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  1. That's not the question at all. The question is do you want OU & a bunch of other schools or do you want OU, Bama, LSU, UGA, UF & a bunch of other schools. I'd prefer the second every day of the week & 60 years of (mostly) shitting all over TTU & calling it a mud bath doesn't change that. I can see why it would matter to TTU fans but I'll take exciting games vs. big schools & hope our admin figures out how to beat them than having 1 marquee conference + 1 marquee OOC game a year. Also, with Arky & a&m already in the SEC it's a no brainer as far as rivalries go. OU ....large gap.... a&m, Arky ........very large gap........ 3rd tier of "rivalries" that include TTU, BU, & TCU that are only rivalries because both schools are in TX & we've shared a conference for 60ish years (except for TCU who we forced to wander the desert for a few decades). So we're rekindling better rivalries & more marquee matchups. As far as non rivalry, non marquee conference games go I'd take Ole Miss, Tennessee, & Auburn games over ISU, KSU, & KU.
  2. Plenty of people watch games that have nothing to do with their season if there are big names involved. I watched UM/OSU while on a weekend getaway. I watched UGA/TN, USC/UCLA, UO/UGA (before it got out of hand in the 1st half), TN/Bama, a&m/Bama, Bama/LSU, & several other games that had nothing to do with my favorite school because they were interesting & a big name was involved (usually 1-1/2 or 2 big names). You know what I didn't watch much/any of? KSU/ISU, BU/TTU, OSU/TCU, TTU/ISU etc. etc. etc. and most of those had a direct impact on UTs season. That doesn't even include the B1G/ACC/PAC equivalents of those games. People want to watch big names & the big names already have a big following so even when they're not in contention for a playoff bid & not playing another big name they're still getting viewers. UT vs OU/Bama/LSU/UGA/UF is better for college football than UT vs ISU/KSU/OSU/TTU/BU/TCU/UH ever was or will be. It's more interesting, even when UT is 3-3 or maybe I should say, especially when UT is 3-3. 3-3 UT vs 6-0 KSU is nothing compared to 6-0 or 5-1 or even 4-2 LSU or UGA. That's what I mean when I say it depends on your definition of "good for college football". Is a lot more premium content consolidated into only 2 conferences better than a lot less premium content spread nation-wide? I'd say yes, but I'm also a fan of a school that generates that premium content & gets mocked for losing to non-premium schools. You'd say no, but you're a fan of a school that doesn't generate that content & whose season is made by beating one of those premium schools (OU or UT).
  3. I get not taking the UCLA football program seriously but, damn, that's a low blow.
  4. I guess it would depend on your definition of "good for college football". Consolidation of brands makes for marquee matchups which drives excitement & makes games better to watch & attend. UT vs OU/LSU/Bama/UF/UGA is 1000x better than KSU/ISU/KU/BU/TCU. USC vs OSU/UM is 1000x better than CU/ASU/UA/Cal. Regional rivalries are great for those within the region, but have little excitement anywhere else. Even UT vs a&m has very little pull outside of TX. The good thing is, those other fanbases have enough support & history that when the eventual split comes the second-tier league should still be very entertaining unlike the XFL/USFL.
  5. Objectively awful jerseys.
  6. I wonder if we had known that our starting QB would miss 3-3/4 games & our backup would be immediately hobbled for those same games if more people may have guessed less wins. maybe, maybe not.
  7. Wife & I will be at Jerry World 3/31. She bought the tickets, I got the bill. If anyone is in need of a highly functioning kidney let me know.
  8. Not surprising that aggy makes an awful corn maze. Also, not surprised they cut their paths by hand.
  9. OSU, TCU, & Bama all lose a ton. KSU returns a lot but loses their RB which is the end of the world to some people around here - we get them at home though. OU sucked shit last year, I'm sure they'll be better but not sure just how much better they'll be. There's not a whole lot on our schedule that scares me. @Bama, OU, KSU, & @ISU are the only real games that I'm looking at as potential losses this year. I think we're better than all of those teams to different degrees, but those are the ones that I'm not sure about. As always, the key will be staying healthy. Ewers missed 3-3/4 games last year & had an injured finger in another. We went 2-3 in those games. You can't predict injuries & weather, but there's not team on this schedule that I'd trade our starting 22 for. Maybe a piece here or there, but the whole 22 is better than anyone we'll play.
  10. From bottom to top: #43 - Definitely gay & loving every second of this #42 - Just came #40 - Not sure how he feels about this, but it's a nice change of pace from sheep #42 - May not be so sure of his preferences anymore #45 - Doing it just like daddy taught him #28 - Forgot to cut the hole in his pants so he's just dry humping Not Pictured #44 - Trying to convince the coach to let him start. Seems to be working..
  11. The Beebe/Bowlsby 1-2 punch was something the Big 12 is lucky to have survived.
  12. The thing about being "the top 3-point shooting team" is that it's a lot more difficult to shoot 3's when someone is in your face 99% of the time. When you play lesser competition for 30 games you don't have to worry about that, but the guards that UT has this year they're going to make the shooters earn it making it more difficult to get separation & then running them off the line when they do find a little space. Same thing with Funk at PSU. He made everything vs a&m because he was wide open for much of the first half. By the time he got a few good looks vs UT he was so out of rhythm he couldn't make them.
  13. ESPN would be pretty dumb to do anything until closer to 2036, but once the ACC deal is up they're going to have to make a decision. Adding 4-5 of the more popular brands (UNC, UVA, Clemson, FSU, UM) at $100mm/year to the SEC & pushing 4-5 second tier brands (NCST, VA. TECH, PITT, Duke) to the Big 12 that they split with FOX 60/40 currently would save money. Even if they give the Big 12 a bump to $50mm/school/year they're still saving money when compared to paying the Big 12, ACC, & SEC what they'll all push to be paid 10 years from now. Obviously FOX, CBS, NBC, will have some say in who goes where & when, but it would behoove them for the big brands of the ACC to breakoff as well. They can snag ND & give the SEC a run for its money with UVA & UNC & they can get the best content without paying top dollar for Syracuse, GA TECH, & WAKE. At the end of the day it's be an interesting game of chess between the conferences & the TV partners but I think both of them would prefer to cherry-pick the top brands at that point.
  14. Geez, sounds like they're getting the Hayes Faucett edit ready & are about to remove all Pac 12 references from their instagram & twitter. "Respect our decision" tweet incoming...
  15. It'll be interesting to watch which conference will attempt to negotiate separate deals for football & basketball + the rest. I don't know that it's going to happen the next time around, but it feels like it's coming & schools like UNC, UVA, & Duke are going to be uber valuable if/when that happens. If those 3 move to the SEC or B1G it'd be worth a shot. Obviously the weekend games won't do much during the NFL playoffs, but the weeknight games in January with no more college football, MNF, or TNF & the February content should prove pretty valuable if you schedule it correctly.
  16. Looks like we got screwed on the 7/10 opponent but I like having Xavier & Houston over any of the other options at 3 & 1 which should be what matters because we better not lose to fucking aggy or pedo-u. That said, I don't know shit about fuck so whatever.
  17. In their defense, the a&m guys don't usually have much to cheer about so their somber, defeated attitude seem much more professional.
  18. and I think they'll continue to do it until they're forced not to. I think it's more likely that the meh G5 schools get dropped than the SHSU & Citadels of the world get dropped. 1 decent P5 & 2 FCS cupcakes OOC along with 9 SEC games is what most of the schools will do. I'm sure our OOC will continue to be mixtures of Rice, UTEP, UTSA, & other easy victories, even if they aren't FCS class opponents. I do wonder if ESPN won't stipulate in the new contract that there has to be "X" number of SEC conference games or P5 matchups per week to keep from having everyone schedule that kind of game at the same time in order to keep the inventory of games top-notch. I would imagine they would want at least 4 matchups to choose from any given week to make sure they have at least 1 game worthy of primetime.
  19. Most SEC teams play either 2 cupcakes & 1 meh school or 3 cupcakes each year to go along with a P5 school. Adding an SEC game isn't going to take away the fact that they (we) have cupcakes, they'll (we'll) just have less of them most likely.
  20. The PAC12 GOR is over next year so there are no exit fees & no need for the conference to formally fold right? The "culling" would be more of the ACC simply not inviting the science nerds to sit at their table. If the ACC formally invites the 4 corners, UW, & UO that gets the ACC to 20 with each time zone represented & plenty of travel partners for the Western schools to not feel like WVU did in the Big 12. ESPN no longer has to worry about paying the PAC12 jack shit & the ACC can, presumably, take their TV rights back to the negotiating table with such large expansion. ESPN would either be forced to pay up or risk FOX getting involved at a later date. The biggest issues would likely be WSU & OSU wanting to tag along & politics that may get involved, but they don't seem like the type of fanbases that really care anyways so I don't see it. This would be one of the few ways that ESPN can get WC inventory & the ACC could satisfy its bigger members, at least until 2036 when they may bolt anyways. The remaining 4 Pac teams can invite all the misfit toys they want, sell their rights to Amazon & relish in the fact that they're so smart they pissed away tens of millions of dollars annually.
  21. I don't think you're fucked at all. I just don't think the changes that have come should be easily dismissed by teams facing the disadvantages that your school faces. Hopefully, there are a group of people figuring out how y'all can lure the same talent you've been getting & figuring out how to keep that talent for 4-5 years so that you don't become a farm system for the bigger schools. I really do hope so because in the new Big 12 OSU will likely be the team I pull for the most in football.
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