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TKthunder2

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  1. 1. It doesn’t matter very much IMO. Some recruiters prefer certain job boards, others prefer their internal applications because they can get more information than what comes through a basic job board api. When I’m hiring, I see both options when reviewing my candidates list. 2. If your willing to write a cover letter, I would just include them. Some companies have policies where they don’t review them (to avoid unintentional bias in the hiring process) but I’ve never heard someone being disqualified for including one.
  2. Because no one watches and the other states don’t have the population to support the old cable subscriber model, so it wasn’t a feasible venture for ESPN/FOX to shoulder all the start up costs, AND then rest of the conference declined to invest in the idea before Nebraska left and the LHN was created. The Big 12 got ESPN+ and now they want to leverage that into a traditional channel via the LHN which already has a head start on distribution. It’s a money grab for the Big 12 and a way ESPN might be able to leverage some already sunk distribution/production costs in the LHN. If that the magic deal that gets us out of this conference asap then it could be a win-win-win scenario despite the irony.
  3. Says someone who has never been to a game at any of those places.
  4. Bowl contract go up for renewal in 2025. Alamo bowl could follow us. Will have to see how the bowls end up with the new CFP deal could look drastically different. They could have a 3rd place game, bowls reserved for those teams that lose in the 1st or 2nd round, or just bowls for those who miss the CFP entirely. Either way games like the Alamo bowl are going to take a hit. They’ll get either lower quality, unranked/barely ranked teams, or they’ll get teams that lost in the CFP and how many of those players will be sitting out…
  5. Yep 4 home conference games 4 away conference games 1 neutral conference game 1 home OOC cupcake game (ULM, ULL, LA Tech, UTSA, UTEP, UNT, Rice, SHSU, TX St) 1 home and 1 away OOC game (mix of former conference schools and P12/ACC/B1G schools)
  6. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/texas-sports-nation/college/article/Why-doesn-t-Texas-play-UH-And-will-that-change-17148409.php “UH and UT have not met on the football field since the end of a three-game nonconference series from 2000-02. Of course, that included Bleachergate in 2001, when the temporary bleachers at Robertson Stadium failed to pass inspection and left 4,150 UT ticketholders watching the game on a big screen inside Hofheinz Pavilion — rather than at Rice Stadium or the Astrodome, where then-UT athletic director DeLoss Dodds wanted the game moved. … Not getting the Longhorns on the schedule has not been for a lack of trying. Texas rejected an offer by UH to play home-and-home football and basketball series for reducing the buyout owed former Cougars coach Tom Herman after he bolted for the Longhorns. UT instead wrote a check for $2.5 million.” Houston charged full price for admission to over 4K UT fans then told them they had to watch for the basketball arena and refused to give refunds. Texas gave refunds to the fans and hasn’t scheduled UH in football since.
  7. We don’t need another neutral site game. There is no way we play one regularly outside of Oklahoma. Like I said before, a home/home with Tech is dumb, but if they were to rotate their home game to Houston every other time that might sweeten the deal for Texas. 2 games in Austin, 1 game in Lubbock, 1 game in Houston (technically a Tech home game under the Big 12’s tv deal, not a true neutral site).
  8. Why does it still ask me if I want to use Tapa sometimes when I first go to a page?
  9. "I don't know who's putting words or where," Del Conte said. "I can tell you that my same conversation every single time has been, Hey, you know what? Playing Texas schools are important. Playing Texas schools are important, any Texas schools. It could be SMU, Rice, Texas Tech, TCU, Baylor. Those are important to us. We have a long history with those schools. Those are important. Playing Texas schools will be important for our non-conference schedule. https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/sports/college/red-raiders/2022/09/08/texas-tech-football-athletics-officials-press-ut-future-non-conference-schedule/65741954007/
  10. I wish we had that. I could probably exclude about 25% of the people I interview on a short video. The amount of obvious “no”s that gets past HR is ridiculous. That being said if you hire only off a video, that’s dumb.
  11. Fuck anyone saying we should play SMU, TCU, Baylor, or Houston. Rice and Tech are the only ones that make any sense from the old SWC schools. We don’t need a 2nd game in DFW, the TX/OU game is bigger than anything outside of a Dallas Cowboys game. If Houston hadn’t fucked us over with Bleachergate they’d probably have made the list too. The ONLY way I would consider an annual game with Tech is if we played 1 out of 2 Tech/B12 home games in NRG. at Austin at Lubbock at Austin at Houston repeat Securing a game in Houston once every 4 years and only having to travel to Lubbock once every 4 years might make this work. But I think Tech has too much “pride” to accept those terms even though it would probably work out in their favor. Since they killed their neutral site game with Baylor in DFW, they could make it work in years when they play UH in Lubbock. Both schools could benefit from playing in the city of Houston and Tech could take in extra ticket/suite sales since NRG has 10k more seats that Tech’s stadium and since it would be neutral site outside of the home ticket package. A bonus would be that the Big 12 would benefit from having a Texas game on their network lineup every other year. The Big 12 should focus on long term rivalry deals like this and Oklahoma/Okie St, Kansas/Mizzou, BYU/Utah, Iowa/ISU, TCU/SMU, Houston/Rice, WVU/Pitt, UCF/USF, Cincy/Memphis, Baylor/Wake Forest to give the networks some guaranteed OOC inventory and boost their TV deal.
  12. Pants optional. I ditched the jacket and just went shirt/tie. Most are still open to remote work for lower levels, but it’s starting to turn a little bit in the industry back to in person requirements. They are saying ‘hybrid’ but most mean you can work from home 1-2 days a week. Not saying I agree, it’s just what is being pushed in general. We get 10x the applications for full remote jobs as we do office/hybrids. So for big salaries they are really pushing back to office, unless you are a 9/10 on what they are looking for.
  13. Fair, I’ll give credit where credit is due, but I don’t think that was a home and home.
  14. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-seven-year-glitch/
  15. If they can negotiate a major strength of schedule component to the at large CFP selections, the SEC should go to a 9 game conference schedule, ban FCS games, and require that every team play 2 P5 OOC games. That would bring in some nice TV money and be more exciting for the fans/networks.
  16. My money is on aggy playing Texas, Arkansas, and LSU Bama has too many rivals and now will get just as many games in Texas with UT in the fold they don’t need aggy anymore.
  17. Not sure if your location, but ladders generally means you’re looking for $100k+ Getting into tech training, specifically Fintech would likely be a good career move. PM me if you want to apply, they prioritize referrals. https://q2ebanking.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Q2/job/United-States/Sr-Manager--Training_REQ-7973 https://q2ebanking.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Q2/job/Austin-TX/Enterprise-Training---Development-Specialist_REQ-7907
  18. Baylor played only one, I repeat ONE single fucking home and home series with a Power 5 opponent between 2010 and 2022 and that was fucking Duke in 2017/2018. Yes, starting 2023 they are finally seeming to give a shit but anyone sticking up for 13 years of pussy ass scheduling should be call out a ridiculed for being a rape loving bitch boy. No one is saying they should have played Alabama, Notre Dame, Michigan, or USC…how about simply scheduling schools like Northwestern, Oregon St, Mississippi St, or Wake Forest. This isn’t complicated. Baylor was content to schedule nobody and then complain when they didn’t get respect. They are a taker, pure and simple. They enjoyed a free ride and then bitched when it ended. Fuck them and that entire rape enabling fake modern farm house of a “city” they call Waco.
  19. Great post, but I don’t think it’s going to fall that way. Like you said “How it is paid out will directly contribute to whether we see more realignment or less” The SEC and B1G were already looking at making changes to the tournament payout structure I don’t think they’ll design a system that gives their target expansion schools in the P12/ACC and ND a reason to keep the status quo. The only reason they might do that is to pause anymore expansion until the ACC’s GORs are up before starting on the next phase but even then I assume the terms will be just enough to get everyone on board but the deals will still be extremely favorable to the P2. The equal conference fund, is great except that it’s not equal and with the smaller field the SEC/B1G won’t be able to make up the difference by simply getting more teams seeded like they can in bball. Yes it will help, but they aren’t going just give up their advantage and overpay. Maybe they go on a per team basis to balance it out or maybe they pay different base rates, but an 8 team CUSA will not be pulling the same “equal fund” as a 16 team B1G. The P5 gave up 20% of the CFP money previously to avoid antitrust lawsuits, with a bigger field and a guaranteed bid for 1 or possibly 2 of the non P5/4 I could see that dropping dramatically. Their best argument was Utah, TCU, Boise, etc getting left out, well in this system that won’t happen. I see an equal fund paying the P5/4 per member a certain rate, and the G5 a lower rate and then boosting up the performance rate higher so the SEC/B1G can make more and the G5 teams that make the cut would get more than they would in a system similar to the basketball payouts. The AAC/MWC and maybe Sunbelt would do well in this system, CUSA/MAC not so much.
  20. The mains times I’ve heard it being a problem is sports. If the kid ends up being good at anything other coaches will rat. My dad was a baseball coach and once had a rival coach follow one of his players to his house outside the ISD’s borders and turn him into UIL The only other time I’ve heard of this is due to parents or the student filling out the wrong address on a form. I don’t remember any punishment other than making them ineligible for competition.
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