Al_4_ISU

Got a gas stove with a center griddle last weekend. Hashbrowns with onion, garlic, and Swiss topped with (slightly overcooked but still delicious) fried eggs. Cottage bacon on the side, and King Cake roast coffee shipped in from PJ’s in NOLA.

My kid barfed some mango purée on her vintage ISU onesie. So I guess that’s a sign of something.

I remember Patterson Hood publicly stating this a couple years ago and then being like “we’re 20 years into this. Fuck it.”

Pulpit Rock Whatever Pils

They are truly a band, which I love about them, it just seems odd to rebrand at the level they’ve reached.

Highland County Boy is a fuckin’ banger. Drunk All Around This Town slams too.

I’m a huge fan of these guys and I don’t understand this at all. The original name was dumb but who cares? Makes me a little concerned that the new album is gonna have lots of pickup trucks parked down by the river.

Don’t worry. I’ll pull the planter out of the shed that last week of March and we’ll get a foot of snow first week of April.

I grew up even closer to the SPAM museum, and am currently sitting at my desk 33.3 miles away from it. Austin was one of the places my mom would go to get groceries, or we'd go to see movies as a kid. One of my roommates from ISU (and still close friends) is a process engineer for Hormel. He gives me free SPAM merch on a regular basis. I've never actually visited the museum.

Totally normal late January forecast in northern Iowa

Winter's a slow time for me, so I don't mind being up a little late on a Thursday and it's only one game. Monday is just horseshit though. Hell, I get mad when my NFL team is on MNF.

That's because of the volume of games in the first couple rounds. I never lock on to ANY first round game other than ISU, or if it's the only one going at the moment or if there's an upset brewing. There are just too many games going on at any one time. If the 16/1 games were just shitty high major teams against the elite ones, I'd bet ratings would be even worse.

I think Sheridan will do fine, given he doesn't have to create the source material. Wind River slammed. The first season of Yellowstone was fun as hell. The guy has it in him, and the story is fucking incredible.

Those ratings are shit when they're the Final 4. When you have a St Peter's vs Purdue in the Sweet 16 I feel like people are fucking glued to it. I don't see any world where removing the Cinderellas makes the tournament more compelling and profitable. The ideal tournament ratings wise would be a situation where you have some major upsets, but the bulk of the Final Four are name programs.

This is also a great idea. Good way to keep football in that dead Saturday between the conference championships and the Super Bowl. But seriously, anything to get it off a fucking Monday. I haven't watched an entire national championship game since probably DeShaun to Renfrow, which has been damn near a decade.

It was my understanding that they had fuck all to do with the CFP. But I could be way off on that too.

Yeah, that's a good idea. Just get it off of a Monday, and don't have it going up against the NFL. It's not hard to do both those things.

That's really well laid out, IMO. Outside of putting the natty on a Monday. Put it on Friday the 17th.

In my hypothetical you'd still be able to play cross division games, much like FCS and FBS play each other regularly now. So those schools could play UT or OU if all parties were agreeable. It's not like there would NEVER be games across those lines. I personally wouldn't give a shit, because there isn't a single school on that list that cracks my Top 5 most hated. My ideal schedule involves playing Iowa, KSU, Nebraska, Kansas, and after that I wouldn't give much of a shit. Most (not all) ISU fans feel the same way. I also like the idea of 133 FBS teams and all the mingling across leagues. That lends the kind of variety that makes college football great. It also feels like a dying model as there's this groundswell to consolidate brands for TV purposes. On top of that, there seems to be a growing sentiment (and not just on this board) among fans of the biggest brands that games against lesser brands aren't interesting, and those schools shouldn't be allowing the lesser brands to essentially profit off their likeness. Those of us remaining in the Big 12 have been hearing it for a deacde. While I initially found that sentiment insulting, I can accept that it's prevalent and real. If that's really how UT, OU, and other blue blood fans feel, then why shouldn't you be allowed to just play other blue bloods? The SEC and Big 10 are full of schools that aren't additive and have been grandfathered in. Cut them loose to play schools that are truly more their peers. At the end of the day, those 18 schools in the graphic are generally in a different league from a finances/talent/resources standpoint from even the other schools in their current conferences, who are much more similar to the current ACC/Big 12. There are absolutely some schools between 18 and 65 that have built their self worth around punking the big guys, but I think they'd find that playing in a setting with more parity and returning to regionality would be more interesting and appealing at the end of the day.

I'm legit surprised that Wisconsin outdraws Aggy. Not that Sconnies aren't passionate about their Badgers, but just given the relative populations of Texas and Wisconsin. That said, TJ Altimore was probably more wrong than anyone on all this realignment shit the last go round.

The irony is dripping off this post like a popsicle in August. I'm not saying you're wrong, but this entire thread is the same arguments from the same people (yourself included) going around and around and around. "FUCK UT!" "DIE LEECEHES" rinse repeat. I haven't posted in this thread for 2 months. If you're going to take this thread that seriously, at least follow your own advice. The truly crazy part is that you think my take is plaintive. I honestly believe most college football fanbases would be thrilled with this arrangement after a couple years.

My dream for college football is for the 18 teams in the first graphic to just be their own division. One TV network owns all of it. All the blue bloods can play each other, no one has to bitch about lame home games or leeches or whatever. You don't have these schools (Purdue, Miss St, etc) that were just born on 3rd base thinking they hit a triple. No one outside of those 18 is a winning a natty anyhow. The rest of what's the current P4 can reorganize in a geographically logical fashion and play for it's own championship, which would still draw a ton of eyes. There would be far more parity, better playoffs, etc. Whichever network misses the NFL Lite will make a ton of money after schools 19-65 or whatever.

Jesus, I can't keep up with this. Apparently Tang wasn't accusing our fans of throwing shit, he was trying to argue that we had a Connor Stallions-esque plant a few rows back recording what was going on with their sideline and sending it back to Otz. Which is why he wanted to confront Otz and the KSU managers were screaming "CHEATING MOTHERFUCKERS" at our bench. He may also have been pissed at our student section repeatedly chanting "FUCK K STATE", since we know how he feels about cuss words. A real fuckin' goat rodeo, but hey, it's Farmageddon bitch.

I guess Tang claims our fans threw stuff at their bench. I haven’t seen any video of this, but I did see a screenshot of a couple 20 something bros close to the KSU bench that looked capable. KSU fans are claiming someone called Tang the N word, but absolutely no actual KSU coaches or players have alleged that. KSU fans on Twitter are toxic lunatics. Nothing at all like the KSU fans I’ve actually known

It was an incredibly chippy game with both teams committing hard fouls, refs swallowing the whistle in each direction, and the players and coaches both clearly shit talking each other. Rabid crowd on top of that. It’s a rivalry and that showed big time last night.