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The media drives public perception which is why it is controlled by most governments around the world and the same reason wr sequester jurors... Public perception is what drives the committee... ESPN has a long history of using their podium to drive up viewership of their marketed content... To the point of multiple publications in various Journals from different Professional Journalist Associations world wide queationing ESPNs ethics. They have been called out to either uphold their sworn duty to be unbias in their reporting or to stop calling themselves Professional Sports Jounalists.. These journals have also published several studies on the affect ESPNs disregard of unbiased coverage to push their content in both professional and amature sports worldwide. There has been studies published that make a compelling case of how the only sports content they had rights to at their beginning being NCAA BB and the constant and overy hyped UNC and. the rivalry with Duketo drive up their veiwership numbers not only propelled UNC to a new level among elites as their darlings, but also gave rise to their heroes villian... Good needs a Devil and it came in the form of a solid Duke team... The coverage and constant talk of UNC and their devil Duke had people natuonwide tuning in to watch two teams they had no ties to either hopefully win (UNC) or lhopefully lose (Duke), and ser records when those two played each other. For UNC, this drove top recruits from all over the countru to them like never before... And before long many of those folliwing Duke as haters starting to like the little team which drove their recruitment to elite levels. It is a tactic they've used from day one and little has changed since... Ever since the BIG10 joined with Fox for its network and the PAC announced it was going at it alone, they went in hard and heavy with the SEC for their network... And it has been impossible to watch anything on ESPN since without it turning into the SEC show... I'm pretty sure even the commercials on there have SEC Embedded in them... It's hard to deny Alambama has been on a run untouchable (even by ESPNs former love USC)... How much of it due to Saban being 10x the coach of any coach in the history of the game, or how much is due to ESPN driving busloads of talent towards "NFL lite" with the constant SEC hype (while underhandedly undermining all other conferences) with the cream picking the best team in the SEC, Alabama.

None of it reallymatters, when UGA ends up in the Sugar Bowl and lose to us and OU knocks Bama out of playoffs, it will all be rewritten come next year... Very little will be said about UGAs loss, instead they will go on about UGA should have been in the playoffs and how the committee really messed that one up. Bama will have suffered a heartbreaking loss in a game they were clearly the more dominating team no matter the score. How OU lucked into a win and are probably (or should be) praying they don't end up facing Bama again.

The PAC officiating fiasco? Fuck that... Aggy - LSU officiating?.... NO... The BIG 10 officiating? There has been controversies as far back as Joe Pa roaming Penn St. sidelines (and his staff the showers). If you are not tOSU or Mich....? Yeah, NO ACC? Not sure about their crews, never paid attention to a bunch of BB schools during FB season... Sucks but BB is NOT our sport. So FUCK NO on the ACC... This loss sucks, but it's what it is. OUs Defense was the difference. They came out to play ans Orlando sucks... Its not like it's the first time one the two teams (this time, OUs D) came out and played inspired FB way beyond their track record... (CJ was better) FUCK OU... I hate saying it, but if OU has a good showing in the playoffs (vs SEC)and we get (and beat) one of the "top" SEC teams, it will be disastrous for aggy recruiting for at least this cycle (most likely the next also). And it will go a long way towards actially landing some of the DL talent we whiff on each year. It's talent we have to have if we hope to win a NC anytime soon. Championships are won in the trenches. Having a servicable OL this year is night and day from the past 9 (actually more seeing ahitty OL streches back into Colt's days if being honest). The problem isn't the B12. Since it's inception, it averaged among the top two conferences in strength from top to bottom. It was neck and neck for first with the SEC and only slipped with our downturn. That's squarely on our head and not the conference's. And because of that, it sound very aggy like when people want to run from this conference when WE are the biggest reason ESPN has gotten away with labeling the conference as weak and lacking defense which has hurt us with the DL recruits... OU has never been a real threat in this state no mattet how they do each year. They get some we want and lose some to us they wanted no mattet the year. But those sheep fuckers has been able to ride the ESPN HYPE, and the lack of ESPN mentioning how easy it is to go have those typical aggy lackluster 7 or 8 win years when 3 are guaranteed "pay and win" aka the NCAA version of Vegas Harlots... And at least one or two other wins against the absolute bottom of the SEC barrel, not to mention another win attempt set up by the SEC by jockeying their teams during bowl season for maximum wins instead of the whole spirit of the bowl games to match up equal teams for better games. If we don't break the SECs Propaganda Machine (espn), it's going to start looking more and more like the SWC with most of our talent heading out of state for better exposure... OU is the least of our problems there and likely needed to help break the SEC mouthpeice... Thanks you stupid cocksucking, retarded sheep fuckers... Sad thing is that this was part of your hopeful outcomes with the SEC move. Even if aggy doesn't get the recruits, as long as tu doesn't either it is a huge win for you aggy fucks... You aggy cockfucks would rather see the whole state sink to 100 years of Nebraska type of irrelevance right along aggy side as long as tu crumbles with them. Aggy is happy as pigs rolling around in shit slush with 7 or 8 wins a season as long as tu doesn't make it to the playoffs. Our demise is more important than them actually turning the corner and becoming relavent... You stupid aggy fucks... I would much rather have my team towards the top of it all even if it meant OU benefits also and never burn our program to ground just to drag OU down out of the spotlight... Not even aggy can explain what its like inside their wacked head...

Tje only fluke was OU being in position to win at the end... The game should have been a blowout, emding with the ewok sitting on the bench sobbing.

Almost decapitated a midget there

No reason to anything other than throw it to CJ today... i`m not sure double coverage would stop him today. He`s putting it out there today... Fuck OU. They might have to put 3 or 4 on CJ. Lol.. And Orlando needs to go.

I might have spoke too soon.. lol Fuck it. We are going to win!

Bullshit

She could have been a star on our team anytime between Colt and Sam.

what are they going to do after we break it off in Gorgia`s ass? Just to follow it up next year with a pounding of LSU...

Wasn't he their only 5*? That's gonna leave a mark. On a different note, if the SEC thinks aggy reaction is over the top with this win, wait until they beat Alabama again and aggy acts like the all time series is dead even and it`s the top rivalry in the SEC.

Jesus, that last throw was 65+ yards. He would be a beast on Sterlings offense.

That was a nice throw down the field at like 3:15:30... It gets there in a hurry.

they will trademark this 70 yrs from now.

To bathe in aggy tears for three straight years...

If WSU wins out and doesn't make the playoffs, it will be disastrous for them. It will be the second time they've been skipped, and it was a big issue for them... Don't forget, we got skipped once and added a championship because of it. They will have a meltdown a second time around.

.I could live with WSU winning it all this year... Especially if they hang 70 on the first SEC (Alabama) team and 80 on the second (LSU).

Anyone know what's the official explanation why the aggy in the background has his arm down someone's pants?

What the hell... I say we target USC and UCLA. Might as well go after Penn St as a traveling partner for WVU. It's not like they really fit in there. Plus it would be a good reason to bring back pedobear. And Mike Leach... Wherever he's coaching, they're in until he leaves.

Why add anyone. Just sit here quietly doing our thing. There is a cancer slowly eating away at the PAC 12. It's the same cancer we watched eat away at Nebraska. And unless they can pull an extra 10 to 15 million per school out of their asses "over night" to close the gap on the SEC, BIG10, B12, this cancer is the deadly kind Wait until after the ACC Network launches next year and the numbers come in at year end... It will be the death blow.. USC and UCLA have had their foot out the door since the mid '70 when they almost lost it over the addition of the 'zona schools. They were not happy when equal distribution was shoved down their throats. They were not happy turning over their left but to the fail PAC-Network. They haven't been happy in awhile.

Since I'm on the realignment thread, here are some articles I've come across I've found pretty interesting...This first I'm throwing in here...It's an article on a SEC/ACC site that's probably the most accurate summary of the demise of both the SWC and (almost) the B12....http://www.southernpigskin.com/archives/did-texas-murder-2-conferences/I found it interesting how a non Longhorn, non B12 site could do what the National Sports Journalist wouldn't do. Put the facts out there....That led me to this article... Another example of what is the lost art of Professional Journalism...https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1990/07/02/changing-times-conference-realignment-could-reshape-college-athletics/9b62a261-caf4-4ba5-913f-03436bb1610b/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c90ce8b34c59He covers realignment without siting "inside sources". He nails 95% of the things he writes about, without it being a bunch of shit he throws against the wall hopinh it sticks. Most of what he doesn't get correct is likely from not having the entire view of the painting... The rest of what he misses is because things change.... Subscribe for $1Send me this offer×CHANGING TIMES CONFERENCE REALIGNMENT COULD RESHAPE COLLEGE ATHLETICSBy Mark Maske. ((EXCERPTS FROM ARTICLE WRITTEN JULY 2ND 1990))This summer may see the groundwork laid for rampant additions, defections and mergers that could test the structural boundaries of Division I-A, as the nation's elite schools and conferences scurry to establish regional strangleholds in anticipation of megabucks television contracts. The eventual result could be the disintegration of several existing conferences, the affiliation of most independents and the emergence of three or four "superconferences" with two divisions and 12 to 16 schools apiece -- a transformation many see as the first step toward creating a college football playoff system.What finally could emerge are an Atlantic Coast Conference stretching from the Northeast to Florida; a Big Ten that might have further holdings in the Northeast or from the current Big (Nebraska, most prominently); a Southeastern Conference sprawling westward into Texas and one or two more Florida teams among its Atlantic entries; and a revised Pacific-10 picking up what it can in the West (Colorado, Brigham Young and Air Force, among others). ((It ended up being Utah instead of BYU and they stopped their hoping to land Texas and gang instead of going to 14-16))Oklahoma has entertained notions about jumping from the Big Eight to the Southwest Conference -- a move that could become moot if, as some close to this process insist, the Big Eight and SWC eventually are left with no choice but to combine. ((Interesting prediction))An on-again, off-again Eastern Seaboard Conference for football composed of independents and Big East schools needing a football-only league may yet arise.The dominoes are lined up, waiting for a nudge to send them falling. "Any time you start discussing these things, people get nervous and the discussion kind of feeds off itself," said Nebraska chancellor and interim president Martin Massengale, who stressed his school has had no official contact with the Big Ten but whose athletic director, Bob Devaney, has written an informal letter of inquiry to the conference. ((Probably why OU was looking at joining the SWC))"We've studied the TV situation carefully," said University of Mississippi President Gerald Turner, chairman of the SEC's expansion committee, "and we've concluded that our interests may be best served by operating on the assumption we'll negotiate for ourselves in the future. . . . The first step in that direction is minimizing the force of competing conferences within our geographic area."The SEC is pursuing Arkansas, Texas and Texas A&M of the SWC, plus football independents Florida State, South Carolina and Miami. ((There are some articles from 1990 that have Texas and Arkansas as the targets, the entire SWC footprint, while others have SEC officials quoted saying if Texas and Texas A&M aren't interested then they would be happy to take Arkansas.)) (((But all the articles around this time agree that all three were SEC bound. I'm not sure if The reporters were getting their information from an overly excited aggy and assumed it was a done deal, or if Texas was headed to the SEC but something went south. Or if Texas was saying yeah, but stalling trying to salvage the SWC...))) The SWC is trying to cut its potential losses by luring Oklahoma. ((I'm fairly certain OU was not showing enough interest in jumping into a -Texas, -Texas A&M -Arkansas SWC for multiple sources to cover it as such which points to Texas really not interested in the SEC and the likely true birth of Deloss' BIG 12.))The ACC -- which voted against expansion earlier this year but has reconsidered -- presents a wait-and-see stance, but league officials contend privately that Florida State will turn down the SEC because it doesn't want to be in the same conference with Florida, which allegedly once fostered an SEC blackballing of the Seminoles.The ACC, if properly motivated, could go after Florida State, Miami, Syracuse, Boston College, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, West Virginia, Virginia Tech or even former member South Carolina. Conference officials insist they can stand pat as long as the Big Ten and Pac-10 are willing to unite with the ACC in TV negotiations. But now the league's newest member, Georgia Tech, has opened itself to an offer from the SEC.ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCEMembers Clemson Duke Georgia Tech Maryland North Carolina North Carolina State Virginia Wake ForestPossible Defections Georgia TechCandidates Boston College Florida State Miami Pittsburgh Rutgers South Carolina Syracuse Virginia Tech West Virginia SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCEMembers Alabama Auburn Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana State Mississippi Mississippi State Tennessee VanderbiltCandidates Arkansas Florida State Miami South Carolina Texas Texas A&MSOUTHWEST CONFERENCEMembers Arkansas Baylor Houston Rice SMU Texas Texas A&M Texas Christian Texas TechPossible Defections Arkansas Texas Texas A&MCandidates Oklahoma BIG TEN CONFERENCEMembers Illinois Indiana Iowa Michigan Michigan State Minnesota Northwestern Ohio State Purdue WisconsinAdditions Penn StateCandidates Nebraska Syracuse Rutgers Pittsburgh PACIFIC-10 CONFERENCEMembers Arizona Arizona State California Oregon Oregon State Southern Cal Stanford UCLA Washington Washington StateCandidates Brigham Young Air Force ColoradoNot bad for an article written about realignment in 1990... It seems that things have held true to corse so far (outside of Texas throwing a monkey wrench into the mix and not running to the SEC..)

This.... There is a reason a HUGE school like cougar high got left behind and we went with Baylor, Tech and then TCU. Houston market or not, no matter how well they are doing, they don't get much local support. Houston is a Pro Sports hotbed. UH would need a Alabama type run to even begin to build a fanbase. But even then, the first hiccup, and their fanbase tanks. Their ex-AD understood why they were left behind. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/college/amp/The-Big-12-with-a-history-of-power-struggles-and-9971434.php Article from 8/90 http://articles.latimes.com/1990-08-27/sports/sp-73_1_southwest-conference. Bleacher Report. Not their typical garbage. Decent read. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/263819-notable-moments-the-southwest-conference-arkansas-and-texas-am

He takes Alabama vs LSU... With the run Alabama has had, most casual fans will watch the Alabama vs a real threat to beat them over a barely top 10 Texas vs a mid top 10 OU... Especially since Texas has not been a name they've heard associated with anything positive in 10 plus years.... How do the numbers look say compared to a Georgia vs KU, or aggy vs Auburn? Let Texas get back to being a top 5 or higher team a few years in a row with and talked about as a legit team to to take it all with 90% of its games on espn/ABC those numbers will come closer to resembling the Texas/ND numbers week in and week out. There are plenty of casual fans that know the Texas name and are UT friendly just based on VY shoving both USC and Bush up ESPNs ass. But it's sucks as a UT faithful to watch years of misery played out weekly and not even slightly entertaining for the casual fan to watch a longhorns team that rarely sniffed the top 25 or even shitty bowl games for years... But let Texas have a few years of being a legit threat with two or three playoff appearance and Alabama continue it's current pace, come the Alabama series, as long as both teams are highly ranked, I'll bet the numbers breaks records. Texas just needs to do its part. We have the upcoming schedules to put us back up towards the top of National Draws. I am curious how the numbers this year compare to comparable games in the other (non overy ESPN hyped SEC) conferences. I do love how everyone wants to compare us to Alabama and not to the teams that have been playing more our level for years... Michigan, Florida. USC, Penn St....

AGGY ... Clemson. NOTE: 4 Years ago aggy dropped their Oregon series (not mutual) in favor of a Clemson one. Oregon had just come off its appearance in the Championship game while Clemson was far from looking like world beaters, and aggy still riding the "we beat Bama" once and the JFF glory year high, really believed this was going to be a cake type win... Should have stuck with Oregon. Lol The Big East. The only conference with a winning percentage vs the SEC... GONE. The B12 second best record vs the SEC.... Barely survived TWO assassination attempts... The SWC third best record vs the SEC... GONE. I wonder what the SWC and the B12 records vs the SEC would be without the aggy many losses and minimal wins factored in. The SWC... Home of the one and only Death Sentence ever passed down. SMU deserved punishment, but the Death Blow was exactly that... DEATH. It was too harsh to hit SMU with seeing there were multiple programs (some in the SWC, several in other conferences) that should have been nailed also.

It's great seeing the love we are getting out of the PAC recruits. Landing Bru could be huge for next year's class. With the PAC down across the board, he could be key in pulling some top talent from the West Coast.