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  1. On 2/7/2025 at 9:19 PM, futureman said:

    I was glancing at high school enrollment per state to try and gauge these numbers per capita and this fun fact popped up on google…

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    kinda surprised me as I feel like I’ve frequently seen reported that texas education is trash.  also seems impossible that a state as big and diverse as we are would graduate a higher percentage of students than certain other smaller states.  but, the internet never lies.

    Don’t believe everything you read. Texas education isn’t trash. It’s a big state with lots of variances between districts so it definitely won’t be anywhere near the best. For every metric that proves it’s great there are two that prove otherwise.

    Regardless we should absolutely hold our leaders (both state and local) to a higher standard as just being better than states like Mississippi, Alaska, Louisiana, Wyoming, and God forsaken Oklahoma is not good enough.

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  2. 3 minutes ago, BurgleBro said:

    Had no idea Cash covered personal Jesus

     

    I was on the verge of disgust bc I thought it was AI Cash

    He covered Hurt too. May not be a popular opinion but I think it’s better than the original.

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  3. On 1/29/2025 at 3:01 AM, kopp0e said:

    If I was commissioner of CFP & realignment for a day, I would:

    Expand both SEC/ B1G to 24 members split into pods of three...

    11 game in conference slate (& 1 crossover game vs SEC/ B1G)...

    Expand CFP to 16 teams, keep home games & tie in top bowls...

    B1G East:
    Northwestern Wildcats
    Notre Dame Fightin' Irish
    Purdue Boilermakers
    Penn State Nittany Lions
    Rutgers Scarlet Knights
    Maryland Terripens
    Duke Blue Devils
    Miami Hurricanes 

    B1G Central:
    Iowa Hawkeyes
    Minnesota Golden Gophers
    Wisconsin Badgers
    Illinois Fighting Illini
    Indiana Hoosiers
    Michigan Wolverines
    Michigan State Spartans
    Ohio State Buckeyes

    B1G West:
    Washington Huskies 
    Oregon Ducks
    Stanford Cardinal
    UCLA Bruins
    USC Trojans
    Arizona Wildcats
    Utah Utes
    Nebraska Cornhuskers

    ACC/ XII/ PAC backfill 16 members each & hold own CFP also...

    Season start week of Labor Day for all teams, end in January...

    NCAA March Madness stays at 68 team tournament in March...

     

     

    On 1/29/2025 at 3:03 AM, kopp0e said:

    SEC East:
    Virginia Cavaliers
    North Carolina Tar Heels
    NC State Wolfpack
    South Carolina Gamecocks
    Clemson Tigers
    Georgia Bulldogs
    Florida Gators
    Florida State Seminoles

    SEC Central:
    Kentucky Wildcats
    Tennessee Volunteers
    Vanderbilt Commodores
    Alabama Crimson Tide
    Auburn Tigers
    Ole Miss Rebels
    Mississippi State Bulldogs
    LSU Tigers

    SEC West:
    Texas Longhorns
    Texas A&M Aggies
    Oklahoma Sooners
    Arkansas Razorbacks
    Missouri Tigers
    Kansas Jayhawks
    Colorado Buffaloes
    Arizona State Sun Devils

    Those mushrooms really hit differently at 3am…

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  4. My favorite one from the long screenshots

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    In most cases you could argue our school is better than theirs. And kids would rather go to A&M.

    This is just perfect aggy. Not that they could PROVE, no, no, nothing as gauche as that where we use facts and evidence, just in MOST cases they COULD ARGUE.

    /chef’s kiss

    Never change aggy, never change…

  5. On 1/18/2025 at 12:07 AM, StassneyHorn said:

    You might want to wait to start poaching until you know it’s a good spot.

    THIS

    If you take the entire team you are a dick and you’ll likely get some sort of litigation.

    I’d think about your team. Is there someone you think they might promote to your old role on your team you’d be fucking over? Them staying in that role with a solid team could really help their career and grow them into a leader that could gain quality skills and experience which you could leverage down the road if you keep them in your network.

    That being said, I don’t see anything wrong with taking a key player or two but I wouldn’t completely screw over my old company. If it falls to shit after you leave and you really do have a great relationship with your team they’ll reach out to you once that new reality sets in.

  6. 4 hours ago, bolverk said:

     

    There's still some shuffling that's going to take place for the 2025 season, but to the best of my ability, the following is how the conferences should look in 2026 once all of the announcements have finally taken place. Of course, the PAC still needs one more slot filled to make 8 full members who play FBS football.

     

    Y'all let me know if there are any errors.

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    Grand Canyon and UC Davis aren’t playing football in the MWC, they are non-fb members. If you’re including non-fb members you’d need to add ND to ACC, Gonzaga to PAC, and Wichita State to American.

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  7. 3 hours ago, 'stache said:

    Would SBC look to Sam Houston St to keep a presence in Texas? It’s the only FBS school left unless and until another goes CUSA.

    I’m sure they’d look at them, but not sure they are the most attractive option. Without Texas State their western most members are within an hour of the Mississippi River.

    IIRC last time around the Sun Belt was interested in Missouri State, Eastern Kentucky, possibly bringing back Western Kentucky and maybe even MTSU returning. FIU would be a good return pickup for their market/enrollment as well and Florida recruiting (both athlete and student) is like more applicable to the SBC than Texas.

  8. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Well, unless they get a medical school on campus and a whole lot more research money, affiliation with the UMC will be the least of their problems.

    The AAU ain't for small private schools.

    Yeah not having a medical school will make it difficult but the AAU is about half small/private and a few like Rice don’t have med schools. They would need to significantly increase (5X) their research dollars but if they can get close I have no doubt they could get the votes.

    With their perception/status and top 100 ranking they fit it with Rice, Tulane, Vandy, Emory, and are now affiliated with the ACC which has 9 AAU members it’s seems like the votes will be there if they can raise their research budget/profile.

    While I don’t think this is something that will be easily accomplished, I also don’t think it would be unreasonable to set as an aggressive 10 year goal (assuming they are able to separate from the church).

     

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  9. 5 hours ago, linux said:

    Seems like Kirk is gaslighting us, ESPN is in bed with the SEC that is their long term investment, they absolutely do not want a return to parity.

    I agree but ESPN does get hot and wet whenever they get games from Ohio St, Michigan, and Notre Dame. FOX does the same with Texas (why they made us switch our schedule so they could air our games at Michigan and Ohio St).

  10. Reminds me, there was a poorly drawn cartoon of two guys talking one was labeled as the SEC and the other was Mizzou I’ve been trying to find without success.

    It was something like this…

    Frame 1: SEC guy says “So did you hear Texas and Oklahoma moving in soon” - blank face Mizzou guy

    Frame 2: awkward silence-blank face Mizzou guy

    Frame 3: silence, SEC guy looking frustrated - and still more blank face Mizzou guy

    Frame 4: SEC guy yells “Get the Fuck OUT!” and Mizzou guy cringes

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