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Remember when people really cared about the Heisman? And StiffArmTrophy.com fed the hype and got people to tune in more and more, peaking with the too close to call Mark Ingram vs Toby Gerhart battle?

And the Downtown Athletic Club started threatening to take away votes from people who revealed their ballot early, and strong armed so many voters StiffArmTrophy.com gave up, and the Heisman ceremony ratings immediately started falling?

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12 hours ago, Contentious C said:

No, don't remember any of that.

It definitely happened. The best part was them bragging about having the highest viewership ever because of how close the race was, while at the exact same time trying to eliminate it ever leaking how close it was again.

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A judge just instituted a Temporary Restraining Order that blocks the NCAA's one time transfer rule

So for the next 14 days, players who have already transferred once can transfer again without needing a waiver

So we might get another surge of folks entering the portal

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Texas' Maalik Murphy has entered the portal

He said he was offered the chance to stay through the bowl game but due to the timing of everything declined

(Also pretty much confirms what everyone has been hinting at, that Quinn Ewers will return next season)

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On 12/14/2023 at 5:53 AM, RIPPA said:

Texas' Maalik Murphy has entered the portal

He said he was offered the chance to stay through the bowl game but due to the timing of everything declined

(Also pretty much confirms what everyone has been hinting at, that Quinn Ewers will return next season)

Have heard Murphy might be headed to Ann Arbor. 

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4 hours ago, Tabe said:

Have heard Murphy might be headed to Ann Arbor. 

Interesting. They are not, as of yet, one his scheduled official visits (he's headed to Duke, Baylor, and Oregon State in the next few days.)

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2 hours ago, Chaos said:

This should be interesting. It potentially could end horribly for FSU.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39167937/florida-state-sue-acc-grant-rights-withdrawal-fee

They appear to be threading a needle here, by getting ready to sue to try to break the GOR but not actually announcing an intent to withdraw. So they theoretically should remain a member in good standing if they lose the lawsuit.

Also the fact that member schools are not allowed to have a copy of the Grant of Rights seems crazy to me.

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34 minutes ago, Brian Fowler said:

They appear to be threading a needle here, by getting ready to sue to try to break the GOR but not actually announcing an intent to withdraw. So they theoretically should remain a member in good standing if they lose the lawsuit.

Also the fact that member schools are not allowed to have a copy of the Grant of Rights seems crazy to me.

Yeah, I read a decent breakdown of it yesterday. The lawsuit sounds like more an exploration of feasibility. Give them credit because they're the one bold enough to do it. (There are a few other conference schools that have read the Grant of Rights just as many times but haven't pulled the trigger). I think all of the schools in the conference were not wise to sign such a strict commitment though. College football and collegiate athletics has undergone too many changes to be locked into something so strict for so long. ACC being a starting point for the Alliance and then blocking the playoff makes this whole thing even worse. 

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Personally? Fuck em. They signed the grant of rights. They can't say "Whoops, we didn't really mean it, we want so much more elsewhere". They had their chance. (In fact, the grant of rights came around because FSU threatened to move to the Big12, and it was needed to reassure teams that people weren't going anywhere.)

 Or, in short: A contract is a contract, even when it's not as good a deal as you thought.


Honestly, within the decade, I find it likely that the whole conference lineup thing will be deader then disco, and we'll just have a U-23 NFL-style league.

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