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34 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:
Aside for the hair hopefully she’s nothing like the last coach’s significant other
JFC - that's CDC's wife.
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Probably a stupid question, but do practice rounds have any day of information as to who is playing and when or is it just whenever the players come out and play?
There are signs on the grounds, similar to tee sheets, which are updated when players go out for practice rounds. You can’t find out who is playing or when before getting to the course though. -
19 hours ago, notre dame joe said:
ASU is now a respected academic school....
By whom....?
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Indeed, it’s almost time…
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1 minute ago, BurntOrange&White said:
Someone post that athletic article
SpoilerASU, Arizona presidents address schools’ Pac-12 futures: What to make of their comments
The presidents of Arizona and Arizona State publicly addressed their schools’ futures within the Pac-12 this week as the conference continues to work toward securing a new media rights deal. Here’s what you need to know:
- Arizona State is “committed to the Pac-12,” school president Michael Crow told The State Press, ASU’s student newspaper, on Tuesday.
- In an interview with Bay Area News Group’s Jon Wilner, Arizona president Robert Robbins said that “I don’t think anybody wants to leave (the Pac-12)” but also that “it’s heavily dependent on (commissioner George Kliavkoff) and his team negotiating a good media deal for us to stay competitive.”
- The Athletic reported on March 3 that the Big 12 conference had been in recent contact with Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah as the Pac-12 continues to negotiate a new media rights deal.
What else they said
Crow told The State Press, “There have been no discussions with the Big 12 conference on moving.” But he added: “I mean, there’s been discussions between everyone everywhere on all things related to where our conference is going and where stuff’s going to end up and what’s happening. We are committed to the Pac-12.”
Crow also said the Pac-12 is in the “final stages” of negotiating a new media rights deal. “We’re close to knowing where we’re going to be, and I think we’re close to a deal,” he said.
Said Robbins: “(Kliavkoff) has done a great job working on the media deal, and I think he’ll bring us something that’s good enough.”
Are Crow’s comments surprising?
This isn’t a surprise. Crow is loyal. He long supported Larry Scott while others questioned the former Pac-12 commissioner’s decision-making. His commitment to the Pac-12 falls along these same lines. Crow has said in the past that he feels the university better aligns with Pac-12 membership. He views Arizona State as a West Coast school.
“Arizona is, it’s just not the same as Iowa or Kansas,” he said last fall. “It doesn’t mean that we’re like a separate region or a separate country, it just means being part of the Pac-12 for the last 44 years has been a proud honor.” It would take a lot for Crow to change his mind on this. — Haller
What about the University of Arizona?
With Arizona State committed to the Pac-12, the focus turns to its rival in Tucson. Like ASU, Arizona would seem to be a natural fit for the Big 12. It makes sense geographically. It makes sense competitively. The Big 12 already fields the nation’s top basketball conference. Adding the Wildcats would make it even stronger.
But would Arizona separate from ASU? Ten years ago, maybe even five, that answer would be no. The Arizona Board of Regents likely would have a strong say in the matter as well. But times have changed. Robbins told The San Jose Mercury News that the Pac-12 schools are “joining arms” to try and stay together, but he added that much depends on the conference getting a media deal that allows them to be competitive.
Bottom line: Previous alliances don’t matter as much these days. Schools have little choice but to look out for themselves. — Haller
Backstory
The Big 12 expanded from 10 to 14 teams for the 2023 season with the additions of former AAC schools Cincinnati, Houston and UCF as well as independent BYU. However, the conference will lose two schools after the season concludes when Texas and Oklahoma join the SEC in 2024, a year earlier than they initially planned.
Last week, Yormark said he’s focused on expansion and “exploring every little possibility” for adding new members to his conference.
Last July, weeks after USC and UCLA’s stunning announcement that they would leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten, Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff made a bold realignment prediction: “No Pac-12 school is going to the Big 12.”
“With respect to the Big 12 being open for business, I appreciate that,” Kliavkoff added. “We haven’t decided if we’re going shopping there or not yet.”
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7 minutes ago, dieucla98 said:
If the club nets $1.5 - $2M for hosting, why charge 2 months of dues? Seems silly to "subsidize" an event that turns a profit for the club.
Obligatory tell me you don't understand country clubs without telling me you don't understand country clubs. 😉
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24 minutes ago, Gidnik said:Spoiler
When a headline about a potential broadcaster for your games draws a negative reaction, you’re not in a good place.
The Pac-12 is nearing dire straits right now. There’s no other way to put it. The New York Post’s report Tuesday that Apple TV+ is a potential landing spot for Pac-12 sports landed like a lead balloon among fans, and for understandable reasons.
It doesn’t mean the league is about to fall apart or that it can’t still secure a good enough TV deal for the short-term future. It will probably be OK. But the Pac-12 may be the canary in the coal mine for college conferences outside what is becoming the Power 2 of the Big Ten and SEC.
Streaming won’t be the answer to saving college football as we know it. We know this because streaming isn’t saving TV.
You can’t completely blame Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff. He needs to find some other interested bidders to gain some sort of leverage in negotiations with ESPN after he inherited an incredibly difficult situation from former commissioner Larry Scott. Fox, a current Pac-12 media partner, has expressed little interest in the league with USC and UCLA on their way out. NBC and CBS also appear set when it comes to college football. The Big 12’s decision to renegotiate early with ESPN and Fox and take a larger-but-under-market deal for the sake of security was a smart move to outflank the Pac-12 that also highlighted how far it, too, is from the Big Ten and SEC.
The Pac-12 needs leverage, but Amazon and Apple aren’t that. A move to heavy streaming would dramatically decrease game viewership and threaten to speed the conference into irrelevancy. In a sport based around recruiting and donors, people need to find your games easily. ESPN knows this. It’s why Conference USA rushed back to ESPN as part of its new TV deal and away from streaming places like Stadium. Even if Amazon and Apple, which have been more prudent with streaming spending than other places, overpay for the sake of content on a potential sports-only app, it’s an incredible risk for a conference. This isn’t Major League Soccer.
For years, forecasters predicted the sports TV money bubble was about to pop. They said there would be a limit to how far broadcasters would pay for live sports as cable subscribers went down. “TV Sports a Spectacular Bubble” read a Forbes headline in 2013. But as cable subscribers began to slump, it became clear that live sports were the only thing saving television from dropping even further, increasing their value. The NFL had 75 of the 100 most-watched broadcasts in 2021, so the NFL has continued to get more and more money from the networks. The Big Ten and SEC, with their large audiences, are about to take another financial jump up with their new TV deals. The 12-team College Football Playoff will be another boost, with Fox expressing interest in joining ESPN as a potential broadcaster.
Amazon is paying more than $1 billion per year for Thursday Night Football because it’s the NFL. It made a play for the Big Ten because it was the Big Ten. Even Apple, the most valuable company in the world, reportedly let the NFL take Sunday Ticket to YouTube TV in part because Apple didn’t want to increase its price for customers.
If you’re not the NFL, Big Ten, SEC, NBA, CFP, World Series or the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, your negotiating leverage may begin to fade as the biggest leagues take up more.
Take it from returning Disney CEO Bob Iger, who on a recent earnings call expressed a desire to keep NBA rights but said: “ESPN has been selective in the rights that they bought. I’ve had long conversations about this with (ESPN president) Jimmy Pitaro. And we’ve got some decisions that we have to make coming up — not anything particularly large, but on a few things, and we’re simply going to have to get more selective.”
ESPN used to own college football. Now it lost the Big Ten and does not see the Pac-12 as such a priority as to overpay. Iger also said that while ESPN+ has grown nicely, he does not want to commit to an all-streaming ESPN or spin the company off unless it makes financial sense.
And that’s the dirty not-so-secret about streaming: It’s not actually working. The boom is over.
Disney’s direct-to-consumer business — which includes Disney+, ESPN+ and Hulu — lost more than $4 billion in 2022. The financial losses continue to climb even as subscribers grow. It’s a big reason Disney stock is down 31 percent over the past year. NBCUniversal’s Peacock lost around $2.5 billion for the year, and CBS’ Paramount Plus also lost around $1.8 billion. These companies planned to lose lots of money and aimed for profitability by 2024 or 2025, but there is little sign of that yet. Dramatic cuts have come across the board.
Fox’s decision not to jump into the standalone streaming game and instead focus on the biggest live sports like the NFL, college football and the World Cup, has proven to be a more successful strategy thus far. It has increased its market share in college football, and despite the loss of cable subscribers, this year’s Super Bowl on Fox was the third-most-watched game ever and the highest in six years. As Fox Sports CEO Eric Shanks put it on a Sports Business Journal podcast, speeding up into streaming also speeds up the decline of linear TV, your actual money-maker.
What does it say when Netflix, the rare profitable streaming success, has opted against jumping into sports bidding wars, even after a recent decrease in subscribers? It has instead focused on sports documentaries and made smaller runs at sports like Formula 1 racing or the World Surfing League, showing no interest in major sports.
“We’re not in the business of live sports rights. We’re not in the business of renting,” Netflix vice president of nonfiction series Brandon Riegg told the New York Times.
While more games than ever are available to watch — a certain positive for fans — all of this doesn’t even touch on how cumbersome it is to watch live sports on streaming. Broadcast delays lag behind social media and betting sites. Some can’t pause or rewind. Switching between games can be a hassle and an even more frustrating process if you have to switch to another app.
On a busy college football Saturday, will casual fans who use one screen flip back and forth to Prime Video or Apple TV+ for one Pac-12 game if their favorite team isn’t involved? If conferences move into different streaming apps, the sport will be even more fractured.
“No one streaming sports service can fulfill what a sports fan needs,” Shanks said.
The Pac-12 may still come out of this OK. It might sign a good enough deal with ESPN and a streamer and provide schools with money similar to the Big 12. Linear TV for sports is still in a good place. But the next round of college media deals in six or seven years is the moment when industry leaders believe major change will truly come. I dread the future of conference realignment, but if you’re not in the Power 2, it’s impossible to predict where you’ll be as the top conferences take an even larger market share.
Live sports, particularly football, have kept linear TV alive, but there is no sign that streaming will save college football in the form we currently know it.
Season 3 of Ted Lasso should be good, though.
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5 hours ago, Nueces River Rat said:
Sounds like they may have to use the existing facility area to build it. How much does the outdoor part of that practice facility get used these days vs the team just doing that stuff at DKR on the turf? Easiest path would be to use that area to build the new one and then make the area where the Bubble stands, the outdoor portion after tearing it down. Just looking at a map, I can't see anywhere closer to the stadium that would suffice without tearing down something that is probably historical or would cost an arm and a leg to rebuild elsewhere on campus.
CDC made the point during the town hall that it took the players too long to get to the current practice field and that they were looking for a new, more convenient location. I can't figure out where that would be, but he made it seem like they were going to a new, closer location to DKR.
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Tried Navy Blue in Rice Village last night. Bludorn's new seafood place. If ever there was a restaurant which screams "overpriced foodie" it's Navy Blue. Lovely place with excellent tasting food, but it's a one and done experience.
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https://twitter.com/GolfDigest/status/1625861235727286274
Watched the first two episodes. First one is all Spieth and JT. Second one is Koepka and Scottie. Not a surprise, but my biggest takeaway so far is Koepka is a monster douchebag. Thought he might come across as more compelling behind the scenes. Nope. Awesome juxtaposition between he and Scottie.
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WM Phoenix Open puts on a Saturday night concert at 16 nowadays. Really cool venue for a concert. Maroon 5 (meh) and Walker Hayes (terrible) played this year. -
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The negotiations for Oklahoma and Texas to leave the Big 12 a year early and join the SEC in 2024 have stalled and a deal is not expected to come to fruition, sources told ESPN on Friday morning.
After weeks of negotiations, Texas and Oklahoma are still slated to join the SEC in 2025. Sources said the parties couldn't come to terms amid a complex negotiation involving two schools, two networks (ESPN and Fox) and the Big 12.
Sources said the sides couldn't agree on how to create equitable value for what Fox would lose in 2024 -- the equivalent of seven football games featuring Oklahoma and Texas that command premium advertising.
The negotiations heated up over the past few days, with the Big 12 meetings late this week doubling as an unofficial deadline to get a deal done.
The timeline in play -- the 2024 season -- leaves some ambiguity and small potential for a Hail Mary revival, but the strong expectation remains that Oklahoma and Texas will play in the 14-team Big 12 in 2023 and 2024.
"There's no formal timeline or brink from which you can't come back," an industry source said. "But this is where things are right now -- a deal is unlikely."
Ever since Oklahoma and Texas agreed to join the SEC in the summer of 2021, there has been a drumbeat of conversation surrounding whether they would be able to leave the Big 12 early. The schools are contractually committed to play through the 2024 football season, covering four full seasons since the decision to switch conferences. In the recent history of conference realignment, that is an unprecedented amount of time to play out as a departing member.
It was always unlikely that they would leave before that final year of the deal, 2024, as the dynamics of scheduling, the cost of departure and the way the television contracts were structured made any type of quicker move clunky. But with ESPN holding the entire rights to the SEC starting in 2024, the possibility always loomed of brokering a deal a year early.
Instead, Oklahoma and Texas are slated to play out the final seasons of their contracts with the Big 12.
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39 minutes ago, Lat22 said:
Nope. They'll want it at their newish stadium. And I'm fine with that. I hate sterile NFL stadiums.
Yep, UH confirms game not at NRG Stadium.
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Looks like we get to play on the road at Houston and TCU after each of those teams are coming off a Thursday game.
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Bumping thread....
Any thoughts on seats in the upper sections? Have not been to Moody yet, but it seems like it's intimate enough that the 200's wouldn't be too bad? Yeah, I know, depends on stage setup, but aside from that....
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10 minutes ago, Hook1997 said:
I don’t think they have 8.6 billion sitting around. Atleast that’s the figure I see from a google search.
Seen rumors that he's selling to the Saudis and it will go private. He may stay on to run it after the sale.
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33 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:I mean this is what we’re talking about. On one side you have a coach that took a Jesus Ferriera over Pepe and made a ton of other questionable player decisions (see what @Napoleonsaid about our best defender in The World Cup).
Or you’re on this guys side:
Not sure it's that cut and dry. You can disagree with Gregg all day long about all sorts of coaching decisions, but it doesn't make what they Reyna's did right - at all.
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That official has now been overturned twice in that corner of the end zone. He keeps guessing wrong.
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Sun Bowl always comes through. What a game.
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Has Ogden been on the bench for previous games? I don't recall seeing him there this year.
No, he’s been sitting at the scorers table just next to the bench.-
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5 minutes ago, shakahorn said:
I admit I don't understand the charge. Why is trying to strangle someone to death only a 3rd degree felony? Or do I have burns and felonies confused and 3rd degree is the worst?
Assault is typically a Class A misdemeanor. Except, it is considered a 3rd degree felony if committed against a member of the household/family etc. and "the offense is committed by intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly impeding the normal breathing or circulation of the blood of the person by applying pressure to the person's throat or neck or by blocking the person's nose or mouth."
So, under the Penal Code, placing your hand over someone's face could be considered impeding normal breathing sufficient to be charged with the offense.
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33 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:
Who ?
It will be the Craig Way audio at my house as usual.
That's the main SEC Network crew. I think they're actually pretty good. Cubelic is the sideline guy and was the one who got Kiffin to make the joker costume comment about Jimbo after the Ole Miss game this season.
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That was AWESOME!!!!!
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Better get your Dirty’s fix, soon.
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Keep Austin Dirty - A Dirty Martin’s Documentary
Good watch.