Semi-anonymous profile of a UCLA & USC grad still preoccupied by college football and what’s in @TheEconomist. - β€œNot all who wander are lost.”

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Looking at old college football previews today waiting for this year’s magazine to come out, and Gosh darn, finally found one where Ohio State isn’t a contender to win a Natty:
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Translation: If you are a student-athlete suffering from addiction or mental health problems, don’t play in the Big XII… Your Commissioner will make your school kick you to the curb instead of getting you help.
On Sunday, Brendan Sorsby met with Texas Tech's board to reaffirm his status. Hours later, unbeknownst to Tech, the Big 12 made a dark-of-night filing that one expert called the most β€œdevastating” legal action he’s seen. On the end of the Sorsby fiasco bit.ly/3QFqM46
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I would not be surprised if Cody Campbell dropped his support for Sorsby as a token gesture to help the Protect College Sports Act move forward.
Attorney Jeffrey Kessler tells ESPN that Sorsby's legal team will withdraw the lawsuit seeking a temporary injunction for his eligibility. "It is now moot, so we will withdraw it," Kessler said.
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If you watch the entire video and read the NCAA Reinstatement Guidelines you get the sense that Sorsby may not have left U Cincinnati for Texas Tech because of the money.
Texas Tech Pres. Lawrence Schovanec, head coach Joey McGuire, AD Kirby Hocutt and associate AD Grant Stoval have released a 22 minute video on Brendan Sorsby
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To be fair, UW and UCLA went through coaching changes as well…USC…well…um….yeaaah…
Actually, yes you can go too far. A study done by Neilson for the @bigten shows that Oregon is the only school whose brand and TV value clearly increased after joining the Big Ten. USC and Washington are the same as in the Pac 12 and UCLA rating have gone down
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The interesting thing about the Sorsby injunction is that it treats gambling addiction as a clinical disorder like alcoholism…. It’s actually a *progressive* decision.
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In other words… If we want college sports to get serious about behavioral health for its athletes, we have to accept that eligibility has to be a carrot for students to seek treatment.
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We are just lucky that Jackie Robinson and Rod Dedeaux aren’t still alive so that we don’t have to try to explain this one, lol
The Big Ten once again will not send a representative to the College World Series. The only Big Ten teams in the last decade were Michigan in 2019 and UCLA last year. The western additions have certainly helped, but the Big Ten is still effectively a midmajor in Baseball.
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Started reading the 2026 Lindy’s CFB preview and made the mistake of looking up something on Google:
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Are we ready for College GameDay to visit Capitol Hill this season?
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What’s crazier is that my bet is the bill is signed in a lame duck session after Election Day. Because Congress takes a monthlong recess in August though, there’s a real change that the season is played with the legislation’s fate hanging in the balance. Completely on-brand.
The SEC and Big Ten publicly opposing legislation that's already this far in the process β€” while fighting with the senators who wrote it β€” is genuinely unprecedented. @RossDellenger says nobody in modern political history has seen anything like it.⁣ ⁣
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Putting the Sugar Bowl on a random weekend is not good for New Orleans and not great for South Florida. The Cotton and Peach should be the semifinal locations so that other bowls can stay on New Year’s please, lol.
The countdown is ON! TV schedule for the '26-'27 #CFBPlayoff is here πŸ† Details: bit.ly/4vHgjUT
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11 out of the top 15 schools are in the Big Ten and none dominant at football since the 1990s…yikes.
Which P4 schools got the highest percentage of their athletic revenue directly from conference distributions in FY25? Using MFRS Total Revenue data for each public schools (EADA data for private schools) I subtracted away each school's reported conference distributions to get a clearer view into how much "self-generated" revenue each athletic department procured. Obviously this is murky and impercise since each conference has certain brands/fanbases that drive the lion's share of the media value. Additionally, many schools receive significant portions of their revenue from subsidies such as student fees and direct/indirect institutional support. Another "quirk" of this analysis is that schools from the bigger payout conferences (Big Ten/SEC) "look worse" since they have such a big payout (which not one of them is complaining about in the slightest). Avg Payout per Conf for reference: Big Ten: ~$78M SEC: ~$72M ACC: ~$45M Big12: ~$40M Pac-12: ~$29M American: ~$9M MWC: ~$9M MAC: ~$2.5M Sun Belt: ~$2M CUSA: ~$2M The 8 schools (OU, Texas, BYU, Cincy, UCF, Cal, Stanford, and SMU) with the lowest % all changed conferences recently and agreed to take a partial share for a period of time. Big12 and ACC conf graphics in the comments
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Sounds like @insidetroy and @daviddavidwoods need to do a β€œWhich character would each Big Ten coach be in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” skit, lol…
College offensive coordinators used to be middle-class citizens. Ahhh, nostalgia…
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Little too on the nose here, lol. Other than USC, Bruins left behind all the PAC 12 baseball juggernauts going to the Big Ten.
Everyone knows UCLA was a 50 win team, #1 all season, MLB talent galore, etc. but the BIG10 schedule they play doesn’t help them. The bottom half of the BIG10 league is uncompetitive. You get some hungry pesky California mid majors like they got and historic losses 2/3 nights
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If you ever doubt that college football is the greatest thing in the world…ask yourself… What else out there could make three Republicans all bash income inequality and then agree on the need to regulate the free market because of the failure of trickle down economics ???
β€œOne of the real risks is the SEC and Big Ten joining together.β€œ β€” Sen. Ted Cruz on why he and Maria Cantwell included an anti-super league provision in their bipartisan college sports bill.
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In case you are wondering why I was so insistent with Ralph this morning, I’ve scribbled out a short thread below ➑️
The path to get here has been such a slog it is hard to be optimistic about the outcome but I actually think this thing has a pretty good chance of getting over the line.
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4) The likelihood of a change in the majority party of both Houses vastly increases the possibility of a lame-duck session in Congress in November and December. That sense of urgency is what gets legislatures to act….
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So, FWIW the chance that: At least part of the SCS Act passes …probably 90%. The entirety of the introduced bill passes…60% or so. Trump vetoes whatever gets plopped on his desk… 0%
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