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TKthunder2

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  1. They knocked off 10% before my hearing. We took it just to be done with this farce. Still way too high (especially with the market cooling) but I just wanted to be done since TCAD is just awful.
  2. Sorry you’re from Ohio…when you reheat McDonald’s pizza… https://www.today.com/food/mcdonald-s-pizza-thing-exists-here-s-where-get-it-t109801
  3. Basketball is SO great. They have a grand total of 3 champions since 1967 that were not in the P5+American/Big East. What makes the tournament great is brackets, gambling and multiple major upsets each year. You can’t really reproduce it in football where the bracket is small and upsets are rare. Basketball is just easier for the little guy to compete since you can only have 5 on the floor and 8 on the bench. And even then since 1967 only Louisville, Marquette and UNLV are the only outsiders with titles, two of which are now in the ACC and BE (and UNLV has an outside shit at getting a PAC invite). There are great points to be made about opening the FBS playoff, but comparing it to basketball is moronic. They are not the same sport, they cannot and should not have the same postseason model.
  4. Seriously, an air fryer makes bad/cheap pizza even better. Reheat dominos or papa John’s in an air fryer and it tastes better the next day. It does a good job heating up less trashy pizza as well but the difference on cheap pizza is extreme.
  5. 45 minutes to downtown paying the 183A and Mopac tolls and soon to be 183 North tolls. 60 minutes without tolls.
  6. Now they all are…funny how that works.
  7. While I’d love an excuse to travel to Colorado and understand the appeal of Arizona, I just don’t see them as a fit. I think, keeping it more regional will likely pay off in the long term. Let the B1G go coast to coast with great matchups like Rutgers v UCLA while the SEC dominates on the field. If the B1G/SEC ever go head to head for members it seems more likely that OhioSt/Michigan/Iowa/Wisconsin would join the SEC versus Alabama/LSU/Florida/Georgia joining the B1G. If they expand by 8 more these would be the candidates: Football powers: FSU, Clemson, VT, Miami New State Flagships: UNC, UVA, Kansas, WVU Basketball powers: UNC, Duke, Kansas Secondary powers in important states: FSU/Miami, VT, Duke/NCSU, GT Secondary powers in non important states: Okie St, Louisville The best line up seems to be FSU, Miami, Clemson, UNC, Duke, UVA, VT, Kansas The addition of Texas/OU and FSU/Clemson/Miami plus top 20 in all times wins VTmore than offset the basketball/academic adds on UNC/Duke/UVA/Kansas. UNC, Duke, Kansas and Kentucky would be an insane basketball league. It would literally have all the consensus bluebloods in the sport in a single conference. Which conference would you watch? SEC: UK, KU, UNC, Duke, UF, Texas, OU, Arkansas B1G: UI, UCLA, Michigan St, IU, MD, Ohio St, UM, Purdue Miami/FSU/Clemson bring in state rivalries, Kansas can restart the border war, UNC can be a rival with the gamecocks and bring their rivalries with Duke/UVA. UVA/VT would also add to the rivalries list. NC/VA are good markets to add to the conference profile and KC would be solidified with Kansas/Mizzou. Kansas along with the Virginia schools and Kentucky/Missouri sets a very clear border for the conference and pulls just about every major university in the region worth its salt in athletics. You can make arguments about rivalries and market protection for Georgia Tech, Louisville, Oklahoma State though that they seem unlikely and unnecessary and likely won’t be able to justify their inclusion. The SEC would have 3 of the Big 8, the 3 main powers of the SWC, 5 of the 8 original ACC (WF, NCSU, MD) and now 16 of the 20 Southern Conference member that still play FBS before the SEC split off (MD, GT, NCSU, Tulane). This seems like a good plan but only if it’s in response to the B1G raiding more. If the ACC could keep its members and jump to 16+ then I’d prefer the current alignment.
  8. Do you truly not understand? aggy has power in this state, as much as we hate that, it’s a fact. Texas has more but neither have enough to fuck over the other without help. Texas and aggy have enough legislative supporters in the senate/house to get what they want (within reason) when working together. There is literally a day called the Orange & Maroon Legislative Day at the Capitol for this reason. Still aggy+tech/UH/TCU/Baylor have enough votes to block Texas from leaving as seen multiple times in the past (see above). When aggy left Texas did NOT stop them. We could have raised hell and teamed up with Baylor/Tech/others to block them, but we chose to take the high road and let them go. This set the precedent where a major university could leave the minor universities without any repercussions. Why do you think Baylor was fighting so hard to keep aggy? https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/6941542/baylor-bears-biggest-obstacles-texas-aggies-join-sec Because they knew this was the beginning of the end for them in major college football. As a result of their previous move to the SEC, aggy will not block us, but just in case we even took it a step further and waited until after the 2021 legislative session was complete before telling them (because they are fucking children) so that they couldn’t do anything even if they wanted to until 2023 when tempers had cooled and Texas leaving was accepted by the masses.
  9. Because aggy set the precedent and gave us cover to do so. If they could leave without hangers on then we could too and their legislative supporters would be hypocrites to reverse course and block Texas from doing exactly what aggy did. Tech was meaningless to the PAC and doesn’t help UT with travel like Baylor would have nor issue a great rivalry like OU/OSU. Why do you think Tech was included in the PAC talks of 2010/2012 but now nobody wants them?
  10. They did not want aggy, they wanted Texas and Arkansas. https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/college/2021/08/16/texas-longhorns-football-join-sec-expansion-southwest-conference-harvey-schiller/5515187001/
  11. https://www.barkingcarnival.com/2009/07/14/texas-to-pac-10-story-revisited Politics and aggy blocked us from going to the SEC and the PAC10 back in 1990 because neither wanted aggy. Due to that experience Texas attempted to play nice and bring Tech and aggy to the B1G (who said fuck no on tech) and PAC (who said yes) but then once again aggy fucked it up because they have always wanted the SEC. When aggy left and our supporters the state house allowed it, it created the opportunity for us to also escape. Even then, the information was not shared with aggy until after the regular legislature sessions were closed out. If it had been leaked earlier they might have been able to stop it, but with a UT governor in the Capital he was not going to call a special session which means that the legislature could not take any action on this issue until 2023. Just because politics were unable to stop UT’s move to the SEC doesn’t mean they didn't matter. Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, and leftover PAC10 fans should hate aggy with the power of a thousand suns as they single-handedly relegated the leftovers to 2nd tier status. Not saying UT/OU/USC/UCLA are blameless here however if not for aggy the PAC16 would have been a league on the same level as the Big Ten/SEC which would have allowed more schools to join the $100 million dollar club. Baylor, Iowa State, and K State would have still been fucked tho…
  12. While this is about money, let’s not act like the snooty Big Ten attitude about academics and AAU membership has significantly changed. Adding Cal Berkeley and Stanford to their conference would be a huge win for the presidents of the Big Ten schools. You invite Cal to force Stanford to join. This is under the guise of giving USC/UCLA regional partners, but then float the “idea” of a 10 game conference slate and that puts pressure on Notre Dame to give up their independence. They come in at #21 and then they wait on the ACC GOR to expire to select their last 3 candidates (likely Miami, FSU, GT).
  13. Yep that smells like a deal between the SEC and B1G. You can have FSU/Miami but you have to stay away from UNC/UVA/Clemson. I know it’s flawed but FSU and Miami are just outside the top 50 and ahead of half B1G universities (MD, Rutgers, Pedo, IU, Minn, MSU, UI, Iowa) in USNWR rankings. Oklahoma is 125.
  14. https://www.heartlandcollegesports.com/2022/07/23/colorado-administration-views-the-big-12-as-a-juco-league-denver-post-columnist/
  15. West Virginia is #15 in all time wins, sandwiched between Auburn/Clemson and aggy/Virginia Tech. Comparing them to Fresno #53 and SDSU #72 is just idiotic.
  16. They won’t if it’s your champ plays these other champs for a title. They’ll abstain and hold their own playoff and let the polls decide. If UT/OU had joined the PAC and ND been forced into the ACC with WVU then maybe the 4x16 4 champ playoff idea could have worked. But it’s way too unbalanced now and the non SEC/B1G champs will be playing a far tougher schedule than the other conferences and should be rewarded for doing so. 4 teams will either stay exactly the same or not work at all 8 teams might give playoff spots to the top 4 champs (it’s likely unnecessary as 4 champions will nearly always be in the top 8 ) but they won’t specifically be labeled for the SEC/B1G/ACC/BigPac. I don’t see 12 happening now. The Alliance fucked that up. Why play an extra round if it’s unnecessary? Do we really need to see a 3 loss team playing for a title?
  17. Yeah, I’m sure the SEC and B1G with all the bluebloods will give equal access to the PAC/B12/ACC (and what about ND) that have zero bluebloods. Why doesn’t the NFL give playoff spots to the champs of the XFL or USFL? At best I could see expansion to 8 with top 4 champs getting autobids. Also lol at UCF going to the ACC while FSU/Miami are still around.
  18. You’re way over your skis here. You think NBC will go from having 6 ND games out of a 15 week season, to having 3 games a week on national broadcast television? If that happens then it won’t be with the Big 12 filling 2-3 spots a week. Yep, 1 game a week, just like CBS has with the SEC but with ND/B12. ND fills 6 of the 14-15 spots, the Big 12 could fill the other 7-8. This actually solves the biggest problem I wrote about previously. The Big 12 doesn’t have enough quality tier one inventory to fill a national slot every week. By partnering with ND and working out a schedule that works around ND’s away games, the Big 12 could fill those holes in NBC’s weekend. Instead of needing an elite game of week every week, by partnering with NBC/ND they only need to have 4-5 good games a year to get a good network deal. That seems reasonable. I never understood the appeal for CBS but I get it for NBC.
  19. Swim swam and tennis CEOs, I love silly season.
  20. I agree, CBS wants games that will routinely draw national attention. The SEC, B1G, and ND would drive that, the Big 12 might stumble into a good ranked v ranked matchup once or twice a month but what is the best game each year that people consistently want to see? Oklahoma St v West Virginia, Baylor v TCU, Iowa St v K State? I don’t see CBS holding a permanent spot for the Big 12 game of the week, but if they did it’s because the Big12 gives them a hell of a deal in exchange for the guaranteed exposure. But that means they’ll be going up against the SEC game of the week and likely a lesser B1G game with a blueblood vs a weaker conference opponent on FOX (assuming FOX uses its best content for Big Noon and prime time) so even with that national broadcast I’m not sure how successful they’ll be when they are opposite Bama v OU on ABC and Michigan v Illinois on FOX.
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