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  1. The Aggies are going to be incredibly hyped up. The players will be raging, the fans will be frothing, their cadets will be shoveling shit into the Longhorn band, the Ags will have been crying for two weeks about the 12 kids that died when their bonfire collapsed, making sure that everyone knows they believe they deserve a win. And Texas will win by two scores.
  2. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5523985/2024/06/03/dillon-gabriel-oregon-football/
  3. Who has ever posted that? I know Al, the ISU guy, demeaned Stanford for wanting a place at the big table despite not being enthusiastic enough for his tastes, but I don’t think he said they should quit football.
  4. Attendance is one metric of program popularity, but it is imperfect. A better metric is “gate”- the dollars paid by fans to attend the game. TCU’s stadium holds 45k and Texas’ holds 105k (from memory). They both sell out against TT, but TCU doesn’t have half the popularity of Texas. The TCU tix against Tech cost half what Texas-TT tix cost, and that doesn’t even count the disparity in donations required to buy premium seats and suites. It’s simple economics and pricing elasticity. If Texas had a 150k stadium, it could price tickets to sell it out. There are games where TCU struggles to give tix away. Broadcast viewership is a better metric of program popularity, since the price to view is so low- the main cost is the surrendering of time to watch. Thats where you see the real differences. I really don’t know how the media marketers measure the financial standing of different programs’ viewers/fans. I suspect this factor explains why the B1G media payout is better than the SEC’s.
  5. No, just an asshole
  6. This is the thread where we mock the left behind. It always has been. Nobody forces you to click. I’m sorry if you’re feelings are hurt. (I wonder why you decided the internationally renowned campus with a real football history was what you decided to mock for wanting to be in the big leagues despite a current lack of campus support, when there is another campus in Dallas, competing for recruits with you, claiming a big league spot and exulting in their lack of fan support. Is it just more fun to claim superiority over Stanford than over SMU?).
  7. That is quite a strawman. Kudos Here is my real point- you Big 12 left behinders don’t understand how much you have been free riding, and I will laugh and laugh as it becomes clear. I intend to post rating for your games (that aren’t on streaming) as they become available. I will follow Big XII football so as to see who is being developed in our minor league, for portal transfer.
  8. Do you think that if you keep repeating 5,000 in attendance for Stanford football, people will believe it?
  9. In a very old movie, called “Say Anything”, John Cusack’s character is getting advice from his loser friends about how to manage his relationship with Ione Skye. He asks them, “If you guys know so much about girls, why are you hanging out on Friday night at a 7-11 parking lot?” “Choice!”, they all answer. That’s what seeing Okie State, Baylor and ISU fans Stan for the Big XII reminds me of.
  10. In four months, we’ll start to get an idea. Games will be played, and ratings will come in.
  11. “And no one cares.” But, people do care. And that bothers you. Stanford is the traditional power in a high population density, wealthy area of the country. Iowa State is a traditional doormat in a town of less than 100,000, in the middle of Iowa. Stanford has gone 9-27 over the last three years, while ISU has gone 18-20. ISU’s greatest season, ever, was in 2020, when it was Big XII runner up and beat Oregon in the Fiesta Bowl, in front of empty stands, a game nobody outside Iowa remembers. If you asked the typical fan of any team, “Who would you rather be in a conference with, Stanford or Iowa State?”, would anyone answer Iowa State?
  12. I don’t know about a halo effect, but I know collegiate sports started before 2010, and Stanford and Cal have a long history of modest national success- national championships, even. Rose Bowls, Heismans, etc. That speaks to a program’s potential. When Stanford and Cal try to be good at football, they can be very, very good. When ISU tries to be good at football, it can go 8-4 and go to whatever bowl ISU goes to. Hell, in my memory, a SuperBowl was played in Stanford’s old stadium. They ever think of doing that in Jack Trice? Pick any other P2 or Mid2 team- what’s the best bet for scheduling a game that will be on ABC, NBC, Fox or ESPN proper- Stanford or ISU?
  13. Ha-ha-ha-ha! Burke: “Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength”.
  14. Also,…are you Sooners still bitching about the schedule? After the schedule gift of last year?
  15. I’m rubber and you’re glue. Anything you say bounces off me and sticks to you.
  16. Oh, we’ll see. Y’all were pretty sure you were better with Westbrook than Durant for a while, too. I’m just amused by how Sooners lose their shit when someone takes a better job and leaves them.
  17. Okies hate Riley like they hate KD and Royal (after he turned down their offer when Bud Wilkinson retired). Their insecurity can’t handle it when somebody leaves them voluntarily.
  18. It would require the universities to want to get rid of them. I think, for Klatt, it’s enough that most schools he talks to thinks the current environment is unsustainable. For most schools, it is unsustainable. Hopefully, the Texas leadership (and other Gullivers) refuse to be tied down by the Lilliputians.
  19. Maybe Texas can fire him in 2024.
  20. Did you notice, in an attempt to avoid embarrassing scheduling and ratings, how the Texas schools in the Big XII took that day off?
  21. Klatt talked as if the only NIL in this future world would be real marketing. That may be wishcasting the collectives away, leaving only the auto dealerships and the like. I think there are two ways that might be possibly understood. 1. Maybe he think there is no need for a collective when players are getting paid from a $20M pool. For small programs, that can only scrape up $5M per year, that’s probably true. 2. Maybe he thinks collective bargaining and new NCAA regulations would ban collectives. I am sure the majority of NCAA members would vote for that. If so, my hope is that programs like Texas, tOSU, Oregon, Michigan, UGA and the like tell the NCAA to pound sand.
  22. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joel-klatt-show-a-college-football-podcast/id1037085984?i=1000656883603 Klatt is smart, and talks to people. He discusses the NCAA vs. House court decision and what it means. His takeaways: 1. Necessary to stop the NCAA lawsuits, that they keep losing. He says the conferences are all onboard. 2. Positive move that revenue sharing will be used to pay players, because he says current system (collectives) isn’t sustainable. He believes/wants NIL to be pure marketing for worthy marketable players, and not pay-for-play. 3. He thinks legislation is needed so whole nation has same rules, plus an exemption from antitrust. 4. He thinks the NCAA has to split away from non-revenue sports because it makes no sense to share the pie with those non-revenue players. 5. He expects collective bargaining. Statsman’s thoughts: 1. Of course Klatt wants the course he has charted. He calls games for a couple of leagues of schools. He doesn’t want any of them (especially his alma mater) to become less relevant. He wants things to be the way they used to be. 2. He describes a future NCAA that exists mainly to market a sport. That’s really not needed. Before the NCAA became a big thing, in the ‘50s, the conferences regulated and enforced rules. Then, the NCAA took that function over, leaving the conferences to market their leagues. I don’t see why the NCAA is needed if it won’t enforce rules (and it hasn’t for almost 15 years). 3. I absolutely agree that if it came to a vote, most of the programs would vote for revenue sharing, salary caps and restrictions on movement, because that would help most of the programs. The programs that don’t need sharing, that don’t need a cap, and are fine with few player restrictions (teams like Texas) are very much the minority. I hope that Texas has plans for these proposals, and is working with similar programs. I wonder if it makes sense for there to be a super-league, with no caps and Texas NIL being a differentiator in recruiting.
  23. “The Rude Awakening” trope, again.
  24. Hey! My dad was army buddies with a Hawaiian guy named Charlie Kalani, who left the islands to play football in Utah in the early ‘50s. He wrestled as n evil Japanese, Professor Tanaka, and rounded out his career playing heavies in Chuck Norris and Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. (Dad said he was the greatest guy, but since they served together on the all-Army pistol team, and he was actually really good at martial arts, besides the rassling, I’m going to say he really was a badass.)
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