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  1. It’s a Monday. Oops. $100M vs $34M
  2. I understand the sentiment, but no HC is leaving a B1G school ($100K per year in media rev) for a B12 program ($34K per year). That extra money is used to hire support staff for scouting and analysis. Thats why the life of a coach in the B1G and SEC is so much better.
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    Florida Gators

    Sure. And we have played for a NC since they last played for one. Tim Tebow is 37. Edited: googled Chris Leak. He was coaching a HS in 2016. He was charged with an illicit affair with a 16 year old, but charges were dropped when the victim declined to support them.
  4. No, I’m just saying- just because Clark isn’t responding, it doesn’t mean she isn’t offended and isn’t taking notes for the future (I kind of hope she is)
  5. I don’t know that Michael Jordan ever publicly said anything about Isaiah Thomas freezing him out in the all star game. I don’t know that he ever admitted to telling Chuck Daly that he could have Jordan or Thomas on the Dream Team, but not both (and Thomas was a key player on the NBA championship squad of Daly’s).
  6. True story. Abercrombie and Fitch used to be a sporting goods store. In the mid-80’s, I inquired about a Walther Free Pistol they had for sale (I had to show the clerk my international pistol shooting “master” rating card before they let me handle it). It was the store in the strip center north of Walnut Hill and Central expressway
  7. Ha-ha! Arizona, remember that ref that the PAC shitcanned a few years ago? He’s a senior ref in your new league, and his crew is missing blocks in the back that launch punt return TDS!
  8. Watching the Arizona KSU B12 game, they said this was Arizona’s first game at KSU, and how it is a great place to watch football. I’m sure that’s what the Wildcat team and fans were all thinking, “This is amazing! This place is more flat than my house’s foundation! I’m so glad we’re coming here now, instead of Southern California, Northern California, and the Puget Sound. Were the coaches able to get here a couple of days early to scout recruits?”
  9. Last year’s B12 CG was the first time Mike Gundy went into a Texas game without having worked on Texas the prior spring and summer. He rolled out his 2022 Texas game plan. It was glorious.
  10. I’m not sure you understand what this thread is about…
  11. Clearly, the best way to compare conference quality (and program quality) is head to head competition. It’s the best way, but not a perfect way. For one thing, there is the jihad factor. In 2022, for example, the three top games Texas circled were Alabama, Oklahoma and TCU (the last is my guess, due to Sark working for CDC. If you offer a different “third circle”, I won’t argue). Meanwhile, Oklahoma, OSU, TCU, TT, ISU and Baylor all Texas circled. Game results and objective measures don’t care about jihads. For another, the main source of inter-conference competition is bowl games, and the non-playoff bowl games have become pure exhibitions. That fact (I believe it is a fact) is only gradually being recognized. It was a lot of fun watching OSU edge the Aggies last December, but, with the sit outs, the lame ducks and the transfers, does it really say anything about program quality? Finally, I’ll refer you to the 2022 CFP semifinal between TCU and Michigan. TCU QB Max Duggan carried the ball 15 times for 57 yards and two TDs. The running QB is college football’s cheat code. Problem is- the QB needs to be the size of VY or Cam Newton if he is going to do it two games in a row. Duggan isn’t, and his body not being right contributed to TCU’s embarrassing thrashing by UGA. The SEC has a good record in inter conference play. It has a fantastic record in CFP and BCS CG play. I suspect the expanded playoffs will see plenty of B12 and ACC teams win one game (“We’re every bit as good as you are!”) and very, very few win two in a row.
  12. Can anyone explain what point Mac Engel is trying to make in his whiny column? https://www.gazettextra.com/sports/national/mac-engel-tcu-vs-ucf-is-a-great-big-12-football-game-but-does-the/article_5d4c080d-3713-5d24-b90a-ea11d9d5f13d.html
  13. There actually is objective data. The SEC and B1G, over the last 15 years, gradually increased their number of NFL draftees- not just in gross, but per school. The B12 and ACC reduced. A five star athlete has a reasonable expectation (50% are drafted, approximately) of playing in the NFL, and so it is understandable that they would prefer to play in the SEC or B1G. Al, you don’t follow Texas recruiting like we do. You don’t realize the advantage the Ags (and even Ohio State!) had in recruiting the best players. You don’t know Texas football history like we do; it existed long before Sage Rosenfels. This has been the rule for ninety years- if Texas is not dominating Texas recruiting, the Texas coach’s seat is heating up.
  14. 1. It was recruiting. The best players in the state were all biased towards playing in the SEC first and the B1G second. 2. it was the money. You can’t build a program along the Alabama model without hiring a large support staff for scouting and analysis. The media payouts to the SEC and B1G are large enough to cover that expense. The NIL evolution merely made the SEC a viable alternative for Texas. If paying players were against the rules, Texas wouldn’t do it.
  15. Nope. It was Utah’s president. https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/college/pac-12/2023/10/07/pac-12-conference-collapse-arizona-state-michael-crow-speculation-wrong/71103413007/ (I had remembered it as ASU’s president, but that turned out to be wrong).
  16. https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college-football-tv-ratings/ Nice week for the B12. Lot of games viewed, and on major channels, because 11 B12 teams played 10 games against P4 opponents. Four were B12 home games. I complained about B12 teams adopting the Snyder system of only scheduling patsies OOC; now, not even KSU commits to that.
  17. You have to admire this level of commitment to a bit
  18. From your lips to God’s ear, but I’m not going to set myself up for disappointment OU losing to non-P5 teams, going back: 2009: BYU (finished 11-2 and #12) 2005: TCU (finished 11-1 and #11) 1996: Tulsa (finished 4-7) and TCU (finished 5-7) So, after 1996, OU has only lost to exceptional non P5 teams. In 1996, they were so shitty, they lost to two bad non P5 teams. I remember an average Army team giving them more of a game than they wanted, but they squeaked past them. I hope OU is shitty like it hasn’t been for decades, but they’ll have to show me.
  19. I trust your evaluation of their program, but I have seen so many fatally flawed Texas teams use program muscle memory, significant talent advantage in a couple of units, and a deeper dig into the schematic bag than they really wanted to make, in order to soundly beat a lesser foe, and quiet the wolves. It’s certainly not a sign of program health and the piper will have to be paid at some point (David Ash carried nine times in a thumping of NMSU in 2013; how did that work out?) , but I expect a thirty point win to be more likely than a slight defeat, for OU.
  20. Oklahoma is going to work Tulane, hard. It will be a win by a large margin, requiring more pre-game installation and intensity than they ever wanted to put into it.
  21. Look, it’s pretty clear they’re not playing more than 13 games, so why not?
  22. EPL star Georgie Best quotes : “I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered”. "If I had to choose between dribbling past five players and scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging Miss World, it'd be a hard choice. Thankfully, I've done both." “I used to go missing a lot. Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss Workd…” Best was a lot like Mantle- he blew through one liver, got a transplant, and blew through it, too, dying at 59. That’s one thing you can say about Bobby Layne- he didn’t take a liver from the transplant list, leveraging his name for a few more weeks at the expense of someone else, making promises to stop drinking that he knew he wouldn’t keep. He used his liver up, and that was that.
  23. When does Klatt come on? Today?
  24. Here is an article that explained how a real life middle class functional couple lost a lot of money. TLDR: seemingly legit financial advisor “invested” their money in sub-optimum financial instruments that paid high commissions to the salesman. https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/a-couple-won-the-powerball-investing-it-turned-into-tragedy-fc8fd31c?st=3vtaqccscun8f9e&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink I wouldn’t be surprised if athletes meet a lot of guys like that.
  25. Jackson Arnold- is he on a multi year NIL deal? Is it guaranteed (assuming he doesn’t quit or transfer)? Maybe he just needs time to work this out, or maybe both parties need a change, but either way, is there a multi year parameter involved?
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