Everything posted by Jasper_Jester
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Realignment talk not going away
My assessment is 1) you have never made a short post and 2) you pretty much hated every other team in the Pac12! I don't disagree about Cal's admin. Not every school needs to play big time college football, they seems to be one that doesn't need to. I will say that as far as capitalism, they did go an opposite direction and ended up with scammed by FTX. Welcome to Cal's FTX Field, a Naming-Rights Deal Funded by Cryptocurrency - Sports Illustrated Cal Bears News, Analysis and More.
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Realignment talk not going away
Hopefully the corn stalkers in Nebraska get left with no rival.
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When we played at UCLA last, we were all packed in a corner and I'm pretty sure we were more than 1/2 the crowd. That was the emptiest a stadium has probably ever been for a hosting a Blue Blood team
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What if Apple tells their fan boys they have to watch though? Technically, they were just following the Big10's lead, so that is a risk even in one of the big kid conferences
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Sure, sure but the Big12 already has Texas, Florida, and Arizona so it isn't like they don't already have states who's governments create headaches. Plus, sports are supposed to bring us together.
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Sort of an "everyone else is eating tide pods" situation?
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I think Stanford could make a go as a football independent. I don't see how Cal could. Cal should consider cutting spending, joining the Mountain West and using the UCLA payments to pay down their stadium debt.
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Realignment talk not going away
I still opine that the 4 corner schools lower the average value of the Big12, but it's your conference now guys, you do you. At least you don't have to worry about three of the four schools challenging for any championships for a while.
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If Stanford ends up out of a prestige conference does that help us win more Director's Cups?(!)
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yep. 50% shared evenly, 50% distributed based on number of appearances Unequal revenue sharing will remain - ESPN - Big 12 Blog- ESPN
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UCLA has only played in 13 Rose Bowl games and hasn't been since before the Y2K scare. They play home games in the building, but I wouldn't say the Rose Bowl was basically them.
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We have these 15 important matchups over here for the next 4 weeks but also, please watch this game because it has a parade with cars made out of flowers.
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Wait, you are telling me people affiliated with multiple universities started work before 8:00AM to hold this meeting? seems unlikely
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Realignment talk not going away
This appears to be why Cal is getting caught on their backfoot with no plan in place UC Regents: UCLA to leave for Big Ten, will pay Cal $2 to $10 million, reportedly annually (writeforcalifornia.com) Basically they are getting a check from UCLA to make up for some of the difference between PAC12 payout. I'm guessing they were hearing the $20M rumors and adding $10M to that.
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They do get one last chance this season. Every Cal fan younger than 65 has never had Cal play in a Rose Bowl in their lifetime. My daughter had been to three bowl games in the Rose Bowl before she was 8.
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Looks like Nebraska took 5 years to get a full share. The articles I found make it seem like USC and UCLA get full shares immediately. Its sports media, so who knows.
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First of all, that sounds like a win for them but, secondly, what about how it was so evil for the Big12 to not have even revenue sharing when the whole world wanted to steal those sweet University of Texas bucks? But, third, how can Northwestern, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, and Rutgers make more than UO and that last long term?
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I need to read the Know your Florida school thread! South Florida. I'm gonna work on forcing a rivalry between ASU and UCF regardless.
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Horns up vs shocker? oh shit, that is Southern Florida....Back to the drawing board
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
To me (and this isn't just a Big12 issue) you can't flex about your OOC schedule if you have FCS schools on it. Those shouldn't even count as wins and if you lose you should be relegated or something.
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If rivalries have to be invented, it seems like other factors could be used instead of geography: BYU and Baylor - Because God Tech and WVU - Because screaming ISU and Colorado - Because beer vs pot KState vs Arizona - Wildcats vs Wildcats Arizona State vs Central Florida - Devil horns vs Bull horns Houston vs TCU - TCU got Houston's spot years ago, time for payback OkState and Kansas - Because you are the man of the house now Cowboy and losing to Kansas sucks (we know) Utah vs Cincinatti - Red and white vs red and black is basically black vs white, a classic rivalry
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West Virginia is going to pick their own rival, thank you very much. You will find out who that is when they start screaming at them.
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Every remaining original Big12 school is losing their primary rival with UT leaving.
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"It's still fraud, though!" sly wink - FSU regents Edit: left out the knowing wink across the third wall
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Realignment talk not going away
That seems like they need a 2/3 or 3/4 majority according to Section 1.6 but it is a lot of words and I don't want to invest in figuring our which it is, 8/15 is less than both of those. ....Maybe that is FSU's fraud angle. Something like "Lots of words, who could be expected to read all thet. Obvious intent to defraud!" Could work in a Florida court and you know it could.