Everything posted by Welshy
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Realignment talk not going away
That's fair. ...and only works with a payoff (enrollment, attractiveness, etc.). Stanford and Cal don't need that any more than Harvard or MIT do. 100% ego driven, right up until it's not and you have to ask your regents for endowment money. I'm still befuddled at the arrogance and hubris in some of these school's perceptions of what their entitlement is v what they deserve. Stanford is pretty securely the best athletic program in the country. But that doesn't translate to media value. No one but chess players care if they are the best chess players in the country. And that never occurs to them. They can't process it. SouthCarolina operating at a deficit knowing their football program is marketing for their SECSECSEC University is one thing. CAL in the red is not Cal's standard. ahem.
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Realignment talk not going away
INTERNET SAID SOMETHING I DON't LIKE!!!!
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The Preseason Polls are F'n Stupid, But Here We Are Thread
IN. Can we turn it into degenerate gambling? 10 for number 1 pick, 9 for 2, 8...End ranking minus your pick #1 team ends up #1 = 0. #10 team ends up #1 = 9, #1 team ends up #10, -9. Goal = smallest delta... I'm no smarty, but I'd kick in $100. Or just pick each week.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
LoneStar hinterlands is amazing. UK gets atm...if not geography.
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Realignment talk not going away
At...wait, doesn't matter where. False.
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Realignment talk not going away
Fucking this. I hear debt/red numbers from Pac and I'm stunned. If Tech can operate with an 11m surplus, how can these self appointed geniuses so thoroughly fuck themselves? Texas: don't have it, don't spend it. West coast: don't have it, we deserve it. *I love the west coast. Lived in Cali for almost 20 years. Doesn't mean the politics and education there aren't beyond dumb. **don't neg me, RIMBO.
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Realignment talk not going away
Farting dreamer neg incoming. Prepare your...something.
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Realignment talk not going away
I bet farting dreamer hands out more neg rep per capita than anyone else on Surly. BYU is like an angry gnat with a fatwa against everyone who doesn't soak their soakables.
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Realignment talk not going away
If I'm a fox lawyer, owing 1 cool billion in legal settlements after news shenanigans, I'm shitting my pants with "speculation" I tampered with the outcome of this.
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Realignment talk not going away
Man. That's really too alliterative. Can't get it out of my head. Not cool.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
I always enjoy a good OkieSt Tech game. Before, it was the also rans. Now, it just means more....
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Nap-worthy sports tv is gold.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
You called someone a Rabbit? *what does that even mean? Is that Bad?
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Realignment talk not going away
"Fox's bid was for a package of just 13 football games, for which it said it would pay around $35-$40 million per year." - #holyfuck
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Realignment talk not going away
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Realignment talk not going away
They are part of the 3b endowment from the state of Texas, netting them something like 24m a year for research. A dick that big needs to be wagged.
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Realignment talk not going away
Sigh.
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Realignment talk not going away
Fair. I was not coherent. Apologies all around.
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Realignment talk not going away
I'd like to edit that BLLLLAAAGGHHHUGHUHGHHMGHHGUUUUUUUGH. HUUUUGHHHHH. I'm OKHHHHUUUUUUGGGGHHH. HUH! HUHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok. Ok. Ok. Ok. ...Ok...OK.... Wait. Ok. Ugh.... Ugh.... SIGH... ...Ugh.... Want to come clean. Just Wait. Ok. Ok. Ok. Wait. ...OK. I'm actually drunk. HHHHHHHHHUUUUUGHHHHH! HUUUUHGH BLLLLLLLAAAAHHHHHHHHHUUUUUHHHHH.
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Realignment talk not going away
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Realignment talk not going away
They are spot on, the just didn't go into the politics of it all. Overriding theme: PAC did this to themselves at every step. And not in hindsight...wrong decisions at every step, fueled by arrogance and hubris. Mostly from Stanford and Cal, but some from shitty two-faced blockage from USC. Makes me angry, what could have been...UT should be in the PAC (old PAC). WAY more aligned with Cal, UCLA, USC, UW, OU UO than...Bamer? Vanderbilt? GA? MsSt., OMiss, Missouri? UF? Souf Carolina? Auburn? Fuck that.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Yes. And there are still only two schools at the top. Like the former big12 (despite UT or OU being at the top for several years). Or The BIG with OHSt. and Michigan. Or the former PAC with UU and UO and once upon a time, USC. None of this is about Equity or "Leveling the Field." It's about viewers. Evidenced completely by Ut's value vs its results on the field. No one cares if you are good. They care if people watch.
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Realignment talk not going away
Sec 5 AAU Big 12 5AAU Pac 4, 2 AAU
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Realignment talk not going away
I might be drunk.