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  1. Liberty would beat us by two touchdowns, only because their players play like they fucking care. Liberty is also about three years away from a massive program implosion of some kind. Maybe one part Ole Miss, two parts Baylor.
  2. Nope, they played and beat two FCS teams that year
  3. "AT&T is viewed as a sinister force by some in our society. " yeah I know I've never gotten over the long distance wars of the 80s MCI for life
  4. you gotta watch those emojis carefully, I was trying to give Herbie Hancock what I thought was a thumbs up and realized it was a middle finger. That would have been a perplexing reaction to his last post
  5. every single one of them should be Cornel West at full boil
  6. I wasn't really thinking of it in terms of P5 collective bargaining because I seriously doubt we'll ever see any such thing. The CFA only lasted what, six years before Notre Dame found out how much money it was leaving on the table and broke free. I think Houston is too attractive a property to have absolutely no chair in which to sit-- I don't think overlap within the state of Texas is as big an obstacle to the kind of collective bargaining you're talking about because I don't think it will be based on cable subscriber households anymore. Inventory in the form of attractive matchups will be more important, and I absolutely think Texas-Houston is more watchable to the average CFB fan than Texas-Kansas or Texas-South Florida, etc. That doesn't mean Texas will lift a finger to ever help UH, but I do think if we're hypothesizing about an intentional "design" for CFB, Houston is a G5 program I would expect to be able to barnacle its way into the revised landscape the same way the big directional state-school Florida schools will.
  7. so is the pinball machine scene in The Accused, but it's not supposed to give you an erection
  8. in other words, "all 2019 Ohio State did was go unbeaten and beat 5 ranked teams including three consecutive Top Ten wins by double digits to close the regular season, why couldn't they do something like lose a game by 28 points and finish 2nd in their division the way a truly deserving A&M team did this year?" this smells of someone taking the Colin Cowherd/Clay Travis angle of "just be colorful and controversial and sound like you mean it, and the clicks will come".
  9. there are only seven posters here who anyone would want to look at four if you take away the point and laugh aspect
  10. this is where your proposal falls a little short, I think. These mostly feel like leftovers that can't be appended to the teams they'd like to play, so you kind of stuck them together and called them the Mountain division. Iowa State in particular doesn't fit, and neither do Baylor or TCU. Rather than try to have a really mathematically pleasing model, we are probably better off accepting some conferences with 10 teams and some with 9 or 11, if need be. That also lets us be a little more realistic about who "gets" to play post-P5 championship football-- I see you've left Houston off entirely, and while I sympathize with any "fuck Cougar High" sentiment whether intentional or not, UH will absolutely be a part of whatever comes next for CFB.
  11. Ummmm... what problem did/does anyone have with Ohio State being in the playoff in 2019? Who on Earth would have left them out of the playoff last year? And the 2019 Big Ten CG wasn't a blowout.
  12. I like most of this, I just don't think Colorado's a fit. But if we could get those other schools (and I'd have no qualms about booting Baylor), it just makes sense regionally speaking. But then I remain convinced that Texas fans would rather play Texas schools than Indiana and Purdue every year-- like, the Texas to the Big Ten stuff is attractive until you start talking about playing a bunch of schools that you have no history with, no regional ties to, and who don't take football seriously.
  13. Yes, I like playing Colorado but they don't fit in the B12 as well as they do in the Pac-12. Missouri, though, culturally is a way better fit for the Big 12. I don't know what we could really offer them to get them to switch back.
  14. I wonder if we could realistically get Louisville and Missouri into the Big 12. Does Missouri really like being in the SEC, other than so they can say "FUCK YOU HA HA WE DON'T WANT TO PLAY YOU" to Kansas? Pitt to me is too far East, and I really think they identify with the East Coast too much to want to be in a conference with a bunch of schools in the geographic middle of the country. What makes the most sense for us is middle-of-the-country expansion. If we could get Nebraska, I'd be in favor of that but I don't see that happening. I don't think we could get anyone out of the Big Ten. There aren't a lot of attractive candidates in the state of Texas now that we have TCU-- I just don't see Houston as a value add, SMU and North Texas are total G5 programs. There also aren't any FCS programs ready to move up where they'd make sense. Boise is intriguing. Utah would have been good. I'd take BYU. All of the above is strictly me wrestling with realistic scenarios-- what I would prefer is a Big 12 without Colorado, but with A&M and Nebraska. That was this conference at its best. Or, moreover, I'd like to see a massive realignment that took the conferences down to no more than ten teams playing an internal round-robin with no CCG and the champions receiving one of eight available post-season bids. Texas' best conference would be playing OU and Arkansas and A&M every year, plus other Texas schools, and a couple of marquee games out of conference that no longer determined if we got into the playoff or not (e.g., you could play and lose to Alabama and Ohio State, but win the conference and get into the playoff). But that's not realistic.
  15. They sure did. John Holocek was really good too. Bucky Godbolt talks about how the Ohio State teams they used to beat back then had a lot more "first off the bus guys", guys that you see and you're like "ho lee fuk", and maybe that's true, but I never felt like Illinois was at that much of a talent disadvantage. They generally had better quarterbacks and they had their share of badasses on the defensive side of the ball.
  16. how can we forget it? we play in it every fucking year
  17. I still say the heart attack that got Sean Adams was really intended for Ketchum
  18. he just told her "honey we're going back to Alabama!"
  19. I hate that things have to be so binary. It seems like there could be a way to do this where both of you are banned.
  20. Ohio State three of the top 6 in 1973 and last year
  21. You cannot talk to an Aggie about anything related to UT unless you're looking for comic relief. I would never trust any Aggie anywhere at anytime to give me truthful, helpful guidance on what's best for the University of Texas. The motherfuckers have their own version of taqiya. Furthermore, Del Conte and the grown ups holding his tether like Mike Meyers' Simon on SNL... ...should be familiar enough with what Rick Perry and his sycophant(s) on the Board of Regents already tried to do to the school less than a decade ago.
  22. Mack Brown's not even seventy yet, y'all
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