Everything posted by Dirk X West
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
It would nice if there was some rational re-examination of all the teams who could possibly play in a re-organized top tier of CFB, with clear, objective reasons given for who belongs and who doesn't (and even maybe some mechanism for promotion to give the teams who get left out some hope of being included in the future), but this shit is far too unorganized for that to happen - and there are too many schools that benefit from the current set up to allow for it.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Yeah, I've said before, but once again, it seems to me that the trajectory of college football realignment is not going to be about moving chairs around but rather about reducing the number of chairs at the table. The leftover 8 aren't the last schools who are going to get cut out of the top tier.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Are you operating under the assumption that every team within each league has identical athletics budgets?
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Sure.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
It doesn't matter that K-State has played much tougher competition than UH for the last 25 years or so?
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Realignment talk not going away
Can you cite examples of the TTU athletic dept. "ripping UT in the press", prior to the news about the SEC move?
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
For now. I think more schools are going to eventually get selected out by ESPN and Fox., including the ACC football lightweights.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Yep. 6 wins a year would fit right in in the Pac.
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Tokyo Olympics 2021
Yeah, ithe equation is: France is pretty good and they sent their best possible team (or close) and we didn't send our best possible team.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
I'm not personally very interested debating these possibilities, but I think this question is much more relevant in terms of what might actually happen than "how do we get all current P5 teams into four leagues?".
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Yeah, I don't see how adding just anybody necessarily moves the needle much for the Pac especially. I mean, didn't the Big 12 look at expanding and not do it because the TV people said it wouldn't make the league more valuable? I don't see how that logic doesn't still apply. Again, the movement here is for leagues to collect as many big commodities as possible, and there's a finite amount of big commodities.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
What people like this blog writer seem to be misunderstanding is the impetus from TV money is not to just narrow it down to four leagues with an equal number of teams. That may be part of it, but to me, this moment is more about the start of cutting down the total number of power conference teams. I understand that fans of the usual G5 power teams (BYU, Boise, UCF, whoever) are seeing this as opportunity for them. It is, inasmuch as they might ultimately hook up with some better football schools who have been relegated from a P5 to form a much stronger best mid major league than currently exists. The idea, though, that one of that current G5 teams is going to get a seat at the table now, or in the next 5 years, seems very unlikely to me, and even if one someone does, that'll be because yet another current P5 team got culled.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Fuck those guys.
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Realignment talk not going away
Those labia have some serious reach.
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Realignment talk not going away
Hoping the Big 12 wouldn't fall apart just like they are now.
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Realignment talk not going away
I've have a friend/acquaintance that has lived in Plano for 25+ years, and he maintains that the number of UT and OU flags he sees around where lives fluctuates like the stock market, as each team succeeds more or less relative to the other. DFW is after all the sports bandwagon metro area par excellence.
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Realignment talk not going away
They could be "The University of Baylor" while Baylor is just "Baylor-Waco".
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
A lot of baseless nonsense in this, even more than most blog posts like this.
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Realignment talk not going away
- 2020-21 Big XII Basketball Thread
Has he actually announced this yet?- 2020-21 Big XII Basketball Thread
nm- Euro 2020/2021
You should probably check out the "Les Bleus" documentary to get better idea of the *extremely* conflicted relationship the French public has had in recent decades with their national soccer team being dominated by first and second generation African emigrants.- The 2021 Gold Cup
Lletget's not nearly as good as that pre-game feature led me to believe he would be.- Euro 2020/2021
Going to the toilet in South Asia doesn't usually involve sitting.- Austin FC
I'm less than 3 miles away from Q2 stadium and not blocked. - 2020-21 Big XII Basketball Thread
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