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I have no idea what to think of Utah vs UCLA. I feel like Utah can beat 90% of FBS teams outright, but can only beat 10% of them by more than a TD.
I had the same thought... Am I picking too many road teams?!
I liken the athletic fee to the "resort fee" that some places charge...that covers the pool, walking trails, kayaks, etc whether you use them or not. Like cable, some people pay for minimal use and others get well more than their money's worth.
Once you see the broken image seam down the middle, you can't unsee it
I have a hard time swallowing fees for students to pay for facilities they don't bother to use, much more so for facilities they aren't allowed to use.
I know its more complicated than that.
Can you explain this? What's the point of collecting athletics fees if it doesn't go to athletics?
Honestly, no idea. This was just something Whit said. But the expenses paid by the fees must have something to do with expenses that campus takes on (utilities, upkeep, etc?) that Athletics has to pay back to them.
If this perhaps actually fees paid by the students that directly go to athletic activities for the students such as the gyms, pools, athletic fields and courts open to all the students and not exclusively for "student athletes"?
See my recommendation on defense would be the opposite - when I bring 4 and play zone the opposing qbs complete 100% of their passes and they run it down my throat. I swap into man blitzes 95% of the time and get stops most drives (while also giving up the odd 80 yard td on 3rd and 17)
No, once the games are picked for the week, everyone is picking against the same lines. If they do happen to change in Vegas, they won't in CBS...so let a word to the wise be sufficient.
That's amazing, love it!
True then it'd just look like the orange on maroon game.
Do the lines change? Do I need to check back closer to game time and maybe adjust picks?
JUST like the desperate, no value to the ACC ND deal, this is the same. Let them leave...what's going to happen? The B1G and SEC make more money? oh wow.
I've played both 25 and 26, but generally at an All-American or Heisman level against the computer. I'd recommend giving these strategies a try:
- Be conservative on defense. You should rarely bring more than 5, and even bringing one comes with risk. Force the CPU to dink and dunk down the field. Eventually you'll stone them on a couple runs and either get a sack or force a check down short of the line to gain.
- Zone coverage is king on CFB 25. Your DBs get burned no matter the leverage you use. Even with inside leverage, they get beat on slants. Only use man coverage as a change up - maybe every 5th or 10th play.
- On offense focus on the run game, RPOs, and pick a few short/quick pass game concepts that you like. I like mesh, stick, and spacing. Efficiency wins in this game. If you feel like you have enough time to throw, then start going after chunk plays and run play actions except for 2nd or 3rd and long.
They seem to program the game to swing heavily on big plays. Momentum is definitely programmed in. So minimize turnovers and their big plays and you'll slowly gain control and start popping big plays yourself.
Very Fuente of you
Chattanooga. We've found a few gems but haven't worked out what the regular spots are yet.
(I forgot about the TKP restaurant map until just now)
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New in which town? TKP is a surprisingly good source for this sort of info.
I agree. And my point was never to say that 100% of the constituency of VT should embrace athletics and donate. The very strong fact of the matter is that VT is one university/region that needs athletics as a built in advertising vehicle for the academics. But, as many of us know, academia is often extremely opinionated, hard-headed, and set in their ways. I just wish they could be less pessimistic and more compassionate that one side's success helps bolster the other's.
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This was the settlement to keep Clemson and FSU in the fold. Otherwise, they were gone and the ACC would have folded, leaving everyone else out in the cold. I agree it's going to ultimately divide (and probably dissolve) the conference, but I guess the thinking was it buys a couple of years to work things out. BOV members came to the same conclusion in discussion. It's going to exacerbate the divide between haves and have-nots, and crush competitive balance.
Whit: "We cannot keep taking pride with doing more with less."
So glad he said this. It's time to realize that college athletics is big business and if your want to keep up, VT will need to be more business minded in its approach.
Hokie Club is 2nd largest in the ACC in terms of number of donors but middle of the pack in terms of dollars collected.
I have been staying this for awhile that the Hokie Club benefits are too tied to attending events. They need to develop some enticing benefits for those outside the 6 hr radius. Ticket priority is not going to get it done when people get a great game experience in their living room.
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So - I just started playing CFB 25 (Late to the game I know, but my son just got an Xbox this summer)
I'm really hoping that with CFB 26 they have fixed the difficulty jump when you go from Freshman to Varsity. Playing at the Freshman level, I'm beating teams 90-0, and the next level up on Varsity, I can't stop freaking ODU from running the score up on me.
Just not fun on either difficulty.
Didn't Whit also outright predict that the same revenue sharing structure where the bigger brands get a bigger piece of the pie will shortly be coming to the SEC and Big Ten as well