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Park Gothic

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  1. Woohoo, Jack Boyette coming in with some top-tier subtle-but-not-really-subtle racism. Because that's how the modern, cosmopolitan Aggie does racism. You can't live in Houston or DFW and just drop hard-R's anymore. But you still need to fly your flag so the other racists know where you stand. Like he wants you to know that he knows that he's not allowed to be racist, but he also wants to remove any doubt that he is indeed racist.
  2. Tech shares its last conference title with Rice. Fucking. Rice.
  3. Do none of y'all watch MAC games on Tuesday night in November? Don't get me wrong, I love UT football but I also like college football more generally. To the extent this new system elevates the super leagues into something new and lowers everything else down a level from what it currently is, it seems unfortunate. There's always been divisions in college football, but they were divisions in the same larger arena of the sport. I don't want to see the P2 split with the other P2/G5 in something similar to the FBS - FCS split back in the 70's. I'll still watch, of course. But the football sicko in me is a bit worried.
  4. I think that's technically correct but that "smote" is more commonly used.
  5. Seems like a good thing for Texas football, but not necessarily a good thing for college athletics over all.
  6. My take away is that Tope is a pretty chill guy who tries his best not to talk too much shit about coaches. Some of those Herman stories are pretty cringe though.
  7. Welp, looks like we know who one of Gerry's silents is.
  8. +1 for Wadlington's Thinking Texas Football. There's maybe not a lot of new information for someone who follows the program closely, but it is nice to have it most of it in one convenient source. His analysis is fine and I enjoy his writing style. I also like supporting people in the Texas media sphere who give a shit and aren't completely assholes.
  9. lol, right? If you run around yelling about how you should be treated differently, then don't be surprised when people treat you differently.
  10. Honestly, I've just started wearing long sleeves and long pants made of light material. Like a PFG fishing shirt. I don't get to enjoy any kind of breeze, but at the end of the day I always feel better. Say what you will about Arabs, they know how to dress for hot weather.
  11. This seems like a good time to remind people how the Sunbelt used to be the absolute worst conference in FBS. Worse than the MAC. And somehow it has morphed into one of the better conferences - I would put it on par with the MWC and better than the current version of the AAC. It's certainly not the best conference, but it's a fun conference that garners more viewers than it should based on the profile of its members. How did they do this? By incorporating programs that care about football. That have fanbases, boosters, and AD who fucking love college football. They show up, they make signs, they bicker on the internet, they spend as much money as they can, and they basically treat football the way everyone treated it 30 years ago. Here is a good article about the SBC's strategy: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/34454887/amid-college-football-chaos-sun-belt-conference-rivalries-fun-throwback The Sun Belt is keeping its divisions, leaning hard into regional rivalries, and reconnecting long-missed matchups that were lost to previous rounds of conference realignment and teams leaping into the FBS ranks no matter where and how they did it. That strategy, once the standard in college sports, is now downright counter cultural. The Sun Belt represents stability and familiarity in a world where complaints of "I don't even recognize my favorite sport" are becoming louder by the day. That's no accident. "No, no, we were really deliberate. At the end of the day, we want fans to be able to travel to the games, but also games they want to go to," says commissioner Keith Gil. That is why the Big 12 will be better than a conference with BC, Pitt, et al. Because Big 12 fans give a shit. Yeah, the schools are poor and the fanbases are small, but they show up. They are rabid about their teams. ISU football sucks, but they were willing to kill their baseball team just to keep it. The Big 12 is the Sunbelt of the P4. Who did the ACC just add in this last round of realignment? Cal and Stanford - two of the fart-sniffingest programs around that are openly antagonistic to football. In contrast, the Big 12 added Utah to pair with BYU, ASU and Arizona, and an admittedly shitty CU who, nonetheless, has a coach that drive engagement. People will still watch CU games if only to watch Deion and his ilk lose. The Big 12 will take the teams from the ACC that are worth a damn and have fans & ADs that care. The Sunbelt's strategy will work for them. They don't have to be the best or the biggest conference, they just have to be undeniably fun to watch. The ACC doesn't get it, and will either die or look like the CUSA in a few years.
  12. I can't see a marketing collective being stoked about Gundy. That's a match made in heaven a truck stop bathroom.
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