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Richard Kimball

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  1. He is. Not an evil guy, but one of those, "what color is the sky in your world" types. In 2021, when Baylor was wrecking shop, I just figured he'd found a way to communicate with players that I didn't get. Berenstain Bears references, came off as a bald Mr. Rogers without the sweater. The last game where they showed any fire was 2022 TCU. After they lost that game on a walk off field goal, they mailed in the rest of the season. I started getting in trouble with, not so much my publisher, but our readers, cause I said Baylor was going to be bad this year. When others were picking eight wins, I said the Bears would be fortunate to get to a bowl game. On a podcast, my publisher asked why I picked that (not aggressively, just out of curiosity) and I said they finished the season on a four game losing streak and nobody could name one position where they'd gotten better. Aranda doesn't run the program. The program runs around him. After Saturday, it won't make a shit to anyone on this site, but Mack Rhoades is also starting to feel the heat. Aranda's going to have to go, it's just when.
  2. Autocorrect knows what it's doing. Leave autocorrect alone.
  3. It's a whole differnt level of dumb to get mixed up with someone who's made a career like she has, but my God, he had a picture taken with him pointing at her boobs.
  4. I wanted to wait until the game was over, so I wouldn't jinx it. We didn't fold in the second half, and got better as the game went on. I did the cheering, but it's a calm feeling of relief, also. We played like Longhorns tonight, and kicked Bama's ass AT BAMA.
  5. Nothing is over until @GreenspointTexas says it is. I am so happy at this moment. Please, Horns, close these fuckers out.
  6. I'm not predicting a score, but we'd better beat those motherfuckers. Sick of hearing about Bama.
  7. I was offered a renewal of my contract to cover Baylor when it expired in June, and I declined. The subscribers were getting irritated with me, anyway, cause I kept saying Baylor was going to be bad this year. Until Aranda goes, they may be the new Kansas. He's a nice guy, but he doesn't run the program. The program runs around him. Thank God I won't have to cover this presser.
  8. Call him anything you want, but he just made about 80% of all the college football coaches shit a brick.
  9. Why is that motherfucker wearing two watches?
  10. These two posts are indications that the money train is going to run out soon. Dr. Pimple Popper on TLC gets over a million viewers. Just rounding around and doing loose math, but a conference getting a 30 million per team payout means the networks are paying over 5 million per game, and that doesn't include their production costs. Looking through last year's college football ratings, the worst one I saw was Rutgers vs Maryland on the BTN, with 97K viewers. Pretty sure a Shamwow commercial could pull that. On the whole, though, over half the college games can't beat Dr Pimple Popper, which I didn't even know existed until I looked up the ratings. Sporting events only have value for a one time broadcast. There's no rerun value. Reality TV programs cost between $100,000 and $500,000 per episode, and can be rerun multiple times. Old sitcoms can go on forever, like the Munsters, Bewitched, Gilligan's Island. Will networks continue to pay this much money for a game, when for one tenth the price they could produce a show like, "Fat Girls Trying to Climb Ladders" and get just as many viewers?
  11. Why not do a spring game against a team about your level? Scrimmage after March Madness ends. That's a pretty dead time, and you could scrimmage against a really good team without hurting yourself in the standings. Texas vs Notre Dame or Clemson vs Oklahoma would get good ratings.
  12. Conferences aren't conferences as we used to think of them. They're negotiating agents for a collection of teams for media contracts. Nothing matters except what makes the most money. Right now, it's working great for my alma mater, Texas, cause we got Arkansas, OU and LSU. I know LSU isn't a historical rival, but those should be awesome games. aggy's back, but I was happy to have scoreboard on those bastards and never have to see them again. We'll also have to play fukkin Mizzery every so often. As for the money, none of it's going in my pocket, so "yay." I just want to see some good games. What I don't get, to some extent, is why schools that don't want to make the athletic investment and can't go big time try to keep up. About forty schools can make money, and schools like Washington State and Cal have mortgaged their futures trying to keep up. I cover a 2A school in high school. They play 2A against other 2A schools. They don't run around wanting to play 6A schools. Why (other than money and fuck the players) do schools like Vanderbilt want to go out on the field and see their players get a mud hole stomped in them by Alabama's second string? The quest for money will eventually lead to what the ASU president was talking about with apps, but he didn't tell the whole story. Make a gambling app where you watch the game and make micro bets for the whole game. Make an account, put your credit card in. Ten bucks charged to you on the game. Use that ten bucks during the game to bet on whether he makes the field goal or goes for it on fourth. Point spread at the end of 1st, 2nd, 3rd quarter. Bet on the point spread. Your card is on file, and they keep a tally on how much you bet.
  13. That's one of the reasons these negotiations go until the last minute. Oregon and Washington will be getting about what they would have gotten joining the B12 during the first contract. Pretty sure they were holding out for a higher share, and kept waiting for B1G to blink. B1G didn't blink, so when they had the meeting to sign the PAC grant of rights, Oregon and Washington folded. BTW, @bullet thanks for posting those attendance numbers.
  14. https://www.si.com/college/stanford/football/ranking-pac-12-teams-by-average-attendance-in-2022#gid=ci02b8bac4200125d6&pid=12-washington-state Attendance stats for the PAC from 2022 show that B1G is getting the top three, (USC, Washington, Quack) B12 should be taking the next four, (Colorado, Arizona, the Arizona State fighting crows, and the Utah Youts) then B1G gets UCLA. Of the last four who don't have landing spots, Cal is the only one that drew over 30,000 per game. Of the top 25 teams in home attendance, Florida State, Clemson, Notre Dame and Virginia Tech are the only ones that aren't in either the SEC or B1G, or are committed to them for the future, and Clemson is the highest non SEC/B!G at #14. https://badgerswire.usatoday.com/lists/top-25-college-football-teams-in-home-attendance-for-2022-season/ Shows a clear demarcation. ACC is top heavy, but they're going to die on the vine if they don't figure out a way to get out of the contract. UCF being better funded than FSU drove them crazy.
  15. There's a lot of playing poker, playing chicken, seeing who will blink going on. There are three factions: Some of us: Others of us: Then, there's Arizona State and Utah
  16. Common board of regents with ASU, and ASU president Crow is pushing hard to stay in PAC. BOR has to approve Arizona departure, and they want Arizona and ASU in the same conference.
  17. You never know what you're willing to do until there's a gun to your head.
  18. The PACACC pitch doesn't make sense to me. ESPN won't bid on the PAC schools, and the ACC is locked in, although unhappily. Why would the networks pay more to the ACC to add PAC teams they've already passed on?
  19. Especially for UCLA. Dammit. I didn't want to say that. Why did you feed me a straight line?
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