It’ll never happen, but if a coach can stop a kid from transferring to any college he wishes, I think any coach should have to get a majority vote from the current team before leaving to take a new job (via secret ballot election). If that was the deal, I bet the coaches would drop their transfer restrictions in a…

Now if we could just get all the other states to pass laws like that, then we could do away with ALL non-essential travel, not just non-essential travel to NC. Just think of the savings to local governments! They could probably properly fund their pension obligations.

I wasn’t referring to the opening game so much as the overall weakness of only having one major OOC game AND an FCS team while also playing an 8 game conference schedule. Also, I’m not so sure it’s other Power 5 teams not being willing to schedule the SEC, but the lack of home-and-home series being scheduled by the…

SEC teams should be putting at least two big OOC games on their schedules every year, and at least one should be part of a home-and-home series. That gets them to 10 Power 5 games a year, which is pretty much the standard in the Pac-12 and Big 12 (and will be in the Big 10 most likely when they move to a 9 game…

It’s not so much the scheduling of FCS schools that irks me (because everyone but USC, Notre Dame, and UCLA does that these days), but rather the lack of Power 5 games the SEC schedules when they only play an 8 game conference schedule. In 2015, the SEC played 11 of their 52 (21%) non-conference games against Power 5…

Surprise surprise, more economic illiteracy from Deadspin about a new stadium. I get that publicly financed stadiums are a bad deal for the public, but I don’t see how the Rangers aren’t on the hook here for their half.

Still not exactly apples to apples, since we are talking about international soccer. For the World Cup, the USSF sells the rights to broadcast the entire tournament to ESPN or Fox or whomever. In 2014 it was ESPN, which averaged over 4.5M viewers for 64 matches. In 2015 it was FOX, which averaged 1.8M viewers over 52…