Is USM a done deal?

[CajunVic]

I thought a stool pigeon was a police informant.?

Who put limitations on the Stool Pigeon?

[MelRock]

I’m going to post this again because I think it is really interesting and may explain why there could be some hesitation about expanding past 10 teams. This is a quote from our former commish Wright Waters:

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You lost me at Wright Waters. He never accomplished anything.

[Turbine]

Who put limitations on the Stool Pigeon?

Webster

[CajunVic]

Webster

So you think once one is a Stool Pigeon, he can't contract for outside gigs?

[ManAboutTown]

USM podcast blasting all over social media that it’s a done deal.

[angeleast]

USM podcast blasting all over social media that it’s a done deal.

I hope the announcement comes soon. This speculation is insane.

[MelRock]

I do not think you see an announcement until the second team, Marshall, is ready to announce. It will be a twofer.

[Turbine]

So you think once one is a Stool Pigeon, he can't contract for outside gigs?

Not at, all. That's why I asked you... "Would it be redundant to ask if you were a member of Stool Pigeons Anonymous?"

[CajunRebel]

You lost me at Wright Waters. He never accomplished anything.

Even if he was the worst commissioner ever, I don’t think that changes the analytics and data he spoke about.

Last year the SBC received an $18,484,520 payout from the CFP committee. That’s $1,848,452 per school.

C-USA received $16,932,474, which comes out to $1,209,462 per school.

Our payout is higher than C-USA schools because we have fewer schools to distribute to, and we earn more for performing better than C-USA — which is apparently much easier to accomplish as a 10 school conference.

So I think it is a legitimate question to ask if adding USM and Marshall is going to be worth losing out on a share of this CFP revenue, and perhaps even Media revenue. As a fan, I want them in my conference yesterday. As an AD who has to balance the books every year, I think the choice might be tougher than we realize.

[Big Buds]

https://twitter.com/tothetoptalk/sta...364491266?s=21

[RaginDave]

If this is accurate we will now have to football stadiums in the conference that are named...."THE ROCK" and ironically both will be black and yellow (I know, I know both schools like to be called black and gold, but like I tell LSU fans all the time, you are not purple and gold, you are purple and yellow. Gold is the color that the Saints wear, yellow is the color that Iowa, LSU, App State, USM and many others call gold.)

[Turbine]

Even if he was the worst commissioner ever, I don’t think that changes the analytics and data he spoke about.

Last year the SBC received an $18,484,520 payout from the CFP committee. That’s $1,848,452 per school.

C-USA received $16,932,474, which comes out to $1,209,462 per school.

Our payout is higher than C-USA schools because we have fewer schools to distribute to, and we earn more for performing better than C-USA — which is apparently much easier to accomplish as a 10 school conference.

So I think it is a legitimate question to ask if adding USM and Marshall is going to be worth losing out on a share of this CFP revenue, and perhaps even Media revenue. As a fan, I want them in my conference yesterday. As an AD who has to balance the books every year, I think the choice might be tougher than we realize.

This link is older info, but explains the situation nicely.

https://journalnow.com/sports/colleg...f11bc849b.html