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TKthunder2

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  1. Spoiler below but we have a whole thread dedicated to bidet questions if you’re curious.
  2. I’m not sure which one of you was saying the SEC wouldn’t have the permanent 230 spot on ABC but… https://www.nola.com/sports/lsu/why-the-sec-is-leaving-cbs-and-what-to-expect-with-espn-and-abc/article_6e17825c-3ed6-11ee-a67b-bb0de13f913d.amp.html and also of interest
  3. The post was talking about brand power, that does not necessarily correlate to wins. Look at the chart posted up thread and tell me again who from the bottom half that I listed above is better than Stanford and TCU…
  4. I agree with you overall point, but TCU was/is at the top of the Big12 not the bottom and Stanford was in the top half of the PAC12. If we’re being honest the bottom of the Big12 was: Kansas/KSU/ISU/WVU/TT and the bottom of the PAC12 was: WSU/OSU/Cal/Colorado/Arizona/ASU
  5. Damn RIP Bill
  6. You guys know they are building wind farms in the middle of the Texas triangle. Drive by Hubbard or Mart and there’s a bunch of them. Obviously not as many as out West but it’s growing pretty quickly because they demand is there. https://www.nexteraenergyresources.com/hubbard-wind/project-overview.html https://www.engie-na.com/wind/prairie_hill/
  7. https://www.vcstar.com/story/opinion/2023/08/17/with-pac-12-collapse-how-about-starting-a-california-conference/70610812007/ 🤣
  8. Disagree. If the SEC turned their CCG into a 4 team playoff they would get 100% of that revenue. Currently the 4 team playoff shares that money with EVERY FBS conference. The Sun Belt and CUSA, having never participated any the playoff or NY6 bowls, pull in $24 million a year from the CFP. The PAC/B12/ACC pull much more than that but I’m not going to bother to go find the exact number. You take all of that interest and condense it down to just the SEC and they will rake in the cash for just their 4 team playoff. The additional money for the championship games, and the normal bowl games will also still be there. While the total payout will be less than the joint CFP, the SEC’s portion of that would absolutely be worth more than they are currently receiving. Bad for college football in general does not mean bad for the SEC. We all saw #1 UGA play #14 LSU in the CCG in Atlanta. With 11 million viewers it was the most watched CCG. Now imagine after it, you had a rematch of #5 Alabama play #6 Tennessee in Miami or Houston. Then you have UGA play that winner in the Sugar Bowl on NYD. Then they play the B1G’s 4 team playoff winner (Michigan/Penn St vs Ohio St/USC) mid January…the networks would piss themselves for that guaranteed content. Sure, no K State/TCU/Utah/Clemson would hurt the overall $ some, but condensing the revenue into just the two conferences would most likely increase the amount each of their schools get to take home. I know the idea is not popular here, but my main point is that this is not a “hollow threat”.
  9. $60 each $120 total. Actual second row of the section aisle seat. Should get shade near kickoff.
  10. It does make sense, in a crazy type of way that is our current reality. For the ACC Cal/Stanford are rumored to be talking about taking $0 from their TV deal. The ACC (fully with ESPN) has a prorata claus for new members. So they can take that free money from ESPN and give it to FSU/Clemson/UNC/Miami and keep them temporarily happy and stabilize their drama keeping the conference together. It’s not a great sustainable long term solution, but it’s actually not horrible in the short term. Cal/Stanford care more about getting into the Big Ten long term but if they join the MWC/AAC they’ll lose (even more) recruits and exposure and be an afterthought. If they double down on athletics and win some in the ACC they think their is a chance the future Big Ten will take them in. Who knows, maybe the Big 12/ACC figure out some other way to do a membership swap with West Virginia/Cincinnati going to the ACC and Cal/Stanford going the Big12. Sounds unlikely but so did Cal/Stanford joining the ACC a year ago…
  11. If Cal and Stanford were smart (what a weird world we live in when I can honestly start a sentence that way) they should have been secretly negotiating with the Big 12 behind under a NDA. Once Oregon and Washington left, they could have pulled the trigger and leap frogged over ASU/Utah, both schools that clearly don’t want to be in the B12 and schools in duplicate markets/states that are already in (or invited) the conference. I get that many in here oppose them for political reasons, but two schools in SFO including an every other year ND game (and I assume USC too at some point) would be far more valuable for the conference in the long term.
  12. Notre Dame to the SEC CONFIRMED!!!
  13. I thought it was just that there is no cost of living variable in their formula and that they use a state average which benefits lower cost rural/suburban schools and punishes urban ones. But maybe I’m wrong.
  14. I don’t think a 3 loss over 1 loss will be common. The argument was a 3 loss non champ SEC/B1G team getting in over a 2 loss non champ B12/ACC. You might be right about Ohio St or Bama doing a double jump, but the argument was when judging by SOS the default (but not always) should consider an SEC/B1G 3 loss team is better than an ACC/B12 2 loss team.
  15. I started multi quoting you guys but was concerned it would long cat. My ENTIRE post was about these two points above. In basketball we do NOT judge teams ONLY by their record. We judge them by record AND strength of schedule. While we talk about SOS commonly in college football it’s mostly around deciding which is the best 1 loss or 2 loss team, unlike college basketball which emphasizes SOS more so than simple wins and losses. Most of the time, I could give you the record of the teams in college football and you could slot them in order based on record, conference affiliation, and brand name with only an exception for G5 teams (that have depressed rankings) and conference champions (who get elevated rankings). That is NOT the case with college basketball. You don’t consolidate this many brands/powers together to continue business as usual, because business as usual had bluebloods in every power conference. With the consolidation of power in the P2 the expectations around just stack ranking by record is going to be wildly outdated. It’s already widely accepted that the SEC and Big Ten had the best team BEFORE this round of realignment and ranked them that way accordingly. Now the gap between the SEC/B1G has grown and you guys think that that will not have any effect on the rankings or playoff selection? The obvious next step in that evolution is to take strength of schedule into consideration when the Big 12/ACC take a step back in perception while the SEC/B1G take a step forward and realize that a 1 loss SEC/B1G team most likely (but not always) should outrank an undefeated Big12/ACC team, or 3 loss is most likely better than a 2 loss. Start this video at the 3 minute mark if you still don’t get my point.
  16. They can’t come up with something more original…
  17. You’re arguing both sides here. Basketball teams with good records miss the NCAA tournament all the time. You say that’s what you want but you’re actually arguing the opposite. Iowa State made the NCAA men’s basketball tournament as a 6 seed with a record of 19-13, meanwhile North Texas missed the tournament with a record of 26-7. The SEC and Big Ten will have a far more difficult strength of schedule (like Big 12 basketball did last year) and will be rewarded for it. I doubt you’ll see a 1 loss Big12/ACC team passed over for a 3 loss SEC/B1G team but I damn sure hope a 2 loss non conference champion for the B12/ACC doesn’t get in over a 3 loss SEC/B1G team. That is more in line with how the basketball tournament operates and is likely how this will shake out unless you are trying to get the SEC/B1G to breakaway.
  18. Same reason aggy didn’t want to play Texas and wanted to be the only Texas team in the SEC. They scared. They want to be DFW’s only P4 team. SMU has more alumni money (for NIL), better academics, and is in the biggest/most recognizable city in the metro. Losing to them in games or via recruits (high school or transfers) is too much risk for them. TCU will steal their “come home to DFW” shtick and take the SEC/B1G dropouts and JUCO stars and promote their playoff wins over Michigan and their Rose Bowl wins over Wisconsin. If they keep playing and SMU wins a few in a row they’ll just say TCU is ancient history. If TCU stops playing them, then their is not much SMU can do to ever level the playing field.
  19. Hey now…let’s not go too far now. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/college-admissions-scandal-ex-university-texas-tennis-coach-gets-6-n1142246
  20. And why the fuck would they take UNT and SMU? Looks like more bullshit.
  21. I have Austin on my DL. I live in a LTD under RRISD and pay no city taxes nor can I vote in certain City elections.
  22. I was talking about the next contract. For the expansion to 12, they went with 6 because that was the agreement to get all 10 conferences to agree on playoff expansion. It had to be unanimous to expand while under the still ongoing CFP contract that all 10 conferences and ND agreed to. The thought was that it would be the Power 5 champions plus the highest ranked G5. That thought looks “messy” after this round of realignment. That agreement, as you said, is only for 2024-25. The Big Ten, SEC, and Big 12 might try to push for a change for those 2 years but the G5/ACC/PAC4 have really no reason to change it unless they increase the standard payouts or something like that. Still, if they don’t, you could see even worse terms happening in the next contract. Maybe they drop it to 5 now in hopes that they can keep it going forward as we all realize 6 won’t happen again.
  23. Might want to start wrapping your head around 4 (which even that might not happen, if we end up straight at large selections). If the ACC hangs around that’s giving the 4 Power conferences spots now that they’re all going divisionless and it won’t be possible to have a 6-6 UCLA in the CCG anymore with bid stealing potential. If the ACC implodes that’s giving the 3 conferences spots and saving the 4th for the G5-PAC/ACC leftovers. Which is about as good as anyone could realistically hope for.
  24. If you had said Indiana or Illinois then I would agree, but… Iowa - flagship school of the state with 3 million people, with 5 national titles, top 40 in all time wins and a top 25 stadium by capacity Minnesota -flagship and ONLY FBS school of a state with 6 million people, 7 national titles, top 25 in all time wins, top 50 stadium by capacity vs Iowa State - 2nd school in a state of 3 million people, zero national titles, top 90 in all time wins, top 30 stadium by capacity You guys have a nice stadium but otherwise I don’t get the resentment on programs that are clearly superior.
  25. This is great, but I didn’t realize it was a secret. MD Anderson was always planned from the start when they were designing the medical school.
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