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oSuJeff97

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  1. Yeah I watched this show in real time when it was airing back in the day. The first 2-3 seasons were a lot of fun but it did get a bit repetitive and the athlete cameos got to be a little bit over-the-top by the end. And yeah if anything the lasting legacy of this show is "Eskimo Brothers" lol.
  2. Awesome. I'm seeing them at Cain's in September for maybe the 10th (?) time or so? Can't wait.
  3. Years and years ago we played SMU in Dallas and the stadium was probably 1/2 to 3/4 orange. And this was in the Les Miles era before OSU football really got going. I know it would basically be the same for any of the Texas P5 schools (or OU) if they played there too, but it was really something to see. It was like we were playing a home game against SMU on their own field.
  4. I suspect it will build over a period of years like TCU did. If I recall, TCU had some pretty sparse crowds their first few years in non-marquee games, but that has improved over the years because getting the promotion to P5 (and winning) will naturally increase interest and build the fan base, IMO. So of course, they'll also need to perform for that to happen. So getting some early success will be crucial for them. We'll see how it goes...
  5. Spot on. I'm not super thrilled about Houston but I get it. The Big 12 lost the flagship school of Texas. And given that Texas remains the most important state in the Big 12 footprint, it made some sense to add another Texas school just to reinforce the conference's presence there and Houston makes the most sense in that regard. Adding SMU was pointless since we already have a small private school in the DFW metro, so adding a large school in the state's largest city (yes I know UH doesn't "own" Houston, but they are still at least physically there) was really the best option.
  6. I'm going to see Turnpike Troubadours, The Avett Brothers and Old 97's in Bonner Springs, KS in 2 weeks. Literally 3 of my 5 or so favorite bands playing the same show. So fucking pumped.
  7. I'm not going to re-litigate that whole thing because it was well-covered last year. We *were* flagged twice for holding in that game - one was declined because it was on 3rd down and the other was offset by a roughing the passer call on Texas. Almost all of the flags on Texas were procedure penalties. What are the refs supposed to do? Not throw flags when you jump offsides?
  8. Uh huh. I'm sure that's it. The issue is definitely *not* that you pay extreme close attention and notice every bad call that goes against your team but don't notice it when it happens to other teams because you aren't emotionally invested in those teams. Nope. No confirmation bias here at all. Like I said, I can't wait for the "Fuck SEC Refs" thread.
  9. LOL There will be a "Fuck the SEC refs" thread on this Board before your first season in the SEC is done.... probably before the end of September.
  10. Hey if we want to protect important rivalries and group teams that make sense geographically I have a wild idea that you wouldn't believe... we could take maybe the top 60 college football programs and group them into five conferences of 12 teams each - a "power 5" if you will.... one conference could include teams along the Atlantic coast... one in the Southeastern U.S.... one in the central plains and Texas... one in the upper Midwest... and one on the Pacific coast...
  11. Agree with all of this except the relegation part. What's happening in CFB isn't relegation, because relegation is based on on-field performance. If you don't perform, you get booted. In no way, shape or form do Washington State or Oregon State deserve to get "relegated" in a world where fucking Rutgers, Maryland, Indiana, Vanderbilt, etc., get to enjoy the spoils of being in one of the Prestige Worldwide conferences.
  12. Yeah very strong start... and the flash-forward to 1984 was great. Yeah Brody looks exactly like Riley.
  13. Yeah I mean SECSECSEC has been doing this now for, what, 20+ years? It's one of the key factors that led to the perception of it being the greatest conference in the land. I mean, when preseason unranked Mississippi State beats preseason #8 Tennessee -- WOW! Look how good SEC is! An unranked team beat the #8 team in the country! Now in week 2 Mississippi State comes in at #12 or so but then after a few weeks of awful non-conference teams they are ranked #8 but they lose to unranked Arkansas and WOW! Yet again it's proven how tough SECSECSEC is because these unranked SEC teams are beating top 10 SEC teams!! So basically every talking head can blather on for the first two months of the season how great SECSECSEC it. Fast-forward 10 weeks and both Mississippi State and Tennessee are 5-7 and unranked but who cares? We'll do it all over again next year and it will become a self-fulfilling prophesy because all of the talking heads will just talk over and over and over again how great SEC is so now that's where all of the elite prospects want to go. Huzzah! (Yes I'm fully aware that SEC has become objectively the best conference overall, but for many many years it wasn't - but there was the often-repeated perception that was absolutely bolstered and reinforced by them playing conference games in September that reinforced narratives even though those narratives ended up being B.S. a lot of the time.)
  14. I'm thinking this is correct. If I'm ESPN/FOX and I want Oregon/Washington inventory, it seems like my options are: Pay ~$30mm/year for them in the Big 12 Pay ~$50mm/year for them in the B1G In the Big 12 they most certainly enhance the value of the conference as a whole, making the Big 12 a clear/iron-clad #3 conference and I own all of that inventory, in addition to the "Big 2." Meanwhile, I can poach two much more valuable programs (FSU/Clemson) from the ACC and further enhance my "Big 2" investments. The more I think about it, the more this makes the most sense.
  15. We did win the Big 12 that year. That's what was so goddamn infuriating about putting Bama in the title game. They didn't even win their goddamn *division* and we won the Big 12 with our last game being a 44-10 beatdown of #10 Oklahoma. The argument that was used against us was "you had a worse loss" than Bama (double OT loss at Iowa State vs. loss to #1 LSU) even though we had like 5 better *wins* than they had. Of course that argument went away like the next year for Ohio State or Bama or some other blue blood that I can't remember. All of a sudden it was about "more/better wins" instead of a "worse loss." That was likely OSU's best chance to actually win a college football title in my lifetime and so of course we get fucked over.
  16. I think calling Aggy the "Auburn of the Big 12" is a pretty generous reading of where they were when the left. Aggy hadn't sniffed the Big 12 title game in more than a decade by the time they left the conference. They made the Big 12 title game in 1997 and 1998 before Stoops took over at OU and before Leach got TTU going and Miles/Gundy got OSU going. Once those three things happened, they never sniffed it again. Their last 5 years in the Big 12 their records were: 7-6, 9-4, 6-7, 4-8, 7-6 They had once decent year along with two seasons with losing records and two 7-6s. They were clearly behind OU, Texas and OSU/Tech in the Big 12 South pecking order. If we play out what happened over the next decade, it's pretty clear they would have remained the 3rd or 4th best program in the Big 12 South with OU/OSU clearly ahead of them and while Tech and Texas faded somewhat from where they were, we had Baylor ascending under Briles so there were still going to be a ton of road blocks from A&M ever sniffing a Big 12 title game in those years as well.
  17. Yeah like we all remember how the two schools that are leaving the conference have co-dominated this "conference of losers" over the past two decades... Oh wait... I just checked my notes and that doesn't seem correct at all.
  18. Yeah that's pretty big wild card. They are going to be a huge draw this year out the curiosity factor, but if he fires out a 2-10 type season that curiosity will fade.
  19. Yes the sidelines are so dangerous that zeros of players have actually been injured because of the sidelines in the past 80 years.
  20. 100% this. I remember thinking it felt like when people leave a funeral. Nobody said a word and just somberly walked out of the theater.
  21. It definitely doesn't make sense if your perspective on those programs is stuck in 1996. Thankfully the people who make the decisions about where to invest their media money don't have a perspective stuck in 1996 and it makes sense to them so that's all that really matters.
  22. Yeah with everything that has been discussed and all of the data thrown into this thread over the past years I can't believe comments like this are still being made. The data has conclusively shown that OSU has been consistently the #3 TV draw in the Big 12 after OU/Texas. It's not fucking complicated. The idea that we wouldn't be included in any kind of PAC/legacy Big 12 merger is absurd.
  23. Yep. But one area the did skew really young were the 8th Air Force pilots. I remember they covered it in that "Cold Blue" documentary that came out a while ago. The average age of the B-17 pilot and co-pilot in the 8th Air Force was something like 23-24 and the average age of the crew was like 20-21. That's wild when I think about my top priority at that age was securing booze and banging chicks while running around Stillwater.
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