For those interested the Division 3 Title game between Mount Union & North Central is on tonight at 7 pm Central on ESPN.
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Agreed. You can’t finish by the 1st without interfering with finals. So as long as you pretend to care about academics, it doesn’t make sense. And if you’re going to base the transfer portal on the academic year, as you should, you can’t avoid these from overlapping.
If it must be played in the same spot every year, rose bowl location makes sense since it's one of the few traditional locations for college football that doesn't rely on an NFL stadium and you know what the weather will be pretty much every year.
Don't see the point in it being there every year though
Don't see the point in it being there every year though
Wish these D3 & FCS championships were played on campus—even in this tiny stadium, looking so empty
The teams playing tomorrow couldn’t be much further from Frisco
Who is benefiting from this? It’s not like D3 football is bringing a bunch of tourism to Houston
Not super excited to share something written by a Paterno, but here’s an account of the 80/90s series from Jay
The 12-Year War: When Penn State vs. Notre Dame Was the World
Penn State vs. Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl national semifinal game… the words alone send chills along the spine of any college football fan. But for
www.statecollege.com
Wait I thought college football was being killed by NIL, transfers and realignment!?! How can this be!
College football bowl ratings aren’t a sign of college athletic health or sustainability.
It’s only a sign of what’s working for the networks, primarily espn
I know you’ll struggle with this, so let me give you an example. A bowl game can pull in great ratings, but the participating athletic departments lose money by going.
I’ve always been a proponent that the consolidation to the P2 and CFP expansion improve ratings for the networks in the prime windows. Good for the revenue of schools in the P2.
That’s is far short of being the same as it being good for college athletics
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But the networks are funding college athletics, no?
So it is important that they have something that is working?
Pretty sure with the deal for the cfb playoff every P4 team made money with the post season. If they lost a couple hundred grand on a specific bowl they more then made up for it with the playoff payout amount.
So yeah the ratings are a pretty good data driven sign of health and more importantly fan engagement
These are non-profits. Why do they need to be funded at such a high level compared to 15 years ago?
More aptly, they are flaming the arms race spending. So if you’re one of the schools they’re funding at the highest level, it’s a good thing…in the short run
Until revenue disparities widen in an uncapped spending environment that results in things like culling of sports, and schools
And yet because the arms race, it’s not enough
Are you truly this ignorant? A single season of bowl game ratings is only a sign of health for ESPN. And even that’s weak given the sample size
And that is because the industry of college athletics (aka, more than P2 football) is broken. More money coming in collectively than ever before, yet on the verge of a loss of sports, perhaps schools that participate.
It’s like how a PE investor can make money while destroying a business.
I’ll move this over to the realignment thread to not derail this but are you truly this ignorant that ratings are setting records, ISU just had a record season and so did a bunch of other non P2 teams (and even some like Indiana did) the SEC powers are down, and every conference is making more money then ever before.
So tell me again how college sports are falling apart?
***edit*+* I love how you’re slurping PE and for profit on the other thread but then use this as an example of PE destroying their product to make money, just brilliant stuff
