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  1. That was in 2023, but,…Oregon… I don’t know,…what are they without Knight propping them up?
  2. TCU is scheduled to host UNC in 2026. It was just announced that the TCU home game will be played in Ireland, as part of the kick off weekend. TCU fans have mixed feelings, but I see why they’re doing this- the league needs a unique time slot and to have the nation tune in. TCU has “hosted” a couple of major power non-conference games over the last dozen years- LSU and tOSU- with each game played in Arlington. Those teams want to play games in front of their fans and DFW recruits more than they want to experience Frog Alley. I got curious about other IR8 teams- how many major, national programs do they get to host, in non-conference? I looked at the last 50 years- 1. ISU: none 2. KU: none 3. KSU: Miami, USC (20-25 years ago) 4. TCU: none, unless you count the Arlington games 5. Baylor: Auburn (50 years ago), USC (40 years ago) 6. UH: they would play some, over 25 years ago when they played in the Astrodome 7. TT: UW (45 years ago), Miami (35 years ago), USC (30 years ago) 8. OSU:, UGA, UW Before, these schools could argue that they didn’t need to schedule major powers for home-and-home, because their league schedule was tough enough (plus, they typically had Texas and Oklahoma visiting in alternate years). Now, their league schedules are impressive, and they need to give home viewers a reason to dial in. Any big name visitor I’d uninterested with getting ten percent of a 48k stadium. I really don’t see many solutions for them.
  3. It’s coming together for Dallas to take Sandwrs, isn’t it?
  4. What does this mean? Is he saying that after no one else can enter the portal (presumably, any Longhorns would be in), Texas will address its needs in the few days left? Or that Texas will address its needs its needs after the portal period is over (How?)?
  5. I’m sure there are players in FCS, but it seems like it would be a more reliable source of guys that fill absolute holes in your roster, than a place to find stars for your team. Also, it depends on their goals. Two and three stars from high school rankings can make the NFL, but for guys like that, the most important choice to make is to find a program where they will play, rather than a program that’s a big name in a big conference. An overlooked guy at Oachita Baptist is better off going to Arkansas State (G5) and playing a lot, rather than OU, and competing for the second team.
  6. Crap. I remembered the Titans (TM), but brain farted and thought they were in another Tennessee city (I know, ridiculous) Still, the overriding point is that Texas and Ohio State (mostly Texas) are better situated than others to have payers paid to hawk cars and restaurants
  7. For industry marketing NIL opportunities, here are the top 50 U.S. municipalities, ranked by GDP. When you look at P4 college towns, and omit those that have pro sports teams, you have: 22. Austin 27. Nashville 34. Columbus, OH 38. Raleigh, NC OKC only has the Thunder, if you want to count them, and checks in at 48.
  8. https://www.wsj.com/sports/basketball/luka-doncic-lakers-lebron-james-00be8ea4?st=7NYBMc&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink
  9. Ok, Nico
  10. Honestly- credit to them. They had players injured; how could they not? They just didn’t stop playing (I remember Calmus playing half the season with a cast on his forearm?). Back to Burks- I hope this link works. Basically, he made most of his hay in 2023 against Fresno State and Indiana. Against Iowa, tOSU, Michigan, Nebraska- he averaged less than 8 yards per reception (and he didn’t have a lot of receptions). If, in his fifth year of college football, Burks performs at a level the Sooners expect, then he will have climbed to a level of performance that he has never approached before. https://purduesports.com/sports/football/roster/burksdeion/12167
  11. Great explanation- thx. My point was more that they were casting a wide net for talent in a year when they should be just filling holes, not rebuilding whole rooms. You’re right about that OU staff in ‘99 and the job they did. Years ago, I did a detailed look at quick MNC builds (2000 OU, 2002 tOSU, 2003 USC, 2009 Bama), and was struck by how in each case- EXCEPT 2000 OU- the new HC inherited a bunch of future NFL talent. I had heard for years about Stoops cashing in on the roster Blake assembled, and was surprised to see that Stoops inherited less high level talent than Mack Brown did from Mackovic. He got two key guys from JC (Heupel and Torrance Marshall), and moved a bunch of athletes to different positions. Plus, being an early Spread adapter helped. Overall, it was really a remarkable job of coaching. I really wish the BCS had matched them with Miami, instead of FSU.
  12. Yeah, I never understood the love for Burke. I figured him to be their “Neyor”- a key pickup, if healthy, who is just a sunk cost you absorb if unhealthy. Marvin Jones Jr. is on his third team at OU. Crazy. What OU is doing this year, hitting the portal hard for key positions and shuffling in dozens of new portal-ins from FCS (the “There is so much horseshit here that there must be a pony in there somewhere” theory of roster construction) is very reminiscent of Stoops year 1. That it is actually Venables year 4 is hilarious.
  13. Three of them have not even played yet for OU (Mateer, Ott and Jones). Also- is Fasusi not one of their top ten paid?
  14. Here is a moderator’s guess at their top ten NIL salaries (I think RSJ is Robert Spears Jennings):
  15. They (some of them) believe Mason-Thomas is better than Simmons, and Kip Lewis better than Hill. It’s the old thing where fans only follow their own team and pay no attention to others when they’re not playing them.
  16. The Okies are coping with Texas reloading…
  17. This is terrific- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rest-is-history/id1537788786?i=1000703448165 Two clever British historians take a break from their usual fun, perceptive takes on The Battle of Hastings, and The Napoleonic Wars to look at pop music. It’s full of fun moments, like their gentle argument about Brian Jones and John Lennon’s relative guilt as woman-beaters: Tom (a Lennon fan): “Well, yes, and that (Lennon beating his wives and girlfriends) was the defining struggle of his life….” Dominic (less of a Lennon fan): “Oh, right, and so he’s the real victim here, yeah?”
  18. The free throw line.
  19. I remember “Mack huggers” and “Mack haters” from Austin 360. “Mack” was Mackovic
  20. And that five years old tot was taken to the game by his 86 years old great grandfather, who as a young teen beat the drum for a Confederate regiment in the Civil War…
  21. I am now reading that the reduced contract was instituted before Nagy, under the Venables regime, and that Nagy cleaned the mess up, realizing what a black eye this is. A couple of comments- NIL has verbs few rules, but one rule that exists is that it can’t be performance-based, yet that is exactly what OU gave Stone initially. For all the complaints the Sooners had about other teams tampering with their roster- Nagy absolutely tampered with the RB, Ott, before the portal opened, and they are all fine operating that way. Ethics, in Soonerland, are situational, as they always have been. it is almost 20 years since the Sooner Big Red Auto scandal. Stoops got a lot of mileage out of kicking his starting QB, Bomar, and his backup OL off the team as a consequence of getting paid for little work. It never gets mentioned that AD Peterson and his father were also getting (bigger) pay for no work from Big Red, and there were no consequences for them. The truth is- they were kind of ready to move on from Bomar,or at least, they weren’t ready to go to the mat with the NCAA over him.
  22. They realized just what a bad look this was, and fixed it. Meaning- they took money they intended to apply elsewhere and gave it to Stone. The OU big money guys now know that Nagy is a bum. Great work, guys!
  23. Enjoy it. It wasn’t that long ago that they reveled in Texas recruiting failures, laughing at our dumbasses losing head-to-heads because we wouldn’t drop a bag here and there. We’d talk about rules-following and they’d laugh at our naïveté at how the world really worked. I am enjoying this new era thoroughly
  24. Thanks, that really provides insight. I wonder how much of USC’ struggles come from an organizational dysfunction in this new era (supposedly, Texas has a good rep among players and their agents for coming through on promises, and others have…less good reps). Similarly, I’ve seen posters wonder why tOSU hired ex Ag AD Bjork as their AD, considering him kind of a clown from his ago days. I think the Buckeyes view it differently- he was AD when Ag football signed (bought) the top recruiting class ever. The Buckeyes care less that the class flameout in failure than that Bjork, at the least, turned a blind eye to football dropping bags or, at the most, ran interference for them as they dropped those bags. That’s the kind of AD tOSU wants.
  25. Yeah. The only way they tried to address it at all was the narrator commenting, “It surprised you as it was the first time you had ever know. Jonathan to put someone else first”. I think when Nicholas was visited the last time by Stephen, he smelled the aftershave (he is shown sniffing hard) of Jonathan on Stephen, and in an unconscious state reverted back to five years old, and said, “Mummy, I want to go home” (five year old Nicholas wanting to go home from Italy). That forced Stephen to realize that his son really traumatized the two (before he finds Nicholas watching in that one photo).
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