Jump to content

Richard Kimball

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    994
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Richard Kimball

  1. You said Stanford twice. I like Stanford.
  2. PAC is out of options. If the college presidents turn down the Apple deal, where do they go? Disney is in a world of hurt right now, and they may have trouble meeting the payment requirements for their existing contracts. Their subsidiary, ESPN, was the entity driving the higher prices for the sports package agreements. With them out of the picture, FOX, Apple, Amazon, etc., are NOT going to care about what the PAC wants. They're not going to bid up a price against air, and nobody else is bidding. My opinion is that FOX and Comcast sprang a trap on Disney. Rupert Murdoch had a garage sale on all the stuff FOX didn't want anymore. He knew Iger bought everything in sight, and Comcast bid up the price until Disney paid an astounding $71 billion for the properties. This cash strapped Disney. Now, Comcast is, through an old contract, forcing Disney to buy out the rest of Hulu, so the mouse is going to have to come up with billions of dollars that they don't have, and interest rates are the highest they've been in over twenty years. They don't have the money, and I'm not sure they can get the money. That's why Iger has been talking about selling ABC and getting "strategic partners" for ESPN. What he means is he needs the money fairy to bail them out. He wants someone to give them a cash infusion while letting Disney continue to have controlling interest. That ain't happening. The only organizations with that kind of money aren't going to be passive partners. They're going to want the steering wheel. Iger has always spent money like a frat boy in a whore house with his daddy's credit card. With him out of the game, prices are going to drop. The remaining schools can sign off on Apple, look for another conference landing spot, or enter the 2024 season with no media contract.
  3. Yormark to AZ prez Robbins: "You come here on the day of my daughter's wedding, and ask me to kill a conference for you..."
  4. Schools won't jump until they see the final numbers. If you never show them the final numbers, they can't ever jump.
  5. When the SWC broke up, Rice decided they weren't going to emphasize athletics (not that they ever did, that much.) They're an academic institution, and are okay with annual conference payouts of $5 to $8 million. The Ivy League doesn't give out any athletic scholarships. Some of the PAC schools have to make a decision. If they are too academically prestigious to deal with a "Truck Stop" conference, that's cool. They can't expect to get the benefits (money) of being in a conference that emphasizes football when they think they're too cool to associate with schools that do emphasize it. My breakdown right now: Oregon wants their football, but the only reason the administration gives a shit about athletics is because of the Phil Knight money. Washington. The administration doesn't give a shit about football, but wants the reputation of being a football school. Stanford doesn't give a shit about football and with their endowment, not sweating the money. Cal doesn't give a shit about football, but really wants the money. Washington State and Oregon State are remoras looking for a bigger fish to latch onto. Utah is like Sarah Jessica Parker. They think they're a lot hotter than they are. Arizona doesn't have delusions. They're looking out for #1. Arizona State. All I know about them is their administration seems to peg out the goofy scale.
  6. @66BUFF, that's a little different. It was a one time minor addition to honor a former coach, and they still looked like Alabama. I also think it was cool when several teams put pirate flags on their helmets to honor Mike Leach. If they wear lime green cause "IT'S AUBURN WEEK!" I'll change my opinion on them. Not that they give a shit what I think one way or the other.
  7. I know, I know, the kids love alternate uniforms... I get it if a school like Purdue or Wisconsin feels the need to go to alternate uniforms, but it's stupid for an established top tier program. Texas, Alabama and Southern California have kept their dignity, although I was worried about Texas when they put the sparkly Longhorn on the side for a while. Ohio State, Michigan, Notre Dame and Oklahoma should hang their heads in shame. Especially Oklahoma, cause their alternate cream helmet with the red stripe down the center makes them look like Nebraska. Course, they're Oklahoma, so they should hang their heads in shame, anyway.
  8. What da fuck the beavers doing in there? I mean the team, not the girls.
  9. They're going to merge the Pac & Mountain West. The new conference will be called Broke Pac Mountain.
  10. Can't believe you're making fun of those poor people. How low can you sink?
  11. NSIAP, here's Josh Pate on the Longhorn Network and the failed PAC16. He bangs on DeLoss Dodds and UT for killing the deal, but his projections about what could have happened are worth a watch.
  12. Dittos on the guys suggesting AA. You meet some good people, and you're not alone. On your girl leaving you, you dodged a bullet. Half the people on this planet have a pussy.
  13. Their superintendent got kicked out of a football game last year. He walked out to the middle of the field to argue a call on a two point attempt. Ref talked to him, told him to go to sidelines, then finally threw a flag. He kept arguing, ref threw another flag. He started shouting. Ref threw his hat, and coaches had to come out and escort him off the field. Marlin had to kick off from their own five. Marlin's a different kind of town.
  14. American Graffiti wasn't a 50s movie. The tag line was "Where were you in '62?" Both are fun movies, but American Graffiti had a more serious undertone. George Lucas did it as an homage to the world in which he grew up. It was the year before the Kennedy assassination and before the Viet Nam war, the last gasp of innocence of the post WWII baby boomers. The closing screen, showing what happened to the four main characters, showed two of them dying within a few years (I know, More American Graffiti made the Terry character a deserter, rather than a combat casualty, but that was stupid.) The characters in American Graffiti were character types, representing the average high schoolers, and the John character, who was a holdover from the fifties that feared the changes of the 1960s.
  15. I copied this from Facebook. January 1, 1949: Texas fullback Tom Landry scores on a 14 yard touchdown run to help the Longhorns defeat Georgia 41-28 in the 1949 Orange Bowl. Landry carried 17 times for 119 yards. If the name sounds familiar, yes that's the same Tom Landry who went on to become a hall of fame coach with the Dallas Cowboys. Landry was 24 years old during the 1949 Orange Bowl. His college career had been interrupted by World War II, where he served as a B-17 pilot. Landry completed a combat tour of 30 missions, and survived a crash landing in Belgium after his bomber ran out of fuel.
  16. I know she's gone now, but the correct answer is Olivia Newton-John, I changed my Siri voice to Australian female cause of her, but Siri sounds older, and I think she weighs more. Emma Watson sounds like Olivia Newton-John with a nasal infection.
  17. Not everything ages well. There's a reason Kelly McGillis wasn't asked to be in Top Gun Maverick. Kelly then and now: Seventy-five years ago, traveling all over the country was harder, and most of the football money came from the gate. It made sense that colleges should play schools within driving distance for both the teams and the fans. Travel distance was more important than the quality of the opponent. The schools were wildly different, though, and there were a lot of massacres, cause some schools emphasized athletics, others didn't care. When the real money started rolling in, some of the schools were happy to be the Washington Generals for the marquee schools. Those days are gone. The world I grew up in no longer exists. Today, the opponent is more important than the travel distance. Money alone won't buy championships, but it's no longer possible to compete at a high level without a lot of money. Some schools, because of fan base or school size can't keep up. It may suck, but that's the way it is. Texas doesn't want to play Kelly McGillis anymore. The Horns want to play Jennifer Connelly.
  18. "You said SMU twice." "I like SMU."
  19. Yeah, I used to listen to him for the entertainment value, not because he really knew anything. Found out after he died from one of the other sports bloggers that he had a chronic long term disease, and had lost a child. His life was college football, that basement and his youtube channel. Wish I'd sent the son of a bitch a helmet.
×
×
  • Create New...