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Keith Dennis's avatar

My beef with these media rights cash grabs is that they don't actually have any use for the money. They're not funneling any of it back to the schools. They aren't paying the players. All of their facilities are as pimped out as they can be. So the only thing they can really do is pay their football coaches $20 million instead of $10 million.

I've been eager for someone to call the SEC's bluff that they'll just peel off and stage their own "national" championship. ESPN would never allow that, though it is perfectly revealing of their mindset: "We're fine not having the maximum amount of money possible, as long as we have more money than everyone else."

Since Oregon's National Championship loss after the 2014 season, I've cared a little less and less each year about football. I don't see any outcome here that reverses that trend (even though, as my in-laws pointed out, as an Illinois resident, I'd actually get to see Oregon more if they joined the B1G.)

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Robin Adams's avatar

What you said, Tyson. It’s all about the money any more. Nothing else seems to matter….and all the rest of us are just supposed to deal with it. But I don’t WANT to deal with it. I want sports for the pageantry and competition, but I guess that doesn’t happen any more. It makes me very sad.

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David Azrael's avatar

Feels more like money shouted and we don’t get ear plugs.

Great piece dude!

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Steve Greif's avatar

Great editorial, Tyson. It's too bad LIV golfers, Trojans, and Bruins have no respect for history and tradition...only the almighty dollar. How many millions of $$ is enough?

Steve Greif

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Forrest Lamb's avatar

Agree completely, Tyson. The world seems to be swirling down a toilet bowl of greed and apathy. USC and UCLA just killed the conference they've been members of for a century, without a care in the world. This new world absolutely sucks.

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Adam Bryant's avatar

Definitely just kinda sucks!

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Rick Gaines's avatar

Presently, a sad state of affairs. Keep grinding, Tyson.

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