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  1. Iowa and Nebraska aren't really Rust Belt, but I don't blame you for not wanting to play those games.  Iowa fans throw beer and urine at you.  Nebraska fans condescend and hide it behind "aw shucks" Midwest Nice.

    And if there's a scheduling deal, all either conference will really care about is creating marquee matchups.  Texas/Bama/UGA/etc will not be going to the Big 10 West.  That will be Mizzou, Kentucky, Arkansas, Miss St.  They'll make all the "lucky to be here" schools play each other.  And they might not even care enough to do that because games like the Palmetto Bowl and CyHawk generate better ratings than Iowa vs South Carolina would.

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  2. I really think it’s about not acquiescing to codified next level status.

    The reality is that the SEC has been the best conference for a long time, but the Big 10 is closer in actual on-field quality to the Big 12 and ACC.  The Big 12 and ACC don’t went to formally concede anything even if everyone knows they’ll probably get fewer bids in this system.  At least there will be a semblance of earning things.  There are plenty of years when the 3rd and 4th Big 10 teams could easily lose to the 2nd and 3rd ACC or Big 12 teams.

    The Big 10 doesn’t deserve a formal advantage just because they have the biggest fanbases.  Most people in the SEC know deep down that they’ll probably get more than 4 teams in a lot of years too.

    The 4-4-2-2 system is just anti-competitive at the end of the day.  It was a vehicle to generate more content in the form of play in games.  Like there isn’t enough $ already.

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  3. On 5/31/2025 at 5:28 PM, Iceman said:

    Wife has an uncle, retired, owner of about a $1mm property in Texas. 
     

    Miller Lite is the only thing you'll ever find in his icebox, until we bring stuff and corrupt it. He never drinks the other beer.  Only Miller Lite. 

    Funny enough, my aunt (said uncle’s wife) only drinks Miller Lite too.

    It’s literally the only form of alcohol I’ve ever seen this woman consume.

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  4. The Big 10 is 3 programs that could win a natty and 5-6 programs that would compete for ACC or Big 12 titles in good years.  The remainder struggle with bowl eligibility in any non-G5 league.

    They have money because they’re the more popular universities in large population areas.

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  5. Fuck this stupid fucking shit.  These fucking twats are just bashing everything I love about college sports to death. 

    The opening weekend of the NCAA tournament is the best 4 days of sports in America.  Period.  Anyone who wants to change it should be drug in the street and shot.

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  6. 52 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    Why would SEC be against 5-11? SEC would get the majority of those 11 every year. Big 10 is probably against it because they want the 4 guaranteed spots, there will likely be years they get less than 4 if everything is at large. I’m surprised Yormark favors it because the other proposal gives them 2 guaranteed spots and there will likely be years that only the champ gets in if everything is at large. Am I missing something? Also nobody is “telling SEC what to do,” these are negotiations leading to agreement and SEC will probably get its way eventually because they’ll have support of the networks. Maybe he’s referring to Big 10 saying they wanted to see SEC play 9 game conference schedule? I think there are plenty of others in favor of that including the networks paying for all of this stuff.

    Sankey’s just lying to establish his justification to blow everything up and act like he had no choice.

    By the time the actual financial fallout of alienating a large chunk of college sports fans hits, he’ll be retired.

    Squeeze max profits for next quarter, who gives a fuck about 10 years from now, fuck you you poor loser who has less say than me.  The American way.

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  7. 2 hours ago, troph said:

    That looks  awful lot like some of our rivers too.

    The Driftless Area is basically a northern version of the Hill Country, geologically speaking.

    Both are dissected plateaus.  Flora/climate is the main difference 

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  8. Got out on the classic Upper Iowa run for the first time in a couple years. Damn near perfect except for recent rains muddying things up a1bf2da8b1d7d8624f90919aecc5dbc6.jpg
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  9. 8 hours ago, Sgt Hulk said:

    Nope. Enjoy you big 12 loser conference. BDF ahahhaahhaha

    Micro-penis energy notwithstanding, this is simply a weird response to a post about the logical extension of devaluing CCGs.

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  10. 12 hours ago, bullet said:

    Boise has had far more success than any G school and is a better TV draw.  Yet they really didn't get serious consideration either time.  And they weren't taken seriously because of academics.

    I think if Boise was that valuable of a TV draw, the Big 12 would have jumped all over them.

    My guess is that the value they added to the TV contract was basically the same as the schools that added, and the geography was farther (more expensive travel) with less opportunity to recruit local talent.

    I realize that Boise's academics are a problem for a lot of people, but I don't think they're the reason the Big 12 post UT/OU passed them over.

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  11. On 5/16/2025 at 10:53 AM, G650 said:

    This is pretty absurd to even write given he was the one that steered them away from that. After Satanic Majesties he was the one that said they need to go back to basics.

    His talent and vision not only out stripped the others by a big margin, but the songs we all know would not exist without him. His marimba on Under My Thumb makes the song, it was literally dead in the water before that, and the Sitar on Paint It Black is absolute perfection. The recorder on Ruby Tuesday (a song which he actually wrote), the dulcimer on Lady Jane, the harpiscord on Play With Fire. The list is insane without even getting into his guitar work, like the riff for The Last Time or the slide on Little Red Rooster.

    He was wildly troubled, as genius tends to be, but his contributions can't be undersold. Can't say if it would been any different if Oldham hadn't frozen him out and bullied him, but regardless his influence even lived on well past him in the Stones. Even at the end he was impacting beyond his playing, the most important instrument in Gimme Shelter is the guiro, it's what takes the song up to the level of greatest rock song of all time, the atmosphere of violence and fear that song instills, and that is directly from Brian Jones. Same thing with the samba beat for Sympathy, his musical sensibility was imprinted on all the rest of the group, that's where all those ideas came from. Probably the single most defining aesthetic of the Stones has been their instrumentation, they have texture none of the other hard rock and blues bands ever did. If you love the 4 album run through Exile, then you love Brian Jones.

     

    Even the Stones themselves will tell you this.

     

    "He formed the band. He chose the members. He named the band. He chose the music we played. He got us gigs. ... he was very influential, very important, and then slowly lost it and blew it all away." - Bill Wyman

     

    He was one of those people who are so beautiful in one way, and such an asshole in another.’ Keith had once said to Brian: ‘You’ll never make thirty, man.’ Sadly, Brian’s reply was simple: 'I know.’

     

    A lot of Stones records were built of riffs, and Brian invariably played those riffs.- Glyn Johns

     

     

    ‘If Keith and Mick were the mind and body of the Stones, Brian was clearly the soul.’ - Rolling Stone

     

    You’ve built a strong case, but I still prefer the albums without him to the albums with him.

    Mick, Bill, and Charlie make Under My Thumb for me, personally.

    I like the way the guitar weave sounds with Keith and Mick Taylor or Woody better.

    I like the songs better.  I like the riffs better.  I like the production better.

    This is just purely subjective on my end, but in no way do I wish Brian Jones had stayed with the Stones any longer than he did.

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  12. Just now, gatormarc said:

    Curious about this one, being on the other side of the country, I hadn't heard that. What did Stanford do?

    If the Pac 12 had reached out to the Irate 8 (likely sans Baylor because religion) they could have absorbed KU, KSU, ISU, TTU, TCU and OK St and survived in the space the Big 12 occupies today.

    They wouldn’t have to fly all the way across the country and play most of the schools they’ve always played.

    But West Coast elitism won the day.  They couldn’t associate with prairie trash.  Although USC may be more responsible for that decision.  AZ and CU wanted to bring them in.

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  13. 4 minutes ago, Parliament said:

    The Wendy's at the truck stop on the south side is excellent.  But other than that, it is not an appealing city.  Even the Sheel's sucks.

    Marto Brewing slams and goes hard.  Bob Roe’s wings fuck.  They have some good mountain bike trails by flatland standards.

    Thats all I got.

  14. 6 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

    This is only one of the many reasons I no longer live in Sioux City

    I loathed that town for a lot of years.  2 awful ex gfs, and 2 awful roommates/former friends came from there.

    The Sewer and I have made peace since then, and it’s improved a ton since the early aughts.  But I’m about the last person one would need to explain leaving that town to.

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  15. 7 hours ago, bullet said:

    Well even with SMU buying the way in for the 3 of them, it was only their academics that got them included in that deal.

    It matters on the margins.  its one of the reasons Boise never got serious Big 12 consideration.

     

    I don’t think that’s why Boise was left out of the Big 12.  The 3 G5 schools that got called up are in major media markets that are also recruiting hot beds.

    Boise isn’t that big of a market, and does not produce much high school talent.  

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  16. 1 hour ago, G650 said:

    I know that this is conventional wisdom and all, but I've come to admit in my old age that I actually prefer Brian Jones era Stones to Mick Taylor. Zero of my favorite Stones songs have Mick on them excepting All Down the Line. And I say that as a huge Mick Taylor fan. They just lost something when Brian flamed out.

     

    Aftermath is probably my favorite Stones album, though Exile certainly has a case. Some Girls is number 3 just to really muddy the waters.

    I’m sort of opposite.  The older I get the less I care for Brian Jones.  IMO the only thing they lost with Brian Jones was a raging fuckhead who wanted to make Beatles-lite sidebars.

    They became the Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World when he exited.

    It might be cliche, my top 3 are some order of Exile, Sticky Fingers, and Let It Bleed with Beggar’s barely missing the cut.  Some Girls would round out the Top 5.

    Hell, I listen to Black & Blue more than any (real) Brian Jones album.  I know he’s technically on Beggar’s and Let It Bleed, but barely.

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