Everything posted by Samson's Wig
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Realignment talk not going away
But it's not their only option.
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Realignment talk not going away
ESPN and FOX both own significant Big12 rights, and they both come out ahead with Oregon and Washington in the Big 12. With fucking Rutgers getting a full share in the B1G, I have a difficult time seeing Oregon or Washington agreeing to a reduced share, but it's possible. I just don't see the value for ESPN or FOX here. The only ones rooting for this are those who love the idea of a P2 system when it's becoming clear the networks want a P3. And while the schools can always say no to an offer, that's the extent of the say they have in all this. The one thing I hope everyone can agree on is that Utah belongs back in the cellar.
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Realignment talk not going away
For both Fox and ESPN, It is cheaper, and ultimately better for downstream revenue, for Oregon and Washington to join the Big12. They get them for less that way, and help bolster that conference into something they can package and sell for years to come. The writing is on the wall, in my opinion. PNW is not going B1G, and the PAC is already collapsed. They have one landing spot.
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Donald Trump indicted (again), the 1000% apolitical news thread (again)
Hell, we shouldn't even run for-profit companies the way we run for profit-companies.
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Parents spend $4000 on Consultants to help daughters get into Sororities
It is, but it's important to let them put up a pretense. Much like frats do menial community service and pretend like it's not just a drinking crew.
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Realignment talk not going away
Kind of amazing the Big 12 had that kind of draw for TCU v. KSU. Based on that sole data point, it seems like they may be okay when the dust settles. Hard not to imagine two better-known programs, even if they're not blue bloods, driving that number up significantly. e.g. Tech v. BYU or something.
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COVID-19 vaccine discussion
Blood work a couple of weeks ago shows I still have no N antibodies. I'm at the point where I wonder if I should purposefully get Covid while I'm still relatively young so it isn't such a big thing when I inevitably catch it fifteen or twenty years from now.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Of course. I thought the tone and content of my post made it very clear that I know they have their fair share of dumbasses. You may have stopped reading after the part you bolded, which would certainly explain the confusion.
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Realignment talk not going away
I already have Apple TV and still won't watch the Pac.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Blue sky laws used to mean something.
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Texas tops list of worst places to live and work in America
It was definitely "well-digger's ass". Colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra would have also been accepted.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
As the husband of a Canadian woman, and the father of half-Canadian children, it pains me every time that I'm reminded that this fucker is also half-Canadian through his mother. An entire nation full of decent folk, but then you have this guy. But then there's Bieber. Oh, and Drake. Shit, and those Nickelback jags. I may need to rethink my position on this issue.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
The tech industry has always been a bit of joke, especially when it comes to the way the companies market their products or speak of their lofty intentions. This statement might be one of the more ridiculous ones I've seen. How does anyone read this bullshit and actually buy into it? An entire industry built on empty air, it's just incredible. Musk is simply the natural end result of a generation of complete and utter make-believe enterprises that magically made money anyway thanks to financiers realizing they can milk idiots and "founders" realizing that they just have to pull off the grift long enough to sell to a bigger idiot (or in more recent years take the grift large and convince the idiot public to invest directly). Now we're seeing the industry start to look a lot like it did after the first wave of bullshit investments finally caught up with reality in the nineties. Tons of layoffs are already happening, with software companies in particular finding out really quickly how fragile businesses that aren't really businesses can be. Here's hoping we finally learn our lesson and start to build companies slowly based on a solid business strategy and a notion of existing beyond a fat payday in the near future when we pawn our bullshit off on someone else and retire to the hills. A successful company requires more than a neat idea and a nerd with a penchant for circumlocution, and I sure as fuck hope we can figure this out as a society soon as these fucksticks will take us all down with them.
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Texas tops list of worst places to live and work in America
Texas actually does a decent job, relatively speaking, of educating ESL students. We have a longer history of programs than other states, which must help. ESL by percentage. Mass: 10.2% Texas: 20.1% For 4th grade math, the top cities for ESL students in the country are in Texas (Dallas, Austin, Houston, Fort Worth) with Boston just behind in 5th. Things change a bit for 8th grade, with Dallas remaining in first, followed by Cleveland, Chicago, and Boston. For reading, Boston leads the country for grade 4 ESL students, followed by Austin. In 8th grade, Detroit of all places is in first. https://www2.ed.gov/datastory/el-outcomes/index.html#one The point is, ESL students are not why Texas sucks at education. That is one of the areas Texas actually handles better than most other states, and yet we're still miles behind overall.
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Realignment talk not going away
Yes, and most of the hot takes are as obtuse and myopic as you would expect.
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Realignment talk not going away
It's funny though, isn't it, that the conferences that either had unequal revenue sharing or argued over it significantly are falling apart while those that have been staunchly equal in their revenue for years are the two premiere conferences?
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Realignment talk not going away
Still hurts. Sorry. Kinda.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Kliavkoff has effectively ended his career in the entertainment industry after the way he bungled this. No one will touch him.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Like any conference not as stupid as the SWC and Big12 would do anything involving Baylor, or TCU, or Houston. Holy crap.
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Realignment talk not going away
George Kliavkoff may never be hired for another executive position again. What a fucking goob. Outside of USC, Oregon, and to a lesser degree WA and UCLA how much value is there in west coast football? Who the fuck is watching it if those four have gone to greener pastures? They'll be selling ads to local car dealers and class action attorneys . . . if they're lucky. Hard to see a deal that nets the remaining schools anything more than $10-15M a year (maybe).
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Realignment talk not going away
This. Fox and ESPN are driving the bus here, with conferences and individual schools mistakenly believing they have some kind of control. That type of thinking is why Utah and ASU will be left in the wilderness (although I think ASU, despite being a sub-pedestrian program for its entire history will eventually end up in a major conference due to their market alone). Leadership at both schools talked shit, which was foolish and will cost them, at least in the short term. Utah brings nothing to anyone's table with a state hardly bigger than New Mexico now that BYU already has that small market sewn up. Their fans have an aggy level of delusion regarding their status. It's become evident that FOX/ESPN have come around to the notion of 3 super leagues, when they seemed content with two priorly. Yormark deserves some kind of special award for pulling the Big12 from the absolute depths of despair to the position it's in now.
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UAP Pentagon Report (UFOs, Foo Fighters, Commie Drones)
And therein lies the problem with religion. EDIT TO ADD: and the child molestation. That's also the problem. Apologies for leaving that out before.
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A&M botches hiring of Aggie grad to lead Journalism department because she’s black, leads to President resignation.
How anyone can get a proper legal education and end up on the far right is a mystery to me. After undergrad at UT, did they attend the Aggy School of Legal Witticisms and Assorted Questionry?
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A&M botches hiring of Aggie grad to lead Journalism department because she’s black, leads to President resignation.
UT alumni of a certain age aren't exactly peaches. I'm sure most here remember the emails during the Eyes of Texas debacle. But aggies do seem to take it to an entirely different level. I will echo what others have stated here, that the current student body doesn't really look or act like what most of us think of when we think of mouth-breathing, sheep-humping idiots with jizz jars, speech impediments, and lift kits on their pickups. Times have changed, even though the alumni and admin haven't.
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Realignment talk not going away
If Oregon and Washington follow suit, as is being aggressively rumored this evening, and AZ makes the logical move and follows CU, the Big12 will be fairly salty, and arguably as good or better than the Big10, which is so top-heavy in football it's ridiculous. BIg 12 already the better basketball conference. Could be a more interesting landscape with three top conferences instead of two.