Super Bowl Domination

Chapter 31 The world is full of joy
To be honest, the running back position for the Crimson Tide is indeed facing many difficulties in the new season. Injuries have become a stumbling block, and even a great coach can't do anything about it.

Behind the decision of Jacobs as the starting running back, one can vaguely see the coaching staff's helplessness.

However, from another perspective, even though Jacobs is only a high school student, he is indeed talented and capable. Relying on his own strength, he stood out from the fierce competition and won the starting position. In the current team configuration, he is the best choice for the starting running back.

As for Levi?

He is excellent, no doubt about that; but starting from scratch in rugby, only three weeks is too short.

In Shaban's original plan, he still hoped to use Levi as a surprise soldier to achieve a surprise victory.

However, yesterday's practice match made Shaban waver in his thinking. When he heard Burns' words, his first reaction was not to oppose.

Thoughts surged in my mind.

After all, Shaban was more experienced and rational. Although Burns' proposal was very tempting, he still stepped on the emergency brake and controlled himself.

He has to consider the overall situation.

Yesterday, it was just an internal practice match after all. With Levi's intelligence, he knew the tactics of the main team's defense very well and took the initiative; but if it was against an outside team, would Levi be able to perform like this?

"Warm-up match, let's see."

Burns was not surprised. No matter who is the starting running back, all of them will have to play in the warm-up game, and they need to test their level comprehensively.

This is true for all football warm-up games and preseason games, not just the NCAA but the NFL as well. This is the best time to test the team's lineup.

Win or lose?

It's not important and has no reference value at all.

There are four quarters in a football game. In warm-up games and preseason games, there is often one lineup in the first half and another in the second half. This is used to test the team's tactical coordination and the players' condition. In the final analysis, it is still a stage for coaches to integrate tactics, adjust tactics, and match lineups.

Some teams even change their lineup in each quarter, with four lineups in four quarters, to test the team's training results with different combinations.

Like the NFL, the NCAA has a very large number of participants in training camps before the start of the season. After the warm-up games and preseason games are over, the coaching staff needs to lay off players and finally match the team size stipulated by the league, so in the warm-up games, all members of the team can play.

This is the value of warm-up matches and preseason games.

The red tide storm is no exception.

As the top traditional football team in the NCAA, there are countless teams willing to hold warm-up games with them every year, which can even be said to be a dream come true.

reason?

Live on TV!

This has been mentioned before, and now it is further expanded, with deeper and more complex conflicts of interest behind it.

In the NCAA, it is divided into Level I, Level II, and Level III. Among them, Level I is the top one, gathering a series of traditional famous schools.

The first-level league includes the Big Ten League, the Big 12 League, the Pacific 12 League, the Atlantic Coast League, the Southeastern League, and other different divisions.
The University of Alabama, affiliated with the Southeastern Conference (SEC), has twelve regular season games each year, eight of which are intra-conference matchups and four are clashes with teams from other conferences - the team rotates against different conferences every year, so the opponents are different every year.

In the 1970s, sports leagues were mainly regional. For example, the members of the Southeastern Conference were all from the southeastern region of North America. Even when they went to away games, they were in the next city or state. Fans could even go with the team to watch away games. Naturally, each league had its own strong teams and traditions, including rivals in the same division.

But in the 1980s and 1990s, television broadcasting became popular and broadcasting fees became an important source of income for universities, so competition between leagues gradually became fierce.

It all started with the Big Ten Conference.

At that time, the Big Ten Conference had a number of outstanding football schools such as Wisconsin, Pennsylvania State, Ohio State, Michigan, etc. The league executives had always hoped to gain more revenue because national television stations ABC and CBS could only broadcast a few important college games.

In order to make money, the Big Ten Network was officially established to broadcast other games that cannot be broadcast on national television, including but not limited to football, basketball, volleyball, ice hockey, baseball, gymnastics, etc.

These cable TV stations rely on subscribers to make money. The more subscribers they have, the more money they make. The Big Ten Conference Network has been a huge success and has a large market in the Midwest.

One thing worth noting is that the ratings of NCAA football games in the United States have always been at the forefront, easily beating other professional leagues such as the NBA, NHL, MLB, etc. Although it is inferior to the NFL overall, the ratings of some NFL regular season games are not as good as the showdowns between the traditional NCAA football schools.

The clue can be seen from ESPN's willingness to broadcast the University of Alabama's intrasquad games.

The Big Ten TV network is not satisfied with its success. They want to expand their territory, so they broke the NCAA's tradition of dividing the league by region. In 2010, they joined the famous football school University of Nebraska, and in 2015, they joined Maryland and Rutgers.

Although these two universities are not strong in football, one is in New York and the other is in Washington, so the densely populated areas on the East Coast are also included in the Big Ten Conference's subscriber range, and they have become the most powerful league in the NCAA.

Naturally, other alliances cannot sit idly by.

The Southeastern Conference bore the brunt of the impact.

Southern schools are extremely crazy about football, and their ratings have always been far ahead. There are countless traditional football powerhouses, led by Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, and Georgia, with a very strong audience base. They have also established their own TV channels and begun to win over other schools.

Among them, the University of Texas is the key.

Because Texas is the second most populous state in North America.

The University of Texas is located in the Big 2010 Conference. Relying on its wealth and strength, it has been trying to build its own TV channel network. After failing, it threatened to leave in . Although it did not succeed in leaving at that time, it triggered a series of turmoil.

The other schools in the Big 12 Conference were very tough and expressed their unwillingness to be bullied by the University of Texas.

then.

Nebraska left the Big 12 for the Big Ten, Texas A&M and Missouri left the Big 12 to join the Southeastern, and Colorado left the Big 12 for the Pac-12.

As a result, the Big 12 Conference can only rely on two traditional powerhouses, the University of Texas and the University of Oklahoma, to support it, and the chances of their games being broadcast nationally are getting smaller and smaller.

The world is full of goodwill, and the world is all good.

From the moment the Big Ten Conference broke the balance, the commercialization process of the NCAA has become unstoppable. Like the NFL, NBA and other professional leagues, the struggle for interests began to change the structure of the entire league.

And Texas, just like every change of leadership, once again plays a turning point role in the history of the NCAA.

as always.

Russell is begging for the support of all book friends. Keep reading! Keep reading! Keep reading! I would like to express my sincere gratitude!


(End of this chapter)