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LTbear

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  1. Basking sharks are harmless but I'd bet the vast majority of people wouldn't know so in the moment
  2. Look I don't need this negativity in my life, muchacho.
  3. Don't wanna get ahead of myself but... maybe I could see Cal when a conference title in my lifetime.
  4. Are you literally asking what else could drive up endowments of major universities? Even though I already told you the endowment increase of those two universities is nothing out of the norm for well managed university endowments? Do you understand university financials and all that goes into them at all?
  5. Suggesting this is correlated to the Big XII is stupid. Any decently run university will see their endowment grow at a good clip. In the same timeframe, Baylor's grew from 870 million to a little over 2 billion. Hell the AVERAGE growth among R1 schools just in fiscal 2021 was over 30%.
  6. What in the name of god
  7. As a Cal fan, I doubt Cal has (or would ever get) a Big XII offer.
  8. Cal rugby is a powerhouse
  9. While I have no doubt this is true for some people I also think it's one of those things that gets overblown on the interwebs. In my 7 years at Stanford and Cal I never met anyone who didn't have great things to say about my undergrad (Baylor).
  10. That's badass (I mean, maybe not for you, but I would have loved it).
  11. I'd honestly be cool with this
  12. I was there during peak Harbaugh years and the stadium was still only half full.
  13. Just depends on how you're defining "better." The average Big XII team has been better, but the ACC has much greater variance, including better performance at the top end.
  14. Probably bullshit. But a lot of Cal whale donors are apparently pulling out all the stops.
  15. Cal peeps I know waver from optimistic to existential dread on a minute by minute basis.
  16. See this is why I don't ski.
  17. That just doesn't sound like a Stanford thing to do.
  18. From where I sat on the east side of Cal Memorial Stadium you could see where the Bay opened into the Pacific Ocean. This is all crazy town.
  19. I think most see it this way. I'm very much looking forward to the new Big XII. Damn, Colorado is out.
  20. Dude this is a really long post to get hung up on terminology. TCU doesn't want to help elevate SMU in any way, competitively or financially. But yes, they're pussies for taking that approach.
  21. I left in the relevant part of your post. Personally, no, I wouldn't watch a top 16 league. My college football fandom is tied to regionality, rivalries, and the craziness and pageantry that is unique to the college game. There's no way to get 16 teams that feels at all regional, and you'd have also necessarily cut off most rivalries (a few big ones would remain, for sure - OU/ UT, UM/ OSU, etc.). But you've also completely neutered the potential for the holy-shit upset wildness that makes college football so, so much more damn fun than the NFL (think Purdue beating the shit out of Ohio State in the Tyler Trent game), not to mention the fun-as-hell pageantry of the smaller schools (the absolute mayhem of College Gameday opening at WSU with several hundred crimson flags flying). I love that shit. I completely understand if people would watch the 16 team league, it's just not for me. It would be nothing but a watered-down NFL, and I already watch Dallas play on Sundays.
  22. I like how they tweeted this out before they could even think up a name for that god awful final pod.
  23. Would have whipped out my own camera even if that was my own wedding without thinking twice
  24. Set up a competitive spelling bee big guy, we'll wipe the floor with you fuckers
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