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Uncle Nate

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  1. Might be a good idea to see if this can be pinned to the top? I might join in if my pea-sized brain/memory can be reminded of it by seeing it up top. Then again, I might still miss it. It's really all on me.
  2. I already hate the new clock rules. Yes give us less of what we love. They could’ve changed instant replay to shorten the games without reducing the amount of plays.
  3. Well, not just because we got the four corners to join and help stabilize us, but even more so the fact we have a seat at the CFP table. Once they expanded to 12 and the Big12 could rely on at least one team getting in barring just a crappy season across the conference, then I was good. Just wanted that opportunity and we got it. So I’m good. And I honestly think Yormark, being the consummate promoter, said those words purposely to create this exact stir and build up that last conference game. It wouldn’t surprise me if he even called CDC ahead of time and said, “Hey Chris…I’m going to say this stuff at the RRC luncheon and get the press in a frenzy. Just doing it to build up the drama for that last game.” And knowing CDC like I do, he probably laughed and said do it, it will be fun. I wouldn’t put it past either guy because they are both two guys who know the power of promoting stuff like this.
  4. Did they really want to though? They are still crying in the corner about it everytime I visit Texags or talk to my aggy friends. I'll be honest, the heartbreak this has caused aggy nation, and the knowledge you have to deal with those freaks again, has been my most favoritist part of the whole thing.
  5. Anyone listening to today's Monty Show? He is sharing a rumor that ESPN has reached out to the Big 12 to consider taking Stanford and Cal if/when ACC turns them down. Over the past year, he has been way more right than he has been wrong. But I do not see this happening. I don't bet, but I would bet good money that this will never happen.
  6. I did find this meme particularly amusing...
  7. I've been more specific than that...here is who to blame in chronological order. 1. Tommy Tuberville 2. Kliff "I have to recruit?" Kingsbury 3. Matt "Bueller, Bueller, Bueller" Wells.
  8. For me, as someone who is both (1) sad that we won't be playing each other every year, and yet (2) happy to see how the new dynamic amongst the members of the new Big 12 has come about, I think it's perfectly o.k. for me to say I'm glad UT is gone but I wish we were still playing. The two thoughts are not mutually-exclusive. There's no doubt that when Beebe was the commissioner and Dodds was the UT AD, UT threw its weight around and Beebe basically did whatever Dodds demanded. Whether you all agree or not, the perception at least is that UT was the bully in the Big 12 room and there was a constant threat they would take their ball and leave if everyone didn't go along, which they did anyway. It's also pretty apparent there was not a lot of unity in the Big 12 and a whole lot of distrust. Whether that was on UT or not I'm sure is up for debate, but the bottom line is that we've never seen the Big 12 so unified and supportive of each other as we've seen this past year. Would it be that way if OU and UT weren't leaving? Honest question. So yes, I'm glad UT is leaving the conference because I do think it made the rest of the conference partners better together than what they were, but I'm sad UT is leaving because it means we no longer play each other. I miss the original Big 12 of 1996-2010. But I don't miss the division, distrust, and vitriol that was present between the members...and there was a lot of blame to go around on that one.
  9. No UT fan can bitch about officiating to a Tech fan. The body of work of officiating between our games has heavily favored UT. The worst example was 2006 in Lubbock where the officiating was so blatantly biased for UT it became obvious early there was nothing Tech could do to win the game. Countless games in Austin where either Bible or Christal or both would call the most egregious calls that went in UT's favor. Also the game at UT where they knocked out Potts with an obvious helmet-to-helmet violation and nothing was called. 2010 in Lubbock (I think was the year) was another one that was crazy blatant that it was something out of a movie it felt like (though 2006 was probably even worse than that). UT has been the beneficiary of so much ref bias over the years that a couple of times they didn't get it (and I admit that one OSU game in Austin was bad), all of a sudden it's a giant conspiracy against them. So easy for them to whitewash the DECADES of ref bias that went in their favor. but you will soon be SEC's problem, and all I can say is, good riddance. I've never seen the conference so united as it is now, and it's not a coincidence that UT leaving helped facilitate that. Yeah, but you are butthurt because you know it has a ring of truth to it.
  10. Fan. Singular. I know no other Tech fan that would do something like that, whereas every single Sooner I know would do that in a heartbeat if it didn't eat into their meth budget.
  11. Props for the cross-character pollination.
  12. I would run though a wall for Joey McGuire.
  13. This is the correct answer. The thought that Tulane would have become the power that LSU became ignores the fact that Tulane is a highly-selective private school with an enrollment less than 15,000. USC and Notre Dame, and for a short time relatively speaking Miami, are the only schools that have Tulane's selectivity and became major football powers (I don't count Stanford because they only had a brief moment a time or two). But USC is in LA, Miami I'm certain bought their success (and it's Miami), and Notre Dame has the history and the Papists. Tulane, if they had stayed in the SEC, wouldn't have had any of that. LSU, however, is the flagship university for the state and is not highly selective. If Tulane had stayed in SEC, LSU would still have been the power they were, the SEC would just have a 2nd Vandy to beat up on.
  14. I disagree wholeheartedly. The creation of the "P2" will give the illusion that they have a far more difficult strength of schedule and thus a self-fulfilling prophesy. Kind of like the whole "well, these teams have better TV ratings" while leaving out the fact they were given the prime TV timeslots. If you go to the "premiere" league model, you are basically relegating these other teams that very well could be better than half or more of the teams in the P2 conferences. But you've manipulated matchups in a way that says these are the best teams regardless when in fact they may not be....but if you "relegate" certain teams, you will never actually know. But in the end, regardless, if you tell 2/3 - 3/4 of the college fanbases in the country that their teams are on the outside looking in, you will not have the product that you think you are achieving with a P2 model. That's my point that seems to be getting missed here.
  15. My friend, I think we are taking about two different things. What you are talking about, which is what will be in existence for 2024 and 2025, is great. Yes, I love it. What I'm talking about is the idea that has been voiced in this thread that eventually it will be just SEC and BIG, with maybe token invites to Big12 and ACC (after 2025). That mindset, that a 3 loss SEC or BIG team will get in over a 1-2 loss Big12 or ACC team, is what I'm talking about. I want something more in line of what we have in basketball (not 64 teams, but just the idea of a more even distribution of access). Hope that makes sense.
  16. If a 3 loss SEC or BIG team consistently gets in over a 1-2 loss ACC or BIG12 team, then yeah, I and a lot of others will eventually check out.
  17. So the same teams get into the playoffs every year. That sounds so exciting. So entertaining. Yes let’s watch the same 20 teams every year battle it out. Sounds like fun. Again, this mindset ignores why college football is unique from the NFL and why it will lose viewership if this becomes the reality.
  18. He needs to keep track of both mountain and pacific time. If only we could make watches or phones capable of showing multiple time zones. That’s probably 22nd century Star Trek technology.
  19. My opinion is similar to LTBear's and 'stache's. I already have the NFL. I don't need mini-me NFL. I'm a fanatical college football fan because I graduated from Texas Tech and most, if not all, of the games I watch either have a direct or indirect effect/relationship to Tech. Same with basketball. If my alma mater gets relegated, I'm spending more time on the golf course in the fall and only watching Tech's games.
  20. I have a feeling Kirk Shulz's days at WSU are numbered. That big-tittied Regent with the "groundhog day" comment a few months back was probably ready to fire him then.
  21. Amen, brother. Full disclosure...I have SMU football season tickets.
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