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Al_4_ISU

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  1. I mean, they already pulled the trigger on the Pac 12 last year. Big 12 is the hyena picking the carcass.
  2. No. If those schools (ND aside) made the Big 10 money, they’d be in the Big 10
  3. Prime will not be at CU long. Assuming CU announces they’re joining the Big 12 this week, I assume they have 2 more seasons in Pac
  4. He's gonna be at CU for less than 5 years, and they probably won't be in the Big 12 until '25 anyhow.
  5. I think it originated in Des Moines, as it's in the 801 Grand (aka Principal) building.
  6. The food is good at both, but yeah, no visit to Des Moines is complete without getting beers here.
  7. It’s like all of them got a lot better since the Clinton Administration
  8. I don't want to give them credit, but I think it's pretty clear that things worked out better for us with the UT/OU announcement happening in '21 rather than '22. Someone tell me that it was always going to be announced in '21 and Aggy had nothing to do with it. You can call it nonsense, but that's kind of exactly what's happening as the result of brand consolidation.
  9. Great establishment in a shitty location. I always kinda forget about it.
  10. I'm fine with this outcome, assuming Yormark is in the commissioner's chair when that shit drops. I still think the timing of how this unfolded ended up benefitting the Big 12. If you have two conferences in chaos at the same time, I do think there would have been a greater likelihood of large scale merger, which I still think makes sense, but having watched how the Pac 12 has handled the last year, I can see lot of reasons why I'm just fine with that not having happened.
  11. I had got the impression that the SEC wanted to sit on this move for another yearish longer than they did, but Aggy forced it into the public eye early. Like you said, maybe they assumed that from the get go. But it definitely worked to the advantage of the Hateful 8 to be the first ones in that spot, as opposed to what the Pac 10 is dealing with.
  12. From what I've read here, the original plan was that the SEC and UT/OU were going to stay quiet until 2022 and then announce it, probably around the same time that USC/UCLA to the Big 10 dropped. If we don't find out you're leaving in 2021, the status quo maintains with Bowlsby, and the Big 12 gets the rug pulled out at the same time as the Pac 12 with an incompetent old world leader manning the ship. Because that bomb got dropped on us '21, it forced us to take action, add schools, and ushered Bowlsby to the finish line while we started finding a better replacement. Meanwhile, the Pac sat around laughing, puffing their chest about the Alliance, and punting on an opportunity to add all those public schools with more passionate fanbases than what they had because of culture and politics. When the Pac got their rug pulled out last year, we had closed in on Yormark, added 4 schools, and had a pretty damn good TV deal in place before they had even figured out what happened. If UT and OU leave in '22 with Bowlsby still in charge, the Big 12's a hell of a lot bigger mess. IMO.
  13. It would be absolutely hilarious, but the Big 10 has never been sloppy through the years on this shit. Even the SEC fucked up (thank Christ, or we'd probably be in the same boat as the Pac) thanks to Aggy squealing in hopes that UT got blocked.
  14. That’s a home and home. There is no way in hell Big 10 expansion leaks via that account
  15. Small town Midwest is a tight wad’s wet dream
  16. I don’t think ORWA have a Big 10 option. I’m not sure how long it will take them to acknowledge that. If they don’t end up with ESPN or Fox, their exposure will be a lot less than it is. That’s going to harm them in the future. It’s effect won’t be there next year or the year after, but being mostly streaming is a disadvantage. All of those schools can do just fine, but there’s a reason they don’t have a deal and a lot of it comes down to fan apathy. There’s no reason they couldn’t all just embrace college sports and have a really solid league with those properties, but it seems like that ship has sailed.
  17. I mean, at this point it's pretty obvious that they're never going to see a deal. They could set an actual dead line and hold George to it, but they don't. They know what they'll get for $ and exposure in the Big 12, and they're fine getting less of both so they don't have to say they play sports in places with Republican governors.
  18. Visited their taproom in Fort Collins back in 2011. One of my favorite stops that trip.
  19. I don't think it's any coincidence that Yormark has publicly stressed "fit". The current Big 12 has a lot of common "fit" to it.
  20. The lady who cuts my hair is self employed, and charges a low rate. Her building's been paid off for 20 years, and she's pocketing cash at this point. She charges $11 for a cut, and I leave $15. I've been going there for over a decade, and she's always willing to sneak my in during the middle of planting and harvest if we get a rain day, and doesn't mind if shit comes up and I have to cancel. I'd have to think that leaving that tip over the years has built some good will that's in turn lead to that flexibility.
  21. Yeah, $1/drink is my go-to when tipping cash. If that's a 100% tip or a 5% tip, the effort from the bartender was the same. I've never ordered a $300 bottle of wine in my life, and I doubt I ever would. But I don't think you should have to tip more for that bottle than the $30 one. Fuck, you shouldn't tip more for that than a bottle of Charles Schwab.
  22. My biggest gripe in tipping culture, and this is more of an issue with booze - specifically buying beer to go at a brewery - is the expectation that you tip on the sale amount. If I go to a brewery and have a pint of beer, but get a couple 4 packs to go I could drop $30 pretty fast, but all that the bartender did was get me a glass of beer. Ergo, I tip cash on the beer right when I order it. I usually tip a dollar per drink because it took the same effort to get me $1 High Life at happy hour as it did to pour some fancy Triple IPA that costs more than a regular 6 pack.
  23. It depends on what you mean by "survive". If they're all committed to their academic circle jerk, they can make playing each other work indefinitely. What's going to happen is their recruiting will plummet due to the lack of either exposure or money that's going to come with their deal, they're never going to get more than one team into the playoffs, will probably never advance, and will essentially fall off the public radar. They will be the #5 conference quickly, with a large gap between them and the Big 12 and ACC. They'll survive in their bubble, but they'll be so far below everyone else that they'll almost be removing themselves from the scene voluntarily. That's what I mean by suicide. No one other than their die-hard fans will subscribe to watch those games, and they don't have many die-hard fans.
  24. Well, I've been to at least one. Upon some internet review -Smokey D's, Des Moines -Flying Mango, Des Moines -George the Chili King, Des Moines -Al's, Minneapolis -Casper & Runyon's Nook, St Paul -Blue Door, St Paul -Smack Shack/1029 Bar, Minneapolis
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