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  1. https://texastech.com/sports/football/stats/2024/abilene-christian/boxscore/20706 He shows up on the participation list
  2. I was about to post that the NCAA wasn’t even aware of OSU, but realized that was wrong. There is a small office at the NCAA, inhabited by an executive’s half wit son in law, that oversees wrestling. They know who OSU is.
  3. VY made the (admittedly good) OL look much better. Edited- jinx!
  4. On the drive home, this morning, I listened to a portion of their post game Scoop podcast. They are mildly worried about WRs, wondering which ones are going to come through now. They are very worried about the OL, still confident that Bedenbaugh will figure it out, but ready for him to start figuring it out with the backups. They think Arnold played great! No interceptions! Nevermind the 5.6 ypa; that will improve. They very much have a traditional top 10 Sooner team, as a whole, envisioned. They are just trying to work through it, in their heads, how that will be when key units are clearly sub-par. They just can’t (or won’t?) envision a less than competitive possibility. I eagerly await the discounter this week, when they talk themselves down from the ledge by pointing out that Texas won 52-0, and they won 51-3, so what’s the big hang up?
  5. Was Weigman throwing up due to illness, heat or concussion?
  6. There is a lot of bs in this post. Who are the blue bloods? Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, USC, for sure. That’s over 20% of the conference. The middle class is Nebraska, Wisconsin, Oregon, Washington, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan State. Any one of these would be the tent pole program in the B12. They have bigger stadiums, and a lot more alums and fans tuning into games. There are very good reasons the B1G makes twice the TV revenue as the B12. The B1G lower class looks like B12 teams, except for Rutgers, which looks like a Sunbelt program.
  7. Royal really was concerned about his players staying eligible and graduating, and put a lot of thought into it. He was not going to simply pressure professors to pass his players (although, when, any professor interested in Longhorn football could be a locker guest, and have good seats), or have cheaters do HW and take tests for them. Texas had the nation’s first academic counseling department for athletes. And, he came up with the T-ring as another incentive, with it taking on a life of its own. His teams were filled with a ridiculous number of very successful attorney, doctors, and businessmen.
  8. Yes, grocery stores run 2% return on sales. They make it work by leveraging debt to have a higher ROE, and being aggressively efficient on turning over inventory. Luckily, the administration is onto Big Grocery’s game of getting rich by colluding across the industry to raise the price of lettuce by 1$ per head. Those bastards!
  9. Here you go: OU had to fire Switzer, because that shithead, left to his own devices in building a program, recruited the biggest bunch of misanthropes outside San Quentin. Urban Meyer looked at that team and thought, “Barry, you have to take character into account when recruiting”. Switzer was fired (it would be years before OU forgot their shame and named their football ops building after him) and was replaced by Gary Gibbs. Gibbs was a very good coach, but at OU, forced by the NCAA to not cheat for a while, a very good coach got you a steady diet of 8-4. Gibbs was fired and replaced by Schnelly (a whole nuther story), and Schnelly was replaced by John Blake. Blake had no business riding higher than “assistant coach” (heh-heh-heh,…bag man), but Switzer needed him away from the Cowboys (in an attempt to fix Switzer’s growing unpopularity, Blake started telling people that Aikman was a gay racist. That didn’t go over well). Barry sent him to OU, telling both parties that Blake needed to install a pro set offense (a long time dream of Switzer’s) and parlay Blake’s ethnicity into elite recruiting. It didn’t work. Blake had a glorious three years of losing, incompetent football. For his first two years, he had a passing QB- Justin Fuente. For his third year, realizing that running any offense that required players to do something other than what they mastered in high school was a fool’s errand, he installed the wishbone and made Eric Moore the QB.
  10. Seriously, is there really PE that isn’t looking for big near-certain returns immediately, to start paying the debt on the huge initial investment? That doesn’t heavily leverage their investment with debt, but rather uses their own principal? Can you give an example? The reason so many PE firms have reps for leveraging their initial investment while scavenging going concerns for near term gains is - it works. It makes a lot of money, at little risk. Please explain your concept in more detail, starting with where the money comes from for the investment, and where the returns come from. If the idea is that they will manage and market the athletics bettter than the ADs and conference offices, why wouldn’t the ADs and conferences just get consultants to teach them how to operate better?
  11. Those are cute. I imagine they come in handy when an ex Sooner needs cash to pay a court order or make bail. You can probably sell them for $3k each. Texas players get by with this. It’s a simple thing, but it only goes to lettermen that graduate, and it’s amazing how hard Longhorns even in the NFL work to graduate, so they can get one. It opens a lot of doors in this state.
  12. Insight into his coaching- 20 years ago, I worked with a guy whose brother was a HS HC in East Texas. The brother had friends that had been on Slocum’s late’90s staff. Those ‘90s Aggie teams were legitimately talented, even on the offense. They said that, when game plans were being developed, Slocum would agree to aggressive offensive plans, throwing often and on any down and distance. Then, pre-game, Slocum would get nervous and tell the OC, “IK, we’re not doing anything crazy here, are we? Let’s keep it safe and wear them down.”
  13. I was checking out the ON3 “Crimson Corner”. Two big themes over there- 1. They are big believers in the transitive property. Their win in the RRS last year gives them a claim for all the program audits Texas is receiving. They believe that was the real OU and the real Texas. Pay no mind to the KU and OSU losses later. 2. Texas has a soft schedule this year, and any achievements Texas has over OU will be the direct result of it. They ignore the Michigan game, and lack of FCS opponents on Texas’ schedule. We know, from experience, that Arkansas may be shitty, but we will get their best version, hyped up on jihad. TAMU and OU will also try going berserk. None of that supports their narrative, so none of that matters.
  14. It really is hard to top the 1978 story of (married) HC Switzer screwing DC Larry Lacewell’s wife. That part is established. The speculative part is where Lacewell quits after the season and gives Arkansas info on tendencies that helped the Hogs pull off the upset in the Orange Bowl.
  15. Immamac should write a personal message feature (we could call it something like “PM”) so that people could take intense takes and comments off the message thread
  16. Anyone who thinks SEC dominance in football is based on caring more is an idiot. My suspicion is that “Our nation’s sordid history of race slavery left us with most of the good players” didn’t test well.
  17. I’ve been reading these threads for a while. Observation- it is stated by most (and all of the Left Behind) that the B12 is a stronger, better and more stable conference than the ACC. That assumption seems to be based on two points: 1. The B12 having a better media deal. 2. Clemson and FSU clearly trying to leave. I offer some counterpoints. A. The ACC got more media revenue last year, when the ACC network revenue is included. Yes, they have a longer contract locking them in. I counter that with: the ACC plays eight conference games while the B12 plays nine. The ACC still has more potential for increasing revenue. B. On the new B12 media contract, Fox really didn’t increase their payment. The growth came from ESPN, and my belief is ESPN is paying for an early release of UT and OU, and this won’t be carried into the next contract. C. I have no idea what Clemson and FSU have for plans, but I’m 99% sure they’re not fighting to leave the ACC so that they can join the B12. A lot of words to support this premise I have: I don’t see the B12 as necessarily having a better position (and future) than the ACC.
  18. I’m just in awe of Al4ISU’s strategy for the B12 to gain basketball dominance by “caring more about basketball”. There is no way the ACC, for example, can imitate that. Then, if the B1G and SEC try something funny with the CFP, the Big 12 will say that they (including Kentucky, Indiana, etc) can’t play in their tournament
  19. I was aware when I typed it out. Vince is an icon, and I am happy to forgive him and approve of active efforts by the university and its supporters to assist him in making better choices. Bomar is a HS asst coach, and I don’t expect anyone to swoop in as a white knight.
  20. Is he still a HS OC at a big program? Damn. 39. We’re all getting old. Three DWIs are not good.
  21. 1. The Big XII is good at basketball, very good some years. Why? We know why the SEC is so good at football- football requires a lot of players, and the SEC schools are located right where a lot of players grow up. Basketball doesn’t require as many players, so Big XII schools, so many located in non-growing states, can fill rosters by keeping local talent and recruiting the rest. Big XII schools tend to emphasize basketball programs and hire coaches accordingly. The point is- the Big XII does not have any innate basketball advantage that other conferences can’t imitate. 2. The NCAA Tournament makes a lot of money. The schools and conferences don’t own the tournament. The NCAA owns it. It is the organization’s crown jewel. The NCAA does not own the CFP. The CFA break was 40 years ago. The NCAA basketball money is distributed by the NCAA to the conferences and schools. Brett Yormark doesn’t get a say in that other than “Thank you”. Other than that, great fan fiction!
  22. My wife and I now refer to murder as a “Dateline Divorce”
  23. 1. You’re right. Argh 2. sorry. Just consider them peas in a pod. 4. How could I forget the Houston Cougars? (Rhetorical question)
  24. I checked on the Texan Left Behjnds for this coming week. TCU plays at B1G member Stanford. The game is on ESPN Saturday night, late. SMU plays their second game, at home, against Houston Christian University (“The Christians”). It will be streamed by the ACC network ACCNX. Baylor hosts Tarleton. ESPN+ streaming (Baylor is on streaming a lot). TT plays ACU. ESPN+ streaming.
  25. Wasn’t that the Big East collapsing, rather than getting pushed out? Like the PAC did? My point remains- when programs like Texas are sick of affiliating with programs like Baylor, they leave. They don’t expel.
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