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LTbear

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  1. As a Cal fan, I doubt Cal has (or would ever get) a Big XII offer.
  2. 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).
  3. That's badass (I mean, maybe not for you, but I would have loved it).
  4. I was there during peak Harbaugh years and the stadium was still only half full.
  5. 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.
  6. Probably bullshit. But a lot of Cal whale donors are apparently pulling out all the stops.
  7. Cal peeps I know waver from optimistic to existential dread on a minute by minute basis.
  8. That just doesn't sound like a Stanford thing to do.
  9. 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.
  10. I think most see it this way. I'm very much looking forward to the new Big XII. Damn, Colorado is out.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. I like how they tweeted this out before they could even think up a name for that god awful final pod.
  14. Would have whipped out my own camera even if that was my own wedding without thinking twice
  15. Set up a competitive spelling bee big guy, we'll wipe the floor with you fuckers
  16. So do we close down this thread now?
  17. I think Wilner said the same and I have no idea what they're talking about. Every PAC school should still be receiving their distributions for this year. I feel like one of them (probably Canzano) just randomly thought to himself "hey they're all leaving that means the ones who are left get to keep all the conference payouts for the year" while drunk. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
  18. I feel like Louisville and Pitt are very realistic/ neither is valuable enough to the B1G or SEC. Getting NC State or Va Tech would be awesome. If Duke, good lord what a basketball league.
  19. I don't intend it that way. Just pointing out I'm speaking from experience, not drawing conclusions from afar.
  20. Oh what BS. I have three degrees, have taught at 5 different universities, and also did a two year fellowship at Stanford. Cal had the best/ most invested professors I've ever seen. How they did all the research while teaching at such a level is beyond me.
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