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  1. 43 minutes ago, Stilicho said:

    It’s been alright so far, but the draw to the series for me was always going to be Thrawn. 

    So far, it feels like he’ll show up in the very last scene of the season. If that’s the case, I’m hoping it’s at the head of a fleet of Romulan warbirds. 

    LOL that’s good.

    And yeah as much as I’m dying for some Thrawn, I’m also getting the feeling he’s not showing up until the last episode… or maybe the penultimate one.

    They’re using him like the shark in Jaws at this point.

  2. Yeah I’m on record being bearish on Deion’s prospectus, but I’m damn intrigued to see what they will look like today.

    So while I have predicted them to fail, my extreme disdain for Sonny Dykes may have me rooting for Coach Prime today.

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  3. 56 minutes ago, DanTheHorn said:

    Were you around in the early 80's to see that SMU does not struggle for money or influence when it thinks it can actually win something.

    Yes I was.

    Comparing the state of college football in 2023 to the 1980s is pretty ludicrous, IMO.

     

     

    49 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    First - there is other ACC money that SMU will get outside of the T1 TV money. Someone did some back of napkin math and it appears to be in line with what the AAC was paying out. 

    Second - SMU's booster money is insane. It's eclipsing everyone but Texas and aggy in-state right now. Now that they are back in a power conference you will get a lot more money from the rest of the alumni base - not just the deep pockets alumni that don't give a fuck and put blank checks in the mail. 

    I do not think the plan is to go h2h in recruiting with Texas and aggy and LSU. It's - like you said - to recruit at a top 30ish level and then buy the rest on the transfer market.

    Like I commented above, even with zero promise yet of playing P4 football SMU was able to assemble a top 30-40ish roster going into this season. Despite having the 72nd ranked recruiting class.

    With a decent coaching staff it should be enough to win 8 or 9 games playing in the ACC. That's the only goal right now - get back to being a relevant game on everyone's schedule and maybe have an outside shot at a decent bowl game or conference title game appearance every so often. That was never happening in the American. There is no risk, because SMU had nothing to lose and doesn’t need the TV money. The only risk is that the ACC dissolves and SMU is back to the drawing board. You cross that bridge when you get to it. 

    Ok that makes a lot more sense to me re: the additional money that would put them on par with the AAC.

    And great point there at the end as well. 

    My initial thought was just do your NIL thing and absolutely dominate the AAC for the next 7 years... win 10+ games every year and they will definitely be in play for the expanded CFP... then you've put yourself in position for the next round of Prestige Worldwide shit in like 10 years but they can probably do it using the route you described and they get the prestige of being in P4 much sooner.

     

    43 minutes ago, statsman said:

    There are two conferences that matter when talking about the very top recruits and top portal transfers- the two with 50-100% more money than the others. 
     
    SMu will be competing with the B12 schools for the next level recruits and portal transfers. 
     
    They will play six to seven games per year in Texas. 
     
    The ACC has a great rep for putting players in the NFL, better than the B12. 
     
    There are a lot of graveyards for the IR8 to whistle by as they pass. 

    OK guy, thanks for making my point for me, re: the recruting.

    Does "the ACC" have "a great rep" for putting players in the NFL, or does Clemson, FSU and Miami have a "great rep" for putting players in the NFL?

     

    13 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

    For SMU really think the more risky move might be sitting around for another 7-10 apathetic years in the American waiting for the next realignment shakeup. If SMU ever wanted to be in a "major/power" conference again, it had to happen soon because once the ACC blows up and we get to the eventual College Football .inc endgame of 2 "big time" conferences and 1 or maybe 2 "best of the rest" conferences they would be locked out forever. At least they gave themselves a fighting chance even if it is going to cost many years of TV revenue. 

    Maybe or maybe not.

    What if, using their vast NIL resources I keep hearing about, they start firing out 10-12-win seasons in the AAC year in and year out... like they win the conference virtually every year and are in play for the expanded CFP every year? At the end of those 7 years they would still be sitting in Dallas, still have the vast resources and now they also have nearly a decade of really high-level success. Seems like that could be a good route for them too when literally everyone knows that all of the biggest ACC brands are planning on bolting for the SEC/B1G as soon as they possibly can.

    But then I could see the other route working as well... just thinking out load because giving up the media rights for 7 years just seemed crazy to me.

  4. 1 hour ago, Napoleon said:

    Money is not an issue with SMU.

    It never has been.

    Still -

    Footing what they would have received in media rights for *7 years*, along with forking out NIL $ for "big time" players seems like a pretty risky gamble.

    Like what level of recruiting are the expected to elevate themselves to now? 

    At the end of the day they are still competing with OU, Texas, Texas A&M and the rest of the SEC for the elite recruits in Texas.  And they are competing with Ok State, TCU, Baylor, etc., for the next-tier down recruits... only those teams are all playing the vast majority of their games in Texas or at least in the region vs. playing half of their games on the east coast.

    So is the plan to beat out OU/Texas/SEC for the top elite recruits in Texas? Is that realistic?

    Because otherwise if they just raise their level of recruiting to what OSU, TCU, Baylor, etc., are doing that is no guarantee of success. You need great coaching that can develop players and have great schemes as well. You can easily have a top 20-25 recruiting class year after year and be a losing program.

    Will the big cigar donors continue to be happy about shelling out big $ year after year for a handful of 8-4 or 7-5 type seasons? And then especially what happens when the top ACC brands bolt for the B1G and SEC?  You're right back where you were before, except you've paid like $100mm (or whatever the number is) out of pocket that you could have gotten by staying put.

    The whole thing seems risky AF to me.

  5. Just now, Deej said:

    How many Longhorn fans talking shit on your board? 

    Rent fucking free.

    I don't own any message boards, so I couldn't tell you.  And if I did I'd hope I wouldn't act like a bitch-made pussy at any random discussion that came up that involved legitimate criticism of or literally just pointed out facts about the performance of "my" school. 

    Maybe you missed it, but Shaggy/Surly has tons of fans from across the conference and even other conferences who have been posting here for like a decade plus.

    Coming at any non-Texas fan with some circa-2002 message board "smack" like, "get off our board" or "rent free" is just fucking lame as shit. Get over yourself.

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  6. 12 minutes ago, LTbear said:

    Obviously a good avenue to choose. I'm curious to see how NIL goes. Before NIL, being honest, I think UT would be somewhat screwed in the SEC (not completely, but I'm sure we'd both agree there are plenty of SEC programs who will cheat through the nose). NIL - as long as it stays somewhat unregulated - I think could level a lot of that playing field, because certainly UT has boosters that can compete with anyone. 

    Yeah but has acquiring a large amount of talented players been the problem at Texas over the past 13 years?

    Without taking the time to look, I'm guessing they have had the #1 or #2 recruiting class in the Big 12 that entire time, but has zero Big 12 titles to show for it.

    NIL essentially allows you to recruit well, both from HS and the portal. You still need a coach who will pick the *right* high-end players and coach them up.

  7. 8 minutes ago, markstanco said:

    This.  If you look at their schedule, the main chances are Stanford and maybe CSU?  I know nothing about CSU to be fair.

    I think someone posted upthread about this, but this is Jay Norvell's second year at CSU - he went 3-9 last year.  He also went 3-9 in his first year at Nevada and jumped to 8-5 in his second. I guess they also got a bunch of transfers so they could be better and will probably be a tough challenge for Colorado.

    If they don't win that game, I think a repeat of a 1-loss season becomes somewhat likely.

  8. On 8/26/2023 at 10:01 PM, Welshy said:

    I just watched an interview. His shister BS is grating, but I can see how a 19 year old kid would engage, and even benefit from it. Hope he succeeds, if only to wake Colorado the fuck up. They used to be the the shit. They'd refuse to mow their natural grass field for fast teams.

    Grunt, bloody knuckles shit. Loved them in the 80's. 

    I've seen some version of this mentioned about various teams/programs over the years and I've never understood it.

    Isn't speed relative?  Like doesn't it slow the home team down as well? How does high grass slow down a "fast" team more than it slows down a "slow" team?  

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  9. 2 hours ago, kevwun said:

    Yeah, the cartoons ruined Jedi fights.  They are so much better when animated.

    I honestly don't understand this criticism. 

    I guess I'm easily able to compartmentalize in my mind if I'm watching animated vs. live action and understand that there are going to be inherent differences.

    The animated shows depict a "heightened reality" that is necessary to make the genre interesting... I mean if animated shows strictly followed "real world" or "in universe" physics, etc., it would be pretty boring... e.g. what would be the point? Just do it live action.

    In the example of the lightsaber fights, I actually don't think the over-the-top acrobatic shit from the prequels and the animated shows are very interesting, for the most part.

    The Obi-wan/Qui-gon/Maul battle was pretty interesting because it was the first time we saw something like that in Star Wars, but the rest are either way over the top or devoid of emotion.

    The best and most interesting lightsaber fights in the entire history of Star Wars are the two Luke/Vader fights and they are hardly the high-flying acrobatic shit we see in the animated series or prequels and the stuff that has come after it.

  10. 5 minutes ago, TKthunder2 said:

    You might want to check your match on K State, but yes congrats to TCU and OSU for their wins while UT was wondering in the desert that began when Colt got hurt in the Rose Bowl against Bama.

    Yeah good point on K-State... but they do have a conference title.

    And thank you for the congrats. Again I'm not trying to be a dick - it's just a fact. It's not like that Colt game was 2 years ago. Texas has had plenty of time to get their shit together - it's been 13 years. 

    But facts are facts and they just haven't, which was the whole point of the "relegation" comment, which I didn't bring up, by the way.

  11. 8 minutes ago, Josef Pwag said:

    In your lifetime, how many football national tiles have you seen Okie St, TCU and KSU win? 

    LOL you were the one who brought up relegation. Do you understand how it works?

    National titles from nearly 20 years ago are pretty irrelevant if we are picking the programs that are CURRENTLY the best performing programs. Hell Colorado and Georgia Tech have won national titles. Should they get invited to the SEC?

    All three of those programs I named have out-performed Texas on the field over the past decade-plus.

    I'm not trying to be a dick about it, but it's just a plain fact.

    Again - relegation/promotion isn't about the size of your fan base or accomplishments from 20 or 30 or 40 years ago - it's about how you are performing on the field NOW.

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  12. 2 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

    Yall are right - that blond bitch doesn't blink. 

     

    Some might see this one as a filler episode, but that dogfight was entertaining. 

    I didn't think it was filler at all. There were several interesting things going on:

    • New Republic politics - they've done some of this in Mando, but really driving home how the New Republic is fucking up by ignoring threats right in front of their face, e.g. Europe in the 1920s and 1930s.
    • The relationship/training between Ashoka and Sabine is fascinating. It's the first time in Star Wars we've seen the idea that a non-intuitive Force wielder can train to be a Jedi. They keep driving home the fact that Sabine doesn't have any Force "talent." I honestly hope it stays that way... it will go a long way for making long-term Star Wars more interesting if someone besides space wizards can be Jedi; or even if they keep with just the idea that anyone can learn to wield the Force - even in a limited capacity - if they train hard enough; that's a cool idea to explore vs. just what up to this point has been a genetic trait
    • Live action Purgil! I was wondering how they would look in live action and I think they really pulled it off. It really showed how massive (and dangerous) they can be, even to capital ships
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  13. 2 hours ago, UT_OB1 said:

    Vadar wasn’t around in clone wars. He showed up in a slight flash forward at the very end of clone wars. Clone wars ends at the end of episode 3, roughly the same time Luke and Leia are born. Rebels occurs in the few years leading up to episode 4. This occurs approximately 5-7 years after RotJ. Clearly after season 2 of Mandalorian, and I’m guessing concurrent with S3.  

    Yeah the first episode of this show presumably takes place essentially right after the Ashoka episode of Mando Season 2.

    I don't recall how much time was supposed to have passed between Mando seasons 2 and 3 so we may or may not be caught up to those events yet. What will be interesting is to see if/when we reach the point where Ashoka goes to visit Luke and Grogu that happened Boba Fett Season 1.

  14. 3 hours ago, Laxtonto said:

    There should be nothing but optimism for the leftover B12 and new additions. All are looking at a scenario in which they are in a setting where they no longer look down the schedule and see which historically was an automatic 2 losses to Texas and OU or USC and Oregon. It is wide-open and so they can all sit there and go "Why not me?" and squint their eyes and see themselves ascend into a dominant position in the new Big 12.  I am not sure that is actually true for all the members, but without Texas and OU, parity will reign supreme.

    Did you post this from 2009?

    Because that was the last time you could make the statement that "Texas was an automatic loss" for anyone in this conference with a straight face.

    Just as a quick reminder, OSU, Baylor, TCU and Kansas State have all won the Big 12 title more recently than Texas has.

     

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  15. 4 hours ago, Josef Pwag said:

    You are implying that aggie & mizzou going to the SEC is the same thing as Texas & OU going to the SEC?!? They aren't the same.

    With the Pac teams joining the B1G and Texas & OU joining the SEC, everything changes. There are only 2 power conferences next year. That may be upsetting to you, but it is the truth.

    For years, CFB fans have been saying, "It would be great if we could have relegation like soccer in the UK." Well, we do. Iowa State, Okie Lite, Baylor, etc.......they have all been relegated. You can bitch & moan about the fairness of one garbage team surviving over another, but no one that matters cares.

     

    (A) I'm implying that making sweeping statements about the quality of teams based on conference affiliation is soft-brained Aggy shit. Texas fans on this very site and its predecessor literally made fun of Aggy for doing this the second they announced they were going to SEC.

    (B) The fuck this is "relegation" like soccer in the UK. Relegation over there involves being promoted or demoted based on your results ON THE FIELD, not the size of your fan base. If this was truely a promotion/relegation issue, OSU or TCU or Kansas State would be going to the SEC with OU, not Texas. 

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  16. 2 hours ago, Josef Pwag said:

    Yes, seriously.

    Any 9-3 team from the B1G or SEC deserves to be in the playoffs over any 2024 Big 12 team. 

     

    1 hour ago, Zeus said:

    There’s only two power conferences. 

    I'm old enough to remember when we made fun of stupid fucking comments like this on Shaggy/Surly.

    In fact, I believe it was squarely pointed at Aggy around a decade ago.

    You're not even in the SEC yet and already going full Aggy. Lulz

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  17. 2 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    Who is still doing this?  This hasn't been a thing in awhile for the vast majority of Big 12 schools.  I see this talking point routinely on this board and it doesn't jive with reality at this point.

    Dude he keeps bringing this up over and over again no matter how many times it's shown to be complete bullshit. Best to just ignore and move on.

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