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3 hours ago, 'stache said:
I have my sources too, and the Pac deal is real. We greased many skids to make it happen. Tons of free weed to the Oregon, Washington, and Colorado schools, fine wine and chees to Cal and Stanford, hookers and blow to UCLA and USC, coeds and std vaccines to Arizona schools, and lots of magic underwear to the Utes. It's done y'all.
Hope y'all land on your feet. Its the belief you can get in the Big 10 that is a fantasy that even makes an aggy mnc look realistic.
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4 hours ago, Drew said:
What’s the point of this? If they stop Texas and OU leaving now they can still leave after 2025. They really think Texas and OU will play good conference mates until then after all this shit?
Its all about the Benjamins.
If ESPN wants UT and OU out before 2025, FUPM.
Big 12 leftovers want their $20-$25 million a year in 2022, 2023, and 2024 and they want some sort of exit fee from UT and OU, preferably $80 million each.
ESPN wants UT and OU in SEC in 2022 and doesn't want to have to pay Big 12.
They'll settle somewhere in between in the next couple of months.
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3 hours ago, Knoxtnhorn said:
Good:
First game I get to see Texas play at Neyland Stadium. I lived there for 20 years, have a ton of Vol alum friends, and my wife is a TN alum.
Not having to listen to my dad (Tech guy) complain about ref conspiracies allowing Texas to beat Tech.
Bad:
Tim Brando
If you haven't been there, its one of my least favorite stadiums. Think the seat stripes must be 16 inches wide. Nobody pays attention to them anyway. The music is the loudest I have heard. Impossible to talk to anyone between plays.
Tailgating is fun there. We have Knoxville friends and my wife is a UGA alum so we usually go to the UGA-UTK games.
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2 hours ago, Hurtlocker said:
Don't forget Tuxedo Yoda
Almost did. Should have stayed forgotten. He mostly retweets CNN. Either political stuff or how we are all going to die with Covid.
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2 hours ago, clapclapclap said:
Because it is a long time realignment phony insider account.
Here's a realignment tip from those that have followed this for over a decade. The following are all realignment frauds that have never predicted anything correctly beyond broken clock percentages:
MHver3, the Dude from WV, Greg Fluegar, Greg(?) Swaim
There are others that I'm forgetting at the moment, but those were the most obvious (and most retweeted by suckers) in previously rounds of realignment .
MHver3 writes the most voluminous works of fiction of the 4. A psycho.
He's not a psycho. He's the only one of the 4 who seems to understand he is writing fiction. He's the most entertaining of the bunch.
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2 hours ago, Mantis Toboggan, MD said:
Route 66 against UCLA
Well we have someone who definitely beat Huckleberry. Miserably hot weather in addition to miserable game.
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2 hours ago, Huckleberry said:
My first game attended in person was our 50-7 loss to Baylor in 1989.
Beat that.
How about 3-27 to aggy in 1976 in the rain? 2nd loss at home (UH earlier in the season was the 1st) in 6 or 7 years. 5-5-1 season. stadium maybe 75% filled and half of them aggy. Horrible fog came in between Austin and Brenham on the way to Houston. Could barely see the front of my hood and couldn't see well enough to pull over. Drove about 20 mph on 290 most of the way to Brenham. Was scared to death some idiot stopped in the road. Fortunately noone did.
At least Baylor game was sunny, although a little hot.
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29 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:
Feldman and Mandel just got back from the PAC 12 Media Days, and they're convinced none of the Tagalong 8 won't get picked up by another major conference.
Bowlsby probably got a wink from FOX to attempt to poach some AAC teams, and the public result was his bat shit crazy letter and interview with Chuck Carlton.
I think the lawyers are going to take it from here, and UT/OU will have to pay a settlement.
None won't get picked up or none will get picked up?
More likely is you did a double negative.
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4 hours ago, oSuJeff97 said:
Because the B1G is going to make any expansion decisions purely on academic profile, and not on what is literally driving everything else, which is eyeballs/viewership of football?
Because you have to pass their academic bar or they don't even look at you.
And the 3 who pass their academic bar fail the revenue bar. But some ACC schools may not.
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22 minutes ago, Jasper_Jester said:
What triggers ESPN and Fox's ability to renegotiate the amount they pay for TV rights? As soon as Texas and OU become SEC members can ESPN walk in and play hardball or is it when the Big XII loses the rights that Texas and OU granted to them?
ESPN and Fox can renegotiate when UT and OU leave, but then UT and OU are potentially liable for the loss in revenue. Although theoretically the GOR means the Big 12 keeps the TV rights.
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1 hour ago, clapclapclap said:
What's Bowlsby settlement end game? Protecting all remaining schools by merging the B12 with the AAC?
Getting the leftover 8 their $20 million a year through 2025 plus some buyout fees from UT and OU.
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1 hour ago, closetohumping said:
HSE
Remember signing up for cable just so I could get HSE and the Rockets. Hannah Storm did their halftime show in her first TV appearance. She was awful, but hot. 2nd game she was much better. She's still hot (and i'm not just talking about the BBQ grill).
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3 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:
They're already entitled to the full payout. This doesn't do anything to improve the remaining teams' position with respect to full payout from Texas and OU.
7 schools leave. Contract over. 3 schools don't get exit fees or an ESPN contract.
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18 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:
on behalf of the hundreds, possibly thousands of people checking in with this thread a few times a day, some of you need to stop getting your collective panties in a wad about having to scroll past a reposted video or photo.
that american hustle meme is delightful and should be stickied to every fucking page.
Nah. Now that picture from Shaggy of those Texas cheerleaders watching cows.....
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He's trying to make sure everyone gets full payout. That's the point of this.
ESPN/SEC/UT/OU and anyone else needs to make a deal before going. Otherwise, ESPN is putting themselves at risk by giving the other conferences numbers.
Its about the Benjamins, not about which door everyone leave by.
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17 minutes ago, Laxtonto said:
I am just at a loss on this…
Even if this is true and you have proof of it, you use this as leverage on the parties involved, not use it to pick a very public cat fight that won’t stop Texas and OU leaving, and now may have scuttled the possibility of ever getting an agreeable media deal and potentially jeopardized the landing spots of 3 to 5 members…
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17 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:
Let's assume, for the moment, that the 8 stay together, Bowlsby settles down from his from his rager, and some calmer heads start talking things out for the conference in the coming days about possibly inviting other schools in.
What fucking school would want to join a conference led by Bowlsby after today?
He's at retirement age. I figured he would retire with the GOR. He's 69.
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38 minutes ago, BornAndRaised said:
I wonder if ESPN was trying to sweet a new AAC deal by pushing the other 3-5 schools that way since the SEC Networks would be the real prize?
That's what Dennis Dodd says, but he loves to troll the Big 12. I can't see any going to the AAC until the league totally implodes. If there are 3 to 5 left, they raid the G5.
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9 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:
I mean I knew it was a fantasy when I posted about the best options for the remaining 8 that could work for them if they had good, strong, central leadership from the Big 12 office. But I didn't think they were going to do something this absurd this fast.
No. This was a good move. ESPN already told the Big 12 what it thought of them when it refused to discuss early renewal. This forces a settlement before anything else moves forward. So SEC/ESPN/UT/OU have to talk to the remaining 8 about how to make them whole.
ESPN's lawyers are listening.
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I will miss having a conference with no aggy.
I will miss beating the tortilla wasters.
I will miss having players protected by the refs (SEC lets all kinds of late hits and dirty play go on).
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I just don't see the ACC doing anything until Notre Dame makes a decision to join a conference.
Its just the Pac that may invite the left behinds.
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1 minute ago, Vertigo said:
I think a move to the PAC or B1G is definitely in the cards for Ok St. Academics aside, these conferences will be forced to make a move and Ok St is the most valuable asset available outside of Notre Dame. I truly think the B1G can and should add them to keep a footprint in the south.
I'd say Oklahoma St.'s chance to get in the Big 10 is about the same as BYU's chance, which is about the same as Appalachian St.'s chance. KU, ISU and TCU are the only ones with even a measurable chance of getting into the Big 10. I think the Big 10 does nothing for now. They wait out the ACC GOR.
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Brett McMurphy on 790 AM in Houston said the future is out of the remaining 8's hands. All depends on what ACC, B$G and Pac do. They just have to wait and see.
There are things other than pure TV ratings (although that's the biggest). OSU being 4th behind 3 Pac schools in NCAA titles is a positive. TCU being in DFW recruiting area and having 2 top 3 finishes and a Rose Bowl win in the last decade is a positive. Tech's DFW alumni is a positive. KU being a basketball blue blood is a positive. KSU not being Baylor is a positive.
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21 minutes ago, mwaadeeb said:
Smaller as in a sip of water but he's near 6 foot and athletic, and yes he's cool and yes he's a nut.
Well we all know he can't jump.
Realignment talk not going away
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The one difference is that ESPN and Fox kept the TV contracts the same after the change of members. Will they do that for 3 years without OU and UT? If so, UT and OU forfeit one year's revenues, about $40 million each. If not, then that's when it gets nasty.