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TKthunder2

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  1. Still available but about to post in stubhub for the same price,
  2. UT isn’t spending all the money coming in. The vast majority of it goes into the endowment. But yes, they are investing in the land in other way, most notably in clean energy (wind/solar) and water conservation as means for the land to remain active revenue producers for the system even after the oil dries up. The money they pull out of out land is also being diversified. They bought a bunch of gold not that long ago which made the papers, but they are also investing in real estate and other traditional options like stocks/bonds.
  3. Yep clock should have been reset to 2 seconds and then should have started on the whistle. Our refs are just stupid fuckups in every sense of the word.
  4. They want women to be fans and follow the NBA, to expand their viewership past just men and also to encourage their kids to play basketball over football and baseball. The women who are most likely to do that the most are the ones that will play high school/college ball. Giving those few women an opportunity to go pro is a small cost for keeping even more women engaged in basketball longer which is better for the NBA. There is also a social justice, equality aspect to it, but the main reason is always money and the long term health of the sport.
  5. Section 11 lower bowl Row 55 (actual 2nd row above the concourse) aisle seats, great view $500 each
  6. I just finished listening to The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon, about lunar orbit rendezvous and John Houbolt and they stated that originally (like back in the 60s) Von Braun and NASA wanted an orbiting space station hub to construct ships in space. The logistics of that seem not so outlandish now with the ISS and a commercial rocket company like Space X able to physically carry the load and run the logistics of getting any equipment into space and then NASA could simply work on the assembly of the station/craft. I’m not knowledgeable of this at all, but is that something that could realistically happen? Or is that still so SciFi that’s it’s not seriously being considered? For cost of SLS it seems that we’re just spending money on doing the same thing that Apollo did. It be nice to see them advance the process for future missions (like Mars).
  7. Not 100% sure if the definitions here, but I had a buddy who lived on one side of his barn that they turned into a house. Kitchen, Living Room, Half bath and stairs on the first floor. 3 beds, 2 baths on the second floor, bonus room on the third. It was nice enough, but he had horses on the other side of the barn and it smelled even in the house. You adjusted while you were there, but when we’d go out he always had a scent of horse on him even when clean. Eventually he built another barn for the animals and now just parks his trucks where the horses went and stores equipment/supplies and let’s his dogs sleep on that side of the barn. I always wondered why instead of building another barn he didn’t just build a real house (he had a few spots that would be perfect on his property) but it felt rude to ask.
  8. Figuring out if you got sewer/septic is probably the biggest hurdle like others have said. Water and electric can run through the ceiling and new walls. For HVAC do you have something already installed or are you doing windows unit/mini splits? Are the cinder blocks hollow or filled? If hollow you can probably get them to inject spray-in foam for insulation, if filled you probably don’t need anymore.
  9. I wish the SEC would require 9 conference games, 2 power 5 OOC games, and only allow a single game from the G5. No FCS. This would allow the 4 SEC team with in state rivalries with ACC schools to play those and another power 5 school OOC and not get punished.
  10. My department has to do 20 hours of continuing education training each quarter. Typically I picked 20 hours worth of courses and play them at lunch for 2 weeks or so and get it done quickly at 1.75 speed and guess/pass the test and I’m done. This month I tried that and when I pulled my records it didn’t show 20 hours like it normally did it showed less than 12 since I played them at 1.75 speed. Well fuck that. I just found a 30 minute course I’m going to play at 0.5. speed and see if that gets me a full hour of credit works I’ll be playing these things at half speed going forward.
  11. Seton wasn’t planning on going outside their current tract. The cardiovascular wing would go in that little parking lot off of 38th sandwiched between the hospital and the underbreezeway cut through. The women’s and Children’s tower would go where the current parking garage is. Page 193 in the link below has a good image. https://www.austintexas.gov/edims/document.cfm?id=390252 What’s not stated, or in the plans, is that they’ll need a new parking garage which obviously looks like it’ll go in that giant parking lot off 34th near the creek behind their medical office building, but for some reason (environmental worries about the creek I’d guess) they haven’t fully ironed out those plans yet. No plans, as far as I’m aware, to buy any more land for the hospital’s direct use. The Greater Seton org might want to buy some of the medical buildings or make some more as they are trying to ramp up their provider networks (like St David is also doing) as Baylor Scott & White is rapidly losing market share and Texas Children’s is coming to town, but that would be under the Medical Group and not the Hospital (small but important distinction) and would just be a regular build plan that any company would go through in Austin.
  12. Oregon State Washington State Boise State Fresno State Utah State San Diego State SMU Memphis Air Force Colorado State Make perfect sense so far… Navy Army USF ECU And you lost me. Army didn’t want to join the AAC so I don’t think they’ll pull it here. I’d see Navy going independent than doing this. ECU/USF might rather join the Sun Belt in all honesty. A better group would be: UTSA, Rice, Tulane, UNLV
  13. For market purposes they are 80 miles away so that would be like giving Waco credit for Dallas. However unlike that example Oregon is the biggest and soon to be ONLY game in the state. So while it might be a stretch to say they bring Portland, in reality they do and the BTN in combination with Washington would be picked up by both the Seattle (#15) and Portland (#25) metros if they bring in UO/UW, the big difference is that (depending on the BTN carriage agreements) Seattle would be paying the “in market” rate while Portland could only pay the “out of market” rate. If Oregon was in Portland their inclusion wouldn’t be in question in any way. Adding those plus one of the Bay Area schools (#5 combined SFO/SanJose) would also help get you on other smaller markets that may not have happened with just USC/UCLA (more school=more fans=more demand). San Diego (#17), Sacramento (#26), Fresno (#50), and maybe even Vegas (#29) or Phoenix (#10) could all decide to carry the BTN on their basic tier. These wouldn’t pay in market rates but they’d still add to the overall carriage and bring in more money.
  14. Oregon is currently punching above their weight class. Completely agree. They (like Washington) are similar to Wisconsin in B1G or Auburn (minus the titles) in the SEC. No one considers them a blue blood or even close to it, but to say they have no value due to their weak history is not logical. For their programs size, history, and few achievements they have great brand awareness and recognition. When they play big games they get ratings. 538’s analysis has Oregon, Washington, North Carolina, and Florida State as the top 4 teams not in the B1G/SEC/ND. Have they peaked? Maybe, but worst case scenario the B1G has added 2 teams in the growing PNW that together will completely dominate that market. Add in Stanford and they’d have the whole West Coast locked down which is extremely valuable for TV. Give the Big 12 Oregon, Cal, Wazzu, SDSU, Boise, Utah, BYU, Colorado the Arizona schools and they could realistically challenge the B1G with just USC, UCLA, Stanford, and Washington in those markets especially when USC is underperforming. Pull Oregon and Cal into the B1G and any ‘challenge’ would be theoretical at best. USC is butthurt about Oregon stealing their recruits while they’ve been struggling but not nearly as butthurt about Stanford handicapping their conference for decades by squashing every attempt to expand with Texas over the years. Stanford is also a smaller school that doesn’t have a huge fan base and has also been punching above their weight class. But Stanford didn’t steal USC’s recruits, and Oregon did, so fuck Oregon, am I right?
  15. I feel semi-bad for Washington State. The more you look at the numbers and how competitive they’ve been it’s not a great feeling to see them get demoted out of a Big 4 conference. I’ve honestly wondered if the Big 12 would somehow try to get Wazzu into the conference. The Big 12 100% needs Colorado, one Arizona school, and Utah as the best remaining. The 2nd Arizona school versus Washington State isn’t clear which is better. Washington State- small market but new region for the Big 12, best football of the 3 Arizona - flagship AAU with good basketball, has been better recently than ASU in football and baseball Arizona State - huge enrollment in major metro, has slightly better history than Zona in football and baseball Who knows maybe the Big 12 goes to 20 with the 4 corners, Wazzu, Boise, SDSU, and Memphis. I feel no pity for Oregon State. Other than the Beavers being a great college team name and their baseball team nothing else about them is memorable. They (like the dregs of the super conferences) were given a golden ticket for decades and have done jack shit with it.
  16. Original PAC16 deal with aggy got blown up because of aggy and ESPN gave Texas the LHN. Second PAC16 when aggy left for the SEC got blown up because Scott and Stanford didn’t want to deal with the LHN and ESPN/FOX agreed to pay the Big12 the same money they were paying for 12 teams for 10 (meaning everyone got a raise). Oklahoma approached the B1G, PAC, and SEC solo and with OSU occasionally in tow but no one was interested. The 2016 attempted expansion never occurred because no one of value would increase the existing conference member’s TV money. They would pay the new team the same money but the 10 wouldn’t see a penny more. They got ESPN/FOX to give them more money for the CCG and if they agreed to nullify the clause that required ESPN/FOX to contractually pay any new member the same rate. In addition, no other members wanted to give up playing UT/OU annually in order to play Houston or BYU. Trying to open the deals in 2020 wasn’t profitable to ESPN or FOX they had already given the Big 12 a pair of raises over the life of the current contract. Paying them more before they saw what the SEC/B1G deals were occurring wouldn’t have been a great business move.
  17. Reports are that both Oregon and Washington have already met with the Big Ten about membership. The Big Ten has publicly stated they are interested in Cal/Stanford ND values the Stanford/USC games and their relationship with NBC which now could all be done in the Big Ten conference and with their inclusion in the playoff expansion not certain (likely but not certain) this could be the lever that convinces them to join. Adding just Stanford would be odd, Stanford and Washington would make sense but leaving out Oregon wouldn’t be the best TV play (which is what the Big Ten obviously cares about). Cal would win the lottery here but they’d help round out the numbers and give the presidents another big academic win. The Big Ten’s new deal starts in 2023. An invite to the 4 PAC schools with quick acceptance while the Big 12 is still negotiating their TV deal leaving them time to add in the 4corner schools would be tight but could conceivably this happen if done before November.
  18. CBS might be motivated to sell the SEC right since it’ll have the Big Ten’s in 2023. FOX could spur a breakup of the PAC by having the Big Ten take 4 and then the other 4 join the Big 12. FOX locks up a deal with ESPN to share the Big 12’s rights providing both with good midday and late night inventory. ESPN gets UT/OU 2 years early in 2023 with buying SEC t1 rights from CBS, and FOX gets the 6 PAC12 members in the Big Ten a year early too. With the SEC/B1G and B12 all starting their new super conference lineup in 2023 leaving the realignment game stable, pending ND or an ACC GOR challenge. This seems like it checks a lot of boxes for everyone (ESPN, FOX, CBS, B1G, SEC, B12) except for the PAC12-10 (Washington State and Oregon State).
  19. How is that a problem? Let’s say we move over next year. Texas/OU game will likely be on CBS, which means the next best game that would have been on CBS would flow down to ESPN. Hell, last year Alabama/aggy was the SEC game of the week that same weekend so maybe we still end up on ESPN. Its not ideal but not a deal breaker. The synergy be better if they appeared on ESPN only but unless CBS agrees to sell those rights there isn’t much anyone can do. They haven’t made the 2023 schedule so the SEC could easily schedule 2 big games on major weekends to keep ESPN happy. Texas/Oklahoma can plays games against everyone in the league on opposite schedules in year 1. Texas/UGA, OU/Florida, Texas/LSU, OU/Alabama, Texas/Auburn, OU/aggy That is plenty of quality inventory ON TOP OF what the SEC already had. Here was the 13 regular season CBS games last year (notable ESPN games in parentheses): *6 of the 13 CBS game are Bama games* Alabama/Florida (SC/Georgia) *typically an OOC weekend* aggy/Arkansas (Tennessee/Florida, LSU/MSU) Ole Miss/Alabama (Arkansas/Georgia, Auburn/LSU, Kentucky/Florida) Alabama/aggy (Arkansas/OleMiss) *Texas/OU week* Kentucky/Georgia, Auburn/Arkansas (Alabama/MSU, Florida/LSU) Tennessee/Alabama (LSU/OleMiss) Florida/Georgia (OleMiss/Auburn) Auburn/aggy (ESPN used its once a season override to get Alabama/LSU) Georgia/Tennessee (aggy/OleMiss) Arkansas/Alabama (Auburn/SC) Auburn/Alabama, Mizzou/Arkansas (aggy/LSU, OleMiss/MSU)*Texas/aggy*
  20. Section 11 Row 55 (actual 2nd row above the concourse) aisle seats, great view Was planning on going but ended up in the hospital this weekend so now got to get rid of them. $40 each
  21. The Big Ten can only expand into so many TV slots they have 16 teams for a total of 8 games most weeks. 3 National games on FOX/CBS/NBC, 2 spots on FS1, 3 spots on BTN. If they add 4 more PAC members that gets them 2 games on FS1 including a weekly LATE game (4 total) and maybe another occasional national spot on FOX depending on how their agreements with CBS/NBC. Adding 3+ND pretty much guarantees 2 games on FOX, 2 on NBC, and 1 on CBS which would be half their inventory with BTN and FS1 getting the other half.
  22. https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/lookup/srp.php?clq={"basic2005_ids"%3A"15"}&start_page=standard.php&backurl=standard.php&limit=0,50
  23. Completely valid opinion and I agree doubling down on the Bay Area with a football program that barely draws any attention doesn’t make a lot of sense. Utah, Colorado, or one of the Arizona schools would all fit better in the B1G’s master plan. From football, marketing, and money perspective Cal makes no sense. But the presidents run this show, not businessmen, and we’re talking about the presidents of the now very wealthy Big Ten schools, not the struggling PAC/B12. Cal is that exceptional public university (like Michigan and Virginia) that other public schools hold up as the model what what they should strive to be. Cal is also the flagship university of the state and of the UC system, that carries a lot of weight. The Big Ten would have every elite major public college in their members states, with Cal being the only outlier. Associating with Cal is associating with their history and their achievements of which there are too many to list here. If the Big Ten has the choice to associate with Cal and keep them in the Power 2 club AND they can make the dollars work, I don’t see them letting Cal fall into obscurity. Presidents, professors, deans, chancellors, and researchers would all see value in adding Cal to their conference and research consortiums. Is that what the focus of realignment is, obviously not. But only a handful of these moves are purely about football, most are about markets and money. Cal is in a completely different world than the vast majority of college football so it would make sense that their specialness also factors into these types of decisions.
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