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  1. rams80
    Based on his posts, I'm pretty sure Coltfan is like 10 and his suggestions should be placed in that context.
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    Maybe faculty senates raised a bigger stink at other schools than their administrators anticipated.
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    Perhaps, but just kicking Liberty out costs you those 2 units of NCAA tournament money they got last year.
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    Just spitballing, but maybe the advantage they see is getting away from Liberty because of, well everything about their institution, and also because Liberty is running roughshod in league play over the conference they only joined as a halfway house after the Big South told them to GTFO when they went FBS.
  5. rams80
    Because the city is pronounced "Woostah"
  6. rams80
    This....isn't bad actually? I'm very pleasantly surprised. Props to ownership for holding the line.
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    Again, those Appy League ballparks are going to be empty if the majors pull the plug-those towns are too small to be viable absent subsidies. Travel burdens probably kills most of the Pioneer League markets. For the record, St. Paul did say they were surprised as the rest of us by this announcement, so probably neither they nor Sugarland (selected because Austin's too far away for the Astros *eye rolls into back of skull*) are formally part of this.
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    This was the fig leaf the braintrust in Houston thought up to explain why MLB shouldn't lose the anti-trust exemption.
  9. rams80
    This is about money insofar as late-stage capitalism values extracting every last marginal dollar at all costs. Most of those 42 teams won't survive long without more direct MLB subsidies, lets stop kidding ourselves and assuming good faith behavior right there. Houston did come up with this mostly because they figured their scouting (and presumptive cheating) will allow them to maximize player talent if you cut the player pools available to other teams.
  10. rams80
    Yes. The point is that the other ways in which NMSU stands out from the rest of New Mexico's higher ed set up don't always register with legislators, especially since Las Cruces is so far away from the seats of power in the state.
  11. rams80
    There are additional political reasons for maintaining FBS membership. For one thing, the state legislators 4 hours away in Santa Fe understand "D1 FBS" better than "Carnegie R2" and "Land Grant" when it comes time to argue that NMSU should get more state aid than the directional New Mexico schools and at least stay in sight of UNM's funding.
  12. rams80
    The problem is that modern sports journalism is either so utterly access driven that even Maggie Haberman would pointedly inquire about the beat writers' journalistic integrity or functionally a bunch of teenage males talking in a locker room. Deadspin didn't really fall into either category, and therefore did kind of fill a valuable niche that will now be unfilled.
  13. rams80
    There's nothing wrong with being diametrically opposed to something that spawns on the locker room floor.
  14. rams80
    Except arguably they were doing their job right up until the private equity brosephs who had acquired Gawker took exception to being outed as such in a feature Deadspin article and then pulled the Darth Vader "I have altered the bargain" shtick.
  15. rams80
    Midwest League: No surprise on Beloit (ancient stadium that's been repeatedly been a concern) and Burlington (smallest market in full-season affilated ball, although I enjoyed the doubleheader I took in there a few years back) Bowling Green though? I guess its a small market and kind of on an island.for travel, but that's only a 10-year old stadium, in a place where they might still resort to tar and feathers. Might want to send some MBA you secretly hate in your organization to drop the boom there.
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    NorCal/SoCal lost one of the big fracture points back in the 60s though. Prior to Baker v. Carr and Reynolds v. Sims, NorCal used to have control of the State Senate (because seats were divvied out at one Senator per county) and SoCal had the State House (because seats were distributed by population.
  17. rams80
    The Rams wrote the rest of the NFL a pretty big check to move back to Los Angeles.
  18. rams80
    Yeah man, the New England Patriots are totally going to move there if it opens up. Real talk, Connecticut legislature authorizes the budget etc., and they probably aren't keen on that stadium becoming a white elephant.
  19. rams80
    I'm basically saying NMSU has already begged for at least MWC membership.
  20. rams80
    Seadragon, what makes you think that NMSU would end up with a Mountain West or CUSA invite if they haven't gotten one already?
  21. rams80
    New Mexico State looks at how it is now functionally shackled to a for profit religious school when trying to find a new home, sighs.
  22. rams80
    The difference being that that era in major league sports saw a lot more expansion to legit respond to growing demand for more teams in more places. Although for all 4 examples it also bears repeating that some of the teams didn't take. Braves bailed on Buffalo, Rockets bailed on San Diego, Kings AND Scouts bailed on KC, Rockies (who were the former Scouts!) bailed on Denver.
  23. rams80
    Not insane on their part and the A-Sun doesn’t do football so not as big a burden.
  24. rams80
    The budgetary climate for Louisiana higher ed isn't going to improve any time soon.
  25. rams80
    Southland's got too many weak sisters (all of the Louisiana schools, for example) to add on a bunch of struggling HBCUs.
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