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  1. 56 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

    Pretty sure Chad has worked with Ketch on the radio before, just not sure when or where

    104.9, many years ago. 

    It was an afternoon drivetime show, "Afternoons with Geoff & Chad", IIRC.

    So now both of them have been fired by 104.9, as Geoff said today.

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  2. 4 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

    i guess i don't get the hate but I've been listening to him for two decades now. he's got his bits and he's stuck with them maybe too long but he's a solid radio host. 

    the horn's problem is guardrails. stay (mostly) on topic and the content takes care of itself. but they never have and i'm not sure why. 

     

    Guardrails was what always annoyed me about The Ticket 1310AM and The Fan KRLD-FM 105.3FM in Dallas (talking about anything but sports) -- they are even worse than The Horn was. 

  3. 16 hours ago, Nightfly said:

    I’ll check it out for sure. BK making moves. An audio-only live feed would help. 

    There are free Android apps that will play youtube audio-only that bypass the youtube preroll ads and VOD ads, and yes, they even play *live* youtube feeds.

    If you have an iPhone, you'd have to pay either way, either for yt-premium or pay for an app that does the same things.

  4. 20 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

    For the ones here who apparently believe that watching streams found on aggregators like sportsurge is illegal... no, it's not illegal for you to watch them - it's illegal for the streamers to do what they do, and it's arguable whether sportsurge et al are breaking any laws linking to them. 

    Truly, it's aggravating to have the streams stumbling, lagging, getting shut down in mid-play. But, hey, mejor que nada, no?

    How can such streams be illegal if the country that hosts the site doesn't have any Internet laws, or better yet, doesn't recognize/doesn't enforce USA copyright laws?

  5. 13 minutes ago, Jasper_Jester said:

    every bar I go to now, when I ask them to change the channel to the Longhorns game, it is very clear they are using a streaming service and not cable or satellite based on the interface I see. But, I live in California, so maybe we are just early adopters. If they are streaming, they have the Apple TV app.

    Oh, I forgot! Silly me!

    Aren't the barstaff in sports bars all MENSA MIT graduate students working on 6 Ph.D.'s each? 

    What? They aren't?  Well, Tarnation!  (/Sarcasm)

    Lulz.

  6. 17 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

    Yeah able to get it still thru The Horn ApphornFM.com, also found it on myTuner radio app (search for The Horn) so I could run it thru Roku on a TV.

    Obviously if you can get the signals, 1260am and 101.9 FM (basically Williamson County and far North Austin) are still available.

    Radio signals aren't good in most of South Austin though.

     

    They also have a live Twitch stream for the local shows if you search for "HornATX" on your Twitch smartphone app.

  7. 12 minutes ago, gatormarc said:

    Not sure that that number has changed. 

    WaPo article this morning:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/07/31/college-football-greed-ambition/

    So all of the realignment that's happened the last 40 or so years, all caused by Texas and Oklahoma going to the SEC.

    Too small.

    All realignment, all wars, all suffering, etc., in THE HISTORY OF EARTH can solely be blamed on TEXAS!  (/Sarcasm!)   Lulz.

    The Delusional Hatred is astonishingly real.   

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  8. On 7/28/2023 at 9:03 AM, Eastwood said:

    I have an 18, not a 22, and am trying to make it out to Tuscaloosa. It needs a new bottom grate. It works, but will drop some lump charcoal to the bottom. The meat grates are in good shape. I’ve done a brisket and a butt at the same time on it, but a 12# brisket is a tight fit

    TWSS 

    Lulz.

  9. 2 hours ago, DanTheHorn said:

    Yea I made the post in the context of responding to someone saying Cincy and UCF were not worth it. Those of us that witnessed Colorado being competitive in the BIG12 knew it was their ability to recruit Texas. Didn't they also do prop 48 like Nebraska before the BIG12?

    If you ask Colorado fans on Twitter they all are thrilled with the prospect of getting more Texas recruits again, just like the first time around in The Dirty Dozen. Lulz.

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    Mandel: Colorado rejoining Big 12 would be a product of Pac-12 negligence
      By Stewart Mandel - The Athletic
    6h ago
     
    In 2010, Colorado opted to flee the Big 12 for what was then the Pac-10 amid fears that Texas, Texas A&M and Oklahoma were about to leave for other leagues and decimate the Buffs’ conference. Which they eventually did.
    Thirteen years later, Colorado’s board is expected to vote Thursday to rejoin the Big 12.


    Think about just how many things the Pac-12 had to get wrong over those 13 years to arrive at this precarious moment where it may soon be down to just nine members. Think about the fact that just two summers ago, after powers Oklahoma and Texas bolted the Big 12, new commissioner George Kliavkoff and his league presidents felt no need to grab a TCU or Houston when either would have come crawling in a nanosecond.
    Former commissioner Larry Scott may have set the Pac-12’s tumble in motion with his combo of arrogance and aloofness, but Kliavkoff, his successor, has now rolled the boulder right up to the edge of the cliff with a unique cocktail of naivete and negligence.
    It’s admittedly debatable whether Kliavkoff could have done anything to prevent USC and UCLA from leaving for the much-richer Big Ten. Some folks within the league say the warning signs were there that its golden ticket, USC, was getting antsy. Others say the L.A. schools’ defections last year came as a complete shock.
    But Colorado? … He really can’t keep Colorado?
    How demoralizing must it be for a school that’s gone 27-76 in conference play to have the leverage to singlehandedly destabilize your league. How much more time could he have possibly needed to prepare for the possibility than, oh, the last 13 months?
    At no point since June 30, 2022, would any of the Four Corners schools — Colorado, Utah, Arizona and Arizona State — leaving be considered a shock. And yet, it does genuinely appear that Kliavkoff — the same guy who once formed an “Alliance” with the ACC and Big Ten based on “an agreement between three gentlemen” — did not see this one coming. Had he even a hint Colorado might leave this week, he probably would not have said or done any of the following at his conference’s football media day last Friday:
    • When asked whether it was a “major concern” that the Big 12 may poach his schools, he called it “not a concern,” said that realignment “will come to an end for this cycle” and that “the truth is, we have bigger fish to fry.”
    • On the topic of his league’s interminable media rights negotiations, he said the longer the league has waited, the better their options have become, and that presidents’ and chancellors’ “commitment and patience will be rewarded with an announcement in the near future.”
    • And when the league hosted a lunch-hour roundtable to discuss College Football Playoff expansion, one of the invited panelists was none other than Colorado AD Rick George, a former committee member.


    In hindsight, the first sign something might be amiss came when George rushed off stage afterward and purposefully dodged a group of reporters — at media day.
    As realignment sagas go, this one is uniquely bizarre. In a vacuum, losing Colorado would seem entirely insignificant to the conference. The program is now three decades removed from its Eric Bieniemy/Kordell Stewart/Rashaan Salaam glory days and last played in a major bowl game in 2001. While CU performs better TV-wise than one might expect — fifth-best among the non-L.A. Pac-12 schools from 2015-21 — it would not be considered “additive” if the league were starting from scratch today. Unless potential TV partners were willing to gamble hundreds of millions on Coach Prime becoming the Buffs’ savior.
    And yet, because of its own continued ineptitude, CU leaving is a huuuuuge deal for the Pac-12.
    For one thing, it makes the conference look even weaker than it already does. Since taking over the Big 12 a little over a year ago, commissioner Brett Yormark has outmaneuvered his Pac-12 counterpart at every turn. He landed an extension with ESPN and Fox a year earlier than expected, making the Pac-12’s negotiations more difficult. He’s spent a full year courting the Four Corners schools and is ultimately set to reel in Colorado in part because he’d locked in assurances from ESPN and Fox that any Pac-12 additions would receive the same $31.7 million-per-year share as his current members come 2025. Whereas Kliavkoff has yet to deliver his own members assurance of any TV numbers of any kind beyond this coming year.
    But of course, the much, much bigger deal will be if Colorado’s departure becomes the domino that causes other Pac-12 schools to leave.
    For weeks, administrators across the conference have expressed confidence both that Kliavkoff will land the plane on the TV deal, and that Colorado was the only school still intrigued by the Big 12. If there are in fact new bidders that came to the negotiating table recently, as Oregon AD Rob Mullens and others said last week, and if it results in a deal with a similar dollar figure to the Big 12’s, the Pac-12 could ostensibly just swap in San Diego State for Colorado and be done with the thing.
    But even that would not play out cleanly. The Pac-12’s inability to nail down its deal sooner has all but assured the Aztecs won’t be able to join before 2025, lest they have to pay the Mountain West double their exit fee. Plus, as of media day on Friday, there were at least two schools still opposed to expansion, per two league sources. One would think they’ll reconsider that stance now, though this being the Pac-12, never gamble on it acting rationally.


    Colorado officials may provide a more complete picture in the coming days as to their rationale — one that likely includes Deion Sanders’ desire to recruit Texas — but this much is obvious: CU ran out of patience with the Pac-12.
    Last Friday, its commissioner said, “Getting the right deal has always been more important to our board and to the conference than getting the expeditious one.” At least one school disagreed, and if even one more follows, the conference may cease to exist.


    Surely Kliavkoff must be aware of that possibility.

     

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  11. 13 minutes ago, Hurtlocker said:

    Heard McMurphy, Scheer, and another on talk radio today and they've all kind of clarified something that we've wondered.   It seems the way the Pac's contract is written, there is no buyout if they leave by next summer.    There is also no "one year notice" as long as its by 8/1/24, per their contract.  

    Colorado must have been given a deadline by the B12 of August.

    Where'd you hear it? They must podcast everything.

  12. 5 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    I never understand the aspect of this thread when actual news and stuff is happening people still want to post future speculation. Just post the now and what's happening currently....you'll have another year or years to go into speculation on the future of conferences.

    People want to get their stream-of-consciousness thoughts out there -- or else they may forget it over the course of a year. Lulz.

  13. 1 hour ago, LTtxfan said:

    It's live on NBC if you have antenna set up and local stations close enough.

    "THE OPEN" website has coverage too...

    This happened in the middle of a dispute AT&T is having with the carriage of KXAN/NBC (AT&T turned off KXAN/NBC for Austin-area users), so the only alternatives are streams elsewhere. 

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