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  1. 1 minute ago, DFW Horn said:

    Farmageddon on 8/23 from Ireland? Who lost a marquee home game, ISU or KSU?

    I hope the TV money and exposure is worth it.

    They did.  They come to Ames in '26, and then in '27 the game finally won't be played (unless we both make CCG).  It will be 5 years without Farmageddon in Manhattan.  A lot of KSU folks aren't real thrilled about it.

    This is nothing but a boon for us.

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  2. 25 minutes ago, Iceman said:

    Ames is most definitely NOT a suburb of Des Moines.  LOL.

    Check back in 10 years.  There's about 5 miles of real open country between the south end of Ames and the northern most Des Moines suburb.

    It's not yet, but it will happen in my lifetime.

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  3. I could live in Ames again.  It's only 40 minutes to downtown Des Moines, and while Des Moines isn't a truly big city, it's really urban for it's size (metro around 800K).

    But I'm a small town guy.  I grew up on a farm between a town of 150 and a town of 20ish.  I live in a town of 3900 currently.  It takes an incredible level of isolation for me to feel truly isolated.

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  4. 7 hours ago, PGFrog said:

    I have been to both and there isn't much at either besides the schools.  

    Thought it was nicer to say that than the middle of fucking nowhere.  Not Pullman bad, but not much around them. 

     

    That’s what I like about those places.  You get that classic “college town” atmosphere because the community utterly revolves around campus.

    Ive been to TCU, and it’s a beautiful campus in a great city, but it’s a totally different experience than a college town.

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  5. 50 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Big 12 coaches pick KSU and ISU as the title game matchup in Dallas

    Since the Big 12 discontinued the preseason media poll, On3 asked each coach to predict who would play in the league’s title game. The coaches were granted anonymity and could not vote for their own team.

    Kansas State led the way with eight votes, followed by Iowa State with seven, Arizona State had six and Texas Tech received five. TCU (three votes), Baylor (two votes) and Utah (one vote) were the other schools getting votes. Seven of the league’s 16 teams received votes.

    I just looked up how feasible moving the Big 12 CCG to Arrowhead would be in this scenario, but unfortunately the Chiefs are home that evening.

  6. 21 minutes ago, markstanco said:

    You mean last year's version of ASU and Clemson?  Because not this year. 

    Yes, last year.  I meant to say "would have".

    I think the ASU team that had you on the ropes would have handily beaten the Clemson team that you handily beat.

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  7. A priest told me once that we don’t pray because God intercedes and gives you what ask for, but rather we pray to help focus ourselves on what’s important to us, in order to help us be better examples of Christ’s love.

    And I think way more people need to get that message on Sundays.

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  8. 21 minutes ago, LTbear said:

    Montana vs NDSU in the 2023 semifinals was one of the most fun games I've ever been to, at any level. 

    I very much enjoyed watching them beat Iowa and KSU

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  9. 1 hour ago, Mittens said:

    Same.  And we likely wouldn't have the ridiculous concentration of power programs there is today.  

    This would be true had you guys not left the Big 12 as well.

    TV wanted the power programs more concentrated and that wouldn’t have changed with a Pac 16.

  10. It would have failed, for many of the same reasons the Pac 12 failed

    Thats an insane cultural disparity, and all the shit you guys talk on Big 12 schools applies more so to the Pac schools.  Far away places that don’t care anywhere near as much about football.

    The SEC is the only place it ever made sense for UT and OU to go outside of the Big 12.

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  11. 3 minutes ago, stc said:

    people who go out of their way to point out "i have such diverse taste in music" are insufferable. oh wow, you like rap AND jazz. incredible! it's called being a music fan. other than your aunt franny who only listens to polka, actual music fans listen to a whole array of music. i've never once found someone with a record collection that only contains one genre. these must be the same people who think the weather in their state is special "if you don't like the weather in (insert state) just wait 5 minutes and it will change!". no shit, that's what the weather does everywhere. /rant

    While I completely agree with your general premise, I had a buddy who lived in SoCal for 5 years and somewhere after year 3 got sick and tired of the weather never fucking changing.

  12. 52 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

    I think the last few years have disabused them of that.  

    I feel like Stanford fans, at least, are in the camp of pure survival (those that will do anything to preserve non-football/Olympic sports and still have a football team and or figure out a way to retain all the other sports without a football team).

    I can see them joining this non-Power Pac12 and having a competitive football team and still retaining and having success in the non-football sports. 

    The ones who are all about academics and don't care about sports would rather us just join the Ivy League or create a West Coast Ivy League. 

    Cal and Stanford are going to use academic reputation to recruit, and not to make decisions about conferences. 

    This seems like a far more logical way of operating.

    53 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    The Big 10 only says that because it was already that way not the other way around. The schools that were members for a century were large well funded institutions and had AAU status when shit started blowing up. They proved it’s flexible when they took Nebraska who was already on their way out of the AAU. If a lesser academic institution was in the neighborhood with massive athletics media value they’d take them in a heartbeat that just doesn’t exist up there.

    The Big 10 is always going on about their academic consortium, like they can only collaborate with schools that are part of their athletic conference, academically.

  13. Seems to me the goal of the Pac was to become the best non-power league and the path to do that was by getting the serious MWC schools on board.

    Now they’re the only conference besides the MAC to exist solely on the same side of the Mississippi, and have the largest G6 (we have to call it that, right?) fanbases in one spot.

    I think this is a league that understands their position really well and has put together a compelling product that I’ll be tuning into.  Most of the time, the G6 rep will come out of here, I suspect.  In hoops, they will be extremely salty and there will be a debate as to whether they’re a high or mid major.

  14. 2 hours ago, PGFrog said:

    The biggest red herring out there when it comes to conferences.  

    Not for some schools.

    I think it’s utterly moronic to think who you play sports with says anything about your academics, but that’s 100% how Stanford and Cal think, as well as large swaths of the Big 10.

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  15. Fuckin’ love Rocco.  Dude’s got the winning gene where he just finds ways to make big plays in the crunch.  Downside is he’s a little bit of a gunslinger and when he throws picks (which isn’t often) they almost always end up being pick 6s.  He’s a very effective runner, although it’s not a cornerstone of his game.

    As a human being, he seems like a great guy.  His teammates love him, and after a town in Iowa had a school shooting in the spring of ‘24, he put on a free camp for the kids there.

    He’s gonna be 3rd or 4th round guy, and likely have a long career as a backup and elite locker room guy.  Then again, there’s a lot of Purdy in his game and maybe he’ll go beyond that. 

  16. 1 hour ago, DFW Horn said:

    I think the mountains/waves are welcoming TXST to the league, but whatever. Bad graphic?

    The new Pac thinks they're Power 5, too. Delusional?

    #collegefootball #pac12 #ncaa

     

    It’s delusional, but who really cares?  There are teams in that league who can beat teams in every other league in this graphic.

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