Re: What the f is Herbstreit crying about

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The SEC may regret

Jan 22, 2025, 5:54 AM

The SEC may regret bringing all of this college football money out into the open as it hurts their competitive advantage. The SEC schools have done better when everything was under the table. They excelled at slimy post game handshakes, booster provided cars, and money funneled through uncles, preachers, and coaches,etc.

When everything gets sanctioned, everything is legal, and it’s all about money, those AAU schools in the Big Ten will be able to bring the full brunt of their administrative power to bear. All of the Big Ten schools are better at getting research grants, federal money, as well as alumni fundraising than any of the SEC schools, not named Texas or Vanderbilt.

Whoever wins the national championship in college football now is going to have to spend a lot of money and they’re going to have to make sure that their five star professional athletes perform better than the five star professional athletes playing for other universities.

In 2018, Trevor Lawrence had to play better than Tua. Justin Ross played better than the Alabama receivers. AJ Terrell played better than Alabama defensive backs.

In today’s world, the way that money is being spent to pay for players is simply more amenable to these big wealthy Midwestern and West Coast universities. Their university presidents are more likely to push the spend button if they know their are no consequences to paying players.

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-- even sports broadcasters -- were professionals who remembered always that what's going on in one's personal life should never, never, never bleed into the on-air product.

Because we all have problems and challenges. We all hurt and struggle in various ways. Professionals understand and respect that the guy watching on his sofa might also have a wife who is fighting cancer, or has lost his job, or both. And unlike the broadcaster, doesn't have a seven-figure contract to fall back on.

It's why dudes like Herbstreit start losing that tenuous connection with their audience -- they start making it about them. They become the story -- and that's the first rule of broadcasting -- YOU are NOT the story.

Because in the end, there is a very fine, almost imperceptible line between connecting with the audience (which is incredibly hard to do), and losing/turning-off the audience (which is not so hard to do).

What the f is Herbstreit crying about

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