College athletics is on the verge of becoming completely f_cked up.
An no, I am not mad or bitter because I understood that if things changed K-State could be left out a long, long time ago . . . and I pretty much figured thing would change dramatically.
But, the powers that be are about to ruin it . . . there's nothing on the table that says smart growth from a long term viability viewpoint. It's all pretty much about the here and now. Sorry, but I don't see the folks at Cal getting all that fired up when the Texas Tech Red Raiders come to town. I don't see the folks at UCLA giving 2 $hits if they're playing Texas A&M that weekend . . . if a conference gets too big, that means you might see another conference "foe" in your football stadium once every 8 to 10 years, woo hoo, now that exciting, "we'll see you Texags back here in 2021 and we're gonna kick your a$$".
IMO there's literally hundreds of millions of dollars being left on the table because D1 college football doesn't have a playoff system. They're letting a bunch of good old boys and bowl games of which very few people really even give a f_ck about run the show instead of having a playoff. If they had a playoff system nobody would give f_ck about TV revenue like they do, because the chances are the conference take on a playoff system would render TV revenue insignificant chump change. In a playoff system allow all non playoff teams to have 2 extra weeks of practice . . . . oh wait, trundling off to the "nobody gives a f_ck bowl" in which your school LOSSES money is a huge "Reward'. Never mind.
Uhhhhhh, Dax?
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news;_ylt=AqX79xdNbH0Y5gp7mPwdcgocvrYF?slug=dw-expansion060610
Beebe is a tard . . . when he was talking about how he's all buddy-buddy with the Big 10 and Pac 10 commish, in the back of my mind I knew he was getting played. The former Big 12 commish (the smart K-State alum) saw the hand writing on the wall and went and started the Big 10 Network for the Big 10. Alarm bells should have been going off all over the place when a guy as capable as Kevin Weiberg leaves for a lessor position in the Big 10. Anybody in Beebe's position should have seen that Delaney was probably scared $hitless of a playoff system because he know's that more times than not, when the Big 10 top school plays the top schools from the SEC, Pac 10, and Big 12 . . . his guys are going to lose.
Plus a terrible job by the previous K-State administration of putting K-State in a good position, they were so busy patting themselves on the back after 2003 they took all that momentum and did virtually nothing with it . . . and then propagandized and brain washed powertards into thinking that because K-State was in the middle of a major university wide fund raising campaign, nothing about it could be altered or changed until the fund raising campaign was over.
Had we been on our way to a playoff system all this school grabbing would have been greatly minimized in my opinion. There would have been no reason for it . . .. the existing conferences could have built lucrative TV deals using the power of their internal rivalries and then been sucking in massive dollars on top of that from a football playoff system.
There are a few things that I don't quite understand or at least don't make logical sense to me. So, Kevin Weiberg basically resigns from the Big 12 because he is, at least in my mind, trying to actually do the job of the Commissioner, which is to serve the entire conference, which is to say he was trying to be forward thinking and explore a network, explore more equal revenue distribution, etc. So he leaves, goes to the Big 10 and helps them set up their conference. Now he goes to the Pac 10 and is basically doing the same thing.
So, let's say NU tells UT to f*ck itself....UT's going to go to the Pac-10 so the Pac 10 can start its own network and distribute revene equally? I mean, I would imagine that the Pac-10 network would stand to provide more revenue than the Big 12 network, but now UT would go to a conference where it wouldn't run things. At all. The League offices wouldnt' be in Texas, the network offices wouldn't be in Texas, and the path to any football championship would have to go through more schools than just OU. I suppose UT could dictate (as it did when the Big 12 was formed) what it wanted, but the Big 12 was a "new" conference; it wasn't joining an existing conference. I have a hard time seeing USC (or any of the powerful Pac-10 schools) relinquish that much control, especially considering it would be the PAC-10 that would be negotiating from a position of greater power than Texas. Why wouldn't Texas just tell NU (and MU) to go f*ck itself and grab other schools and then continue to basically run its own conference? I'd almost like to see NU tell UT to f*ck itself just to see what UT does.
