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you are correct, i forgot the 6th (Cotton) Bowl...so yes, a conf champ from the group of 5 is the 6th guaranteed spot with the last 2 spots going to ND/Any at-large(s). but my point stands that i don't believe a top 5 conference loses a spot in one of the other FOUR (not 3 as i stated above) bowls because they put 1 or more teams in the playoff.
Considering the idea is to have ESPN set up the network like they're doing for the SEC and ESPN is the one with whom we have a TV deal, then the fact that the TV deal runs another 10 years is irrelevant. We need our own network where we can charge by the subscriber.
People seem to lionize the folks who signed the VT to ACC forever in blood with nothing in return deal.
They might be your friends, but they were no friend to your university.
Have heard the TV deal is for 10 more years. Please someone tell me that is not true.
Edit: Don't want to hear that it goes til 2026. Want good news on the contract length.
He has an official reporter's hat! I think you have to go to Reporter's School to get that.
That's straight legit, son!
We're gonna need the ACC Network to go live really soon in order to compete with the SEC.
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12 years 6 months
# | OT: LOLUVA still feels good about their lacrosse and rowing championships! Hey 2-10 UVA football,
ACC Wins.
Got one?
$265k per year with a $50k raise if he's on the staff in 1 year?
Grimes is going to make twice that at LSU this year. When people ask why the ACC tv deal is so bad, its trickle down lowball salaries like this that makes the biggest impact. If Searels has a great year with us, we're likely looking for another OL coach at this time next year unless we start opening up the bank a little bit.
No more no less.
But then there's the rest of everything.
The way you phrase it makes it sound like ND could replace the "Group of 5", which it won't. The "Group of 5" is guaranteed one spot in the six bowls, regardless of what anyone else does.
But I think the biggest questions that haven't been answered involve scenarios when a conference has a team in the playoffs, and their normal bowl is part of the playoffs.
If the SEC and B1G have teams in the playoff, and the semis are Rose and Sugar, are the number two teams from those conferences automatically guaranteed to be in one of the other bowls? Now, it's highly likely that they will be ranked high enough to get in at-large on their own merits, but that's not them being guaranteed to get in.
Also, does the committee actually set the bowl matchups, or do they just give the list to the four non semi bowls and they can choose who they want from that list?
What will be interesting is every third year, when the Fiesta and Peach Bowls are the semi finals. Since no one gets displaced, the Cotton Bowl becomes the only at-large bowl, so they'll probably end up getting stuck with the "Group of 5" team in those years.
TKP...
Full disclosure, there is a 1000 post limit per page, so on threads that grow to more than 1k posts a second page appears.
But this is still about a 1000x improvement on TSL.
it was part of an agreement to dramatically increase payouts IIRC. Peach Bowl wanted to catch up to CapOne (formerly Citrus), and CFA said they would pitch in if they changed the name to compensate them.
But that's just like any of the bowls. Outside of ESPN or corporate partners, does anyone refer to the Discover Orange Bowl?
The only bowls I refer to by the sponsor are the ones that don't have a name other than the sponsor.
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Perhaps the Chick-Fil-A Peach Milkshake Bowl? Best of both worlds?
maybe a simpler way of looking at all of this:
the committee will be given a list of 1 ACC, 1 SEC, 1 B1G, 1 Pac12, 1 Big12 team plus top 4, plus 1 of ND/other 5 conf champs/additional rep from top 5 confs to place in the 5 bowl games.
Top 4 will go into the 2 playoff bowls, and the other 6 (5 conf reps + 1 of ND/other 5 conf champs/additional rep from top 5 confs) will be "placed" by the committee with consideration going to tie-ins first. I don't believe ND or the other 5 conferences are guaranteed a spot, but would get one if they were top 4 and/or best available for that last bowl spot.
basically, for the top 5 leagues, making the playoff does NOT replace their bowl spot. it would always be in addition to it. that is how i read it when they first announced the bowl arrangements, but i'm sure they are still tweaking the details.
If the SEC had 2 teams in the playoff, i am pretty sure they are still guaranteed a spot in one of the other 3 bowls that year, giving them 3 teams in the 5 bowls. essentially, the playoff games don't count towards the conference "head count" as i understood it.
i could be wrong, but that is how i pieced it all together...
So let me get this straight.
TSL makes you click on each comment to see a post, the trolls are allowed to run wild, 'humor' is a concept very poorly understood, AND they make you pay to get any info on recruiting (of which, really isn't much from what I saw over the past year).
TKP uses humor to wash its mankini, one click and you can see a full thread, regardless of size, and now they have a recruiting guru that gives it away for free?
Boy am I glad I made the switch when I did.
I am not worried that statistically our offense was worse than last years. I saw signs of improvements and adjustments being made which is a huge improvement from 2012.
That said, I expect that even with a new QB next year, we should have improvement on the offensive side of the ball. A second year with an improved OC/QB coach, WR Coach, and a real even if different O line coach should have positive impacts.
All muscle, baby!
My recollection is, it started out as the CFA Peach Bowl but CFA got really annoyed that the media kept referring to it as the Peach Bowl so they took matters into their own hands.
Non-scholarship offers/commits don't count.
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12 years 6 months
# | OT: LOLUVA still feels good about their lacrosse and rowing championships! Whenever I see these things (or hear sh!t from them). My response is like a mom when a kid goes pee-pee by themselves.
Aww...good for you.
I have to imagine that in most scenarios where Notre Dame was good enough to cause a debate over whether they should take the ACC spot in the Orange Bowl, they would either already be in the top 4 or high enough on the list to be the OB opponent.
Granted, we could have a year where there is 1 really good ACC team in the playoffs, and everyone else is barely ranked at 8-4 or worse, and ND is sitting with only 1 or 2 losses in the bottom half of the top ten...and that would force the debate.
Yes, we have a few - Thanks Olympic Sports!!
The retention bonus is not until Jan. 1, 2016. So he'll have to be on the staff for two years.