(05-13-2023 07:21 PM)bluebacker Wrote: (05-13-2023 11:36 AM)Stammers Wrote: (05-13-2023 07:36 AM)bluebacker Wrote: We basically have to operate with 10-15% of the money the SEC and B10 teams will be getting.
I also didn't realize that the leavers got 12 years to pay the exit fees.
At 1.5 per year X 3 that's 4.5M per year split 8 ways (legacy schools)?
Do the CUSA 6 ever get any of the exit fees - as in after 3 years do they get a piece of that pie? I had thought the exit fees were to be paid over a much shorter time frame.
When you have 13 other schools to compete with I'm not sure how realistic it is to just say, 'all we have to do is win the league every 2-3 years'. Exactly what about Silverfield's performance makes us think he can win even 1 championship? This time was the time for the school to go out and bring in a coach using the Fuente / Norvell template or even a guy like Tom Herman - who has done very well at this level - but nah - they gonna roll the dice with Silverfield and when he goes 8-4 or 9-3 against mostly slaw they will give him an extension.
In the G5, 8-4 or 9-3 gets you exactly the same thing as 6-6. Nothing.
Why would the new schools get any of the exit fees? Why would you think he will be around if he doesn't improve? The Fuente template was a search and then going against the recommendation and not hiring McElwain. The Norvell template was Fuente and the staff visiting Arizona for a class on how he runs his offense, and then hiring him. after a mostly for show search, and giving Odom an offer he was for sure going to refuse.
So there is literally no template except in your imagination. Comparing us to $EC teams? Why would anyone do that? What does it have to do with anything? We for sure will have much more resources than everyone else not P5. THAT is the reality.
Negative about literally everything for no reason.
I'm still super pissed that Houston got politicked into the B12 over Memphis. Should never have happened. So yeah, that colors my perception of everything Memphis sports related.
Regarding Silverfield. I think he should already be gone. These next 2 years are super important. With the extremely favorable schedule he has been blessed with for 2023 he will 'improve' to 8 or 9 wins when in fact it will likely be the watered down league and getting to play certain teams at home this year. Then he'll get an extension. Then we get passed......again.
That is how I see it. If I'm wrong then the team will be much better and I'll be happy about it.
If I'm right I won't be happy about it but will be even more pissed at the leadership.
I 100% agree with you on all
As for you being called negative---with that guy everybody is negative/stupid/dumb/idiot/liar
Remember nobody wants Houston in the big 12--they have no chance
I am recalling two famous quotes--with apologies to Reagan and Berra
"there he goes again"---"deja vu all over again"
Same message---new different verbiage
We went from #2 on everybodys list-- to now----(Impossible to leave out when the next dominoes fall).
Four were chosen---so surely we had to have been #5 on everybodys list--right ?---maybe we get in next time
But 3 straight undefeated seasons would not have gotten us in last time---wins/losses had zero to do with who got chosen
I wonder how Boise/Coastal/USF/SMU/ECU/Tulane/FAU/Fresno/San Diego St etc etc etc etc feel about us being -----impossible to leave out next time-------not to mention that all of the above schools are inferior to our --(resources/brand/recruiting area/stadium).
If we dont get in the Big 12 next time they expand---then people are saying then we will get picked by the ACC when some leave. Then it becomes basically a gutted conference---but better than the crap conference we are in now
But hey our fan base just learned that our (goal --is different now)------the fanbase has now learned that the goal of getting into a power conference is no longer-----(we now have a different goal)-------so it really doesn't matter if we are impossible to leave out or not--as long as we are the top school outside the power 5--thats what matters
Maybe the rumor of two power conferences would be better for us and college football itself anyway
That way the schools left out can maybe get back to sanity ---and ditch the NIL--and transfer portal--the compensation would again be a free education--and if the little darlings don't like it they don't have to play----then the remaining schools start their own national championship--and get back to the college football we all grew up with--------and with a national playoff instead of dull bowls