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  1. 39 minutes ago, Tex-19 said:

    I could be wrong but I think it was originally a home and home, but last year's in CS got cancelled by covid so they moved this year to a neutral Denver

    that would be a pretty Aggie way of getting "even"

    YOU GOTTA MOVE THE GAME TWENTY FIVE MILES AWAY FROM YOUR HOME STADIUM

    what is the fucking point

  2. 1 hour ago, Harrison Bergeron said:

    I would just return to six, 12-team leagues.

    the problem there is that you would have to force some conferences to kick some teams out, and others to take teams in

    there's no mechanism to do that-- I don't see how you can force the Big Ten to abandon Maryland and Rutgers, or force any schools into the Big 12 if they don't want to be there, or force the Big 12 to take new members it doesn't want

  3. 1 hour ago, Baboontyme said:

    Look man, I'll bow out of this.

    Hey, you're not in any way wrong. You are (most unfortunately for you) better-versed in all things Albom than I am. I very well may be extending him too much benefit of the doubt, he might be trying to sway public opinion in favor of Bo or against Matt Schembechler etc etc-- I don't know, and I'm not that interested in him that I'm actually willing to read his dreck.

    He's not a deep thinker, he's someone who emotes about deep thoughts, so maybe you're right.

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  4. 23 hours ago, Baboontyme said:

    In all fairness, I did not read the article. And I won't unless someone copies and pastes it. And I am aware that most headlines are written by editors and not the actual columnists. But yes, the title alone makes me seethe. As you say texifornia, we KNOW Anderson was a villain. No one is overlooking that. 

    Again, I'm not going to defend Mitch Albom's insipid ass. But. His point might be, who cares about Bo Schembechler's legacy...? Like Juicy says and like I'm sure the vast majority of Michigan fans feel, take Schembechler's name off everything and bury it in a slag pit near Detroit but (to your point) the story here is the deviant criminal and the people who enabled institutional cover-up. 

    So it's kind of both-- Anderson's the villain, we all get that; anyone who had the slightest inkling there was a predator near the sports programs should be disassociated with the program including Saint Bo. Where we start saying "who the fucks cares about that?" is hand-wringing about "all the good Bo did"-- that legacy isn't relevant when the crimes are this serious. As in, I don't care if the football team's trains ran on time, the team doctor was still experimenting on unwilling patients. 

    I too am guilty of not reading Albom but that's a twenty year trend I don't feel like breaking. 

    Michigan gave the Fab Five, what, twenty-five years of disassociation because they took a bunch of money? Reggie Bush had to give back a Heisman because he had his rent paid. What does this get Bo, then?

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  5. 1 minute ago, Walden Ponderer said:

    Granted, but it typically doesn't make headlines like a Kardashian on vacation. All politics aside, you just know there's not "policy" reasons behind her support, it's purely for the shock value, and it works, because there's the tabloids with their cameras.

    I bet there's no neighborhood piano teachers in the Bin Laden family tree.

    yeah, the first time I heard of her undying allegiance to Trump, I immediately thought of the "I've got a crush on Obama" girl. 

    which might be a little bit sexist! OOPS

  6. 27 minutes ago, Walden Ponderer said:

    So, Noor Bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden's niece, is a huge Trump supporter, and makes the news for displaying her support in places like Lake Geneva, etc.

    Is there *anyone* in the Bin Laden family who is nice and boring?

    I think being a huge supporter of any candidate from either of the two giant corporate political parties is boring as fuck. 

  7. 12 minutes ago, camel at sea said:

    If 12-1 Ohio State is pitted against 11-1 OU, Ohio State is going to win that comparison in all years where OU didn't beat Ohio State on the field in the regular season. 

    OK, but that's pretty specific. Ohio State has won a playoff championship and beaten both Alabama and Clemson in the post-season. OU goes to the playoff every few years and gets blasted out of the stadium in the first round.

    If Ohio State gets in in your scenario, I would expect that had as much to do with Ohio State just getting the benefit of the doubt as a program.

  8. 55 minutes ago, TXSooner518 said:

    Imagine a #1 OU going 12-0 and 7-0 in conf with a 31-30 win over Texas. 

    I don't want to imagine that.

    Imagine Texas going 12-0 and beating Oklahoma 69-0, how about that. And then Oklahoma drops football to concentrate on academics. 

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  9. 8 minutes ago, Randolph Duke said:

    The ags are always quick to talk about what they are about to do. Not do much when it comes to showing what they have done. 

    A couple of years ago they was gittin a c-ment pond next to their stadium. How’s that coming along?

    Call me when it’s done, aggy. I won’t hold my breath. 

    Hows that aggy vaccine manufacturing plant coming along? I hear it’s a “game changer.” Lol. 

    I'm confused, I thought circa 2014 A&M's facilities had surpassed the best of the best in all of college football, which was why (along with Kevin Sumlin's revolutionary fun and high scoring "Plug and Play" offense) they Ran This State. 

    It's barely seven years later, and they're having to make more upgrades?

    You can't future-proof your facilities on a permanent basis but if you're having to make wholesale changes in less than a decade, my guess is that your original changes are not, in fact, as ZOMG REBOLUTIONARY as you are claiming.

  10. 28 minutes ago, Baboontyme said:

    I thought this was pretty much textbook victim shaming/blaming.

    how so? can you explain? I am likewise not an Albom fan-- that column was the first thing of his I'd read or listened to since probably the Sports Reporters circa 2003-- but that to me seemed like a fair piece expressing and exploring the confusion created by the clearly credible allegations.

    We don't have to only have one emotional response. Anger and disgust may be primary but there's room for disbelief and confusion too. 

  11. 1 minute ago, Machinator said:

     

    Well, Pete, here's your homework assignment. Find me a season since 1992 in which a league's top-ranked team lost to an 8-4 in their CCG and then wasn't among the top six teams that didn't win their conference, and you'll have your answer. 

    Could an upset get two teams in? Uh, yes, no fucking shit Sherlock. How is that even a question? Did upsets in the CCG allow two teams into the BCS? 

  12. 45 minutes ago, Randolph Duke said:

    Generation after generation and not a single member of the family can do better than a second-rate farm school. 

    but being an Aggie means you brag about being a legacy at the school!

  13. 38 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

    Big 12 needs to add 2 teams and go back to the old format.

    I think ten teams and a nine-game round-robin w no CCG is the better way of doing it, but I do have a sentimental soft spot for meaningful CCGs (example, 2009 SEC). 

    The problem with your suggestion is that there are flat-out zero attractive and available teams to add to the Big 12. Zero. If the school is available it's not attractive, if it's attractive it's not available. The Realignment Thread Conundrum, if you will, without which that thread would not still be spinning.  

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