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BYU can travel but Texas fans have outnumbered them in their own stadium before.

How about you just not ban our fans from buying tickets on the open market? https://kslsports.com/500666/big-12-tcu-byu-tickets-single-game-keep-it-purple/ TCU, Baylor, and Houston pull this type of bush league bullshit regularly (Tech too to a different extent but since nobody wants to travel to Lubbock they don’t do this). This happens regularly to Texas fans that I couldn’t easily find a UT site complaining about this since it’s fairly normal for us. Just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it ain’t real.

Isn’t this similar to how the Big 12 was setup before everybody cried about mean old Texas back in 2010 and the unequal revenue sharing? Back then you guys wanted equal revenue sharing because you thought you could run the same “lucky” scam as Vandy and Northwestern but it backfired spectacularly and now you want to try and put all the toothpaste back in the tube? Shortsighted greed appears to have caused long term consequences.

20. SEC adds FSU, Clemson, UNC, UVA = 20 (if you go to 24 that’s likely Kansas, Duke, VA Tech, and WVU which isn’t very appealing for football/expansion) B1G adds ND and Miami (or Stanford)= 20 From the B12 point of view, if they take the best ACC leftovers in Pitt, Louisville, NCSU, and VA Tech they will clearly have the best fb brands remaining at 20, and if they overextend to 24 (which they probably would if those+Miami is available and if the rumor that BY is already talking with Duke are true) to get the stretch/basketball brands like Duke, Syracuse, GA Tech and maybe UConn or in their dream scenario ND’s nonfb sports then that’s really all they need. Why add in SMU and their 30k seat stadium who you already turned down and when you have 4 schools in TX? Why add Cal/Stanford who have never wanted to join and were too prideful and overbearing when in the PAC? Why add legacy leeches like Wake or BC (it’s not like they extended that olive branch to WSU/OrSU)?

UTRGV is leaving the WAC for the Southland Conference. Very confused on what SFA, ACU, and Tarleton, and UTA are still doing in the WAC with those random Utah schools.

Oakland plays in the Horizon League Princeton plays in the Ivy League Both conferences would not be in the bottom 10 that get cut. Why do we have divisions? DII schools can beat DI schools (Chaminade says hello). It doesn’t cost a lot to field a basketball team. What does the number/amount of scholarships, size of arena, or number of other sports matter when you can only have 5 guys on the hardwood at any given time. Let’s have one big tournament for all divisions. We have divided before and we WILL divide again. Fighting for a conference to keep its bid because Fairleigh Dickinson pulled off an upset that one time is ridiculous. 99% of people reading this don’t have any idea what conference they play in or who else is in their conference without pulling it up on Wikipedia. If a conference falls out of DI and nobody notices does it really matter? There will still be plenty of Cinderellas around AND the games will be better and more profitable.

This is where we disagree completely. Last year Oklahoma (who missed the tournament) literally beat Alabama (who was a #1 seed). The tournament would have been better if you could include more at large teams and fewer AQs. Based on Bullet’s list above this would/should be an easy compromise. Take all 10 FBS conference and add in any conference who has made a Sweet16 in the last 40 years: Big East, A10, WCC, Horizon, Ivy, MAAC, Patriot, Southern, and the Summit League. That would free up 11 AQ spots. If you get rid of the First Four that removes 4 teams which means we could go back to the basic 64 team setup and still have 7 additional at large bids for Oklahoma, Indiana St, Seton Hall, Pitt, St John’s, Providence, and Wake Forest. Yes, I think that would have been a better product and the average fan wouldn’t know any better since there would still be more than enough non traditional brands in the tournament to satisfy their Cinderella dreams. I’m very knowledgeable on most conferences in Division I and was only able to name 8 of the 11 conferences that were left out without looking it up. We have too many conferences in Division I which is the problem here.

I didn’t cite an actual statistic but many times you’ll hear/read when the media will says “2 million people across the world watched the buzzer beater last night”, only to find that when the rating are released it’s calculated with less than a quarter of that. As far as I’m aware the minute by minute Nielsen ratings are not publicly available. But close games and big names draws viewers, I’m sure I could source that if you’d like.

Again, sportswriters and common fans like to romanticize underdog upsets but the cold hard fact are that no one watches those games outside the final minute or two. Oakland like St Peters and Fairleigh Dickinson, Abilene Christian, or insert random school here…are fun to talk about after the fact but the next game they play also has horrible viewership too because those casual fans despite talking about the tournament and the bracket socially…don’t watch. They see the final shot/miss on sportscenter or YouTube/tictok or twitter/fb but none of that brings in any money to the NCAA or P4+BigEast. The data doesn’t lie.

Take a look at the ratings because they agree with him. Nobody watches the small school until the final two minutes. While that fun for fans and sport writers to romanticize these games have lower rating than your standard 8/9 matchup which means advertisers don’t pay for them. What is memorable and what makes money aren’t always the same thing. I don’t think they need to fully split from all of DI, but I think you could drop 10 historically one bid leagues and the tournament would be far more interesting and profitable. We have divisions for a reason. DII schools can upset DI schools, it doesn’t mean we should include them in the tournament. Shrinking the number of DI leagues is likely healthy for the NCAA.

Okay thought it would be more inflammatory…but I agree with this and I figured the Big 12/ACC/Big East would too with quality bubble teams all being in the outside looking in. The SEC, notably, didn’t have a real quality team miss out this year (17 win LSU or #90 NET Ole Miss). We have too many DI conferences which means too many AQs. DI is too big need to be split in half like the NCAA president was trying to propose. Is anyone actually upset by this, or is it just fun to point and laugh at the SEC’s shitty basketball?

Can someone post his comments please?

Was he doing shit talk? If so that’s dumb.

I’ve had these same thoughts. All those programs could be options if they go to 24, but if they go to 20 it’s FSU, Clemson, UNC, and one of UNC’s buddies (UVA, Duke, NCSU). UNC’s less lucky pals plus Kansas, West Virginia, and Virginia Tech would be in the next set if they go to 24.

True. I know if won’t happen due for a myriad of reasons (including the difference in TV dollars) but if FSU/Clemson land in the SEC and UNC/UVA are locked down due to in state politics, which means the B1G/SEC are both at 18…it would make so much sense for the ACC/B12 to swap SMU/Cal/Stanford for WVU/Cincy/UCF. Logic and reality need to get their shit together.

I’m fine with the 2025 schedule. I didn’t like that we were playing Arkansas and aggy both away in 2024, because not only did were the last times we play each of them both away (at aggy in 2011, at Arkansas 2021) but if we switched to a 9 game 3-6-6 schedule in 2025 one of those would have likely got to host us again meaning 3 straight home games in the series. I didn’t care all that much about playing two in a row away in the series (that happens when schedules change, we hosted Okie State in Austin in back to back year during the previous realignment in 2011) but 3 times would have been outlandish. Now when/if they go to 3-6-6 in 2026 we’ll get to host one of either Arkansas or aggy two times in a row and I can only imagine how upset it will make them.

They said the same thing about the exit fee being exorbitant as FSU, but the twist is Clemson is saying that the GOR was only enforceable while they are conference members and once they leave the conference the GOR is no longer applicable. So they want to pay a reasonable exit fee and leave with their rights as free agents. If the court rules their way expect many others to follow quickly.

Where do I sign?

He should start a junior college in Houston and put Cougar High out of business.

Yes. That is a perk of being a season ticket holder. Once you have them they are yours as long as you always renew and assuming they don’t get have to reassign your seating due to construction (even then they’ll give you new seats for the same price).

Nebraska has never won a game in the men’s basketball tournament. Very nice no win situation for aggy. If they win then it was expected because Nebraska has never won. If they lose they go down as the same that finally got Nebraska over that hump.

It was fun to point and laugh at sleepy sherm but I’ll admit that he was the only coach I was happy they fired. I truly believe that he was building a solid foundation that could have made aggy a competitive program for years to come. I’m not sure they would have been national title contenders but I suspect they would have won more games than sumlin if they had kept him.

One of my favorite aggy goal post moving lines was after they won the women’s bball title most of their insiders started talking about the college national championships in the “Big 4 Sports” but then had to stop using it the very next year when Baylor won their second women’s basketball title so they wouldn’t get lapped by the Baptists.

I’ll disagree that it’s not important as pro-Palestinian groups and government actors including even Biden are using them like they are official to make a point and win hearts and minds. Still we agree that a single civilian death is too many but that is war. When Gaza voted Hamas into power it was never going to end peacefully. I don’t like or condone Israel’s actions nor the US funding them. I can keep these thoughts in my head while also acknowledging that Hamas is making this as deadly and painful as possible for everyone intentionally and we should not reward that tactic as it will only lead to more pain and suffering. It’s a giant shit sandwich, and we’re going to eat it one way or another.