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Al_4_ISU

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  1. I had the goddamn windows down yesterday.
  2. Go Drake
  3. DeVries younger brother is Hawkeye royalty. I’m not sure Iowa is a step up from WVU in hoops though. McCollum is a savant. We’re actually going to the Drake/Northern Iowa game today. My wife is a UNI alum/former athlete and I went to grad school at Drake
  4. Pretty good effort going on the road without our two best players. We really need to be healthy in March.
  5. That's going to be a phenomenal show, but it absolutely grinds my gears when people say "CCR" for Cross Canadian Ragweed. There's only one CCR, and they aren't from Oklahoma.
  6. I saw someone say "this must mean there's a Big 10/SEC challenge being set up" like they didn't realize that it was already a Big 10/SEC match up, and one that's only being canceled because Nebraska's a bitch.
  7. You're fairly obsessed with trying to make this claim, but all evidence suggests ESPN and Fox have gotten exactly what they expected (and paid for) from the Big 12.
  8. Big 12 CCG beat the ACC by a million viewers. It has less viewers than the SEC and Big 10. It has more than everyone else. 2/14 bids reflects that accurately
  9. The Big 10 doesn’t historically deserve 4 bids either. The Big 12 and ACC will get a few spots because losing their viewers will cost the SEC and Big 10 viewers too. Same logic with guaranteeing the G5 a spot. This isn’t clemency. It’s good business.
  10. I assume it's kinda up to ESPN at the end of the day.
  11. I'd honestly like to see that. I'd much rather you guys be a force in the league than say, Houston.
  12. I get it. I'm about as die hard of an ISU fan as there is, but during our 2-22 year I punched out completely.
  13. I've probably asked you this before, but do you think the Thunder or the program's run of mediocrity is the biggest contributor to the current state of GIA?
  14. What's the point of that if you're going to have 4 conferences with multiple automatic bids? Wouldn't that just inherently result in straight seeding? My assumption is that we wouldn't even really be determining conference champions any more. Just playing for the bids.
  15. We're going to be pushing 50 on Monday. It was -23 in my old man's vehicle this past Tuesday.
  16. Well yeah, and that was because I jerked off in a cup 5 years later.
  17. Apropos of nothing, I'm still in love with the Tech fan who covers her mouth immediately after screaming obscenities.
  18. Surprise 30th bday party for my wife. She was working at a brewery at the time, and had to work the night of her birthday, which happened to be a Saturday. I talked to her boss and asked her if she could get the night off after we got there, and her boss was down with it. So I got a party bus and invited a bunch of friends and family. We showed up at the brewery a couple hours into her shift and she about dropped dead from the shock. No, I didn't get a blowjob out of the deal.
  19. Unfortunately, TV is obsessed with these people.
  20. I don't think many people watch college football want that.
  21. So if a play-in thing replaced CCGs, this is what it would have looked like last year (assuming you use regular season standings to seed): SEC 1 UT vs 8 Ole Miss 2 UGA vs 7 Aggy 3 Tenn vs 6 SC 4 Bama vs 5 LSU Big 10 1 Oregon vs 8 Minnesota 2 Indiana vs 7 Michigan 3 Pedo vs 6 Iowa 4 OSU vs 5 Illinois Big 12 1 ASU vs 4 CU 2 ISU vs 3 BYU ACC 1 SMU vs 4 Cuse 2 Clemson vs 3 Miami The SEC, Big 12, and ACC games would have been pretty entertaining for the most part. The Big 10 is just glaring in it's gap between the top and everyone else, outside of Indiana/Michigan which was played and was actually a good game.
  22. It wouldn't have to be that. If you eliminate the idea of separate conferences as fifedoms that share their money with themselves and no one else, have one massive NFL-ish collective bargaining agreement, and then dish out revenue to individual schools on the basis of ratings, Texas (or anyone else) isn't beholden to the teams on their schedule as some kind of partner that they have to enrich. TTU and Baylor would have no say in the rules Texas was up against in this situation. They'd probably be on the schedule, and that's the end of the arrangement.
  23. I think most everyone is cool with the "more games" part. That's clearly the silver lining here. It's the seismic changes created by a mindless unquenchable drive for revenue creation in a sport that people are largely attached to for very emotional, personal reasons, that gets folks pissed off. We generally develop these attachments early in life and radical change to something we know and love is difficult - especially when said change was utterly unnecessary.
  24. I don’t think there are going to be CCGs. Theres going to be an 8 team play in to represent the SEC/Big 10; a 4 team play in to represent the ACC/Big 12, and some event to determine the G5 rep.
  25. I still like the idea of automatic berths for conference champions. Just don't seed off of that. Having a play in situation is great entertainment, and I'm sure that's what this is going to turn into. All the multi bid conferences are going to have internal playoffs to determine their 4 or 2 automatic participants, and that's how it will increase the monetization of all this. You'll have 4 games in the SEC and Big 10 determining these spots, and 2 in the Big 12 and ACC. Maybe the G5 does some kind of tournament to determine their entrant. It's a ploy to create more "meaningful" inventory, and get more money. More, more, more. And I'll fucking watch it because it's what I do.
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