TKthunder2

Most years the Big12 and ACC will have a team in the top 12 too, but in years where they have a #15 champion they’ll be displacing a SEC/B1G. I can’t remember where I saw this but the difference between getting into the CFP versus and regular NY6 bowl is over $50mil in marketing and brand recognition which leads to future enrollment, donations, tickets, etc. The BCS suffered through horrible autobids from the Big East for year, and they don’t want to see this again.

Yeah, there’s no way they do that to USC.

No idea, ERCOT said plenty of supply so it must have been localized, was out for about 90 minutes.

Yes, because a Longhorn was in the governor’s mansion Texas was able to make this move. To say that no politician was actually going to get involved pretty much ignores the our state heavy handed involvement in the past. Just because they COULDN’T do anything this time doesn’t mean they would not have tried. The SEC move not leaking until after the regular session and Abbott is what allowed this to go through. To claim no one would ACTUALLY try to block this is purposely disingenuous or ignorant, feel free to take your pick.

Same

Yeah Texas politicians NEVER get involved in conference realignment… https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/college/2021/08/16/texas-longhorns-football-join-sec-expansion-southwest-conference-harvey-schiller/5515187001/ https://www.si.com/college/2016/08/16/big-12-expansion-oral-history-big-8-swc-merger How do you think UH got in the Big 12? They didn’t need more Texas schools… https://www.texastribune.org/2016/08/10/inside-university-houstons-political-push-join-big/ How do you think aggy was able to leave the Big 12? Do you honestly think it had nothing to do with Rick Perry sitting in the governor’s mansion? Texas and OU moving to the SEC just so happened to be leaked AFTER the regular session of the State Legislature had completed. The only way they could have stopped this move would be for the governor to call a special session specifically about that topic. While I know most people here dislike (kind way to put it) Abbott, he was informed of Texas moving to the SEC and with his support behind it the Legislature couldn’t do much more than a dog and pony show. This year’s session was the only chance the lege had to try and block it but by now tempers had cooled and with Abbott still at the helm with veto power, along with the political good will from letting cougar high join, plus the renewal of the UT/aggy game it all worked out. But you are a dipshit if you think there was a not a real possibility of political shenanigans that could have occurred. Perry politically facilitated aggy getting into the SEC and Abbott did the same for Texas.

ACC in 2031: Stanford, Cal, SMU, Wake, Duke, Syracuse, Boston College, Tufts, Brandeis, MIT, Boston U, and Emory

Okay I see where I fucked up, slight mea culpa. My dad is 67 about to be 68 (65 was just stuck in my mind somehow probably just because that was the last big birthday we did together and retirement age and whatnot) and he started mid year so he has 46 years of service. 46 x 2.3 = 105.8 and yes he apparently grandfathered in… *An individual who, as a TRS member on Aug. 31, 2005, was at least 50 years old, or met the Rule of 70, or had at least 25 years of service credit should use the three highest years of salary for this calculation. https://www.tcta.org/professional-resources/teacher-employment/benefits/trs-retirement/how-to-calculate-your-standard-trs-benefit

I agree with everything you said I come from a family of teachers (all 4 grandparents, dad, sister, and 2 aunts all teach/taugh) and I honestly think I should have been a teacher but I knew the money wasn’t great so I went into tech. Still I don’t understand how people think TRS is not sufficient enough when properly utilized. If cost of living in Austin is high (which it is) the how is paying into both TRS and SSI help with that problem.

Wake Forest is 31,500. I don’t think this will be an issue. Not ideal but it won’t stop anything.

Not sure why anyone thinks TRS is not enough to live off of. I literally just went with my dad to TRS and helped him file for retirement. He started teaching at 22 years old. At 62 he started teaching summer school for his last 3 years. He just retired at 65 with 105% of his highest 3 year’s salary (which was his last 3) that’s is good until the day he dies. I’m not sure what you mother fuckers are smoking but there is no reason someone like him would need social security. He was a career teacher doing exactly what the system was designed for. It was NOT designed for people who only teach for 20 years (and neither is social security for that matter).

What the ever living fuck. Teacher’s Retirement is more than enough to live off of, why the fuck would they pay social security????? and yes one of the “proposals” for splitting up AISD into the other 9 local ISDs that border it which sounds like a fuck you Austin plan at first glance but actually might help spread some of the wealth and reduce the recapture total for the area while providing better facilities for the kids. Based on who proposed this plan I wouldn’t trust it at face value but I’d be curious to see debate on its merits.

This is a horrifically bad take. I could buy it if it was just against the Big Ten (especially pre UO/UW) but against the SEC you are a fool. What the fuck do you think the definition of top heavy means? The Big12 with UT/OU was top heavy. They literally divided conference media days with one of us in each day because they knew if they put them both on the same day a sizable segment of the media wouldn’t show up for the other day. When HALF of the SEC has national titles in the BCS/CFP era you can’t call it “top heavy.” Even if we buy your ridiculous argument and we remove the “top heavy” teams you still have aggy, Arkansas, Ole Miss, Mizzou, Mississippi St, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Vandy line that bottom half up against the bottom of the new Big 12: Colorado, Tech, Iowa St, Arizona, Arizona St, Cincy, Houston, and Kansas (note Baylor and UCF are in the top half lol) You’re opinion is bad and you should be ashamed for making everyone who reads it dumber.

Because you’ll have at least 80,000+ people in the stands and the game is OTA on FOX. If it was on the Longhorn Network we’d just push the time, no “delay” needed.

Spoiler below but we have a whole thread dedicated to bidet questions if you’re curious.

I’m not sure which one of you was saying the SEC wouldn’t have the permanent 230 spot on ABC but… https://www.nola.com/sports/lsu/why-the-sec-is-leaving-cbs-and-what-to-expect-with-espn-and-abc/article_6e17825c-3ed6-11ee-a67b-bb0de13f913d.amp.html and also of interest

The post was talking about brand power, that does not necessarily correlate to wins. Look at the chart posted up thread and tell me again who from the bottom half that I listed above is better than Stanford and TCU…

I agree with you overall point, but TCU was/is at the top of the Big12 not the bottom and Stanford was in the top half of the PAC12. If we’re being honest the bottom of the Big12 was: Kansas/KSU/ISU/WVU/TT and the bottom of the PAC12 was: WSU/OSU/Cal/Colorado/Arizona/ASU

Damn RIP Bill

You guys know they are building wind farms in the middle of the Texas triangle. Drive by Hubbard or Mart and there’s a bunch of them. Obviously not as many as out West but it’s growing pretty quickly because they demand is there. https://www.nexteraenergyresources.com/hubbard-wind/project-overview.html https://www.engie-na.com/wind/prairie_hill/

https://www.vcstar.com/story/opinion/2023/08/17/with-pac-12-collapse-how-about-starting-a-california-conference/70610812007/ 🤣

Disagree. If the SEC turned their CCG into a 4 team playoff they would get 100% of that revenue. Currently the 4 team playoff shares that money with EVERY FBS conference. The Sun Belt and CUSA, having never participated any the playoff or NY6 bowls, pull in $24 million a year from the CFP. The PAC/B12/ACC pull much more than that but I’m not going to bother to go find the exact number. You take all of that interest and condense it down to just the SEC and they will rake in the cash for just their 4 team playoff. The additional money for the championship games, and the normal bowl games will also still be there. While the total payout will be less than the joint CFP, the SEC’s portion of that would absolutely be worth more than they are currently receiving. Bad for college football in general does not mean bad for the SEC. We all saw #1 UGA play #14 LSU in the CCG in Atlanta. With 11 million viewers it was the most watched CCG. Now imagine after it, you had a rematch of #5 Alabama play #6 Tennessee in Miami or Houston. Then you have UGA play that winner in the Sugar Bowl on NYD. Then they play the B1G’s 4 team playoff winner (Michigan/Penn St vs Ohio St/USC) mid January…the networks would piss themselves for that guaranteed content. Sure, no K State/TCU/Utah/Clemson would hurt the overall $ some, but condensing the revenue into just the two conferences would most likely increase the amount each of their schools get to take home. I know the idea is not popular here, but my main point is that this is not a “hollow threat”.

$60 each $120 total. Actual second row of the section aisle seat. Should get shade near kickoff.

It does make sense, in a crazy type of way that is our current reality. For the ACC Cal/Stanford are rumored to be talking about taking $0 from their TV deal. The ACC (fully with ESPN) has a prorata claus for new members. So they can take that free money from ESPN and give it to FSU/Clemson/UNC/Miami and keep them temporarily happy and stabilize their drama keeping the conference together. It’s not a great sustainable long term solution, but it’s actually not horrible in the short term. Cal/Stanford care more about getting into the Big Ten long term but if they join the MWC/AAC they’ll lose (even more) recruits and exposure and be an afterthought. If they double down on athletics and win some in the ACC they think their is a chance the future Big Ten will take them in. Who knows, maybe the Big 12/ACC figure out some other way to do a membership swap with West Virginia/Cincinnati going to the ACC and Cal/Stanford going the Big12. Sounds unlikely but so did Cal/Stanford joining the ACC a year ago…

If Cal and Stanford were smart (what a weird world we live in when I can honestly start a sentence that way) they should have been secretly negotiating with the Big 12 behind under a NDA. Once Oregon and Washington left, they could have pulled the trigger and leap frogged over ASU/Utah, both schools that clearly don’t want to be in the B12 and schools in duplicate markets/states that are already in (or invited) the conference. I get that many in here oppose them for political reasons, but two schools in SFO including an every other year ND game (and I assume USC too at some point) would be far more valuable for the conference in the long term.