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  2. Y'all are weird. No AD is going to cancel a ND series, not because of CFP stuff at least.
  3. Close up look at the latest publicly known Ukrainian tech
  4. Free delicious snacks would be a sick burn
  5. I don't blame the mom. She lost a daughter and wants someone to blame. She was happy and had X, Y, Z to look forward to. No way her daughter would take her own life. Except she did. My daughters, their friends, and the victims' parents all thought the same thing. No way he/she would do it. One jumped off a building. Another hung herself. And another shot himself in the head. Depression doesn't look like what many people think it does. I think most of us know of or have known people who have committed suicide and/or dealt/dealing with severe depression. Lastly, if you read /r/Austin, every once in a awhile you'll see posts about ambulances and deaths around West Campus. There won't be any news of it. That's usually because it's a suicide. UTexas doesn't report or inform of it. The news usually doesn't report on it.
  6. No. The problem is that it’s a bad job, with insane hours, the pay is incredibly shitty, and the customers are cheap, stupid assholes who don’t care about the difference between right and wrong. Very few good people would want that job. We’ve got the congress we deserve. Probably better.
  7. Yeah, and I think that the history of how it went down and how we got to super-conferences provides more context. I, for one, applaud ND for telling the rest of the world to fuck off. They are playing by the rules the giants of the CFB set. - ND tried to join the Big Ten. Twice, I believe. They were turned down. And in a fit of anti-Papism, which was a potent political force at the time, the precursor to the Big Ten organized a boycott from scheduling them. - In response they took their show on the road and built a national brand and fan-base of “Catholics.” By mid-century the Big Ten would have taken them but why would ND want to now? - Through the 1980s being an independent power was nothing odd and no one blinked an eye. ND won NCs, so did PSU, Pitt, Miami, or got bent over FSU’s rise. - In 1984 UGA and OU sued the NCAA to break their monopoly on national TV media rights, as proxies for the SEC/Big 8. ND did not join that suit. The end result was that schools or conferences could bargain their rights. This is the moment where conferences ceased being regional alliances and became money-making sports cartels. This is why the SWC no longer made any sense, and why college football fans suddenly started caring about media market presence. - Within a decade all the other independents joined. Note— they didn’t have to and could have sold rights like ND did. There were no offers worth more to them than joining a consortium would be. Note also, Texas approached CBS about an ND-like deal in the 1990s and got told “not now.” - Notre Dame, as you mention, could make the numbers work and they did it with NBC. They could do it because of their own brand-building for decades and because power conferences sued the NCAA to give them the structure to do it. Yes, ND is uniquely positioned to make money outside of a conference. That provides some competitive advantages. But they’re playing by the rules others set. I don’t see the SEC/Big Ten powerhouses waving their hands to voluntarily disarm their NIL qualitative advantage. Them’s the breaks, and getting overly agitated at ND for playing really well in the game others designed comes off as really sour grapes, as does continually trying to force others to abandon an advantage thet came by fairly. Let’s talk first about a NCAA-wide voluntary NIL salary cap or NIL redistribution before changing rules to make ND go in on a revenue redistribution scheme they don’t want a part of.
  8. I loved a woman who wasn't clean.
  9. Reviving this thread. Saw that Texas/Ark won week 13 ratings which surprised me. Beating Oregon/USC head-to-head. Cupcake week in SEC and 5.6M is a low number to win the week, but thought Oregon/USC would do better. Haven't seen the Texas/aggy ratings yet. SEC on ABC has been dominating ratings this year winning 12 straight weeks against FOX, CBS, NBC. https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college-football-tv-ratings/
  10. Yup. It looked like we finally got a reprieve when Beard showed up and that turned into a triple kick in the nuts. CDC fucked this hire up bad.
  11. Yeah, but that one aggy needs to shut the fuck up. I’d love for aggy to finance my cheez-it addiction over the next several weeks. White cheddar, please, you cultish dipshits.
  12. One donor worth ~$40B will do that
  13. Hope we pass
  14. Man for all the money Texas has they can’t seem to beat Oregon in buying talent
  15. The good news is that most car companies still want to sell their cars in California. Unless the Trump administration is successful in preventing the state EPAs from having more restrictive requirements, they are still going to design to gas mileage standards.
  16. "An Aggie never lies"
  17. Are we expecting Baxter to eat up a good number of carries? Even if we get a top flight RB in the portal seems like we could still be thin if Wisner leaves.
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