TKthunder2

Agree. The only situation I could understand taking Private Equity is with FSU/Clemson. If you have to pay out 200 million plus to the ACC to get into the Big Ten or SEC to make $30mil more a year, then I could see that. Still, it seems like a loan/bond from the state, would both be preferable than PE. Outside of that, I find any other scenario hard to image.

Wait, they don’t look like THIS anymore?

Silently laughs as I sit in the Denver airport on my way to…

I mean yes that priority #1, but I wouldn’t be upset with one in basketball, baseball or softball…

Want a source? https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/being-an-aggie-is-no-joke/

It helped with the first one in 2021. We would have won 2022 and 2024 even under the old scoring system.

👀 yeah…those billboards that THEY purchase 👀

I literally will be there tomorrow and was told they had no availability. If they go broke it was bad management/accounting however that hotel is seeing plenty of business so someone would absolutely buy it and continue running it.

B1G went from 14 teams for 8.5 bowls to 18 teams for 7 bowls when the playoffs took their bids to the Rose/Orange. Like the Big 12, who last year didn’t have enough contractual tie ins for all of its bowl eligible teams, the Big Ten may need access to these extra bowls. Some of these numbers may be outdated but it appears that the SEC/ACC have enough bowl games to cover their teams while the Big Ten and Big 12 may not. B1G: 14teams/8.5bowls > 18teams/7bowls 38% coverage SEC: 14/11.5 > 16/9 56% B12: 10/7 > 16/6 37% ACC+ND 15/10 > 18/9 50% P12 12/7 > 2/6 300% In a perfect world the Big Ten would take the PAC12’s bid to the Alamo and Sun Bowl while the Big 12 took over the Holiday and LA Bowl, leaving the PAC2 the Las Vegas and Independent.

All the bowls want the Big Ten schools so they don’t want to sign up exclusively for OSU/WSU or the 4corner schools when they could hit the lottery and get an underperforming USC.

Maybe Utah and Baylor can play a 2nd non conference game there?

Not sure where to post this, but was looking at this graphic (side note, if somebody has an updated one please post it) and noticed something interesting… The roughly top 30 or so programs also have the top stadiums by capacity in college football. Obviously success drive attendance and facilities but the correlation is consistent. With one major exception of South Carolina (top 20 capacity stadium but hasn’t had the corresponding on field success) this holds true until you hit around 300 line and you have more modest stadiums for Oregon, Georgia Tech, Colorado, West Virginia, Stanford, and Arizona St that all have stadiums ranked in the 40-50 range for the P4.

I’m a Vista refugee myself. Fuck them.

Because academics are stupid and fans are irrational.

I agree. While Stanford may have better history/brand power, I’d much rather watch ISU with a packed stadium. It makes for a better TV product.

SFA (now a UT system school) is leaving the WAC too now. https://www.texasfootball.com/article/2024/05/24/confirmed-sfa-headed-back-to-the-southland-conference?ref=article_preview_title If Abilene Christian, Tarleton St, and UT Arlington follow their lead the Southland would have 15 members: 12 football schools and 3 non-football schools. Also of note (and only a year late) another UT system school is moving up to DII Lone Star Conference to join UT Permian Basin and UT Tyler. https://news.utdallas.edu/campus-community/comet-sports-ncaa-division-2-2023/ UT System will have 6 in NCAA Division I including 3 FBS teams with flagship in the SEC, UTSA in the American, and UTEP in CUSA; 2 in the FCS with SFA and UTRGV in the Southland; 1 in D1 non football with UTA still in the WAC (for now); and 3 in DII Lone Star Conference (one of which plays football). After a few years of building programs/facilities I could see UT Dallas (with its enrollment of 30k) moving to DI.

I thought about that a while ago and while I know this won’t happen, I think a good system would be the require home and homes or 2 for 1s other than straight money for one time cupcake games (with an exception for neutral site games). Nobody in their right mind would schedule a 2 for 1 with fucking Long Island…

Huge IF true

Fuck OU, but they had to add that game late due to the conference move. Now in fairness, Texas found a way to add FBS teams but I can get that the timeline made it difficult. https://fbschedules.com/oklahoma-adds-maine-to-2024-football-schedule/ Now that doesn’t excuse the other SEC mouth breathers from their late season FCS cupcakes. I wish they’d forbid that practice but I’d rather they keep it around if that means we can get a 9 game conference slate in 2026.

I’ll give you the arrivals and departures lanes those are shit shows. Also the passive aggressive bullshit from having ride share customers having to cross the departure lanes, go through an entire parking garage, up a level, and then across another lane to get to your ride share is idiotic. But to me that’s the worse part of the airport. There are other things that are less than ideal but ultimately I’d rather fly out of ABIA than DFW like I had to a decade ago…

Long Island is not respectable at all at the FCS level. They transitioned from DII to FCS during COVID. TCU should feel ashamed. Albany is at least a semi respectable FCS school in DI/FCS for 20+ years. West Virginia is also somewhat regional so they get more slack on that one than TCU.

I always thought CLEAR was for people too lazy to go through the TSA precheck process. You are already Pre Check and you pay for Clear? I like how Austin separated the Pre check line from the regular lines make getting through security much faster.

I don’t fly a ton like some, but it’s rare that I’m not at ABIA at least once a month. For example I have 4 flights planned each of the next 4 months. I’m TSA pre check and haven’t had any bad experiences. What shitty experience are you referring to? The worst part about ABIA is that there are no trams or belts to get from once side to another, but since it’s not really a hub I don’t consider that a major negative (just annoying when I want food from Huts but I’m at gate 30).

It possible but I doubt it. Most of the promotion is during other college football games. By being the first game of the week it doesn’t give them lots of time to promote it.