@skibum can elaborate on endowments, but funding their own football program through donations to their general endowment that were not earmarked for it seems like it’s not going to happen
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CU has rejoined the Big 12 and broken college football - talking out asses continues
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So, you make a plea for a new offshoot endowment for the Football Program, and you build a new fund.
Stanford is like looking for an NFL owner, and that is easy
The entire point is that Stanford doesn’t care about football. This isn’t happening. Stop
SerenityBuff
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They're not in any different position than any other school with a large endowment (TWSS). Why would they spend their own money when they can spend someone else's? Especially when they barely care about football. ND has 12B but is only independent because of their NBC deal. Stanford isn't the only school sitting on a ton of cash and they all want TV deals. Who's going to televise their games?
ahoelsken
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I won't listen to a single word that falls out of his face.
I'm talking about steve smith.
So, didn’t the California board of regents have an option to block UCLA to the B1G? But they let them go and now Cal is about to cancel sports, will have massive debt and can’t afford a bill for their football stadium? Meanwhile the UCLA travel cost is going to be huge.
I think their board of regents miscalculated what was going to happen and assumed Cal would still be a viable program. And won’t they have to come up with the $$ to pay for the stadium too?
They look pretty stupid now, don’t they?
I think their board of regents miscalculated what was going to happen and assumed Cal would still be a viable program. And won’t they have to come up with the $$ to pay for the stadium too?
They look pretty stupid now, don’t they?
So, my point is that they are likely very frustrated and done dealing with a conference
If they want to keep playing football, then they can go independent for a while and compete on their own dime.
I actually think that APPLE+ would give Stanford a stand-alone deal for about $15 million, why not, it would be a fun test
Stanford could create its own studio on campus
More likely the AAC. It's the most cost effective exit fees for the Pac-4.
The PAC12 is dead, and it will not be called a Power 5 conference by Fox or ESPN on air.
It will essentially be a PG5, and if the crapass Rammies find themselves over there, they better not try and market that they are P5
No. Cal will still be the best public university in the world. Most UCs don’t even play football, that hasn’t hurt UCSD or UCSB. Paying off the repairs to the stadium is barely noticeable in Cal’s budget. And it’s not like they installed luxury boxes—it was an earthquake retrofit. Cal is better off joining UC Davis in FCS or dropping football entirely. As is Stanford. It’s simply an accident of history that they still have FBS programs today.
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Not if the MWC schools dissolve the MWC which appears likely. 9 schools to dissolve if Hawaii has full voting rights. Eight otherwise.
The votes for dissolution: SDSU, BSU, CSU, AFA, UNLV, UNR, Frenso State, and UNM.
Votes against: Wyoming
Don’t know: Utah State
Hawaii probably votes yes because there would be more teams on the west coast. But they might need to build the new stadium first.
PAC still is an A5.
MWC has two more years on their media rights deal after this year.
All Apple has to do is re-offer the $20M per team deal and the MWC comes tumbling down like a house of cards.
For the alums of Cal and Stanford the only game that really matters to them is Cal vs. Stanford. If both go FCS they can happily continue that game and their fans will support it in a similar fashion to how the fans and alums of Harvard and Yale support that game.
Considering the number of tech corporate officers from the two schools getting substantial sponsorship for that game combined with the much lower budgets involved in FCS could make it a winning decision.
As you mention they can easily move in to playing the other FCS schools there and culturally adapt quickly.
No reason why they can't continue to excel at the non-revenue sports and again like the Ivy league schools they take care of scholarship cost out of endowments and other donations which are the biggest expense involved.
Apple isn't paying close to $20 million per school for CSU and the rest of that bunch.
Apple isn’t offering the same contract for CSU vs Fresno State
Yeah I remember that…good point.
Meh. The point is they did it.
Maybe not $20M per team. Eight MWC teams would get $10M each which is more than what the MWC pays. The rest goes to the PAC leftovers and they could be earning $40M each. All 12 schools would get full payments the next contract.
90% of our conference can’t read Nik. I’m impressed they even figured out divisions.
But can they count to 16?
Max for leftover PAC and G5 teams is $8-$10 Million
That is the MAX
And being able to sniff the tree & bear farts will be so worth it.
ahoelsken
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A Pac X with the MWC commish in charge might work for them.
I'd have rather seen the PAC hire Gloria Nevarez over numbnuts Kliavkoff.
The Apple money was based on Oregon and Washington, Utah and the Zona schools being there with Colorado.
They aren't paying anything close to that for the Cougs, the Beavers, the Bears, and the Cardinal. CSU and Wyoming don't magically become worth $10 million because they are in a new conference.
No, thus divisions. Keep up.
The only thing they know how to do is beg for scraps from thriving economies like California's. I think @Fred 2 said it better than I did, earlier in this thread. Maybe he can weigh in.
CSU, Wyoming, and AFA might not be going to the PAC. CSU & AFA to the AAC and Wyoming to CUSA.