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Laxtonto

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  1. So the move to the ACC is becoming a bit more realistic. Sounds like the Pac4 Expanded concept got pushed to the media members and the payout $$ was way lower than they hoped and they still heard they won't get CFP auto status (duh). Better to have 1/2 of the Pac4 get a soft landing than all 4 getting left out, especially if it is the peasant land grants getting fucked..
  2. We sent my wife’s in mid-May and got it back Mid July. Mine I had to wait for the 14 day window because I was leaving in June so I had to do schedule roulettes and ended making a trip to do mine in Vermont…. Moral of the story is believe the processing time on the website and make sure you have a backup plan.
  3. How much of this CalFord to the ACC talk is being driven by ND knowing that there won’t be the votes to get them added? CalFord threatens to blow up their annual rivalry if they don’t help them so ND “tries” knowing that there are at least 5 “no’s” right now and most likely it will never happen. They can say they tried and move on while not really having to commit to anything and make it look like they tried to help the ACC payout all at the same time. I just don’t see how adding any of the Pac4 makes any sense to the ACC and feels like a half assed attempt to placate a nagging gf to get her off your ass…
  4. Funny enough if this has been the case for over a year and nobody said yes (so both the B12 and P12 said no already) why would they think the ACC will agree now? Essentially ESPN and Fox has said they don’t really provide any value for the rest of the conference if they were going in at $0 and now the idea is that ESPN will give the ACC a bump if they include SMU….
  5. People that don’t put their carts away in a store parking lot. It is something that takes little effort, helps the stores staff out and makes parking more efficient for everyone else. If you can’t do something that is a simple common courtesy, why other corners are you cutting?
  6. The other benefit of this approach is that it would make sure you kill the Pac12. It is worth it longterm froM a CFP payout standpoint to kill the brand off completely to make sure there is one less mouth to feed at the conference table. Don’t let it be a zombie and suck CFP payout $$ based upon past glories and name recognition that has no bearing on the current state product. Put in a restriction that has GOR buyout for the first 8 or 10 years. Long enough to make it worth it for the media partners and provide some stability but still short enough give the UO and UW some semblance hope that if the B10 does come calling, they are OK. In truth the media partners might even be thankful because it allows some time reset market prices and not see a forced reopening on the top end of the market.
  7. So….. now what? Who panics first? Are we going to see a stupid add for Pac12 expansion that fails to garner the votes to pass or a dumb attempt at ratifying an incomplete agreement tv deal/grant of rights that goes no where? How can you in good conscience as a remaining 4 corner school or UW/OU can you ratify any add without some serious concrete numbers and a long term plan? I bet we see a slow play for a week or so by the schools while they try to decide how fucked they really are…
  8. So all this means is from the network side, UW and UO have been pushed to at least talk to the B12 because no move is coming from Fox/B1G. Once you figure out where his info is coming from (one of the bigger sports consultants in NYC and some regional ADs) it’s pretty easy to figure out the rest of the story.
  9. This is what makes conference alignment so damn interesting. There is only 2 teams that really move the needle, 4 more that are break even and then the rest that have a variety of warts and issues. The networks are better off if the Pac12 dies. So is the G5 conferences as a whole from a CFP perspective. The MWC would directly benefit if the Pac12 dies. The only one suffering an irrevocable loss are the remains of the Pac12, but it’s the desire of many university not to have anyone suffer. Unfortunately, the desire not to be the bad guy is going fuck this up for everyone else.
  10. So if the PAC lose at least 2, most likely 4, does the resulting mush mash they throw together enough to keep G5 status? How would this change the math in the CFP payout? At what point is it more valuable to the rest college football to just let them die as a conference? I know it would help the MWCs per team payout, but with UW and Oregon floating around as a wild card there is just enough payout inversion hanging out that it is hard to just let the PAC die.
  11. So its is 100% online/PAC12N through Apple or a patchwork without Apple. If that is the case, this is actually pretty huge news. Either take the $$ Apple is offering at the cost of exposure through traditional media channels (which seems to be an extremely important expectation for the 4 corner schools at a min) or concede that Apple is out and so there is no real big name/big fish out there to be used as the supposed stalking horse to drag out the timeframe for the Pac12 TV deal. Apple just dropped their nuts on the table and said take our deal and we are done fucking around while you use us for your games of internal politics.
  12. Abe’s legacy lives on in Japan’s foreign and security policies https://asiatimes.com/2023/07/abes-legacy-lives-on-in-japans-foreign-and-security-policies/?fbclid=IwAR0d3aoqI6EuDOJW_J1QAga4l4xpmscUSqji6gDucn3RUasf1PrEQfUDNds I know one of the two authors very well and his influence is part of the reason I have such an interest in the eco-politics of that part of the world
  13. My guess since the Dniper is starting to dry out after the Russians blowing the dam, the UKA are now going to see what happens if they put pressure on the Tomak corridor where the reinforcements come from. If they come from the East, then the UKA should be able to flex more on that region and depending where they come from finish the encirclement of Balmut. If they come from the west in Crimea, then it might be time to see what type of havoc can be done from Kherson. If none come at all they try and finally break the defensive line and go all out towards Melitopol
  14. Maybe this set of gifs will get you fish brains distracted long enough to forget about the rest of the bullshit and go back to bitching about recruiting
  15. 22K killed is a huge number for just one location during this conflict. I knew it has been a meat grinder, but if Wagner lost 22k, how my regular RU army died along with them?
  16. Can we get @Hurtlocker a surlyhorns press pass and send him to this event? I would pay good money to have someone that has above average knowledge on media rights to sit there and ask real follow up questions… fuck just have him sit there in real-time and give his questions to other media members would make the press conference and q&a be a beautiful disastrous train wreck of epic proportions…
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