A Blind Man Who Loves Sports

i’ll talkJax State athletics, Bama football, Falcons and Braves.

[A Blind Man Who Loves Sports @blindmansports]

CUSA conference games that won’t be played this season unless it’s in the championship game.

1. Jax St vs Liberty
2. FIU vs WKU
3. Sam Houston vs Delaware
4. NM ST vs Kennesaw
5. Missouri St vs MTSU

[A Blind Man Who Loves Sports @blindmansports]

UTEP’s new media partners do not care about them and are willing to let them play the game whenever.

[Brett McMurphy @Brett_McMurphy]

UTEP is allowing fans to vote online to determine kickoff time for Oct. 17 game w/San Jose State. Options are 1, 2, 4 or 7 p.m. Mountain Time

[Jordan @Bald_And_Bougie]

😂 Like I've been saying, UL-Ruston paid to take a paycut.

[A Blind Man Who Loves Sports @blindmansports]

@ChoppinBravos Yaz did his job there. A 10 pitch at bat is always good.

[A Blind Man Who Loves Sports @blindmansports]

Not even close.

[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

Toy Story 5 is yet another woke Disney movie. Disney shelves male heroism and leadership and totally emasculates Woody.

Even fictional toys apparently can’t embody traditional masculinity anymore.

[A Blind Man Who Loves Sports @blindmansports]

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[DiehardSportsNet @DiehardSportNet]

Nobody will cover the history of G6 football like Diehard! @TheTimStephens looks back at a big moment for @JaxStateFB through a personal connection from his own playing days. Check it out:

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[A Blind Man Who Loves Sports @blindmansports]

It’s lineups like this that make me laugh at people that say we need to trade Acuna now. Look at this lineup without him.

[Atlanta Braves @Braves]

How we're lining up tonight ⤵️

#BravesCountry

[A Blind Man Who Loves Sports @blindmansports]

@RepoleStable @TheUFL @UFLRenegades He hasn’t played a snap in Texas. Wouldn’t it make more sense for him to play in Columbus?

[A Blind Man Who Loves Sports @blindmansports]

They also have partnerships with alcohol companies, NFL players can’t show up to games hammered though.

[Dom DiTommaso @DomDiTommaso]

So the NFL has no issue patterning with and promoting multiple gambling companies, but when a college-aged kid has an open gambling addiction that he's seeked help for and now just wants a second chance (which the league is known for giving), that's where they draw the line?

[A Blind Man Who Loves Sports @blindmansports]

Finally, you can tell this post has a West Coast bias because they think the MW would survive in the Sunbelt and CUSA wouldn’t. Bottom line, the G6 ain’t going anywhere no matter how much people like this Jack wagon wish they would. End/

[A Blind Man Who Loves Sports @blindmansports]

There are so many problems with this post that I don’t know where to begin. But will start with the simple legal fact that you can’t make entire conferences go to a different level. You can’t force programs to leave or join new conferences.1/

[JaredW @JaredW67913667]

The biggest issue is that the G5 are investing in football in a way that they cannot afford while saying a prayer that they get a power conference invite.

The reality is that the power conferences have only ever added G5 schools to the there membership 3 times

2005: Louisville and Cincinnati moved from C-USA to the BIG EAST

2011: Utah moved from the MWC to the P12

2023: BYU and UCF moved to the B12

Rice, USF, Temple, Tulane, UConn, Oregon St, and Washington St were all power schools that lost their power status unfortunately and should still be power schools today.

The A4 doesn’t add from the G5 unless they absolutely have to.

The reality of the G5 situation is that today C-USA, and the SUN BELT are essentially FCS conferences playing at the FBS level. The entire current C-USA membership was FCS before 1999 and with the exception of Southern Miss, the entire current SUN BELT membership was FCS before 1994. The schools in these conferences moved up to the FBS level to play in what was a very different era of college athletics. They didn’t have the resources but in that era it didn’t matter because there was no NIL so it was a different playing field. Today even if DC passes the bill these schools still do not have the resources to compete in FBS football this era. You can force the B10 and SEC to subsidize them by pooling rights and it will be the same thing.

The MAC was also built for a different era. I love MACtion but I am realistic. The MAC was not built for the NIL era. UMass has had a conversation about moving back down I think. If Vivek Ramaswamy becomes OH Governor this fall he wants to close universities in OH and has specifically mentioned Akron and Kent St. Who knows if Bowling Green, Miami (OH), Ohio, and Toledo will be safe or could he look at closing at least 1-2 of them. My point is that depending on what happens this fall the MAC might need to have a serious conversation as their membership could be decimated.

The only G5 conferences that I think can truly survive, to some degree, are the AAC, MWC, and PAC.

If DC really wants to “fix” CFB, then they need to have a serious conversation with the MAC, SUN BELT, and C-USA about moving down to FCS, let the B10, SEC, and B12 divide up the 18 ACC schools, add USF, UConn, WSU, and ORST to the B12, have the top 24 remaining G6 schools like Boise St, Tulane, etc. form a conference made up of schools that can survive in this era and let the 4 24-team conferences (96 total FBS schools) make a new structure out of FBS football either with DC help, on issues like eligibility, or not.

For SB, MAC, and CUSA fans I get it, you don’t want to hear this and you don’t want to move down but the reality is that these conferences were made for a vastly different era of college sports, the schools in these conferences right now moved up to FBS to play a very different era of football, and no amount of regulation from DC is bringing that era back.

Just IMO

[A Blind Man Who Loves Sports @blindmansports]

They also are conveniently overlooking success from recent FCS call ups. Liberty went to a NY6 bowl in 2023. JMU made it to the CFP last year. Jax St has had no less than 9 wins in all 3 of their FBS seasons. 3/

[A Blind Man Who Loves Sports @blindmansports]

The Braves win today feels different. The offense finally feels like it’s starting to click again. Some guys are still in a funk, but others are coming out of it. Good to see!

[A Blind Man Who Loves Sports @blindmansports]

@JaxState4Life I’m aashamed to say I’ve never had a burger from the rocket. I thought about it several times, but I always get barbecue every time.

[A Blind Man Who Loves Sports @blindmansports]

@Tampa2CFB @friedchickenAKC We are RBU. Look at how much production we got from the running back position in 2024. We lost him, and reloaded.

[A Blind Man Who Loves Sports @blindmansports]

The bottom of the A4 wants to have their cake and eat it too.

[Tim Stephens @TheTimStephens]

The biggest thing in this bill — for now — it that it mostly serves the interests of about 20-25 schools

[A Blind Man Who Loves Sports @blindmansports]

Let’s run it back!

[State of the Gamecocks @JaxStateSOTG]

70 days, 70 yards🐓

[A Blind Man Who Loves Sports @blindmansports]

I heard him say this on the broadcast last night as well. I wonder if making him their closer would prolong his career.

[Anna Huffstutler @A_Huffstutler]

Darren O’Day was talking about how pitches over 95 mph put a strain on the UCL.

Misiorowski is out there throwing 100+ on every pitch.

It’s concerning because the elbow can only take so much. #BravesCountry

[A Blind Man Who Loves Sports @blindmansports]

My official Toy Story movie rankings.

Toy Story 2. The absolute best.
Toy Story. It’s hard to beat the original.
Toy Story 5. Yep. it’s that good!
Toy Story 3. Very good, but a step behind.

Toy Story 4. Absolute trash! I would put it 6th if I could.

[A Blind Man Who Loves Sports @blindmansports]

This is my thought as well. It allows the G6 conferences to be a whole lot more regional.

[Michael Park @thjcopark2701]

I think the hope is they won't have to move up. It allows them to gain more revenue in the PAC 12, remain regional and save some Olympic sports. I see a lot of the G6 conferences reorganizing if this passes. No more craziness of New Mexico State in CUSA, Sac State in the MAC.