true, they do have the bumper ads. My favorite is when they are ads for things I can't buy in the US. I'm actually surprised they aren't green-screened so they can be sold by the network rather than the club.

granted, if I could exchange NFL commercials for on uniform ads I would make that trade immediately. They could look like NASCAR for fuck's sake.

But the NFL airs commercials. Soccer does not. It's 45 minutes of uninterrupted gameplay. The jersey space is much more valuable when that's basically the only ad you're seeing for the entire game.

English soccer doesn't really have "relocation". Because of promotion/relegation, if you wanted a team in OKC, you'd just buy the minor league team there, then pump $$ into it until it was a 1st tier team, so that's not really an issue here.

We Washington Professional Football Team fans did not need Black Monday to inform us that our team has no idea what they are doing. Actually, scratch that... all of these teams fans learned that lesson long ago.

How nice these things are is irrelevant. They are insoluble benefits, and thus cannot be viewed as "pay".

Half of Princeton's "national championships" were won when there were 7 or fewer football teams (including one year when 3 of the 5 college football teams were declared "national champions". That is a red herring.

Do I think allowing big money schools to pay players will help parity? No, of course not. Do I think it will significantly impact parity? No, I don't. Big money schools already pay their players in ways permitted (Oregon's team facility), shady (Hire my AAU coach as a "special assistant" and I'll come to your school),…

Dude, 5 non Auto-Bid teams have gotten BCS bids. Not championship bids, BCS bids. NIU was eliminated from NC consideration for 2013 in 1997 (when they joined the MAC). Roughly 5% of all BCS bids come from non-major conferences (and 40% of the football teams are non-major). Meanwhile, the top 10% of teams have…

Fun math: There are 85 scholarships for each FBS school, and 120 FBS teams = 10,200 scholarship FBS players. Seems like a lot, but that wouldn't fill 1/10th of Michigan Stadium.

"Paying" people in scholarships is kinda like McDonald's paying people in fries... well maybe not, you could theoretically re-sell the fries.

Only a handful of schools could compete? Have you been paying attention to college football at all for, I don't know, the past 50 or so years? Right now, only a few teams can compete. If a booster wants to pay Johnny Football 500K for his autograph. Who fucking cares! Its much more efficient than what the booster does…

"If they could suddenly give that money directly to recruits you may as well just form a 16 team top division because everyone else would be out of the running"

I only like that because it fits into the same old college football storyline: if any system doesn't result in an SEC champion is wrong, and must be changed.

Wouldn't a more likely ending be more like the NFL regular season? Which, we all know, no one pays attention to.

Nobody outside of SEC land gets rooting for conference pride. I'm a Maryland fan, and even if we weren't leaving the ACC, there is no chance I'd be rooting for FSU (I wasn't in 93 or 99). In fact, here is the list of other ACC teams I would be rooting for in the Natty: (thinking, thinking) maybe Wake Forest? GT if…

Brandon Meriweather? Ask a guy that plays for one of the league's worst secondaries and defenses?

Of course I kid. You know us Whiting school types can't pass up any opportunity to make fun of Writing Sems!

Don't brag about writing sems.

Seems to me (especially given that old, crappy I video game opening, and the mouse arrow that points to the "rojo" path) Dora was conceived to trick toddlers into thinking they were playing a computer game, which would directly address you at all times.