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Married coming up in 19 years this month. Wife reads online that our fans should all be running counterclockwise in the summer. Me knowing this already, changed them nearly two months back. But we had an argument at midnight about whether the fan was spinning clockwise (her) or counterclockwise (me and the fan). The fan is clearly spinning counterclockwise, but to prove it was clockwise she held an oversized decorative clock up to the fan and continued arguing while watching the second hand go one direction and the fan go the other. After a minute or two when she starts to realize she is wrong, she then argues that it’s clockwise if you look down on it so she’s right. I’m done for the night, so I let her change the rotation. I’ll just change sit back in a day or two.
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New SEC divisions and pods thread (Page 38 starts recent discussion)
TKthunder2 replied to mdmost's topic in Football
I mean, sure, none of it is hard set but they were trying to fit rivalries with a competitive balance. Giving the #1 team of the last 15 years the #8, #11, #13 annually (avg 10.6) while the #7 team gets #3, #4, #6 every year (avg 4.3) as mdmost suggested and you’re going to have a problem “balancing out the difficulty”. The SEC stated they would work to protect primary and secondary rivalries, true, but to keep a competitive balance you have to set standards which is the conference winning percentage over the last decade. Hard to argue with the data. Saban whined that Tennessee is more difficult now but he didn’t have a leg to stand on arguing with the data, which is why he just acted dumb and befuddled to the media about the whole thing and ignored any questions where they attempted to explain it to him. -
New SEC divisions and pods thread (Page 38 starts recent discussion)
TKthunder2 replied to mdmost's topic in Football
I understand Florida fan frustration but just take the top 8 and fill in 2 games and come up with a better solution: Bama: Auburn, ? UGA: UF, Auburn OU: TX, ? LSU: ?, aggy UF: UGA, ? TX: OU, aggy aggy: LSU, TX Auburn: Bama, UGA The above seem to be relatively set in stone, and from Florida’s perspective I could see you arguing for UF/LSU annually but that forced rivalry has not been seen by the schools in the best of light over the last decade where they’ve openly discussed trying to cancel it. Out of all the possible combinations, LSU/Bama is the ratings giant that ESPN will want annually, which leaves UF/OU as the odd pairing. On the bright side. While Florida will play LSU/Tenn/UK less regularly, they will now play Auburn/Ole Miss/Bama with more frequency and that doesn’t seem like a horrible trade from where I’m sitting. UGA, SC, LSU, Tenn, UK, Vandy, Mizzou every year becomes UGA, SC, Bama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Arkansas, aggy and that’s without throwing TX/OU I to the mix. -
New SEC divisions and pods thread (Page 38 starts recent discussion)
TKthunder2 replied to mdmost's topic in Football
Do you not know how they made the schedule? They took the last 10 year’s conference records for all schools. The top 8 in order were (going off memory here because too lazy to look up) were Bama, UGA, OU, LSU, Florida, Texas, aggy, Auburn. They set it up so everyone in the top 8 played 2 other top 8 teams annually, and 1 from the bottom 8 (again from memory) were Mizzou, Ole Miss, Miss St, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Vandy. The bottom 8 did the reverse, 2 from the bottom 8 and 1 from the top. Giving Alabama MSU over LSU means they don’t play any team in the top 7 of the league annually (Auburn was #8 barely beating out Mizzou). Tennessee has been down and Bama as a result has had a weaker schedule for over a decade. Allowing them to annually duck LSU (which is likely the MOST valuable game for the SEC over the last decade) would be a bitch move and they shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it. You want to dump Tennessee then fine but that LSU game shouldn’t be negotiable. It would be a relatively easy switch. Drop Tenn, pick up MSU, aggy (who loses MSU) gets SC, and Florida (who loses SC) get Tenn. EZPZ And if anyone bitches about SOS reminder that Auburn has and will play #1 AND #2 every year. Saban is a scared little bitch and deserves to be called out as such. -
New SEC divisions and pods thread (Page 38 starts recent discussion)
TKthunder2 replied to mdmost's topic in Football
While I agree with your sentiment, a couple of things: 1) The schedule will be voted on without Texas. Doesn’t mean we can’t have input, but we will not have a vote. That may mean that we get the shit end of the stick during this flex year in a temporary schedule. While they will want big SEC opponents for Texas, nothing really requires that they be played at DKR. 2) Disney/ESPN can pick the game times but not the dates or opponents and they do not have a vote. The schedule is the SEC’s prerogative. They can ask for input from their TV partners but they can also just do what they feel is best. Typically they announce who plays who and then consult TV for the best dates to make sure they spread out their most attractive matchups. 3) That being said, we will get 4 SEC home games next year. Since we play AT Michigan (which was supposed to be a home game we swapped to get us into the conference early) they will have to give us at least one attractive matchup on our home schedule for ticket sales. UF or UGA are the best bets. UF has been to aggy and UGA hasn’t so that’s where I’d lean towards (though I think when I looked logically at the full schedule previously UF made the most sense). But pig, 2 weaker teams (SC/MSU), and a big name team (UGA) is likely what we’ll see at home in 24, while we play aggy, LSU, and a weaker team (like UK) away. -
My kids prefer these over the original ones. They are a little thicker than frosted mini wheats.
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and the 2nd coolest live mascot
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New SEC divisions and pods thread (Page 38 starts recent discussion)
TKthunder2 replied to mdmost's topic in Football
My guess 2024 Texas: vs Oklahoma (Texas is the away team) at aggy, at LSU, at South Carolina Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Mississippi St at DKR 2024 Oklahoma: at Alabama, at Ole Miss, at Tennessee, at Vandy Mizzou, Georgia, Kentucky at Gaylord vs Texas (Oklahoma is the home team) Because we’ll have an off balanced schedule with the Cotton Bowl, OU in home team in even years so they’ll only get 3 SEC home games while we get 4. We owed LSU a return game, aggy/pig are likely our 9 game rivals so we play them. Just played at Arkansas so we get them at home, aggy is whiny bitch so that’s away, and we literally just played Alabama, and also faced Ole Miss semi recently so they’ll give them to OU. Oklahoma had at 2023 home game with Georgia and a 2024 game at Tennessee cancelled so they’ll play those. They’ve also played aggy and Auburn more recently (in bowls) so those are Texas games and likely will be a rival with Mizzou and so they get them too. That leaves Texas with Florida as the last top 8 opponent not assigned, Mississippi State (since OU got Ole Miss) and South Carolina since our schedule looks far weaker so OU gets Vandy/Kentucky. Texas plays at Michigan (which we moved to facilitate this early release) and Oklahoma only has Tulane/Temple currently scheduled as out of conference so their logic to this balance. -
Religious so they had to hit on every other applicable category.
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https://247sports.com/Article/Big-12-expansion-eyes-Memphis-substantive-talks-with-Colorado-per-reports-210957842/Amp/ Memphis?
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Shitshow lol. But I guess this is a way to stick it to UCLA (even if it hits Berkeley too).
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Texas/Bama pulled 11 million viewers last year, UGA/UF pulled 6. I think hurtlocker is right that it likely had more to do with getting Big Ten games to fit into their available slots while keeping their SEC requirements for this last year. Either way it’s the last year so I’ve probably spent too much times thinking about this already lol.
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ASU and USF wow good for them, but Georgia still didn’t make the cut…Miami just got more attractive to the Big Ten.
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Not trying to confuse, and I’m not going to pretend to be an expert on the SEC’s CBS deal but historically they don’t typically broadcast non conference games. Maybe you can find a specific example but I think that is likely an exception outside of the norm. I trust @Hurtlocker take, but my point was, simply by looking at the first three weeks of this season, the CBS Tier One deal is handicapping the SEC’s numbers. I do see last year they broadcasted Penn State at Auburn in week 3, and going back 5 years I’m only seeing Tenn/WVU at Charlotte as the only other OOC game (which was neutral site outside of their TV deal) so there must be the PGA or something blocking them from week 1/2 games otherwise I would assume Texas at Alabama in week 2 would be on CBS. Either way my point is basically that, while partnered up with CBS, the SEC’s first 3 weeks skew lower, but they should change once fully in ESPN.
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The Big Ten’s deal starts this year so they already lost those ESPN numbers. Other than the SEC’s 230 spot on CBS starting week 3 (they only have partial CBS distribution this year), the Big Ten already has all its OTA options included in that number. It will go up but not significantly. Big 12 will lose some but they’ll still have that FOX showcase and an ESPN late night spot if they add some P12 teams.
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Which out of conference game is airing on CBS? The first CBS game of the year is week 3, South Carolina at Georgia. CBS does not broadcast any OOC games week 1 or 2. https://fbschedules.com/sec-football-schedule/
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For who? For Tier One: I think the Big Ten and SEC’s will increase. SEC is slightly handicapped as non conference home games aren’t eligible for OTA due to their CBS deal. Once that expires that should go up and the Big Ten will likely just add another with USC joining. The PAC will go down if they don’t get a deal obviously. I think the ACC’s will increase and the Big 12 w/o UT/OU will decrease some but not a ton, but might stay the same if they add P12 schools.
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These are the funniest videos ever to hit the interwebs. You guys clearly just have bad taste.
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Flight disrupting assholes Thread of Shame.
TKthunder2 replied to crash_davis's topic in Daily Texan
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Ted goes homes, Beard quits to travel/be with Jade or some shit, Roy takes over as head coach and settles with Kelee, Nate is the new head assistant, Rebecca adopts a kid somehow and gets with Sam, Trent write a NYT best seller, and Rupert gets tied up in some #metoo shit…
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New SEC divisions and pods thread (Page 38 starts recent discussion)
TKthunder2 replied to mdmost's topic in Football
UT+OU=8 additional conference games (staying at 8 games) Going to 9 games means the 16 teams would play each other 1 more time=8 additional conference games. 8+8=16 -
This is an easy solution. Step 1: Buy more overpriced hotels Step 2: Let them sit vacant for years Step 3: Pay me my consultants fees to find out Step 3 Step 4: Homelessness solved
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New SEC divisions and pods thread (Page 38 starts recent discussion)
TKthunder2 replied to mdmost's topic in Football
Remember when the top 4 CFP rankings were Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Alabama, Auburn? That’s the most annoying thing, living outside of the SEC’s sphere over the last decade. Alabama/LSU and other generally deserved their rankings, Mississippi State/Kentucky and their ilk did not and got the benefit of the doubt far too often. It sets up big time games which inflates rankings and audiences. Which just continually perpetuates the feedback loop where it’s a good loss or a great win. The media (ESPN) echos this constantly, which leads to better rankings and eventually recruiting. We’ve been making this argument for years…but fuck it, if you can’t beat’em… -
New SEC divisions and pods thread (Page 38 starts recent discussion)
TKthunder2 replied to mdmost's topic in Football
I agree, there was absolutely no reason Kentucky should have been ranked as high as 7th in the nation last year after beating (checks notes) Miami of Ohio, Youngstown State, Northern Illinois, and an absurdly overrated Florida team. But they were: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll?week=5 -
New SEC divisions and pods thread (Page 38 starts recent discussion)
TKthunder2 replied to mdmost's topic in Football
Why does this matter? Is recently top 10 ranked Kentucky football program that big of a bitch they can’t play a single P5 school each year? For fuck’s sake dump Louisville and schedule Illinois, Indiana, Wake Forest, Duke, Rutgers, Kansas, and Arizona. UK with SEC money out the ass, is playing games AT Toledo and AT Akron…they should be ridiculed to no end. 2023 09/02 - Ball State 09/09 - Eastern Kentucky 09/16 - Akron 11/25 - at Louisville 2024 08/31 - at Akron 09/21 - Ohio 11/16 - Murray State 11/30 - Louisville 2025 08/30 - Toledo 09/13 - Eastern Michigan 11/15 - Tennessee Tech 11/29 - at Louisville 2026 09/05 - Akron 09/19 - Youngstown State 09/26 - South Alabama 11/28 - Louisville 2027 09/04 - Toledo 09/18 - Murray State 09/25 - Ball State 11/27 - at Louisville 2028 09/02 - at Toledo 09/09 - Kent State 09/30 - Eastern Illinois 11/25 - Louisville 2029 09/01 - Georgia Southern 11/24 - at Louisville
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