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  1. Just now, ousux said:
    4 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:
    If his primary goal was to follow in his dad's footsteps and become an NFL head coach he would.  Going to Texas with no college coaching experience to clean up Mack's mess could have been a career killer. 

    Not if he actually turns shit around. It would have taken 3-4 seasons, but I think he could have at least given us an appearance in the big game.

    against a kubiak coached aggy!

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  2. 2 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:

    The AAU also changed the formula to reduce ag subsidies as no longer dollar for dollars which hurt schools like Nebraska and Iowa State.

    that was not what happened

    1. the AAU places a value on "competitively awarded" research.....land grant universities get statutorily awarded research dollars from the feds based on being a "land grant" university with those dollars awarded based in a large part on the agricultural productivity of the state the university is in......a very very very large number of AAU members are also land grant universities and the AAU has never considered their statutorily awarded dollars as part of the evaluation criteria.....because getting those dollars has nothing to do with the quality of research of the university and also because other universities that are not land grant do not have the ability to compete for those dollars......that was simply an argument that Nebraska used to cover their ineptitude....and more so their inability to take those land grant dollars and use them to build out infrastructure that can then gain large amounts of competitively awarded life sciences grant money......with the AAU placing a high emphasis in life sciences grants because they feel those often have national and international benefits (along with engineering and medicine)

    2. Nebraska made the claim that not having a medical school hurt them (something similar to what Iowa State just claimed).....but there were issues with this false claim as well.....Nebraska - Lincoln is one of only 2 major public universities in Nebraska with the other being Omaha and the other public schools in the state minor players of under 7,000 enrollment......there is the one medical school as well.....there was NOTHING that stopped that medical school from being merged in with the Lincoln campus (similar to how aggy has all of their medical components across the state all under college station since about 2012)......but the state never saw fit to do that.....and the reason for that is because that medical school is not a major producer or research it is more of a teaching facility......and more importantly the AAU evaluates universities against "peer universities" (both inside and outside of the AAU) in part based on having a medical school or not having a medical school

    so in the past prior to the Dell Medical School opening up Texas would be evaluated against PUBLIC universities like Berkeley (that does not have a medical school), or against aggy (that in the past did not have their medical schools under the college station campus) or against Iowa State, Oregon, or Colorado (that do not have a medical schools).....in the case of Texas the medical school is new so that plays a part and more so Texas has plenty of other factors in their favor to remain well within the AAU even now being evaluated against "peers" with medical schools

    or in the case of private schools Rice is not evaluated against Vanderbilt or Duke or Tulane because they all have medical schools....they would be evaluated against any AAU members that are private without a medical school (Cal Tech) or outside of the AAU schools like SMU, Baylor, Tulsa, or similar private universities

    in the case of NU because they were already being told to improve or face removal and because their medical school they COULD have merged was not very research productive the only thing that would have happened if they had merged it would have been a new set of schools to evaluate NU against especially in the AAU and all of those schools and their medical component would have been an even harsher comparison for NU....thus they were out 

    the AAU of course uses many other evaluation criteria that are not based solely on research and are not based on total research, but the end result was NU had ab out a decade warning to improve and they did nothing and they were out

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  3. 8 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

    Sorry for partying …

     

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    I feel bad for Jr he has been a good guy his whole career and I really do not see his wife as that big of a bitch either....his little brother is a giant bitch though and him and more so his wife taking up for that fuckhead is stupid and does add to his wife being looked at poorly

    it sucks his dad had to pull this bullshit a week before the game though....and that is a hard looking 53 he has "been around the block" and he looks like he needs some help....his last DWI was in 2019 and you would think he could try and control his shit better before the big game, but clearly not

  4. 25 minutes ago, TKthunder2 said:

    ESPN/Disney is in a bad spot

    they have an older demographic for ESPN that are sports rabid, might have some that are "technologically challenged", and others (like me and a lot I know) that are not at all technologically challenged, but generally see the streaming aspect of things as kind of a pain in the ass relative to TV......and at the same time if I am going to stream then I am going to use one of the 200 free bootleg streaming sites out there and not pay shit (and get a 1,000% better quality stream that the shit ESPN currently puts out)

    on the other hand Disney has a younger demographic with kids or some slightly older kids that are "screen addicted" and probably can't even use cable TV and might not own a TV (or it collects dust) and that thinks streaming is everything

    some of the older and more rabid ESPN sports fans live in some rural areas that have shitty internet even today or some live in older (and still nice) built out places that still have shitty internet because it cost so much to come in and upgrade.....these people can still get cable TV or they can get sat coverage and that works just fine for their sports addiction.....most of them do not give a shit about Disney content

    the Disney people are probably in newer developments that were built out with internet or at least internet in mind or a lot are in very high density places that have been upgraded......but a lot of them don't give a shit about ESPN....and of course they are used to ditching streaming services at the drop of a hat, signing up and binge watching then dropping, being offered all kinds of incentives to switch or to stay a customer and they are loyal to jack shit

    all while being combined that ESPN/Disney infrastructure and revenues are predicated on forcing masses of people to pay a lot of money for a large amount of shit they do not want AND cable and sat companies rolling over and going along with it

    now cable and say companies (horribly shitty run companies which is why somehow as near monopolies several have gone BK in the past) have finally figured out that people are dumping them because of the cost of paying for shit they do not want and they are pushing back.....far too late though.....and then there is ESPN making it clear as day they are going to go around "cable companies".....but through ass backwards luck "cable companies" are not internet companies in most areas and doing half ass well at it.....so ESPN/Disney still needs them or more so needs their future streaming subs to have good service from them

    but ESPN/Disney and the cable (and even more so sat companies that are NOT internet providers) are now clearly at odds

    and ESPN/Disney need to navigate all of this while getting their massively shit filled inflated cost structure under control and trying to figure out how to still fuck people into paying lots of money for shit they do not want in a long term basis.....while clearly moving to fuck over those they still need to depend on for revenue some in the short term and others long into the future

    really the ramifications of being assholes for 20+ years and just not giving a shit other than tossing out shit and forcing people to take it

     

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  5. 4 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    If the new league can generate just half the money the NFL does that is 9 billion a year industry. In 2022 NCAA only made like 1.2 billion. 


    9 billion to 48 teams is like 190 million per team a year and at 60 teams that's like 150 million per team. 

     

    There is absolutely too much money being left on the table. Anything over 1.2 billion is TONS more money for member teams of whatever becomes of CFB.

    that is the "NCAA"......that is not including conference media deals, bowl game revenues, playoff revenues ect

    that $1.2 billion would be better compared to only what the NBA brings in for their playoffs not even the regular season

  6. 10 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

    This concerns me a lot. College Football is a national obsession but we seem to be working hard to kill interest in huge parts of the country. 

    We'll see. Once those other schools become minor leagues they might wilt away and their alumni and fans will stop being College Football fans. That will lead to an overall shrinking audience. Now granted maybe that is wrong but that is absolutely what I would do should UT become irrelevant in college football. I wouldn't watch the big time College Football anymore.

    yea I don't think this will work out how people think it will

    Charter and ESPN just went through a long negotiation about cramming channels on lower tier cable packages like the ACCn and the SEC SEC SECn and there have been other pushes against it before.....several systems took the BTN off their lower tiers several years back

    the ACC is sitting there thinking they are going to get $1.23 per sub per month for all of California, and Texas based on Cal, Stanford, and SMU now being "in state" and there is no chance that cable companies are going to let that go on forever even if current contracts call for it

    now I am seeing a lot of reports that all the magical "streaming" is going to shit too because companies are doing the exact same shit....putting 400 channels no one wants and no one gives a fuck about in their packages and streaming charges are getting as high or higher than cable bills.....and ESPN still sucks complete cocks at streaming they are probably the worst of the worst and they think they are just going to bypass cable companies, cram all their shit in a package and either offer it themselves for $20+ a month or make streaming companies take all of their shit

    people are dropping streaming left and right already and even more are going with the periodic sign up when there are sports seasons they are interested on or others are signing up and binge watching the good shows and then dropping it a couple of months later and doing other shit with their money

    if you cut out 88 plus D1-A teams from D1-A you can count on a very high % of people just not signing up for anything ESPN at all and their revenues will go to shit....of course some will say "well those 40 in the highest division will just take the bulk of the money", but as it is now with "cramming" of channels the bulk of the money for ESPN is people that do not give a fuck about sports at all....start losing rabid fans from 88 teams and it is going to be an issue

    college sports is not like major leagues and really a lot of things about major league sports are pretty shitty and getting shittier....not really something to emulate especially with ESPN in the lead of making it happen

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