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Al_4_ISU

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  1. The Big 12 is stable because the Big 10 and SEC aren't adding any of the programs in it. The ACC has about 4 schools that could work for the other two. The idea that TCU, Utah, KU, etc could work their way in is laughable. The Big 10 and SEC have had a million opportunities to add them and continually passed. The Big 12's play is to be good enough at basketball that whatever iteration of college sports is coming requires their presence for the basketball tournament to continue to be the ratings cash cow that it currently is. This makes it worth the SEC and Big 10's while to not kick them out of the football playoffs. Big 12 basketball is like North Korea having some nukes. They'd never win an all out war, but if they're just dangerous enough to take a bite out of the powers that be's cheeseburger, the powers that be will be more amenable to letting them exist.
  2. 1) The schools in the Big 12 care about the sport more than schools in other leagues. That's not going to change quickly. They invest in the sport at a level other programs simply don't care to, and likely won't at the risk of their football programs. It's not an advantage that can't be replicated, but it's an advantage that likely won't be replicated. 2) The NCAA is not long for this world. There will be a day when the college basketball tournament is no longer controlled by the NCAA, and that day isn't far off. The whole point is that long term there will be enough financial incentive for the most powerful football conferences to keep playing basketball against the best basketball conferences. The Big 12 can never financially match the SEC and Big 10, but by being the absolute best basketball conference they can bring enough value to avoid getting cut out of football, which is really all the fans and administrators want. Our doomsday scenario is being shut out of the highest level of college football and the best way to avoid that is by creating enough cumulative value that the Big 10 and SEC find value in keeping others at the table. They'll still get the most teams in football, make the most money, and win the most championships. The CFP, and all college football, will get better ratings by at least having the appearance that anyone can qualify if they take care of business. A formal separation, while still financially viable for the SEC and Big 10, would almost be guaranteed to draw fewer eyeballs than they currently do, but there are an awful lot of people who seem more motivated by the air of exclusivity than by what's actually going to make the most money in the long run, so it remains a risk.
  3. Adding UConn would make Big 12 basketball analogous to SEC football - possibly beyond that. We all know that football is king, but March Madness is massive financially, and it would hurt the Big 10 and SEC financially if that blew up. This move pushes us to a spot where the Big 12 can credibly say “if you cut us out of the football playoff, we’re cutting you out of the basketball playoff”. A Big 12/East/ACC plus the Cinderellas tournament would be a lesser product, but still viable - much like an SEC/Big 10 exclusive football post season. I see this as a move towards a “mutually assured self destruction so let’s all play nice” type arrangement.
  4. Oh hell yes.
  5. Keeler drove me nuts when he wrote for the Des Moines Register back in the early aughts, but watching Prime lose his shit over that dork is incredible.
  6. I’m aware. But a bunch of hammered Midwest rubes in a beautiful European city cracks my ass up
  7. That was awesome. Can’t wait for whatever crazy shit happens in FarmO’Geddon in this slot next year. A bunch of shitfaced Midwestern farmers in Dublin is going to be a hilarious scene.
  8. You see a ton at our games now. The problem is that our players love them and we’ve won a bunch of big games in them, and now a large chunk of younger ISU fans associate it with success.
  9. I hate our black uniforms more than you ever could.
  10. My wife is dead set on a ghost tour this time. I’m not a fan, but I know that acquiescing to this will lead to wild drunk kid-free hotel sex. Whats the best one?
  11. Just booked a trip in late January. Haven't been since 2016. Fucking pumped.
  12. Absolutely. I'm just saying that OSU probably isn't the first school to do this had Gundy been more publicly pro NIL in the first place. Gundy dug himself a little bit of a hole on that front and I have 0 doubt it's being used against him on the recruiting trail. Stuff like this is done to counteract that perception.
  13. Bingo. Gundy has a reputation for being anti NIL and he's been working pretty hard to reverse that (as opposed to just dying on the vine like Dabo). This is just a means of letting people know he's on Team NIL.
  14. And haphazardly assists the Germans in their evil schemes.
  15. Love me some Italian pils. (I have no god damn clue what the difference is)
  16. Black Stack French Pils
  17. I remember Bowman and Purdy playing in their respective freshmen years and the announcers billing it as a battle of freshman phenoms. It was a pretty tight game that we pulled out and I remember in the next offseason there was a Bowman vs. Purdy debate on a lot of Big 12 pods. Think that one got settled.
  18. Kevin Warren? But to your point, teams 20-40 are essentially the same as teams 40-60 in terms of profile and viewership. 20-60 are more alike than 20-40 are like 1-20. You lose a lot of viewers if you just cut out 20 schools that actually care.
  19. If there’s a super league it will be about 60 schools and everyone in it will have 50K + stadiums
  20. Someone had photoshopped "Football" over "Soccer" on that graphic yesterday and I about rolled off my chair before I realized it had been altered.
  21. It's like ESPN's constant divestment of talent has tangible consequences.
  22. I generally agree with your point, I'm just pointing that his best season (which accounts for 25% of his tenure as a head coach at this point) beats a ton of active coaches, including a lot of the dudes ahead of him on that list. And it's only 3 seasons ago, so there's gonna be some recency bias. I think Baylor's a bottom 1/3rd (of the Big 12) team this year and he's back to being a DC next year.
  23. He's 2 years removed from a conference title. Kirk Ferentz, for example, has never won an outright conference title.
  24. Casey’s pizza is all they have going for them at this point, and you’re never more than 15 miles from one. Legitimately decent, but it used to be great. Some mom and pop gas stations have good pizza too.
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