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Sources: The next #Pac12 commissioner is George Kliavkoff, from MGM

Scuzz wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 4:47 pm Entertainment specialist. An interesting idea.

What's happening is a difficult transition for coaches, he said. They're used to holding all the power, and now power is shifting toward the players.

"It's a correction, and they're not used to it," he [former Coastal Carolina defensive back Nicholas Clark] said. "But who's to say it's a bad thing?"

Colorado starting quarterback Sam Noyer will enter the transfer portal, the school announced Monday.

Noyer guided the Buffaloes to a 4-2 record and was named second-team All-Pac-12 after completing 88 of 160 passes for 1,101 yards with six touchdowns and seven interceptions in an abbreviated season.

Sources tell me & @ByPatForde that the CFP working group is recommending a 12-team playoff: 6 highest-ranked conference champs & 6 at-large.

The 4 highest-ranked champs get a bye while other 8 play 1st-round games on campus.

Long way from done, but this is the recommendation.

Donahue was a native Angeleno, playing his high school football at Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks. Weighing only about 180 pounds in high school, his only college offer was as a walk-on at San Jose State. He stayed only one year before moving back to Los Angeles to attend LA Valley College.

Donahue transferred to UCLA to play defensive tackle, at all of 195 pounds, for Tommy Protho. He would go on to play on UCLA’s 1966 Rose Bowl that upset then top-ranked Michigan State. In fact, Donahue has been a part of every UCLA Rose Bowl winning team during his time in Westwood...

...That season foretold of better things to come for Donahue at UCLA. The Bruins would win four conference titles and tie for another. He finished first or second in the conference a dozen times in his 20 years. The Bruins won the Rose Bowl in 1983, (Michigan); 1984, (Illinois); and 1986, (Iowa). UCLA also won a then-record seven straight bowl games from the 1983 Rose Bowl through the 1989 Cotton Bowl.

"It's not a political football," Sankey said of vaccinations, "and we need to do our part to support a healthy society because, as we look back, the potential absence of college sports last year caused us to think about not losing sight of the lifelong experiences, the laboratory of learning that takes place, and the educational benefits that accrue to the people who participate on our teams."

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 6:31 pm Alabama QB nearing $1MM in endorsements, according to Saban.

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Bank statements of Ports players reviewed by SFGATE reveal that team hotel charges over a two-week stretch exceeded the A's bimonthly paychecks, a bizarre situation that is only alleviated when the Ports hit the road and the A's are required to cover hotel fees. Through September, whenever the Ports have another long homestand, they're going to face the same conundrum.

Usually, minor league players — who make $500 a week before taxes — rely on the hospitality of host families during the season in order to avoid losing most or all of their paycheck to rent alone. Host families, often strangers, will put the players up free of charge or for very cheap, an odd but exceedingly kind arrangement on their part. But this year, because of the pandemic, host families haven't been available to Stockton players (nor most other minor leaguers).

Baroquen wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:53 pm Just read an article (with the original report behind a paywall in the Houston Chronicle) about Oklahoma and Texas looking to jump to the SEC. Anybody hear that noise? And any chance of that actually going down? From what I skimmed, the article was a lot of "no comment" from everyone, and speculative/reactionary tweets. I'm guessing just unsubstantiated chatter or a slow news day?

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 6:28 pm

Baroquen wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:53 pm Just read an article (with the original report behind a paywall in the Houston Chronicle) about Oklahoma and Texas looking to jump to the SEC. Anybody hear that noise? And any chance of that actually going down? From what I skimmed, the article was a lot of "no comment" from everyone, and speculative/reactionary tweets. I'm guessing just unsubstantiated chatter or a slow news day?

Lots of noise, but who knows.

Nobody's confirming it, but they're not exactly making any strong denials either

SOURCES: After notifying the @Big12Conference early next week, @TexasLonghorns and @UofOklahoma will petition the @SEC for membership.

Early next week, the @TexasLonghorns and @UofOklahoma will send a letter to the @Big12Conference stating that neither school will renew their media contracts when they expire in 2025.

Prominent Big 12 source tells the American-Statesman the Texas-OU move to the SEC is almost done. "They've been working on this for a minimum of 6 months, and the A&M leadership was left out of discussions and wasn't told about it." Move could become official in a week.

The lack of transparency by our flagship institution is wrong. Such a monumental economic and educational decision impacting the entire state must not be made in a bubble on the forty acres. Working on legislation requiring legislative approval for UT to bolt the BIG XII.

Skinypupy wrote:Looks like the SEC is now after Ohio State and Michigan as well

Have fun, I guess.

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 3:04 pm

Skinypupy wrote:Looks like the SEC is now after Ohio State and Michigan as well

Have fun, I guess.

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Could you picture a Big Ten that doesn’t include Michigan and Ohio State? That is apparently a possibility if you believe this latest rumor on conference realignment.

Jack McGuire — who writes for Barstool Sports and is a producer on the popular Unnecessary Roughness college football podcast — is reporting that the Southeastern Conference is in “serious contact” with Michigan and Ohio State about joining the league. He added that he is unaware of whether or not this could actually happen but that there is at least interest from the SEC to poach two of the Big Ten’s biggest programs.

McGuire’s tweet above was met with plenty of skeptism — including from myself — but right now it seems like anything and everything is possible in conference realignment. I couldn’t imagine the Big Ten letting both the Buckeyes and Wolverines leave the league, but you never know and this will be something to potentially monitor in the coming weeks.

this entire realignment, for the moment, must to be viewed through SEC commissioner Greg Sankey's dissatisfaction with the NCAA. Sankey has been public in his criticism, most recently Monday in a strident takedown of NCAA president Mark Emmert and his association at the opening of the 2021 SEC Media Days.

If the NCAA and Emmert are not going to lead college athletics, this move will position the SEC and Sankey to fill the void.

It may not be the most principled move stealing the Longhorns and Sooners, but as we learned a decade ago, there is no honor amongst conferences in realignment.

With the most best teams, the SEC will essentially be able to make its own rules. Why stop at a limit of 25 scholarships per year? The SEC could, on its own, go to 30. Why not 40? How about a 150-man roster?...

...n to a logical conclusion, there is going to be faction of programs that will pay players and enter into group licensing agreements. That hints of unionization.

Why stop there? Think reworked amateurism and eligibility rules. A streamlined enforcement model with more liberal rules where cases take weeks to be adjudicated instead of years. Think an SEC owned-and-operated streaming service that brings in even more money.

All of it has to be in play in the long term. There is simply no one around to stop the SEC. The NCAA is already on record as waving the white flag hoping that conferences will step up.

As much as anything else, this power play is about … power. Watch what the SEC does with its version of a 16-team superconference. (It may not even stop there.) With no central NCAA authority, there will be those who follow the SEC's athletic model and those who don't ... or can't, whether financially or otherwise.

JCC wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 6:51 pm On another note, I would be fine with CFB taking the top 40-50 teams and becoming a "Premier" League along with relegation and promotion. Talk about coaches on the hot seat! LOL.