SwanderedTalent

that would be a pretty Aggie way of getting "even" YOU GOTTA MOVE THE GAME TWENTY FIVE MILES AWAY FROM YOUR HOME STADIUM what is the fucking point

the problem there is that you would have to force some conferences to kick some teams out, and others to take teams in there's no mechanism to do that-- I don't see how you can force the Big Ten to abandon Maryland and Rutgers, or force any schools into the Big 12 if they don't want to be there, or force the Big 12 to take new members it doesn't want

Hey, you're not in any way wrong. You are (most unfortunately for you) better-versed in all things Albom than I am. I very well may be extending him too much benefit of the doubt, he might be trying to sway public opinion in favor of Bo or against Matt Schembechler etc etc-- I don't know, and I'm not that interested in him that I'm actually willing to read his dreck. He's not a deep thinker, he's someone who emotes about deep thoughts, so maybe you're right.

are they really playing Colorado in fucking Denver (meaning the Broncos stadium)? is it not at Folsom in Boulder?

Again, I'm not going to defend Mitch Albom's insipid ass. But. His point might be, who cares about Bo Schembechler's legacy...? Like Juicy says and like I'm sure the vast majority of Michigan fans feel, take Schembechler's name off everything and bury it in a slag pit near Detroit but (to your point) the story here is the deviant criminal and the people who enabled institutional cover-up. So it's kind of both-- Anderson's the villain, we all get that; anyone who had the slightest inkling there was a predator near the sports programs should be disassociated with the program including Saint Bo. Where we start saying "who the fucks cares about that?" is hand-wringing about "all the good Bo did"-- that legacy isn't relevant when the crimes are this serious. As in, I don't care if the football team's trains ran on time, the team doctor was still experimenting on unwilling patients. I too am guilty of not reading Albom but that's a twenty year trend I don't feel like breaking. Michigan gave the Fab Five, what, twenty-five years of disassociation because they took a bunch of money? Reggie Bush had to give back a Heisman because he had his rent paid. What does this get Bo, then?

Disney+, man I can't wait to pirate this

yeah girl should be in quotes there, Sarge

yeah, the first time I heard of her undying allegiance to Trump, I immediately thought of the "I've got a crush on Obama" girl. which might be a little bit sexist! OOPS

there is nothing I can do that's so trivial that my wife won't express a way it could be done differently, whether it's the way the spoons are put in the dishwasher or which pouch in our daughter's back pack her snack goes in

I think being a huge supporter of any candidate from either of the two giant corporate political parties is boring as fuck.

and 2-1 against Ohio State, .667 > .600

Damnit, CDC, why did you even give them that excuse? I doubt their dumbasses thought of it, until now.

OK, but that's pretty specific. Ohio State has won a playoff championship and beaten both Alabama and Clemson in the post-season. OU goes to the playoff every few years and gets blasted out of the stadium in the first round. If Ohio State gets in in your scenario, I would expect that had as much to do with Ohio State just getting the benefit of the doubt as a program.

I don't want to imagine that. Imagine Texas going 12-0 and beating Oklahoma 69-0, how about that. And then Oklahoma drops football to concentrate on academics.

I'm confused, I thought circa 2014 A&M's facilities had surpassed the best of the best in all of college football, which was why (along with Kevin Sumlin's revolutionary fun and high scoring "Plug and Play" offense) they Ran This State. It's barely seven years later, and they're having to make more upgrades? You can't future-proof your facilities on a permanent basis but if you're having to make wholesale changes in less than a decade, my guess is that your original changes are not, in fact, as ZOMG REBOLUTIONARY as you are claiming.

how so? can you explain? I am likewise not an Albom fan-- that column was the first thing of his I'd read or listened to since probably the Sports Reporters circa 2003-- but that to me seemed like a fair piece expressing and exploring the confusion created by the clearly credible allegations. We don't have to only have one emotional response. Anger and disgust may be primary but there's room for disbelief and confusion too.

Well, Pete, here's your homework assignment. Find me a season since 1992 in which a league's top-ranked team lost to an 8-4 in their CCG and then wasn't among the top six teams that didn't win their conference, and you'll have your answer. Could an upset get two teams in? Uh, yes, no fucking shit Sherlock. How is that even a question? Did upsets in the CCG allow two teams into the BCS?

Brandstatter doesn't seem to have a fucking clue what "wokeness" is. But saying something is just part of wokeness or cancel culture is certainly a quick way to imply it's without merit.

spell it however you want, but leave me out of it

but being an Aggie means you brag about being a legacy at the school!

Jeremiah was a killfrog ah I got nothing

I think ten teams and a nine-game round-robin w no CCG is the better way of doing it, but I do have a sentimental soft spot for meaningful CCGs (example, 2009 SEC). The problem with your suggestion is that there are flat-out zero attractive and available teams to add to the Big 12. Zero. If the school is available it's not attractive, if it's attractive it's not available. The Realignment Thread Conundrum, if you will, without which that thread would not still be spinning.