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Skipper

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  1. This. Couldn't be a worse representative. That 2 minute interview tells me all I need to know about these negotiations.
  2. Yep. Had a conversation with CDC about this years ago when Big Noon Kickoff was first announced and we were locked into the Fox contract. I asked if he had any ability to try avoid that window for early season games. He actually had a long and detailed answer including history on this topic with interesting anecdotes from early in his career, but it basically boiled down to Power 5 schools decided a long time ago to give up all scheduling rights in exchange for a big pile of cash and there is no putting the genie back in that bottle. Part of why he put such an effort into revamping the gameday experience with Bevo Blvd, LCL, etc. on the basis that he wanted to make it a great fan friendly atmosphere no matter the kickoff time.
  3. Yep. Get up 2 scores after 2 drives and it's going to be hard for any coach to stay patient with 3-4 yard runs and burning clock.
  4. Didn't get to watch much but seems like OU got whipped overall looking at the box score yet won. I saw the one early run by Hawkings but didn't seem like he did much after that. I did see the highlight of the pick six. If OU wasn't doing much on offense, what in the world was Hugh thinking letting your shitty turnover machine QB put the ball in the air with a lead late. I heard it was an RPO call. You don't give him that "option" in that situation. Deserved to lose with that kind of coaching.
  5. I don't think it was that complicated or surprising of a game plan and was fairly obvious given the roster disparity + QB with no experience. It's what Kentucky did earlier in the day and it's what damn near every team other than UGA will probably try to do to some extent. Certainly what Michigan wanted to do as well until we got the lead. If Blue doesn't fumble on the 2nd series and we score it would have probably been over at that point. Shortening the game only works if you can keep within striking distance.
  6. I haven't listened to a single picks with friends segment since Dan and Jake left. It's shared segments like that or ticket trips/events that took the biggest hit when they left.
  7. That's what is funny. I feel like most years I know more about OU than he does. Particularly overall roster/recruiting etc. He's what most of us that follow this sport closely consider a casual fan even for his own team. Which is fine if sports knowledge wasn't your actual fucking job. Dave absolutely made the Hardline a decent show. I would be out completely at this point if not for Dave as he will call both out on their BS. And no doubt he gets paid a lot less than the other 2.
  8. I would try to make his life fucking miserable until he quits.
  9. I wondered if Bear claiming he wanted to keep practicing had something to do with his NIL contract. I.e., still a student athlete and part of the team despite electing to redshirt. I have never seen an actual contract but know they can't be structured as pay to play but can be conditioned on being a student athlete.
  10. And yet he knows 10X more than Corby. Corby, the self proclaimed Ticket college football "expert" last week in segments I listened to claimed (i) he had no idea Tom Herman was still involved in college football and (ii) was shocked that Milroe had a top 5 or so deep ball efficiency rating during the 2023 season (literally the only thing Milroe did well since day 1 last year as anyone that pays attention to college football would know). There was something else last week equally basic he was either wrong about or didn't know I'm forgetting. But I'll never understand how the guy who's entire job is "sports talk" and claims to be an "expert" in a sport, somehow knows significantly less than the vast majority of college football fans. So fucking lazy
  11. I mean 'croots getting Lambo's' at Texas is talked about on message boards and sports twitter all over the country every time we have a recruiting event. There is absolutely value to the Lambo brand for their NIL relationship with Texas players.
  12. As it relates to OU's demise specifically we just need to beat them. If we fuck that game up again he still has that bright spot to sell regardless of how the rest of the season goes. If they lose that game, their schedule will take care of the rest.
  13. But this is the problem with that strategy. This OU fanbase is so used to winning they will have absolutely zero patience for a methodical rebuild. When they don't win the SEC this year, it will be the longest stretch without a conference title since they broke the drought between 1987 and 2000. Their schedule is brutal but if they go something like 6-6 Venables is going to be under a ton of heat to win next year. Is a Hawkins that is running for his life/getting beat up every week going to somehow be ready to take a huge step forward in a must win year under very likely a new coordinator? Or is it more likely Venables feels he has to make moves to win 9 or 10 games in 2025 and blow his NIL fund to bring in a veteran (and then what do you do if you are Hawkins and does OU have the NIL budget to pay a top QB and fill out their roster). There flat out isn't a good scenario available to Venables right now outside of Hawkins somehow making the staff and the fanbase confident that he is going to be much improved as a Soph and elite by (OU standards) his Junior year. So good luck with all of that Brent.
  14. That's interesting if accurate as I pretty much assumed Gabriel saw what was coming from an OL perspective (with a concussion injury history) + Lebby leaving (the only reason DG went to OU) and was perfectly content playing in a better offense for what I assume was a bigger payday. If Venables watched Arnold all last fall and made the choice to roll with him then OU really is in trouble.
  15. Venables may not have many options if Arnold is really that bad (I was at our game and didn't watch but I've certainly seen enough commentary to that effect) but asking a true FR to come in and play hero ball behind a shitty OL without playmakers at WR will either end up getting him hurt or best case just completely fuck up his development. OU fans will bitch and moan and Venables will bring in a high $$ portal QB to "compete" eventually resulting in Hawkins saying fuck this and transferring leaving OU with zero QB depth in '25. I can see it now and it's glorious.
  16. I watched a Charlie Strong coached Texas team that had lost 3 straight including 50-7 to TCU the week before beat a Stoops/Riley OU team to give them their only regular season loss that year. So I'll never take anything for granted in that game.
  17. I read somewhere a report that the initial plan was to coordinate detonation simultaneously with a more conventional attack but Israel had intelligence there was some suspicion by a couple of operatives that their pagers had been tampered with so Israel decided to go ahead and detonate earlier than planned. In any event, I agree highly effective regardless for all of the reasons outlined above.
  18. Considering he's always promoting whatever his website is (no idea as I would never consider giving that fat moron a single click) it sure seems like he is paying to be on their show. And I'm a big fan of full ride but any Mike Farrell segment is an auto tune out.
  19. Matt Ryan on the Manning Cast. Pretty high quality QB commentary.
  20. I mean they beat UAB by 26. They aren't good but they may be better than UTSA.
  21. As someone who has also used all 3 also this is crazy to me but to each their own. Maybe DTV streaming has improved since I tried it 2 years ago (for regional sports) and thought it was complete dogshit. I've had FUBO frequently outside of football season for regional sports and really don't like it at all but liked it better than DTV.
  22. Yeah, not following that at all. Can't fathom how anyone would prefer DTV over YTTV in the year of our lord 2024.
  23. I figured there was targeting discussion in this thread. If you would have shown me the 2 plays back to back, I would have guessed both would have been called, but if you told me only 1 was called, I would have guessed the first one against ASU. Would like to see a replay and an explanation as to why that was overturned because I clearly still have no idea what targeting is (and I'm guessing neither does anyone else - seems like it is still a total crapshoot).
  24. Everyone should go listen on the Sportsday app to the Klatt segment LOL. It was quintessential douchebag Corby and Aggy Bob attempting to downplay the Texas win (and overall Texas team) due to Michigan losing players and/or overall schedule (bitch ass Corby's favorite Texags talking point he's going to cling to all season) and Klatt called them out on it.
  25. Your algorithm may be telling you that and maybe the Clay Travis douchebag's of the world post her clips, but I seriously doubt a bunch of "MAGA" are attending and/or watching a lot of women's basketball LOL.
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