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  1. Thats (revenue sharing, regional alignment) all great for making money for all. Thats all great if your goal is making money. What if your goal is to win? To win big? And you don’t care about other programs’ welfare and prosperity? Because, that’s where the Longhorns are. Campbell’s goals are not aligned with UT’s. Neither are Saban’s. Screw them.
  2. Would Dillingham take a job where Nagy doesn’t work for him? I doubt it. They’re going to have to hire another assistant
  3. To be clear- I am a reactionary conservative, an old school Reagan Republican. I did not criticize Campbell because of his political affiliation. I criticized him, and characterized him as a foe, because of his sports affiliation, and only that.
  4. The way I heard it- the Texas powerbrokers, once NIL is established- “we have to decide if we want to compete or not. If we want to compete, we need to be in the SEC”.
  5. OU counts on recruiting Texas. Any disagree? Switzer said it was one of his program’s three pillars. The Big 12 was perfect for them. In the original version, they got 2-3 games in Texas, every year. In the last iteration, they got 2-3 league games per year in Texas. That was more than all other blue bloods except one. In the SEC, they get 1-2 games per year, depending upon whether TAMU is on the schedule, and where. Most years, the SEC will give other blue bloods (Georgia, Alabama, Florida,…) as many games as OU gets in Texas. So, yes, OU needs the SMU series, not that I think of it. They probably need to ring TCU, Baylor and UH, too. Not TT- not enough recruits out there (although their recruitments of Daryl Shepard and Jack Mildren, back in the day, were infamous)
  6. All the bullshit from the Big 12 was based on the assumption that Texas didn’t have the ability to leave. There was a small window where: -all UT regents were Exes -Governor is an Ex -Legislator was in a long period between sessions Texas took that opportunity and bailed, and I remember the caterwhauling from Waco, Fort Worth, Lubbock and Houston. We don’t want to give those assholes another chance.
  7. I don’t think it’s mean. The Athletic article quotes Campbell on what he wants- more media revenue sharing and more regional conferences. I don’t think he means that Tech should be in a conference with UTEP, do you?
  8. …and bring in national TV broadcasts, where they weren’t before. In 2023, Texas @ Baylor was an ABC night game and home sellout. They have not sold out at home or been on ABC since. They have been on streaming almost a third of the time. In 2023, Texas played at UH. The game was on Fox, and was a home sellout. They have been on Fox once more (never on ABC) but have not had another home sellout. In 2022, Texas played at TT, in front of 60,975, an attendance they have not achieved again (I think they call 60,229 a sellout, and they have hit that). The game was on ESPN. Tech has played on ABC once, since then, in Austin in 2023. In 2023, TCU hosted Texas in front of a sellout crowd, and on ABC. Neither has happened for the Frogs since (the BCSCG losers did have sellouts before that game). Yeah, the B12 Texas schools badly want Texas on the schedule. No, it would not be good for UT.
  9. The Texas state legislature is unlikely to do something like that for UT without trying to re-addressing the Texas departure to SEC.
  10. Sounds like Campbell wants revenue sharing and more regional conference alignments (i.e., he wants Texas’ media money and for Texas to have to play Tech). Just another wealthy west Texas communist. Screw him.
  11. I am an old guy. This WSJ article made it sound like Creatine is good for old guys. https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/creatine-health-fitness-benefits-63cdff4f?st=w3fcn2&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink Does anyone have experience with this? For general conditioning and aging help? Anything to avoid when shopping for brands? Thoughts on the right amount? Any suggestions? Thanks
  12. Auburn-OU (Sep. 20) should be a fun watch/listen. I expect both teams to put it all out there and each QB (Arnold and Mateer) to try to hero-ball to victory.
  13. I listened to a Sooner podcast last night. It was fun as they tried to figure out what the worst part of last year was. They rehashed getting destroyed by Texas, trailing (temporarily) Maine and others, before deciding on Arnold’s late fumble against Missouri to lose the game. They are trying to gin up the hope now. Their logic is inconsistent, at best: -the OL has to be better, because it was just so awful last year and some new guys are coming in to join with the old guys (I call this the “there is so much shit here that there must be a pony in here somewhere” logic) -the offense has to be better because it was so poorly coached last year (probably something to this) -Mateer was the most highly sought QB in the portal. (Ok, who was second? Beck?) -Texas can’t be as good, after losing so much to the draft. (Another way of putting it- “the guys that backed up their players that left early for the draft can’t be as good as our players that wouldn’t have been drafted). -Auburn will suck, because Jackson Arnold. - They expect an elite defense. I don’t know. Sounds like a lot of hope and cope.
  14. Those were the fans, trying to cope. Their leaders thought they had Texas right where they wanted it- forced to be on their schedule, forced to share viewers and attendance, underpowered due to being in a second tier conference. They were so pissed off when the stars aligned for Texas to leave for a better deal, and Texas chose to do so.
  15. Do you remember the precursor to the BCS? The bowl alliance?
  16. The ACC and B12 (and ND!) better be careful. They might just convince the SEC and B1G to run their own post season tournament. It will turn whatever the B12 and ACC run out into a NIT.
  17. Why wouldn’t the NFL love it? Back in the ‘40s, NFL scouting involved buying a preseason annual and seeing who it said were the best players. Players at major programs had much easier NFL paths than those from minor programs. In the ‘60s, teams (led by the Cowboys) realized that there was real talent at smaller programs, often better than those considered stars at big programs. They expanded their scouting departments (and formed scouting consortiums) so they could cast their nets wider. Now, all programs are looking for talent at least one level down. That’s why there are more draft picks than ever at SEC and B1G schools. The talent is rationalizing itself before they are draft eligible.
  18. TCU got their home game sellouts against a blue blood program, with national TV broadcast. They got them every year, against Texas or OU. Now, you just have to generate the excitement against TT and OSU.
  19. SMU attendance is a funny thing. From 1981-1982, SMU went 21-1-1, and still drew only 27k in Texas Stadium for league games (not against Texas, of course.) Ztejas is right about last year- they neared 35k for many ACC home games. In 2023, home games at SMU averaged in the low 20,000s.
  20. Another good campus job- I was Rlection Judge for Jester East. Easy money, you get to hire your friends, and it looks great on a resume. I think you contact the Travis County clerk for availability
  21. I think Venables broke a primary rule of HCing last year- “You hire your OC for his offense”. He inherited Lebby’s VeerNShoot (Briles) offense and promoted Littrell (from the Leach-Mangino Air Raid tree) to coordinate it. Disaster. Now he has Arbuckle as OC, to run a different style Air Raid (more QB running), and the hire would not be as hopeful if Arbuckle didn’t bring his Qb, Mateer. I have no idea how good of an OC Arbuckle is. He might be a Lincoln Riley starter kit, or he might be a Sterlin Gilbert.
  22. The first game being in Baton Rouge is the clue. I think the way they played TCU- as the game approached, they threatened to cancel unless it was moved to ATT, and thee schools compromised by canceling the Baton Rouge game. Maybe I’m wrong. OU has played at Ford at least once. Maybe it’s not a big deal to LSU. It was in 2013, though.
  23. It doesn’t have to be ATT (and, Lord, is ATT a horrible place for college football). The announcement says “Dallas” as the site. There is a large stadium in Dallas, available for games. That stadium has a history with SMU football. Some used to call it “the house that Doak built”.
  24. That is something, considering that the SoonerScoop posters regularly ask their moderators why Joe Jon Finley hasn’t been fired yet (which annoys the moderators to no end. “We don’t know why he still has a job! Quit asking!”). Occasionally, someone will whisper that last year’s starter, Bauer Sharp, who they bitched about constantly, might have a nice finish to his career at LSU, where he portaled.
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