CFP payouts
Not sure they both deserved it, but at least the ACC got two teams in the CFP – Clemson (10-3) as the ACC champ, and SMU (11-2) as the at-large.
The payouts for those games are huge, from what we’re led to believe.
Is that conference or team money?
Alan
The schools get $3 million for making the playoff, and additional money for each game played.
This is to cover expenses, supposedly.
The conferences get $4 million for each team making the playoff, and additional money for each game played by their schools.
So, us sneaking SMU in as an at-large helps dear ol’ UVA, a smidge.
We did our part, making them look good last month.
The conference payouts seem small to me, to be honest.
Seems like ESPN is taking a lot off the top.
Portal-palooza
FBS schools allow 105 players on the roster, I believe. Meaning, we are over a 50 percent attrition rate as of today.
The meltdown at UVA is becoming epic. I’m trying to create, using current data, the average number of players going into the transfer portal for FBS schools. Is that 2-10 percent per school, or does the 20 percent across-the-board number float based on last year’s numbers?
Also, I’m curious about the average number for players per team opting out because of eligibility.
These numbers should give us a reasonable comparison to call out a leadership failure for the ‘Hoos, or is this status quo attrition statistics? Only 45 percent of transfer portal candidates get picked up, per last years stats. Meaning there are a lot of leftovers.
JW
There were 3,333 D1 (FBS and FCS) players in the portal last year – 67 percent ended up at a new school.
There are 263 total D1 teams (FBS and FCS), so the average per school would be 12.7.
UVA is at 13 in the transfer portal as of the end of the day today.
FBS rosters (through this year) could have up to 121 players, but only 85 on scholarship.
That changes next year, pending the final resolution of the House litigation – you can have 105, and all can be on scholarship, if you can afford 105 scholarships.
FCS schools can have 63 on scholarship.
Our number of seniors (43 total, including seniors and grad students) is larger because we got the extra redshirt year because of the way the 2022 season ended (the Nov. 13 shootings).
Obviously a very rare circumstance, to have, in essence, two senior classes finishing up their eligibility in one year.
It’s probably not fair to cast that as a leadership failure. Tony Elliott could have told the grad guys who got the extra year to move on, but that would have come across as callous, considering the circumstances.
Under wraps
You mentioned on a recent podcast the media not having access to Ron Sanchez between games. In football, they have access, but I rarely hear callbacks to Qs unanswered a few days before.
It’s so easy for a coach to say, “I gotta look at the tape.” OK, fine. Part of the job. Understandable (though FAR less invoked after a win, I’ve noticed).
But if Sanchez is giving only 8.5 min interviews postgame, most if not all Qs are about the previous 60 min. (“How important was Jerome’s steal that won the game?” “Are you proud of Clary for the picksix that beat the Hokies as the clock hit zero?” Yawn.)
I’m not sure I ever hear, at least for basketball, “Coach, we had a Q for you last week about going 10+ minutes with no made shots on the floor vs SMU. Having watched the tape, what’s your analysis, given the talent on this team? How will that change—in practice and on the floor—going forward?”
Sigh.
AS
Yeah. Basketball coaches at UVA only do a once-a-week non-game interview beginning in the first week of January, and that’s the required one with the ACC, which goes a strict 10 minutes.
Other schools (Duke and Carolina among them) do multiple pressers per week throughout the season.
So do Clemson and FSU football.
UVA Athletics has a media relations department, but it seems their main function is to tell me to submit a FOIA request.
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