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Jabberwocky

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  1. Sounds exceptionally brilliant to me. Par for the course for the type of political ideologue generally found on OB's.
  2. This is an interesting and important take, and I would like to hear more of your knowledgable and expert opinions on matters of epidemiology, public health, and public policy.
  3. Some people enjoy a good picture, especially in graphic interchange format. I mean, communication in textual form leaves a lot to the imagination, in regards to the complete lack of tone, facial expression, and body language. GIF, or not, effectively communicating in the wild jungle of a messaging community such as Surly can be a formidable task.
  4. Who the hell are you exactly? Are you some sort of a credentialed aggy, or troll investigator? I did not troll anyone whatsoever, whatever the fuck that means. I simply stated my objective, and mostly worthless opinion on the matter. What the hell have you added to the conversation? All you did was come in and quietly finger fuck what someone else posted. The reasons for this remain mostly nebulous to this point, but it probably has something to do with you crying alone in your bed when someone attempts to perform an autopsy of the decision-making eminence of a retired athletic director.
  5. As for my allegiances, I do not even know how to respond to that. I grew up in Austin, and have watched every Texas game since I was about 10. I'm sorry if I am not defending the honor of Dodds in my statements, but I really do not think that is a productive exercise. I have never been a buttsniffing yes-man. I tend to think of myself as a realist instead. I apologize if it rankles your little titties to the point where you have to put a little hate face on my post.
  6. You seem like a real piece of work, man. Again, why dont you stay silent, and finger fuck the opinions of others in the shadows. Looking through your history, that seems to be all you really do. You don't ever really add anything of value to any conversation, or submit your thoughts for everyone to quietly neg like a bunch of little bitches.
  7. Some discussion about Pac 12 decision making regarding playing football in 2020, and how it might affect USC here: https://247sports.com/college/usc/Article/USC-football-Pac-12-Notre-Dame-return-to-football-146865293/ I was reading this article the other day, and remembered it after catching up with this thread today.
  8. Fair enough. I cannot put myself into the dishonorable position of defending the manliness of the CU, UN, UM, and aggy athletic departments. However, I do wish they were all still in the Big 12.
  9. Of course, that is what we say around here, isn't it? Do you think that if things were going swimmingly, that they would be whoring themselves out to other conferences? Of course they wouldn't have been. No one will confuse those schools as being Big 12 loyalists, but they certainly did not need to read a weather report to know which way the wind was blowing. The conference AD meetings would have made a great reality tv show.
  10. ... and I believe this is the part we are retrospectively debating here. He did a lot of stuff that was good for the University, but I am also saying that his shrewd UT-minded bean counting synchronously critically wounded the fuck out of our conference for the foreseeable future, before he rode off into the sunset.
  11. If she's hot enough, why not?
  12. I mean, what would you call it, man? You expect me to believe that we did everything we should have, and that the current conference situation is exactly what is best? It seems that something, somewhere, in the Big 12 war room went FUBAR, and our AD in fact played a part in that mess. Four teams left, and it now seems that nobody has been better for it. Call me a troll, or neg bomb me, whatever you want. Hopefully, CDC can do what is optimal for the University, for both the long and short-term time frames.
  13. What the hell is your problem? I gave you a like, so why don't you remain silent like you were doing? I am sorry that I didnt know there were so many emotionally invested Dodds defenders, and conference realignment revisionist cocksuckers in here. If you do not share an opinion, it would be bigger of you to at least comment as to why you want to silently hate someone else's. Or better yet, maybe you should simply state your opinion without finger-fucking mine.
  14. I mean, if you want the definition of a troll post, just look at your own. You categorically dismissed and trashed a message board poster and a bunch of schools for no real reason, except for the fact that it makes you feel better about yourself to do so. I guess that we can all sit here and continue to pretend that it was not a better Big 12 when they were members, that it does not suck now, and that we have great prospects for member expansion going into the future. That makes the current situation absolutely perfect, and absolves Deloss of any fault in the matter completely.
  15. Compared to TCU, WVU, UH, UC, BYU, or whatever expansion candidates have been thrown out there?
  16. Again, this idea is either tremendously naive, or fantastically disingenuous.
  17. That is an overly simplistic characterization, only employed to avoid the obvious topic of discussion. He negotiated harshly with other members of the conference, to the effect that they thought their best option was to leave. Why not simply confess that the conference was pretty damn awsome, as was configured, and it would have been best to work with our business partners?
  18. I just gave you what you are dishing out. No need to cry about it.
  19. You can keep telling yourself this over and over while we continue to evaluate our shitty conference affiliation options. It does not make things any better for anyone, and does not align with, or reconcile, the observable evidence. What would have been better is an intact Big 12 conference.
  20. You need to take your orange glasses off once in a while, and take a realistic look at the situation.
  21. Do you think four universities just left the conference in a span of two years because of their own stupidity, or whimsical disillusionment? The Big 12 was a very entertaining conference, and could have been extremely marketable. Why would four prestigious universities just suddenly cut bait and head to situations that are not as ideal in the long run? You are blinded by your fandom, but I will not hold that against you. I just wish we could have handled things differently, because now the conference sucks and our conference options suck as well.
  22. Yeah, that is exactly what happened.
  23. They tried negotiating, then they left when they realized negotiating with Dodds was impossible. Dodds also should have realized that he was a member of a partnership of universities who were trying to market themselves as a conference. If he could not realize that, then that it is on him.
  24. I simply do not believe this, and it seems very disingenuous at best. The fact was that he often negotiated with conference members harshly behind closed doors, and then would publicly announce through the media that he gave them all a fair shot.
  25. This is probably a polarizing opinion, but to be fair, it was the shrewd negotiating and leveraging of conference members by Deloss Dodds that initiated the implosion of a conference that was, at the time, very marketable and entertaining. I will never understand why the AD's could not work together to make some money.
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