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utee94 · « **Reply #2184 on:** April 29, 2025, 09:29:31 AM »

I don't see a legitimate compelling need for ever releasing a depth chart to the public.

FearlessF · « **Reply #2185 on:** April 29, 2025, 05:16:20 PM »

Kirk Ferentz calls out uncertainty around roster limits after House settlement final approval delay

Ahead of the 2025 season, schools began to prepare for roster limits that would be in place under the House v. NCAA settlement. For football, that figure is 105 – although the final approval process hit a snag last week.

After telling attorneys for both sides to address her concerns around roster limits, Judge Claudia Wilken said she would deny final approval if the NCAA does not either phase in or grandfather those numbers. She gave attorneys two weeks to do so, meaning they have until May 7. If fully approved, the settlement would be effective July 1.

To Iowa’s coach Kirk Ferentz, Wilken’s order adds a new level of uncertainty. Considering the season begins in just over four months, he lamented the current state of college football.

“Not to make light of it, but this really says it all,” Ferentz said on SiriusXM College. “It’s … April 29, and we still have no idea what the rules are here for August. Think about that for a second. College football’s a fairly significant – it’s a big operation. A lot of revenue. It’s all we talk about anymore, is revenue.

“A lot at stake here, and we still don’t know what the rules are. That shows you just how screwed up things are right now, quite frankly. I guess that’s one good thing about getting older. I’ve learned not to sweat everything or rise and fall with every little thing that goes on. We’ll figure it out as it goes.”

FearlessF · « **Reply #2186 on:** April 29, 2025, 05:17:45 PM »

Pac-12 announces 2025 media rights deal with ESPN, CBS, The CW

For the second straight year, the Pac-12 will feature just two teams. Oregon State and Washington State will be the only teams in the conference, but more are on the way next year after a round of expansion – and the league now has a new media rights deal for 2025.

The Pac-12 announced CBS, The CW and ESPN will be part of the one-year deal. The CW was the league’s exclusive partner a year ago as Oregon State and Washington State started planning for the future of the conference, and their game was the network’s most-watched of the 2024 season. ESPN was part of the Pac-12’s previous media rights deal, which expired following the 2023 campaign.

Although former commissioner George Kliavkoff presented a new contract with would feature a streaming presence with Apple, the schools could not agree, which helped spark 10 departures and a groundbreaking round of realignment.

Now, ESPN will air two Pac-12 games this year. CBS will also air two games, and the other nine matchups will be on The CW.

“Having Pac-12 football featured across three leading broadcasters in CBS, The CW and ESPN in 2025 will provide tremendous exposure to showcase Oregon State, Washington State and our brand in the Pac-12’s final season before expansion,” Pac-12 commissioner Teresa Gould said in a statement. “We are thrilled to continue our partnership with The CW, to welcome a new partner in CBS Sports and to see a return of Pac-12 football on ESPN.”

Notable games highlight new Pac-12 media deal
As part of the media deal, The CW will now air a “New Pac-12” double feature in September. That slate will include Fresno State at Oregon State and San Diego State at Washington State, giving fans a sneak preview of two teams set to join the conference.

Fresno State and San Diego State will enter the Pac-12 in 2026 along with Boise State, Colorado State and Utah State as full Pac-12 members. Gonzaga is also coming aboard, but does not sponsor football.

Additionally, both CBS games will be in primetime. The annual Apple Cup game between Washington State and Washington will be Sept. 20 at 8 p.m. ET, and the Pac-12 featuring Wazzu at Oregon State will be No. 4 at 8 p.m. ET.

Of course, there’s also the return of Pac-12 football on ESPN. Oregon State’s Aug. 30 matchup against Cal will kick off at 10:30 p.m. ET, and the Beavers’ vs. Houston will be Sept. 26 – one day earlier than originally scheduled – at 10:30 p.m. ET.

“Adding these games strengthens ESPN’s industry-leading college football slate,” said Kurt Dargis, ESPN senior director of programming, in a statement. “They deliver meaningful exposure for Oregon State and align well with opportunistic time slots across our platforms.”

MikeDeTiger · « **Reply #2187 on:** April 29, 2025, 05:36:15 PM »

Quote from: FearlessF on April 29, 2025, 05:17:45 PM

“Having Pac-12 football featured across three leading broadcasters in CBS, The CW and ESPN in 2025 will provide tremendous exposure to showcase Oregon State, Washington State and our brand in the Pac-12’s final season before expansion,” Pac-12 commissioner Teresa Gould said in a statement. “We are thrilled to continue our partnership with The CW, to welcome a new partner in CBS Sports and to see a return of Pac-12 football on ESPN.”

It's hard to take "showcase.....our brand" seriously when it's immediately preceded by an admission that it's just OSU and WSU.

utee94 · « **Reply #2188 on:** April 29, 2025, 05:38:37 PM »

I often wonder where our friend PiratesRoost is these days and what he thinks about the self immolation of the PAC?

MikeDeTiger · « **Reply #2189 on:** April 29, 2025, 05:58:09 PM »

I've also thought about him. Back in 2011 he was high as a kite on the media deals the PAC had put together. iirc, he was also a binge-consumer of cfb like the most hardcore of us. I wonder if all the NIL, realignment, portal, etc. has put him off as much as it has us.

847badgerfan · « **Reply #2190 on:** April 30, 2025, 07:31:01 AM »

He was a fun poster.

ELA · « **Reply #2191 on:** May 01, 2025, 11:13:19 AM »

MSU has had a non-revenue renaissance thank to Alan Haller's hires.

Women's soccer was ranked #1 at one point, and reached the Sweet 16, after going winless in the Big Ten 5 years ago.

Gymnastics was literally at rock bottom after the sex scandal, and reached the Elite 8.

Men's tennis has a guy who lost in the singles championship, and has made 3 straight NCAA tourneys for the first time in program history.

Women's basketball got back into the top 25

They fired him today because of his NIL failures. So a guy who can actually manage the entire department, has a great eye for coaching talent, is now gone because he's not a good enough fundraiser

FearlessF · « **Reply #2192 on:** May 01, 2025, 11:37:28 AM »

William Byrne Jr. is an American retired college athletics administrator. He was the athletic director at the University of Oregon from 1984 to 1992, at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln from 1992 to 2002, and at Texas A&M University from January 2003 to May 8, 2012, when he retired.

He wasn't called Dollar Bill for nuttin

Gigem · « **Reply #2193 on:** May 01, 2025, 12:25:43 PM »

Quote from: FearlessF on May 01, 2025, 11:37:28 AM

William Byrne Jr. is an American retired college athletics administrator. He was the athletic director at the University of Oregon from 1984 to 1992, at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln from 1992 to 2002, and at Texas A&M University from January 2003 to May 8, 2012, when he retired.

He wasn't called Dollar Bill for nuttin

Bill Byrne. Responsible for some of the worst coaching hires in A&M history.

FearlessF · « **Reply #2194 on:** May 01, 2025, 12:50:36 PM »

while at UNL from 92 -2002 he allowed Solich to take the head coach job and didn't fire him. He hired Dave Van Horn for baseball - our best run ever.
Hired Mark Manning for wrestling - hired John Cook for volleyball - not sure if he hired Connie Yori for women's basketball before he moved on, Connie was a good coach

Hiring of Barry Collier as basketball coach was bad.

847badgerfan · « **Reply #2195 on:** May 01, 2025, 01:16:24 PM »

Nebraska has basketball?

FearlessF · « **Reply #2196 on:** May 01, 2025, 01:18:17 PM »

utee94 · « **Reply #2197 on:** May 09, 2025, 12:24:55 PM »

I think this is as close as we have to a "Business of College Football" thread, so I'll put this here:

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6340696/2025/05/07/sec-football-nine-game-schedule-espn-money/

ESPN open to paying SEC more to add ninth conference football game to schedule: Sources
Seth Emerson, Andrew Marchand
5–6 minutes
May 7, 2025Updated 6:59 pm EDT
ESPN has indicated a willingness to increase its payment to the SEC if the conference adds a ninth game to its league football schedule, sources briefed on the matter told The Athletic.
There is no formal offer yet, those sources added, and the exact amount of the increase still needs to be fully negotiated. But the sources said the additional money would likely be in the range of $50-80 million annually on top of the current deal, in which ESPN pays the conference $811 million per year to broadcast its sporting events. Both ESPN and the SEC declined to comment.
A change in ESPN’s stance doesn’t mean the SEC will definitely move to playing nine conference games. Now the main hurdle to expanding the league schedule may be the future College Football Playoff format, which isn’t likely to be determined until at least June. That makes it less likely — though not impossible — that the SEC makes a decision on a schedule format at its spring meetings later this month in Destin, Fla.
Still, ESPN’s willingness to up its ante is an important development, as it has been one of the main sticking points among enough SEC members to resist the push for nine games. When the SEC announced the addition of Oklahoma and Texas in July 2021, momentum toward a nine-game schedule increased instantly, with commissioner Greg Sankey among those privately in favor. (Sankey finally went public with his preference earlier this year.)
But for the past four years, members have expressed enough opposition that the conference instead went with a temporary fix of eight-game football schedules for 2024 and ’25, the first two seasons with Oklahoma and Texas. Some of the concern was competitive, especially among teams worried about reaching the six-win bowl eligibility threshold. Some of the concern was economic: A nine-game schedule means schools could play one fewer home game every two years, and they wanted ESPN to help make up the difference.
“One of the issues in the room for our athletics directors is what seemed to matter most, is the number to the right, the number of losses, and how do we understand what that means for our schedule moving forward?” Sankey said in March during an appearance on the Paul Finebaum Show. “I’m one who said I really think we ought to be trying to move towards a nine-game conference schedule. I think that can be positive for a lot of reasons. You watch the interest around conference games. But not if that causes us to lose opportunities.”
One reason Sankey and the SEC went with the temporary eight-game schedule was the hope that the success of the inaugural season with Oklahoma and Texas would encourage ESPN. And that appears to be exactly what happened.
The two new SEC schools were part of memorable, highly rated games, including their annual Red River rivalry and Texas’ two losses to Georgia on national stages. The SEC championship game between the Bulldogs and Longhorns was the highest-rated non-Playoff game of the college football season, and at least one SEC team was involved in eight of the 10 most highly rated games of college football’s regular season.
Another consideration for the league is the games that would not happen regularly if the SEC stayed with an eight-game schedule. The eight-game format would include only one permanent opponent for every team, so some highly rated rivalries would only be played twice every four years, including Texas-Texas A&M, Alabama-Tennessee, Alabama-LSU and Auburn-Georgia.
If the SEC went to a nine-game schedule, all those games would be played annually. Those matchups are all part of the 2024 and 2025 schedules, an unsubtle way for the SEC to show ESPN what it could be missing. (The eight-game schedule format could always be changed to account for those games, but the conference has made no move toward doing that.)
As for the CFP format, the SEC has been waiting to see whether the postseason field will expand to 14 or 16 teams and whether any automatic bids will be installed in the new format; the SEC and Big Ten have discussed pushing for as many as four bids apiece. When the SEC only got three teams in the 2024-25 Playoff field, concern over further snubs immediately boosted leaguewide sentiment about staying at eight games. The introduction of automatic bids may address those concerns, but momentum for their addition to the CFP structure may have stalled.
Another factor in a potential move off of eight-game slates: The SEC has been working closely with the Big Ten, which plays a nine-game conference schedule, and the leagues’ consideration of future scheduling partnerships may hinge on playing the same number of league opponents. The SEC could also just settle for a stronger assurance that schedule strength will matter to the CFP selection committee and assume the risk of an extra conference game in order to reap the financial benefits. The new money that would head each school’s way from ESPN would likely not even account for half of the more than $20 million schools will be allowed to distribute to athletes under a new revenue sharing system starting this summer, but it would still help.

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