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Laxtonto

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  1. My bigger issue is that if he had some form of soft tissue injury that they were numbing up to get him out there to be used as a decoy, wtf was QE throwing bombs to him knowing his hand was borked? I get wanting to get him on the field, and even him shying away from some things and even showing less than max effort on some things if he thinks he is out there as a decoy. But if that is the case, why is QE trying to throw to him all the damn time?
  2. @RGBIII You leaked this to SI! You stupid sip trying to use the BOMC against aggy!!!
  3. Did I miss something official at this point? Been out of pocket this afternoon...
  4. Do these idiots not realize that the reason that would be the case on a 8 game conference schedule is that Texas-OU is way more valuable that Tx-A&M? And why the fuck would the SEC or ESPN allow an 8 conference game schedule with the amount of premium content that would get rid of?
  5. You might have forgotten an important part of our history there buddy...
  6. Bigger issue is that they may be on ESPN+ without Texas helping push up their RPI playing Cinci, USF, UH, or BYU. It’s easy to bitch about one game a year on the LHN, but how much of that tied to being a consistently good game that does t draw well? They better hope like hell no one comes after Sampson at UH…
  7. Al will find a way to stick around, even if we need to make a dedicated Big12-2-2+2-2+4 thread for him. I have a hard time hating on ISU too much longterm because past history shows that the B12 will fuck them at random anyways. Will be more interesting is what does OSU become without big brother? Do they become a solid member and help lead the conference forward or do they become aggy and obsess over the loss of big brother like an obsessed jilted lover.
  8. For an article that is mostly regurgitation, it still spells a pretty bleak picture for the Pac12. The more of these articles we see, the better this becomes for the potential implosion of the Pac12. This generates pressure via continued exposure to alumni that may just be the casual fan. The more people see this the more alumni start demanding their institutions to do something. These types of demands are what are going to make the BOR and presidents to finally tell the alumni that if this is what you want $$ to not get left behind by the big dogs of college sports than you have to be willing to accept realignment and leaving the Pac12 not backfilling to keep you academic superiority at the fore front. If the cable and broadcast media is either out of cash or have provided their best offer, there is no way streaming saved the Pac12. Now we are in the stage of is the dog dying, but who is willing to do the deed and put them out of their misery. Unfortunately the Pac12 is a long time well loved pet and everyone seems to be resistant to the idea, but in the end it has to be done. What will be curious to me is who is going to be willing to do it?
  9. So far what I have gathered is the Surly contingent didn’t go “drunk and belligerent” and tarnish the sites “good name” and nobody died. I will take that any fucking day of the week when there is an outing that gets more than two of us together from this hive of villainy and repute. Well done!
  10. Aggy... The great peacemaker of our time. Bring opposing fan bases together for generations in mutual loathing.
  11. If Apple TV is the only viable competitor for the P12 rights, then this is WAY worse than I thought. I don't care who you are or how snobbish your school is, no university president or BOR it going to willingly invest into athletics infrastructure to have everything then streamed behind a regional-only paywall. Here Utah, all of your primary and secondary content is streamed on Apple TV and so the only people watching your content is your own fans that are willing to pay the package price or other P12 fans. No random kids from other parts of the country falling in love with your program by catching you on a late-night game. No league commercials with your branding seen by potential new fans outside of the current footprint. At the same time, lets watch BYU get all of those benefits you arent. As a university president, I would be irate if the PAc12 media rights are down to the Apple TV level of rights.
  12. For those of you who don't know what this is referencing..
  13. The interesting part for me isn’t the pariah aspect, which is significant, but how this destroys the facade of the great Russian bear army that was created in WW2. The Cold War generated, with significant help of our own propaganda, this image that was never really tested in a large scale land war. The cracks began to really show during the Gulf War, but the failures of the equipment and tactics vs the US modern equivalent was laid at the feet of Iraqi incompetence. Now it is being tested where they chose the territory, timeline, and advisory and are being found truly lacking. If the mythos of the Russian military and their potential military exports are dismissed, what do they truly supply the global market? At this point with how the global economy is transitioning, what is their true global export? Is rare earth metals now what makes them a country other nations will go back to trading with? At what point is the investment in rare earth mining in Africa more viable than dealing with Russia? Without the specter of the mighty Russian bear, what is Russia really on the global stage? OPEC+ and the concerns of the Middle East now makes Russian crude exports less of a market driver. The dwindling reliance on Russian Natural Gas in Europe limits another export. In the future post-conflict what is the reasoning to consistently trade hard currency with Russia? What is a dominant export that helps turn the global market? This morphs the economics from a political necessity to a true profit narrative which significantly weakens the Russian position.
  14. The more we hear about the various networks deciding thanks but no thanks for the Pac10 rights, the more I start questioning how do they get a deal that makes sense for everyone to stick around? They will need in essence 300 M a year total for this to work at 10 schools and 350 or so if they expand. Where does that come from? How much is the Pac12 after dark game worth? That seems to be the real jewel for ESPN. The rest is filler content that will somewhat compete for airtime with other ESPN contracts. Also, with the bot anchor of the Pac12 network, there really isn’t any small secondary “start up” ESPN+ channel that makes sense. So you got one major time slot that has a ton of value and a few brands that have a strong regional reach. The late night slot is most valuable to ESPN and the issue I see is what value is the regional content to Amazon? The best thing that could probably happen $$ for the majority of the Pac12 is a full merger/takeover between the B12 and P12. Maybe let Stanford and /or Cal the option to go independent in football and keep the other sports for ego. This lets ESPN get the same PAC content plus you now have nationwide games on Amazon instead of just regional content. Let the PacN die since the conference is dead and go from there. The problem is the logistics of even getting this done is probably an impossibility and the egos involved are going to need an iron hand and a hardcore GOR to make this a possibility. They would need a longish term commitment from Amazon and find out how to deal with the loss of the NCAA tournament credits.
  15. Doesn't this make him a "hypothetical" t-shirt fan that A&M says only Texas has?
  16. That family should burn for this... is there any way for some form of criminal charges for the parents in all of this? The civil trail seems to be a pretty big slam dunk now.
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