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  1. …and what’s going on in the Big 12 is that, left to rely on its own assets, it is fading into a minor status
  2. 1. I actually know a little about the program history. Clark Field was purchased by the student club that was UT football. They built the first bleachers, themselves. Later, boosters ran the fundraising to build the stadium. This state owes money to Texas football, not the other way around. Campbell and (to the extent he believed him) Bobby don’t know what they are talking about. 2. Let’s, do we have any economic theory about raising the value of an asset or enterprise by sharing it collectively? Clearly- Campbell is smart (at least, smart enough to listen to people who know something). He sees where media revenue for TT is headed if they don’t manage a jump to the SEC or B1G (watch how fast his time changes, should that happen). He is trying to get ahead of that. Fuck him.
  3. I have no idea why y’all come to the “Left Behind” thread looking for comradely positive affirmations for scrappy try-hard programs. It’s on the first page. This thread is for mockery and humiliation of a bunch of free-riders finally, thankfully divorced out of the family.
  4. They’ll just get paid a lot more for them.
  5. I still contend the B12 should have quietly let the 2015 Texas-OSU crew go after the season, so they could say to Texas, “We’re not going to criticize the officials, but we took care of this”. Instead, they opted for, “Tough shit. You’re going to put up with this, because there’s nothing you can do. Derp!”
  6. “Big 12 pulls officiating crew off Week 3 assignment for rules gaffe A Big 12 officiating crew has been reprimanded following a rules violation in Missouri's 42-31 win against Kansas on Saturday, the conference announced on Tuesday. The play occurred in the first quarter after Missouri's first touchdown, when the Tigers were flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct. Kansas blocked the extra point attempt, and the ensuing kickoff was illegal. The Big 12 officials allowed a punt to occur on a free kick in violation of Rule 2 Section 16 Article 6 of NCAA Football rules. That Big 12 officiating crew has been removed from its next scheduled assignment on Friday. "We believe we have one of the best officiating programs in college football," Big 12 chief football & competition officer Scott Draper said in a news release. "When the Conference's high standard for officiating is not met, the Big 12 will take action." The controversial call occurred in one of the most-played series in Division I football. The Border Showdown began in 1891 and had been on hiatus since 2011, when Missouri left the Big 12 for the SEC.”
  7. Big 12 crew suspended a week for fucking up Missouri Kansas game Referee Mike McCabe leads the crew, which also includes Kelly Deterding, Rick Ockey, Brandon Wood, Daniel Young, Matt Burks, and Dion Spenard Deterding is the asshole that bumped String and then threw a flag.
  8. The beer truck with all the taps just north of the alumni center (outside the stadium, obviously) is the only place I know.
  9. TT has one ugly home schedule. They hosted Ark-Pine Bluff and Kent State, destroying both. Next is what I think has to be their marquee no -conference game- Oregon State. The Beavers are 0-2, with a lower Sagarin than the shittiest B12 program. Their next home game is Kansas. Next is OSU, which probably looked a lot better on the schedule a couple of years ago. Then, BYU visits, and this will be a well attended game, BYU being the conference’s highest profile team now. Finally, UCF visits. UCF is a big school that doesn’t travel. That is quite a slate.
  10. Is the B12 more similar to the PAC or the SEC? Let’s see- of the original B12 members still in the conference, I count a total of seven conference championships out of 39 years (KSU-3, BU-2…thanks, Art…, OSU-1 and CU-1). The PAC has existed for 57 years, and I count four total conference championships from the original two members still in it. So, the B12 wins that comparison. It is a bad look that, in the SEC, OU by itself has more B12 championships than all the teams still in it.
  11. http://sagarin.com/sports/cfsend.htm Right now, the B12, as a conference, looks to be as close in quality to the Sunbelt as it does to the SEC. There are 12 SEC teams rated higher than TCU, the B12’s best (Texas and OU are two of them). Maybe it will level up a bit over the season, surely it will provide a couple of teams have only a loss or two, but it’s just not a good conference. I can’t believe Yormark rejected two AQs for the CFP.
  12. I ran the Stassen database. From 1995-2023, Texas Tech scheduled three Sunbelt teams, eight WAC, 16 CUSA, 10 AAC, 10 MWC, 11 Big West, five PAC, three ACC, and seven SEC. So, an average of 2.5 FCS and G5 teams, and .5 P5 teams per season. Thats ok, though. The media contract wasn’t valued on the Tech viewer contribution, anyway. Then.
  13. That was a Texas-Missouri game, idiot! No one is questioning Texas’ willingness to have a difficult schedule. You seem to have forgotten- we were in the B12 for 29 years. We saw how the IR8 teams free-rode the contract, using the first month as tune up games, scheduling FCS. It’s only now that ESPN and Fox are letting the league know what a loss leader it is that the conference is asking schools to give a little up in scheduling.
  14. No and it’s not working. Their media “partners” are on Their asses about crappy scheduling, not wanting to subsidize B12 September schedules of unwatchable games. You’re seeing, for the first time, these schools play conference games in week 1. The other thing is the need for revenue, to fund the program competitively. That’s a problem, and it’s going to get worse. That’s why Cody Campbell wants a shared media deal.
  15. Re-read the post. The enabler for the strategy is being a member in a conference with a good media deal. That doesn’t apply to TCU until 2012, and I see a lot of SMU, FCS schools and bottom feeder P5 schools (Sure, throwing an LSU).
  16. Bill Snyder created the model for teams like OSU, ISU, KSU, TT, BU, TCU, etc. ; 1. Get a great coach. 2. Schedule non-conference patsies, at home, so you have a 3-0 or 4-0 baseline to start the season with. 3. Run a program that teaches and develops talent. 4. Build stability by winning 6-8 games per year, and make a run at a conference championship every few years. Snyder wasn’t the first guy with the ability to do this. He was the first one after college football media revenue was upended after the ‘80s OU/UGA lawsuit. After that, media was negotiated by conferences, and weaker programs in major conferences could actually afford to play patsies. Before that, teams like OSU and KSU relied on gate for revenue, and had to play good teams. Really, check out old schedules- non-conference used to be real teams, because they needed the gate. Gundy, like Patterson, Briles, Leach, Mangino, Campbell and Snyder before him, took advantage of this era. Small programs still didn’t have the resources of blue bloods, but if they were in the right conference, they had enough TV revenue to fund closer to the big schools, and were given steady games against their conference’s blue bloods, to stay in the public eye and keep boosters engaged. When they hit on a coaching hire, they made sure they paid well enough to keep him, if he was inclined to consider staying. That era is over. Disparities in revenue once again mean disparities in competitiveness, and by an even greater amount. In (what I’ll call) the Snyder era, teams knew they needed to pay their star coaches top dollar, to keep them. Now, they ask those same coaches to surrender seven figures of salary to fun NIL. It will just get worse for B12 schools, because their next media contract will reflect an even greater discrepancy. It’s a new era, and what worked in the last era for OSU doesn’t necessarily work in the new one.
  17. At the season beginning, I assumed Livingstone was just placeholding until Mosley was healthy. Now, I’m wondering whose spot (Wingo’s or Moore’s) Mosley will be competing for.
  18. statsman replied to SmokeyBear1861's topic in Cloak Room
    There have been organized mass anti-Israel protest marches in London, weekly, since Oct. 8, 2023. Was there something different this weekend? Edited- googling shows that the UK designated the organizers, Palestine Action, a terrorist group after members trespassed a RAF base and vandalized a couple of jets. The UK has different understandings of free speech and assembly rights than the U.S.
  19. I don’t know the rigor of the ESPN FPI model, but if you sum up the percent chances, by conference, of a team in that conference making the playoffs, the SEC comes to about 4.5, the B1G at about 3.5, the ACC to about 1, the B12 to just a little over 1
  20. statsman replied to MillerEP's topic in Books
    Am I the only one who is ready for Warren Ellis to get out of comic book jail?
  21. ESPN didn’t buy them to sublet them. They’re making the best of a bad contract
  22. You’re a good fan. You remind me of one we used to have many years ago, Cowboy3949 (RIP). He posted once, “Running down your head football coach in public leads to positive outcomes like talking bad about your wife in public”.
  23. Why? Are you as interested in watching TCU-SMU, an even more regional rivalry? Would you rather watch that, than, say, USC-PSU? I’m curious as to why… Texas plays SHSU, out of Huntsville, closer than Dallas. Does that regional game interest you? Why or why not?
  24. Baylor, Rice, SMU and TCU have long series with Texas because there was a railroad between those cities. The series all got established before cars and buses, let alone airplanes. I see ND had a long series with Indiana in the late 19th and early 20th century, presumably for the same reasons. I don’t know why they stopped playing much for the last six decades. Are you ok with ND being given a slate that has them playing g Indiana every year? Because of the history?
  25. There is no reason for Texas to ever play at TT, TCU, BU, or SMU. There are more Texas fans there than the home fans. Why would Texas even do that to its fans? Rice, on the other hand, has a huge stadium. Why would one of those teams agree to play just an away game in Austin? I don’t know- ask TCU why they did that in 2007?
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