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HookEm

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  1. Hey immamac - It looks like we are only going to need 5 tickets after all. If there aren't any takers for the 6th ticket from Surly, let us know and we will try to find another person to go. Or sell it in the worst case.
  2. It seems like I've heard that before.
  3. The 2 for $5 chopped beef sandwich at Rubys down by campus used to be the best sandwich in Austin in my opinion. Their smoked chicken jambalaya also slapped. Damnit making my mouth water thinking about it. Skillet potatoes were also strong to quite strong.
  4. Chapel talk not going away
  5. Some of those Big 10 teams would be a much better fit in the Big 12. Minnesota and Iowa could compete much better with Colorado, Arizona and West Virginia than with Michigan and USC.
  6. The Big 12 has just about guaranteed its survival as the 3rd best conference. They and their schools are positioned exactly where they deserve to be. They don't deserve to be left out, but they also equipped to compete in the top two conferences. They all maintain a shot at the title, but can compete with each other on a relatively even playing field. It would suck worse to be a school like Northwestern or Vanderbilt. Those schools get a nice paycheck, but have no shot. And their conferences keep getting tougher. They are looking at a lot of 2-10 type seasons. It is also going to suck to be in the ACC knowing that the top schools could leave at any minute and threaten the conference. Schools like Georgia Tech have the potential to wind up like Washington State or Cal. I wouldn't be surprised to see a couple of teams in the Big 12 rise up and fill the power vacuum that currently exists (UCF? Colorado? Tech? OSU?). Ironically, elevating a few programs would actually put the conference more at risk.
  7. And yet... even the Big 12 doesn't want Stanford. Please explain to me why the Big 12, a conference who should be desperate to raise their academic standing, wouldn't take arguably the preeminent academic university in the world, who is dying to be added? I'll tell you why. Because academics don't matter at all in this equation.
  8. I just don't think it has dawned on the alumni of any of these schools in a coordinated sense yet. The game has changed and there is very little stopping a Stanford from competing with an Alabama if the alumni are mobilized. I think you can look at the endowment of a school as a measure of the collective resources of their alumni. I understand that the endowment itself can't be used for sports... but is a relative show of what the alumni are capable of if they make sports a priority. Harvard has an endowment of $49B. Stanford $36B. Rice $7.8B. USC $7.3B. These schools have ass-loads of rich alumni. Compare these numbers to TCU with $2.4B. Or Penn State with $4.6B.
  9. As an aside, if these smart schools decided that they REALLY care about sports, they could dominate with NIL. Harvard has the resources to pay the best blue chips more NIL money than anyone, including Texas. They have the money to get a coach like Urban Meyer and a kick-ass staff if they really wanted to. But they don't. Yet. I think that there will be a school in the next 20 years that gives it a shot though. Maybe it will be Stanford. The cycle to relevance is just so much quicker now. Back 20 years ago, schools had to lure high school recruits with facilities, pageantry and history. That stuff took decades to develop. The only short-cut was maybe to go the juco route. Now, money paid directly to players will be the biggest deciding factor. Developing a chance to make the NFL will be a distant second priority. Everything else will be way down the list. A rich, motivated school can clear those two hurdles in a single year if it is a priority.
  10. Who cares. Harvard has a better academic reputation than Stanford. Nobody is trying to add them to the ACC. The academics don't matter at all. Stanford and Cal should form a league with Rice, SMU, Tulane, etc. Pull in Duke and Georgia Tech eventually when the ACC crumbles. Be the "smart conference that also cares a little about sports". Own it. Stop partnering with the Oregon States of the world.
  11. There are other (decent) private schools that have fared well in athletics. Duke has been a basketball powerhouse for a while. TCU played for a football title just last year. BYU won a football title in the 80s. Baylor won a title in men's hoops and has been very competitive over the last 16 years (A 12-win season + three 11-win seasons). I still think that they have the potential to be the Baptist Notre Dame if they would ever stop killing and raping people.
  12. That stadium:
  13. I think the correct answer is Kansas. They are the flagship school in their state. They are one of the 2-3 biggest names in CBB. There is a power vacuum in the Big 12 that they could fill if they had a competitive football team. But they don't really care about football at all and probably never will.
  14. He will wind up in Washington, IMO.
  15. I think it will be interesting to see which schools make a leap in the the coming years. It wouldn't surprise me to see UCF become relevant. Their program has only been around ~40 years and the university has grown rapidly in recent years. Back in 2000, they only had around ~30,000 students. Today they have 71,000 and are the largest school in the country. That is a lot of eyeballs. When they start collecting Big 12 money and play more national games, it will be fun to see if they take advantage of the opportunity.
  16. That's fine. The Big 12 would fall all over themselves to take Miami if the SEC and Big 10 passed on them. Miami would be the highest profile team in the conference and could be a nice partner for Virginia Tech and UCF. Miami is also a sneaky good basketball program (1 FF, 2 E8, 4 S16 since 2013) which matters to the Big 12. And they are a smaller private school that would fit in with some of the other private schools in the Big 12. It baffles me that anyone would take NC State over Miami honestly. Miami is better at just about everything that matters including academics. A lot more people would tune in to see Texas Tech vs. Miami than TT vs. NC State. And the icing on the cake is that you can recruit South Florida, probably the most dense area for NFL caliber talent in the whole country.
  17. As long as there are crappy teams like Northwestern and Vanderbilt in the Big 10 and SEC, then there should be at least another conference (Big 12) full of the remaining teams that are better than them. With 16 teams, a conference can still feel like a conference. Not sure at 18 or 20. 24 teams is ridiculous. With 12 playoff spots it will sort itself out. The better conferences will get more teams in than the weak conferences, but they still matter. Even if they only get a team or two in. The best cast for me is to get to 3 conferences of 20 and stop there. In a typical playoff, the Big might get 4-5 teams, the SEC 4-5 teams, the Big 12 2-3 and maybe 0-1 comes from the rest. So to get there the following adds make sense: Big 10 - Notre Dame and UNC SEC - FSU, Miami, Clemson, UVA Big 12 - VT, Pitt, Louisville, Duke Best homeless: NC State, Georgia Tech, Stanford, WSU, Oregon St, Syracuse, UConn, Villanova, SD State
  18. He will probably decommit in March. \Haters
  19. C'mon. That isn't even close. Have a little pride.
  20. The Big 12 would be dumb to add Stanford and Cal. They are difficult to deal with and bring very little to the party besides academics. They are terrible cultural fits and would make everything more difficult. At this point the Big 12 should be waiting to see what happens with the ACC, prepared to scoop up any great assets that don't get invited to the Big 10 or SEC. Why add Cal or Stanford when you could potentially add UNC, Virginia Tech, Miami and Pitt down the road? Or Virginia. Or Duke. Or Louisville. Or possibly even FSU or Clemson if they get lucky.
  21. Your family should start coming to grips with the fact that they are going to be in the Mountain West.
  22. Why would the Big 10 want Stanford and Cal when they could add Duke and UNC... who are almost equivalent academic institutions, but offer vastly better athletics and eyeballs. Regardless, the Big 10 won't add two more schools. We may be stopping at 20 and they are going to leave open a spot for Notre Dame guaranteed.
  23. Going to be fun to.... make him eat crow.
  24. Fair enough. Then Miami to the Big 12. SEC takes Pitt or Virginia or UNC instead.
  25. With 20 teams, you can divide into 5-team pods that preserve a lot of the regional rivalries. Teams can play every team in their pod, plus one team in the other pods for a total of 7 games. If they expand to 10 conference games, they can also have a permanent rival in each of the other pods that they play every year.
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