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They've wasted decades not figuring that one out.

Preemptive? I’m not sure what’s preemptive about finally doing something only after you’ve lost in court and no doubt will only continue to lose in court until you compensate your employees for their...

For sure. .NDSU just took it and it seems like half the people who care were more than OK with the decision.

They’ll still have to do it but the difference between 4 and 5 will be a bye week rather than access to the championship. The difference between 8 and 9 will be a home game and the decision on who...

All this proves is that the committee is smart enough to do better than just counting W’s and L’s.

It has little to do with how good the conference is. It’s about how good the committee thinks the conference champion is. The committee doesn’t rank conferences. They rank teams.

The field is 68 not 12.

Seems like a recipe for Norte Dame playing the little sisters of the poor 12 times.

Yep. Non-power 5 will get no more than 1. And they should be happy with that. SMU is probably the best of the rest this year and they’re barely better than South Dakota State.

And FSU is left out. There you go argument #1 for a larger field. It’s almost as if all they’re looking for out of the next 5 weeks is a promotional campaign for the 12 team expansion next year.

I would guess he means all of them.

Pretty typical and petty response to blame the administration for something published in what is supposed to be an independent student newspaper.

Personally the bad AQs do not bother me. It’sthe bad seeding decisions, the regionalization, and the bad at large selections more or less in that order.

We would be 12th and we would deserve it instead of being 12th when we should have been 5th.

I guess we’re either forgetting or ignoring that Sagarin conference ratings are a central mean?

top and bottom teams get less weight in the average. For a 9 team league it would be 123454321.

As if they give a shit about automatic bids. Just add two more at large to the basketball tournament and they’ll be fine.

I’m not sure why they wouldn’t go for one of the 7 G5 schools in Texas? Maybe they actually get the fact that no one cares about their programs?

I don’t see why it should be harder in the collegiate context than professional. Player pay is way less variable for the college programs. The coaches will get what they can negotiate. Promotion...

A conference championship game in an 8 team conference where everyone plays everyone makes little sense to me but $$$$.

Well, they don’t have a big boy spot today and they need more teams to make this go but I’m far from convinced we’d be at the front of the line even in the remote chance that this happens.

They’re on the wrong side of the fence and the gate is welded shut today. If they do nothing it stays that way.

Pretty sure the Presidents and ADs are already worried about getting fired if their...

Well, today the top half of the WMC are stuck in the MWC, so let’s not pretend there aren’t incentives for them to agree to a deal with no downside compared to what they’ve got today.

There are ways to do this. Revenue sharing, parachute payments, etc. there are different models. Other places do this. It’s possible.

I’m not sure there’s another situation where something like this would be possible but as it stands OSU and WSU have so much to lose if the PAC12 goes away they just might be willing to risk...

No wonder everyone is transferring.