Can you spot Texas A&M in this picture? Hint: they're the ones pressing eject as the plane hits the ground and lands on Baylor, Iowa State, and Dan Beebe.
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Dammit Aggies!
We PAID for that jet!
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by lhb98 on Aug 31, 2011 11:14 AM EDT reply actions 5 recs
What, y'all give away jets?
I knew I picked the wrong school.
by Ardbeg on Aug 31, 2011 11:33 AM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
He could have only gotten a zeppelin out of Penn State.
by Albino Tornado on Aug 31, 2011 11:35 AM EDT up reply actions 6 recs
Why bother? Some broad gets on there with a static-y sweater and Boom, it's
by Ardbeg on Aug 31, 2011 11:48 AM EDT up reply actions 10 recs
derigible.
Where Joseph Phineas Roustabout Paterno comes from, they’re called derigibles, you carpetbagging near-do-well!
Teh Tweeterizer
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by alex henery's foot on Aug 31, 2011 11:55 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions 2 recs
everybody ejects, everybody explosion crush murders
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by thetennesseethumper on Aug 31, 2011 9:37 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
"East Bound and Down
Loaded up and truckin’, we gonna do what they say can’t be done …"
by jagvocate on Aug 31, 2011 11:15 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs
/throws rod
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Also, Fuck Clemson.
by Gamecock2002 on Aug 31, 2011 11:27 AM EDT up reply actions
aww...
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by Go Big Rev on Aug 31, 2011 1:14 PM EDT up reply actions 6 recs
We USED to say that all the time....
See how well it turned out for us?
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by MtnEer_in_SC on Aug 31, 2011 1:47 PM EDT up reply actions
Title
And we were singing, hymns and arias...
by gth863x on Aug 31, 2011 11:52 AM EDT up reply actions 10 recs
Oh sure, you lose every tussle with the prop on a motor.
But when it comes to towers, you things are fucking indestructible.
Si hoc legere scis, nimis eruditionis habes
by Neodymium on Aug 31, 2011 1:01 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
SEC - Just Another Conference
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by Terry Bowden's Shoe Lifts on Aug 31, 2011 11:17 AM EDT reply actions
"There is no R. Bowin Loftin on the Big 12 charter."
by Dr. Norris Camacho on Aug 31, 2011 11:36 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Meanwhile,
SMU is standing on the iceberg asking passing lifeboats if they can get a lift back to the ship.
by Gaknar on Aug 31, 2011 11:43 AM EDT up reply actions 13 recs
The Unsinkable Dan Beebe
We're all on the Hindenberg. No reason to fight over a window seat.
by Stubob72556 on Aug 31, 2011 2:41 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Tomorrow on "One Conference to Shiv":
Aggie is rejected by the sexy truck driver she tried to proposition. Beebers spies on the tryst, and kicks Aggie out of the house. Aggie cries on San Marcos’s shoulder.
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by jonfmorse on Aug 31, 2011 11:19 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs
I do not want TAMU in the SEC.
...I can dance on my own grave. THANK YOU...
by Boozy McHound on Aug 31, 2011 11:19 AM EDT reply actions 11 recs
From the $ and AAU side of things.
They might think about it.
There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
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by Culp's Freaking Hill on Aug 31, 2011 11:41 AM EDT up reply actions
A&M would give Delany pause
Growning state, wealthy and big school, good academics, big research unviersity. Big, passionate fanbase…
I dunno about location though.
Google's homepage celebrates too much shit.
No. No. A thousand times no.
Have they ever been relevant other than the glory days of the SWC, back when they made the SEC look like upstanding moral citizens of the NCAA?
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by smk73 on Aug 31, 2011 11:26 AM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
This is going to end with the Big Ten accepting Mizzou and Pitt.
This is going to make me unhappy.
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by Culp's Freaking Hill on Aug 31, 2011 11:21 AM EDT reply actions
DO NOT WANT
Well actually, I’ll take Pitt just for the lulz and the fact that I do think there should be a genuine PA in-state rivalry
Wait? You mean there are smart black people on the internet!!???
Intelligent Ignorance
by TheFreshRonPrinceofBelAir on Aug 31, 2011 11:31 AM EDT up reply actions
Meh. I'd rather Pitt stay in Big East
Easier path to BCS, great hoops and all the average football? ALL THE AVERAGE FOOTBALL.
The best way to a fisherman's heart is through his fly.
but..but... 2006
/okay, we sucked due to GERG, but almost everyone else was like really good
"Holds membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities, one of only 63 institutions with this distinction."
by Old South on Aug 31, 2011 11:22 AM EDT reply actions 6 recs
63?
Is that before or after Nebraska?
by Gaknar on Aug 31, 2011 11:23 AM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
And/or Syracuse?
Pretty sure they quit before they got it in the neck, too.
by Albino Tornado on Aug 31, 2011 11:27 AM EDT up reply actions
Rec'd
for truth.
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by Culp's Freaking Hill on Aug 31, 2011 11:42 AM EDT up reply actions
you know, unlike Wake Forrest, Boston College, W&M, Dartmouth, Notre Dame, Georgetown,
and tons of similarly shitty schools
If you're going to say that the AAU's selection criteria are somewhat dubious, I might agree with you.
If you’re going to say that being in it means nothing, I’m going to laugh at you.
How about if I say that NOT being in it means nothing?
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Well, yes and no.
But people need to know what it is. Its not some, “AAU schools are good, others bad”. They are schools where the heads of these insitutions control massive amount of research $$$$. Which I get. The UNL chancellor, sans the med center, doesn’t control enough non-USDA research funds, so Nebraska gets the boot.
Having said that, if AAU membership was realy THAT important, the regents would have changed the system so the Med center reported to the UNL chancellor, but even Perlman said it wasn’t worth it. So while it disappointing, not end of world. So the Big Ten is stuck with us. HA HA.
Google's homepage celebrates too much shit.
There are plenty of AAU Universities that don’t have associated med schools. USDA grants are non-competitive grants.
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
have med schools, that is.
yeah, OK, Cal can get away without a med school, but I would dare say that many current AAU schools probably couldn’t.
Google's homepage celebrates too much shit.
Right, but you don't have any of those "bad" USDA grants
that you would have to counterbalance with threeve medical research grants totaling $Texas.
That Hokie freshman in the Greensboro Coliseum rafters didn't see any of this coming.
Thought he was talking about med schools only
Not the USDA grants. We do a shitton of research though, I know that. Don’t know who for or where it comes from, but we do a shitton of it.
And we were singing, hymns and arias...
And we still have only been AAU for about 30 minutes
the secret ingredient is ... love?!
Yep.
I didn’t realize we were AAU members until a couple weeks ago.
And we were singing, hymns and arias...
April 20, 2010
so its not surprising you didnt know
the secret ingredient is ... love?!
Well, I said "many", not "everybody but Cal"
Take away the med school from KU and Mizzou, they’re in the same boat.
BTW, the USDA funding is a double whammy. Not only does it not count, but the AAU’s evaluation metric takes research $$$ (sans USDA) per your total amount of tenured faculty, including the ag ones that do USDA research.
Apparently after all this, they are looking into that metric, per the Penn State chancellor.
Google's homepage celebrates too much shit.
That would be nice.
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especially with the new national lab starting up 8-)
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by Anon_the_younger on Aug 31, 2011 1:03 PM EDT up reply actions
I think it's absofuckinglutely ludicrous
that something like the Biosecurity Research Center DOESN’T COUNT.
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Well, don't get me wrong
Nebraska is on the outs regardless, unless Buffet decides to tell Gates to eff off and give the university a cool $10b.
Google's homepage celebrates too much shit.
Well, W&M and Georgetown are not research schools
Tons of liberal arts schools are far more elite than the undergraduate education in Big Ten schools, but you aren’t getting a PhD in Chemical engineering from Middlebury College.
Google's homepage celebrates too much shit.
Lots of schools have really good balance
I’ve been at both a large resarch university (though I was in the Arts and Sciences college) and a small liberal arts schools. Smaller schools are better if you need more structure, but big schools are gerat if you like being able to pick and choose and be flexible about classees and requirements. Unless you’re an engineer or premed. Then you’re in for a ride.
Well sure, I agree with all of this...
but there is no denying that more than a few liberal arts schools have stricter acceptance requirements than most of the Big Ten schools.
Google's homepage celebrates too much shit.
Most being the operative word.
I really really preferred the B1Gger (harf harf) school to the liberal arts school.
The unevenness of his side-hair in this pic is bugging the shit out of me.
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I think this is a better metaphor:
Right Here.
Shiny new television contract worth a fortune, just taking off again, when all of the sudden… BAM IT ALL FALLS APART EJECT EJECT EJECT!
His name was Nick Bloomfield.
by The Commenter Formerly Known as Not You on Aug 31, 2011 11:23 AM EDT reply actions
so then the Big East
is the Angles and Saxons? Just keep fucking each other and inbreeding and staying on the outskirts on their own island hoping noone notices them…
I'm going in a more accurate metaphorical direction.
by Counter Trap on Aug 31, 2011 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions 9 recs
Marx bros always get a rec from me, but before you completely dismiss the Big East.....
Do you remember who all those Angles and Saxons grew up to be???
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by MtnEer_in_SC on Aug 31, 2011 1:11 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Technically
wouldnt that be more of a Norman empire than an A/S/J empire?
or really Scotch-German?
the secret ingredient is ... love?!
The Normans weren't a large invading or settling force
So much as an army of a few thousand that kicked the crap of Harold’s really tired Anglo-Saxons. For the most part, they conquered militarily, but not culturally or genetically.
Of course, during this, we Celts were sitting on the edges laughing at the Saxons. Then the Normans decided they wanted everything, and we all went “aww, fuck”.
And we were singing, hymns and arias...
It was all about the stirrups...
And someone yelling “Harold, what’s that in the sky?”
Si hoc legere scis, nimis eruditionis habes
by Neodymium on Aug 31, 2011 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
The Normans didn't conquer culturally?
For how many centuries was French used in the English court again?
"They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again."
Hrer
But we still call cows “cows” and hogs “hogs”. The nobility used it, but the commoners kept that angry, unrefined speech that we call “English” today.
Si hoc legere scis, nimis eruditionis habes
But the English words for meat from cows and pigs are derived from French
"They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again."
I've enjoyed watching this debate from the side
and don’t know enough to really weigh in. But isn’t your position that the Normans did conquer culturally? You may be right, but a few borrowed words doesn’t seem enough to get to that conclusion.
by JohnCoctostan on Aug 31, 2011 2:08 PM EDT up reply actions
More integrated than completely conquered
But their cultural and political influence on the upper echelons of English society are pretty undeniable.
I was using that example because Neodymium used the example of cows and hogs. Yes, many Anglo-Saxon words were retained but Normans introduced a whole lot to the English language as well and where there overlap today it usually reflects class differences.
"They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again."
Didn't say they weren't integrated
Just that they weren’t the conquering, settling culture that would be needed to call the British empire the Norman empire. Military conquerors? Definitely. Rulers for 400 years before being replaced by a bastard of a Welshman? Of course.
The English language owes a lot to German as well, probably more than French.
And we were singing, hymns and arias...
As Mango Stasi points out....
What little bit of Frankishness the Norman conquerors brought with them was quickly subsumed into the sea of Anglo-Saxon and Celt that was already there. To this day Englishmen are known ’round the world as “bloody Sassenachs”, which is a word of Gaelic derivation meaning Saxon.
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by MtnEer_in_SC on Aug 31, 2011 1:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Meant to be to me?
Or meant to refer to Neodymium, not Mango? Mango is right in that French was the language of court for centuries after Hastings. But Neodymium is right in that it only went so far as the nobility, who were almost all Normans. The Celts, Saxons, and other various commoners didn’t all start speaking French, or take Norman customs, into their lives with regularity. Nothing changed for them, other than the people who controlled the land they worked. Quite the other way around, as time moved on from Hastings.
And we were singing, hymns and arias...
Meant for gtne91 right above you, gth863x.
There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women.
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by MtnEer_in_SC on Aug 31, 2011 1:50 PM EDT up reply actions
/invades Kamchatka
Formerly 'snail. You get used to it after a while.
by Chris Pendley on Aug 31, 2011 1:14 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Les Miles as the Vandals?
People thought he was crazy when he booked his charter to Rome with layovers in Germany, Gaul, Spain, and Africa, but who’s laughing now Romans? Huh? /eats grass from Appian Way.
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by Tuco on Aug 31, 2011 11:48 AM EDT up reply actions 8 recs
A more likely explanation
Texas as deforestation pressure in Western Europe and North Africa; A&M as the remaining resources in Byzantium.
by Tanner B on Aug 31, 2011 4:49 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I don't think the Pac-12 has a real chub for what's left.
A&M? Gone.
Colorado? Already there.
Texas? Kind of a pain in the ass.
Oklahoma and Oklahoma State? Remember, Nebraska was one of the smart kids compared to those two.
Texas Tech doesn’t move anyone’s needle for anything. I mean, you know how hard it is for schools in built-up urban metropoli to get market share. I mean, look at Pittsburgh.
by Albino Tornado on Aug 31, 2011 11:38 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
This times infinity.
What the hell do you think the Pac-10 wants with Lubbock? I mean, it’s not Pittsburgh or anything.
by Erik T on Aug 31, 2011 11:40 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Lubbock has as much to do with where Tech students come from & end up as Athens, Ga does for UG
Half of every Tech incoming class for the last half century have come from the Dallas Ft Worth area. And about half settle there. There are more Tech fans in DFW than SMU and TCU fans combined. Why? 35,000 students at Tech & less than 10,00 at the two local private schools. Nobody assumes all Georgia students are Athens, GA natives. Most come from the suburbs of Atlanta. So why paint Tech as a community college for the good folks of Lubbock when Lubbock is just the college town & the suburbs of Dallas is the source of most it’s students & fans.
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No matter how hot some $MEMBER_OF_GENDER is
There’s some $MEMBER_OF_SEXUALLY_COMPATIBLE_GENDER, somewhere, who’s completely sick of his/her bullshit.
by Albino Tornado on Aug 31, 2011 11:53 AM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
And that $MEMBER_OF_SEXUALLY_COMPATIBLE_GENDER
is Nebraska. But that $MEMBER_OF_SEXUALLY_COMPATIBLE_GENDER just can’t get over it despite the fact that she left. How sad.
Cobie Smulders. Hot as magma and seems comparitively sane.
We're all on the Hindenberg. No reason to fight over a window seat.
Colorado actually fits in the Pac-10.
If Sparty were sitting pretty in the middle of the Midwest without a conference, Delany would have snatched them up. Doesn’t mean Nebraska wouldn’t be a better get.
agree
Colorado wanted to join the Pac-10 for years. Colorado a much better fit socially, politically etc with California, Oregon and Washington than Nebraska and Kansas. More CU alums in California than any other state. Thought it was a great move for the Buffs.
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by BillyZoom on Aug 31, 2011 12:45 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Hell, I heard "Colorado and BYU to notional Pac-12" as early as 1992
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by VandyImport on Aug 31, 2011 12:55 PM EDT up reply actions
BYU got fucked when...
the the Mormon Church got very involved financially and politically in the passage of Prop. 8, California’s anti-gay marriage bill. Apparently Larry Scott wanted BYU and Colorado, but Cal and Stanford in particular said “no” because of the whole Prop. 8 thing.
I actually wanted BYU. UCLA has played them a ton over the last 20 years, they would have been a great partner for Colorado… think of those two fan bases…
"If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium and you are already dead!" - General Maximus, Commander of the Felix Legions
Keep in mind...
when it comes to BYU, the school is an extension of the LDS church, NOT the other way around.
I understand that
But when the LDS Church got involved in Cali politics, the unintended consequence was that they basically killed BYU’s chance at Pac-12 admission. Again, not saying that’s right, but it is what happened. Up until then, BYU probably could have gotten into the league.
"If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium and you are already dead!" - General Maximus, Commander of the Felix Legions
Perhaps
My point was just that i don’t think the Powers That Be in the LDS are reticent of what they did even if it did/does hinder BYU’s admission to the Pac10.
However, if/when the Pac12 expands to 16 I think BYU is on the short list, regardless of what Cal and Stanford think. If $Texas and OU end up there the conference will need two more schools to get to 16. If OSU is inseparable from OU that leaves one opening. There aren’t many (geographically logical) options left…Texas Tech, Boise State, Fresno State, and BYU. Which one of those would you take?
No, I get that regarding LDS Church and BYU.
Getting BYU into the Pac-12 wasnt/isnt a church priority. Totally agree.
I would take BYU. I would have taken them this last round, over Utah. BYU is definitely on the short list, it just really comes down to whoever is out there and what it takes to get Texas into the league with OU. If the Horns said, “We’ll only join if we can bring Air Force with us”, then BYU is the odd man out in that scenario.
But we agree on the overall points.
"If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium and you are already dead!" - General Maximus, Commander of the Felix Legions
USAFA...
I overlooked them. They would definitely be on that list as well.
Question is, is there that type of link with $Texas?
$Texas may have put themselves in a bad position. With A&M leaving them and joining the SEC (likely) that makes the SEC proactive and everyone else reactive. $Texas’ choices are and almost always have been the Pac12 or the B1G, both needing 4 new teams. You have to figure that ND is the top choice for B1G. Given that, do they want OSU? Or would they rather have Mizzou. Texas wants to stay with OU while OU has to stay with OSU. Texas could go ND and two other teams out East. They could all three go out West. Or….
If I were Mike Slive, I’d stir the pot a little after inviting/accepting A&M. After a week or so of chaos and conjecture i would approach $UT, OU, and OSU and tell them that the SEC is their best chance of staying together and restoring a significant rivalry. The SEC will take all three of you, right now, today. Your move.
by Phocion on Aug 31, 2011 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
And Slive would receive, from Texas,
The same response he has gotten before: “Thanks, but Texas is not interested in the SEC.”
"Disco?" He shakes his head. "What a dark time for our country."
by Burrito Electrico on Aug 31, 2011 2:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Perhaps
But if OU/OSU aren’t taken as a package into one of the other conference $Texas could find themselves marooned in the Pac12 without a natural rival and having to explain to their fanbase/recruits that road trip to Corvallis, Pullman, Eugene, and Seattle really are good for everyone.
Also, all those west coast night games will be a big hit in the DFW and Houston TV markets won’t they?
And without natural rivals and/or other conference members within yelling distance Texas, the state, will be absolutely plundered by the A&M equipped SEC and wherever OU/OSU end up.
$Texas can make $Texas in the SEC in a division that looks very, very familiar ($UT, A&M, OU, OSU, Ark, LSU, Ole Miss and MSU) or they can try and sell ASU, UA, UU, and CU…or Minn, Ill, Iowa, NU.
by Phocion on Aug 31, 2011 2:34 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Hell, I heard Gene Stallings on the radio two weeks ago
The former Regent of aTm, answered “No, I don’t think so” when asked directly if the SEC move would help aTm recruiting. I’m not exactly terrified of them plundering much of anything.
"Disco?" He shakes his head. "What a dark time for our country."
by Burrito Electrico on Aug 31, 2011 2:53 PM EDT up reply actions
I think the SEC would accept OSU if it guaranteed getting OU
Texas would not fit well in the SEC atm. With even revenue sharing & all.
We're all on the Hindenberg. No reason to fight over a window seat.
ESPN holds both contracts
And it the rest of the conference structure goes BOOM, I’m sure the lawyas will find a way to work it out.
I was just using AFA as an example...
If OU and OK State are handcuffed at the wrist, whoever Texas says they want in the league would probably get in, be that Texas Tech, Missouri or whoever. BYU would be out of luck in that scenario. Think they missed their shot when Utah got in.
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"Needing" 4 more teams?
Fuck that, the B1G doesn’t need any more. We’re not going to 16 (or 14) just because the SEC does it; it’ll only happen if there are teams out there that make sense for us to take. Texas wouldn’t come unless the Big XII falls apart and they decide independence is too much of a hassle, because the Longhorn Network would probably be a dealbreaker. Notre Dame ain’t coming until they can’t stay independent any longer. Nobody else moves the needle even a little bit.
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I'd have really liked to have seen A&M against the NoCal schools.
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by Albino Tornado on Aug 31, 2011 2:08 PM EDT up reply actions
We tried this in the 2006 Holiday Bowl.
It did not end well.
by Dr. Norris Camacho on Aug 31, 2011 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
DESMOND BISHOP OUT OF !-ING NOWHERE
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by saxattack29 on Aug 31, 2011 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions
If we're going to 16 schools...
The Pac-12 definitely wants Texas and OU. TO get OU you gotta take OK State. The fourth school would be up for discussion… I’d say Mizzou, Kansas, Tech, and BYU would all be open for discussion.
Larry Scott will figure it out.
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KU and K-State are a package deal
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by Anon_the_younger on Aug 31, 2011 12:38 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Then Kansas is out of the mix
because K State would be a non starter for the Pac-12 for a variety of reasons.
"If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium and you are already dead!" - General Maximus, Commander of the Felix Legions
by BillyZoom on Aug 31, 2011 12:44 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, Pac-12 schools are sick of losing to them.
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by jonfmorse on Aug 31, 2011 12:45 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Don't take it so personally
"If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium and you are already dead!" - General Maximus, Commander of the Felix Legions
Well, it IS a bit hard to stomach being told you're not good enough
for a conference that considers Tempe Community College a valued member.
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by jonfmorse on Aug 31, 2011 12:48 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
What can I tell ya?
Move your school to Phoenix, the #12 television market in the country. It’s all about $$$. Doesn’t make it right, just reality.
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That's one reason.
When you say “a variety of reasons” we all know the code.
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maybe we can convince everyone that Wichita >>> Phoenix
sort of like Lubbock > Pittsburgh and College Station > St. Louis.
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by Anon_the_younger on Aug 31, 2011 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Well, if Manhattan, KS was a Top 10 television market...
I’m guessing everything else could be worked out. Again, it’s all about $$$. Doesn’t make it right. Just the reality of the current college football landscape.
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Ooooooh, someone's not looking forward to C-USA
/burns copy of 2002 Holiday Bowl tape
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by IndyDevil on Aug 31, 2011 1:28 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Well, would you be?
I’m actually not worried about KSU too much. I’m convinced that we’ll at least end up in “the fourth superconference” if it comes down to it. But, being waaaay too serious now:
We’re talking about the fate of entire athletic programs here. It’s all fun and games when a school loses; every game has a winner and a loser, and everyone can just come back next week and try again.
It’s even funny when a school gets caught cheating and the NCAA skull-fucks them so badly they can’t compete for years, because they brought that on themselves by acting badly.
The schools that are going to get fucked over because of all this nonsense? It’s not funny. Greedy shitbag schools are going to benefit while the Iowa States and Baylors of the world get blasted into complete irrelevance… and folks are laughing about it. That really does bug the shit out of me.
/end rant
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by jonfmorse on Aug 31, 2011 1:37 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
4th Conference....Doubt it
And, if so, only by the skin of your teeth.
The only place I could see KSU would be the abomination that arises from the Big East and ACC. And that likely happens only if Texas Tech or someone similar gets left out in the cold
by Phocion on Aug 31, 2011 1:40 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
We'll get in because nobody will leave Kansas out.
As much as it galls me to admit that.
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by jonfmorse on Aug 31, 2011 1:49 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
See somewhere else on here....
drothgery and I would welcome both KSU and KU to the BE.
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by MtnEer_in_SC on Aug 31, 2011 1:51 PM EDT up reply actions
The 16 being
Dook, UNC, UVa, VT, Maryland, GT, NCSU, FSU, Miami, Wake, BC, Pitt, UConn, TCU, and KU/KSU?
Assuming Clemson and WVU go to the SEC
Syracuse, Rutgers, Louisville and a few others then get cast to the wind?
Yeah.
Miami, TCU, and Virginia Tech can’t play basketball worth a shit.
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by jonfmorse on Aug 31, 2011 2:11 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
In the ACC, VT haz hoopyball
In the BE, they didn’t. BC was the other way.
by drothgery on Aug 31, 2011 2:14 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
In the BE,
VT was trying to recruit players who spent their entire lives watching the ACC to say “eh, screw it, I didn’t want to do that anyway.”
In the ACC, we don’t have that problem, and while I think we’re gonna need to fire Seth if we ever want to be better than #66-69, he still beats the hell out of Ricky Stokes.
That Hokie freshman in the Greensboro Coliseum rafters didn't see any of this coming.
by JoshCVT on Aug 31, 2011 2:28 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Basketball would not be a dealbreaker.
We're all on the Hindenberg. No reason to fight over a window seat.
You missed the joke.
SJ was obviously talking about TCU, KU, and KSU.
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Before I say this, don't misunderstand; I am not naive, and I know what drives the train.
But it just strikes me as idiotic that there were only six schools last year that reached the post-season in the four biggest team sports — a bowl game, March Madness for both men and women, and the NCAA baseball tournament — and we’re facing the possibility of one of those six teams essentially being rendered irrelevant.
That’s fucked up. Seriously.
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by jonfmorse on Aug 31, 2011 3:46 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I understand and if Arkansas was in a bad position I'd be raising blue hell.
I don’t understand as I said why it has to be 4 16 team superconferences. Even if the SEC goes to 14, why does that have to nuke everything else?
We're all on the Hindenberg. No reason to fight over a window seat.
Rivalry-related pride-swallowing
worked out pretty damn well for us.
That Hokie freshman in the Greensboro Coliseum rafters didn't see any of this coming.
Yeah, but UVa isn't y'all's LITTLE brother.
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/sees you trollin'
/hatin’
That Hokie freshman in the Greensboro Coliseum rafters didn't see any of this coming.
Who wept for SMU, Rice, TCU, and Houston when they got relegated, Jon?
by Albino Tornado on Aug 31, 2011 2:12 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I felt bad for Rice.
The other three were habitual repeat offenders and three of the five primary reasons the SWC broke up in the first fucking place, so I’d say they got what was coming to them at the time.
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by jonfmorse on Aug 31, 2011 2:19 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, but Iowa State and Baylor have always been irrelevant
unless you’re the 2010 Texas Longhorns
by Billy Sims' Fro on Aug 31, 2011 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions
I am laughing about the drama between Texas & A & M.
Why the conference can’t stay at 9 for awhile is my big question. Yes 3 teams have left but why would the others (barring some “offer they can’t refuse”).
We're all on the Hindenberg. No reason to fight over a window seat.
Well, someone posted SUPER SEKRIT INSIDE INFO
on a Mizzou board a few minutes ago stating that Missouri was drafting a “goodbye” letter as well, and applying to the SEC as the 14th.
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by jonfmorse on Aug 31, 2011 3:05 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
deja vu
even if this is true, haven’t we been here before? I remember when Mizzou was the shoe-in12th member of the B1G.
by Ardbeg on Aug 31, 2011 3:28 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I think the SEC would take Missouri.
I think they would even be a good member. They already border three SEC states and have history with Arkansas & now Texas A & M.
Plus, they can still play Kansas in non-con.
We're all on the Hindenberg. No reason to fight over a window seat.
Actually, I do think it sucks for the remaining schools
I was jabbing you for the Tempe CC comment, but I understand where you are coming from as a KSU guy.
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You shut your whore mouth!!!
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by Trouble's A Bruin on Aug 31, 2011 1:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Hey, all credit to you
for being the only Pac-10 team to beat KSU since 1993.
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They'd get BYU or maybe Boise, Air Force.
Only way they got Tech is if Texas specifically says “You take them or we don’t join”
We're all on the Hindenberg. No reason to fight over a window seat.
I think Boise ends up exactly where they are today...
on the outside looking in.
by Phocion on Aug 31, 2011 3:34 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
And now a word from a prominent Texas A&M alumnus.
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by Jamie DeVriend on Aug 31, 2011 11:24 AM EDT reply actions 4 recs
Wait till he takes Craig James as his running mate
The boob and the noob.
by idaho_techsan on Aug 31, 2011 11:27 AM EDT up reply actions
The alleged hooker-killing might be a drag on the ticket.
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by Jamie DeVriend on Aug 31, 2011 11:30 AM EDT up reply actions
Where the hell was that pic taken?
8/17/11 Nick Bloomfield on Finebaum. I WAS THERE.
by Sasquatch Love on Aug 31, 2011 11:27 AM EDT reply actions
England
if i remember correctly. air show stunt gone bad.
maybe it was Russia.
/ferk, i dunno
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by CoastalCowbell on Aug 31, 2011 11:39 AM EDT up reply actions
Ukraine air show. IT ENDED BADLY.
by Broncanous Mendenhall on Aug 31, 2011 12:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Different one.
This picture is from the 89 Paris Air Show. No one was killed.
Live to fly!
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I wish I was LSUFreek...
Because I have a bitching .gif idea involving Family Feud, and Richard Dawson screaming “SHOOOOOOW MEEEEEEE BEEE WHYYYYYY YOOOUUUUUUU”
I wonder if the Yell Leaders will have hand signals for the ubiquitous
ESSS EEE SEEE chant
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Maybe, maybe not
But we know the Corps will be having to squeeze harder for the ridiculous amounts of their schedule in which the Ags are down 40.
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by Burrito Electrico on Aug 31, 2011 12:37 PM EDT up reply actions
In fairness,
the jet is probably a wooden glider. You know, the way the Soviets used to paint giant logs to look like ICBMs for the May Day parade. I’m sure bumps and bruises all around, but none the worse for wear.
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"i wear a fez now, fezes are cool..."
by beckett929 on Aug 31, 2011 11:47 AM EDT up reply actions 12 recs
Beat me to it Rec
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With Dragoncon this weekend
I would almost be tempted to pull off the 11th doctor outfit while tailgating for the UGA game, just because I can…
by the_overlord on Aug 31, 2011 12:00 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
That's my Halowe'en costume
I just need a fez and some braces.
And we were singing, hymns and arias...
Dude, do it.
Sure, only about three people will get the reference, but at least you know those three people have taste.
by El Kabong!!! on Aug 31, 2011 12:42 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Craig better stay the hell away from her
I have cousins named Mario and Nunzio that will do worse things to him than what he did to those hookers.
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OMG Girl today officially notified lhb98 that the hot-girl-next-door-babe will submit an application to join other posters. Should this application be accepted (and it will be, repeatedly), OMG Girl will end its affiliation with lhb98 effective, like, now.
“After much thought and consideration, and pursuant to the action of the Girls of Delta Gamma authorizing me to take action related to my hot image alignment, I have determined it is in the best interest of OMG Girl to make application to join posters for the express purpose or ridiculing the Longhorns.”
“I appreciate lhb98’s willingness to engage in a dialogue to end our relationship through a mutually agreeable settlement. I, too, desire that this process be as amicable and prompt as possible and result in a resolution of all outstanding issues, including mutual waivers by myself and lhb98. It’s not you it’s me, bla bla bla, but seriously we’re through. Don’t make it weird.”
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*Located in Austin, Texas.
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*Has an endowment valued at what are you fucking blind?
by Ardbeg on Aug 31, 2011 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions 31 recs
This makes me much more said than A&M's announcement.
Nick Bloomfield: EDSBS Hero.
by lhb98 on Aug 31, 2011 12:09 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Just for the record
I have had no prior relationship with OMG Girl and in fact turned down her invitation to be posted under my name pending her breakup. If she chose to be posted under my name, that was entirely her decision and thus I am protected from any litigation or ass-kickings you might be considering.
Something I wonder
To people like OMG girl or other random gif-people know that they are “famous”?
Does she know about EDSBS, for example?
Someone should track her down and interview her.
the secret ingredient is ... love?!
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WHERE IS HE NOW
"Disco?" He shakes his head. "What a dark time for our country."
by Burrito Electrico on Aug 31, 2011 1:18 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm sure she knew that moment was caught on TV.
I’m sure she was texted about it within 30 seconds. Whether she knows it’s become a meme in a certain corner of the internet… who knows.
Now OU clarinet girl has to know.
by Gator Cub on Aug 31, 2011 1:19 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
This one.
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by jonfmorse on Aug 31, 2011 1:26 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
That kind of fell off during the off-season, but ....
I’m sure it will come back strong after a few upsets.
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by MtnEer_in_SC on Aug 31, 2011 1:32 PM EDT up reply actions
So will that picture if FSU wins.
/hugs Chloe! hugs!
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by Boozy McHound on Aug 31, 2011 1:34 PM EDT up reply actions
one more again
/GRAVY LEAK
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by CoastalCowbell on Aug 31, 2011 2:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Obligatory
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by jonfmorse on Aug 31, 2011 11:41 AM EDT reply actions 12 recs
You smell that?
Smells like someone died.
by AgAstraPerAspera on Aug 31, 2011 11:45 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
The irony of an Aggie
riffing on the state motto of KANSAS is palpable.
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by jonfmorse on Aug 31, 2011 11:47 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
I'm from Kansas.
so….I guess irony?
by AgAstraPerAspera on Aug 31, 2011 11:48 AM EDT up reply actions
Traitor.
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Yikes.
Relax, O’Henry. Your conference will be fine.
by AgAstraPerAspera on Aug 31, 2011 1:10 PM EDT up reply actions
I WILL NOT RELAX AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME
At least not until I pour another drink.
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Somehow
this is probably still considered Nebraska’s fault.
/popcorn.jpg
by SccrHskr on Aug 31, 2011 11:42 AM EDT reply actions 4 recs
No, it's Texas' fault
But you’re still self-conscious whiners.
by Gaknar on Aug 31, 2011 11:44 AM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
Be nice. Maybe we'll put in a good word for you.
Maybe.
by Albino Tornado on Aug 31, 2011 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions
He's not taking anything seriously.
He’s just giving y’all the finger.
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We hit that square pretty frequently.
Not as often as beating Nebraska, but frequently.
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Heck, either UT?
I’m still annoyed I missed out on the UGA whine session yesterday, so I can try blasting someone new for a change.
Formerly 'snail. You get used to it after a while.
by Chris Pendley on Aug 31, 2011 12:23 PM EDT up reply actions
We do crank out some good punters.
by Dr. Norris Camacho on Aug 31, 2011 11:53 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Hey, Frank Solich developed him some kickers, Itell you what
Sam Koch, Kris Brown, Josh Brown
by Albino Tornado on Aug 31, 2011 11:55 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Hell, Lechler is the best player y'all ever put in the NFL
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by Burrito Electrico on Aug 31, 2011 12:41 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I will honestly miss the Turkey Day game.
I also honestly wish them well in the SEC. I think it’s the right move for them, and I trust our administration that it’s not the right move for us.
If we can’t attract Notre Dame (and I still think there’s fire to that smoke in some form or fashion) then I’m #teamUTtoB1G.
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Correct.
I know we tend to be an arrogant fanbase, and thinking “independent” is the best route is the height of that.
I think if Dodds looks at independence, it’s only as a way station to something bigger (superconference).
Nick Bloomfield: EDSBS Hero.
Surprising.
You’re one of two brands in college football that can pull it off (independence). Truly, I assumed that’s what UT wanted all along.
by AgAstraPerAspera on Aug 31, 2011 12:03 PM EDT up reply actions
I think you're right
that Independence would be a viable solution, though, until the superconference picture develops.
by AgAstraPerAspera on Aug 31, 2011 12:16 PM EDT up reply actions
Where would other sports go?
Not like they are the most important, but Baseball and Basketball need to go somewhere. Conference USA (would they take them)? WAC? Mo Valley?
by db5 on Aug 31, 2011 12:19 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'd imagine
most anyone would take them.
by AgAstraPerAspera on Aug 31, 2011 12:31 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'm not even a UT guy
but I’ve been trying to correct this misconception for months now. There’s a lot of bad information out there.
I mean, Texas wanted a Big 12 network, but OU, Aggie, and (probably) Nebraska opposed it. And now look where we are.
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by jonfmorse on Aug 31, 2011 12:13 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
MOTHERFUCKING THIS!
Five years ago: “Hey, let’s start a Big 12 network. Big Ten is looking at it!” “Fuck off, Texas. That will lose ALL. The. Money.” /UT proceeds to build network infrastructure
18 months ago: “Hey Aggies, let’s start the Lone Star Network. We’ll split it 50/50.” “Fuck off, Texas. We’re broke” /UT announces plan to develop own network
One year ago: “Hey everybody, we want our own network, that’s our ground rule for being in a conference.” /Pac-10 declines //Big 12 begs UT to stay
6 months ago: “OMGWTF the Longhorns are BUILDING THEIR OWN NETWORK! Panic! Run to SEC!!”
Nick Bloomfield: EDSBS Hero.
by lhb98 on Aug 31, 2011 12:18 PM EDT up reply actions 7 recs
If Texas had said "we want our own network" and agreed to the pac-12
You bet your candy ass Larry Scott would have taken it and come up with a solution. Texas used that as a threat to cow the BigXII into giving it what it wanted
I would buy this IF...
… UT had come out of those negotiations with anything improved from the Big 12.
Show me where they did. They were already moving forward with LHN.
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Didn't they get all of the money that Nebraska and Colorado had to pay to leave the conference?
Kansas, K-State et. al. handed it over willingly, if I have my memory cap set to “correct”.
Si hoc legere scis, nimis eruditionis habes
by Neodymium on Aug 31, 2011 1:14 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah. "Willingly."
That Hokie freshman in the Greensboro Coliseum rafters didn't see any of this coming.
by JoshCVT on Aug 31, 2011 1:16 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
My KU friends said they would do anything to avoid the Mountain West, including handing over all that money.
Hence the adverb choice.
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by Neodymium on Aug 31, 2011 1:25 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Simple economics, right?
“Yeah, we’ll give up a couple million now in return for Texas bringing us wheelbarrows full of cash.”
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by jonfmorse on Aug 31, 2011 1:27 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Barring the Big East blowing up
KU doesn’t have to worry about that. School east of Ft. Worth with elite hoopyballl? You can join whenever you want, and we’ll even take your rivals if they need a home.
by drothgery on Aug 31, 2011 1:42 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I would be good with that. KU and KSU to the BE.
Average football and great hoops is what we do.
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by MtnEer_in_SC on Aug 31, 2011 1:46 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Average football = K State
Once every hundred years, ten win season = Kansas.
"When among evil companions, try to fit in." - Wild Bill Donovan
See "Texas A&M"
and the repeated theories that A&M will get out of paying their exit fees because they never got the money.
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Where did this "Texas wanted a Big XII Network" meme come from?
Is there actually any proof of this? Would Kevin Weiberg back that claim up?
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by DONSLIQ on Aug 31, 2011 1:44 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
.
…the inspiration that makes ladies sing the blues…
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by thetennesseethumper on Aug 31, 2011 9:53 PM EDT up reply actions
What?
You… you fucking floozy slut. I can’t believe we believed you.
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Leave $30M on the night stand
and I might still be friends with you afterward.
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If OU and UT joined the Big Ten...
and Neb. can gladly ditch this abortion of a Thanksgiving rival called Iowa, (yeah, sorry Iowa, you’re boring) that would be wonderous.
Google's homepage celebrates too much shit.
by meatybob on Aug 31, 2011 12:04 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
The meltdown in Nebraska that would result from UT joining
would be reason enough to do it.
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by lhb98 on Aug 31, 2011 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
If Texas came in as equal member
per B1G standards, really don’t think our fan base would care much. I wouldn’t, except to possibly taunt occasionally about the failed LHN.
by SccrHskr on Aug 31, 2011 12:16 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
That's the problem with Texas joining the Big Televen.
They’ll have to play fair and not take half of the pie, forcing everyone else to divy up the last half threeve ways.
by El Kabong!!! on Aug 31, 2011 12:50 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
One of the same reasons they wouldn't fit in the SEC.
We're all on the Hindenberg. No reason to fight over a window seat.
Texas refuses to share revenue equally with Iowa State, Kansas State, and Baylor
Moves to Big 10 to share revenue equally with Iowa, Indiana and Northwestern
1950 NCAA Co-National Champions
by Old South on Aug 31, 2011 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
/clears throat
//notes that new FOX deal revenue is 100% even split, and ESPN deal was increased from 50% even split to 68% even split once Huskers left
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Facts. They mean nothing.
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by lhb98 on Aug 31, 2011 12:18 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
How split are the collective 3rd tier rights?
can you split a zero?
Google's homepage celebrates too much shit.
See, being a rational and intelligent human being
I generally consider the third-tier rights to be a meaningless macguffin for people to use when they want to object to shit.
Look, nobody except for Texas fans (and even then, not that many of them) gives a flying fuck about Texas volleyball matches. Nobody except Kansas State fans (and even then, not that many of them) is going to want to watch K-State baseball games. Which leaves the third-tier football and basketball rights as relevant, but there’s a reason the games which fall into the third-tier are there.
It’s like noticing that someone ate the last of the cereal that has been sitting on top of the fridge for five months, which you haven’t touched in four months, and being pissed off that you can’t have any now.
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by jonfmorse on Aug 31, 2011 12:24 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
oh, great
not another cereal discussion…
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by Anon_the_younger on Aug 31, 2011 12:25 PM EDT up reply actions
GOD FUCKING DAMMIT
CAPTAIN CRUNCH IS GOING TO WIN THIS YEAR I TELL YA!
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by The Ghost of John Hannah on Aug 31, 2011 1:17 PM EDT up reply actions
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by Boozy McHound on Aug 31, 2011 1:35 PM EDT up reply actions
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So when Texas gets its $15M for its 3rd tier rights...
Profiting from playing your school in nonfb and nonbb sports, and possibly in football as well, where KSU will get nothing sans a buyout to broadcast the KSU fb game exclusively on the LHN, you are really telling me that’s Liberty, Equality, Fraternity in the Big XII?
Personally, I really don’t see anything wrong with Texas’ actions, just don’t try to convince me that UT doesn’t run the show.
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by meatybob on Aug 31, 2011 12:36 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Why not?
Are you suggesting that if I can’t get $15M for MY third-tier rights, I should prevent them from doing it?
Stop and consider that for a long, long moment. As a Royals fan, I am obviously aware of the argument that the Yankees can’t haul in all that revenue if nobody’s there to play them. At the same time, I have never once suggested that the Royals are or should be entitled to 1/14 of every penny the Yankees are able to generate. I am firmly of the “share some of the money” school; I am also firmly of the “…but, you know, I’m fucking responsible for making some money on my own too” school.
And again, if OU, A&M, and (probably) Nebraska hadn’t objected to the Big 12 Network in the first place, we probably wouldn’t even have this discussion, would we?
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Another view
Yes $Texas had every right to do what they did. As a short term business plan it may have even made sense. However, their risk analysis of the LHN was off, way off. By not being able to accurately predicted the repercussions on the LHN $Texas failed to do the smart thing and the smart thing isn’t always the one that (potentially) makes you the most money.
Now, THAT is true. No argument from me there.
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TV revenue is not "every penny...able to generate"
Schools make most of their money from ticket sales, merchandising, etc. But the whole point of a conference is to share risk, esp. when it comes in something nebulous as TV viewership. And like I said, I’m fine with the fact that UT and OU pulled this off, good for them. And I reinterate, just don’t tell me that UT (and to be frank, OU) doesn’t have KSU by the short and curlies. Right now, KSU is not in a desirable position.
Yes, KSU made money when Neb and CU left, the Big XII contract was so undervalued that Disney was fine continuing it vs. working with a supercharged Pac 12 who knew the game was up.
On the Big XII network plans 5 years ago. One, I have never heard of Neb. vote either way. Two, 5 years ago people were scoffing at the notion of the Big Ten network and its ability to have viewership for things like volleyball. Even you said that nobody will watch sports like volleyball, but guess what, most people thought the same way 5 years ago, the BTN proved them wrong. So I really don’t think it is fair in retrospect to blame other schools for being careful considering the massive fixed costs involved in setting up the network. .
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by meatybob on Aug 31, 2011 1:27 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
When I said "every penny...able to generate"
I thought it was patently obvious we were talking about “from media rights”. Nobody with two brain cells expects the Yankees to share their parking revenues with anyone.
And yes, KSU is most definitely caught by the short and curlies, but at the same time the idea that we “bent over and took it” is flawed, because what we “bent over and took” was more money as opposed to potential oblivion. We “had to do” what we had to do, but we also profited off the deal at the same time.
It’s like having your A-number-one celebrity crush show up at your house and say, “Okay, I’m not going to be your friend anymore unless you have sex with me.”
As to Nebraska’s position re: the Big 12 network, check the Omaha World-Herald article on Perlman’s comings and goings and thought processes during the time before, during, and after the fateful Big 12 meetings. It’s mentioned in there that Nebraska was more interested in their own network than a Big 12 one.
Re: volleyball and the BTN: people aren’t paying for BTN to watch volleyball. It’s a success because (gasp) they have FOOTBALL.
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Perlman's last salvo to stabilize the Big 12 was to assign all media rights to the conference.
At that point, a Big 12 Network would have had to have generated itself. I’ll fully admit that Nebraska had explored doing a Nebraska network, almost certainly partnering with Nebraska Public Television. However, I don’t think that Nebraska was actively blocking a Big 12 Network ; there simply wasn’t enough interest among the four bell cows of the conference to make one happen and no strong enough visionary leadership in the conference offices; that left when they ran Weiberg out of town.
Where’d he go? Big Ten Network.
Where’s he now? Larry Smith’s right hand in the Pac-12.
by Albino Tornado on Aug 31, 2011 2:24 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
In several of the last couple of years, the seaon-opener was on pay-per-view
Got any problem with our use of 3rd tier rights for that?
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by Burrito Electrico on Aug 31, 2011 12:48 PM EDT up reply actions
YES HOW DARE YOU--
Oh, wait, you didn’t make $15 million on that, did you. Never mind, then, we don’t care.
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I think Nebraska was making MORE off their PPV 3rd tier rights
Than payouts from that dogshit FSN contract.
by Albino Tornado on Aug 31, 2011 2:25 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
They'll still play every year, you won't miss the Thanksgiving Friday Game (right?)
by Uncle Earmuffs on Aug 31, 2011 12:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Unofficial UT position has been "fuck off"
Looking to replace them with Notre Dame on Thanksgiving.
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by lhb98 on Aug 31, 2011 12:14 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
No fucking way they kill the rivalry.
The fight songs!! Think about the fight songs!!
by Uncle Earmuffs on Aug 31, 2011 12:44 PM EDT up reply actions
We'll still play them...
only if its on the LHN.
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SECede?....Whoop(s)!!
You can still play them on Thanksgiving.
Same week all the other SEC teams do their out of conference rivalries.
If Missouri joins, they can play Kansas that week.
It’ll work out.
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A&M could tell $Texas “Thanks, but no thanks. We’ll play one of the other former SWC schools we knew way back when.”
by Phocion on Aug 31, 2011 3:37 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Word so far has been that A&M wants to keep it going
and Texas (note, there’s no $ in front of it, you look like almost as much of a tool as the TexAgs morons who refer to the Longhorns as “t-sips”) has been ambivalent at best and “fuck you, you’re so interested in getting away from us, stay the fuck away” at worst.
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Fuck Texas A&M
Fuck them worse than Clemson.
by SuperJew on Aug 31, 2011 11:55 AM EDT reply actions 5 recs
Why are so many people hating on the Aggies?
People compare A&M to Texas’s little brother, but isn’t comparing Texas to the hot chick whose shit gets old more appropos? If anyone’s been a diva in the past year, it’s Texas. A&M is more like the guy who had an out-of-his-league hot chick, got tired of her shit, threatened to break up, then people couldn’t believe he would dumb a hottie, then finally did break up. The hot chick is now belittling the guy for breaking up when she was just too damn high maintenance and demanding. The guy had enough and moved on. Sure, plenty of people think Texas is still the hot chick, but now some are wary because why the fuck would a guy like A&M dump her (and not the other way around)?
Clever sign off pending.
by Slum C on Aug 31, 2011 12:16 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
Because a lot of people are happy with their conference is right now, and this has the potential to blow up all of that
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by wahoocrew on Aug 31, 2011 12:19 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
This
I’d say most SEC folks are pretty content with the status quo. I’m pissed at Texas A&M for throwing a monkey wrench into the middle of it and potentially causing a huge shift in the college football landscape.
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by allicolls on Aug 31, 2011 12:36 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
I'll laugh if no one takes them
And they end up conference-less. Not independent, conference-less.
And we were singing, hymns and arias...
I'm pissed they're doing this now.
Stop throwing a fit at the checkout line, A&M. Have your temper tantrum before you go to the store like the good boys and girls.
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by Chris Pendley on Aug 31, 2011 12:38 PM EDT up reply actions
This isn't even the checkout line!
This is, like, you’re putting the groceries away and now you decide that your pitching a fit.
We did try to do this last year during the original Confrenzpocalypse, but Slive was uninterested.
It doesn’t make sense to me either why he would change his mind now. The SEC has the best setup out of any conference.
by Dr. Norris Camacho on Aug 31, 2011 12:39 PM EDT up reply actions
The WAC begs to differ.
The WAC also begs down by the overpass with a cardboard sign that says, “WILL GIVE HAND JOBS FOR FCS TEAMS.”
by Broncanous Mendenhall on Aug 31, 2011 12:40 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
The WAC sells plasma for money
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by BillyZoom on Aug 31, 2011 12:41 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I mean
It’s the closest populated spot to their living van down by the river.
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by The Ghost of John Hannah on Aug 31, 2011 1:20 PM EDT up reply actions
How much will you guys pay the WAC
to shoot ping-pong balls out of his butt?
by AgAstraPerAspera on Aug 31, 2011 12:44 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Why would the SEC accept any new applicants right now?
Short of them being like Texas, Notre Dame or Ohio State, I mean.
Ohio State?
Doesn’t the SEC already have Vanderbilt and Kentucky?
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by Neodymium on Aug 31, 2011 1:17 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Why would we? Why not? We were first 12 team league & got that working well.
We could do a 14 team league just fine. I’m not sure why so many are ignoring 14 and jumping right to 16. But 16 could work as well. Not like the SEC would suddenly collapse.
Look at it like this. West division could get two teams then Bama & Auburn could both go East (where alot of their traditional rivals are) in exchange for us getting Vandy. LSU could play Auburn or Bama every year in the permanent inter-divisional game. Rest mostly works out.
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No. Florida keeps LSU.
Live to fly!
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by Specter177 on Aug 31, 2011 5:20 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
16-team conferences have been tried in the lower divisions.
They have invariably disintegrated within five years. It’s much like atomic physics: mid-sized conferences, like the elements around Z=50-70, tend to be pretty stable, but take the heavy elements and all you have to do is look at them funny and they’ll decay (or split in half).
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Well, in football.
The work in basketball, but there are threeve games to play in basketball. A 16-team football conference is two eight-team football conferences with a special scheduling affiliation.
If the PAC-12 decided to expand once again
One division will be comprised of the original PAC-8 (Wazzu, UW, OSU, Oregon, Stanford, Cal, UCLA, USC) while ASU & UA get thrown in with the new teams (CU, Utah & 4 newbies) – - the AZ schools will not readily give up their California connection.
/no thank you, 12 schools iz fine
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by IndyDevil on Aug 31, 2011 12:59 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
it has to do with them committing to a league then bailing as soon as they could.
Mizzou’s shouting to the B1G to take me, take me … sort of made sense.
UN-L bailing also sort of makes sense when you consider they could not get others to vote for their ideas.
CU leaving was a don’t care for most of the BigXII(-3).
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by Anon_the_younger on Aug 31, 2011 12:19 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Right.
Again, I don’t mind A&M taking the SEC deal; I think it’s the right move for them.
But NOTHING other than the announcement of how much ESPN would pay in LHN rights fees changed between “We’ll commit to the Big 12” and “We’re outta here!”
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by lhb98 on Aug 31, 2011 12:22 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
SuperJew is just kind of ornery.
by Broncanous Mendenhall on Aug 31, 2011 12:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Because I'm perfectly happy with the ACC the way it is right now
and I don’t want it being absolutely nuked because Texas A&M decided to run off to another conference where they’ll get curb-stomped in the one sport they truly care about.
I like my conference, which is pretty fucking solid in all sports, rivalries, academics, and what-not, to be fucked over by TAMU’s new Overlords of Doom.
by SuperJew on Aug 31, 2011 12:33 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
No way they get curb stomped
in women’s basketball. Oh, wait, is this a college football blog? [exit stage left]
But seiously, the ACC looked dramatically different 10 years ago, as did many conferences. 20 years ago the Big XII didn’t even exist. South Carolina is still an interloper to many SEC diehards. All this shit conference shit is gonna change over and over and over. The only reason it’s significant is that we have the BCS rather than a playoff to determine a college football champion. Once the playoff is implemented, conferences will matter just for bragging rights, tailgating, tree killings, and couch burnings. I have seen the future and it is this.
Clever sign off pending.
by Slum C on Aug 31, 2011 12:39 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
That's my main irritation with all of this
If we’re hurtling inescapably toward 14- or 16-team superconferences, then why didn’t we just get this shit over with last summer? Now TCU is in the Big East, and I’ve already gone five seasons into my NCAA 12 dynasty without anticipating any other conference moves.
by Broncanous Mendenhall on Aug 31, 2011 12:42 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
"20 years ago the Big XII didn’t even exist."
Yes, it did. And then we expanded.
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Technically, no we didn't.
None of the Big 8 history carried over. Though it shoulda.
/kicks can of Ro-Tel down the road
by Albino Tornado on Aug 31, 2011 2:28 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Just so you know where I'm coming from:
If I were Sports Czar, the first rule I’d have would be to force round-robin play in CBB and force everyone in a conference to play each other at least once in CFB. Old fashioned and too conservative? Sure.
My ideal conference would be ten teams (keep VT) so that we can have everyone play everyone else in CFB, keep round-robin play in CBB, and not have idiotic travel arrangements that raise the cost for the athletic department, thus causing universities to cut popular sport programs, like soccer/wrestling/track & field/etc. etc.
by SuperJew on Aug 31, 2011 12:57 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
Enjoy your rec
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by The Ghost of John Hannah on Aug 31, 2011 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions
I'd disagree a bit on conference lineups
My ideal conference is a Big East/ACC north/Penn State mashup, but still a rec. I hate conference championship games, and conferences where everyone doesn’t play (and only one SU/Georgetown hoopyball game is teh crazy — we can do that in a non-conference game).
by drothgery on Aug 31, 2011 1:30 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Big fan
of the old Pac-10’s full table schedule. Ideally, all conferences would play that kind of schedule, then seed the conferences champs in a playoff, maybe with a few at-larges to balance the brackets. Then OU v. UConn wouldn’t be for a BCS marble, but just a 2 v. 15 a la the NCAAs.
But we can build castles in the sky all day. In reality, we have the shitty, shitty BCS and greedy, greedy schools schools looking out for the best interests of the student athletes.
Clever sign off pending.
by Slum C on Aug 31, 2011 1:50 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
One of my more far-fetched half-serious ideas from a while back
was to split D1A into two levels, six conferences of 10 teams in each, full round-robin within conference, promotion and relegation between the two levels (last place in the B1G? sorry, you get to play in the MAC next year), and a “Champions League”-type format between the six conference champions (play five additional games: two home, two away, then the final round of games is at bowl sites) to determine the national title.
Will it ever happen? No. Would it be awesome? Hells yes.
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I'm just sitting here
…watching the cops break up the domestic dispute next door and thinking “there goes the fucking neighborhood.”
by Billy Sims' Fro on Aug 31, 2011 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Tell me you're eating popcorn
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Honest tweet is honest
Brian Christopherson, who covers the Huskers for the Lincoln Journal Star:
BREAKING: Someone else tweeted that Texas A&M has notified the Big 12 it is leaving and now I am tweeting that too.
by Cheeseandcorn on Aug 31, 2011 12:18 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
ESPN's Joe Schad reports that someone has tweeted that someone has tweeted that there is a rumor Texas A&M is considering leaving the Big 12
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by Mango Stasi on Aug 31, 2011 12:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Joe Schad has far more important things to tweet right now.
by Dr. Norris Camacho on Aug 31, 2011 12:28 PM EDT up reply actions 9 recs
Much like you have to be on the driving surface to call shotgun
I don’t think you can claim OMG Girl without seeing her first.
I think that makes it even funnier.
by Dr. Norris Camacho on Aug 31, 2011 12:32 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
HA HA! ZOOK GETS THE LAST LAUGH!
/goes 3-9
//gets contract extension
by Broncanous Mendenhall on Aug 31, 2011 12:33 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
You are tearing this conference apart, Texas!
by Broncanous Mendenhall on Aug 31, 2011 12:30 PM EDT reply actions 7 recs
hey guys
want to go throw some football?
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Is Dan Beebe doing DRUGS?!?!?!
Oh, and I have Baylor cancer.
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that's....horrifying
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by ScreaminOwl on Aug 31, 2011 12:34 PM EDT up reply actions
That... I... ah... well... no.
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by SccrHskr on Aug 31, 2011 12:49 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
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SECede?....Whoop(s)!!
The Sandman was one of my favs.
I miss the ECW so so much. Sandman, Raven, Sabu, Tommy Dreamer, etc
We're all on the Hindenberg. No reason to fight over a window seat.
Every time I see things about Texas AM leaving the B12
I think of the ISU vanity license plate I saw this summer that proudly read in gold and red “FCS2013”
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by Pain in the Sash on Aug 31, 2011 12:55 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs
wonder if we can get those in Purple and white.
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by Anon_the_younger on Aug 31, 2011 12:57 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
"Hey, OU! I'm so glad you picked up the phone!"
“You know, I was thinking that it’s a shame that we don’t hang out more. Maybe we could catch lunch sometime? We really do have a ton in common, and it just makes sense for us to be great friends. . . friends who hang out, have good times. . . look out for each other. . . make sure that when the house catches on fire they drag their friends out of the inferno. . .
Hello? OU? Ok it must be a bad connection, just let me know about lunch! My treat!"
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by RaiderDuck on Aug 31, 2011 12:58 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Super Conference Proposal
The SEC doesn’t need to mess up or waterdown the conference. I also don’t want to lose the current rivalry games. Aub-UGA, Aub-Ala, Aub-LSU should not be touched and yes I was mad when Auburn lost Tenn & Florida as permanent rivals, but am now kinda ok with it because LSU is a good new rivalry and Arkansas ain’t too bad, but don’t want it to happen again.
So here is how we keep most the good stuff and the bigger geographic exposure ratings/money without losing too much tradition & having the mega dominant conference with basically a guaranteed MNC game entrance for the conference winner.
Keep the two current divisions as is for 2012…bring in 6 new teams to start the feeder division. Yes we go to three divisions. 3 teams that are sub-west and 3 teams that are sub-east.
Each year the worst record in the real SEC-East and real SEC-West drop down to the sub conference that gets lower profit sharing(bye Vandy and Ole Miss). Each year the two highest rated teams in the sub conference are promoted up to the big leagues.
The sub conference has the same 5 game round robin schedule format, in addition to the one permanent rival from the other division (UGA for Auburn)..there is also one permanent rival from your own division(so Auburn will still play Bama in case they get separated by one of them having a bad year and moving into the bottom rung.)
Texas A&M west
Oklahoma state west
TCU west
Virginia Tech east
Clemson east
USF east
by Gabe Harris on Aug 31, 2011 1:13 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
why usf?
The SEC can get USF easily and make’em into a power just like FSU and Miami became in the 1980’s. Once the SEC money gets pumped in to make USF into a recruiting power combined with the NCAA butt hurt on Miami and the Bowden-Richt-Andrews-FSU-ain’t happenen again…USF and the Gators can combine to put the lock down on florida….turn FSU and Miami into leftovers.
Why TCU? dallas-f worth…. baam cowboys stadium becomes home stadium.
by Gabe Harris on Aug 31, 2011 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA no that's not happening.
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by Jamie DeVriend on Aug 31, 2011 5:19 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Most Longhorn fans' reaction to TAMU leaving the Big 12 borders somewhere between:
Who gives a shit and don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
by USCndaATL on Aug 31, 2011 1:15 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
More like Steve Martin in The Jerk
And that’s the only thing I need is this. I don’t need this or this. Just this network… And this recruiting base. – The network and the recruiting base and that’s all I need… And this football series with Notre Dame. – The network, the recruiting base, and the football series with Notre Dame, and that’s all I need… And a good conference for baseball. – The network, and a good conference for baseball, and the football series with Notre Dame, and the network… And Oklahoma. – The network, this recruiting base, and the football series with Notre Dame, and Oklahoma, and that’s all I need. And that’s all I need too. I don’t need one other thing, not one… I need this. – The recruiting base and the BCS autoqualifier, and the football series with Notre Dame, and Oklahoma for sure. Well what are you looking at? What do you think I’m some kind of a jerk or something! – And this. That’s all I need.
by Gaknar on Aug 31, 2011 1:28 PM EDT up reply actions 10 recs
No, I would say it's been pretty much nothing like that.
Nice try, though.
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by Burrito Electrico on Aug 31, 2011 1:31 PM EDT up reply actions
The Jerk gets an auto-rec
Well done
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Other way around
It’s the aggies that are leaving, you know like, in the movie, like when this scene happens he is leaving.
And that’s all I need is the SEC, except the tu turkey game. But that’s it, not one more thing, except wanting the Longhorn Network to fail. But that’s it, SEC, the turkey game, the network to fail, and that’s it.
So giving them the "Aggie Network" wasn't enough?
The programming would have been awesome!!
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by Trouble's A Bruin on Aug 31, 2011 1:28 PM EDT reply actions 5 recs
thank you
for the UHF reference
Now drink with me deeply of the bourbon, scotch, and rye until such time as we are fighting drunk. Then we shall find, and beat the asses of, the nonbelievers who ruined my feast.
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Alvis bless us, everyone!!
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by Samuel_L_Bronkowitz on Aug 31, 2011 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
"we were inverted"
Note to self, NEVER go to a Russian airshow…..or a Big 12 north conference game
by TheYellowHammer on Aug 31, 2011 1:43 PM EDT reply actions
Local radio dingbats are talking about Notre Dame to the Big 12 again.
Oh Kansas City radio jocks – don’t change a thing you lovable, mildly insane morons.
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ftfy
don’t change a thing you lovable,
-mildly- insane morons.
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by Anon_the_younger on Aug 31, 2011 2:24 PM EDT up reply actions
On most days I don't give a crap about Texas A & M but today...
Go Aggies (Just to piss off the Longhorns)!
After today, join the SEC & fuck both of you! =)
We're all on the Hindenberg. No reason to fight over a window seat.
so you have a secret crush on A&M today?
What’s she look like?
Teh Tweeterizer
"I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation." - Bob Devaney, Nebraska
by alex henery's foot on Aug 31, 2011 4:59 PM EDT reply actions
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