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  1. 11 hours ago, LTbear said:

    I think it attracts many just because it's a very large forum talking sports. I've hung around previously just because there's a lot of activity.

    And the Lulz board is great. 

    Yep, this ^^^^  Some really good discussions on the football board here vs other sites.  Some pretty idiotic things too (which is part of the fun.)

  2. There is a lot of activity on the Arizona board this morning with one guy who had been adamant that no PAC team would leave for the Big 12.  Apparently, he got some news and now has changed his tune after MONTHS of fighting with everyone that Arizona would never leave.  Nothing specific yet but it is believed to be related to Colorado and Arizona (and possibly more) moving to the Big 12 and being announced soon.  For what it is worth, this poster shared the info with Jason Scheer who validated the info and brings some credibility to the rumor.

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  3. Big 12 data rights deal:

    https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Morning-Buzz/2023/03/21/big-12-closes-in-on-data-rights-deal.aspx

     

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    The Big 12 Conference is finalizing its first revenue-producing data and statistics partnership, industry sources say. A decision on a data partner is expected in the coming two-to-three weeks and it will require approval by the Big 12’s board. Given the conference’s deep relationship with Endeavor, which has advised the Big 12 on many issues, including its media rights, sources say IMG Arena is the frontrunner for the data rights deal. IMG Arena, which is owned by Endeavor, serves as a data distribution partner for professional leagues like the MLS and the PGA Tour.

    A league’s data partner typically manages and distributes official statistics to media and fan sites. It remains to be seen if this Big 12 deal also will include the rights to sell data to sports betting services, but they are believed to be part of these negotiations. Those rights could drive up the financial value of the deal significantly. So far, only two conferences have struck data partnerships -- the Mid-American with Genius Sports and the Pac-12 with Tempus Ex Machina. Those arrangements did not include the ability to sell stats to sports betting services at the time.

     

  4. Would love to see this series continue.  As I understand, there are a couple of spinoff shows with "The Ballerina" and "The Continental".  I really like how Reeves does his own stunts and is quite good with the actual martial arts and 3-gun shooting (check him out on YouTube.)

    Wouldn't mind a crossover show with Atomic Blonde, but obviously the timelines wouldn't match up (with Atomic Blonde being set in the cold war 80's.)

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  5. Can't imagine Zona would stay in the shitty basketball Pac-12 conference with PPV TV coverage on the horizon.  Especially when they have an opportunity to get into the Big-12 and be on regular TV in packed stadiums against ranked opponents almost every week.  But hey, they're Arizona so meh?

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  6. 13 hours ago, ButtFumble said:

    well with a winning season in football and an ass kicking of Ole' Miss in a bowl game that brings fucking season and Tech likes them some raw dogging.....and well raw dogging brings Raider Rash season

    Sorry for partying?

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  7. Aggy comedy just writes itself.  Who could have thought that they could screw themselves so bad that they lock themselves into a Jimbo twist for $100 million dollars?  DAFUQ?  Then they constantly brag about their #1 class, spend millions of NIL dollars on it and to just watch it all implode is just pure comedy gold.  This level of incompetence is truly once-in-a-lifetime and to see it happen to such a bunch of fucked up shit-bag wing nuts is priceless! 

    How can they not see this?  Delusional groupthink?  Aggy incompetence?

    Yet, we can all see it coming miles away.

     

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  8. 2 hours ago, Uncle Nate said:

    I was at that game.  East side stands, so the Agroid Nation was down below me and to the right.  What people who weren't there don't realize is that it took a significant amount of time before the goalpost ever ended up there, and it wasn't where the Gap Mob even wanted to go to begin with.

    So it took some time for the goalpost to come down first of all.  Then, the Gap Mob tried to take it out the SW ramp (the ramp the Tech football team uses), and the AD personnel and police blocked them from doing so, so the mob decides it would be best to take it out the NE corner, the corner the Agroid Nation was at.

    The Agroids were done with their post-loss cheers, most of the stadium had cleared out because this was like 30 minutes after the game was over (maybe more), but when the Aggys saw the goalpost heading their way, they decided to stay and egg it on (in the videos you can see them waving their arms and saying "bring it").  So the Gap Mob did.

    I just find the whole victimhood portrayal by the Agroids absurd and hilarious because they had to stand there and wait for quite a long time anticipating the delivery of the goalposts.  They were as much to blame for the confrontation as anyone.  But they love to play the victim.

    All this plus don't forget the Perry's Chief of Staff Mike Mckinney (who's son was the center for A&M) who likened the incident to "defending the Alamo" as he was swinging his binoculars at the "Gap kid" and his band of misfits.  McKinney gets all bloodied because some Tech hooligan came up and "knocked the fool out of me" (his words, not mine.)  That's when all shit broke loose.  

    Later video confirmed that McKinney was struck in the head by an A&M fan (not a Tech hooligan as he claimed.)  You can read more about it here:

    https://www.dailytoreador.com/archives/mckinney-accuses-tech-administrators-of-cover-up-aggie-threw-punch-at-him/article_06be8824-648b-5464-b8ed-13c8a60e8921.html

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    According to the story in The Battalion, McKinney was attempting to keep rowdy Tech fans from getting into the A&M section.

    "I pushed two of them down and grabbed my binoculars and said, 'The next one that comes up gets it,'McKinney told The Battalion. "Then somebody who was already in the stands, I guess, came up and knocked the fool out of me. I saw him hit me - a kid in a red shirt."

    Eyewitness accounts differ from McKinney's version of the story.

    Andrea Luhm, a freshman international business major from Houston, said she and her boyfriend, Nick Biehl, a senior electrical engineering major from Aledo, saw an altercation between Mike McKinney and an unidentified Texas A&M student.

    "There were all these brawls going on," she said. "The main one was between that guy and McKinney."

    Luhm said the student, a black male whom she recognized from a photo published in The University Daily on Monday, was either pushed or jumped down to the field and was trying to get back into the visitor's stands when the altercation started. She said McKinney was pushing him down, prying his fingers off of the metal guardrails separating the stands from the field.

    "The black guy finally got up there and punched him on his right eyebrow," Luhm said. "My boyfriend got between them and then took off his white undershirt so he could put pressure on the cut to stop the bleeding."

    Luhm said it appeared McKinney did not realize the student was from A&M.

    "He wouldn't let him in, not recognizing he's an Aggie student," she said. "He thought he was a Tech student."

     

    Good times indeed LOL.  Fucking aggie bastards.

     

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  9. 30 minutes ago, hook me said:

    In a game TTU was favored by 3 or 4 at kickoff.... 

    Which apparently was pretty spot on.  Looking at UH's schedule - they will be favored (and likely win) their remaining 10 games leading up to the conference championship.  They were hoping to be this years Cincinnati and make it to the playoff but Tech shit on that dream.  Of course, Houston could have been undefeated last year heading in the conference championship but Tech fucked that up for them as well.

    Point is that it is good for Tech and UH to have reasons to want to pummel each other and have bragging rights (especially with schools in the same state where you, your friends, neighbors, coworkers, etc. all went to different schools.)

  10. Here is kind of a summary of what was said:

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    I'm sure I will be tied to a stake from P12 lovers, but this is what is being said in B12 country today:

    1. It was a shrewd maneuver by the B12 to "cut in line" on the media renegotiation process. This has been discussed on this board by many. But, what is interesting is that what might be purposed by both sides is an "extension" of the current contract pro rata. That means that it is the same current per team payout (OU/UT gone) and BYU, UC, UH, UCF in. Plus the annual % increase (I think it is 3-4% but not confirmed). PLUS a pro rata increase for certain Pac-12 schools. The extension would be "short term" and end a year before or at same time as Big Ten's new contract.

    2. I was told "there is no way the B12 would go to market early if they didn't have an advantage to do so... the number 1 priority of the new regime is to stay #3 in P5 pecking order after UT/OU leave. They will aggressively try to do so."

    3. Leverage - the B12 actually has some. Right now but not later: ESPN and the LHN and TX/OU to the SEC. TX/OU want out and the B12 really wants them gone too. But, for a price. The "Irate 8" want to be paid for what TX/OU did, plus they want stability and a future. If ESPN were to "make the leftovers whole" then UT/OU can wiggle out early. But, the B12 would want the LHN as the B12 (maybe a stretch w/out western expansion)*, the continued tie-in w/ the Sugar Bowl and SEC, the continued tie-in w/ SEC/Big 12 Basketball challenge on ESPN, a long-term annual contract of OSU/OU and TTU/UT for all sports, etc.

    4. ESPN and basketball. What hasn't been discussed much is that ESPN just lost Big Ten basketball (w/ the current contract as it stands). This opens up a lot of ET/CT inventory of good basketball games. Think B12. I've heard that basketball is going to be a bigger driver due to the loss of inventory. Add 4 MT schools, and ESPECIALLY Arizona, and there is good content to fill in the loss of the Big Ten hoops. No one stays up for PT weekday basketball games, but a combo of MT with ET and CT - that is a winning ticket. Luckily for basketball season, AZ is in MT. That is huge.

    5. Why do you care? Well, many believe that the B12 is going to go to AZ and Utah and offer up $10-12m more annually on tv alone. That assumes the current B12 tv extension pro rata with current % annual escalators. Outside of TV money, the B12 will pitch stability, basketball (for AZ), more engaged football fans and CT/ET games, larger payouts from Bowl games and b-ball tourney, etc. Plus, the ability to market the conference from Orlando to Phoenix. If those two agree, ASU and CU will follow. Or, it will allow B12 to dangle to Oregon and Washington and push for B1G to react one way or the other. (My opinion is that Warren and Yormark are working together on a way to get this done.)

    Sorry for the long post, I've enjoyed lurking and reading the opinions here and want to share what is being said in B12 country. *This is coming from B12 office (I live in Dallas) and Texas Tech & Baylor "insiders" 

     

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