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August 24th Jump Off
The final five have been revealed in the Down the Drive Ring of Honor voting. You have until the season opener against Austin Peay to vote. Also, if you want to receive Down the Drive updates through Facebook, don't forget to like us! Training Camp 247 Sports Training Camp 8/22 - Some more photos...
SEC Athletics Department Subsidies
The USA Today came out with a study illustrating the subsidies that Division I athletics departments get from their universities. Those subsidies include student fees, payments from the school's general funds, and payments from state governments directly. As open records requests were how the paper...
Pac-12 lands most lucrative college football deal
Larry Scott is a man of his word and the Pac-12 just became home to the most lucrative college football television deal in college football history. Reports suggest the conference is on the verge of announcing its $225 million per year television deal with both FOX and ESPN. The contract will...
Pac-12 seeking 10-year, $2.3 billion television deal
Larry Scott is all about the money and if he gets what he wants, the Pac-12 will be rolling in it. The Wall Street Journal reports the Pac-12 is seeking a 10-year, $2.3 billion television deal - negotiating with Comcast, ESPN, Turner Sports and FOX . The Pac-12 conference is seeking a 10-year...
Three Lessons From BYU Going Independent
Back in June, Utah got a Pac-10 invitation while BYU didn't get so much as a phone call from that conference's leadership. At that point, the leaders at BYU must have decided that they needed to do something to make sure their football program didn't fall behind Utah in stature. Shortly thereafter,...
Boise State Wants NCAA to Require Home-and-Home Series
Lost in all this talk about BYU potentially going independent is this little nugget from Boise State president Bob Kustra and athletics director Gene Bleymaier: Kustra: "...We want to propose to the NCAA a mandated home-and-home scheduling arrangement for I-A non-conference football...
Eric Berry: Highest Paid Safety in NFL History
As far as I can tell, the 'official' announcement hasn't been made, but the story being told all over the wires is that Eric Berry has finalized his contract. The important numbers: Six year contract $34 million guaranteed $60 million maximum Arrowhead Pride is going chat-crazy over the news, so...
Penn State's endless fountain of money
Owing to Sean Keeley's take on this subject, I felt obligated to go back and flesh out my thoughts here. Penn State lured away Cornell's lacrosse coach last week for, presumably, a major bump in salary. That's on the heels of hiring wrestling coach Cael Sanderson from Iowa State, which was doubly...
A Look at Local Media Money
Note: edited to be more precise and accurate. We've all seen it. "The Big Ten schools get about $22 million a year, while SEC schools get about $17 million a year from TV." Turns out it's not true exactly. From the major contracts and other normal income like BCS payouts and NCAA tournament money,...
Is prostitution becoming a viable option?
Maybe. A girl's gotta eat, after all. As much as I loathe this story, and want to bury my head in the sand until it goes away; in the interests of non-homerism I am bound to providing all sides of the story. Here's a rare Sunday entry at this blog, as I hope to spend the rest of the coming week on...
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