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  1. 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

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  2. 5 hours ago, RoyalBevo21 said:

    Agreed, and you can see there is some imbalance of power. Some of those divisions are weaker than the others, specifically the mountain and the Northeast.

    I also left off Vanderbilt and wanted to leave of Wake Forest. 

    What leads you to believe Houston is 100% going to be included with the big dogs when all is said and done? If the schools all put their media rights in collective pot and split it 64 or in my model 70 ways there would probably already be too much overlap in the state of Texas as it is let alone adding another school that's only relevant once every 10 years or so. 

    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. 

  3. 3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    And, whatever you want to say about "Crystal Conte," the near-complete radio silence out of Austin is something to behold.

    so is the pinball machine scene in The Accused, but it's not supposed to give you an erection

  4. 1 hour ago, Glabhander said:

    I guess Chris Baldwin is just a doofus who is arguing that a 13-0 BigTen champ got "the benefit of the doubt" in 2019 by being included in the playoff.

    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". 

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  5. 27 minutes ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

    @immamac just had inspiration.  Urban Meyer is 10 letters.  So we need 10 pics of posters each wearing one of the letters.

    there are only seven posters here who anyone would want to look at

    four if you take away the point and laugh aspect

  6. 16 hours ago, RoyalBevo21 said:

    Mountain
    Baylor
    Boise St
    BYU
    Colorado
    Colorado St
    Iowa St
    TCU
    Utah
    UNLV
    Wyoming

    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. 

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  7. 16 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

    Ohio State gets the benefit of the doubt when it blows out an inferior opponent in the Big Ten title game (see 2019).

    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. 

  8. 1 minute ago, FloridaBig12Fan said:

    Now, but it was less so for nearly the entirety of the Big 8. 
     

    If purely based on last century regionalism, Missouri, Arkansas, Nebraska, A&M and CU should all be in the Big 12. Sorry Baylor. That set of 12 then listens to Weinberg and is the first to start pool rights into a network, then going on the attack to add the ACC programs of choice in the mid-2000’s. Removing ACC sweetheart deals, and more desirable conference mates, maybe we even snag ND around 2020.

    Instead Arky, then Missouri are sucking hind tit in the SEC. Soon to be joined by Nebraska in the Big 10. CU is enjoying being surrounded by equitable disinterest in college athletics. 

    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. 

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  9. 4 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

    Mizzou had a hard on for the SEC, like aggy did.  Colorado had to be in the PAC, they want to be associated with them.

    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. 

  10. 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. 

  11. 39 minutes ago, kegman said:

    That team had some badass LBs. Hardy, Howard and Rice.

    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. 

  12. 5 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    Wow, Major has to have the most forgiving wife in college football and that's saying something.  She puts up with all this and now has to follow him to South Alabama? 

    he just told her "honey we're going back to Alabama!"

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  13. On 12/17/2020 at 10:40 PM, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    When the wife or daughter eat a bowl of cereal at night and the next morning there is a bowl with dried milk in it on the counter.

     

    Or worse, sitting on the lamp stand next to the chair in front of the TV.

    that's not milk

  14. 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...

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    ...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. 

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