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Gaffords

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  1. Personally, I don't care what they call it. Just give me blow u in Dallas every year and I'm set. I can tell a fellow longhorn if I just say the rivalry (game), just like I can tell aggy with the same phrase. One knows it and the other, well...
  2. I don't see aggy scheduling App St again within any of our lifetimes. Their new 100 year decision.
  3. I totally agree. I just thought him going off was donut of character for him that his horns were shining bright. I can watch his shit and enjoy his content. That isn't something I can say about a couple of others who's voice annoys me so much that I can't make it 2 mins into their show before shutting it off no matter how interested I am in the title.
  4. Oops, forgot link: https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college-football-tv-ratings/
  5. I do wonder if "Going to market early" would have been a real option if the exit fees hadn't been so costly (especially on OU). How much of the 31 million per school deal based on value and not ESPN sweeteners. And yes, ESPN giving up the Michigan vs Texas game in 2024 says ESPN was sweetening the pot. Paul pegged it with we will see just how valuable the Big 12 is the next round when there is nothing to stand on but their own legs... These numbers paint a bleak picture for viewership value of the new BIG 12. Sorry BYU, you are not bringing massive numbers to the table... In fact, your viewership on national TV period is pretty weak.... Sorry Cinci, trusting Paul's numbers once again, your best year in modern times (2021) being your playoff year, you were ranked 66th in viewership that year. Houston? Even less value at 77th. UFC? If a tree falls...? I hope us and the dirt burglars both threaten to mudhole every team in front of us that the Big 12 has to rely on their refs to keep it somewhat close and it becomes so blatantly obvious that the national media has a field day with it all season long... there will be 'a few' more eyes watching this farewell tour year so those OSU type of fuckings will not go unnoticed. Especially when it becomes the weekly theme. Piss off the national crowd and watch those national viewership numbers tailspin... not to mention how that will affect the playoff committee's decision making for years to come. Who knows you might even find yourself invited back to market early... Don't fuck with the Duck
  6. I’ve never heard the “Texas wants to control everything” debate from this angle, and you may have a point. Basically, you owned up to it and admitted Texas had to be the alpha in the house because they were the sole breadwinner for so long in a huge house full of orphans they adopted. There is nothing in college football history quite like the imbalance of the old SWC. A one state plus Arkansas conference that politically forced a blue blood like Texas to prop up and subsidize virtually any Texas institution who had an alum in the legislature. Then when the imbalance got so absurd that a crash was inevitable, they merge with the Big 8 to save that conference, Nebraska couldn’t handle having to compromise on anything, and Texas got the blame. This is the first time Texas has ever been in a conference that wouldn’t collapse or have to significantly alter their identity without them. https://www.secrant.com/rant/sec-football/texas-aandms-anger-over-texas-and-oklahoma-joining-the-sec/108964709/ I think this poster wears an Alabama tag... Suck it aggy, Alabama vs Texas had 3.5 million more viewers than Alabama vs aggy. There's a reason they want us and visa versa.
  7. The best chili you will find in Ohio is at the w Waffle House
  8. I'm pretty sure this wasn't just some random stupidity from some asshat. This was an official statement from the Big 12s front office... Keep up the good work Big 12. Just one more incentive for our team to kick the living shit out of anyone standing between us and the door.
  9. This rant is even better than Bobby's.
  10. His what, 15 minute rant is well worth the watch. It covers the sentiment around here towards the Big 12 to a tee.
  11. I watch his stuff. But I've never seen him so pissed off as he's been this year at the Big 12. He's liable to throat punch the deputy commissioner if they end up in an elevator together.
  12. When the fuck did Bobby become a longhorns fan. He's going off on the big 12s deputy's comments On Texas Football's live stream right now. I've never heard him so fired up. Hands down, his best rant ever
  13. The only reason aggy isn't great is because of tu... You gotta love the Great Sip Conspiracy... I wonder what gems we would have if the internet has been around from aggy's birth. JFK? Kept aggy from not being first on the moon? aggy not part of the Manhattan project? Manhattan project not code named something aggy related (list too long to type)? I wonder if the tu conspiracy carries over to the afterlife? Saint Peter probably doesn't even argue anymore... "Yep, the Sips fucked you good here too. They bought heaven 115 years ago. It's out of my hands..."
  14. Haha... If Texas owned ESPN, aggy would still be in the Big 12.
  15. This... I don't see them getting what the Big 12 did, but even if they did, I'm curious to see if Oregon and Washington will sign a long term grant of rights... I can see them signing up to 5 years, but if I were a corner school, I'd have to do some major soul searching on whether to do this song and dance all over again in 5 years knowing that it's likely Wash/Duck are gone... "Hey there Big 12, good buddy, long time no see. I'm ready for that invite now. Mind sending it over? Who is this? Ummm, oh yeah I remember you, it took a second there... Well, about that. We've gone in a different direction from way back when. Damn, if you had called me a year or two ago, i could've helped you out. It's good to hear from you again. Sorry I can't help you out right now, but if something comes up, I'll keep you in mind. I'm kinda busy right now, so I've got to run. I'll call you one of these days when I have a little time. Bye.
  16. There's one major problem with that... Let's say a miracle happened, ESPN and Amazon or Apple woke up one morning feeling generous and decided to save the PAC. Each one buys the rights to one game a week for a staggering deal where each PAC school pockets 40 million dollars a year... Sounds good and all, but it isn't. There are two components that are equally important to the schools. Money and exposure. Then talk shows mostly go on about the money. But most reports that come out are about schools not being onboard with 95% of their content being solely in streaming services... Their own fan base doesn't care about their product as is, so how many fans in other parts of the country is going to pay for Amazon Prime or Apple just for PAC 12 football. The streaming only concern came out in the early stages of the negotiations. Things have gotten much worse since. There isn't nor has there been any negotiations in about a month between any of the parties. ESPN and Amazon put their final amount on the table and has said take it or leave it. Each one wants 1 game a week Apple isn't up bidding. FOX/CBS/NBC are all a hard pass. The only reason Universities have sports is for exposure. The list of schools who break even (or better) without handouts, is very small. So the bulk of PAC content untouched/unaired, is practically SMU's death sentence.
  17. Waiting until 2030? That is borderline retarded... Why would the corners hang around for 5-10 million less a year (assumed), knowing this is coming. And even more so, why would anyone those six decide to continue playing musical chairs knowing that around 2030, the number of chairs remaining stay the same, but the players on the field practically double... 2030 is close enough to the end of the ACC contract for those schools to become quite attractive. Washington and Oregon will have some stiff competition for a B1G invite especially after 7 years of playing in an irrelevant PAC, and some of the ACC schools probably have more appeal already than the zona schools or Colorado (or a faded Utah that's as relevant as Boise St is today. It would make more since for the Big 12 to expand East when the ACC becomes unstable, than to circle back around for the corners in 2030. At least they do watch football in the East. Yes it would leave BYU on an island still, but it isn't like they aren't used to it. In fact, they'll probably prefer it. With the PAC lacking exposure, BYU will probably end up sitting on a recruiting goldmine. I don't know. For Washington and Oregon It's a gamble either way.. jump now or take your chances in 2030... but for the other PAC schools? You aren't going to the B1G nor the SEC, and there isn't any magic fairy dust out there that's saving the PAC long term. The Big 12 already snagged the best of the G5s with any recent consistency competing with the big boys. Jump now or compete later on against VT-GT-NCST-ect... I think we all know that there's going to be 3 conferences at the end. 2 power and 1 that is made up of passed overs... There is going to be lot more players than spots, and several schools are going to be left to fend for themselves. Those who already have their seat will keep their seats until they vacate it willfully, whose left without, well... If this PAC thing hasn't taught them that there's not going to be any free handouts by the networks just because they want to swim in the deep end, then they should all burn their degrees and start flipping burgers with the rest of "us".
  18. To quote a Utah upper management guy, "Give me a break"... I'm pretty sure that Oregon and Washington know whether they have a B1G invite coming or not. The GOR will be revealing (if they get anywhere in the ballpark of the BIG 12). If they know they aren't on the B1G's A list, they are likely to both snag a BIG 12 spot the day the PACs 22 million deal breaks, leaving 2 of the corners standing there with their thumbs up their ass.. Oregon and Washington both like their football more than they do rubbing shoulders with Stanford... They will be the first to cut their losses and salvage the most they can from a bad situation.
  19. Utah isn't even the captain, but seem to be determined to go down with the ship.
  20. In don't think markets are the driving force behind realignment these days. In fact whoever it was from ESPN blatantly stated it about matchups nowadays. The numbers I've seen floating around on sports talk is games that break the 4 million viewer mark, and UNC football and basketball combined don't scratch that. If this is true, it explains why Oregon and Washington are still sitting where they are. They hardly ever get those numbers. Not even when they play each other. The two main conference networks seem to be satisfied with their footprint and are now focusing on the national audience and those sweet advertising dollars.
  21. If all male cheerleaders they call milkmen left any doubt, this takes care of it... aggy is determined to burn everything good in this world to the ground. Next they will "fix" spandex and yoga pants. If ancient aliens built the pyramids overnight, levitating all the stones into place, i wonder what they would charge to come back and levitate collie town and relocate it to Antarctica... or the bottom the Pacific overnight!?
  22. It's the funniest thing ever to hear the Utah blowhards rattle off about the big 12's shitty academics, how they don't belong in the Big 12 and there's no way they would ever join the Big 12... As if they are Stanford or something. The dumbasses don't even realize they would be around 4th in the Big 12 after we leave. The majority of sites don't even have them in the top 100 (105th).
  23. They are making noise for something, and it isn't to try and bully the ACC into more money. The ACC schools are well aware FSU is tied to them for 13 years, if they like it not not. Just like they are aware that FSU will bolt after if there is an opening somewhere for them, no matter how unequal the revenue they get. So why give them more of the pie now when they are leaving anyways. The ACC can't give Clemson and FSU (and UNC.. ECT) enough money to get them within the same universe as the power two, and those schools aren't wanting Big 12 money either. I feel there's more to the story than just noise..
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