I think the answer used to be the Oakland A's.

Also, forgot to add: if you haven't got this note already, check out Lou Saban's coaching résumé if you want another coach on your list with 20+ stops. He might have had the most head coaching positions.

You can probably thank Skip, Pete, and Ernie Sr. for a lot of them.

Skating to MacArthur Park is interesting enough, but just imagine if she had skated to the version by Richard Harris!

(Which made it all the way to #2 on the Billboard charts in 1968! Seriously, it did!)

At the end of the podcast, when you reference attendance...Alabama certainly has had no attendance issues, but one outcome of NCAA v Oklahoma has been reduced overall attendance for smaller schools, as people eschew going to a local game in favor of watching big schools on TV.

I think that is an error in the obituary, and a tough one. From what I can tell, the "mother" was actually her daughter.

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Respectfully but firmly disagree. If play-in games must exist, limit them to at-large teams. A league champion belongs in the main draw (when many people think the tourney really begins anyway).

In the unlikely event my school ever somehow wins its league, I don't want it shunted off to a play-in.

(Sigh) This is where I tell you that The Citadel has had two streaks of not winning a conference tournament game that lasted for 18 and 13 years, respectively...

Given that the deadline for opting in to the House settlement for the upcoming year is March 1, there will probably be a flurry of decisions made by FCS conferences/schools in the next 3 weeks or so. (Of course, the settlement hasn't been finally approved yet.)

The same article had another South Carolina BOT member stating that "We just competed for a linebacker. We were gonna offer $400,000 and Mississippi took him for $800 (thousand)."

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My completely uninformed take from across the pond is that without a blackout (or some kind of scheduling adjustment), League 1 and League 2 would really suffer in terms of attendance, as would the upper reaches of the Conference. It is possible the lowest tiers might not be as greatly affected.

Instead of going to local games, people are more inclined to stay home and watch the most popular teams on TV (sound familiar?). Attendance figures can be sketchy for the lower tiers, but I think it would be fair to say attendance over the last 30+ years has declined 35%-40% for the lower divisions.

Anyway, it took a few years to get going, but we now have wall-to-wall televised college football all day on Saturdays (when the sport is mostly played). That has not had an overly dramatic effect on attendance for larger schools, but has certainly affected attendance at lower levels (FCS, D2, D3).

Really interested in your blackout discussion. I live in the U.S., and tend to compare our college football (gridiron) with the English pyramid. There are similarities.

In the U.S. there was a de facto blackout for college football until the mid-1980s. A famous court case opened up the floodgates.

Nicely done as usual. I will note that losing to Vanderbilt doesn't necessarily stop Alabama national championship delusions, since 'Bama claims a national title for 1941, a season in which the Tide lost multiple games, including a loss to Vandy, and did not win the SEC.