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CDC was stuck...no way that UT or the media was gonna let them not keep a black man who just took over a train wreck situation and immediately took the team to the Elite Eight. Zero chance.

IIRC, Gundy has an automatic rolling 5-year contract that is at $14 million per year. T Boone Pickens' ghost may need to get called in a seance for some pocket change in the years ahead.

Good point…maybe I should’ve said “and them”

There really needs to be levels of play that are based on a combination of capacity, budget, and TV ratings. Each level would have division play and then playoffs. These are the 30 brands that combine all of this with CFB history, championships, and prestige. Add in whoever you want, but that makes the slope very slippery for the top level. Washington, Oregon, USC, UCLA, Notre Dame, Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Texas A&M, LSU, Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Florida, FSU, Miami, Georgia, South Carolina, Clemson, North Carolina, Virginia and Virginia Tech. The next level would include these 40 brands: Stanford, Cal, Washington State. Oregon State, Arizona State, Arizona, Utah, BYU, Boise State, Colorado, Texas Tech, TCU, Baylor, UH, Oklahoma State, Kansas State, Kansas, Mizzou, Iowa State, Minnesota, Illinois, Northwestern, Purdue, Indiana, Cincy, Pitt, WVU, Maryland, BC, Syracuse, Rutgers, NC State, Kentucky, Louisville, Duke, Georgia Tech, UCF, Ole Miss. Mississippi State, and Memphis. The next level is everyone else who wants to meet some nebulous standard--rest of schools not listed above in the G5s + and FCS schools that want to move up to this level (70-80 schools).

Iowa State in Kansas City in the Big 12 :: Arkansas in Dallas in the SWC

UH will run them. Kansas has nothing on the road. And its Senior Day, where UH will celebrate a ton of stuff. That game will be ugly. I also suspect that KSU will give yall everything you can handle in the Little Apple. Winning on the road is hard, then add in Senior Day and its usually a pretty rough day for road teams unless they are way better than the home team. Same thing for Rapelor at Tech.

If I were them, I'd jump on that shit ASAP. They don't want to be in a conference with Texas or Oklahoma, so go. And let Texas recruit here as the only SEC option in the state. Since they blew that advantage all those years, let them see how it looks to not have that option.

That KU team is nothing to fear. I think UH, Baylor, and ISU are all better than them, even though they beat two of them already, UH and Baylor will do to them what Tech just did when they play them at home. What I can't figure out is who in that middle group of Big 12 teams has the goods to make a run in the tournament. Maybe Tech or TCU? I don't see KU or Texas making any noise, nor do I see BYU doing anything. UH seems like the only serious title contender.

History will tell us that ISU will run hard and win the Big 12 Tournament out of nowhere, then get into the first round as a trendy pick because they are hot and lose to some midmajor in the first round.

A&M going from 5-7 to 7-5 was realistically about as good as they could ask for. But their fanbase rarely deals in reality. They were never going to beat Bama, Tennessee, Ole Miss, or LSU, and the games against Miami, Arky, and South Carolina were almost destined to provide at least one loss. Only games against OOC spares and MSU (Without Leach, who was their kryptonite) and Auburn were the probable wins. Going anything better than 7-5 seemed ridiculous from the start--and that was with Weigman being healthy all year.

That movie takes a lot of bagging these days, but the scenes where he meets his son for the first time and the scene where he places the envelope with MOM inscribed on the front at Jenny's gravesite just destroy me every time. First movie I ever cried in and it still does it to me to this day anytime I see it.

Yeah, I don't get the idea of anyone wanting SMU. Nobody cares about them outside of Highland Park. They don't draw flies to games at home unless they play a big named school or someone who cares about playing them (see North Texas). People have heard of them because they cheated better than anyone had at the time in the 80s, but really, nobody cares about them.

Pony Excess was my favorite, but the best one was the Duke Lacrosse fiasco where justice prevailed. Mike Nifong tried his very best to play politics to stay in power and gain popularity, all the while not giving one care about the lives he was about to crush because of lies.

This...everything you posted is perfect.

This. The AAS and other media outlets were salivating at a controversy of not hiring a black man who took over a horrible situation from a white dude assaulting his lady and took them to the Elite Eight, only to be told he didn’t do enough and we hire some white dude. Thats now this university’s leadership rolls. CDC had no choice, honestly. If it’s a disaster in 3 years, then you can move on.