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TKthunder2

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  1. Sold my tickets due to a fucking family wedding. (Seriously, fuck anyone who schedules a wedding during football season) I’m betting the $500 proceeds on TCU. If TCU wins I get $500 If Texas wins and covers I’ll be so happy I won’t care If Texas wins and doesn’t cover I’ll be extremely happy
  2. Yep, it’s a bad rule. QBs have more than enough protection.
  3. With Texas and Oklahoma disappointing, this weekend is a good preview of the future of the new Big 12 TV schedule. 1 game on FOX 2 games on FS1 2 games on ESPN+ With 12 teams, they’ll have 1 more game that could go ABC/ESPN or ESPN2/U depending on how attractive it is/isn’t.
  4. I think our football will have a “flu outbreak” next year the week of the UH game.
  5. Shower drain isn’t a big deal. If it was a toilet drain it would be a bigger issue.
  6. $450 total, surly price. Great seats in the lower bowl. Section 11, 2nd row of the section above the concourse on the aisle. Cheapest in the lowers is going for $250 each plus fees making it more the $600 for a pair.
  7. Yep, if I ever left Texas could pick anywhere in the US these are the places I would consider (West to East): Kauai San Diego Sacramento/Tahoe Spokane Colorado (Fort Collins, Denver, Colorado Springs) North Carolina Research Triangle Maine
  8. If you can do Toronto do it, but yeah lots of issues getting to the finish line. Will your company even allow it, can you get a Visa? Seattle and Portland are no more affordable than Denver. So now you’re down to Detroit, Minneapolis, and Philadelphia. They only other cities that fit your “needs” (other than maybe the airport part) are Baltimore, Milwaukee, Albuquerque, and Sacramento
  9. It’s a very loose system that gives lots of local control to the individual institutions. UT and aggy typically require branding changes and have to be mindful of system geographic and program overlap. It’s just a good catch all option, nothing special about it.
  10. Stanford actually has a pretty good sized following nationally especially for a private school. Not USC/ND level but they are at the top of the next level. Per the 538 analysis I posted above, Stanford is tied #2 in the remaining PAC10 behind Oregon and tied with Utah as far as eyeballs are concerned. In the Big 12 they’d be behind TCU/Okie St and tied with Baylor at #3. Saying no one gives a shit about Stanford football is just wrong. They have a national following because they recruit nationally (students and athletes) and their graduates are more spread out across the country. Just because the Bay Area general populous doesn’t care and they don’t sell out their home games doesn’t mean they are bad for TV deals. You should view them to how most people view Miami and not how people view Wake Forest or Boston College.
  11. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/where-should-the-big-ten-expand-next-we-crunched-the-numbers/ 538 has them behind the obvious candidates: ND, UNC, Oregon, FSU, UW, and Clemson and essentially tied with Miami and Utah. It is mainly their market, academics, and other sports more so than fb. These decisions are not 100% made by TV executives, they are made by university presidents who would give up $5-10 million a year to be able to run elbows with the West Coast Ivy level universities. Does that matter to the Big 12? Generally I’d say no, but if the choice is SDSU or Stanford, I think you take Stanford every time.
  12. I disagree with you that Tech needs to remain a system with how interconnected we all are with technology. UT has UTEP and UTPB already, Tech would fit in just fine. Regardless, I doubt it happens anytime soon, but if this was a compromise, I could live with it. Yep, I agree, 2 is a pipe dream (mostly because aggy sucks and doesn’t play nice or give a shit about their system schools. I’ve always thought 3 would be the final with Texas State being the default but they basically had that years ago but then let this whole thing spin out of control at some point.
  13. This was my only prop and I voted no. Also voted for Watson (like others it was either him or Virden)
  14. And that’s why I have a secondary countertop microwave in the pantry. My life choices have been validated.
  15. Why the fuck in 2022 is not being able to use your phone still a rule? People should be able to use their phones and look up information of candidates as they please at least during early voting (I could get it on voting day when it’s packed). Fucking dumb as shit. I know I didn’t vote for any of those people for RRISD. I think in the top 6 races I voted 2 Rs, 2 Ds, and 2 Ls so I’m used to both doing research so I can think for myself being hated by everybody. I did convince my formerly straight Republican ticket voting wife to vote for a few Democrats for the first time in her life. Thanks in part to Trump I got her to vote Libertarian previously, but I’m particularly pleased that she’s now considering all candidates on the ballot.
  16. Had some dealers come by, they offered $3k, 4$k, and $5k. I showed it to a guy a week back who said $10k was too rich for him offered it to him for $8k he talked me down to $7500. Hoping this is over with, but he asked for a week to pull together the money so we’ll see.
  17. The answer is football and pride. They didn’t want to be under the thumb of UT or aggy because we’d slash their budget or trying to keep them down so they could compete with us on the football field. Dumb but true. Texas and aggy and maybe Tech (due to the isolation of West Texas from the I35/10/45 triangle) all made sense at one point. But UNT, UH, TWU, TX St never really did. Texas State system became the default aggy should have been and now with technology there really isn’t a need for Tech to be on its own either. I honestly hope that UT moving to the SEC and the SEC/B1G’s elevation to power 2 status would finally allow some sense to start trickling in. UH’s campus (omitting Victoria) and Tech’s Lubbock campus and their med centers could join UT. UNT, Texas Southern, and UH Victoria join aggy. The rest get tossed into Texas State.
  18. Oknows 7:53a, 10/26/22 In reply to KackAg87 TCU would get throttled by the upper half of the SEC. 8 ... KackAg87 7:55a, 10/26/22 In reply to Oknows How do you think they would do against App State, Miss State and South Carolina?
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