Boy, George Kliavkoff’s presser today was lit. A few tasty morsels:
Kliavkoff said collegiality among conferences has been lost in past month
— Jon Wilner (@wilnerhotline) July 29, 2022
Man, they don’t make Alliances like they used to.
Kliavkoff: "When I look at what's taking place in college sports, I believe we have collectively lost sight of the student athlete."
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) July 29, 2022
You… you… you mean, they’re no longer doing it for the kids?
And this shot…
George Kliavkoff asked again about the Big 12: "I've been spending four weeks trying to defend grenades from every corner of the Big 12. … I'm just tired of that."
He says Big 12 is trying to "destabilize" his league.
Woooo!
— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) July 29, 2022
With this chaser…
It. Is. On.
Pac-12 commish George Kliavkoff about Big 12’s Brett Yormark’s comment about Big 12 is open for business. “I appreciate that. We haven’t decided if we’re going shopping there or not”— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) July 29, 2022
Between Larry Scott and this guy, the Pac-12 presidents sure can pick ’em, can’t they?
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Dead man walking!
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College Football is the Somalia of the American Sports Landscape.
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Then the PAC 12 i Mogadishu.
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is…
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I don’t know, have you been to Columbia SC? Desolate, full of crazy people bolstered by chemical substances, they’re all willing to fight everyone about everything, especially if you suggest their miserably hot little hell hole is not Eden, and they’re all confident God is on their side and they will win regardless of the might arrayed against them. 🙂
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81Dog HAS spent time in Columbia, SC apparently.
Shiiiiit, I had a great time there for the above stated reasons.
Not to mention the women.
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Crazy women can be fun, for a while. Keep your head on a swivel and always identify possible exfil routes. 🙂
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If he isn’t careful, the Big10 will walk off with the Rose Bowl too. Unless Sankey gets it first.
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Nah, they can keep the Rose, and we will throw in the Pinstripe. We will keep the Sugar and add the Orange, Cotton, Peach, and maybe Fiesta to the SEC properties.
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UGA football is two and oh in Pasadena, don’t need it, nothing to see here, move on…
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“Welcome back my friends
To the Show that Never Ends!
We’re so glad you could attend!
Come inside, come inside!!
…Next behind the glass
Stands a real blade of grass.
Be careful as you pass.
Move along, move along!!!!”
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Is is just me or does this feel like a game of college football Monopoly?
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I mean the Big 10 already has like 75% of the PAC 12’s historical Rose bowl participants after taking ISC and UCLA. Best Rose Bowl this century was Georgia OU. As far as tradition goes, the Rose Bowl has been dead at least since the CFP started.
At this point “the Rose Bowl” is as much of an illusion as “amateurism.”
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I was there on NYD in 2018 and the Rose Bowl is amazing. Blows away any of the other bowl games I’ve been to (haven’t been to the Fiesta or Cotton, so maybe they’re extra special?).
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I was there too. What sticks in my mind, aside from that blocked FG, was how utterly creepy that PA announcer sounded!!!
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The B-2, man. They have a freaking B-2 flyover every year. That is what still sticks out in my mind (apart from the amazing game).
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This is sort of like watching 2 Karens fight over who gets the only grocery cart left. It’s mildly amusing…you might see some hair pulled or nails broken if you’re lucky…but only rises to the level of Bravo network coverage.
I say let the broads fight it out, I ain’t got anywhere to be until 9/3
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Lots of shouting and pointing fingers in faces. Ultimately, just tears and abject embarrassment for everyone involved.
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LMAO
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End result of CFB consolidation (you heard it here first): 2 super-conferences totaling 36 teams. Regional divisions mirroring the conferences of yore. Playoffs mirroring NFL playoffs. These are your professional, paid college conferences.
Other teams outside of the 36 design their own conferences for actual student athletes who are admitted on academic credentials without payment for sports. See, for example, Vandy.
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No way does Vandy walk away from their SEC check voluntarily.
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You’re right – it won’t be voluntary, but they won’t be invited to the new SEC super-conference. And they aren’t competitive in the current SEC anyway because they field the closest thing to a team of student-athletes in the SEC.
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Sorry, but I disagree. They are a baseball power and have been basketball competitive at times.
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They won’t. Sankey and his SEC brethren will put in place rules/guidelines/etc that will make it untenable for Vandy and they will leave of their own volition under the guise of “academic integrity”. That way, they get to keep their nose in the air, look down at the rest of the peons, and the SEC gets rid of an anchor (forgive the pun) around its proverbial neck.
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Do you think there’s going to be an SEC for football and then an SEC for all other sports? I really don’t see that happening.
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Unless it is for a Big10 check.
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I doubt the Big 10 tries to get Vandy unless the other schools want to give their fans a chance to spend a weekend in Nashville every other year. AAU membership only goes so far.
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Vandy was a founding member of the SEC. They have some competitive programs and they have proved in the past that they can be competitive in football. They will be SEC members as long as they wish.
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To sound like a broken record the people running college football (into the ground I might add): ADs, conference commissioners, university presidents and most of all their cartel front the NCAA, have always had the greed and ethics of a pimp and the emotional intelligence and business savvy of a dmv bureaucrat.
Whenever I think the c suite of the corporate America clients I work with are a bunch of greedy, overpaid under qualified grifters, I look at college athletics and they seem like compassionate visionaries in contrast.
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Wonder how many calls he’s placed to MGM asking if he can have his old job back?
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Picking fights with a conf/league that didn’t take yer top 2 market teams but that league picked G5 Teams, instead of yours. Must be butt hurt.
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Desperate people do/say desperate things. There seems to be a lot of desperation in college football these days.
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The PAC 12 is reaping the results of having been helmed by 40 years’ worth of half-wits and incompetents masquerading as Conference Commissioners. Tom Hansen (1982 to 2009) set the template for turning the PAC 12 into a handmaiden of the Big 10, following the latter’s Jim Delaney wherever he wished to go. Larry Scott (2009 – 2019) saddled it with horrendous and lengthy TV contracts while managing to triple his own salary. Now comes Kliavkoff letting himself be gulled by Kevin Warren’s “Alliance”. Sad to see a part of the CFB landscape going under, but where did they come up with these fools to run things? For FOUR decades?
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I think the real problem for the PAC 12/10/8/6 is that California doesn’t care about college football – I bet total attendance at every college football game in California last year doesn’t meet the attendance total of last year’s UGA games alone. 90% of all statistics are made up and flagellant.
And let’s face it – how man of you are staying up to midnight to watch Arizona State?
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You misspelled “flatulent.”
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You would lose that bet badly. The total home attendance of the 4 PAC 12 California schools doubled UGA’s. I did not bother to check San Diego State, San Jose State, Fresno State, or nor did I check the 4 other California FCS football schools, or the 2 D. II schools or the 8 D. III schools or the 1 NAIA team for their attendance records to add to the mix, or the 66 California community college teams. Your bet that the total attendance from those 88 teams would be less than 90% of UGA’S would be a sucker bet.
California has over 39,350,000 residents. Georgia has about 10,520,000 residents. If 80% of Georguans are college football fans (probably a high percentage) and only a quarter of Californians are college football fans (probably a lower percentage than is true because there have to be enough in California to sustain 88 college football teams) then California has a college football market of 9,837,500 fans while Georgia only has 8,416,000 fans.
The size of the population means that you can find a larger group of people interested in almost anything, be it quilting or sports or gardening, more whatever, in California than in any other State.
Hell, Donald Trump got more votes in California in 2020 than in South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana combined. I will bet you didn’t know that. The percentage was lower but the volume was greater because of the size of the population.
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It always amazes me how badly people underestimate how big California is. 1 out of every 10 Americans lives there. It has a higher GDP than all but 4 countries.
It is just an insane about of people, concentrated in just a small portion of the overall land mass.
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They’ve lost sight of the student athlete behind the huge stack of money the administrators have amassed.
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Dang, hate to have missed this late day post. Yeah, it’s the left coast time zone but dang, the media value out west is a joke compared to the B1G and SEC. This guy is way out in front of his skiis. Carry on my dude.
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Very, very poorly run and marketed. The time zone is a killer too.
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CFB conferences complaining about other conferences being greedy/mercenary/unfair is a “no honor among thieves” situation if I’ve ever seen one.
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The false bravado of the shopping comeback was pretty awesome though. I’ll give him that one.
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They needed a lot less false bravado about a year ago. Sankey’s format was much better than anything the Pac will get now. Anyone not in the media could see that.
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To get my football jones on I clicked on DawgNation.
Again.
From that I see that LIV Golf has poached the inestimable Bubba Watson for $50 million.
What’s the fuck up with the Saudis and golf? I don’t know enough to form an opinion.
Oh, and anyone who’d like to contribute to the proprietor of this site’s electricity bill fund? Send all contributions to the Gainesville, Ga School district c/o Got Cowdog. He’ll see it’s properly remitted.
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The Saudis suck and are not our friends. They know that we’re whores for money.
That’s what up.
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True. However, I’ve never been a fan of Matthew 5:30. I’m rather fond of my right hand and other sinful appendages.
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I’m just sticking with the Saudis sucking. The Saudis suck and the Russians suck and anyone saying otherwise is financially benefiting from whitewashing two awful counties.
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No argument here.
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FTMFs, amiright?
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Absolutely gotdam right.
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NO NO NO! Don’t send it to the city!!!
Send it care of the county.
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Those City boys will get the money to you, Dawg. They know who they fuckn with.
😉
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I request the Senator schedule open posts for us on the weekends so we can share, comment and say FTMF…
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