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TKthunder2

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  1. “may”? and none of that contradicts with the above. UTD is very strong academically and yes has a large commuter contingent because it sits in the heart of Dallas perfectly sandwiched between the City of Dallas and Plano and the rest of the vast Northern suburban sprawl. But to say they are filling their school with those who could not get into aggy is absolutely incorrect. Most could go to multiple P5 football schools but chose to stay at a local school with great academics for a myriad of reasons. UTD is a great success story for the UT system, and anyone trying to insinuate otherwise because they lack DI basketball (by choice, because they absolutely could if they wanted to) or a large commuter base doesn’t understand what they are trying to do in Richardson.
  2. You’re insulting UTD putting them in the same category with those others you listed.
  3. The security doesn’t open until 330am so not before then. Check how many early departures there are that day but I’d guess if you get there 1 hour before you’d be fine.
  4. The SEC is trying to force Kentucky and Mizzou as rivals for the cocks.
  5. For SMU absolutely. For the PAC12, no. SMU isn’t worth $30mil/yr so they would likely dilute their conference payout. Even in the most optimistic of circumstances where somehow SMU’s value is enough to cover their own cost, they do nothing for the remaining 10 teams. Cal, Washington, and Oregon don’t want to play them if they get nothing in return. At 10 teams the PAC12 can play round robin and face everyone every year. At 12 teams there is a chance you are swapping out Oregon and Washington for SMU and SDSU, and no one would willingly make that deal without getting something in return. Again, if they drop to 9 or 8 members then survival rules require expansion, but as is it’s unlikely to happen.
  6. What? That’s not correct. They play basketball in the Big West.
  7. The Big 12 is not interested in SDSU period. They’d rather take UConn if they need an extra to balance out the numbers it seems. Without adding a P5 team, zero additions make sense right now. UConn or Gonzaga for basketball might make sense towards the end of the TV contract but now they don’t. PAC12 is not expanding unless TV is willing to pay more. They don’t want to play SDSU or SMU so unless those bring added value increasing the pie for the existing P10, they will not expand. If they lose 1 team (like Colorado) then SDSU will get the invite, but not before.
  8. Think you got some wires crossed no way we won’t play aggy in 2025…
  9. Then former Mayor Adler will start a non profit that the city will fund in order to get homeless into “cooling shelters”. Once he gets the funding they’ll buy some hotels that sit vacant for the next 10 years and then sell them to the city for 3x the price.
  10. It was a generous division on my part (mostly because the math was easy) but keeping with the theme you could add a few borderline teams like Washington, Oregon, Wisconsin, Michigan State to round out the numbers. If you divide by 4 to have big, medium large, medium small, small, you’d have around 17 in each category which would pretty much lines up with your list for the big names.
  11. If you take the new 69 P5 schools and divided them in 3rds, you have 23 big names, 23 medium names, and 23 small names. BYU and WVU would not be classified as big names. If you are looking at all of DI then sure, but we’re not talking about basketball, we’re talking about big time football. I agree the Big 12 will be fine, no need to exaggerate…
  12. I thought Apple was in bed with FOX on MLS deal. What deal are they in with ABC?
  13. Which linear partner is going to carry 60% of their content?
  14. Misogyny…okay You can point out that men absolutely can be guilty of the same thing I posted and that’s true, but that’s when talking about marriage not sex. Most men on a dry spell would fuck a USA 3 just as a slump buster. Men and women just aren’t wired the same when it comes to sex. Most average looking guys aren’t going to outkick their coverage with a one night stand on a dating app. It’s not uncommon for a 5-7 women to sleep with a 8-10 man, but it is rare for the inverse to occur. Men are a lot more likely to look past a flaw and sleep with a flawed woman and than woman is to sleep with a flawed man. Alcohol, hormones, and adrenaline helped level the playing field when in person, but when you’re just swiping left and right from your phone it’s not the same. This is a complicated issue. Technology has made so many things better and has enabled people to have connections without ever meeting in person, but a consequence of that lack of in person community has reduced sexual opportunities. Both sides have ownership in the way this is shaking out, but this thread was about passport bros and why they are choosing to go abroad and not the other way around. The topic by itself has misogynistic undertones so you’re going to have some cringe factor if you want an honest discussion.
  15. Lots of different statistics out there. Washington Post did some good stuff on this a while back which kicked off a bunch off follow up research/investigations. I believe the 80/20 thing came directly from on of the dating apps (tinder/hinge?) and other studies have corroborated the trend they were seeing highlighting record high virginity in men in their 20a and low sex participation, while the inverse for women is true, record high participation and low virginity. Feel free to go research, it’s a fascinating social topic.
  16. There are a lot of middling women out there. I have two just in my family alone and they have friends all in the same boat. Most of the are attractive enough to get get dates but their standards are all fucked up. They all have college degrees and think they are 8-10s when really they are all 5-7s. (Go watch one of these YouTube video where they ask a group of women to rank themselves, and then have the men come in a correct them). When they can easily out kick their coverage and hookup with a top 20% guy, they think they deserve to settle down with that same level and are too delusional with their own self worth to recognize that they are just one night stand material and not marriage material. They all think they deserve a fit 6ft tall guy with a college degree, 6 figure white collar job and a full head of hair, because that’s what happened with their few friends that got married either just after college or the former single 8-10s they knew all settled down with after a few years of clubbing/partying. The top 20% of men aren’t looking to settle down with a 35 year old woman. When they are ready they’ll find a 25 year old that has fewer sexual partners and still has ample time to produce children. If these women could look past men that have a single “flaw” (going bald, overweight, short, blue collar) they could be happy, but with social media and online dating they compare themselves to their friends and partners to their hookups and would feel shame for settling when they know they could sleep with more attractive men with just a few swipes…until they can’t anymore. This new culture has made a bunch of unhappy men in their 20-30s and is making a bunch of unhappy women in their 30-40s. I’m very happy I’m already married and don’t have to deal with this shit.
  17. Something like 20% of single men between the ages of 25-35 are having 80% of sex in the US. Doesn’t shock me that those with the means and opportunity are looking for pussy abroad. The dating world has changed a bunch in the last decade.
  18. Would have been fun to watch though.
  19. Curious Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, aggy, Tech, Oklahoma, Okie St leave… Utah, BYU, TCU, Houston, WVU, Louisville, Cincy join. Which conference would you rather be in? If you assume both versions have ISU/KU/KSU/BU/BYU/WVU/TCU/UH/Cincy Tech, Okie St, UCF vs Mizzou, Utah, Louisville
  20. These mock schedules just miss the point. If you’re a top 8 team with 2 top 8 rivals you play 9 top 8 games in a 2 year period and 9 games from the bottom 8. If you’re a bottom 8 team with 1 top 8 rival you play 9 top 8 games in a 2 year period and 9 games from the bottom 8. That’s balance. In both @TheContractor‘s examples you see Oklahoma, you know the team that win the most Big 12 titles of all time (fuck me for having to type that) playing the weakest fucking schedule where they will only play 8 top 8 games in a two year period while everyone else plays 9 and Ole Miss in example1 or Kentucky in example2 will be playing 10 top 10 games. You use all time wins and Florida drops out of the top 8 to #9, you use all time winning percentage and aggy falls out of the top 8 to #9, you use conference winning percentage over the last decade and Tennessee falls to #13 (not even close). And for Nick Saban, you’re talking about the clear cut #1 team in the conference getting 1 extra game against Tennessee every two years and they have had the weakest rival pairing over the last 20 years of the traditional SEC power teams: UGA/Aub, UF/LSU, Bama/TN; and of the new top 8 they have arguably the weakest guaranteed rival in Auburn. Oklahoma and Alabama should not get an easy schedule. You want to say they are getting screwed then show me the data.
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  22. These are two different topics. The SEC had a pro rata deal to increase their payout when Texas/OU joined that was the easy part. That added payout though would have been the same had they added Kansas and West Virginia. The argument is that Texas/OU bring in MORE value than the standard increase and significantly raise the value of the entire conference. The SEC is using the increase to 9 games as a bargaining chip to get that value recognized in addition to the added value of more conference games so it’s a tougher negotiation. The Big 12 has a similar pro rata deal with ESPN (roughly 2/3rds of their deal) for P5 additions (meaning not SDSU/UConn) but not with FOX. FOX has incentive to back Big 12 expansion for late night inventory for FS1 since they only really have USC/UCLA filling that role in the P5. The Big 12 already played 9 conference games and was already being paid for that. No one the Big 12 adds is going to significantly raise the value of their conference outside of Oregon, Washington, Clemson, Florida St, or Notre Dame. That means the math is a lot more straightforward and the dollars are smaller since ESPN is already contractually obligated and they really just need FOX to fund expansion. So ESPN is already on the hook for both the SEC’s UT/OU expansion ($120m/yr/school), and the potential Big12 CU/AZ…expansion ($20m/yr/school). SEC is asking ESPN to give more money for UT/OU’s high value and 9 conference games (IIRC the ask is around $120m/yr or $7.5m/yr/school for all 16) Big 12 is just asking FOX to fund $10m/yr/addition or $40 total, which is only 1/3 of what the SEC is asking.
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