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  1. 8 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

    I argued for years that the Big12 ought to do something similar with the AAC.

    As we see this week, the Big12 has tons of inventory that absolutely nobody cares about.  Oklahoma State @ Iowa State?  Texas Tech @ West Virginia?  Who the fuck cares?  Those are shitty games between programs that have limited followings.

    But that Iowa State-Baylor game in November if the loser is getting relegated to the AAC?  Are you watching that?  Fuck yeah, you are.

    Kind of like Maryland and Purdue Big 10 games on NBC?  I think they can't wait until the Big 10 expands to 18.

    https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college-football-tv-ratings/

    Prime time Syracuse-Purdue drew 1.25 million on NBC, 12th for the day, behind Michigan's buy a win on BTN, Minnesota-UNC on ESPN, LSU-MSU on ESPN and 8 other games, including some buy a wins.

    Previous week Charlotte-Maryland on NBC prime time drew 665k, #17 for the week, behind Okie St.-Arizona St. on FS1, Illinois-Kansas and Ole-Miss Tulane on ESPN2 as well as 13 other games, most less than stellar matchups.

  2. 16 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

    They didn't know at the time the PAC 12 was about to collapse. They could have taken that whole league but now they are stuck with Houston, UCF, and Cincinnati forever. 

    Let's see.  Last 20 years Pac 12 champs:

    USC 7

    Oregon 6

    Stanford 3

    Washington 2

    Utah 2

    Other 7 zero

    They got Utah.  They weren't getting any of the rest.

    Last 20 years SWC champs:

    aggy 6

    Texas 5

    Houston 4

    Arkansas 2

    Baylor, SMU, Texas Tech 1 each

    Rice, TCU 0

    And BYU has an MNC.  Cincinnati made the CFP.

     

  3. 3 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

    Uh, holy shit.

    By virtue of attending and voting in the meeting OSU and WSU would be in danger of courts finding that they believed at the time that the meeting was valid. You can't say "oh hey this isn't an official meeting" when your official representatives attend, minutes are taken, and you participate in votes during the meeting.

    You probably need to reconsider who isn't showing themselves to be smart.

    Yeah, what this guy said.

    You specifically say what the meeting is before attending.  A meeting to sort things out and negotiate.

    You must be a lawyer.  Lawyers just make things complicated and expensive.

    Suing before talking is just giving a big middle finger to everyone.

    And how smart is it that everything is frozen now?  They can't get anything done on their home for next year.  Nobody is going to cooperate.  Many recruits in all their sports are going to go somewhere else.  Its just more bad decisions as Sgt. Schultz has been making all along.

    Now its possible there were efforts to try to resolve things, but the fact that the conference was trying to get the meeting to figure out what they could do to keep all their staff from quitting indicates that none of the Pac 12 presidents are talking.  They are as dysfunctional as ever in their dying days.

    It will be interesting to see if the 10 get involved in this at all or if they do their own lawsuits once this trial starts.  If they do nothing, then it indicates WSU/OSU delayed everything for no reason.

  4. On 9/11/2023 at 9:00 PM, Huckleberry said:

    Oh bullshit. They should have gone into a meeting where they'd be outvoted 10-2 on everything by 10 people who don't even have the right to vote? GTFO with that BS.

    And then you sue on any particular thing you don't like while attending the meeting under the understanding that you don't think its an official meeting.

    Getting the lawyers involved STOPS negotiations.

    But then WSU/OSU have not shown themselves to be smart.

  5. 5 hours ago, Butch Had Not said:

    In light of recent events I have to update my greatest UT Football top 5

     

    1. Rose bowl. Vince.  National championship 

    2. 1996 Big 12 championship vs Nebraska.  Totally unexpected against the Alabama of the 90s. 

    3. 1990 Houston. If you were alive at that time, you get it. 

    4. 2023 Alabama. Receny bias probably bumps it up some but I can never shake the memories of the games above it. It will be fun to see if it holds up. 

    5. 2005 Ohio State. Unlike Bama,  I knew we should win in Columbus against a stacked Ohio state. Bama was a COULD win. 

    Honorable mention: Tony Jones catch against Arkansas. Probably my earliest Texas football memory. I don't recall if I saw live or in highlights.

    1995 vs aggy. Was in Austin at the time.  That evening after the game I was out on 6th with a cheerleader whom I was friends with that was also one of Ricky's girls.  Then i got to witness the awkward encounter when she saw Ricky and was trying to talk to him while everyone wanting a piece. 

    Good choices.

    1. Rose Bowl

    2.  1969 Big Shootout.  Guess you are too young to remember that

    3.  1996 Big 12 CCG

    4.  1990 Houston

    5.  1998 Ricky breaking the record vs. aggy

    Lots of other good memories mentioned.  That Tony Jones late TD vs. Arkansas early 80s, Stoney Clark's stop of OU, this year's Alabama game, Bevo going after UGA at the Sugar Bowl, 1977 OU, 1976 OU where Russell Erxleban carried the team with long punts and long FGs (6-6 tie), and don't forget 1995 Brackens hit on Tech punter after fake kick-ranks up with 90 UH and 98 A&M for loudest game.

     

  6. 3 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    One of the Pac-12 agenda items for this Wednesday:  a proposal to pay the departing schools "transition fees" to help them move to their new conferences:

     

     

     

     

     

    All of you remember who Canzano the clown's sources were?  Washington St. and Oregon St.  So take anything that comes out of there with a grain of salt.

    Besides, lawyers are paid to lie.  So you have professional liars representing proven liars/delusional idiots.

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  7. 2 hours ago, Zeus said:

    One thing I will embrace about the SEC

    Its unquestionably the hardest hitting and toughest style of football in existence. NFL doesn’t allow this level of hitting anymore. This is NFL talent with less restrictions. 

    the officials called holding when it was obvious and it mattered

    they even called an illegal man downfield

    They error on the side of caution mostly and letting guys play instead of getting involved in the game too much. Not a ton of dumb reviews either. 

    Fuck Alabama and LSU we’re going to take over the West SEC

     

     

    The hitting is good.  The cheap shots they let them get away with (and Bama has become one of the worst) is not good for the players.  Nick Chubb had a really nasty knee injury in Knoxville about 10 years ago when a Tennessee player hit him about 5 yards out of bounds.  Not a flag at all.  That is the worst part of SEC officiating.

  8. 4 hours ago, CfRhTxStBobcats said:

    Not that it'll ever happen, but I'd have a hard fucking time pulling for aggy over the gooners if we need aggy to lose so we can get to the sec championship game. There has to be at least that exception to the no pulling for ousux rule. 

    I know it's a very unlikely scenario aggy will ever sniff the championship game but crazier shit has happened.

    I'd pass your admiration of my avatar on to the esposa. On 2nd thought I better not. I'd probably get kicked in the nuts for using the pic. 

    I've got to admit.  There were a lot of us in the Texas-exes center really enjoying that 77-0 beating OU gave aggy back about 15 years ago.

    Probably wouldn't have cared who lost if it was a close game, but we were rooting for 100!

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  9. 6 hours ago, Vertuzzi said:

    I think it will be worse for Texas moving into the new conference than for OU regarding how fans/players are treated on the road. The SEC schools think of their conference as a brotherhood. We think of it as a bigger check for us; therefore, we’ll stick out as the school that doesn’t want to fully integrate. We have no intentions of being “brothers” with any of those animals. We walked out of that stadium Saturday evening with our middle fingers extended and we will continue to do so even as we officially become members of the conference. 

    They don't think of Mizzou, Pig or aggy as brothers, no matter how much aggy yells SEC-SEC-SEC.   OU and us will also be outsiders for a long time.

  10. 9 hours ago, SurlyGator said:

    Meh.  There are mouth breathing knuckle dragging fans like that of every school.  Kudos to the players for their thick skin and continuing to rub it in!

    Yeah.  The UT players seemed amused at the loser.  Great response.

    The biggest busing riots ever were in Boston, Massachusetts.  Idiots everywhere.  Don't think we should be bigoted ourselves about people who aren't like us.

  11. 10 hours ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

    Yes, there a racists everywhere, but I'm comfortable with us always remaining apart from the rest of the close-minded SEC mindset.

     

    Yes, there a racists everywhere, but I'm comfortable with us always remaining apart from the rest of the close-minded SEC mindset.

    I'll admit that I've always been a homer deep down for whatever conference Texas was in.  But I'm going to be rooting for every other non-SEC team to beat every SEC team from here on in.

     

    That just means you consider them rivals.  Its only the losers like aggy that get consolation when their SEC "rivals" beat someone else.

  12. 1 hour ago, 0xdeadbeef said:

    Not sure what makes you think that, because things are trending toward OSU/WSU being in charge of everything.

    Unless the Pac-12 lawyers pull some overlooked by-law or legal rabbit out of their hat, the arguments used to get the temporary restraining order are probably going to win the day.   

    The by-laws are short and clear, and the Pac-12 just followed those by-laws and kicked CU off the board a month ago.  

    At this point, with what we know, I'd expect OSU and WSU to be ruled to be the only valid members of the board.  If/when that happens, they get to make the rules and they get to decide what happens to all the Pac-12 assets.   

     

     

     

    The By-laws are not clear at all.  They are very vague and poorly written.  Its pretty clear that one section confuses actually leaving with giving notice of leaving.

    Its not clear at all who does and doesn't have voting rights now.  I sure wouldn't put money on any possible outcome if it went to court.

  13. 6 hours ago, TheAuditor said:

    Things I learned at Alabama Friday and Saturday Night:

    1) Traveling as a group of 6 mostly chill, fairly thick skinned dudes keeps the peace and the drive by BS to a minimum.  

    2) Attractive women are plentiful in Tuscaloosa on game weekend. 

    3) Walking through Fraternity houses is a fun exercise - however,  see #1 above.  

    4) If an attractive women does horns down to you,  if you immediately laugh and do it back to them they are shocked,  you become the coolest guy ever,  and you get to hear their life story whether you want to or not. 

    5) Lots of Auburn fans hiding in the weeds all weekend.   They all came out of hiding post game. 

    6) AL must have a high electricity bill,  because the scoreboard was turned off while we were still in our seats.

    7) Post game got very sketchy, very quickly on the streets outside the bars.    90min post game was no place to be walking around in orange. 

    Lots of my son's Auburn friends went to Tuscaloosa.  And he said there were LOTS of fights after the game.  Generally, Bama fan vs. Bama fan.

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  14. 8 hours ago, Doc Daneeka said:

    There’s an argument that it shouldn’t matter who does X, but the world is full of examples where it does. I mean, hell, receivers get far more leeway on what they can get away with than defenders do, even though they shouldn’t. A lot of the stuff that happens in the end zone on Hail Marys would be PI on any other play. If they’re not going to call it, ever, cool, but I was still expecting it to be called on Saturday. 

    I didn't see the Bama players doing it.

  15. 6 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

     

    Ah shit, I don't hate Saban. I admire him. He's an amazing football coach who keeps trying to get better and adapting. And from all accounts, a terrific human being.

    Like Sark said, Sark isn't here today without Saban.

     

     

    Nope. I've generated half of the content, too.

    He seems like a bit of an asshole to me.  I've never seen anything that makes me think he is a terrific human being.  Now he is the greatest living college football coach and maybe the best ever.

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  16. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/future-of-pac-12-network-a-sticking-point-as-oregon-state-washington-state-seek-to-salvage-conference/

    For those Beaver & new Window Cougar fans and MWC fans who think somehow a new conference with the same name will somehow take the Pac 12's place because of NCAA grace period rules, Sankey has spoken:

    "...Even if they do retain the conference name, such a shift in program prominence will most likely lead to a reduction in the number of autonomy conference and automatic qualifiers (six) into the expanded 12-team bracket.

    "It hasn't dissolved yet; we have to see what happens. … Respectfully, the Pac-12 still exists. There has to be clarity," SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said Saturday.

     

    NCAA bylaws state a conference must be composed of at least eight teams. However, there is a two-year grace period for a league to maintain that number. On paper, are the Cougars and Beavers a viable two-team conference?

    "The CFP is not the NCAA," Sankey said. "I think we all understand that.""

     

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  17. 3 hours ago, 89Horn said:

    I say embrace the shit out of the horns down.  Find a wall near DKR and plaster pictures of fans of every other school doing horns down so we can laugh at them.  Particularly after a win last night.  Put them up like skins won.


    It’s like I once told an insufferable aggy friend of mine once, you hate us more than you love yourselves.  He gave me a confused look for a second, then he understood it.

    That's what's so weird about OU doing it.  They actually have accomplishments.  As for aggy, well they won it all in 1939.

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