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RIP.
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10 hours ago, Thatguy said:
Everyone calls Spurrier the Ole Ball Coach, but Ole Bobby was every bit that guy as well. I loved that dude.
Yeah. Spurrier turned an underperformer into a power, Bowden turned a nobody into the preeminent power from the mid 80s to 2000.
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12 hours ago, gmr548 said:
For multiple reasons, few, if any, things on this site are more cringey than middle aged men posting stuff like thisBecause the daughters aren't as good looking as their moms?!
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Spurrier is kind of like a Tom Osborne without an ounce of even public civility.
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15 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:
Pretty bold talk for someone who never beat Texas as a coach or player
He always trolled Georgia because they beat him as QB when Florida was ranked #1.
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18 minutes ago, BonzoMontreaux said:
Lmfanzone, burntorangefanzone, and longhornfanzone….Was there in 99 when the bus did show up.
R.s.f.c before all of that…
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkAh! A fellow BOFZ resident! Home of the LHFZ dead enders. Guess a couple of seasons of Charlie Strong was too much for the operators of that site.
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2 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:
I did and I'm still waiting on the bus
Maybe Bob was too busy writing up one of his inspirational July 4th or Texas Independence Day blurbs?
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1 hour ago, Hagbard Celine said:
since you are new....
this community has been together for 20+ years on the following sites: austin360, hornfans, shaggybevo, shaggytexas, and now surlyhorns. iirc bevo instantiated in november of 07 or 08 can't remember now, and within a year we were flooded with vermin from across the nation when aggy declared their standing offer from the secX3 which caused realignment to become a thing here which then attracted one particular brethren poster named smitty, and because of his bitchassedness the "window cougar" meme took off, and when he periodically returns, with aggy-level intelligence, he has been blasted to smithereens with data.
i am what the brethren call "an investigator".
the brethren are no different than aggy.... cult, religion, they just happen to both play football, and dealing with them is a royal pain in the ass.
that said, in the new world of "viewers only" the pac is going to end up having to take them despite protest from cal and stanford. they have more eyes than anyone else without a chair right now by a factor of 5.
the best move for the brethren would be to wield their political influence in boise to force a merger of the vandals and the smurfs with the current Idaho State and package a single Idaho school with BYU together to the PAC, leaving 2 slots, which i would use for nevada and new mexico to get to 16. unlv, new mexico state, san diego state, san jose state, it's quidditch for you.
Don't think many of you made the interim stop after Hornfans to LonghornFanZone after Longhorn Bob and Longhorn Girlie got "divorced."
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13 minutes ago, TKthunder2 said:
I wasn’t going to reply but you nailed it.
These moves have almost nothing to do with attendance. Attendance is constrained by stadium size which typically is indicative of how many alumni/fan you have in the general vicinity of (reasonable travel distance to) your campus. No point in building a 80k seat stadium if most of your alumni live in a city center 2 hours away. But that doesn’t mean those same alumni aren’t watching on TV (which is what pays for the vast majority of the revenue). Boise State’s value is not correlated to their 36k seat stadium. You can pack a 50k seat stadium every other week but if no one else is watching the game on TV, then that doesn’t mean dick. It can be one of serval factor under consideration, but it should not be your primary data point.
Its an indication of the depth of fan support and ability to support a program and with a few exceptions pretty well correlates with TV value. Miami and a few other outliers have more TV value than fan support.
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2 minutes ago, BachelorTrek said:
They're all perfect examples of #ThePeterPrinciple.
Sometimes. But a lot of it is the pushiest, most political get ahead and bring along like minded people.
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3 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:
The comments/reactions from the leaders of a few conferences reminds me of that SNL skit about the Titanic. At one point, instead of putting people in the lifeboats they were putting pieces of the iceberg. I’m stunned some of these gentlemen that run these conferences get paid more than minimum wage. They get millions to be this obtuse. Sure, I get what they say and what they may be doing behind the scenes are completely different. I am just stunned at the level of dumb.
Think its arrogance. If you've ever worked in middle management, you would understand that most American companies succeed in spite of their CEOs, not because of them.
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5 hours ago, oSuJeff97 said:
Well if you proceed with the assumption that the end-game is 4x16, then it's not like you have other Texas's or OU's just sitting around. If that is, indeed, the end game, then your best bet, whether you are the PAC or the B1G or the ACC, is to grab the most valuable available football brands.
Kansas is a blueblood in basketball so may get an "exemption" for them literally bringing nothing for football... but UConn? They literally add nothing. They are a non-entity in football and their basketball program is historically good, but they aren't anywhere near what Kansas is, in terms of moving the needle for basketball broadcasts.
Again, there are a lot of "ifs" and I'm not saying it's likely to happen, but if 4x16 is the end game, then grabbing the best available football brands is the best way to add incremental value for the PAC, B1G or ACC.
The Big 10's best bet is to wait until the ACC's GOR gets closer to expiration and then look at ACC schools.
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9 minutes ago, 'stache said:
Doesn't CBS only have one game a week and ESPN will be for everything?
Right. But the Tier II deal pays about the same as the Tier I one game deal-$300 million a year. So its at $355 million now and goes up to $600 million in 2024 before any renegotiations.
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22 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:
Doubtful. It’s been floating for a while that they may break it early for whatever reasons. Adding new inventory would likely trigger some clause somewhere for renegotiating or something along those lines.CBS is the least of our worries.
CBS has refused to negotiate with the SEC before. Of course, that was aggy and Mizzou. But still, they don't have much incentive as the contract is going away anyway. ESPN is going to pay $300 million for what CBS is paying $55 million.
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Don't recall seeing this article. Suggests since ESPN doesn't get the CBS SEC Tier I deal until 2024, that might delay the move to the SEC.
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1 hour ago, AUS-97HORN said:
The only think Mackovic knew how to coach was offense... which is why, for the first time in UT history, we scored more than 30 points at home and still lost against CU.... we couldnt stop a wet paper bag on defense, and that game sealed the hesiman for Salaam.
yet even when coaching offense, you knew if it was 3rd and 12 or more, in Texas territory, that a delayed draw play up the middle was gonna get called.... the amazing part was we did it like clockwork 3-5 times a game... and yet converted around 40% of the fucking time
gotta be honest. I played cooed college softball to try to get the girls.... maybe same thing going on with that HP game?
Yeah. I could pretty well call Mackovic's plays. Never understood why it continued to surprise the opposing defenses. Roll left, yes, that was a surprise, but not in retrospect.
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58 minutes ago, Hurtlocker said:
The Big 12 doesn't have camera crews, the legal issues would be between the SEC and Big 12, not the schools. Even in the SEC the conference controls the broadcast rights, in their case on yearly GoRs instead of multi-year (unless they changed that with the new ESPN deal). They either can't sell them to ESPN, because they don't own anything to sell, or the check gets mailed to the Big 12, instead of Texas/OU, for media revenue until the GoR expires. These are not unique documents, they are used all the time in broadcasting/entertainment.
But, the larger point is it will either be ridden out to avoid all negotiations, or there will be a settlement.
I wonder if there is a dichotomy in value. The huge rating games have huge value. Meanwhile the mass games (Iowa St.-Kansas St., Iowa-Purdue, Utah-Arizona, etc.) aren't increasing in value? The remainder may not be much worse in average ratings than the Pac 12, but they don't have any USC-UCLA or Stanford-Washington type games that draw big numbers. They just fill the schedule.
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"...Industry sources tell CBS Sports there is no combination of remaining Big 12 schools that would bring value to the Pac-12.
The Big 12 remains the only Power Five conference with a smaller membership than the Pac-12. Does staying at 12 teams make the Pac-12 more vulnerable now that the Texas-Oklahoma move has begun rumblings about the emergence of four "superconferences"?
"You have to be strategic," Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens said. "Number [of teams] is one piece of the strategy, but you have to think big. I'm not ready to make a definitive answer on a number yet....""
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11 minutes ago, mchookem said:
mormons actually settled most of what we consider the 'old west'.
which i learned along with other interesting mormon facts when i read Under the Banner of Heaven (history of mormons/LDS by John Krakauer who also wrote Into Thin Air and Into the Wild). do recommend.
Into Thin Air i a great book. Also a good read is "The Climb" which is a different perspective on that same Everest disaster from the Russian guide Boukreev, who Krakauer faults. Think of Krakauer as KSU's president and Boukreev as UT's president writing a book on the recent events.
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22 minutes ago, Hurtlocker said:
Reporting from NoVa - no one gives a shit about the Cavs here, except for alumni and its a small school. Its a very fractured market for brands in general and there are so many colleges within 5 hours that no one brings the state, let alone the metros.
The eastern side of the Potomac is basically the Redskins, then the Caps/Nats, then the Steelers, then the Ravens, then a chasm the size of Florida until you get to Maryland/Penn State, and that's only because Georgetown isn't a basketball power any more.
On the NoVa side of the river its the same Redskins/Nats/Caps/Steelers, then another major chasm before you get to college sports. When you do the two biggest are likely VTech and WVU, who both have alumni all over the area. (Morgantown isn't much further away than UVA is, and Vtech is two hours further out from both). Honestly, the biggest college football game that matters in the region is likely the Army/Navy game as there is no dominant college sport presence in the area. If I polled 100 random people I bet less than 5% would even know a single conference connected to a school.
On my list, UVA is #53 in average attendance, just ahead of Stanford.
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31 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:
it's like aggy financials.... inconvenient line items are simply ignored and not calcuated
abracadabra, 100% narrative alignment compliance!
Well Texas and OU can simply go to the SEC in 2022, leaving $35 million in distributions and refusing to let Big 12 camera crews into the stadium and just tell the Big 12 to sue. Texas and OU will have the money and the keys to the stadiums and the Big 12 will only have lawyers. That's a strong position. So its in the Big 12's interest to settle. And its in UT/OU and ESPN's interest to settle as there is always the possibility of losses in courts and injunctions that make life difficult for everyone. And the losses could be big.
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1 hour ago, Eugene11 said:
Anyone with half a brain saw this all coming at some point when Nebraska and aggy left the conference. I knew it was a matter of time. They both surprised the conference when they announced leaving. Or at least aggy certainly did. I never got this mad or upset and blamed them or their ADs or thought we should go to state legislature about it.
wtf is going on with these fuck heads? Is it really just that we carry them that much and they know it but can’t admit it?Yes.
Plus a lot of the country just hates the state of Texas. Its been that way for a long time. Its not just the current red team/blue team political environment, but that contributes.
Realignment talk not going away
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Really. The reaction is so immature.