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17 minutes ago, Lights Out said:

 

It won't be 5-0 since Maryland beat Auburn.

Yeah forgot about that one. Although to be fair, they’re both pretty forgettable teams right now.

With LSU downing Wisconsin, and Tennessee up 28-0 on Iowa in the 4th quarter, a potential Alabama win would give the SEC a 5-0 bowl season in head-to-head matchups against the Big Ten this year. Didn't even realize they scheduled that many.

5 minutes ago, JerseyJimmy said:

lol screw you liberty

4 hours ago, DCarp1231 said:

The newly formed United Football League following the merger of the USFL & XFL has been unveiled-

The remaining teams and locations will be unveiled tomorrow during College Gameday

As both a Mizzou and XFL fan, I approve of the new UFL logo.

So instead of the Roughnecks staff/players rebranding as the Gamblers, as expected, it appears the Gamblers staff/players may have been rebranded as the Roughnecks and will be in the USFL division.

That was awesome getting to watch Mizzou beat Ohio State in my first ever trip to Texas. Now staying at a (meh) Motel 6 across the street from the stadium, which is the entire view from our window.

10 hours ago, BBTV said:

 

I think the playoff status of a team is irrelevant.   The player owes the school nothing.

I wouldn't say "nothing". A college scholarship and 3+ years of development into the player that's being projected as a high draft pick sounds like a pretty big "something".

7 hours ago, BottomlessPitt said:

 

Go worry about your :censored:ing XFL team you :censored:ing dork. 

6 hours ago, BottomlessPitt said:

I think MLS would be perfect at 24. Split into two 12 team conferences. You play everyone in your conference twice (22 games). You play the other conference once (12 games), alternating home and away on a yearly basis. 34 games total. The hard part is which 6 teams you get rid of?

What? Are you just randomly saying things off-topic that will never happen?

Nevermind.

6 minutes ago, WestCoastBias said:

 

It's not about being a west coast shut in or ignorant. It's about regionality, the majority of universities serve their regions. That's what started this debate in the first place. I advocated for it being fine for Oregon State to use OSU on their uniforms even though there are other OSU's because that's their regional name. So if Missouri wants to put MU on their uniforms than that's fine but that doesn't mean people outside of that region will necessarily know which M university it is, same as the OSU situation. 

And my list was in response to the quoted statement by you. Which is your own personal view. Many view them through a national lense that you may not, yet you still made a blanket statement. For all you know, you may very well be the exception in regards to college fans and their understanding of school acronyms and abbreviations. But you made this statement of absolution anyway.

39 minutes ago, Germanshepherd said:

If this actually catches on I could see both Lincoln and Omaha having a team. NU/Creighton is a decent rivalry, although its one-sided.

After 92,003, I’m fairly confident in saying this is the biggest volleyball fanbase in the country. 

Lincoln is not a big enough market on its own to have a professional team. And it would make no sense to cut into Omaha's already small market, however big the interest in the sport is there. It would be like putting an NFL team in Milwaukee.

9 hours ago, WestCoastBias said:

 

You think people really know all those? Most people don't even know that Cal is UC Berkeley. MU... Michigan? Missouri? Montana? There's a lot of M states, you think someone out West or in the NE knows MU means Missouri? Where I'm from people think FSU is Fresno State (which also is referred to as State locally), I doubt many know UGA too or what an Ole Miss is. Once again acronyms are regional, we know them because we live in a sports bubble but a lot of regular people don't know college sports off the top of their head like they do the NFL, MLB, or NBA. I'll give you LSU, UCLA, BYU, and maybe TCU and UNLV.

Yes. Because not everyone is a west coast shut-in who ignores the rest of the country. Missouri is the only M state that goes by MU. Since they're all "University of", the others are UM. The Big 8 schools flipped the letters (MU, KU, OU, NU, CU), so yes, it's very distinctive as to who they are. And I guarantee you none of the others are confusing, either. Ole Miss is no school other than Mississippi.

You are purposely applying your own ignorance to the entire country. Anybody who is a casual fan of college sports will get these pretty quickly. You need to look past your own name. My only assumption is that you're either an outlier or an agitator intentionally trying to create a false narrative to justify your unsubstantiated claims. My money's on the latter.

8 minutes ago, Dilbert said:

Florida State will not be joining the European Super League

Culturally, they're a match, so, never say never.

On 12/10/2023 at 10:11 PM, WestCoastBias said:

As much as college athletics want to be national brands they never will be to the extent that an acronym or shortened name is solely associated to one school. 

LSU

Cal

UK

UNLV

OU, MU, KU

BYU

UCLA

UGA

FSU

Ole Miss

TCU

12 minutes ago, CaliforniaGlowin said:

They sure lost me with that

That's the equivalent of two thumbs up.

1 hour ago, MJWalker45 said:

This includes division info, dispersal and protection draft rules

 

Divisions: USFL and XFL divisions, so no regional alignment

 

Hubs: Training only. All teams will practice at Arlington, TX and go to their home stadiums to play

 

Dispersal: Each team can grab 10 players, but they must be from the former teams that are from their leagues (December 27). A second dispersal draft will be in January, with no restrictions on which league they can pull from.

 

No info on game rules yet. 

 

Also, based on DC United's schedule, the Defenders will be playing most of the first game of the season on the road.  If their schedule is based on United being on the road they will be  playing 2 of the first 5 games at home and reversing that on the back end. I hope that Thursday and Friday games are no more as well. But we'll see. 

 

Friday nights wouldn't be bad. But no Thursday night games. The league isn't established enough to draw on a weeknight like the NFL or CFB can.

Are we sure these aren't simply some type of fashion jersey? Seems either edited as @hendocfc mentioned or simply not authentic game jerseys. Would Miami really be going away from the polo collar?

15 minutes ago, MJWalker45 said:

Yeah, but that Houston team still may have to play a year in Canton, unless they get a deal done with the Dynamo, Texans, or Rice University. I'd almost rather they just do what San Antonio did last year and tarp off the top decks at NRG Stadium, and use only the lower bowl for Gamblers games until they get enough fans to justify opening up the other areas. 

 

I doubt they'd play at NRG. Right before the merger talks were announced in September, it was said they were close or had an agreement for the Roughnecks to play at Rice. Seems more plausible. Shell Energy Stadium would be cool, but Rice would appear to have more open availability.

3 hours ago, Cujo said:

 

First time I've ever heard fair and logical thinking from a college head coach. This makes way too much sense for NCAA brass to actually listen to.

Well you have the NCAA President proposing a separate division for power schools (an idea stolen from me, but I'm not dwelling on it), and now the head coach of a pending-Big Ten school suggesting essentially the same thing, only more precise.  Seems to me it's a possibility.

6 hours ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

Anyway, Peterson and Kekich made their arrangment public only because they knew that it was going to be written about.  And it deserves no mocking, as everyone involved was doing it willingly.

 

  

 

First of all, the Yankee fans of my era were far from "joyless".  We took great pleasure in our vast knowledge; even better, we used it to educate anyone who asked (and sometimes people who didn't ask).

 

Secondly, the Francesa-type fan is representative of the latter-day boor, not of the 1970s-era erudite baseball scholar.

 

Don't call Yankees fans "baseball scholars" while defending that Jerry Springer-level wife swap saga.

A special one-off holiday/special occasion treatment to their regular uniforms is not the equivalent of City Connect/Full-Time Alternate uniform, so this "oh they've already done it, so they're hypocrites if they don't" crap is nothing more than sanctimonious nonsense. They are not the same thing. Each special occasion uniform is worn once a year (or one series a year) and are really just wordmarks or logos of their regular uniforms recolored with pink or blue or camo, not completely new designs that are worn throughout the season.

I mean, the Yankees home uniforms and Detroit's old English D are some of the most iconic uniforms and logos associated with the cities themselves. How could some Nike-video game-created uniform better represent their respective cities than what they're already wearing on a daily basis?

2 hours ago, BBTV said:

Apparently there's an out clause, though unsure how it's triggered since it has yet to be reported who this is talking about (manager, GM, owner, backup catcher, etc.)

 

The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal reports that Ohtani has a clause in the deal which states, “if specific change in Dodger personnel, player may opt out of contract at end of season the change occurs.”

 

(per NY Post.  I haven't fact checked.)

Mark Walter (Controlling Owner) and Andrew Friedman (President of Baseball Operations)

4 hours ago, Lights Out said:

I also don't get why everyone bitched so hard about the Mets' and Padres' spending but they ignore the Dodgers'.

The only people who "bitched so hard" about the Mets' and Padres' spending are they same ones bitching about the Dodgers' spending.