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  1. I think the players should group together, make a cool brand that is vaguely "Texas" without being Texas and split the profits. Make the gear luxury, sell it at a premium, and create a new brand that uses their NIL to sell the stuff. 

    Instead of supporting the players from 50 different individual brands they created on their Instagram and sloppily managed, they can work together like a team and really rake in some cash. 

    Maybe if they get big enough they can use their LEVERAGE to pay for officially licensed gear and slang that too.

  2. Man I started watching from the beginning and it was so frustrating. Glad Harden could come out and provide some ball handling but damn they don't have anyone other than the big 3 that can really play offense with the ball in their hands. Shamet came though pretty solid, holy shit Jeff Green and even Blake Griffin knocking down 3s was awesome.  Although I really wish Griffin would stick to the Clint Capela role of just taking lobs from Harden, I guess Harden isn't going to be doing much driving right now and he's out of sync with the guys. Need to get some serious practice minutes with him to get him right again. 

    Harris and Brown where garbage, and they brought in Mike James to handle the ball a bit and he bricked a 3 so bad had to pull him. Bucks defense is pretty rough you have to play strong to make them draw the foul or get by them. 

    Once it got closer at the end of the 3rd quarter you just KNOW KD is going to will them to victory. He's done it so many times back in the OKC days with clutch 3s I was really sure he had that game. The ball denial and full court press needs to get exposed because it was working too well, got to have more ball movement and off-ball picks to get the ball down the floor and get KD the rock. 

  3. 10 hours ago, Lhorn said:

    Every football player gonna design clothes now?   

    If I can just get a proper burnt orange rope hat I'll be happy.

    I've got one now it's just kinda faded and fucked up from wearing it too much in the sun.

     

  4. Florida plays rival Florida State around Thanksgiving every year, and gets their in-division rival Georgia neutral site every year. Plays their cross-division rival every year with LSU. Also squeezes in Miami every few years too. 

    They get to play the schedule they want because they aren't playing 9 conference games every year, only 8. They also have a championship that is most often not a rematch. 

    Everything about the round robin method sucks. The solution isn't deleting the conference title game though, having 2 or 3 teams all finish super close to each other sucks. Also having that weekend where every other conference is playing a championship while we aren't would really suck.

    Just add two more teams to the big 12 and actually have 12 teams, or just blow this shit conference up. BYU, Nebraska, Memphis, Cincinnati, Louisville, Air Force anyone

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  5. On 6/11/2021 at 2:50 PM, camel at sea said:

    Yep.  The SEC's conference games are worth more than the in-league games of the Big 12.  This gives them the ability to only play 8 instead of 9 without falling behind.  As a result, then they can game the system w/ OOC schedule and build themselves up even farther.  

    The Big 12 can do what the ACC is doing and try to play fewer conference games to build up our brands with inflated records... but our inventory is not worth as much, so we're going to be in a financial hole (like the ACC) if we try it.  

    Sounds like reason #0851025832590329 to go independent and let Baylor and TCU rot with Houston.

  6. 5 hours ago, ButtFumble said:

    the Big 12 does not have to play a full conference round robin......the Big 12 can also split into two divisions ("as equally matched as possible" which for the NCAA means the number of teams not strength of teams) and they can play a CCG with the winners of the divisions having to play in the CCG

    the NCAA rule gives you a choice.....full conference round robin and match the two best teams or split into even divisions (or divisions only unequal by one if you have an uneven number of teams in the conference) and then you must match the division winners in the CCG

    the Big 12 right now is the only conference besides The Sunbelt (also 10 teams) that realistically has the option to hold their CCG with either format.....the AAC could if they wanted to play 10 conference games, but they also have a 2 year waiver until they have to add a team so they can match their two best teams in the CCG because of that waiver without a full conference round robin......the PAC 12 could if they played 11 conference games, but even the PAC 12 is not that dumb 9in fact most coaches in the PAC 12 know that 9 conference games is killing them as the study showed that used the PAC 12 for the study).....the PAC 12 was stuck with larry scott though that was worried about "content" instead of QUALITY of content and that was too dumb to know that even in OOC games the home team owns the rights to having a home and home two years in a row with two conference teams is the same total content as those two conference members having a home and home with two OOC teams

    none of the teams you mentioned are available to the Big 12 and it is highly highly highly unlikely they will be in the future

    if the Big 12 was split:

    Texas, Texas Tech, WVU, Baylor, ISU

    OU, OkState, KU, TCU, KSU

    that would be equal in terms of number of teams for the NCAA and it would be very equal in terms of strength of divisions for the conference as a whole

    each team plays a protected "rival" above and below to Texas/OU. Tech/OkState, KU/WVU (it ism what it is), Baylor, TCU, ISU/KSU

    all major rivalries are protected that way.....yes OkState misses Texas, yes TCU is in the "non-Texas" division, yes ISU misses KU annually, and you can say Tech and Baylor miss OU

    but playing SEVEN conference games you play the 4 from your division, your protected rival, and then a pair for the remaining four every two years home and home

    The Big 12 would still play each other more frequently than any other conference, the Big 12 would not have about the same % chance of a CCG rematch as the PAC 12 (playing 9 games) .778% Big 12 vs .75% PAC 12

    with that alignment and the current strength of those teams and the historical strength of them it would be very likely the Big 12 would have two very good teams in the CCG and possibly as many as two other teams with very good records (one in each division or possibly even two in one division) also looking at a chance for the CCG

    as far as "content" goes say Baylor plays KU home and home with the stupid 9 game schedule now....that is one game each year for the media partners.....if instead Baylor plays Wake Forest home and home for two years with the home game for Baylor the first year and KU plays Oregon State home and home playing away at Oregon State the first year.....well the Big 12 owns the Baylor Wake game the first year (one game) and the Big 12 owns the KU Oregon State game the second year (one game) for a total of two games over 2 years.....the same exact number as Baylor playing KU two years in a row

    and those games are at least as "exciting" as Baylor vs KU and since they will mostly draw as many if not more "casual Big 12 fans" and they will draw Wake Forest and Oregon State fans and possibly a few "causal PAC 12 or ACC fans" well the media partners are getting "free eyeballs"......because next to no one outside of very hard cosr "casual Big 12 fans" and Baylor and KU fans are tuning in for Baylor KU as it is now

    even if Baylor and KU went .500 in those games each year that is still probably a new win for the conference because it was the same .500% against P5 teams, but one was at least out of conference for better "eyeball test" for the conference.....if they went .75% well that is a hell of a lot better.....and depending on what is going on even if they went .500, but they won both one year and lost both one year that year with 2 wins OOC could help the Big 12 a lot and yes there is a chance the year with two OOC losses could hurt a lot.....but that is where you need your top teams to step it up no matter what the lower tier teams do

    over time if the Big 12 can get their lower tier teams winning better than 50% of those games especially the P5 OOC games and over time if the Big 12 can win a very high % of any G5 OOC games that helps the lower tier teams the most in terms of recruiting, bowl games and extra practice and in terms of going into the next season and it helps the conference in terms of looking the best at the end of the year and thus being thought of better to start the next year

    the Big 12 can easily guarantee the media partners they will have at least 2 OOC P5 games in the schedule (though you have to trust ESPN will not play games and try and get the SEC SEC SEC and ACC to limit those chances for the Big 12 which is a stretch) and there could be a bonus system for three or more OOC P5 games......the Big 12 as it is has pretty much every team except a couple playing 10 P5 games and some play 11 like WVU in 2021 and Texas in the recent past

    it is right there for the Big 12 to reach out and take and play the system the way that is the best for the Big 12, but people cannot get past the long gone idea of "conference games just mean more" and get with the idea of fucking wins (even over dog shit) mean more than "good losses" especially "good conference losses" (which are the worst losses for a conference)

    they made a whole commercial about "toughest road" with lasers and everything, can't go back on that now

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  7. 19 hours ago, Randolph Duke said:

    Not to be picky or to go all CR here, but can we leave the term “blue blood” to the aggys. 

    The term originated during the 1400s when the Catholics were attempting to kick the Muslims out of Spain. Those of “blue blood” could raise their arm and the whiteness of their skin would allow the “blue blood” in their veins to be easily observed. (They were the “good guys.”)

    As opposed to the darkness of the skin of those who “carried the blood” of the Muslims whose veins could not be seen under their darker skin. 

    I understand how “proving one’s whiteness” follows the teachings of “Sir Sul Ross the Innocent” but....

    Thankfully, once the Muslims were kicked out of Spain, we were able to move on to the Spanish Inquisition. 

    Yay progress! 

    fuck off what are we going to call ourselves "orangeblood" what kind of stupid shit would that be

  8. On 6/7/2021 at 9:13 PM, Machinator said:

     

    He did a really good job of reeling in that venom for that stupid fuck question. It's not even what was "quoted" in the tweet above, he just said did you ever think you would be that good?

    Ended it with "Love" very nice

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  9. 7 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    There's some thought that having the same 4-5 teams in the CFP every year is unnaturally driving the best players to those schools -- I'm looking at Bama, Clemson and Ohio State. Open things up to more teams, get an upset or two and then players start branching out again. Not sure how much truth there is to that but the system we use now keeps giving us some combo of Bama-Clemson-Ohio State and the mystery fourth team each year.

    Very true

    Plus so many players sitting out of bowls because once they created a playoff everything else feels meaningless.

  10. 47 minutes ago, hpslugga said:

    Meh, most of the playoffs in college football have them. In fact, D3 is the only one that regularly doesn't. I tend to prefer the 8/16 proposals myself, but I wouldn't necessarily tell a 12 to "get fucked." I would argue that it seems bound to present screwy situations between the 4th and 5th teams from not having any concrete methodology to separate them, but that's still a whole lot better than this bullshit ass "let's have a committee of people involved with universities in the P5 choose 4 among 130!"

    That whole committee think is a joke, they just want to avoid having to put in a team that isn't going to make as much $$$ because a computer or voter said so. This way they can keep it relatively secret, pretend it's totally legit by calling all the people in the committee "high integrity" and choose whoever they want in the playoff to give them the most buck for the bang.

    Hey CDC is in there so if Texas is worth a fuck we are gettin' in!

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    A dedicated group of high-integrity football experts, with experience as coaches, student-athletes, college administrators and journalists, along with sitting athletics directors, comprise the selection committee. Members of the selection committee are Mitch Barnhart, Gary Barta (chair), Paola Boivin, Tom Burman, Charlie Cobb, Boo Corrigan, Chris Del Conte, Rick George, Ray Odierno, Will Shields, R.C. Slocum, Joe Taylor and John Urschel.

     

  11. 1 hour ago, Hurtlocker said:

    Percent of league who would have participated in playoff if started at 12:

    AAC - 36.4%

    ACC - 28.6%

    B1G - 50%

    B12 - 50%

    G4 - 6%

    Indy -  14.3%

    P12 - 58.3%

    SEC - 57.1%

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    Just looking at this with the past 7 years it looks pretty weak beyond 8.

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