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  1. 2 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    Drew seems like the obvious choice to me.  I do realize that SEC schools like to hire SEC coaches (in every sport), though.

    I just don't see Drew leaving Baylor at this point.  He's had to have had opportunities like Kentucky in the past and turned them down.

  2. 8 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


    My wife changes out her purse every. Fucking. Day. She has a bag in 573 different colors, and then 3 different size variations of each color. Today, she’s feeling medium periwinkle blue, tomorrow, her big emerald green tote!
    Meanwhile, I carry the same black leather wallet till it falls apart and she demands that I get a new one because it makes me look like a hobo.

    Are we the same person?

    I bought my first new wallet since the Bush administration last week, and my wife has accumulated at least 100 purses in that time frame.

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  3. 16 minutes ago, statsman said:

    I think you have to realize that Northwestern, Vandy, etc. understand that they get a benefit from the bell cows doing well. ISU was in a similar position, in the Big 8, which used to be nicknamed “The Big 2 and Little 6”. ISU understood that it benefited from OU and NU doing great. 
     
    The SWC, and to a similar extent, the PAC were different. Those conferences were configured where the big schools (Texas, TAMU) considered the little schools’ locations their recruiting territory, breeding resentment at the little schools. Baylor fans, for example, resent Texas in a way foreign to ISU fans feelings about OU. Texas recruits Waco, and when Texas is doing well, Waco stores sell more Texas stuff than Baylor stuff. The small SWC schools have a shared interest in Texas being down. In the SWC, this manifested in the conference being OK with massive cheating, leaving it to the NCAA to clean up. 
     
    A similar dynamic resulted in the Big 12. ISU may not have resented Texas, but Baylor, TCU and TT sure did. ISU and OSU certainly saw the opportunity to take advantage of with Texas down, circling those dates on the schedule. 
     
    I’m sure some is Texas’ fault, primarily for allowing itself to falter, but the larger point remains- Northwestern doesn’t hate Michigan and Mississippi State doesn’t hate Alabama the way the Left Behinds hate Texas. 

    Right, but how much of those good feelings are due to their continued beneficiary status?

    If Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, and the SEC powers broke off to form Prestige Worldwide, I guarantee that Northwestern and Mississippi State would feel the same way about those blue bloods that the I8 feel about Texas.  I live among and am close friends with many Iowa fans.  They absolutely hate Ohio State and Michigan despite the financial security afforded them due to their association.  Every big dog is hated by whoever is below them in the pecking order.

    Texas didn't leave the Big 12/USC didn't leave the Pac 12 because of how the other schools viewed them.  They left because of concerns that they wouldn't be able to compete at the top level without the financial benefit of being in the SEC or Big 10.  In the NIL world, you have to maximize your revenue to compete at the highest level, and they all made extremely rational choices to that end.  Same as the schools that left the Pac 12 for the Big 12.

    The conference model has been the source of a lot of that resentment, IMO.  Eliminating that would go a long ways in changing those dynamics.

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  4. 30 minutes ago, Bill Lumbergh said:

    I appreciate your sentiment here and believe that you believe it, but as a fan of the school most commonly villainized by smaller brand schools for acting in our own interest and wanting to maximize our value, this is false.

    But you have to remember that villainization was done in the context of the conference system, where "Texas's greed" was an existential threat to these schools being part of major college sports.  If Texas wanted more money and left the conference, they were in a position to possibly be de facto relegated.  That existential fear/threat can create a whole lot of animosity among the threatened.  This is basic human nature.

    With that threat removed, I strongly doubt that there will be much give a shit about schools with better ratings getting bigger checks.  That sentiment might still exist among some, but so what?  They can't do anything to cause negative repercussions to Texas.  They can't use conference refs to call bad penalties.  They can't use conference rules and votes to keep you out of a championship game.  Any avenue for their pettiness to result in some kind of tangible negative has been removed in the proposed conference-less system.

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  5. 3 minutes ago, Bill Lumbergh said:

    This makes sense.

    It especially makes sense because immediately after everyone happily agrees to this value-based revenue sharing model that brings more teams into the "big league" of cfb, those same teams can immediately turn around and blame Texas and our greed for ruining the sport through demanding uneven revenue distribution.

    But those schools can't really do anything to Texas in this model either.  That's part of the genius of getting away from conferences.

    As a fan of a smaller brand school that's historically been part of the bigger leagues, I can say that most of us don't have a problem with schools like Texas, Ohio State, etc making more money than we do.  They have more fans, draw bigger ratings, etc.  Is this not America? Are we not a capitalist society?  

    What pisses us off is schools that aren't any different than us getting massive pay days and being part of the club because they hooked up with the oddly benevolent financial juggernauts 150 years ago.  It's Purdue, Northwestern, Indiana, Mississippi State, etc getting to roll around in piles of cash that were generated by others that chaps our ass.

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  6. 9 minutes ago, Pancho said:

    You also don’t have a Black wife

    Does Chris Beard?

    I've only been there for recreation, but that part of Arkansas seems pretty progressive and quite different from the rest of the state.  It certainly can't be worse than Mississippi right?

    EDIT:  Realized you're talking about Musselman.  And Beard has of course already lived in Arkansas.

  7. 8 minutes ago, Bill Lumbergh said:

    It hinges on two things, I think.

    First, how do you sell it to members of the big 10 and sec, where fans really are fanatical about their conference affiliation.  This idea only works if members of those two conferences get onboard, and that feels like a big task.

    Second, and directly tied to point one, the idea only works if members of the big 10 and sec can make more money under this model.  Likely considerably more.  That will help them get over their conference pride issues pretty quickly.  I'm just not sure that's possible when those two conferences already own most of the programs who add value in media negotiations.

    You collectively bargain, and then pay out based on ratings.  Better ratings = more money.  That's how you sell the blue bloods on it.  Financial reward becomes merit based, not about being lucky as to who you hooked up with 150 years ago.  The whole conference model goes away completely in this system.  There is no Big 10 or SEC, there is just the 70 schools that were part of the major conferences, and they all have varying levels of value in this equation.

    This model we've been heading towards where Purdue and Northwestern get to make as much money as Ohio State and Michigan while Oklahoma State and West Virginia don't even get to participate is so mind-numbingly stupid, and this model would end that immediately.

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  8. 37 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

    Is Arkansas really a destination school? That would be Beard’s 5th school in a relatively short amount of time and is it just a stepping stone to another job? 

    At some point, Beard has to stick somewhere. 

    It might be a destination job for him at this point.

    He's never going back to his alma mater, so I guess why not?  NWA is beautiful and you have a fanbase that supports hoops.

  9. It's like the XFL.  Solid back ground noise on a rainy weekend, but nothing to emotionally invest in.  I watched a little on Sunday.  Actually saw that wild-ass fake punt live.

    There are a lot of fringe NFL guys that I recognize from being above average college players, except for at QB generally.  I watch a decent amount of CFL later in the summer and that league has better QB play, which I think is what eventually separates it.

  10. 3 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    bro out here taking a picture with his phone to upload to surly instead of using snipping tool. 

    Usually when I hear someone say "snipping tool" they're castrating hogs.

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  11. Just now, LTbear said:

    Is that Tennessee in with the Texas schools?

    Yeah.  Just trying to keep some competitive balance.  I thought about putting one of the Mississippi schools in that division and the other in the old SEC division.

    Kentucky would probably make more geographic sense, but like I said, I didn't spend much time on this thought experiment.  I just went from west to east and tried to keep some balance.

  12. Just now, TrashMaster G said:

    Any "reasonable" setup will have us back in with Baylor, so....

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    Well, in this proposal you're only playing them.  You aren't in some kind of alleged brotherhood of shared values, culture, academia, etc.  That's part of the idiocy of the whole conference thing.

  13. Or Kansas/Kansas State depending on which way you are drawing lines. Maybe we can engage in gerrymandering and cut out TCU, Baylor, Houston, and SMU. I am sure they would understand.  

    I just threw this together in 5 minutes off the top of my head.

    Seems pretty balanced, and any rivalry not in division play (like Red River) can be harmlessly scheduled in the non-conference, because playoff access would come down to winning the division
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  14. 1 minute ago, Vertigo said:

    I really want to like this proposal, but at the same time I hate it just simply for the regionality aspect. I really don't want to have gone to all of the trouble of the SEC move and all associated ass pain just to wind back up in a "Texas/Oklahoma region" with the same group of teams we just left plus SMU and aggy.  

    It would probably have Piggy and LSU too.

    And the Kansas schools and ISU would be in some northern plains division with Nebraska, Mizzou, Colorado and whoever else is up that way.

  15. 3 minutes ago, Vertigo said:

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    Exactly.  When I think of Greg Sankey and whoever is in charge of the Big 10 at any given moment, I imagine the Forrest Gump school bus scene.

    And in the sports world, this mentality is so specific to American college football.

  16. 30 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

    Bass player in my sometimes band loves the Dan. Hates Tom Petty. All around great guy, really good bass player, insanely cool Fodera basses. But I always kinda think he should be arrested for those opinions.

    This is honestly the first time I've ever heard of someone hating Tom Petty.

    Growing up he was always the guy that everyone liked no matter if they were a metalhead, country listening hick, wannabe rapper, or general rock/pop fan.

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