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TKthunder2

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  1. I’m confused, do they want me to throw bottles or not?
  2. I still find the Big 12 more interesting than the ACC and honestly more so than the majority of the Big Ten after you get past their top 2 games. If they can continue to stay semi-relevant they should be fine going into this next iteration. So I’m really curious on why this needs to be an urgent meeting…
  3. I think that sounds like a great idea. They should explore all of their options.
  4. Easy answer to this is to end mandatory selective service. Seems like an outdated concept anyways.
  5. Was just coming to post this.
  6. Reportedly Alabama voted against because Saban didn’t want their annual rivals to be TN, Aub, and LSU (thought it was too tough and wanted Mississippi State). Tennessee voted along with them because they were concerned that going to 9 might take that game away from them as Auburn and LSU have been far more valuable to the league than Bama/TN. That issue has since been resolved and Alabama is on board and publicly has agreed to play all three annually. If all this is true, the move to 9 conference games should pass 9-7. This is why before Texas/OU joined they agreed to playing the reverse schedule in 2025 as a peace offering to those who voted against and to give them enough time to sort out OOC games while still negotiating with ESPN for more money.
  7. I agree with everything you said, but the DID change the rule. They made a bad rule and re-wrote it midseason after the season has begun. Like the UGA/Texas game with ref picking up the defensive pass interference flag after seeing how bad the call was on the Jumbotron while the Texas students throwing water bottles…just because it was the correct and logical decision, doesn’t mean they should have changed it.
  8. Don’t be aggy. They aren’t great, but they aren’t terrible either. Those teams pulled upsets on us nearly every year from 2010-2022.
  9. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/11/03/us/houston-teacher-certification-scheme
  10. Grand Canyon officially joining MWC. https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/grand-canyon-joining-mountain-west-wont-play-in-west-coast-conference-after-accepting-invitation/amp/
  11. Will he change the rules mid season again?
  12. Tech/TCU is on FOX only because ESPN got first pick this week and took Colorado/Cincy who are both 5-2. FOX has no other inventory it can put in the time slot. I’ve said for over a year now, that this was the most beneficial arrangement that the Big 12 has over the ACC. Big 12 fans and BY can brag about their good deal/placement on FOX main (I think the exposure more than makes up for the dollars) but inventory like the Tech/TCU game is just the best remaining option for FOX, its not something to toot your horn about.
  13. Is the thought that they want to connect it to 6th thinking it would bring foot traffic from there? I think 7th is pretty valuable for traffic flow connecting 35 with Guadalupe, especially during the commuting hours. 8th is too but less so than 7th. These allow traffic flowing from downtown to UT/MLK to avoid the main commuter flows of 5th/6th (35/Mopac connect) and 1st (a cluster fuck everyone should avoid at all costs). I don’t care greatly since I no longer have to be in downtown as often, and agree that 9th, 10th, and 11th could easily be closed off.
  14. I agree with this completely, and I tend to disagree with you 9 out of 10 times.
  15. Georgia fans travel. They may not all have tickets but lots of them here. Along with some douchbags from the Peach Bowl wearing jackets with a big peach logo.
  16. It’s fucking insane over here. So many people just around everywhere…
  17. For those interested the below our the guest pickers that have been in Austin (not counting Texas/Oklahoma games which have been either Mark Cuban or OU people) 2022-TCU Jordan Spieth 2022-Alabama Glenn Powell 2019-LSU Matthew McConaughey 2009-Tech Lance Armstrong
  18. He did it when Alabama came to town in 2022. They try not to repeat guest pickers too often.
  19. ABC’s deal with the SEC with Texas and Oklahoma has been a major hit for the network. They are routinely capturing 4+ million viewers across all three windows. Only OOC weeks 2&4 and aggy’s blowout of Mizzou failed to top 4 million. Last year ABC hitting 4 million across all windows was very rare and this year it’s more common than not. On the other side, viewership on CBS is down 33% through week 7. So far only Michigan/USC in week 4 topped the SEC game from the same week last year. CBS turned down the SEC tier one rights and ended up paying MORE money to the Big Ten for an inferior product. I find that amusing.
  20. Per the NCAA’s website the are 121 FBS/FCS matchups this year and this is twice the number as their were a decade ago. I’ll die on the hill. It’s shit football, it’s shit for ticket holders, fans, TV, players, FCS teams and basically everybody except coaches who pad their win totals and bank accounts. I don’t understand the push back. BAD football that brings in more money = Good GOOD football that brings in more money = Bad and I feel the same way about the NFL (though I don’t watch that nearly as much). Preseason NFL is dumb, limiting stupid preseason games is ideal, and making fans pay for that preseason games is a ripoff.
  21. First…never going stop, self righteous cunt for life bitch Texas doesn’t schedule FCS teams. Texas previously only scheduled 1 G5 team but moved to 2 and now 3 in the last few year which I do not enjoy. I do NOT watch these crappy FCS games (no one does, numbers validate this, NDSU/CU is the exception to this rule) and few watch G5 games. Bill Snyder and K State fucked this up. We’ve first hand with aggy bragging about their record of the last decade when they scheduled 3 easy wins to our 1. The world is not a vacuum, if K State does this then Iowa State does it, then Iowa, then Wisconsin, and then soon all the way to Ohio State. As long as people, recruits, sportswriters, and the committee put emphasis on records and bowls are easily accessible and coaches get bonuses for getting 6 wins it’s not going to organically stop. It would require new rules or regulations. The SEC saw this as a problem and passed a rule that all teams must play at least one power 5 opponent each year.
  22. How about one G5, one Big Ten, and one ACC/B12? Which is basically what we did 2012-2018…
  23. Yes! This would be far healthier for the sport. I’m not sure how this is even an argument. I find it funny that on the last page huck accused me of caring about how much money Texas and the SEC make, but then doc comes in and says we need more BAD football because these schools need more than 6 home game for…money…? It’s NOT healthy for the sport of college football to schedule like Ole Miss and Ohio State. Please explain how giving schools free wins so coaches can get bowl eligible to play in front of a half empty meaningless bowl game and get a bonus helps make this sport better. We’ve made fun of SEC cupcake week for YEARS, so why people are suddenly defending it? It bottles the mind.
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