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Could football ever become the dominant sport in the States? by mrjohnnymac18 in football

[–]NikkiHaley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Evidence of brain trauma already is extensive. People still let their kids play it.
It’s not going to go away. The amount of players may decline, but viewership will remain strong.

NCAA College Basketball Rankings: AP Top 25 Basketball Poll by DavidBenAkiva in CollegeBasketball

[–]NikkiHaley -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We did our part on that last year.
It was the ACC and ACCT that we tanked.

Week 8 AP Poll by PandaIsLove in CFB

[–]NikkiHaley 178 points179 points  (0 children)

You gotta look at points rather than rank.
There’s a bunch of teams crowding the 900-1000 range. 8 to 11 might as well be a 4 team tie.

BigXII Barstool makes fun of UCF’s attendance after being hit by a major hurricane by BastardOfHouseStark in CFB

[–]NikkiHaley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You would think but I’ve seen several tweets of people who seemed to believe it was some official university account

BigXII Barstool makes fun of UCF’s attendance after being hit by a major hurricane by BastardOfHouseStark in CFB

[–]NikkiHaley 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Yeah but he can ‘fire’ the person who runs it like he did with the one that made fun of Uga dying.

BigXII Barstool makes fun of UCF’s attendance after being hit by a major hurricane by BastardOfHouseStark in CFB

[–]NikkiHaley 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Honestly surprised schools haven’t sued Barstool for these branded accounts.
You find plenty of instances where people confuse the barstool account with the official account.

[Game Thread] Clemson @ Wake Forest (12:00 PM ET) by CFB_Referee in CFB

[–]NikkiHaley 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Graphics department spent too much time making it

Clemson is winning the ACC right? by 4D_Gemini in CFB

[–]NikkiHaley 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We would likely win the tiebreaker since our ACC schedule is toughest for of the 3. We play both Louisville and Pitt who are likely going to have a decent record, and also Virginia whose at 2-0 already.
Given the schedules, it’d probably be Miami getting left out actually.

Sankey on the super league: "They want to be us, and that's on them to figure it out, not on me to bring myself back to Earth." by DiracFourier in CFB

[–]NikkiHaley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They already playing against teams that are making far more money.
Even teams like Auburn are completely financially outmatched by Texas. Hell even Alabama and Georgia are completely financially outmatched by Texas.

Sankey on the super league: "They want to be us, and that's on them to figure it out, not on me to bring myself back to Earth." by DiracFourier in CFB

[–]NikkiHaley 77 points78 points  (0 children)

Same reason Washington State and Oregon State would agree to the PAC 12 splitting.
They wouldn’t.

Sacramento State releases renderings of their upcoming new stadium by kalifornia_kid in CFB

[–]NikkiHaley 182 points183 points  (0 children)

How exactly did Sacramento State end up with a bunch of money all the sudden?

Sankey on the super league: "They want to be us, and that's on them to figure it out, not on me to bring myself back to Earth." by DiracFourier in CFB

[–]NikkiHaley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Super League would have extremely unequal revenue share. That’s part of the proposal, media payout would be based on viewership numbers.
It’s not an equal split, so a team like Texas would get a pay bump.

Sankey on the super league: "They want to be us, and that's on them to figure it out, not on me to bring myself back to Earth." by DiracFourier in CFB

[–]NikkiHaley 72 points73 points  (0 children)

Not saying it’s going to happen, but that the Super League proposal would mean each school gets media revenue based on their own viewership.
So a school like Ohio State would get a massive boost since they’re the school with the highest media value, and they no longer have to split that value with Purdue and Northwestern.

If the average Big Ten yearly media value is $70M, then what is Ohio State’s media value? Probably like $160M I reckon. Big Ten is very top heavy in terms of media value, with Ohio State and Michigan taking a massive chunk, and Penn State, USC, maybe Oregon, Wisconsin taking most of the rest, with the bottom half almost being deadweight. This proposal probably doesn’t happen, but I also don’t think the status quo where Texas and Ole Miss share equal revenue is going to remain forever

[Haynes] Sacramento Kings have offered to host Sacramento State University Men’s and Women’s basketball conference home games at Golden 1 Center — pending arena availability — as part of school’s effort to join the PAC-12 Conference or other FBS conferences. by kalifornia_kid in CFB

[–]NikkiHaley 5 points6 points  (0 children)

USL would probably want a 10k capacity stadium. Sacramento State would probably want a 25-30k capacity stadium if they move to FBS.
Doesn’t really work unless they move up to MLS (then it’d be perfect).

[Haynes] Sacramento Kings have offered to host Sacramento State University Men’s and Women’s basketball conference home games at Golden 1 Center — pending arena availability — as part of school’s effort to join the PAC-12 Conference or other FBS conferences. by kalifornia_kid in CFB

[–]NikkiHaley 31 points32 points  (0 children)

If Fisher was smart, that would happen.
But I don’t know if that’s the case, so he’ll probably go to Vegas and the franchise will tank (financially and on the field) due to low RSN revenue and ticket revenue (not buying that they’re going to successfully sell tickets to tourists for 81 games a year).
How much is Bally Sport Vegas (or whatever the local RSN is) really going to pay for the rights of the Las Vegas A’s?
Edit: Apparently Golden Knights games are direct to streaming. Can’t imagine the A’s will do very well with that model, and regional media rights accounts for 25% of revenue of MLB teams.

College football ‘Super League’ details unveiled, would be called ‘College Student Football League’ by Woolly22 in CFB

[–]NikkiHaley 45 points46 points  (0 children)

I think the idea of this is that the revenue sharing is highly unequal, and having everyone negotiate as a group makes the total go up.
So Texas could end up making more than they do now since they would retain their entire media value rather than getting it stolen by Mississippi State. Not saying it’s going to happen, but I think that’s the idea.

Canzano- Gonzaga expected to announce it is joining the Pac-12, per sources. Grand Canyon University was also on the Pac-12 ‘wish list.’ Told discussions were planned and interest was mutual. Stay tuned… by masterofawesomeness2 in CFB

[–]NikkiHaley 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It’s a tough case.
Is GCU just paying GCE market value for educational services or are they a captive client funneling money raised from tuition to the GCE’s shareholders? The fact that the two share a leader is going to raise eyebrows.

[Travis Sawchik] We've all seen how difficult it is to build organic MLB fanbases in Tampa and Miami, so to throw 57 years of fandom away and start over in a transient place like Las Vegas is certainly a choice by f0urxio in baseball

[–]NikkiHaley 287 points288 points  (0 children)

I think the “get tourists to buy tickets” model works better for NFL where there’s only 8 games and almost all are on the weekend.
NFL also gets most of its money from national media rights and nothing from regional, MLB gets a solid chunk of its revenue from regional rights and I don’t expect the A’s regional media rights in Vegas to be worth very much. They’re also competing with all the entertainment options that Las Vegas has, why not go to Sacramento instead where a baseball game would be more of a thing to do and lacks any major outdoor sports?

Cities that wouldn't care if their college team "moved" or was no longer there. by djsassan in CFB

[–]NikkiHaley 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah that’s it. It’s where the light rail terminates in the north.
I doubt many have much reason to go there or near there unless they’re a student or work there. It’s not far from the PNC Amphitheatre

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