Sandbagging Steve

Big XII Commissioner Brett Yormark can declare checkmate by telling Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and Arizona State that he's going to add the late-night TV slot to his ESPN package, with or without them. If they don't jump on the Big XII offer, he'll just add two of Fresno, SDSU, and Boise State. If he can get one PAC program to bite, say Arizona, he'll take all 3 of the Group of 5 teams. ESPN would no longer need the PAC late-night television. Could be a semi-bluff, but I think it puts that much more pressure on the 4 corners. And some of his recent media quotes make me think he may be doing just that.

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I did the research last year. I forgot about the old SIAA Huck mentioned though. The active Power 5 teams Texas has faced the most out of conference in the history of the program: 1. Oklahoma: 85 games 2. LSU: 18 games 3(t). Vanderbilt: 12 games 3(t). Notre Dame: 12 games 5(t). Alabama: 9 games 5(t). North Carolina: 9 games 7. Ole Miss: 8 games 8. Auburn: 8 games 9(t). USC: 7 games 9(t). UCLA: 7 games 9(t). Cal: 7 games - Six of the top 8 most played OOC games will be in the SEC plus conference mates A&M and Arkansas. - #5 North Carolina could be a future SEC member. - We've also played Georgia 5 times and MSU 4 times. - Kind of surprising we've only played Tennessee 3 times.

This is a good point, but you must protect what is good, eliminate what is not so good and continue to push forward, grow and make things better. Finding a good balance is essential. If everyone we've ever played for a long time is a rival that should be played every year, there would never be any change and that's not good. If a second-tier rivalry is not competitive or has a small fan base, should we really play them every year? What about all the noncompetitive games in the B1G between rivals? Do fans really enjoy watching 30-point blowouts that can be predicted beforehand? Or even close games with programs that don't carry their own weight? What if the SEC never expanded from the original members,? Would their geographic footprint allow the conference to thrive? Would the SEC still exist? Television only encourages moves that help their bottom line, which means the suggested moves are the moves that the fan bases are asking for in the first place. I want to see big-time rivalries. I want to see college football protect those games but also create new rivals between like-minded athletic programs. I want to see competitive football. There are way too many cupcake games and blowouts in the college game. It's been heading in this new direction for nearly five decades, just at a snail's pace. The fact that Texas hasn't played the SEC teams all that much doesn't mean it shouldn't happen moving forward. Do you prefer playing TCU and Tech or Alabama and LSU? I can tell you which games will create more buzz, more viewership, and more long-term history moving forward. We are a geographical and athletic fit in the SEC and probably should have been playing in that conference for a long time. I think the cheating factor, along with politics, has been the main dilemma over the past few decades. Just because in the past state politicians forced Texas to remain with a bunch of Texas schools doesn't mean we should keep playing them instead of regional border schools with more like-minded athletic programs. Without political pressure, many of these rivalry games may have never existed in the first place. At the very least, they would have ended many decades ago. LSU, I believe, is our first or second most-played game outside of conference affiliation not named OU. I believe there are five or six SEC teams in our top 10 most played games OOC not named OU. I believe Texas/OU would have a much richer tradition with some of the current SEC teams if politics wasn't in play.

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Thanks for the reply! I really enjoyed the history lesson on UF vs. Auburn. I love college football history. My post wasn't referring to Florida vs. Auburn and I don't even remember the post you're referring to. My original post was nothing more than what I stated. My main point was I think the 16 team format is going to be much better than any other format we've had in college football. It will preserve the main rivalry games and produce a bunch of big games against a bunch of different teams while maintaining a fair and balanced SOS. I think right now that schedules are very unbalanced and unfair. Some teams play tough schedules while other don't, even within the same conferences. Any rivalry that is not protected will still be played twice every four years. Some will agree with my take, some won't. My second post was just feeding off your reply. I went overboard., my apologies, but my original post was mainly just about the 16-team format so you confused me with your reply. I did like your sense of humor though. That's why I gave you rep! With that said, I do think the SEC tends to overvalue rivalries. That's not directed at Florida or even Florida vs Auburn. If that is one of your main rivals, then it should be treated as such. I'm not in position to even comment on your history. My point is we tend to hate change, but change is the only way to grow and improve. That doesn't mean there shouldn't be some rivalry games. I would never approve of any changes in the Texas vs. OU rivalry. Fuck Auburn. My dad's family lived there for a year in the 1950's and got back to Texas ASAP. Their entire history is built on cheating and immoral conduct. There stadium was smaller than a Texas high school back in those days. UF has always been my favorite SEC team. Florida is very similar to Texas IMO. Good public university in a big recruiting state that deals with a whole bunch of cheating from their competition. The NCAA's lack of balls has hurt both Texas and UF athletics. I feel like Texas, Michigan and UF have a lot in common. First beer's on me.

I don't think I've met many with thinner skin than you, Gator. Thanks for the laugh. I'm nearly 50. I originally wasn't being an asshole, but you responded like an asshole because you didn't agree with someone else's opinion that is not yours.. You're acting just like an aggie. You're on a Texas board. Take your whiny ass back to the Florida board if want a one way street. It's not an opinion. If every opponent was a rival, it would just be a normal game you play every week. Are you too dense to comprehend? My first response wasn't even pointed at Florida. I simply made a statement that too many of us get carried away on what a rival is...and you got your panties in a wad over that? If you don't grow some skin, you're going to give yourself heart attack on here.

I never mentioned a single game you should or shouldn't protect. Greg Sankey and the conference will do that for you, Gator. If you wanna cry in the Santa Fe, go back to the Gator boards. If everyone is a rival then it is just a normal game. Rivalries aren't supposed to be normal games. They're special. Too many fans in the SEC think nearly half the teams in the old SEC are their rivals. If nearly half the teams in your old conference are your rivals then you don't have a rival. It would just be an average big game. You don't play a main rival every other week of the year. You won't find Texas or any other team in any other conference in America that thinks nearly half the teams they play are main rivals. Texas isn't going to whine whether Arkansas is on the schedule or not. You will play your real rivals every year. You will play everyone at least twice every four years. If you can't live with that, you should go play with yourself. I guess you could just tell Mr. Sankey how this is all gonna work, Gator? Inventing rivalries, stomping your feet and whining like a baby and creating fake traditions is all supposed to be reserved for ATM.

I think "rivalries" is an overused word. There are very few true rivalries worth protecting. Under the 3+6 format (very similar to a pod system), you will play everyone twice every four years. Unless it is your main rival, that is plenty good enough. It's a better system than the one used in the 12- team and 14-team formats. It's also better than playing everyone every single year. A system like that gets stale after five or ten years. This is going to work at very well. With that said, it won't last forever because there will be more additions eventually.

The past few years, the SEC has started to hire better coaches compared to even ten years ago. If you add a 9th conference game and eliminate the end of year cupcake to go along with 2 more bluebloods (Texas/OU), the SEC schedule will be very tough. It will be far and away the most difficult conference schedule in America. B1G still has too much deadweight.

Big 12 hunting prey out West. With the PAC contract expiring, it was critical that the Big 12 rid themselves of Texas/OU after this season. I think we'll see movement before the start of the 2023 season.

That's just fodder. The tweet is all about ATM's new rival: the mighty Appalachian State Mountaineers. Maybe Aggie can join the Sun Belt and make it an in-conference game?

P5 conference programs should only play P5 programs. We will eventually get there. If the SEC moves to 9 conference games, and they should, the rest of college football is going to be playing a much easier schedule. Big 12 needs to gobble up the best of the PAC and the top half of the ACC needs to join the B1G/SEC. The Texas/OU settlement should set the stage for the ACC. At that point, all 3 conferences should up their conference games to 10 or 11 and pass legislation forcing all OOC games to be between the P3 (B1G-SEC-Big 12++++)

That was with 4 OOC games, not 3. It's a big difference. I want to play a great schedule, but everyone else should have to as well.

Paying off FOX

I bet Billy Liucci and the sheep have The Big Sad tonight

Some possess the natural resources to make fresh-made coffee at closing time; others have to settle for digging through the retention after we're done with our delicious reward.

Satan still has the 2010 BCS National Championship Game against Texas on his office wall, five titles and fifteen years later.

I see this cultist never left fish camp. The entire RC recruiting story is made up bullshit. Jackie Sherrill's bagman (Slocum) kept the gravy train rolling after multiple run-ins with the NCAA, including an escape from sanctions because of a technicality on the first round of shenanigans. FedEx was only one of the more well-known methods of stupidity. I mean, RC literally would just drop bags on the front desk of some high school coaches close to signing day without even meeting the recruit. In some cases, recruits would sign in the blind. It was a very different era of cheating than we are used to today. Mack showed up with early recruiting and an actual sales pitch, and Big Ears Pyle was toast. Money bags and a very weak SWC still wasn't enough for ATM to win anything of substance outside the SWC. Maybe RC was good at fucking sluts in his office next to the "student-athletes", but he was a shitty football coach. He fits College Station to a T.

O rly? Do you prefer this: Or this: Maybe fake insiders are your cup of tea?

His disproportionate head to body ratio supports a scientific observation on brain power. Conclusion: Over the past 155 million years, Stegosaurus evolved into what we know of today in science as a Mike Farrell.

Well, look at this boy right here. It look like Bobby Petrino is going to fit in just fine in College Station. He apparently fucked a big fat sheep 36 years ago.

that's a butthole.

I wasn't able to find a good pig gif, but I did find this really good pic of a pig that looks just like Geoff Ketchum.