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TKthunder2

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  1. No offense, but having worked in the university arena for about a decade I can tell you that you are way off base. aggy admitted and thanked Texas multiple times publicly for their support in getting them into the AAU. It wasn’t just lobbying for votes, that is not how it works. aggy had to have research dollars and faculty/staff and a host of other items for them to even be considered. Texas allowed and encouraged professors to work at aggy and included them in joint research initiatives. Texas advised aggy on how to move up in the rankings and how to appeal to the other members of the AAU. aggy listened and it worked and aggy got in. Then sometime around the Colt McCoy years aggy decided they didn’t need to listen to Texas anymore and hired Sharp. Since then they have ballooned enrollment to Arizona State levels and created multiple liberal arts majors which royally fucked up their state funding. Started their hybrid JUCO enrollment with Blinn and Rellis. They bought Texas Wesleyan, renamed it and a bunch of state agencies TAMU-XXX, started giving out aggy diplomas to various locations outside of College Station most notably Qatar which has spawned a federal investigation into their partnership and funding agreements which aggy is trying to do everything in it power to keep private. aggy reputation peaked when they joined the AAU and since then it has been on the decline, academically speaking. Tech has taken up the mantle that aggy discarded. Texas wants more quality universities in this state, and Tech has been making some really solid moves over the last decade that has improved their academics reputation. Tech absolutely deserves a ton of credit here, but Texas has been assisting them where/when they can by partnering with them for research grants and supporting initiatives like with the vet school which aggy absolutely opposed. Tech could have succeed without and in spite of Texas, but it’s a lot easier to advance in the world of academia when you have someone like Texas in your corner.
  2. And Texas attempted to look out for them a tried to include them in their move to the PAC16 and even Big Ten. They have also supported Tech in their academic growth (just like we did with aggy when they improved enough to get invited to the AAU, before they decide to turn into a diploma mill). Despite our differences, Tech is likely the closest in alignment to UT among the public universities in the state which is why they often “did what Texas told them” since it was mostly in their own interest.
  3. This goes back to what is the goal. If you’re trying to balance out the schedule competitively or preserve rivalries? If competitive, are you using current strength or historical? Obviously the Egg Bowl stays for Ole Miss. LSU is their next biggest rival. Vandy is #3 as they are rivals historically, geographically, and culturally. They’ve played all of those teams over 94 times. Their next most played game is with Alabama and they’ve only played 68 times. Oklahoma gets Texas and Mizzou. Their 3rd rival will be random. If the SEC can pair them with another big name school like LSU (if this guy’s model) or Florida (my model) the that help guarantee another big time games each year. It’s the same thing they pulled when they created the Florida/LSU rivalry, those were just the best teams leftover after pairing up UGA/Aub and Bama/TN as rivals so they paired them up. After Texas and Arkansas, LSU is aggy’s most played SEC team. LSU has only played their “rival” Florida 8 more times than they’ve played aggy. Alabama and Mississippi State are very close to each other geographically, and have played each other the most 105 times. Alabama has only played Ole Miss 66 times. I would bet lots of money that Alabama’s rivals will be Auburn, Tennessee, and Mississippi State. I think there is a very good chance LSU will end up with aggy and Ole Miss. I have Arkansas as their #3 as it would be their rivalry week game but I could see them slotting someone else there. Florida will end up with Georgia and South Carolina I have no doubt. Their number #3 (just like LSU) is where this could get tricky. LSU or Tennessee would work but I have them pairing with Oklahoma as my random best of what’s left pairing. Lastly, I’m not sure why you think permanent rivals suck. In this scenario you’d play every team in a two year period (just not home/home). These permanent rivals are just who you play every year. Alabama gives up playing LSU/aggy/Ole Miss/Arkansas every year but instead gets Texas/Florida/LSU/Ole Miss in year 1 and Georgia/Oklahoma/Arkansas/aggy in year 2. This balances the league and solves for the West being too strong and the East being too weak. Instead of Georgia beating up on Mizzou/Vandy/Tennessee/Kentucky every year now they’ll only get/have to play 2 of those 4 each year. I’m a big fan of this model (if you can’t tell) it’s way better than pods or divisions.
  4. I did 8 one night going upstairs/downstairs. Pretty sure I pissed the backseat floor boards of my girlfriend’s car on the way to Taco C, and then threw up in the drive thru.
  5. Edit: not sure how it pulled the top tweet. I don’t Twitter good.
  6. Yeah but it would be on FS1 or BTN versus the Big 12 on ESPN main which has nearly 4x more carriage.
  7. https://www.mwcconnection.com/2022/9/14/23342148/college-football-playoff-expansion-mountain-west-teams-boise-state-group-five So you make the playoff but it will not be considered a bowl game. This seems to me they a setting up the possibility of the first 4 teams (outside the top 4 champs) and get eliminated in the first round, those teams would still be able to play in a traditional post season game like the Alamo Bowl. Possibly a way to extend bowl season since they’ll need more time since they have 11 playoff games to schedule instead of just 3. It’ll be interesting to see how it shakes out.
  8. Not sure your point. These aren’t the only rankings that matter but even so we’re only 1 of 8 P5 schools in the top 10. Texas beats many of our peers in other rankings (patents granted, research dollars, international rankings, faculty and students awards/honors) but this isn’t a contest, Texas strives to be great because that is our mission. When the medical school is fully built out (with a heavy presence of MD Anderson) and the graduate housing by the baseball field is complete we’ll rise even higher in the rankings (I’m sure there are other areas we’ll focus on, but I haven’t seen the 10 year plan in some time). Anyone who thinks we aren’t peers with Cal, UCLA, Michigan, UNC, and UVA is either aggy, or simply uninformed.
  9. He is a Gator fan so he forces Florida/Tennessee over Tenn/Kentucky, and Arkansas/Mizzou over Ark/LSU, after that everything just falls in line. But not a bad list. My only issue is the odd rivalry week games, which would be LSU/OU and Arkansas/Mizzou. LSU/Arkansas and Oklahoma/Mizzou seems more appropriate and if they renew Bedlam/Border War it works out perfectly.
  10. We’re dumb too, but yes not THAT dumb. https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/ut-extends-longhorns-coach-tom-hermans-contract-till-2023/
  11. Correct me if I’m wrong , but the story is even worse than that… They hired Jimbo, then he and the aggy brass went up to TAMU Commerce (NCAA Div II at the time) to present their coach and football team a plaque for ACTUALLY WINNING A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP but instead of being proud and celebrating the accomplishments of one of their system schools and allowing that coach, program, players to honored and recognized; they immediately pivoted and wanted to bring attention back to College Station by bragging about hiring Jimbo and how, like Commerce, he was going to get a national title soon and pulled out this dumb plaque and presented it to him in front of all the people there to celebrate Commerce. There isn’t a better example on how aggy treats its system schools. They are just a way to funnel more money and attention back to themselves.
  12. Cal, UCLA, Michigan, UVA, UNC, and Texas were all the original public ivies at the same basic level academically and athletically. That is our peer group. The others included in the list (Miami OH, Vermont, William & Mary, other UC schools) are great institutions but on a different tier.
  13. Hate is too strong of a word. KC just seems like a more boring Dallas with more generic chain restaurants and fountains. I mostly stay downtown and it’s just blah, I mean it’s nice enough for a midsized city but a good portion of restaurants shut down annoyingly early which also doesn’t improve my opinion of them. Arrowhead wasn't impressive. I ate BBQ at original Joe’s gas station location which was described to me as “the best BBQ in the US” but was only slightly better than Rudy’s with weird sauce. I just don’t see the appeal. If you have to go the zoo is okay (my kids liked it) and as a baseball fan/history buff I enjoyed attending a Royals game and both the WWI and African American baseball museum. You could knock those all out in a single weekend and never go back and not miss much.
  14. Ranked Baylor vs ranked BYU in the late window beat out ranked Arizona St vs ranked BYU and ranked BYU vs unranked USC in 2021 in that same late window. So it really is mildly impressive. Not for those of us who went there…
  15. I wonder what game in 2016 they are talking about… 9/17/2016 1.5 rating 2.447M viewers Texas Big 12 California Pac-12 10:55 PM ESPN https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college-football-tv-ratings-archived/
  16. Which part? We know ESPN/FOX didn’t open the exclusive negotiating window, because the PAC media homers were quick to point that out. We knew nobody wanted a long term deal on either side. Short term extension isn’t specific. It could be 2-5 years which is pretty much what I was expecting.
  17. Yeah, they’ve been ranked ahead of us for a while now. Generally they’ve been around the same level as Wisconsin, not sure what they did to jump in the rankings as much as they have. That being said, the below is even crazier in my book… 13 Illinois 13 William & Mary 15 Georgia Tech 16 Ohio State 17 Georgia 18 Purdue 19 Florida State 19 Rutgers 19 Maryland 19 Washington
  18. https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/ut-austin-ranked-top-public-university-in-texas-us-news-says/amp/ https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public 1. University of California-Berkeley 1. UCLA 3. Michigan 3. Virginia 5. Florida 5. North Carolina 7. UC-Santa Barbara 8. UC-Irvine 8. UC-San Diego 10. UC-Davis 10. Texas 10. Wisconsin
  19. Things you can say about 90% of college towns.
  20. I see this said on here a lot, but Lincoln is a pretty cool little town and the downtown/haymarket campus/capital area is a nice area. I travel there every other month or so and it’s not one of the areas I hate (like KC or STL). Don’t get me wrong, I quit my job before moving to the state of Nebraska, but Lincoln is better than most people give them credit for.
  21. You serious? County scholarships, partial qualifiers, JUCO pipeline, and steroids. The formation of the Big 12/BCS coincided with the majority of their system breaking down, getting outlawed, and/or coming under more scrutiny.
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