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Al_4_ISU

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  1. Agreed, but as you so eloquently said earlier, fuck 'em. I don't get the impression that other Texas schools in the Big 12 care anywhere near as much about playing Houston as they care about playing each other. I could be wrong on that in regards to Tech, but I'm sure it's true of Baylor and TCU. Houston legitimately has less history with them than we have with the Big 8 schools, and I just don't get the impression Houston really gives a shit about anything other than having a seat at this table at this point. They have more history with Cincy and UCF than we have with any of the eastern schools.
  2. ISU is closer to the KS schools and OK State than it is to any of the eastern schools
  3. AZ/UT Big 8 Central time CU/TT/Cen Tex Coog/Eastern time Easy enough. Swap CU/OSU if the Pokes have a problem with it.
  4. In my perfect world, we would be in a permanent pod with you guys, KU, and KSU. The ISU/OSU series has been absolutely wild almost every year since ‘11. I don’t think it’s a rivalry, but it’s absolutely a game both fanbases are on edge for.
  5. When our fans flipped shit, our AD said “well, it obviously isn’t a big deal because we only sold 500 tickets to the game in Manhattan through our allotment”. There were several thousand ISU fans there, they just found better/cheaper seats on the secondary market. Not paying the official university mark up. There have been numerous trophy proposals from both sides, with several being legitimately good. The ADs just keep going “nah, we’re good”.
  6. That’s partially on both of our ADs. They seem to love downplaying Farmageddon even though both fanbases and players/coaches will tell you it’s the biggest conference game. Its infuriating.
  7. Al_4_ISU

    New Music 2024

    Hell yes! DMW is my favorite version of his work, but I celebrate it all.
  8. End zones that don’t use a white stripe to mark the actual goal line. TCU, I’m looking at you.
  9. It’s not “Texas’s fault”. It’s ESPN’s. Im just saying they used Texas’s slump as ammo in their campaign to make the Big 12 untenable to the largest brands.
  10. That was essentially due to a decades-long media blitz that was intentionally designed to weaken the Big 12. Texas's slump was definitely a factor in that narrative too. If Colt McCoy doesn't get hurt in the 2010 natty and Texas wins that game, it's a huge blow to what was a budding SEC superiority narrative. If Texas had maintained and OU had done something with their playoff opportunities, the Big 12 would have had less of a perception problem. The fanbases were still not as big as the SEC or Big 10, and I think what happened might have happened anyways due to money, but the bias toward the SEC was absolutely related to the Big 12's biggest brands not having high end national success on the field in that time frame.
  11. I think there's certainly a chance. I'm just not sure those do any more for you than schools like UNLV or Air Force. I would be curious to get the Texan perspective, but from the outside it seems like Texas State and UTSA are the G5 Texas schools with the biggest upside in terms of actually drawing a following. I might have put UNT there at one point, but it seems like those places have more of a base for whatever reason.
  12. Yeah, it seems to me like those schools all had mostly equal worth (agree on SJSU) so a merger with Wazzu/Ore State under the Pac moniker always made the most sense to me.
  13. I think it's funny that the MWC formally said "nah" to the merger proposal and is now getting raided by those they rejected. It's like they learned nothing from the Pac 12 rejecting the Irate 8. It's the exact same scenario playing out the next rung down the ladder.
  14. I think the Dakotas and Montanas have a pretty good thing going being the kings of FCS. But it feels like there's a latent obsession with "MOAR" in this sport. I would bet they all get better TV ratings than UTEP or NMSU too. Those are small pop states, but they are football crazy, and the Dakota schools bring in a ton of kids from neighboring states (Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska) with cheap tuition.
  15. Also - this might be where the Dakotas announce an FBS jump up. Maybe not to the Pac, but to whatever coalescences around the MWC leftovers
  16. I’d like to see Air Force and Wyoming in there
  17. That was my first thought. Like, how? To me, the funniest part of this is that how he still manages to totally Dave Grohl the whole thing. "Yeah, I fucked up, but I'm totally gonna try and do the right now" and you kinda believe him. Also kind of amazed in this day and age that these dalliances weren't a little more leaked.
  18. User name gonna be checking out soon
  19. This. Two things that disgust me the most in this world are cops abusing their power, and men abusing women. It's hard for me to have any sympathy for Hill on any front, but the cops were totally over the top here in a completely unsurprising way.
  20. Al_4_ISU

    Replacements

    I meant Trouble Boys. Brain fart based off previous error
  21. That’s what everyone eating it will call it. I know better than to use the C word on this site.
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