Everything posted by Al_4_ISU
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Realignment talk not going away
AZ/UT Big 8 Central time CU/TT/Cen Tex Coog/Eastern time Easy enough. Swap CU/OSU if the Pokes have a problem with it.
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Realignment talk not going away
In my perfect world, we would be in a permanent pod with you guys, KU, and KSU. The ISU/OSU series has been absolutely wild almost every year since ‘11. I don’t think it’s a rivalry, but it’s absolutely a game both fanbases are on edge for.
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Realignment talk not going away
When our fans flipped shit, our AD said “well, it obviously isn’t a big deal because we only sold 500 tickets to the game in Manhattan through our allotment”. There were several thousand ISU fans there, they just found better/cheaper seats on the secondary market. Not paying the official university mark up. There have been numerous trophy proposals from both sides, with several being legitimately good. The ADs just keep going “nah, we’re good”.
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Realignment talk not going away
That’s partially on both of our ADs. They seem to love downplaying Farmageddon even though both fanbases and players/coaches will tell you it’s the biggest conference game. Its infuriating.
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New Music 2024
Hell yes! DMW is my favorite version of his work, but I celebrate it all.
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
End zones that don’t use a white stripe to mark the actual goal line. TCU, I’m looking at you.
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
Money always wins
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Thread for games that started in the morning because G650 is a dildo
Who is he rooting for?
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Realignment talk not going away
It’s not “Texas’s fault”. It’s ESPN’s. Im just saying they used Texas’s slump as ammo in their campaign to make the Big 12 untenable to the largest brands.
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Realignment talk not going away
That was essentially due to a decades-long media blitz that was intentionally designed to weaken the Big 12. Texas's slump was definitely a factor in that narrative too. If Colt McCoy doesn't get hurt in the 2010 natty and Texas wins that game, it's a huge blow to what was a budding SEC superiority narrative. If Texas had maintained and OU had done something with their playoff opportunities, the Big 12 would have had less of a perception problem. The fanbases were still not as big as the SEC or Big 10, and I think what happened might have happened anyways due to money, but the bias toward the SEC was absolutely related to the Big 12's biggest brands not having high end national success on the field in that time frame.
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Realignment talk not going away
I think there's certainly a chance. I'm just not sure those do any more for you than schools like UNLV or Air Force. I would be curious to get the Texan perspective, but from the outside it seems like Texas State and UTSA are the G5 Texas schools with the biggest upside in terms of actually drawing a following. I might have put UNT there at one point, but it seems like those places have more of a base for whatever reason.
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Realignment talk not going away
Yeah, it seems to me like those schools all had mostly equal worth (agree on SJSU) so a merger with Wazzu/Ore State under the Pac moniker always made the most sense to me.
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Realignment talk not going away
I think it's funny that the MWC formally said "nah" to the merger proposal and is now getting raided by those they rejected. It's like they learned nothing from the Pac 12 rejecting the Irate 8. It's the exact same scenario playing out the next rung down the ladder.
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Realignment talk not going away
I think the Dakotas and Montanas have a pretty good thing going being the kings of FCS. But it feels like there's a latent obsession with "MOAR" in this sport. I would bet they all get better TV ratings than UTEP or NMSU too. Those are small pop states, but they are football crazy, and the Dakota schools bring in a ton of kids from neighboring states (Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska) with cheap tuition.
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Realignment talk not going away
Also - this might be where the Dakotas announce an FBS jump up. Maybe not to the Pac, but to whatever coalescences around the MWC leftovers
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Realignment talk not going away
I’d like to see Air Force and Wyoming in there
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What's the Foo up to?
That was my first thought. Like, how? To me, the funniest part of this is that how he still manages to totally Dave Grohl the whole thing. "Yeah, I fucked up, but I'm totally gonna try and do the right now" and you kinda believe him. Also kind of amazed in this day and age that these dalliances weren't a little more leaked.
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Soup, Stew, Chili, Gumbo (Cold weather eats)
User name gonna be checking out soon
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Tyreek Hill police body cam released
This. Two things that disgust me the most in this world are cops abusing their power, and men abusing women. It's hard for me to have any sympathy for Hill on any front, but the cops were totally over the top here in a completely unsurprising way.
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Replacements
I meant Trouble Boys. Brain fart based off previous error
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Beer 2024: Your mom’s January won’t be dry.
Skol Vikes
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Soup, Stew, Chili, Gumbo (Cold weather eats)
That’s what everyone eating it will call it. I know better than to use the C word on this site.
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Soup, Stew, Chili, Gumbo (Cold weather eats)
High in the 60’s today. Vikes at noon. It’s soup season in the upper Midwest. Sautéed onions, garlic, shallots, serranos, poblanos, Hatches, and habaneros. Browned a pound of ground venison and a pound of ground pork. Dumped a can of beer, and quart jar of home grown tomato puree that’s simmered with a shit load of chili powder and cumin. Dutch oven will be sitting on my pellet grill at the lowest possible setting until half time.
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El Assico - CBS
Did you get to Uncle Harry’s or Singlespeed? Love Cedar Falls
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