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TKthunder2

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  1. Once the others declare their intent to leave they can’t vote to dissolve. The only way they get out of the fees now is if they do a full merger. Also San Jose State is a VERY attractive member. The only reason they likely weren’t included is that they think they might get Cal and Stanford back who would NOT want to share a conference with SJSU who they think is basically a JUCO.
  2. Mississippi State is one of only three teams in the SEC that Texas does NOT have a winning record against. Can you guess the other two?
  3. Sounds like they did all of this just to get away from Nevada-Reno (because apparently they have just stopped investing as much in athletics after they got the MWC invite) and San Jose St (because they think they have a one in a million chance at getting Cal or Stanford back). New Mexico and Wyoming are well liked institutions but in small markets which probably hurt their projected per school payout from a new TV deal. No one seems to have an issue with Air Force at all, and they could drop Hawaii at anytime since they are not a full member. So the PAC12 is paying out around $200 million in order to get rid of 4 members only a single one of which the other teams seem not to like. WSU/OSU could have joined the MWC and kept that $100 million windfall and had the best facilities and NIL in the conference for the next decade and keep them in conversation annually for a playoff spot that could possibly turn into a P4 invite… But instead, they chose this rebuild the PAC12 path where they will pay out a bunch of money to “lesser” schools and be in a conference of their peers that will have more motivated fan/donor support while WSU/OSU fans/alumni are still sad and unmotivated, which in turn will push WSU/OSU to the middle of the pack where they fall into even further obscurity. Which would have been the better investment?
  4. IIRC (and I could be a bit out of date but I’m not going to look these up manually) AAC $11 million per school MWC $ 8 million per SBC/MAC $3 million CUSA $2 million edit: used ChatGPT and updated my numbers which were close enough
  5. The MWC will likely have nearly $200 million in exit fees to distribute. I assume Air Force would likely want their share of that money before they bolt. They already play Army/Navy every year so no real reason to rush. If the American conference is holding together, then the PAC will go after Utah State first as their 7th members, then offer UNLV the final 8th spot in hopes that gives them enough cover the breakaway from Nevada-Reno. That would put the PAC12 at 8 teams: Boise St, Colorado St, Fresno St, Oregon St, San Diego St, UNLV, Utah St, and Washington St Then the Mountain West would be down to 5 full members plus Hawaii football only: Air Force, Nevada-Reno, New Mexico, San Jose St, Wyoming, and Hawaii football They need to add 3 full members, 2 of which must have football. UTEP and New Mexico St are the obvious candidates but the MWC has been dismissive of them for the last 20 years so they may think they are “too good” for them. But then again, beggars can’t be choosers. FCS Sacramento State University has been lobbying for a spot as they want to move to FBS. I also assume (if Utah St is truly gone) that WAC FCS schools Utah Tech (formerly Dixie St) and Southern Utah might get a look too. There might be a non football school like Utah Valley which could be added to offset Hawaii if they want to keep their membership/footprint tight.
  6. They have a large corporate sponsor with FedEx and their NIL game is one of the best in the G5. I mean outside of the service academies, who else East of Texas really moves the football needle now in the G5: USF…Tulane…East Carolina??? Just not a lot of great options.
  7. Houston does not belong in that meme.
  8. Huge Colt fan, but they shouldn’t have him headlining major games yet. He needs a lot of polish.
  9. It’s hard to prove a negative, but this is the only thing I can find about Herby calling a game remotely, from when he got COVID. https://sports.yahoo.com/kirk-herbstreit-to-work-from-home-in-week-4-after-coming-in-contact-with-someone-who-had-covid-19-202202951.html and here’s a thread on some of his standard travel https://athlonsports.com/college-football/big-ten/kirk-herbsteit-travel-college-gameday-schedule-fans-react-south-bend
  10. I don’t think you’re right on this one. They’ve shown the crazy lengths they have gone to in order to get Herby from College Gameday on the West Coast to an East Coast game multiple times (police escorts, private plane, helicopters). I’m not saying it never has happened (like during Covid perhaps) but I don’t think it’s anything they do “all the time”. I believe ESPN might do this for lesser conferences on ESPN+ but not SEC or premier B12/ACC games.
  11. FS1 not sending announcer to the stadiums, they are working remotely from a central location. Treating Big 12 games like they treat MWC games. Fox is pretty much telling the Big 12 how they think about them. https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/college/asu/2024/09/21/arizona-state-football-fans-slam-fs1-remote-broadcast-texas-tech/75329197007/
  12. It was scheduled before they were conferencemates. Same for Baylor/Utah. They couldn’t reschedule with another P4 level opponent on such a short turnaround so they decided to leave the game scheduled but not count them as conference games.
  13. Yep they had Utah v Oklahoma State. A ranked v ranked matchup that could decide the entire Big 12 conference where they also could talk about the new conference alignments. It seemed like such an easy decision that they totally flubbed because they wanted to suck some bucknuts.
  14. The noon on ESPN is good for them. They get the 230 on FOX by default as FOX can’t broadcast any Big Ten at that time because they gave CBS an exclusive window. And the late window is something they will have each week with 5 team in the Mountain Time Zone. The SEC has 3 games back to back to back on ABC, one on ESPN at 230, and 2 on the SECN. This is basically the new norm for both the SEC and Big 12. The big loser here is the ACC. They have only a Friday night game on ESPN, then Clemson is the sacrificial lamb on ESPN opposite UGA/Bama, then they only have one game on ESPN2, one on the CW, 3 on the ACCN, and one streaming…on top of that Louisville’s ranked v ranked game against Notre Dame is only on Peacock.
  15. NEXT WEEK Okie St/K State 11am on ESPN Colorado/UCF 230 on FOX AZ/Utah late on ESPN everything else on FS1/ESPN2 other than Kansas/TCU is streaming only.
  16. That’s fine, we’ll get it back on 10/20.
  17. Still number 2 in coaches poll. https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/football/ncaaf/coaches-poll
  18. Where is the sort on stadium mode?
  19. No way Clemson beat Ohio State today.
  20. They got a new QB. Hook’em Murphy.
  21. Love stadium mode (currently at DKR) but needs a sort function, hard to quickly see the active scores with all the final ones intermixed.
  22. I wonder how much longer Mack is going to coach? Seems like he should know by now that he can’t turn UNC into a playoff team…
  23. When not complete dog shit, Ohio State and Michigan are a major ratings pull on the OTA networks, even when they play scrubs (like Marshall) they pull 2.5 million viewers, and if it’s a team with anything remotely close to a brand or rank they get 5 million. If that Clemson game is close it can beat it, but I’m skeptical that matchup can break the 3 million mark (Clemson isn’t that type of program, and unranked NCSU already has a loss).
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