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  1. 15 hours ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

     

    Intrigued by this as a possible final outcome of the next round of realignment where whatever version of the 2-4 "power" conferences do whatever they want and the Sunbelt, AAC, MWC, MAC, CUSA need to figure out a way to be relevant in their own way. Think its an uphill push right now because there are enough left behind schools in the AAC like Memphis that think they should be in some reformulated ACC or Big 12 but save that gotta think the other members of the G5 conferences have got be up for trying something other than just taking the 9% of table scraps offered up by the new CFP deal and liking it. 

     

    Well, it’s becoming more and more clear that the non-CFP bowls, with opt outs and transfers, are almost totally exhibition games, marginally more interesting than scrimmages. The G5’s need to do something 

  2. 42 minutes ago, Harrison Stafford said:

    Trev Alberts fired 18 employees in the Texas A&M athletic department today.  Among those released  were Justin Moore, executive deputy athletics director and chief operating officer, as well as Chris Park, deputy athletics director for external relations and business development, and Tyler Pigg according to a source with knowledge of the situation  No comment by Trev.  This is what happens when you have to pay someone $60,000,000 to not work there.

    I think Bill Byrne did something similar when he took over, moving out long time, established hangers on. 
     
    I remember he fired this really old guy, who had something to do with stadium upkeep. People were upset, because he had been there forever, and his crotchediness had become endearing to some. The very next year, we started reading the TexAgs complaints about the bat shit everywhere at Kyle Field. I think that old guy was killing the bats before they fired him. 

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  3. Oh, the possibilities,…

    “A group of middle school students, after a big win, use a goalpost to assault middle aged fans wearing maroon”

    ”A large girl eats a list that was used to organize a queue outside a stadium”

     

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  4. The problem with restructuring college football, per the proposal, is that it only solves problems for the M2 programs (the problem being- “How do we get to keep telling our alums and boosters that we’re big time, so they keep buying and contributing?”). 
     
    It doesn’t solve problems for the P2. 
     
    It doesn’t solve problems for the networks. As a matter of fact, they really want college football to be more like the NFL, where they need less crews to broadcast to more people. 

  5. 17 hours ago, Tired Horn said:

    That's the basic Aggie problem in a nutshell. They're so convinced that they're great that they need immediate vindication. It's not enough that averaging 8-4 over the years makes you a pretty decent team, or that every team has down years from time to time, or that this is Elko's first year in a bit of a rebuild. They so desperately crave affirmation of their greatness that they try to will it into being based on nothing but hopium.

    Every school has its overly hopeful fans, but Aggie takes it to a whole other level of psychosis. 

    So yeah, Jimbo knew the right chicken to pluck. 

    It’s even worse. They also constantly believe “Texas isn’t so great”. In the years where Texas puts it all together, they don’t amend that belief, and chalk it up to “Texas is lucky and the system is rigged”. They convince themselves that the secret isn’t to make the team as good as possible, and the program as strong as possible, but instead to seek out that easy path so they can get lucky, too. 

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    but I could see passing on GT (markets not as big of a deal anymore

    Markets may not be as big of a deal anymore, but to the Big XII schools, recruiting territories are. Most of the schools in the Big XII lack them. In the last 25 years, the number of NFL players originating in Georgia has mushroomed, and there are only two P4 schools in the state. 
     
    GT has won a MNC as recently as the last B12 school to do so. They are like Stanford- they are mid because they don’t emphasize being better, and not because they can’t be better. 

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  7. From Sooner Scoop, on Damonic Williams -

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    Like Lole, Williams enjoyed his weekend with the Sooners. One source said that Brent Venables is “the ideal coach” for Williams, who wants to play in a scheme like Oklahoma’s. Williams and his mom really connected with defensive line coach Todd Bates. And on the NIL side of things, there were no issues there. But as Williams’ recruitment continues, one has to wonder if his price will go up. 

    It certainly felt like OU had a chance to land Williams this weekend, but that won’t be the case. Williams — as expected from the start — wants to take other visits. He will be at Texas on Tuesday and Wednesday. He has since canceled his trip to Colorado and will instead visit Missouri this coming weekend. And then he will visit LSU. There is also still a chance he will visit Oregon. 

    OU tried to close the deal Sunday afternoon. Williams did not leave Norman until 7 p.m. And the Sooners won’t stop recruiting Williams. He remains their top priority. But Oklahoma also knows it can’t wait forever. And if Williams doesn’t make a decision in the next week or so, or if things start trending in a different direction, OU could start keying in on other defensive tackles. 

     

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  8. Since the 1950s, there have been D-1 salary caps and barriers to movement of players(NCAA regulations). Now there aren’t. 
     
    The old rules allowed smaller programs to punch above their weight, while restricting larger ones (and gave room for cheaters). Most ofFBS wants to go back to the old ways. It suited them better. Change is stressful. 
     
    I’m hopeful that we won’t have salary caps, revenue sharing and barriers to movement again. 
     
    Side note- the Sooner ON3 board is less optimistic about Williams now. 

  9. I was looking at TCU’s schedule next year:

    @Stanford

    Long Island University 

    UCF

    @SMU

    @Kansas

    Houston

    @Utah

    TT

    @Baylor

    Oklahoma State

    Arizona

    @Cincy

    They are not going to sell a lot of tickets. 

  10. 7 hours ago, Texzilla588 said:



    Dak couldn’t win with the 93 Cowboys.

    So very true. The one great trait about Aikman- he could play a high stakes game against a top opponent and not make a big error. A lot of really talented QBs don’t have that trait. 
     
    If you had a mediocre team, you want Steve Young or Favre, who can create something out of nothing. If you have the ‘92-‘95 Cowboys, you want Aikman. 

  11. I was looking at Baylor’s schedule for 2024. 
    Tarleton

    @Utah

    Air Force

    @Colorado

    BYU

    @ISU

    @TT

    Oklahoma State

    TCU

    @WVU

    @UH

    Kansas

    OSU, Utah and Kansas show up on pre-season ranking lists. I don’t think Utah is counted as a league game, but rather, a carryover from pre-league additions. 
     
    I see one patsy in non-conference, a tossup and a likely loss. They’re going to have to be good to make a bowl (not that bowls matter very much anymore). 
     
    What is the point of Baylor football now? To give lots and lots of development snaps to transfer portal prospects. It’s located in a talent rich area but only able to load up on large numbers of three star recruits. Some will be diamonds in the rough. Coach ‘em up, Dave!
     
     

  12. Aranda was the coach for Baylor’s greatest season ever. They won the conference, won their NY6 bowl game and finished #5 in the AP poll 

    (Of course, to beat Texas they needed the official to swallow his whistle on a roughing the punter call)

  13. Yeah, this super league divisions plan is loved by the M2 schools, because they want things to be like they used to be- no pay for players and barriers to player movement. Any team could be as good as its coaching hire. They got to be on TV, playing name programs. 
     
    They don’t like how things are. They want them to be like they used to be. It’s reminiscent of the Texas legislature hearings, when the reps from Waco, Lubbock, Fort Worth and Houston pitched hissy fits. “Somebody make Texas do what we want!”

  14. This argument that a P2, M2 and G5 setup will lose college football fans is overblown. In FBS, we already see a 20-80 split of fans (20% of the programs have 80% of the fans). Are the networks really supposed to strategize so as to not lose the 20% of fans that follow the lower 80% of programs?

    Although, I do understand why the M2 teams want revenue sharing with the P2 and salary caps. 

  15. Sark talks a lot about “culture fit”. I imagine a big part of “culture fit” is the portal recruit expressing interest in more than maximizing NIL and also committing to not trying to leverage for more NIL in the future. The wrong attitudes about NIL built that Ag 2022 class and then ranked the Ag 2022-2023 seasons. 
     
    And, of course, I have no insight into discussions with Texas recruits and will just assume they are all real princes, wrt character, attitude and culture. 

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  16. 9 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

    Yep and even further, OU can take a loss from us and still win the Big 12 and get to where they want. Always count on aggy to trip up along the way to fall short. The few times they have beaten Bama in their SEC tenure, didn't even result in a SEC West representative in the SEC championship game. I believe Bama both times have went to the national championship, so the loss didn't phase them.

    And this year, we lost to OU, and won the Big XII and made the CFP. 
     
    It’s crazy- in ‘99 we were ranked high, had a real shot at a BCS game, and then the Ag game led to a three game losing streak. 
    ‘01: played the B12 CG with a win putting us in the BCS CG, against a Buffs team we crushed earlier, and blew it. 
    ‘02: Only had to beat TT to play for the B12. Blew it. 
    ‘04: Incredibly talented team shut out by OU. 
    ‘06: only had to beat one of KSU and TAMU to play for the B12 title. Blew it. 
     
    It seemed like if we left the door the tiniest bit open, it would knocked over. 
     
    I wonder if part of it was Mack, and his demeanor. He had terrific UNC teams before he came here that fell short of conference titles and Alliance Bowls. 
     
    Maybe Sark is different. 
     

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  17. 1 hour ago, Vic Mackey said:

    Yep. We haven't done anything to them specifically. In fact, we bent over backwards after their drunken bonfire fiasco to accommodate and they shit on that like the little brother they are. We are the bigger brother who exists and they hate it. Both are allowed to do their own thing and have their own successes. One did and the other didn't. And the one that didn't, despises them for that reason. Had aggy had any sort of success in their history, their disdain for us wouldn't be as much.

    OU will always be much more of a rivalry than aggy ever will be. Beating OU means something. Beating aggy doesn't have the same effect. They are just the annoying little brother. Sure, it will be fun to beat them but we have bigger fish to fry. aggy is going to be circling that game every single year. If they go 1-11 but their lone win is UT, successful season for many of their gomer pyle fans.

    Dead on. 
     
    Years ago, when the question of who we wanted to win when OU played the Ags came up, I responded, “We want the Ags to win. The Ags take a big win, and then…do nothing with it. They’ll follow it up with a crazy stupid loss. OU, on the other hand, takes one win, and stacks another on top of it, and another, until they have made a season.”

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