Category Archives: It’s Just Bidness

David Hale gets it right

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The former Georgia beat writer goes “hammer meet nail” with this TwiX.

ESPN appeared to be happy with the 12-team model. For all that we say about Disney, they have the data that shows what the value of the additional games really is as opposed to what the expansionists think. They seemed to see only incremental value over their relationship with existing conference championship games (the SECCG is still a viewership monster). On that, how is Fox going to change the financial relationship with the Big 10 as a result of losing their championship game? The players? Don’t get a say on this.

If you go to the TwiX, here’s the kicker:

“It’s entirely to appease the people donating the money that keeps a financially irresponsible business model afloat. It’s discounting success so schools can say ‘look what your donation bought.’

“It’s an industry hellbent on treating investors and bosses as the customer, and customers as an infinite resource that will keep coming back no matter what.”

Don’t those last 2 paragraphs sound like the brass in Charlotte at NASCAR telling their customers that those who would go to Rockingham and Darlington every year will watch the races in Miami, Chicago, and California?

Damn, just damn.

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The regular season is officially on life support.

It looks like Sankey is going to get his SEC championship game buyout as a result because there is no way he would have gone along with this:

Or this:

I really don’t see why they didn’t just go to 16 if they were going to expand. I don’t see the value in the 8 play-in games. Team 9 vs. Team 24? Wow. Compelling. Must see TV.

Will the Dawgs ever play a meaningful regular season game again?

FTMF.

What do you think? Let us know in the comments.

Pate roasts the CFP expansionists

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The Jed Clampetts see their Texas Tea coming into focus.

I know White T-Shirt Guy isn’t some of you guys’ favorite. Dial this up to 37:00, and you get a tour de force crushing the fake arguments made for expansion. Didn’t the powers that be say that schools would schedule up in a 12-team expansion as well. If you believe that at this point, you’re nothing but a sucker.

Greg Sankey and the SEC, you’re our Obi-Wan Kenobi against this madness.

Our national nightmare is over – BS edition

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Somebody blinked.

https://x.com/on3/status/2066681954024514008?s=46

Texas Tech lost the battle in the courtroom of public opinion when they thought sports fans outside Lubbock, Texas would empathize with a player fighting a mental health demon fighting against the NCAA. Instead, they found a public who felt bad for the QB and also wanted the same QB to feel the consequences for his actions.

At the end of the day, pressure from the Big 12 office and the conference’s athletic directors and head coaches likely forced the Red Raiders’ hand to negotiate an exit based on mutually agreeable terms and an air-tight non-disclosure agreement.

When public opinion is on the NCAA’s side, you know you’re going to lose in the end.

Our friends at Dawg Sports have this right

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If you are going to another site for your Dawgs’ content today, make it the guys at Dawg Sports. This defense of the Georgia-Clemson home and home is a magnum opus (Someone needs to send this to Josh Brooks – athdir@uga.edu). The good Senator would be smiling over this if he were with us today.

https://www.dawgsports.com/georgia-bulldogs-football/37590/keep-the-game-where-it-belongs-why-georgia-and-clemson-fans-should-reject-a-neutral-site-money-grab

I’ll say it now. I refuse to purchase tickets to either of these games if they move to a neutral site (yes, I attended both games in 2021 and 2024). I may even decide to hell with it and not even watch the games on television on principle. I get that schools have to look for every revenue stream they can at this point, but the powers that be look at us as nothing but wallets at this point in the name of looking out for what’s best for UGA athletics as opposed to what’s popular to fans.

I carried the ticket stub from 1984 in my wallet for years after that. I wish I had kept it pristine and gotten a signed picture of Kevin Butler kicking the most famous field goal in Georgia history.

If we don’t reject this kind of thinking while still getting OOC games with the likes of Tenn State and WKU in our season ticket packages, we’ll get more of this.

It’s time for these people to feel the economic impact of the decisions they make rather than to tell us they know what’s best for us.

Another Thursday Thought Provoker: Who do you wish we could have kept out of the portal?

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As an add-on to JP’s MBG post this morning, I came up with a question. In the NIL era, what player do you wish we had done more to retain? That eliminates a certain QB in 2019. As an addendum to that, what player who transferred would regret his decision if subject to this?

For me, the answer is one and the same although I think the decision at the time was deeper than money.

Bear Alexander would have probably been the next Georgia DT first round selection in 2024 if he stayed and got with the program.

Kirby with Pate – spring edition

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Spring Kirby is much more fun to listen to than Fall Kirby. I know some of you really don’t like Pate (I have my problems with him, too), but this is a pretty good discussion across a number of topics.

Many of you have probably watched or listened to this, but if you haven’t, it’s worth your time especially if you’re on a boring work phone call.

Refugees, discuss.

Cry me a river – NFL draft edition

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The one benefit of the chaos of the current state of the college football NIL market is this:

The union closed shop with a rookie salary cap and scale doesn’t allow players to be eligible for their league until 3 years out of high school. The owners and player personnel people of the teams have taken advantage of the college football system as a free minor league for decades are crying because the back end of the draft has dropped off due to free market NIL.

A player with eligibility remaining with a late 3rd round or later grade can improve his draft stock and get paid for it instead of rolling the dice in the draft and betting he can make a team. He likely is able to make as much or more with less risk by returning to college for that 4th or 5th year.

NFL insiders cannot let this stand.

The law of unintended consequences is still the 1972 Miami Dolphins.

Pass the Kleenex.

Maybe this will bring the NFL to the table to discuss how they can work more effectively with the power brokers of college football.

Refugees, assemble and discuss.

Having your cake and eating it, too – Sark edition

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Josh Pate serves up a softball to Sarkisian. I understand Pate wants access over being a real interviewer, but the follow-up questions that could come from this were many (yes, he has done that with Kirby as well).

Listening to Sark talk about culture of team first while he parks Lamborghinis in front of the football facility for high school recruiting visits makes me laugh.

Refugees, discuss.

Tom Mars: Throwing crap against the wall to see what sticks

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It would appear the Chambliss camp is losing in the court of public opinion and the sports media at this point. Tom Mars now says Chambliss isn’t trying to challenge the NCAA’s rules. He just wants his medical redshirt that Ferris State didn’t apply for. It seems this esteemed member of the bar doesn’t understand the concept of precedent.

Of course, all of this probably won’t matter in a state court in Oxford, Mississippi. The judge will be facing reelection and knows a politician’s first job is to get reelected.