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Laxtonto

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  1. You talk about a dilemma for the Big 12.. Have to either accept that we win the conference and they get paid or keep us out and cut their payout to make sure we don't win the last real B12 title
  2. Sounds like they dont really have the votes for either
  3. Maybe they are expecting Blue to transfer after the Spring after his previous pouting behavior... If so, put Red back there as insurance and let him cross-train some at the slot. It isn't like the Sark view of a RB doesn't include a ton of reps as a pass catcher out of the backfield
  4. The funny part in all of this is that the federal government could provide Twitter with a huge market share win if they finally go through with the eventual ban of tiktok. Twitter still owns Vine and Vine is in essence the same conceptual platform as tiktok. The real question is going to be as we see some force attrition of viable social media options will user just walk away from social media (and the addictive endorphins that they provide) or just migrate to a new platform instead to keep getting that fix..
  5. If SMU or Rice, with SDSU already being discussed, is being mentioned as potential adds for the PAC 12, they might as well shut it down now. (I mentioned both because it is the only way travel partner-wise to make the other sports viable.) The problem is that Rice is a boat anchor for a P5 and will never be a revenue positive add. So you are telling me that the PAC12 schools will be ok adding those schools or that those schools will provide enough payout to make the conference viable longterm? I find that hard to believe. Why would the 4 corners prefer that type of setup vs defecting to the B12 for a higher payout? I can “understand” those adds if the Pac12 is trying to backfill after additional defections, but as just new adds they don’t move the needle enough to be considered a proactive move to help increase the payout to convince teams to stay. If this is a move the Pac12 is truly considering then the B12 might as well break out the champagne and celebrate its new members. I can see little benefits for say Cal or Stanford for agreeing to add Texas schools. How do you sell these adds to your current members without them being a huge improvement to the current tv payout? The problem is that these adds are much worse than the departing schools and so they are not proving enough value to offset their warts. This gets to the real crux of the problem of that what is killing the Pac12 from a realignment perspective is the lack of viable additions. The B12 struggled with this, with few solid regional options, and now the Pac12 is faced with the same scenario with even less viable alternatives. The BYU add might actually be the real lynchpin in killing the Pac12. They were a perfect “break in case of extreme emergency” option. Unfortunately the Pac12 waited for so long that the emergency life raft got used by someone else and now they are looking to dip into the ocean with the best emergency options being a soggy life preserver or a wooden door cast off their sinking ship.
  6. The number 7 is what is weird to me. So unless that is max number of picks Fox gets from the B12, they have to have the schedule. If they do not have the schedule and then is just the max potential picks FOX has first dibs on, it is a massive slap in the face for all the other schools in the B12 and a signal how big of a deal losing Texas and OU is and how fucked the future media rights are for the B12 in Fox's eyes.
  7. One of my first questions is how does FOX know that there are 7 premium games with Texas and/or OU that demand premium advertising without knowing the 2025 schedule already?
  8. From the ESPN article that dropped Note that this is no longer about the B12, this is all Fox. Also by slowing down Texas/OU this slows down the potential poaching of the Pac12 which means it gives Fox more time to decide how they want to deal with the potential of the B10 and westward expansion.
  9. So Roach worked really hard to gloss over the “strange” sudden commitments to targets to A&M and how some recruits families all of the sudden soured on the Texas staff… I guess I can’t blame him, but at some point it is so blatant that it would might be worthwhile to imply when random $$ collectives first got involved.
  10. So ASU, AU, Col and Utah and leave UO, OSU, UW, WSU, Stanford and Cal to figure their own shit out? Curious how that would work
  11. That fact that you think being in the B12 puts you inside the building is adorable... You just traded one glass ceiling for another. Enjoy the ride. The best thing you get to look forward to is that if the Pac 12 implodes like we expect you finally get to be in the same conference at Utah.
  12. I am guessing his NFL grade was not very good or his medicals made everyone ask him to stay another year to prove he comes back fully. This is a big help to A&M, but now the questions is how does the diva react to not being the primary target?
  13. Nobody wanted to give me odds about him being brought in for questioning the next 7 days after NSD2...
  14. Backup OL, but still going to be a bunch of media questions
  15. I think they are worried Ty might bail if they got someone in the early portal knowing they were getting rid of BOB. Now they get to hope that they can find a JAG with some starting experience (which is technically better than what they have now) that will have some familiarity with whoever the new OC’s system is. Being unwilling to cut BOB loose early is probably the real issue is. All this does is make the early road game to Bama that much more winnable.
  16. This thing looks to me more about payback than over-zealousness.. Seem almost like something out of the Knapp commission from NYC from the 70s. Now the question is going to be who had the real beef with him and is this something tied to just someone on that squad wanting payback or something much worse as a paid job. The sad part about this is that if hadn't died, this would have just been another case of was this justifiable force in restraining the suspect.
  17. At some point, this dumbass is going to cross a real line and one of the real vindictive members of society is going to start to just torment him with nuisance suits and job complaints until he has to disappear again and change his name
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