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Al_4_ISU

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  1. Boise is a great road trip. Mountains, good beer scene, etc.
  2. They don’t deserve an auto bid. If they have some great wins and the committee puts them, whatever.
  3. I think you can guess my thoughts here.
  4. Those two blue bloods carry an immense amount of water to assume that a 9-3 Wisconsin team deserves an automatic bid.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. My uncle’s beer fridge. This man owns 1,000 acres of Iowa farmland worth roughly $13K/acre. He chose this life.
  9. I’d honestly rather go back to the BCS. Even if it did spit out two SEC teams half the time.
  10. The SEC being worried about the playoff committee leaving them out is like my wife being worried that I won’t dump loads in her.
  11. 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.
  12. That guy's played a fantastic heel his entire life.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Fuckin tasty by the looks of it
  16. Al_4_ISU

    Kayaking

    The Driftless Area is basically a northern version of the Hill Country, geologically speaking. Both are dissected plateaus. Flora/climate is the main difference
  17. Do you guys get Big Grove in WI? Their Easy Eddy has lapped Psuedo Sue for Iowa’s best IPA, Imo. Cyber Sue is decent, but I’m not that jazzed about it
  18. Al_4_ISU

    Kayaking

    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
  19. Micro-penis energy notwithstanding, this is simply a weird response to a post about the logical extension of devaluing CCGs.
  20. If you kill conference championships, then you need to kill conferences altogether.
  21. 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.
  22. In the words of Waylon, "if we all sounded like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones"
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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