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TNET: Dabo Swinney to ESPN on NCAA structure: "I'd blow it all up"
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The trolls will implode. lol***
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Re: The trolls will implode. lol***
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Then Saban or Smart will say basically the same thing and praised as the savior of CFB moving forward.
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Re: The trolls will implode. lol***
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It has been a disaster scene since it lost its purpose which came when TV became the purpose and money took over the student athlete! The NCAA started picking favorites and the prison was actually run by the inmates, then came a new `master`...ESPN and the trustees came from those schools putting butts in the seats...Dabo is spot on again...it is destroyed and not worth fixin...start over...college education 1st, no gimmick majors just for athletes, no quarter!
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Re: The trolls will implode. lol***
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Feb 20, 2023, 5:48 PM
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Wow, I hope that I'll never be considered as a Troll here on T-Net*** LMAO. Dabo talking about he would blow it up, I really do believe that he would. I hope that Dabo stays at Clemson for as long as he wants to coach college football, but in all honesty I can't think of a better person than Dabo that could get college FB back on the right track if he was to become like a commissioner for all of college FB bc I truly believe he would be the right person to get things done to get college FB back to where it should be as a top collegiate sport.
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Wow, I never would have expected this, but I'm in complete
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Feb 20, 2023, 10:56 AM
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agreement with Dabo on this one. The NCAA is a sh*t-show and I've always held that opinion.
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Re: Wow, I never would have expected this, but I'm in complete
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Feb 20, 2023, 11:06 AM
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Amen, brother Dabo!
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Not entirely
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Feb 20, 2023, 11:57 AM
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One of the biggest issues is the NCAA gives out thousands of scholarships, vastly more than any other organization.
Those are likely the first things on the chopping block in order to provide the "money sports" with the guarantees they need through Congress, for example (things like guaranteed insurance & other amenities the NCAA would have to "sacrifice" on their end).
Their hands are tied in the NCAA because it's not up to them, but entirely up to Congress now that NIL went through the Supreme Court (hence why the upcoming NCAA president is a politician). In the meantime, they have been hiring enforcement like crazy, including former-FBI agents (remember, they lost all enforcement employees during COVID)
The first two proposals from the NCAA never even made it out of committee.
Pay-for-play can't last, but if you CAN win a title before it's relegated out explicitly, it might literally be worth it, even if they take away the title retroactively. It's going to be a weird few years.
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What?
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First, the NCAA does not give out scholarships. They are a governing body that should be abolished across-the-board because they’re a bunch of idiots and they infect college athletics with politics, which is not what they should be doing. That’s not their job.
They should’ve been abolished years ago.
Second, the Supreme Court did not rule on NIL. They made a ruling that opened the door for NIL. But the ruling was incorrect. There is no free market or open market in college athletics. There’s high school, college, and professional sports. College athletics is a monopoly. It’s not a free market. This is an example of judges making decisions about things that they don’t have the slightest clue about.
First Title IX then the Supreme Court effectively changed college football forever. But the problem is both of them were politically motivated and they made rulings that are incorrect. They treated college football in a vacuum.
College football is what pays for everything else. If you’re not looking at this as college athletics from a comprehensive viewpoint you end up making huge mistakes that are destroying the game. And this happened because the NCAA would rather get involved in things like bathroom bills in North Carolina and interfere with states rights and the democratic process rather than sticking to their job which is managing college athletics.
These things have happened because the NCAA would rather meddle in things that they don’t have any business meddling in and they are incompetent.
When you have outside forces that are purely politically motivated get involved a lot of bad stuff happens. And when the government gets involved bad things happen because they don’t understand what they’re doing and they never consider the negative unintended consequences. Nothing ever gets better with government involvement. Things only get worse.
But again this happened because the NCAA is incompetent and failed to do their fiduciary duty.
If you want to save college football and all of college athletics, you need to break the 30 to 50 biggest programs off and let them operate one-way and have the rest of college football managed differently with the understanding that it is football that pays for everything else.
But even when it comes to non-football sports, the NCAA has been out of touch and incompetent for decades. College baseball is another example of where they idiots and incompetent.
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Again, it's complicated
Feb 20, 2023, 1:23 PM
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I hear you, albeit to be fair, I was only trying to keep this incessantly complicated issue more brief is all.
Semantics then, regarding the NCAA & athletic scholarships around $4 billion a year, but my point is that there has to be leverage, & scholarships are easily & inescapably one of the first things to go in a rights negotiation at the congressional level.
The NCAA also created things like Title 9 rights rather than needing to be outright abolished years ago, but still, I hear you. Losing all of their compliance & enforcement staff during both COVID & NIL coming into play was never going to be anyone's benefit.
You're not wrong on the Supreme Court, either, but again, the semantics of the supreme court ruling on NIL is only that it's now a national & federal issue outright is all; it has to get through Congress, which takes time, years even.
The NCAA's first two proposals never even made it out of committee, & now we're waiting on the third.
The timing seems like an inescapable outlier, too, rather than the NCAA being outright pointless & inept. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the NCAA is the best thing ever, either, only that it's more important than we're likely to realize by nature is all, & the costs of things like NIL having more value than money alone.
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100%. Spot on.***
Feb 21, 2023, 7:22 AM
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Whew! We were worried you wouldn't approve.
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Dabo has a long way to go to be the 2nd best coach in the CFP era. He makes terrible decisions and I'm not sure he's ever going to accomplish anything here. We may need to consider moving on from him if we don't win the natty this year. He's had 14 seasons and doesn't have anything to show for it. It makes me feel a lot better knowing you finally agree with Dabo on something.
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He is accurately describing the Education Industrial Complex
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Feb 20, 2023, 10:57 AM
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in America as a whole. First, quit pretending that it ISN'T a business, second, run it like a business. Education in America is big business, NCAA football, and college athletics is simply a business that is part of the college institution. The budget for the Clemson athletic department is larger then the total budget of the institution I work at.
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It is big business, but
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Feb 20, 2023, 1:04 PM
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The athletes are not professionals nor are they employees. Nor should they be either of those things. That’s where the conflict comes into play and it only happened in the last 20 years when the money got big.
It’s just like with the rules that are being applied, as if everyone in college athletics has equal value. That every sport has equal value to football. The reality is very few college athletes will ever make a penny professionally. Less than 2% of all college football players will ever make money as a professional. But all of the rules are being made as if that 2% represents 100%.
You would never make a rule in your business that favors one or two employees over everyone else. Let’s say you have 500 employees. You don’t make company policy based on the whims and needs of five employees. You make policy that affects everyone. But if those five people Have a significantly larger impact on your bottom line then you make exceptions for those employees. But you don’t treat everyone like they are the same and equal because they are not.
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Well said
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Feb 20, 2023, 1:13 PM
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It's a complicated issue, for sure, but you're not wrong about some sports being more inherently important than others outright.
I think that's the biggest outlying issue with the NCAA; if we get rid of it altogether, ALL scholarships from the NCAA are gone.
Instead, we're more likely to lose nearly all scholarships from non-revenue-generating sports in order to make it a fair trade, so to speak; things like guaranteed insurance for all football players, for example, inescapably cuts into scholarships in many other sports.
It's tricky at best, but also worth celebrating having a funding arm as unique & successful as IPTAY, particularly as we're launching so many new sports like softball, lacrosse & gymnastics.
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney to ESPN on NCAA structure: "I'd blow it all up"
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Feb 20, 2023, 10:59 AM
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He’s giving truth but most coaches agree but don’t have the backbone to say it because they don’t want the media complex to come down on or against them.
Dabo just hits it head on, he doesn’t want to deal with the media but he desperately wants it better for his children(players) he loves his family.
It might have to crash hard before they restructure or it will be forced by the biggest conferences.
If the main 65-70 teams would be a part of 2-3 conferences. Maybe 3 conferences with 24 teams it would force change quickly.
SEC, Big 10 & CTC(Clemson Tiger Conference)
Of course the last conference would be the best.
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Excellent interview!***
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney to ESPN on NCAA structure: "I'd blow it all up"
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Dabo’s intelligence, capacity to deal calmly with bad executive management (the NCAA), and solutions oriented thinking prove, once again, his outstanding leadership skills.
Anyone notice how he tap danced around ESPN’s role in NCAA FB’s burgeoning catastrophe?
Dabo is brave, but not suicidal.
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney to ESPN on NCAA structure: "I'd blow it all up"
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The way the NCAA has been structured from the start is responsible for its miserable failure. There should have been a few basic rules for all of the collegiate sports and then each sport should have had someone at the NCAA that, along with the coaches and administrators, come up with specific rules for that sport ...... much like the Olympics have rules, but the federations (or whatever they are called) for each sport has their own rules for example how athletes qualify. The NCAA now, should be relegated to conduction the basketball tournament, the one thing they are good at!
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Dabo uses an awful lot of words, but simply put,
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Feb 20, 2023, 11:27 AM
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$$$ dictates everything, it's foolish to pretend otherwise, and it's time for everybody to acknowledge it and act from that perspective. And somehow you've got to try to find some integrity in that.
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And if it's going to be permissible for players to make 7
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Feb 20, 2023, 11:41 AM
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figures, in some cases right out of high school, then for godsakes knock it off with the charade that they are students, drop enrollment requirements, and call them members of the football or basketball departments.
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I've always thought these guys should MAJOR in football
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Feb 20, 2023, 11:52 AM
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Take classes that prepare you to, at least, be a coach.
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You’re making the same mistake everyone else is making
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Feb 20, 2023, 1:09 PM
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You think because a handful of students have that ability that no athletes are student athletes. The rules are being made in a way that is unsustainable and screwed up, because they’re looking at a handful of elite athletes and applying the same rules to everyone. Less than 2% of college football players will ever make a penny in professional sports. Less than 1% of other college athletes will ever make a penny as a professional athlete. The reality is over 98% of all student athletes are amateurs. They are in fact getting a college education because of that scholarship. They are never going to make money as professional athletes. You make rules that fit the overwhelming majority then make rational exceptions for the other 2 percent.
You also need to remove politics and faux social justice and the other outside noise and BS.
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The A/V department is right there...
Feb 20, 2023, 11:50 AM
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I just wish we could have gotten Coach Swinney a better setup. He looks like Eric MacLain out there with the bad lighting, awful camera & no direction on how to do it right (at least Coach Swinney didn't have the ear dongles, wasn't sitting around in his Monday morning sweats, & he unquestionably has a better microphone outright).
I mean, Clemson's social media & content quality is world-class, maybe the best in college sports. We're literally teaching kids to do it now with the branding center... but for Coach Swinney, Darien Rencher, et al., we don't have someone to deliberately get them some help?
Maybe it's a league thing, I don't know, but it frustrates me is all. The new media center, for example, looked great for Coach Riley's debut, but for whatever reason all the audio feeds live were AM-quality.
Also, we're literally waiting on Congress now; NIL & removal of thousands of scholarships as a side effect is going to take time, likely years by nature; the last two proposals from the NCAA never made it out of committee, so we're kinda back at square one for that timetable now.
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I think we'd like to see Neff blow it all up too
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referring to Clemson basketball, that is.
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney to ESPN on NCAA structure: "I'd blow it all up"
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Feb 20, 2023, 12:08 PM
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Do away with the leagues as they are. Yes! Set us free!
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Fewer star players in the big games?
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As for playing in future playoffs, the "You know, you beat Ohio State, Alabama and now you have to go play Georgia" part, I am the opposite---I like the idea of us playing in some big games every now and then, rather than the best players choosing not to play in the biggest games but they all play Furman, for example.
Not coincidentally, though, there's a legitimate rule change proposal for clock management, including running the clock after boundary stops & after gaining first downs.
It will remove roughly a quarter's worth of play time per game according to estimates, which may sound bad, but it also gives players concerned about the safety of playing 15+ games a season a clear compromise.
I don't think the rule change likely starting the same year as the expanded playoff is an accident.
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Tell 'em coot. No one knows losing better than you.
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Nope.com
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Feb 20, 2023, 1:08 PM
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Coot?
My guy, I literally have Clemson in my blood, I do a Clemson podcast with my name on it every week, I'm agreeing with Coach Swinney here, & I'm praising the A/V at Clemson as arguably the best in college sports... and you're accusing me of being a fan of a rival team?
I don't expect a sincere or honest response from everyone, but that's just a weird flex in this case (again).
If you have an opinion on the subject the rest of us are talking about though, I'll listen, always.
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Re: Nope.com
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Don't sweat it. He's one of the board's self-appointed coot detectors. If you click his username, you can see how often he posts that gem.
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Oculus Spirit [76751]
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Or, you could TD posters thinking they can't see it,
Feb 20, 2023, 2:19 PM
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get caught, get called out and whine to the mods like you did.
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Actually
Feb 20, 2023, 2:37 PM
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I'm certainly well aware of getting thumbs down, albeit I get them without making insults & being toxic here outright; there may simply be no legitimate way to avoid them here outright as it's the nature of the site is all.
I can handle the thumbs down even if I question why it happens en masse & regardless of the content, but I couldn't resist questioning why I was called the opposite of the logic in the comment is all.
I still think Coach Swinney is right here, though, & if he ultimately ends up being right on this one, it's a huge benefit to Clemson outright & as soon as the first year of expansion (if not this year, to be clear).
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Re: Actually
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BloodBeGarnet thinks people don't realize TDs are visible now.
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Awe,
Feb 20, 2023, 6:09 PM
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luckyj® doesn't like his own medicine?
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No clue why you are addressing me.
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I was addressing the hypocritical poster that won't man up to getting called out for TD'ing thinking they aren't visible.
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Re: No clue why you are addressing me.
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Awww, BloodBeGarnet has no clue. Imagine that.
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Re: No clue why you are addressing me.
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luckyj®
Hey old man. So, you are too scared to address me about being called
Out for TD'ing a post to a well known bored coot, but you've decided to deflect this into a who said who is a coot? Weak, old man.
Here's the thing. I believe you're a tiger, as am I. I'm only calling out your weak disposition, TD'ing a post then ghosting a tag asking why.
If you don't have the guts to face it, at least say you don't have any guts..... right?
Classic weak constitution. I bet Vietnam could have used a defector like you.
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But that's not accurate?
Feb 21, 2023, 2:40 PM
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Wait, you're doing all this because you think I didn't know you could see thumbs down?
That's simply not accurate is all, but again, I'm also not deliberately toxic or insulting, either. I'm plenty of man, especially the way I publicly represent Clemson, for what it's worth; insults & toxicity I'd argue are vastly less comparable to "manning up," know what I mean?
Again, my problem isn't getting thumbs down, but for getting them & insults for no logical reason or even often in spite of what people say rather than because of it.
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Re: Nope.com
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It seems being called a coot is a sort of rite of passage for anyone on this board, regardless of what you say.
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When did you jump off the Alabama bandwagon? You were a
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BIG Tide fan back when ESPN still let you comment on their articles Grey
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He traded for UGA two years ago.***
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Around the same time as Coach Swinney, then?
Feb 21, 2023, 2:47 PM
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Thanks for reading, but you're implying I don't love Clemson or have Clemson in my blood because I commented on ESPN articles about Alabama including well before Clemson had started this run of unprecedented success? What about the Notre Dame articles, & Western Kentucky, & Cincinnati?...
Y'all judge, & I get it, but I can and will ALWAYS answer any question outright.
My dad grew up in Tuscaloosa. It's in his blood. My brother also graduated there. My grandmother lived there her entire life.
I, on the other hand, was born in Greenville the February after my mother went to every Clemson home game while pregnant. Clemson is in my blood. I suppose you could say I'm a reverse Dabo, so to speak, but to be fair, I also celebrate the entire sport on the podcast, albeit I only take pictures for Clemson University.
I could go on, but I'm not sure there's a point.
Still, fire Dabo then, I guess? Dude LOVED Alabama & seemingly still does. I got to see him get a standing ovation there a few years ago. Frankly I think it's a great lesson, but hey, I admit, I'm a Coach Swinney fan outright.
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Re: Fewer star players in the big games?
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Well that's what it has already come to. Players that has been told they will be drafted are opting out of big games that actually matter for growing income for the school, they now don't care about their school future wellbeing bc it has come down to me me me and to h&11 with the school that has hired big time coaches to help them get to where they are in the college FB world and having a better chase to make it to the NFL, and that's a fact!!!
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Sometimes Dabo needs to talk less.
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I don't disagree with much of what he's saying, but this is a prime example of how he brings a lot of the criticism on himself.
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I often agree with you about Dabo and his mouth
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Feb 20, 2023, 1:12 PM
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But he was spot on and 100% accurate in this interview with everything.
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I often agree with you about Dabo and his mouth
Feb 20, 2023, 1:12 PM
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But he was spot on and 100% accurate in this interview with everything.
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Re: I often agree with you about Dabo and his mouth
Feb 20, 2023, 1:40 PM
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I agree. Very good interview by Dabo. Wait and listen to the Alabama's and Ohio State's of the world disagree with him. ESPN will castrate him because he told the truth about what they worship. Unfortunately, nothing will change and college football will continue to disintegrate.
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Feb 20, 2023, 1:55 PM
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Ironically though, they're literally just now introducing proposals to shorten the length of games, which would directly play into Coach Swinney's comments here about players being less likely to opt-out of an expanded playoff; more games in the same number of plays is kinda what the players want, he made it sound like.
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Re: Sometimes Dabo needs to talk less.
Feb 20, 2023, 6:10 PM
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Dabo is going to be who he is, and he don't care about what the other people is his profession thinks about him bc he has proven that being Dabo has been very successful, and I can't say that I blame him bc to me I hate counterfeit people that tries to convince others that they're someone that they're not!!!
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"Blow it up real good"
Feb 20, 2023, 1:41 PM
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I'd call that fairly non-controversial for Dabo, but he doesn't get too specific outside of shrinking FBS.
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Dabo is drinking from the same fountain I am.
Feb 20, 2023, 1:52 PM
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I think most football people know that's where it's going. I would say, quit wasting time. We all know what's going to happen in two years or three years or five years, so why don't we go ahead and get there and get on with it."
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Go ahead and get on with it. Go ahead and announce that FSU and Clemson, along with several others, are headed to the B1G or SEC. Why wait. I still say the announcement happens by the end of March.
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Curious
Feb 20, 2023, 1:57 PM
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Honest question, why would Clemson & FSU together go to the B1G or SEC instead of the BIG12 as they were originally planning when we got a new TV network to stay in the league instead?
I think a move might be likely outright, for sure, just that by law it's likely also going to be much longer than in 5 years is all.
Still, while the NCAA can't abolish any conference outright, it does sound like it might be a benefit to the sport from a competitive standpoint if not a revenue outlook as well.
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I'm thinking like Dabo.
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Feb 20, 2023, 2:53 PM
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In a few years there will be no NCAA. Conferences like today will be non-existent.
There will be 48-64 teams competing at the highest level of college football. (I expect it will be closer to 48.)
The teams in the SEC and B1G will be among those 48-64. The rest may or may not be included.
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Re: Curious
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The chasing of the biggest revenue is what has created the problems with college sports, and that is what made college players go after a share of the huge revenue, and they can't be blamed for that when it's their skill and talent that has raised that revenue to get so big, and the grown up big business people wanted every dime of it just for themselves!!! Money is what destroys everything that was good!!!
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney to ESPN on NCAA structure: "I'd blow it all up"
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Feb 20, 2023, 3:09 PM
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As far as expanded Playoffs, having 12 regular season games, a conference Championship game and 3 or 4 potential Playoff games is a long season. Any way you slice it, the players are students and they have to do their school work and make the grades or they cannot play football.
The other issue to me would be the health of the players and the potential imbalance of strength by Playoff time if injuries happen. The NFL has practice squads and free agents to fall back on in the event of injury and colleges do not. Perfect for us would have been DJ going to the Portal and Cade getting hurt in practice before the Orange Bowl I could maybe see an 8 team Playoff but more than that the risk of competitive imbalance really goes up.
The last thought would be for the fans and the students. Let's say we continue having the ACC Championship in Charlotte and fans spend money to go to that game. We win the ACC and have to go to Texas to play the Longhorns in the 1st Playoff game which means money and vacation days. If we are lucky enough to win and the next Playoff game is in California against Oregon which means thousands more dollars and more vacation days. If we win against Oregon the Natty is in Arizona who could afford to go or had the time off to go? A 4 team Playoff costs plenty but add another game or two and you are talking about life style changes. We don't get a vote so we will just wait and see what happens.
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney to ESPN on NCAA structure: "I'd blow it all up"
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Another good point. We simply don't have large enough of a fan base, or national enough of fan base to consistently show up to 3 playoff games. I'm not knocking our dedication, but it's unreasonable to spend $10000 every year on playoff tickets and travel.
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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney to ESPN on NCAA structure: "I'd blow it all up"
Feb 21, 2023, 10:31 AM
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he's right
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Everybody needs to understand one thing first
Feb 24, 2023, 3:27 PM
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Over the last 40 years, the NCAA was not a strong organization that controlled CFB and other sports. It was a front (or puppet) organization controlled by the P5 conferences. The NCAA had no power in and of itself. It was a servant, a public face being controlled from behind the scenes. It was a flak jacket to withstand the bullets and criticism from fans and media and allow the P5 conferences to remain unscathed.
When lawsuits over NIL shook the foundation of college sports, things changed. The NCAA switched into survival mode and the goal changed to simply justifying its existence. I think we all realize it's just a matter of time before a new governance structure is coming. I don't believe congress has an appetite to intervene so don't hold your breath.
Dabo is bluntly stating (at his own risk) the obvious. Whether the outcome is what he specifically predicts is another matter. IMO, lawsuits will prevent football from being governed separately from other sports. It will remain the cash cow to fund them. When it comes to new tiers being created, a lot of middling schools left outside the B1G and SEC will become big losers of football revenue. The losers won't go down without a nasty legal fight.
IMO, it could be 10-12 years from now before the dust (i.e, [1] realignment, [2] political challenges and [3] legal challenges) settles.
Realignment:
Will be mostly settled when the P12 finally collapses, UA/ASU/Colorado/Utah go to the B12, Oregon/UW go to the B1G or B12 and ND makes it clear they will link up with the B1G in a manner both sides can agree to.
I see the ACC mess as very complicated because it is not in the interest of the "low value" schools to let Clemson, FSU (and perhaps UNC and UVA) leave early. BC, SU, NC State, Duke, WF have no interest in seeing their athletic revenue disintegrate any sooner than necessary.
Political Challenges:
Cal's weakfish attempt to prevent UCLA from leaving the P12 with USC may indicate state politics won't be a major factor.
Legal Challenges:
This is the final frontier. I wouldn't rule out some creative lawsuits at the federal level that could either cause the courts to issue solutions or force negotiated settlements to address greviences.
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Re: Everybody needs to understand one thing first
Feb 26, 2023, 2:46 AM
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We would be all better to stop College football. It is an unfair competition. The best schools play 7 home games and 5 away. The money is unequal. The competition is unfair. The NFL will be just fine and will develop it own farm team.
Goodbye College football--we will all be better off
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