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Horn of Gabriel

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  1. In the Power 2 world, the national champion will have 2+ losses regularly. Sometimes 3 or more...it's the reality of playing more heavyweight matchups. Just like the NFL, people will still watch if the matchups are meaningful to the playoff.
  2. I see you've reached the bargaining stage, congrats! This is untrue, they'll watch. Even if they don't, the fan bases of the Power 2 programs are so massively large in comparison, and the matchups are going to be so much better that every week will be must-see TV when it's TX/Bama, TX/Georgia, TX/FL, TX/OU, TX/Auburn, etc, no one is going to miss that. And if some G8 fans don't watch, that's fine because it will MORE than be made up for by new fans watching awesome football at the highest college level.
  3. Forget promotion/relegation. It will NEVER happen in CFB, ever. Mandel is an idiot but he nailed it as to why: Wait, wut? You think that a Vandy is going to take a tens of millions of dollars cut to AD revenue, likely forcing them to sacrifice multiple non-rev sports for the privilege of playing in a lower league? In what world does that make sense? Stanford is not a representative case, they're the only university I know of (maybe Harvard) with such a massive endowment that they don't even care about the money side of sports, and even they were talking about cutting non-rev sports recently too.
  4. Yeah and it would be a blip on the radar compared to pulling more fan interest from the top programs
  5. If only we had a someone on the staff to pull together all of these different defensive coaches, get them aligned around one scheme and working together. I'm not sure what to call that role. Defensive Administrator? Defensive Adviser? Defensive Supervisor? ...man, this is TOUGH!
  6. You're alright, Al and have gotten plenty of undeserved shit from people here; if the situations were swapped I'd be pissed too. I'd be doubly pissed to have done all the "right" things as a program and still get left out as a circumstance of geography or not hooking up with the "correct" conference 100 years ago. WRT: ND and the Big10, what would be really interesting is if the Big10 took another 4 out of the west coast like Cal, UW, Oregon and...Stanford. Now the Big10 would hold 2 of ND's biggest and most important rivals. Kinda fait accompli at that point. "Hey ND those are some nice rivalry games you've got there. It would be a shame if something happened to them."
  7. The parody account should 100% quote tweet the real GK account on this one.
  8. I mean...the jokes are writing themselves at this point... That's the parody account right? Right?
  9. The "lost the fans" thing is such a hilariously stupid take by over reactionary Texas fans. It would be funny if it weren't so sad and on brand for us. Sark hired - "We've lost the fans, he's not Urban Meyer, I'm out!" Brings in X, puts together amazing O-line class, Top 5 2023 class so far - "Texas recruits itself! Our NIL deathstar is responsible!" True* Freshman who hasn't played actual football since Jr. year of high-school 2 years ago can't seem to put it together after 6 months on campus in our system - "I thought Sark was the QB God, what gives! OMG we're faced with starting the 4-star with more experience in the system for a few games! I can't believe we might SIT a guy who isn't ready...because....5*! This will crater NIL 2 years from now! I'm out! Lost the fans!" Some of y'all seem like you're more happy if we lose with Sark than if we win, so you can have your told-ya-so moment. Good on you I guess.
  10. Nice straw man fallacy. NO ONE is suggesting the California model. That doesn't mean the Texas deregulation model is perfect, as Uri showed. Our 25% lower rates than the nation have us with a working reserve of a few percentage points. The amazing free power of the market, which I am a believer in BTW, can't deal quickly with externalities like the storm. The way we have it setup with ERCOT actually dis-incentivizes production investment because the ideal spot for our grid is right on the edge of blackout. Unfortunately whether you believe in global warming or not, those edge cases are getting less edgy every year. How many times are you willing to keep rolling the dice? Keep in mind that literally hundreds of people died in Uri as a result of the power failing. I'm willing to pay more to harden the grid; maybe I'm the exception for that? Props to whoever recommended the Disconnect pod upthread - good stuff.
  11. I believe that TX and OU still have voting rights in the Big12, even on the new members thing. We just didn't have the votes to block it so why even bother? If you read the wording of when a school loses their votes its on formal notification of leaving, which IIRC is 18 months written notice. Assuming a negotiated settlement doesn't show up first, we'll put in written notification of leaving for summer of 2025 in winter of 2023. Until then, everyone knows the score publicly, but the reason UT and OU spokespeople have been very careful to talk about "remaining a member of the Big12" and "we're fulfilling our obligations as a Big12 member" is so not to provide lawsuit fodder in the other direction. On the sovereign immunity thing, can anyone cite any case regarding conference affiliation where any state institution relied on sovereign immunity to break a GoR unilaterally and without consequence? This seems like the message board realignment Macguffin, the magical answer that will solve all our problems forever! Except if it's so all powerful and wonderful, why hasn't it been used already? Why does literally nobody outside of message board randoms talk about it?
  12. TF orange color is that?
  13. You really think they'd move the Spurs to Austin? Is there any real evidence for that beyond message board speculation? In Austin they'd be trading one small market for another, even if Austin is growing at a faster clip it's still small compared to most of the NBA markets. Not sure what that move buys them vs. the ill will created by making it. Plus they'd be going into a city where they aren't the lone wolf anymore, since Austin has UT as the big dog and Austin FC as a successful pro franchise already vs. SA where they can and do bully the city and county as the only game in town. I just don't see it...Vegas, Seattle maybe, but Austin?
  14. At this point I don't really care how the PAC implodes, I just hope that it does so I can run, not walk, to Mandel's twitter to see him squirm.
  15. Yep. It sucks. And life isn't fair. Sometimes you get screwed even when you do everything right. But in the wise words of Marlo...
  16. Yep I get it. Still surprising he's not top 10 on our own team let alone Big XII
  17. Dumb question: where is our Heisman candidate running back?
  18. That's hilarious. Like you said the more things change the more they stay the same...1) Realignment is so terrible for college football, the world is ending, and 2) it's all Texas' fault! Give me a break. The clutching of pearls in the CFB media is hilarious.
  19. How embarrassing to play in one of the top venues in sports and only fill it up that much.
  20. That guys needs order a clue off Prime, 2 hr delivery
  21. Not even worth calling that journalism, it's an opinion piece and a bad one at that. 100% of that article is false.
  22. That's fine, because ND was never going to join the SEC. ND in the B1G is better for the SEC because... The status quo sucks. The PAC is better off dead. The ACC is a joke outside of Clemson who is rapidly fading. We already live in a B1G/SEC world. It's time to formalize it, create better in-conf matchups and get the realignment into 1-2 conferences done so that 1) a single seller controls all the media rights creating higher $$$ like the NFL and 2) we can re-divide the B1G/SEC into smart geographic divisions after relegating the Baylors of the world.
  23. Those ND fucks are going to stall this whole thing for a decade. One of the B1G or SEC needs to fund Clemson/FSU/NC to fight and break the GOR to kill the ACC. Once that happens and removes that ND escape hatch, the B1G can lay the pressure by taking Oregon and UW and a few others and leave no other options. Then, they leak the new B1G/SEC 8-team playoff proposal that freezes out ND. That is the only thing that will for ND at this point. Otherwise NBC will give them just enough to get by. The PAC, Big12 and ACC will figure out how to do enough to survive, establish a new 15 year GOR to freeze everything in place, then use lawsuit threats/anti-trust to preserve undeserved playoff access.
  24. Agreed, to get this back on recruiting, we need try to keep our Bama loss respectable and hold this class together, then stack 2-3 more top 3 classes to compete in the SEC. Otherwise we're Auburn with a cooler helmet.
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