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Samson's Wig

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  1. I assume you have met an aggy or two before. Imagine them, and then double the delusional attitudes and misguided sense of entitlement coming from a school with nothing particularly special going on that was not a P5 until 2011. They're like a mashup of TCU and aggy. Aside from their terrible know-nothing fanbase, the school just doesn't bring anything to the table for a major conference. The Big 12 already has that small market (3M people or so in the state) covered, and the SEC and B1G don't need or want it. Utah brings nothing to the table.
  2. Scheer is running game for Robbins, as per usual. Don't know what to think about what they're trying to do, but perhaps it's engender FOMO in OR/WA. It's certainly in their best interest that those two join the Big 12 with them rather than ASU and UU.
  3. Stupid move by Big 12 if so. If Oregon and WAshington are off the table, they should sit still with Arizona. ACC breakup will provide much better options that the net negatives of Utah and ASU.
  4. True. I still don't think B1G wants anything to do with Oregon and Washington. The paperwork would already be drawn up and done. If anything, this leak of a meeting to talk about the PNW schools is more about pressuring Notre Dame, and/or putting heat on ACC schools to figure out a way to break free.
  5. But it's not their only option.
  6. ESPN and FOX both own significant Big12 rights, and they both come out ahead with Oregon and Washington in the Big 12. With fucking Rutgers getting a full share in the B1G, I have a difficult time seeing Oregon or Washington agreeing to a reduced share, but it's possible. I just don't see the value for ESPN or FOX here. The only ones rooting for this are those who love the idea of a P2 system when it's becoming clear the networks want a P3. And while the schools can always say no to an offer, that's the extent of the say they have in all this. The one thing I hope everyone can agree on is that Utah belongs back in the cellar.
  7. For both Fox and ESPN, It is cheaper, and ultimately better for downstream revenue, for Oregon and Washington to join the Big12. They get them for less that way, and help bolster that conference into something they can package and sell for years to come. The writing is on the wall, in my opinion. PNW is not going B1G, and the PAC is already collapsed. They have one landing spot.
  8. Hell, we shouldn't even run for-profit companies the way we run for profit-companies.
  9. It is, but it's important to let them put up a pretense. Much like frats do menial community service and pretend like it's not just a drinking crew.
  10. Kind of amazing the Big 12 had that kind of draw for TCU v. KSU. Based on that sole data point, it seems like they may be okay when the dust settles. Hard not to imagine two better-known programs, even if they're not blue bloods, driving that number up significantly. e.g. Tech v. BYU or something.
  11. Blood work a couple of weeks ago shows I still have no N antibodies. I'm at the point where I wonder if I should purposefully get Covid while I'm still relatively young so it isn't such a big thing when I inevitably catch it fifteen or twenty years from now.
  12. Of course. I thought the tone and content of my post made it very clear that I know they have their fair share of dumbasses. You may have stopped reading after the part you bolded, which would certainly explain the confusion.
  13. I already have Apple TV and still won't watch the Pac.
  14. Blue sky laws used to mean something.
  15. It was definitely "well-digger's ass". Colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra would have also been accepted.
  16. As the husband of a Canadian woman, and the father of half-Canadian children, it pains me every time that I'm reminded that this fucker is also half-Canadian through his mother. An entire nation full of decent folk, but then you have this guy. But then there's Bieber. Oh, and Drake. Shit, and those Nickelback jags. I may need to rethink my position on this issue.
  17. The tech industry has always been a bit of joke, especially when it comes to the way the companies market their products or speak of their lofty intentions. This statement might be one of the more ridiculous ones I've seen. How does anyone read this bullshit and actually buy into it? An entire industry built on empty air, it's just incredible. Musk is simply the natural end result of a generation of complete and utter make-believe enterprises that magically made money anyway thanks to financiers realizing they can milk idiots and "founders" realizing that they just have to pull off the grift long enough to sell to a bigger idiot (or in more recent years take the grift large and convince the idiot public to invest directly). Now we're seeing the industry start to look a lot like it did after the first wave of bullshit investments finally caught up with reality in the nineties. Tons of layoffs are already happening, with software companies in particular finding out really quickly how fragile businesses that aren't really businesses can be. Here's hoping we finally learn our lesson and start to build companies slowly based on a solid business strategy and a notion of existing beyond a fat payday in the near future when we pawn our bullshit off on someone else and retire to the hills. A successful company requires more than a neat idea and a nerd with a penchant for circumlocution, and I sure as fuck hope we can figure this out as a society soon as these fucksticks will take us all down with them.
  18. Texas actually does a decent job, relatively speaking, of educating ESL students. We have a longer history of programs than other states, which must help. ESL by percentage. Mass: 10.2% Texas: 20.1% For 4th grade math, the top cities for ESL students in the country are in Texas (Dallas, Austin, Houston, Fort Worth) with Boston just behind in 5th. Things change a bit for 8th grade, with Dallas remaining in first, followed by Cleveland, Chicago, and Boston. For reading, Boston leads the country for grade 4 ESL students, followed by Austin. In 8th grade, Detroit of all places is in first. https://www2.ed.gov/datastory/el-outcomes/index.html#one The point is, ESL students are not why Texas sucks at education. That is one of the areas Texas actually handles better than most other states, and yet we're still miles behind overall.
  19. Yes, and most of the hot takes are as obtuse and myopic as you would expect.
  20. It's funny though, isn't it, that the conferences that either had unequal revenue sharing or argued over it significantly are falling apart while those that have been staunchly equal in their revenue for years are the two premiere conferences?
  21. Still hurts. Sorry. Kinda.
  22. Kliavkoff has effectively ended his career in the entertainment industry after the way he bungled this. No one will touch him.
  23. Like any conference not as stupid as the SWC and Big12 would do anything involving Baylor, or TCU, or Houston. Holy crap.
  24. George Kliavkoff may never be hired for another executive position again. What a fucking goob. Outside of USC, Oregon, and to a lesser degree WA and UCLA how much value is there in west coast football? Who the fuck is watching it if those four have gone to greener pastures? They'll be selling ads to local car dealers and class action attorneys . . . if they're lucky. Hard to see a deal that nets the remaining schools anything more than $10-15M a year (maybe).
  25. This. Fox and ESPN are driving the bus here, with conferences and individual schools mistakenly believing they have some kind of control. That type of thinking is why Utah and ASU will be left in the wilderness (although I think ASU, despite being a sub-pedestrian program for its entire history will eventually end up in a major conference due to their market alone). Leadership at both schools talked shit, which was foolish and will cost them, at least in the short term. Utah brings nothing to anyone's table with a state hardly bigger than New Mexico now that BYU already has that small market sewn up. Their fans have an aggy level of delusion regarding their status. It's become evident that FOX/ESPN have come around to the notion of 3 super leagues, when they seemed content with two priorly. Yormark deserves some kind of special award for pulling the Big12 from the absolute depths of despair to the position it's in now.
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