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[Pops Freshenmeyer]

I don’t believe it. If schools like UM and OSU want in then why would they tie themselves to the bottom half of the SEC (but shut out the middle class of every other conference)?...

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

I have reached a place where I now hope this exact thing happens....

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

Has Swarbrick issued any public comments?

I'm curious whether he is going to strongly commit to independence or say anything about a changing landscape affecting ND's future.

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

FWIW, posters on reddit pointed out that this guy also said that Texas, et al. to the PAC was done during the last realignment....

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

If A&M did leak this (in hopes of getting public opinion to put a stop to it) then leaving them out of the loop was totally justified....

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

True. I am feeling increasingly disconnected from CFB as a whole.

I still watch ND due to my family connections to it but I used to watch a LOT of random games but I've lost interest for a variety of reasons.

It's hard to see where the shakeup of conference realignment, nationalized...

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

Yeah but incentives didn't get so weirdly misaligned until more recently. In ye olde days you wanted to fill your stadium to maximize your dollars.

Now it's about TV money. More specifically, it's not even viewership; it's cable carriage fees. So conferences have the incentive to add...

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

It's based on research expenditures and certain criteria for faculty. The med school issue is that Nebraska apparently needed those faculty and expenditures to be in their totals because they were scraping by at the bottom of the list. IU is well above it and doesn't need to count resources at other...

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

Apart from the logistics of going over 16 teams I’m not sure the SEC would benefit from adding more teams in the southeast. They already have all the cable carriage fees they can get there....

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

And if they did leave the Big 12, what happens to the remainder? I see these big names who would have opportunities and could probably ditch the others:

Oklahoma State
Kansas
West Virginia

But the rest of the conference? I'm not sure these schools could do better...

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

I have to assume that joining the SEC would be the death knell for the Longhorn Network.

It's about halfway through its original 20 year deal and nobody seems to think it's been successful.

Considering both the SEC Network and the LHN are properties of ESPN I expect it would...

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

Does anybody around here know anything about the circumstances surrounding Stoops' retirement?

He did it over the summer rather than at the end of football season and Riley had only been there two (and a half) years when he was elevated to the head coach position....

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

I completely agree.

But I’m also in the camp that PJ is mostly unrealized potential at this point....

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

Gotta get some attention from ND’s big fan base…...

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

Kizer was also a far superior runner....

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

For me, though, style matters. If ND puts together another good offense but does it without opening up the passing game I won’t be excited about it. If they want to swing for the fences they need to develop tools to challenge defenses that they can’t just out-talent in the trenches....

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

Based on no info but what appears in this thread, I suspect that ND was in his Top 10 before they offered; but the lack of offer meant they didn't get into the Top 9 graphic he tweeted....

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

Given the quality of the 2023 DEs (and everything else being equal) I would love to see his vacated spot go to a DT. So I find Kanu particularly intriguing.

And even if he's not a better overall prospect than Agu, his higher rating with the services does have some value in selling ND as...

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

And no OSU?...

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

I sure hope so....