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As I said, let's see how they're doing in a year or two. If they fail, they could legit blame it on Xinnie the Flu instead of it more likely being that the people in charge make a six year old look like Warren Buffet when it comes to handling finances.

You know I recall in this thread saying something about people from Deadspin going out and proving that there is still an interest in sports coverage with a progressive take. Looks like they've gone out and done it. Let's see how Deadspin and Defector are doing a year from now. Would be interesting to see it unfold. Tbf, Outkick would probably be a better comparison considering they are the right-wing counterpart to Defector.

Cincinnati isn't southern enough. Then again, West Virginia is in the Big XII while Mizzou is in the SEC. :censored:, maybe Cincinnati and North Carolina do get poached. Its been that kind of year.

Isn't Baldsilly bankrupt? Who else is going to want to move a hockey team to Canada's version of Shreveport?

And with that, a high-profile coach in basketball or football going to an HCBU can trigger similar movements of talent both in players and coaches. Getting an opportunity to be in charge will be enticing for a lot of black coaches who put in years of assistant coaching experience once other schools try to get higher-profile talent too.

If this becomes a trend to other HCBUs, I can see TV contracts skyrocketing for SWAC and MEAC too. HCBUs potentially becoming a force in football again was not something I saw coming.

Actually, until about 100 years ago, a lot of college campuses were away from easy access to urban areas. This idea of being a refuge for education is a part of why even to this day college campuses can sometimes feel like another world. Transportation technology and infrastructure advancing put it an end to that scenario. The South is only starting to have that change due to the explosion of people moving there and building up the economy and infrastructure there. Pretty much all of SEC country aside from Vanderbilt and Kentucky is a good distance away major urban areas.

If the MEAC collapses, I could see SWAC change their name to something like the Heritage or Freedom Conference as it would be the only conference left dominated by HBCUs.

It's our culture and potato salad is great IMO.

Hey, that's fine by me. Not everyone has to be the avatar of high culture. Gloppy deli food OTOH? Them's fightin' words.

See, the difference is that Sunday Night Football is for good teams so the issue doesn't come up as much. Monday Night Football, OTOH......

Thing is, right now, there isn't mass transit that would allow a downtown stadium to be functional aside from a 2 mile streetcar and a bus system. There's limited parking for downtown as well so a downtown stadium would be a disaster. Kansas City has a lot of highways so a stadium with a large parking lot is what makes sense right now. Same with Orange County vis a vis the Angels Stadium. Lease runs out in 2031 for both Kauffman and Arrowhead. They are talking about expanding the streetcar to Westport (a bar district that's 5 miles or so south from Union Station where the southern terminus is for the streetcar) plus they're still building capacity for parking. John Sherman has been pressing for a downtown stadium so maybe the infrastructure will be there by the time the lease is up. I don't think Arrowhead would be torn down, though. The Chiefs (and the people running the Truman Sports Complex) would probably turn the footprint that was Kauffman into a spot reserved for tailgaters only. Maybe they keep the fountains for those early games in the season. At that point, the question would be if 22 co-owners of the Royals and John Sherman are going to pay for this stadium themselves and if not, whether there is the political will among the people to approve of taxpayer funding for a stadium.

Arrowhead Stadium and Kauffman Stadium are still among the best stadiums in the league despite also being some of the oldest. Renovate, Don't Annihilate is the best path.

I blame listening too much to focus groups. Or whatever the equivalent is for broadcasters. They try to find the solution that is the most palatable and yet are shocked when someone that is neither controversial or offensive or whatever is boring. You can't get a guy like Howard Cosell when you're worried that a few people (who may not even be your audience) are going to launch a boycott over who knows what. And that leaks over into everything else. TV is boring, movies are boring, radio is boring and sports are getting boring. The Internet is where creative energy is now so I'd sooner hire UrinatingTree to call a game than Recently Retired Star QB.

Why find people with charisma when there are so many ex-stars needing work? I emphasize ex-stars as Rex Hudler did play in the big leagues but was mostly a utility player. Seems like guys like that make better coaches and broadcasters.

Thing is, I had an old co-worker at a ticket broker I used to work for (long story) who said that when he worked at a liquor store, Rex Hudler would come in and get 5 shot bottles of Seagram's 7 before he'd go to the booth for Royals home games. I imagine that those were simply liquid appetizers. Rex is certainly one of those love him or hate him guys. But, he's certainly not forgettable which is a trait that so many broadcasters now unfortunately possess.

If you've ever seen Rex Hudler on TV, you'd wonder if they actually stopped.

Nah, what Purdue should do is go by PU and call their team the Trashmen. And have some Danny DeVito looking guy be the mascot.

Oh. Thank you for letting me know, I had no idea. Yeah, that does sound better. Personally, I'm wondering how long it's going to take for the WAC to collapse. It's gone on for way too long.

Why can't they just do what University of Missouri-Kansas City did and name their teams "Indianapolis" while still keeping the official university name?

It's not ads so much as it is competing for donors and media coverage whether its traditional media or online media. And even if things have loosened up wrt sexuality in past decade or so, media companies aren't usually big on giving coverage to "porn companies".

Seems like the biggest driver of these competitors is catering to non-mainstream political views regardless of what they are. I should've worded it a lot better but I've never been one for tact. However, OnlyFans actually has a good shot because you can't dismiss it as a cesspool for NEETzis. Might make Patreon better too now that they actually have legit competition.

I miss steroids in baseball. Yeah, yeah, records, morals and all that but baseball was a lot more exciting when the best sluggers were roided up.

From what I heard, OnlyFans is trying to move away from porn to be more advertiser-friendly (read: boring). Pornhub doesn't seem to have problems with money or traffic so it doesn't make any sense to me. But, on the flip side, if anyone is going to make a Patreon competitor that doesn't cater to fascist/commie kooks who got the boot for ToS violations, they would have the best shot.

I don't miss the NFL blackout policy. I don't miss the Edwards Jones Dome being an NFL stadium even if St. Louis did get :censored:ed over. That place was a dump even in the late 90s. I don't miss the New Orleans Hornets. And I don't miss the Oakland Mausoleum being an NFL stadium. Like St. Louis, a total dump stadium in a total dump of a town. Although the Mausoleum was more of an upper decker than a dump