College Football offseason Winners & Losers
Relevant U of M bit
The Michigan coach has taken on all his enemies (real or imagined) and won every battle this offseason. He drew the ire of the SEC by bringing his team to Florida for a week of spring ball and out-maneuvered both the SEC and ACC by getting the NCAA to stand down on a proposed satellite camp ban. And on top of all that, he's reeled in a top-five ranked recruiting class with his Wolverines now poised to make a playoff run.
And the Big Ten at large
Jim Delany did it again. The Big Ten commissioner just completed the biggest media rights deal in college sports history by nearly tripling the conference's television revenue. The Big Ten reached agreements with Fox, ESPN and CBS for a total of $2.6 million (sic) over six years, at over $400 million per season. And that's not counting the additional $8 million-$10 million the Big Ten Network brings in for each school every year.
So Mickey Mouse did ink the deal
+1 Insightful.
Mickey's morals are above reproach , He will conduct his fudiciary duties without malice.
But why in the hell does Goofy wear pants and Pluto doesn't? It makes no sense and has bothered me for decades...
Goofy is hung like a mule. Can't be on cartoons kids watch with a 2.5 ft penis floppin' 'round. Hence, pants.
but if he's good at one thing, it's bringing in piles and piles of money to the Big Ten. He sucks at a lot of other stuff, but he is legiimately good at extorting money from TV
not million. That's a lot of coin.
The Michigan coach has taken on all his enemies (real or imagined) and won every battle this offseason.
Harbaugh is a machine. Honestly, who has it better than us?
EDIT: I was scooped by Soulfire on my quote, but I don't fucking care.
lolz
Wow, they could have titled this entire article: "We Told You So."
But the better piece is at the bottom of the page. Don't worry about it, here's the link. First place goes to exactly who you think it should.
http://www.thepostgame.com/road-saturday/201602/college-football-most-o…
Wow. MSU and OSU made the top ten. I am glad that Michigan pisses so many people off.
Me too.
This is why I had no problem rooting for Cleveland last night even though they show the block M on their scoreboards when they want to get the fans to boo.
They honor us when they do this kind of stuff.
We have not been a threat for a decade, yet people in Ohio are still obsessed with us. We are still a big damn deal to them, irrationally so. I am not mad, I'm actually quite flattered.
We matter. Not just because of what we do, but because of who we are.
Ohio State only matters to me if they beat us. If they don't, I barely know that they exist.
By the end of the 90s, I honestly didn't care about OSU. Buckeye fans that I talk to think I'm making that up.
It really boggles me that they're still so obsessed with us.
Me too. They were just there, like Purdue. Didn't move the needle for me one way or the other.
I remember one Michigan - OSU game in the '90s where I skipped the first half to go shopping instead. I thought, "What the hell, I already know the outcome I can use the time to do something else."
They only matter to me when they beat us. Same as Purdue or Minnesota or anybody else.
both schools are obviously upset by the fact that our real major rival is Illinois, at least that's what I think you'd hear if you asked around Champaigne
What is a "Rutgers"?
I was at the NCAA basketball finals in 1976 in Philadelphia. There was lull in the semi-final pre-game action for the game between Rutgers and Michigan. Someone behind me yelled: "...What the Hell is a Rutgers, anyway?" The audience (on the Michigan side anyway) erupted in laughter.
Was that you?
beware of 10/8. #StripeTheBirthplace
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Enjoy the last ten years fucknut cause that shit is over...
I cannot wait to role MSU in lansing, Beat OSU in the horseshoe and play in the big ten championship game.
all the spartans had better hold on dearly to the past cause that was the zenith.
Bringing in that media deal alone makes him the guy that should be getting paid 4 miillion. Also, I'm beginning to think his non (public) reaction to the satellite camp SEC shenanigans was a stroke of genius. Fake the B1G fealty to the NCAA while allowing Coach Harbaugh to attack it head on and get it overturned. Delaney rolled out his Sun Tzu: "the supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
Actually, I think that was more Harbaugh going the Sun Tzu route than Jim "Sigh...whatever the NCAA decides is ok with me" Delaney.
When the ruling came out EVERYONE was sitting on Twitter waiting for Harbaugh to go ballistic. He sat quietly. He hardly said much about the ruling in the media..at least not right away. Other coaches (Mike Leach, etc.), HS kids, their parents all spoke out. Harbaugh said little.
Next thing you know there are rumours of the DOJ getting involved (I'd like to think some UM alum might work in that department...Maybe all it took was a phone call or two) and the whole thing was called off.
I think that was genius...Harbaugh showed tremendous discipline. He is thoughful and strategic even if he seems 'odd' to much of the sports world.
I think I up-voted almost every post above!