupid, and any other adjective. With them suing the MWC about a deal they signed not even a year ago they are losing any goodwill people had for their teams. Their entire organization looks awful top to bottom, and should frankly be a warning to anyone wanting to be part of that conference.

I think you quoted the wrong person or read my message wrong. I was the one asking why this thread even exists. 😅

I don't see any chance of Uconn leaving the BE. FB only I can see, but that doesn't really raise the profile of the PAC.

It's all the same topic. Whichever way the narrative goes it's still about the same thing.

Does every new headline really need a new thread? Why can't everything just be in 1 catch-all thread?

Sure, but they didn't try to dissolve the WAC while doing so. I'm assuming the also went by the bylaws and left with whatever penalties/revenue forfeiture they had to do.

I'm not a lawyer, but something like that seems ripe for a lawsuit. Colluding behind the other team's backs and doing real monetary harm to those left out sounds like something you could see being a court case. All you would need is access to their emails and messages by lawyers and you would be able to prove they did this intentionally.

This is true, otherwise the 8 schools that left the Pac12 (10 at the time) would have dissolved the conference and distributed the assets evenly. Once you announce you are leaving you don't get a vote.

I mean that was the whole point of this thing, to try and keep that money rolling in with a decent media deal, CFP participation, and teams that would get basketball credits, it just failed.

CFP money, massive Rose Bowl agreement that runs until 2026 IIRC? Years of muti-bid NCAA credits that accrue interest, the remaining assets of a once P5 conference. They have some money, but they won't be refilling that money at the same level they used to.

I'd bet they had clauses and high penalties in their scheduling agreement if they tried to do that. Even so, from a purely legal perspective I wonder if they get sued into the ground on something like "collusion" or something else since they intentionally colluded to avoid paying exit fees and damaged the remaining schools?

ESPN would have to agree to pay for them. I don't think the AAC has a pro-rata clause to add more members for an additional share, we'd have to split our conference distribution and lower each member's payout. I don't see teams agreeing to that. That also segues into new problems with the PAC now, with the AAC teams out what kind of media deal can they get? Does it even make sense for the 4 MWC schools to leave now? The PAC has no media deal secured, not enough members, and time is slowly running out.

It was the last attempt from WOSU to keep some semblance of separation and power, they didn't want to accept their G5 fate.