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Left Coast

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  1. The PAC had 5 games, with 3 teams on a bye (incl Oregon and UCLA), 1 Fox, 1 NBC (Stanford/ND) and 3 shipped of to the PacN wilderness.
  2. It’s a good point that right now OU/UT scoop up the best Big 12 network/time slots. I honestly thought TCU/Okie St would do better even against Bama/Tenn. Then again I much prefer watching Big 12 over SEC football. I’m not saying the PAC is more popular (it’s not) but the garbage, terrible P12 Network is a gigantic albatross around its neck. It basically forced USC and UCLA to GTFO. I’m just looking at ratings. Maybe after UT/OU leave it will allow other B12 teams to step into the spotlight, but I feel like the same issue you talk about (up against a juggernaut SEC/B1G game) is only going to get worse as those conferences expand.
  3. You sure about that? Take a look at the TV ratings this year: https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college-football-tv-ratings/ The TV ratings for non-UT or OU Big 12 games are pretty bad. Hell, you had undefeated TCU play undefeated Okie Light and go to OT and you had… 2.14m viewers. I’m not seeing where there is a huge difference in interest between non-UT/OU Big 12 games and non-SC/UCLA P12 games.
  4. I said higher education. Lol… what he said!
  5. Probably due to the fact it involves opportunity in higher education.
  6. Yeah the residents of Brentwood, Bel Air and Westwood would allow a new stadium to be built in the year 2000-and-never. But maybe they could become Saturday tenants at So-Fi? Inglewood is closer to Westwood than Pasadena is, and So-Fi has a smaller capacity. The novelty factor itself would attract more fans, not to mention its a much nicer stadium. The only thing that would be worse is the tailgating. Tailgating on the RB golf course is spectacular.
  7. Unfortunately for them it doesn’t seem like many people give a shit about the pipeline.
  8. Why is everyone saying WV is terrible? I watched them lose @ top 25 Pitt in their first game by 7, and they were in it to the end. They lost to KU at home but this year’s KU seems like a different beast. They steamrolled their cupcake and then beat VaTech on the road by 3 TDs. I don’t pay WVU too much attention but I don’t see the evidence that they suck as much as many here seem to think they do.
  9. I feel like I’m watching a real-life version of Atlas Shrugged when it comes to Russia. All the smart people (or people with resources) GTFO, government tells everyone else what to do and takes over everything, country collapses into poverty (and in this case, war). Regardless of what happens in Ukraine (and I think Ukraine emerges with most of its 2014 borders intact) Putin has single-handedly pushed Russia back 50 years, if not more.
  10. Probably a dumb question but why doesn’t Ukraine blow up every road, bridge, and rail line on the border between Ukraine and Russia? Just make it impossible for all these new recruits to get to the front lines? Do they want to give the Russians a way to get out? Are they not within range? I’m sure it’s easier said than done, but just curious.
  11. Can’t really disagree with any of this, except maybe swapping blOU and ISU. Not sure ISU deserves to be #2 for beating a pretty terrible Iowa team by 3.
  12. It’s not so much that only people educated by your state work in your state. It’s more that having world-class research universities foster whole ecosystems of R&D, business, and venture capital. Silicon Valley wouldn’t have happened without Stanford and Berkeley. LA as a center of defense and aerospace wouldn’t have happened without Cal Tech and UCLA. California is fucked up in many ways, but having these universities (especially the public ones) is one thing they are still getting right out here. Texas (the state) should be so much better from a higher education perspective.
  13. No, eh as in Fuck Baylor but fuck window Coug too.
  14. Seen on my commute this morning in SoCal: Fuck Putin indeed…
  15. To counteract this rule, Texas will ban the sale of EVs and allow neighbors to snitch on you to the government if they see an EV in your driveway. (probably)
  16. Disney bought the Fox studios assets, but Fox Sports/News/Channel is still a separate company.
  17. Friends and family gathered Sunday evening to mourn the loss of a tuna factory worker killed in an accident at a processing plant last week. The worker, now identified as 62-year-old Jose Melena, was cooked to death inside a steam oven last Thursday. https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/worker-dies-after-being-cooked-in-tuna-plant-oven/
  18. How does this work if say, USC is at home vs Ohio State and both are highly ranked? Fox for sure wants that game for its Big Noon but they aren’t going to make them kick off at 9am Pacific. Do they swap time slots with an NBC or CBS to get the game later in the day? Or would they let that game go to a competitor?
  19. Seems like as good a place as any for this Randy Rainbow gem https://youtu.be/7hk4TGuedxA
  20. Surely you can see the % of capacity figures. Anything near 100% (or above) certainly doesn’t indicate “stadiums 3/4 empty”. Even the Clippers were near 100% 2 years ago. The A’s are really the only truly terrible attendance pro team in the state. Again, it’s completely ridiculous to assert California sucks as a sports state. Now, “more fair weather”? Probably. That’s why teams need to win.
  21. The ACC and the PAC 12 meet in the Sun Bowl every year and the stands are packed with dozens of people. Nobody cares, and this PAC/ACC trial balloon is a terrible idea. The Big XII and the PAC need to join forces and create the 3rd conference. It would be a good football league and a very good basketball league.
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