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This whole thing is just a baad look for both SDSU and the PAC. I suspect the MWC to be playing it brilliantly, by playing stupid, but am not completely certain. I am sure they want to keep SDSU or at least make as much money as possible, but this still leads to SDSU being unhappy with its current conference in the medium run. In any case the PAC forcing its most important expansion candidate to front 35 million when it only needs to be half, something they are not able to do and several of its current members would not be able to do either, seeing as some of them have been having financial problems, just indicates they don't have it together. Add to that that they have more overhead than necessary (which also means you need more TV money for the same payout) etc and the signs for the PAC become less and less positive. If they miss the 30 of June, then this time there will actually be problems. I suspect that the new tv deal will be contingent on actually getting specific expansion teams. If I were a tv exec, I would put that in the contract, because I would want to be safe. You get your expansion team to not be able to leave its old conference, you can^'t sign the deal, you can't sign the deal, you may lose members.

The part about the rivalries and the brand are both true. However it is a fairly open secret that he has already thought about adding them anyway. There are reasons. It allows you a) to sell the late time slot in TV negotiations the next time and b) to really hurt what is left of the PAC, because the PAC really NEEDs that southern California representation in its line-up. Without it there is almost nowhere good for the PAC to go, which will let the Big12 overtake it.

I thought about it. And If I am Yormark, I think I would take this and use it to set up a power play here: I would offer SDSU a spot in the Big12, but tell them that the offer is good only till june 30. After it expires and will not be remade. It seems clear that the PAC will not manage to get their stuff together until then, and this will cost SDSU 17 extra mil if they go to the pac. Can you afford to not take the valid offer then and there in order to wait if it also doubles the exit fee. I doubt - that even if it obviously pays off in the long run - that fronting 34 million is all that easy for SDSU, since you likely have to do it before you get any payouts. He could deprive the PAC of its best expansion option, because that would put the pressure up quite a bit for the SDSU leadership to chose the Big12 instead of their original preference, which surely is the PAC. It might actually be what gets you some of those corner schools afterwards, and you can then tell them: I already got a school out west, I only need 3 of you, last one to accept will not have a chair

Per the athletic, they sent a letter to MWC asking to postpone the notification deadline for leaving the conference by a month. Right now if they notify by June30 for 24-25 they have to pay 17 mil, and after that 34 million. Shows they are willing to go. Also makes it look like the PAC still doesn't have its ducks in a row. No idea why the MWC would say yes to this.

The timing seems less than ideal, particularly if they still haven't replaced him. And Lama did A LOT for this team (belongs in the UNT hall of fame I guess), but like others said, the last few years were a continuous slide. He won 3 Sun Belt championships and initially was an annual contender in C-USA (but never won it), but slid into to C-USA middle to below average with few signs of it picking back up to serious championship contension. Had this firing come two years ago, i would have said be careful what you wish for, the replacement might be considerably worse. Now the team might go through a rough rebuilding year or two, but it feels like that was unavoidable anyway.

That is exactly why. They are trying to get to the tour (in Snymans case he was trying to get to the LIV tour where he played two events last year) and to at least hang on to their status on the secondary tours they are on. Both are having mediocre years. If they combine tours they have to makes space for retruning pros. That means sliding down someone further down the pecking order. That will necessarily reduce the number of spots to move up from a secondary tour and also reduce the number of spots to even hang on to a spot there. That is fairly likely to hit those two, as they are ranked something like 50-100 in their respective tours. Rosenmueller is baarely top 100 on the kornferry, he is already hanging on by a thread to be able to return. The difference between that and the tours below is whether you life FROM competitive golf, or WITH competitive golf. For Snyman the question is also if LIV is gonna continue to exist or if the asian tour is gonna keep having a direct tie in to any major tour as it does now with LIV (its not a super great tie in mind you, but Snyman did get to play twice last year, and he was already one of thos canned for the stars https://www.golfmonthly.com/news/the-14-players-who-have-made-way-for-liv-golf-stars). if it doesn't I am not sure where the asian tour has any tie ins with any other major tour. maybe they can work out something with the European leg , since that is also now merging with the others, but my gut feeling is the players in the mid rankings on the secondary tours are the ones who will get hosed.

Because they are (were?) LIV golfers they both got in the hard way -through the qualifiers. Lets see where it gets em. On another note, for what its worth I think those two will do just fine in the merger (I take it theyl be allowed back onto the PGa tournaments fairly soon). The UNT alumni who will probably get a raw deal from the goings on are Snyman and Rosenmueller I figure.

I did that for a very short moment. But I spent more time looking at the golfstat rankings. I trust those stats more than any narrative people have. Also -like the other poster you quoted- I also did not say it could not work. It might. But I call em as i see em, and to me it is not a home run that it will.

Also hope that Mosely saw something that isn't obvious from the base. <it could work out, but it might also not get NT to where it ought to be (making NCAA regionals about every other year is the measuring stick I would say). Yes he improved his program and did well compared to his conference brethren, but in golf that is not as meaningful as in other sports, as you generally are not competing with your conference mates all that often compared to other sports.

This was probably necessaryy. Stracke did much for the program, and he will leave probably leave it better than he fond it. Had some really nice successes including the development of a number of guys who went pro, two of whom won pga tour events. But the last 5 years just were not great in terms of national rankings, and it was not looking like clear improvement was about to arrive.

That depends. Is the escort company paying for NIL services or is it included as part of the NIL remuneration to the athletes? Come to think of it, he probably is not calling them anyway, likely just sliding into their DMs

Wish him the best, hope he makes it. Feels somewhat an indictment on the NFl to me though, that he gets a shot and Mason Fine did not.

you can do that when you are not afraid of the next two hitters that are up.

1. FAU (I think people will be surprised) 2. Tulane 3. UTSA. They clearly have one of the better HC and bring back a great QB. but they also lost a lot everywhere else 4. East Carolina. Moving in the right direction 5. SMU (The most talent...but I don't believe in Lashlee as an HC) 6. USF. not convinced on their new HC, but there are resources etc. 7. UNT (this is an optimistic take) 8. Memphis (people have them high because of history. Other than history I don't see much reason they ought to be good) 9. Navy 10. UAB (It will be an interesting experiment, and could go much better. UAB has the resources now. But until he proves he can replicate Clarks success i am skeptical) 11. Tulsa (I am not a believer here either. i could see Kevin Wilson do ok as a coach. But I honestly think Tulsa is a bad place in the long run to have an FBS program, and will be overtaken by pretty much all the newcomers eventually. Tiny enrollment, not enough investment, a University that is gonna get hit haard by the enrollment cliff) 12. Charlotte 13. Temple 14. Rice

Day two is not really going much better than day 1 did 😞 Currently 11th out of 12 8 shots behind even tenth. Emilie Ricaud is the only one playing at her level. Currently she is tied for 20ieth, likely to move up a bit more when the rest of the field finishes. Shreya Pal is having a semi-okish day, +2 for the day after 17. The rest should probably be silence. Coach tried something by switching the number 5 position player, but there was no jolt there either.

Sadly this is a total disaster day so far. Still dead last at +16. Not sure if it is the course or a psychological tailspin. Arizona who is in the same group as UNT is at -2. 5th (5 move on to nationals) spot is at -1. Gonna take some real great effort the remainder of the way to find a way back into this. Individually only Emilie Ricaud is in the top 40. Fairly disappointing.

Tournament is underway. https://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=teamPlayer&tid=28079 It appears the start wasn't great (currently in last place), but plenty of time to improve things and several teams have barely started, so what the current +8 (after 4-7 holes) means is yet to be determined.

That bracket is stupid. Really not thought through. Time to get out of C-USA. Why should the losers of game 5 and 6 have to play each other in the same stage as loser of game 3 and 4 play each other. penalizes you for winning game 3 or 4 and then losing later. At the very least game 5 loser should play game 4 loser and game 6 loser game 3 loser.

Personally I would rather have the version where schools and players agree to how many years (between 1 and 4) the players get a guaranteed scholly. Then players cannot transfer and play elsewhere during that time and coaches cannot cut them. In an ideal world their scholarship would also not free up again towards the limit even if they do leave / get pushed out. That would stop coaches from pushing players out. Everybody would know where they are at, and it would still be a free market. Some players may prefer a 4 year scholly at a less powerfull (sportswise) school over the 2 year offer, while others may only want one year to then jump (i.e. betting on themselves but not betting on their school). Alas even that (same as El Paso eagles proposition above) is probably tricky to get past the courts, even if you still allow NIL along with it.

Sadly it ended 3-2 in favor of charlotte.

Prone couldn't get back to tie. 3 matches done, Charlotte leads 2-1. On the course is still Winkler up by 1 after 15, and Marzilio, down by 1 after 14. Need Winkler to hold on to his lead and Marzilio to at least tie his match.

down 3-2 right now Tucker Allen has already won his match up 5. Winkler went on a heater and won 4 holes in a rowturned his match and is now up 2 with 5 to go. That is the good news. Definitely need him to hold on to that lead to have a shot. Prone is down 1 with two to go. Probably need that one to get tied in order to be in this. Marzilio is back to down by 2 (with 6 to go) after having tied it earlier. Can at least imagine that he might turn it back around. Bergson is down 4 with 4 to go, not much hope in that one.

Matchplay day: after 3-6 holes UNT is up in 2 matches and at least two holes down in three. Need at least one of those (maybe Marzilio) to move back into the right direction. At least there is still plenty of holes to go.

UNT is the 6th seed with 5 teams advancing. If they keep being in that region, as they have been for 2-3 years now, eventually they will push through and make the final tournament. Could very well be this year. Might have made it 2 years ago, had they not been robbed by the Louisiana grounds keepers.

Hadn't seen that. 25 shots worse on par 5s than Charlotte....wow. I mean not all of those counted, but still. That HAS to get better if UNT wants to advance from its semi agianst Charlotte tomorrow. In the end, despite a lot of parity (like worst ranked WKU having the best day on wednseday), it is still the 4 highest ranked teams who made it to the semis.