(05-16-2020 08:47 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(05-16-2020 08:22 PM)AllTideUp Wrote:  

(05-16-2020 12:44 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(05-16-2020 11:37 AM)AllTideUp Wrote:  

(05-15-2020 10:19 PM)JRsec Wrote:  As far as I'm concerned their delay in warning others (nearly 30 days) is the proof it was intentional. They had to make certain of its global spread via flights from one of their major foreign industrial complexes to all of the major cities in Europe and the U.S.. The Chicoms are guilty as sin. The issue is until other governments can theorize the best possible retaliation they won't admit for certain it was the attack they all know it to be.

As to your football plan, I can see the SEC incorporating games with some of those schools, but if all of the SEC schools are going to play then we fulfill our contractual obligations and get the promised rate of payout. If another conference doesn't fulfill theirs it could open for the participating schools the question of diminished value due to the failure of some league members to honor contractual obligations thereby nullifying the GOR. This will likely be backed by the courts since one state's decisions should not encumber the decisions of another sovereign state. This issue has always been the Achilles heel of the GOR but until now no reasonable circumstance had arisen to foster the environment that would lead to this kind of breach.

And for the record, I didn't read about the viruses bonding issues. I heard it a month ago from someone inside Big Pharma whose a medical officer.

The South China Morning Post(a Hong Kong outlet) had evidence that China knew about cases in mid November. I'm both surprised and unsurprised that story hasn't gotten more play.

Anyway, it's obvious China is lying about the whole thing so I have no problem believing it was an attack of some sort although it would appear perhaps to have been intended to cause economic upheaval as opposed to death on a massive scale. The latter would have been a poor play with regard to achieving their end game. The first is easier to hide for one thing.

But anyway, I would agree the foundation for GOR agreements with regard to public institutions is shaky...especially when that contract extends across state lines.

China was hoping the deaths on their home soil would give them cover. They are just that cold as to see the loss of their own as necessary for their agenda and an acceptable sacrifice.

As to GOR's the SEC has the strongest position, none among ourselves, although I believe ESPN wanted one, but therein is the difference. We don't hold each other hostage. ESPN just wants the gang together for the duration of their contract.

Odd it is that a virus might right the final chapter in NCAA football realignment. Should schools seek more natural and closer rivals it might actually correct the mistakes of the market football driven additions.

Speaking of world events altering the course of college sports history, that makes me think of what World War II did.

Some commentators look at that period as a delineating event with regard to the type and scope of competition. We may be looking at another one.

While the PAC seems to be in imminent danger of their pay model falling apart, it also begs the question of the same thing happening in the ACC. Of course with the ACC, it would be far easier for a league or multiple leagues to pick them apart.

I think it will be a seminal event for the future of college sports, but it's still unfolding and some of the worst in economic impact is yet to come. The FBI made a series of arrests, one at Emory, this week that involve naturalized Chinese professors still working for Communist China and collecting unreported revenue from them to spy in sensitive research areas. Coming to light are also some Wall Street banks that, like they did in 2006-8 were investing our money in Chinese front companies many of which were actually funding Chinese military projects that were detrimental to the U.S..

This is the kind of crap that H.W.Bush, the Clintons, Obamas and W. Bushes were involved in supporting wittingly or unwittingly and the Deep State is comprised of those people on both sides of the aisle with funding from Gates, Buffet, and Soros to keep the trade open and not to challenge China on these front corporations.

The Washington Post had an article this week about how one American Investment firm which handles pensions had 70% of their investment for those pensions invested in such Chinese front companies which have zero transparency or responsibility to shareholders. We are expecting as more and more about China's penetration into sensitive areas of our country, including investment banking, that up to as many as 1 million Americans could lose their pensions and another shock to some banks could occur. I'm wondering now if the derivatives of the 2006-8 crisis were created to help cover these specious kinds of investments.

I've known since the early 90's that China's plan for attacking the U.S. was to first try to tank our economy. Well here we are.

Now as to college sports, I think that those most committed to football are about to shrink and drastically. Can you imagine what the loss of pensions and another banking crisis will do to donations? donations for tickets (which will sag because of virus exposure issues)? and the ability of schools that popped up since the '50's to sustain expensive programs? It will be the perfect milieu for networks to orchestrate the best against the best weekly and pay to get it, and for the schools to respond in needing to take it.

It has been estimated that a top 48 school league would earn between 110 to 120 million per school for TV rights alone.

I think that each existing conference will suffer some losses of schools who can't afford to compete at this level. From there the formation of a unit of 48 or so schools could be easily accomplished.

I live near KC and the sporting culture is fantastic. But even though many of friends are big college football fans, I doubt any of them are donating to a school, and if they are, my guess is they donate to the academic side or support scholarships, etc.

The point being that the generational shift was going to hurt lots of colleges anyway. I feel passionate about my alma mater (a tiny school in TN, not even NAIA), and I haven't even been able to donate to them.

Schools that rely on big boosters, etc. have to be sure that the boostings stay put in the next generation. With the looming financial crisis coming (again) I wonder what happens there; my guess is some of the smaller schools turn more and more to online teaching, and only the biggest schools even keep football.