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Ole Miss @ TAM canceled due to COVID outbreak on Ole Miss. Michigan @ Ohio State cancelled due to COVID outbreak on Michigan. Hmm. TAM needs a game. Ohio State needs a game. Would be great if it happened, but it won't.

TAM really needs a game. It's head to head win over UF shouldn't matter, because the teams don't have the same record. If the 8-1 Gators don't jump the 7-1 Aggies tonight, they will next Tuesday. Meanwhile, Ohio State was screwed by its conference. Another example of why the SEC is the best. No way in the world would the SEC screw Alabama, it's best team.
 
TAM and Ohio State really need to play this weekend or Monday. Jimbo put the kibash in it today on Sirius XM and I'm sure the Big Ten can't get out of its own way (wouldn't allow Nebraska to play UTC earlier in the season).

Gators will be #5 come Tuesday after they demolish LSU who is probably down to walk ons and whose coach is more interested in strange than football. TAM will have to pray for chaos.
 
Big Ten needs a purge of its leadership. Tried to bully other conferences into cancelling altogether, then flared nostrils at Nebraska for wanting to get a game in out of conference, while basketball always was going to play OOC.
 
younggun308 said:
Big Ten needs a purge of its leadership. Tried to bully other conferences into cancelling altogether, then flared nostrils at Nebraska for wanting to get a game in out of conference, while basketball always was going to play OOC.
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I know. Right now the Big Ten/ACC challenge is underway in basketball.
 
The problem for the Big Ten (and PAC 12), if athletics is what one cares about, is the eggheads are in charge of those conferences. Big Ten football generated $55 million per school last year. SEC was a very close second, but the other conferences were way behind. But medical research generates a billion a year in revenue for each Big Ten school. From a research standpoint and qualifications, only four SEC schools would qualify to be in the Big Ten or PAC 12, both require AAU membership (Vandy, Mizzou, UF, TAMU), five ACC (Duke, UNC, UVA, Pitt, Ga Tech), and three Big 12 (Iowa State, KU, Texas). The jocks make millions for the Big Ten, but the eggheads make billions. Money talks.
 
TheOnlyBandThatMatters said:
The problem for the Big Ten (and PAC 12), if athletics is what one cares about, is the eggheads are in charge of those conferences. Big Ten football generated $55 million per school last year. SEC was a very close second, but the other conferences were way behind. But medical research generates a billion a year in revenue for each Big Ten school. From a research standpoint and qualifications, only four SEC schools would qualify to be in the Big Ten or PAC 12, both require AAU membership (Vandy, Mizzou, UF, TAMU), five ACC (Duke, UNC, UVA, Pitt, Ga Tech), and three Big 12 (Iowa State, KU, Texas). The jocks make millions for the Big Ten, but the eggheads make billions. Money talks.
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Oh God. None of that is true.

Money does talk, but your distribution of $$ is way off. I'm, on record back in May or June on Tndeer saying Sports (all sports)would come back, because of money.

By the way, welcome to the site.
 
The eggheads. https://www.aau.edu/

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I love college football, but it's a mosquito.
 
Displaced_Vol said:
That's all pretty interesting, I've never looked at any of that before.
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2017 government funded medical research was $39.5 billion, but that's only around 22% of medical/health R&D funding. A huge chunk is funded to the research universities, and this doesn't include defense, engineering, high tech R&D funding. By comparison, in 2019 college athletics generated $18.9 billion, but only 12 universities made a profit on athletics. Texas made the most in 2018-2019 at $224 million. That's a drop in the bucket compared to what Texas made in research as an AAU member.

SEC is fortunate that it has a very effective, strong, and smart commissioner. This year was a perfect storm for Big Ten athletics. Their prior effective, strong, smart commissioner retired. Some have argued the eggheads have used the pandemic to take back control over athletics. Ironically, while ACC, Big 12, and SEC mostly got their seasons in, the eggheads of the Big Ten and PAC 12 over thought it, delayed, and most, if not all, of their football seasons happened during the second wave. I wonder if that was intentional?
 


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