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I do have a lot of spray paint...

Anyone have experience with Rogaine? I'm 39 and had a completely full head of hair until maybe a month or two ago. At my last haircut (early September) my barber confirmed it was starting to thin on top. I still appear to have a full head, and want to keep it that way if possible. Just ordered a shot of Rogaine and curious if I completely wasted $ or not.

It inadvertently rolled out of my mouth the other day, and I almost vomited.

This is one of the most logical moves put out there in the last month.

I like the rivalry games being spread out. Gives them a better spotlight

I think the SBC is clearly #3 in the current G5 landscape, and is probably better at football than the new MWC is going to be. It's really a pretty damn entertaining league with some invested fanbases and good players. It seems like a pretty solid model for G5 football at this stage.

As a fan of a Big 12 school, I'm glad it's not us adding them.

That clip perfectly encapsulates why I quit listening to that podcast

UNI in the MAC would be a lot of fun.

I mean, I wish the entire sport would do this, but right now it would really make a ton of sense for the G5 to get together and sell their media rights as a package like the NFL. Pair off into geographically logical divisions (which would allow ALL sports to follow suit), and create some kind of season format where the G5 winner/best team plays in the 12 team playoff (you would still have early games against the larger schools). They seem to be utterly cannibalizing each other at this point for absolutely no gain at all, and I don't think it's creating a more interesting product, whereas I think we are seeing (at least while the novelty of the new matchups is there) an even more compelling product in not just the Big 10 and SEC, but definitely in the Big 12 and possibly in the ACC too. But that's more a result of consolidation with (so far) very little shedding of schools in the aggregate. The G5 is splintering into smaller factions, which seems dilutive to me.

YouTubeTV has it

Strongly prefer to it to ESPN+ or U

The articles indicate the extra games will be on big CBS and CBSSN. They want more college hoops and the Big 12 is the best college hoops conference. They aren't doing this to push content onto an app.

Really pumped about this. CBS did the ISU/KU game in Hilton last year, and it was a stunning broadcast. If some of our ESPN+ content gets farmed out to CBSSN that would be great too. It's far and away the best broadcast of the "Ocho" layer sports channels.

We all understand that in order to get money from a collective, the player must perform actions unrelated to sports to get paid, ergo it's not "pay for play". However, we all also know that if they aren't good at playing sports they aren't going to get the opportunity to make money from attending a charity function, doing an ad for a car dealership, or whatever non sports related activity they're being formally compensated for. Arguing about whether it's "pay for play" is pure semantics. No collective is going to offer some out of shape 40 year old fucks to sign autographs at a dealership. The people who get these opportunities from these groups are people who are good at playing sports, and take on these other obligations with the understanding that they will also compete for whatever university that collective is connected to. OJ Simpson wasn't a convicted murderer. We all know he unjustifiably killed 2 human beings. I definitely agree that all sides are going to look shitty in this, because so much of this sounds like handshake deals with little proof of what was actually offered and what was actually tendered.

Exactly. Just they aren't a monoculture stars.

I'm starting to believe that's the case as well.

Whoever broke the deal is the asshole here. If UNLV isn't paying him what they said they would, I'm Team Sluka. If Sluka's just bailing because he thinks he'll get more money for it, I'm Team UNLV.

This is like watching a car crash in slow motion.

Why don’t these morons just merge? This is getting dumb as fuck.

I’m starting to believe in this Vikings squad. The eventual catastrophe is gonna hurt real bad this year.

Christ, this is entertainment

Nebraska would have gotten skull fucked by half the Big 12 over the last decade. I’m not sure they would be a Top 5 Big 12 team this year. The schools in your 2nd paragraph would absolutely be among the better Big 12 programs, but not a single one of them would run the place on a year in year out basis. There are 4 Big 10 schools (out of 18) clearly a tier ahead of the Big 12/ACC. The SEC is more like 8 out of 16. I think that gap will show in playoff selections and lead to some resentment of some kind.

I don't think the Big 10 has a ton of low quality, but more like a ton of average-ish. Once you get past maybe 4-5 schools out of 18, the profiles of many of the schools are more like the Big 12 and ACC than they are the top of the league. After Ohio State, the Big 10 probably doesn't have a single team capable of winning the national title. Maybe USC? The SEC has 4-5. Iowa was supposed to be pushing for an at large playoff spot and lost at home to the team picked 6th in the Big 12. Part of the reason they have that many of the top 30 public athletic departments is because they're so well compensated for having Ohio State/Michigan/Penn State previously (and now have USC in that mix). The SEC is a far more even collection of schools, IMO.

I'd agree there. I don't think the USC/UCLA departure was anywhere close to done at that point. Texas and Oklahoma leaving spurred the remainder of the Big 12 to more aggressively and collectively shape their future than they ever had to previously. I think surviving the previous bouts of realignment drove home the reality that none of them were getting a home in a wealthier conference and forced the realization that working together was the best option they all had.