Greg Sankey standing tall

[basedog]

Says Big Ten want dictate what the Sec does to football. His approach seems reasonable, let's wait and see with fall practice starting Aug 17th and first Sec game Sept 26.

One can only imagine IF the Sec plays football this fall.

Like many have stated, thinking young men and women will stay locked up, ain't happening, just saying.

[Commercecomet24]

Well IF Sankey, the presidents and ADs allow us to play football I will give them credit for having some massive stones. Here's hoping they do!

ETA At some point someone has to standup and say let's go!

[basedog]

Well IF Sankey, the presidents and ADs allow us to play football I will give them credit for having some massive stones. Here's hoping they do!

ETA At some point someone has to standup and say let's go!

Yes, fact is the world can't just stop spinning, if so there will be no life anyway. Seems more and more are beginning to see the light. I see the last two days Mississippi numbers have dropped a lot with positive testing.

The way I see it, it players don't want to play, I'm ok with it, same for fans attending. Maybe we should playing inside Wal-Mart, doesn't seem to be a problem with Wally World***

Btw I just got back from working Hurricane Hannah in south Texas, we had 3 staging sites with numbers being 500, 850 and 450 at those sites. Safety was vey much in place, not one single case of Covid-19 occurred while I was there 11 days, we had crews from all over the south and Rio Grande Valley is a hot bed for the virus.

Just saying.

[Commercecomet24]

Yes, fact is the world can't just stop spinning, if so there will be no life anyway. Seems more and more are beginning to see the light. I see the last two days Mississippi numbers have dropped a lot with positive testing.

The way I see it, it players don't want to play, I'm ok with it, same for fans attending. Maybe we should playing inside Wal-Mart, doesn't seem to be a problem with Wally World***

Btw I just got back from working Hurricane Hannah in south Texas, we had 3 staging sites with numbers being 500, 850 and 450 at those sites. Safety was vey much in place, not one single case of Covid-19 occurred while I was there 11 days, we had crews from all over the south and Rio Grande Valley is a hot bed for the virus.

Just saying.

Right there with you!

[FISHDAWG]

screw it ... can't post a gif here

[R2Dawg]

Well IF Sankey, the presidents and ADs allow us to play football I will give them credit for having some massive stones. Here's hoping they do!

ETA At some point someone has to standup and say let's go!

Sankey ain't got no backbone; he'll fold like a cheap suit when it comes to it. He is playing politics just like he did with the MS flag thing.

[was21]

If Big 10 and PAC 12 shut it down on basis of health and medical concerns, no way SEC will press on....can't afford to. It would be stupid to do so.

[Joebob]

If Big 10 and PAC 12 shut it down on basis of health and medical concerns, no way SEC will press on....can't afford to. It would be stupid to do so.

It would certainly put them in the position of looking like idiots if they did decide to go forward with the season and then it all fell apart. On the other hand, it could be a boon for the conference if they had a successful season when most of the others backed out. But large institutions don't normally take that kind of risk.

[Dawgology]

If Big 10 and PAC 12 shut it down on basis of health and medical concerns, no way SEC will press on....can't afford to. It would be stupid to do so.

Everyone knows why the Big 10 ad PAC 12 are shutting it down and it isn't "health and medical concerns" lol. These guys aren't idiots. It would be a monumental move for the SEC and ACC to play ball. There is not a big enough rake to rake in the money they would be making. Literally, the only game in town.

[Mobile Bay]

Everyone knows why the Big 10 ad PAC 12 are shutting it down and it isn't "health and medical concerns" lol. These guys aren't idiots. It would be a monumental move for the SEC and ACC to play ball. There is not a big enough rake to rake in the money they would be making. Literally, the only game in town.

I believe the real reason is can be summed up in three words.

Orange Man Bad!

[Dawgology]

I believe the real reason is can be summed up in three words.

Orange Man Bad!

Or that they spent collectively as a conference 1.8 billion last year and made around 1.33 billion (so they were basically 500 million in the red). They are losing money with athletics. Closing it down for a season will actually save them some money.

As opposed to the SEC who cleared $651 million in revenue last year. We literally made 1 billion more than the BIG10.

[TaleofTwoDogs]

That doesn't seem right. Journalist are notorious for weak math skills. If you use the revenue percentages (26%, 20%,16% &10%) with the revenues shown the total revenue comes to about $1.8 billion which is breakeven.

[parabrave]

Everyone knows why the Big 10 ad PAC 12 are shutting it down and it isn't "health and medical concerns" lol. These guys aren't idiots. It would be a monumental move for the SEC and ACC to play ball. There is not a big enough rake to rake in the money they would be making. Literally, the only game in town.

It's called Trial Lawyers got to make up their losses. BTW this will probably be the death knell of conferences. We are going to see a massive re-alignment of major teams that didn't cancel into new super conferences.

[Todd4State]

It's called Trial Lawyers got to make up their losses. BTW this will probably be the death knell of conferences. We are going to see a massive re-alignment of major teams that didn't cancel into new super conferences.

I think the Big 10 knows that though. They're running the risk of pissing off some of their major programs. Nebraska has already switched conferences once the past few years. I doubt they would have much of a problem doing it again. Even if there are too many legal hurdles to jump through costing teams like Ohio State, Iowa, Nebraska and etc. a full season would be a major blow to those programs and I'm sure that's something that wouldn't be lost on those programs and they might leave when the opportunity comes.

[was21]

Guess I'm in the dark then. If not medical and health reasons what other reason would there be?

[HailStateSZN19]

Guess I'm in the dark then. If not medical and health reasons what other reason would there be?

P O L I T I C S.

It’s obvious. Politics have been involved since the beginning. It’s an election year. No college football for an entire fall on top of what has gone on and happened since March = a tanked economy. And it’d be just in time for the election in November. Hmmmmm.... and it’s just so happens that the B10 and PAC12 schools have been the ones wanting to cancel fall sports for months now. Now let’s see....those conferences’ teams reside in states that are mainly of what political affiliation.....

[StateDawg44]

P O L I T I C S.

It’s obvious. Politics have been involved since the beginning. It’s an election year. No college football for an entire fall on top of what has gone on and happened since March = a tanked economy. And it’d be just in time for the election in November. Hmmmmm.... and it’s just so happens that the B10 and PAC12 schools have been the ones wanting to cancel fall sports for months now. Now let’s see....those conferences’ teams reside in states that are mainly of what political affiliation.....

After this and the football tweet from Trump, college football is now full tilt open game for politics to poison it too. It really sucks to see it

[Dawgology]

Guess I'm in the dark then. If not medical and health reasons what other reason would there be?

BIG10 made little to no money last season. Best accounts are they broke even...the numbers indicate that they lost 500 million as a whole. This gives them a reason to cancel for a year and get back in the black. Same reason the MAC in canceling/canceled.

These divisions depend a lot on their OOC games also. They have one or two big name teams and the rest are shit that no one really cares about. In comparison to the SEC with Bama, Auburn, LSU, Georgia, Florida...those will get viewership all over the US. Canceling the season for the SEC is a loss of about 700 million in revenue. Canceling the season for the BIG10 is actually saving them about 500 million (and that's not including the extra testing/medical costs).

[Johnson85]

BIG10 made little to no money last season. Best accounts are they broke even...the numbers indicate that they lost 500 million as a whole. This gives them a reason to cancel for a year and get back in the black. Same reason the MAC in canceling/canceled.

These divisions depend a lot on their OOC games also. They have one or two big name teams and the rest are shit that no one really cares about. In comparison to the SEC with Bama, Auburn, LSU, Georgia, Florida...those will get viewership all over the US. Canceling the season for the SEC is a loss of about 700 million in revenue. Canceling the season for the BIG10 is actually saving them about 500 million (and that's not including the extra testing/medical costs).

How in the hell did they manage to not make any money? That's got to be wrong. They're TV money wsa $54M per school last year.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...18/3686089002/

[Homedawg]

BIG10 made little to no money last season. Best accounts are they broke even...the numbers indicate that they lost 500 million as a whole. This gives them a reason to cancel for a year and get back in the black. Same reason the MAC in canceling/canceled.

These divisions depend a lot on their OOC games also. They have one or two big name teams and the rest are shit that no one really cares about. In comparison to the SEC with Bama, Auburn, LSU, Georgia, Florida...those will get viewership all over the US. Canceling the season for the SEC is a loss of about 700 million in revenue. Canceling the season for the BIG10 is actually saving them about 500 million (and that's not including the extra testing/medical costs).

how do you think cancelling is going to get them in the black??? opposite, they are going to lose their asses.