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The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
Skipper replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Other Sports
Points we probably didn't really deserve last night but I'll take it! I took my kid last night and in early 2nd, a buddy pinged me that his corporate glass seats weren't being used so my son and I sat down there rest of the game. We were behind the goal to Otter's left for that shootout performance which was sweet. My spoiled ass kid getting to go to multiple games per year and now sitting on the glass (that was only the 3rd time I've ever sat front row) doesn't know how good he has it. -
We just better work on punt protection this time if we schedule NC state.
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I don't understand why the BIG or SEC would cut any formal deal with ND at this point absent conference membership. The SEC doesn't need them period. SEC absolutely killed TV ratings weekly this year and adding an additional conference game to ESPN's inventory is going to keep Disney/ESPN more than happy. Big 10 shouldn't offer anything other than full membership. I'm sure the Big 12 would cut the same deal with Notre Dame that the ACC has but that isn't going to fix ND scheduling issues if SEC and BIG teams blackball them. I'm sure we wouldn't do anything without Sankey's blessing as he's about to enter playoff expansion negotiations but both Texas and USC announcing cancellations of future games with ND would be sweet.
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Agreed and it's all very interesting to me. Because ND is going to have a seat at the table negotiating playoff expansion. Unless ND already has a handshake deal with Sankey or Petiti to support a preferred plan, ND's temper tantrum the last 24 hours appears on its face to be really poor negotiating strategy and not accurately "reading the room" regarding their current value to this sport because they don't have a lot of cards to play. ND played ONE top 20 rated game the entire season. With committee treatment of TX @ OSU, you already have multiple programs and/or coaches in addition to Sark (I saw Elko for example said as much) questioning the value of scheduling marquee OOC games. ND is in a position where they could very well get shutout if they aren't holding hands with someone. It seems emotional and poorly thought out to publicly attack the ACC. Both those entities need each other.
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Your last post was equally wrong.
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How is it a "cash bonanza"??? This isn't 2010. Season tickets are sold out at Texas bud. And with 9 conference games there will be plenty of high quality matchups to keep tix in demand. Texas and other Big Brands aren't going to value fucking stubhub making extra fees off third party sales over maximizing opportunities to make the playoffs. The extra few hundred thousand in revenue a ND home game might bring in is meaningless not to mention it would be a net loss compared to another team like Syracuse or someone that might agree to a 2 for 1.
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I think Notre Dame significantly overvalues themselves in the year of our lord 2025. They don't draw near what they used to. Notre Dame Miami had 10.8MM viewers, A&M/Notre Dame had 6.2MM and Notre Dame USC had 4.6MM. To put it in perspective, Texas/OSU had 16.6MM, Texas/TAMU had 13MM, Texas/UGA had 10.43MM and Ohio St. Michigan had top rated game of year at 18MM. Notre Dame's TV deal with NBC runs through 2029 and they aren't pulling their weight with other Blue Bloods as is. But if you combine that with the absolute fact that SEC and Big 10 blue bloods absolutely should not be scheduling ND going forward given our experience this year, they desperately need the ACC alliance in order to fill out a schedule (shitty as it is). This is a real opportunity for the rest of the College Football powers to fucking put ND in their place and further devalue their brand.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
Skipper replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
I have no problem with players like Collin Simmons or even Arch not playing, but 15 practices for young players competing for a spot in the 2 deep + game reps are valuable. Treat it like an Exhibition with #1 priority being development compared to winning the game. -
Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
Skipper replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
It was not a good loss but JFC this is a dumb take. UF is a top 20 roster, easily. Kirby said as much yesterday. They were a poor coached team that underachieved (and playing #2 SOS didn't help them). But a healthy motivated UF could give any team in the country a game. Just ask UGA and Ole Miss. I was there about 15 rows up and they "looked" every bit of a top 10 team. They had dudes. And that was damn near the only game Dallas Wilson played and he looked like a top 5 receiver in the country. Again, we should have beaten them, and they had some inexcusable losses, but acting like they are fucking Kansas is just dumb. A lot of NFL talent on that team. -
Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
Skipper replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
Live sporting events are the most valuable "TV" inventory left since (i) the most popular 'shows' are now on various streaming services and (ii) anything else can be recorded to skip ads. People still want to watch sports live. This is the backdrop for the Disney/YTTV negotiations (and Fox before that) with contracts always expiring during football season. Broadcast rights for live sports keep going up and thus prices sold to streamers etc. keep going up. -
The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
Skipper replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Other Sports
Seems like we've already had an entire seasons worth of injuries in less than 2 months. -
The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
Skipper replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Other Sports
Sucks so bad. Obviously for the team but just beyond awful for Seguin. Dude has worked his ass off to get healthy and was having a great year. -
WTF? That's been a pretty productive play on the aggregate for Sark's entire tenure as an extension of the run game and a staple as the screen action sets up a bunch of other things. Bad take.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
Skipper replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
It's even worse than that. It's W/L record, and sometimes head-to-head, unless it's Notre Dame. Then that doesn't matter either. They blew out a bunch of shitty teams after going 1-2 against the only 3 teams with a pulse. Imagine only having to play up for 3 games per year, lose 2 of them and it's fine. -
Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
Skipper replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
Yeah, but if you get to 24 with play in games replacing championship weekend, at that point, there wouldn't be much to bitch about. For example, if you went 4-4-2-2-2, SEC could seed top 8 with play in games. If you finish top half of league, lose your play-in game and still can't get one of the 10 at large seeds, I don't think you have much of a case.
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