2014 College Football Thread

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Wisconsin and Nebraska to have a rivalry trophy game.

http://www.buckys5thquarter.com/2014/7/ ... lry-trophy

[Vidor]

Wisconsin and Nebraska to have a rivalry trophy game.

http://www.buckys5thquarter.com/2014/7/ ... lry-trophy

Ugh. You can't just wish a rivalry into being. Conference realignment is so dumb.

[Jocephus]

Bill Snyder bemoans TV's influence

http://espn.go.com/college-football/sto ... k-sold-out

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http://www.widerightnattylite.com/2012/ ... he-big-xii

3) Kansas State: The old man is bent forward studying the ground. A secret to be gleaned from the turf. His time with the wildcats has not been easy. Struggle. Work. Victory. Struggle. A betrayal he once believed would be impossible. An exile while a clownish prince claims his throne. Years spent in the wilderness of the plains scrabbling for scraps and water while his republic fell into disrepair with no one to save it or pull the charter from the ashes while the prince fiddled and his palace burned to the ground. A coup. Reascension.

He knows his time is not long now. He uses time wisely, efficiently. His troops are ragged, pulled from wild and unknown places with uniforms of unnamed rank and single color. Junior colleges. The old man looks up. Squints against the gloom that grows darker with each moment.. Pulls his tattered windbreaker closer about his shoulders. Run the qb counter, he says into his headset.

[pioneer98]

What does this mean? What will this allow them to do they couldn't before?

NCAA board approved D1 autonomy proposal

INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA on Thursday approved a new governance structure for Division I that will give the five power conferences a level of legislative autonomy never seen before in the history of the organization.

The 16-2 vote by the Division I Board of Directors, which took place at NCAA headquarters, is subject to a 60-day veto period before the new governance structure is official. It is not expected enough schools will to override to put the legislation in jeopardy. The dissenting votes came from Ivy League rep and Dartmouth President Phil Hanlon and Delaware President Patrick Harker, the representative of the Colonial Athletic Conference.

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They will probably give players cash monthly stipends, health insurance, guaranteed 4 year scholarships, travel allowances for family to watch games, plus more liberal recruiting rules.

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http://www.sbnation.com/college-footbal ... ting-rules

[MrSaigon]

So Oregon will more directly be giving their players Phil Knight's money, right, and not mine?

[pioneer98]

They will probably give players cash monthly stipends, health insurance, guaranteed 4 year scholarships, travel allowances for family to watch games, plus more liberal recruiting rules.

The NCAA can't agree on a football playoff format, but when the players threaten to unionize, just look how quick they can agree on stuff!!! Remarkable.

If you are a D1 player outside the power 5 conferences, I guess you are out of luck.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

So, each conference controls how much the stipend is, correct? So, the B1G could set that stipend at a maximum of 5 million dollars if they wanted to?