Magus Ossis

Assuming Oregon joins the B12, they will be subject to a significant financial hit if and when they desire to break their membership agreement to leave for the B1G. Because their move would not significantly increase the per-team value of either TV contract, no network is likely going to be motivated to ‘underwrite’ much of the cost/penalty. A cagey league, warned by this round of shuffling, could and likely would work to complete future deals and accompanying GORs early enough that the penalty is magnified. An Oregon motivated to escape the Pac would have little leverage for a carve-out when signing up. Even should the B1G decide at some post-B12-join date that they do want Oregon enough to offer, plucking them would be very unlike how easily they acquired Nebraska. A landscape change even more fundamental than this one might be required to allow future defections from now-stabilized conferences as the escalation of conference contracts continues. ACC may already be locked up too tightly for early departures much before GOR expiration, and even MWC’s terms at present may prove strong enough to wound Pac deeply based on awkward timing.

It’s OK for fans of an athletic program to have an “enemy.” What would we have given to stick it to OU most years or even aggy in their halcyon Sherrill FedEx days? The network slobbering over USC back in 05 bothered me, but the alumni are generally all right in my book. Oregon certainly did more to piss in our Wheaties cheating in recruiting than USC did. I’m at peace with USC having its Ceterum autem censeo Oregonem esse delendam. We can mock their coach and laugh at Utah games and get along with people who don’t pretend to like enemy programs, and we’ll hope to beat them like rented mules next time we face them.

Most all-conference players is only a limited proxy for roster strength. It does not account for crucial holes in talent at specific positions, for depth, or for conference strength. Of course, there should never be excuses. Other teams can have excuses for losing to Texas.

Calf = muscle. Muscles heal much faster than do tendons (eg, Achilles. Also, most nagging hamstring injuries are tendinous). Muscles have a rich blood supply, but tendons do not.

The idea of a free market presumes the absence of monopolies. The laws of supply and demand are premised on the idea that there are large pools of potential suppliers and consumers. There are a few players that are so special as to negate this effect when negotiating for free agent contracts, but for the most part, the exception works in the favor of the league. There is no meaningful specific competitor to the NFL. One can not bargain fairly against a monopoly. This reality can be treated in various ways, but it does not vanish. Viewing the 32 franchises as competitors is only partially true. They negotiate the important contracts as a league. TLDR Playing a game for millions may be cool, but the owners will always be the real winners.

You can’t play contact sports on blood thinners, and the treatment for DVT/PE is usually at least 6 months on them, sometimes permanent depending on circumstances. Best of luck and Hook’em, Marquise!

A useful proxy might be average non-Texas and non-aggy UH and Rice football audience numbers in the SWC and post-SWC. I know the TV landscape has changed quite a bit, but it might help illuminate the degree to which the audience reflects interest in a league that includes Texas. It would take some work to control for network and time slot. I have trouble believing that Toledo’s playing ULL in a close game with CCG implications that goes down to the wire Saturday on ABC at 7p Central will be a big draw. There is in my opinion a minimum program relevance factor for people to watch sports on TV in big numbers, even if the other usual variables look favorable. Being in a league or otherwise being even moderately associated with brand names helps lend that relevance. That relevance problem to a degree may well start significantly to affect future B12 games and hence the next contract, even past the loss of the sweeteners put in to help grease the skids on our exit. TLDR I agree the next B12 contract is likely to fall further behind the P2.

$20,000 taxpayer dollars per seat. I hope they like them a lot. edit was replying to the 1.2B contribution to the 60k seat Titans stadium plan

As someone who has experienced triple digit temperatures in every Big 12 town in Texas, please let me assure you that the science does not lie. Our bodies do not cool themselves as easily in 100 degree humid environments as they do in arid ones. And heat does not burn off humidity. The same partial pressure of water in the atmosphere will be reflected by a decreasing relative humidity as temperature increases, but this is not the same thing at all.

In fairness to Florida, one would have to define terms to say with any certainty which school has the best or biggest brand. By some criteria, Florida is in our stratum. By some, we lag Harvard, Stanford, or Notre Dame. Texas, nevertheless, is Texas. edit Gothic posted about ND while I was still typing-- I agree.

If there was a will on OSU’s part to continue the series, it would continue. South Dakota State can be bought out or moved. The series is off for now because OSU is choosing to use OU’s conference move as an excuse to get out of an annual beat down. You sound either fatuous or disingenuous to suggest otherwise. Just admit the truth. The money from playing OU easily buys out much of the trash games OSU schedules. It’s OK to admit you don’t want any part of OU, even when they’re down.

All the rational people already hated OU. The dipsticks have an excuse to chirp now.

1. Hired external "independent" investigations are done for clients that the firm serves. There is no doubt that certain operating assumptions were in play to ensure that the investigation, its results, and the manner of their reporting would be in some way helpful and/or favorable to the university. See Baylor. 2. The university had its opportunity to act in accordance with the report's recommendations or to suggest an amendment based on newly surfaced evidence. Instead President Knee-Jerk fires Fitz when the water gets hot. 3. Fitz's suspension is an admission of what most here have stated. Coach knew or should have known about widespread, long-term, sexually abusive hazing. The actual hazing seems to be undisputed at this point. The report sounds to me to be crafted with a willing credulity wrt statements exculpating administration to the degree possible, with Fitz as the "gosh even he didn't know, but we are establishing high-level accountability" cutoff. 4. If they were really sexually abusing players (and it sounds as though they were), while Fitz seems to be in position to hurt NU based on their process, he is not being unfairly punished. One would think whispers of this had made it elsewhere in administration over a course of over 15 years. Perhaps not, but if so Fitz's might not be last head that should roll. 5. As above, kudos to the journos.

Yeah, teams with coaches that preach ad nauseum about culture and character but quit in big games are usually primed for greatness.

I must be misremembering Texas winning the 2022 Director’s Cup. Texas wins second Director’s Cup in a row in 2022

A verbal commitment is like a kid’s crystal ball as of the recruiting season as to where he will play. LOI is the same kid’s CB as of the end of recruiting season. Until they use up their eligibility, there is never really a time when they belong to a school. Love the freedom or hate the lack of loyalty, it is the way now.

I’m sure there are some fascinating sociological, historical, philosophical, and theological lines of inquiry wrt Mormons. Neither their religion, nor Islam, nor Judaism is really what I come to this board to read, however. Sticking just to football and random blather, we should still have ample material. thanks and hookem!

Neidermeyer x Borg = aggy

This. Don’t be surprised to see notice of intent to depart for CU and at least one Arizona school to materialize on 7/31. I don’t know whether their boards (1) have authorized the respective presidents to offer such notice or whether (2) they need to do so. If no to 1 and yes to 2, expect ad hoc meetings by/on that final Friday or Monday.

Does anyone have any intel on Sark's or Flood's history for/against displacing established starters when better talent became experienced enough to win the job? Sorry if it is already around here and I've missed/forgotten it. I'm trying to decide whether to let my hopes even think of getting up for an upgrade this season at C.

Makes sense. They have 3 gimme games in which even they would have trouble running out of time (Abilene Christian, UNM, and UL Monroe). They have 3 easyish games that a good team would win, and they could easily do as well (@Miami, Auburn, Jerryworld Pig). They have 3 winnable games in which they have a talent advantage on paper but may be hamstrung by all things aggy by the time they are played (USCe, @Ole Miss, MSU), and 3 tough games by most measures (Bama, @Tenn, @LSU). Assuming they lose 2/3 tough games and 1/3 of the winnable, their possible next loss is the O/U maker/braker*. I would not be surprised at 9 wins, but I could easily see them cratering to 5 or 6 if any of a few known issues comes to a boil (Fisher/Petrino, merc disinterest, OL/QB injury, CB depth, etc). *Spelling aggified for clarity.

Yeah, yeah. Still dumb. Unless your idea of a great way to spend your 19th year of life (which, by the way, is very hard to get back once spent) consists in smoking weed in your dorm room in a soviet-style people-storage unit in College Station.

Interesting that this ostensibly neutral reporter chose this opportunity to showcase his second-rate simulacrum of command of the English language apparently to take a shot at Texas.

Every dollar aggy boosters spend loading up on DL and WR while they are still running the current iteration of the Circus of the 3 Stars is another dollar unavailable to buy Jimbo out, hire his replacement, and/or fund NIL for a future team that might theoretically have a functional coaching staff.

True. Aggy back on our schedule.