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  1. if the opposing players are doing it to other players, it is taunting. We need to treat all taunting the same. So its not stupid.
  2. Nobody, even Baylor, deserves relegation more than SMU. Maybe they will get another death penalty and Rice will get their slot!
  3. I think Iowa has quite a few also. The state has a gambling problem.
  4. Schools like Iowa and Auburn might be at risk with more powers in the conference.
  5. Great minds think alike. But its still an interesting rumor.
  6. I remember reading one time DKR was trying to get UT to copy Michigan and couldn't get the administration to do that. Track helps with football. Many athletes are dual sport.
  7. Cal has 14 men's and 15 women's sports, well over the 16 minimum for FBS.cross countrytrack indoortrack outdoorbasketballbaseball/softballgolftennisswimming & divingsoccerrowingwater pologymnasticsmen's footballmen's rugbywomen's lacrossewomen's field hockeywomen's volleyball Rugby would clearly be on the chopping block. Maybe women's lacrosse. Not sure what else. They have had some success in one or the other sex in water polo, gymnastics and rowing.
  8. They still have to keep the kids eligible. That will always give Alabama an advantage over Yale, Harvard and Stanford.
  9. In 1990, Stanford vetoed us. aggy wanted to go to the SEC. They were going to the SEC. Texas to the Pac. But then Stanford vetoed after UT president Cunningham had already briefed our board. If you want a reference, its in "The Texas Way" by William Cunningham, pages 230-231. There were long rumors of Stanford vetoing us, but I didn't really believe it until Cunningham wrote about it in detail in his book. He has a chapter about the breakup of the SWC and how we eventually ended up in the Big 12.
  10. While I think there is a lot of truth, it is clearly written from Kliavcoff's office point of view. And the LA Times is a bit of a joke.
  11. ESPNU is WAY behind FS1. FS2, ESPNU, ESPNNews are all real low. ESPN2 is comparable to FS1.
  12. It will matter because the A5 are getting about 80% of the money and G5 15%.
  13. Remember the Alabama-LSU rematch? One of the worst watched BCS title games ever? After a couple of Alabama-Georgia games, even the SEC knew the playoff needed to be expanded so it wasn't an SEC invitational. The rest of the country was tuning out.
  14. Its a hollow threat. it would cost the SEC and Big 10 massive dollars. Probably more than it would cost the rest (just not on a % basis).
  15. Name schools get ranked in the preseason polls. Hate to say it, but how many times has Texas been ranked in preseason polls since 2010 and finished unranked?
  16. Except the football and basketball overall ARE better. And have been for the last decade.
  17. Conference politics. They are toxic.
  18. Vanderbilt
  19. Well I hope that isn't how it is determined. It should be based on the team, not their conference. Sometimes there just isn't a strong schedule in a tough conference. For example, there are a lot of teams that could start 10-0 on Georgia's schedule next year. Sat, Sep 2 vsUT Martin 6:00 PM Tickets as low as $57 Sat, Sep 9 vsBall State 12:00 PM Tickets as low as $44 Sat, Sep 16 vsSouth Carolina 3:30 PM CBS Tickets as low as $189 Sat, Sep 23 vsUAB TBD Tickets as low as $55 Sat, Sep 30 @Auburn TBD Tickets as low as $142 Sat, Oct 7 vsKentucky TBD Tickets as low as $170 Sat, Oct 14 @Vanderbilt TBD Tickets as low as $132 Sat, Oct 28 vsFlorida * 3:30 PM CBS Tickets as low as $199 Sat, Nov 4 vsMissouri TBD Tickets as low as $114 Sat, Nov 11 vs22 Ole Miss TBD Tickets as low as $149 Sat, Nov 18 @12 Tennessee TBD Tickets as low as $258 Sat, Nov 25 @Georgia Tech TBD Tickets as low as $102
  20. Reads like something Wilner would write. Source must be out of Kliavcoff's office, blaming the presidents, not the conference office. We have heard it from enough sources to know ESPN offered $24-25 million at first. That $30 million has come out lately, but it could be all from the same source. The source seems to think they could have gotten upper $30s from ESPN, but at least $35. Assuming the $30 really happened, I suspect $30 was ESPN's final offer, looking at the meager TV ratings of the Pac 10. I think ESPN would have done both Big 12 and Pac 10, but with neither above $32 million. With the market getting difficult and the Pac 10 difficult, ESPN decided not to do $30 million or even $25 million and walked away. The Pac's exclusive window closed October 7th. Doesn't say exactly when they got that offer. Big 12 signed on October 30th and had already been talking since August. The source also doesn't seem to understand how wrong it was for Kliavcoff to conspire with regents to try to force UCLA to stay. Or getting schools to sign a GOR without even having any idea what the deal would be.
  21. Isn't supposed to say, "And if you take SMU too, we'll give you $50 of free software. But you only get the software if you take SMU."
  22. Syracuse, Iowa St., Wisconsin and Colorado. Of course being in Division I in Texas and not having baseball is really strange-SMU.
  23. No upside for winning. Big downside for losing.
  24. Yeah, KU is the only one with a non-zero chance (at least of the 2023 members).
  25. Tulsa, Navy and Charlotte (+ Wichita St.) left out according to this. I think Tulsa would rate ahead of some of the others.
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