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TKthunder2

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  1. Hey, let’s not body shame people on blood pressure medication that choose to accentuate their midsections. It’s a slippery slope. Next thing you know we’ll be making fun of 300lb women doing yoga.
  2. Dumbass question. I appreciated his answer.
  3. Who is this “One”. Please explain this, because I’m ignorant of who/how they do this. I’m definitely not a cop apologist and agree with the vast majority of your post but still I simply acknowledge that these are very difficult situations even when things go according to plan.
  4. I agree with all this too but what mental health expert can handle someone wielding a knife threateningly? I think the cops have a point here. Garza has been targeting them for any and everything. Both Garza and the cops are assholes. Both are right and both are wrong to an extent. I can easily frame an argument for and against them both. At the end of the day, we as a civilization don’t deal very well or effectively with people going through a mental crisis. We either let them go system’s revolving door with next to no accountability or support (Garza) which punishes the community, or we go too far with enforcement (APD) and they end up with fines/jail time making it difficult to return to normalcy or in extreme cases they get killed.
  5. Auto byes will be going away. I’d bet money on it. Giving a team not even ranked in the top 10 a bye to stupid. I’m all for automatic bids for top 5 conference champs but free but and home games is a bridge too far. Maybe they give byes to the top 4 CCG participants. This keep ND out and provides a benefit to the loser. If Oregon and Texas win Saturday, they’d get the bye and then Penn State would likely get the third bye, SMU could get the fourth bye with a win or it would go to Georgia/Clemson if they lose. Big 12 and MWC champ would get in, but no bye. This seems like a far more realistic setup that most could agree to without classifying any special designations on the Big Ten/SEC.
  6. Yeah I saw that Klatt prediction. But if the CCG are only hurting I think they just go back to declaring the best record champs, even if they have multiple split champions. Then you’d just need a play-in game to replace that inventory. This year: SEC Champion: Texas 7-1 Playoff Bid#2: Georgia 6-2 Playoff Bid#3: Tennessee 6-2 Play-in game for Bid#4: LSU 5-3 at Alabama 5-3 (that’s right per tie breaking rules, LSU technically finished above Ole Miss and Scarolina)
  7. I agree with this but that would lose money for the conferences and TV partners. An easy solution is to decouple home playoff game from the playoff TV contracts and roll those into the conferences normal TV deal. SEC home games on ABC, B1G on FOX/CBS.NBC, B12 on ABC/FOX, ACC on ABC…
  8. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Ivy The List: College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia) Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) University of California (applies to the campuses as of 1985: Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Diego, Irvine, Davis, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and Riverside) University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Texas at Austin University of Vermont (Burlington) University of Virginia (Charlottesville)
  9. Booked.
  10. Today was a good day.
  11. Poooooooooooooooor aggys
  12. Clearly it’s real, I see at least two different pictures with different angles on the sign.
  13. Anyone call that phone number?
  14. What does he bring to the show?
  15. There is chemistry between Pat, Kirk, and even Saban. Corso needs to retire and they need to try out someone new. Des brings nothing to this show. I swap him for Reggie Bush in a heartbeat.
  16. That was great. Calling them out for piping in crowd noise.
  17. And 2 of their 3 scores were given to them by the officials
  18. I can’t disagree more about the Egg and Iron Bowl. I never cared and still don’t care about the fake Ark/Mizzou border war.
  19. TV ratings and money do not equal rankings and playoff bids, though I’ve always believed the Big 12 would get at least 1 team in because otherwise it’s a really bad look for a conference that has a partnership with ESPN. They’d prefer it be Colorado but looks like that’s not going to happen.
  20. I was giving you a better talking point. Instead of saying the Big 12 is trash look at their ratings to which anyone can say look at the weak ass Big Ten ratings for their weaker teams, you should compare total ratings for each conference. Because the Big 12 is heavy in streaming on ESPN+ their numbers are hidden meaning if their mid tier games are weak their low tier games are complete trash. But yes the Big Ten’s tv deal is obviously stronger but the Big 12 is meeting it’s expectations as the #3 conference.
  21. Wrong thread asshole. (Happy Thanksgiving)
  22. The evidence you’re using is faulty, not to mention you’re moving the goal post. I can go to SMW and cherry pick some bottom of the barrel Big Ten games too (Rutger/Maryland or Illinois/Iowa) that pulled less than half a million viewers. Hell it’s Thanksgiving so I’ll give you a better talking point. Count how many Big Ten games were rated versus how many Big 12 game were. Count viewership for the Big Ten versus the Big 12 in a single weekend. The games you are highlighting are MID tier Big 12 games. Their worst games go to ESPN+ and don’t get rated. The Big Ten has 3 OTA windows and often plays a Friday OTA game, plus takes up a majority of FS1 and still has content for the BTN and a game for Peacock. The Big 12 gets 1-2 on FOX, 1-2 on ESPN, 1-2 on FS1/ESPN2, and nearly half the leagues content goes directly to ESPN+. This means when comparing bad games we’re looking at the 4th or 5th Big 12 game versus the 7th or 8th Big Ten game. So even though they might look similar, it’s not.
  23. Those B1G games were OTA on NBC and FOX which give them boosted numbers. Even so, I see Big 12 games pulling similar numbers on ESPN even without Colorado. BYU in the last 3 weeks pulled 2 million, 1.75 million and 1.3 million. K State/Houston did 1.5 million and Iowa State/Tech did 1.25, and again this is leaving out a few ratings monsters courtesy of The Sanders Family and Travis Hunter. Overall, the Big 12 is doing pretty good with TV metrics if you simply acknowledge they will not (typically) beat out Michigan/Ohio St/Penn St/Oregon/USC, Notre Dame, or any of the featured SEC games. They hold their own pretty well against the ACC and the mid Big Ten teams, it’s just the playoffs they have to worry about. If they prove to be non factor multiple years in a row it’s eventually going to take its toll on the regular season television ratings.
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