Everything posted by Ghost of LL
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
The future of the Big XII was put into sharp and sad relief this past weekend for anybody who was uncertain what it was going to look like. It's pretty clear that ESPN views the SEC as its bell cow. And it's going to do whatever it needs to do to maximize the visibility of the SEC (and hence its own revenue). So this past weekend, that meant Texas at 2:30 and aggy at 6:00 with Oklahoma on Friday. And that's what you're going to see throughout the rest of the season--Texas and Oklahoma and the big SEC teams not overlapping on timeslots and competing for viewers. They're going to be lined up in a series so that football fans never have to change the channel. The result this past weekend was that Baylor, Tech, and Cougar High were all shunted off to streaming (probably to the benefit of all of them to reduce the visibility of those awful showings). The Arizona schools play into the early morning hours. And everyone else plays on Thursday or at 11:00. No fucking prime time for the Big XII. And that continues on September 14--Oklahoma v. Tulane at 2:30 on ESPN; aggy @ Florida (yuck) at 2:30 on ABC; Texas v. UTSA at 6:00 on ESPN; Georgia at Kentucky at 6:30 on ABC. That's not leaving just a whole lot of inventory for Big XII games. Arizona State plays on Thursday night; the Kansas schools play on Friday. Cougar High is streaming on ESPN+ again. Three teams play at 11:00. TCU/UCF and Colorado/Colorado State actually get Fox and CBS in primetime--that's good for them, I suppose. Colorado/Colorado State will actually get decent numbers. But apart from those two slots, that's a pretty wretched schedule for a conference. Regularly shunting teams off to weeknights or onto ESPN+ just isn't great for visibility, recruiting, or fundraising. It feels a lot more Mountain West than it does SEC.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Life moves pretty fast on Surly. You donāt stop and look around on Daily Texan, you could miss it.
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USC v. LSU in Vegas, 6:30 on ABC
āWeāre not going back!ā
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Notre Dame @ Texas A&M; Catholics vs Cultists
Es verdad.
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2024 Random Games thread
This Arizona-NM game is really entertaining. But the Lobos wearing their red on the road is really throwing me off.
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Notre Dame @ Texas A&M; Catholics vs Cultists
We have our best team in 15 years, and aggy may have their worst. All in the year we move to the SEC.
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Notre Dame @ Texas A&M; Catholics vs Cultists
They canātāonly conference champions can get a Top-4 seed.
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Notre Dame @ Texas A&M; Catholics vs Cultists
Hahaāeat shit, aggy!
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Notre Dame @ Texas A&M; Catholics vs Cultists
Holy shit, we are going to destroy aggy.
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Notre Dame @ Texas A&M; Catholics vs Cultists
Thatās terrible.
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2024 Random Games thread
Oregon not looking great against ⦠let me check my notes ⦠Idaho.
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Notre Dame @ Texas A&M; Catholics vs Cultists
The Irish QB is just wretched.
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2024 Random Games thread
SMU beating up on a Houston Christian 20-0 still in the 1st.
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2024 Random Games thread
I foresee a big price drop on those Michigan tickets.
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2024 Random Games thread
They do not look great.
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Notre Dame @ Texas A&M; Catholics vs Cultists
Jesusāthat was dirty as fuck.
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2024 Random Games thread
Old Dominion just tied South Carolina as the third quarter ends.
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Texas vs. Colorado State - 2:30 on ESPN
I am so very gruntled right now.
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TCU at Stanford, 9:30 on ESPN
Yeahāthanks for that.
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TCU at Stanford, 9:30 on ESPN
No, sirāsome of us are high.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
And I'm going to say something as someone who has been a part of losing Republican campaigns--I've heard this talk before. I heard exactly this when I was a very low-level volunteer guy working on George Bush's campaign in 1992. I heard this when I was hustling for Bob Dole as a CR in 1996. "Yeah--it's ok if Clinton wins because we're still going to have the Senate . . . ." Now, I'm going to tell you that such rationalizations didn't usually start coming out into October. But still--I've heard exactly this before. We were fucked in 1992 and 1996, and we damned well knew it. But here's the thing--the GQP is even more fucked now. And they don't know it. In the 1990s, the Republican Party was still a real political party. It had policy positions that it wanted to advance. It had ideas with which its supporters agreed. So you could go to them and say "but so long as we keep the Senate and the House, our ideas and policy positions will still be advanced (or at least not completely frustrated)." And shit--that was especially true with the Great Triangulator in the White House. So you could still motivate people who knew they were going to lose the White House to go out and vote in the down-ballot races. The GQP today isn't a political party. It doesn't have a single ideology or a single set of policy positions. It has a single cult of personality. The less-engaged will stay home because it's not fun to get your teeth kicked in. They don't fucking care about the Senate or the House or the state legislature. If it's not Trump, they don't give a shit (as they've repeatedly shown in midterms and special elections).
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Thursday Night's Slate NDSU @ Colorado + Other Games thread
The Chaps have finally taken control in their game against Prosper.
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Thursday Night's Slate NDSU @ Colorado + Other Games thread
This game fucking delivers.
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Thursday Night's Slate NDSU @ Colorado + Other Games thread
So,ā¦Colorado is exactly the same as last year. Is that what Iām seeing?
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Thursday Night's Slate NDSU @ Colorado + Other Games thread
Fuck Colorado, but damned if Iām not entertained so far.