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  1. 2 hours ago, NowThis said:

    Herbie is an irelevant TV dude. The bigger question is Texas making the show.  Going undefeated is hard in the Big12 , so i'm hoping an 11-1 Texas gets in over a perfect tosu . Won't happen, but Keep Hope Alive.  I have no respect for the B1G whatsoever. 

    Given the lack of depth as a result of our laziest, worst coach ever (which Herbie couldn't figure out), it will require a lot of luck on the injury front.

  2. On 8/24/2019 at 6:20 PM, Goo Punch said:

    lol @sushihorn thanks for the neg rep followed by that verbose, cluttered reply replete with unnecessary bolded letters for emphasis. did you by chance post as "derka" on the old site? your child like posting style aside, I'll say again that Herbie wasn't wrong. it *was* a toxic environment in and around the program. a lot of people thought we never should have fired Mack to begin with, a bunch of BMD's never supported Charlie from the jump, he was beloved by his younger players but couldn't reach many of the older players, and on top of it his teams sucked. and all of that was *after* Mack's final years which is when the toxicity began in the first place. by the time Charlie was about to be fired the toxic environment was going on 5-6 years at least. the program was all kinds of fucked off , and nobody seemed to be the same page, from the AD, to the coaches, the team, and the fans, again keeping in mind that many around the country thought Mack never should have been fired in the first place, and who thought we were again jumping the gun after just 3 years with Charlie. not to mention our impressive arrest record during that time. 

    so, for you to talk about revisionist history and then act like you don't remember how fucked off the environment was around here during that time is hilarious. and your insistence that Herbie hates Texas or that he insulted you personally is childlike as well. i doubt Kirk Herbstreit hates Michigan, much less Texas. Kirk Herbstreit is a laid back, vanilla talking head on TV who couldn't be bothered to dedicate any of his time and energy to hating Texas for some fantastical reason invented in the head of a delusional, rabid college football fan who in fact does not have anything better to do than obsess over and hate some vanilla talking head on his TV. have fun raging out on Herbie with your boys here, but it's pretty laughable and pointless. 

    Maybe he gave you the neg rep for being TLDR.

    Paragraphs are not a bad thing.

    Herbie's a jerk.  Plain and simple.

  3. 12 hours ago, TXK said:

    Living so much of my recent life in Texarkana and having gone to a few games in Fayetteville, I'll say that must hogs I know would give their left arm to have regular games with Texas and Oklahoma and even Oklahoma State. None of them feel like they have a true SEC rival. They just don't want to be seen as quitters.

     

    Money wise the costs saved plus increased sales from actually winning would do them good. Watch attendance if they don't win this year... The BIG12 won't have to invite them. In a couple of years they'll be begging.

     

    I think Colorado should come back as well as Nebraska but that's just opinion and wish. For Arkansas it just makes business sense.

    CU has too many of its big money people in California as well as the biggest chunk of their out of state alumni.  And Arizona has more CU alums than all the Big 12 states put together other than Texas (which is #2 site for their alums).

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  4. On 8/24/2019 at 6:01 PM, LTbear said:

    I do think Arky would come out better in all aspects if in the Big XII. They would certainly be able to compete better and get back into Texas recruiting, and wins bring engagement, ticket sales and donations. Plus several Big XII teams would actually care about playing Arkansas. Even after all this time, no one in the SEC gives a damn about them.

    Yes, but it would be hard to sell.

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  5. On 8/18/2019 at 2:57 PM, TeddyBearStallion said:

    And how exactly would that improve CFB or make it any more interesting after the novelty of that arrangement wears off?

    I'm not opining on whether it is better or not.  Just that it is a reasonable possibility as the big schools try to get as much cash as possible.

  6. On 8/24/2019 at 5:21 PM, msucolt45 said:

    Jiggy-Z,

    I know the emphasis on ‘69 that you are referring too. As a son of a player on the ‘63 team, I understand your perspective.

    I will tell you that my Dad always said that the ‘64 team was “better” than his ‘63 team, but Arkansas happened. Nobis was only a junior then and etc. 66-68 were some lean years of a decade of greatness! Dad’s teams (60-63) never lost to OU or aggy!

    I didn't remember '64, but reading about it later was interesting.  We lost 14-13 to Arkansas when DKR went for 2 and failed.  5 years later, he went for 2 and we won 15-14.  Wonder how much he was thinking about that '64 game when he went for 2 on that first TD.

  7. On 8/13/2019 at 9:36 AM, PencilPusher said:

    I personally believe this is the most likely outcome, for at least football and maybe basketball. When that does happen, I can see geographical football realignment into regional "divisions" whereby the champions of those divisions make the playoff and everyone else that qualifies can go to a postseason bowl game. The conferences as currently aligned will still be there for all of the other sports plus whatever academic alliances exist within the current conference arrangements (like the CIC for the Big 10)

    No.  B1G is making too much money and despite all their posturing, they are the greediest, most willing to throw everyone else under the bus.

    They aren't going to give up that advantage.  I could see Pac/Big 12/ACC doing some kind of alliance.  I could also see conference "pairs."  Big 10 and SEC splitting up the ACC so there would be a B1G 10 and B1G Atlantic, an SEC and a SE Atlantic, leaving the Big 12 and Pac 12 to do an alliance in the west.

    More likely in the mid 2030s is a version of Prestige Worldwide with 12-14 major football schools forming their own conference.  Only have 6 conference games so you can beat up on the "lesser" schools and bump up your record.  There would be a Prestige Tier, a Power Tier then the Gang Tier.  And maybe there would be two Pestige Conferences, West-USC, UCLA, UW, Colorado, Texas, OU, Texas A&M, Nebraska, LSU, Wisconsin  and an East-Michigan, Ohio St., Penn St., Notre Dame, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Florida St., Clemson.  (didn't forget Auburn, but not enough room in east)

  8. On 8/7/2019 at 6:33 PM, utee94 said:

    But at least he got that right.  The one with the even worse track record-- FrankTheTank from B1G-land.  He was 100% certain Texas was going to the B1G, among other things that never happened.

     

    I don't think he ever claimed to have inside information.  He was just speculating with a Big 10 bias.

  9. On 8/7/2019 at 11:00 PM, utee94 said:

    I agree 100% with this.  They're clearly getting info from people on the inside.  But, just like Chip Brown, oftentimes they're just being fed a line of bullshit to act as a mouthpiece for whatever athletic department feels like it can use them.  

    Problem is, average Joe Suckah tunes in and believes it, and the cycle continues.

     

    Towards the end of the last round of realignment, it seemed like people were feeding the Dude nonsense and he made himself look ridiculous running with it.  I don't think he was making that stuff out of thin air.

  10. 21 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:

     


    Has that guy ever been right about anything?

     

    He apparently did have a connection and got some coaching stuff right before he got into realignment tweets.

    He seemed to have some link to people who talk to people early on, but didn't have the sense not to overplay things.

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      6. The Big 12 is prepared to expand with any combo of UCF/BYU/USF. ESPN has told the Big 12 expansion with UCF/BYU/USF is acceptable but P5 schools are preferred.

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    2. 4. The Big 12 must finalize the ESPN/GoR before the Pac 12’s TV deal expires. 5. Several Pac 12 schools have expressed interest. 5. The Big 12 is not interested in a scheduling alliance witn the Pac 12 at this time.

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      3. By extending their base deal with ESPN and the GoR to 2035 the Big 12 puts itself in position to widen the revenue gap with the Pac 12 and dispel any thoughts of instability thereby making the Big 12 an attractive option to the Pac 12.

       
  12. On 6/6/2019 at 3:30 AM, Roofle said:

     

    Yup, prepare to get assfucked. Pretty sure Rice still the host for that game, so they'll stick the visiting allotment wherever. Secondary market is a no-brainer for games in Houston and bowl games. OU is a toss-up depending on how good we are (or are probably projected to be).

    There are no bad seats in Rice Stadium.  Which means a lot more good seats than NRG, where, unfortunately, they are playing.

  13. On 6/23/2019 at 12:36 AM, ButtFumble said:

    one can go here and look at budgets and schools funds used by clicking on the individual schools

    https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/

    in 2005 CU used $1.64 million in school funds for athletics

    in 2010 $5.75

    in 2011 $13.9

    in 2012 $14.3

    then in 2013 down to $5.58 since 2014 it has been in the $10.5 to $11 million dollar range

    so they had to use a bunch because of missing out on Big 12 revenues they forfeited and from there they tried to throttle back before realizing that to be in the PAC 12 you have to spend a lot of school funds just like most all of the other PAC 12 schools do

    student fees have stayed the same at about $1.5 million though

     

    and the pearlman article makes clear that NU was happy in the Big 12, voted 100% with UT on unequal revenues, no conference network (or NU wanted uneven revenues from a conference network), moving the CCG to dallas (pearlman has a delicate ass that does not like cold bleachers), NU was ahead of Texas on developing a network, Texas committed to stay in the Big 12 is NU would do the same and NU declined then pearlman tried to corner Powers at the bar and give a bunch of "what ifs" and Powers told him no discussion Texas had made the commitment and NU had not,  and the only issue that NU ever really had as the partial qualifiers and they were out voted on that 11-1

    also there is an MU article where the chancellor of MU (that was the head of the Big 12 expansion committee at the time) made it clear that MU was wanting to stay in the Big 12 and work to expand it, but when boren went on the wallflower tour and the MU Chancellor could not reach boren and had to get their US Congressmen involved to get boren on the phone he knew that MU was leaving the Big 12 at the first decent offer.....now who knows if he would have followed through on that if there was no wallflower tour and the SEC SEC SEC came calling, but he was clear that Texas had nothing to do with the final push out the door

    there is also the aggy interview still out there where they state they are in the Big 12 for the long haul and for the long term future......only to up and leave a year later

    CU is the only school where both the FANS and administration never blamed Texas although people always try and drag them in.....in the case of MU their administration never really blamed Texas during the move, but their fans did and their administration since then have used that is a convenient excuse to get past the "how come we did not get in the Big 10 like we always wanted and instead we are the western most team in a conference where we play in the east division even though we touch Arkansas"

    I have always said that MU did not get in the Big 10 because the Big 10 realized that it was MU that let the word get out about expansion and that is how NU found out and went public and that fucked things up for the Big 10 that was working on some combo of ND, UVA, GT, UNC, Duke or the like

    and because all of those ACC schools were so scared to make a move it was taking a LONG TIME to get action and things in place and ND was using the ACC as a beachhead against the Big 10 and when things broke the ACC schools just could not make a move that fast it was just not in the nature of their admins and instead ND threw them a lifeline and snubbed the Big 10 that had been trying to corner ND by telling then join the Big 10 or you may find yourself with a depleted ACC or depleted Big East or both to run off to

    once MU fucked it up for the Big 10 the Big 10 was done with them forever

    Bowtie admitted that he decided to take aggy out in 2010.  He was just looking for the right time.  LHN gave him an excuse.  I remember how aggy he was in that interview with the aggy student paper.  The quote was <rough quote>,  "When the 10 remaining teams committed to the Big 12 in June 2010,  I said we were committed to the Big 12 as it was, meaning the 12 team Big 12 as  Nebraska and Colorado hadn't officially left yet.  I didn't want anyone to say I lied when we left later."

  14. On 6/19/2019 at 8:13 PM, utee94 said:

    Yes, CU was looking to the PAC way back in the B8 days, long before the B12 was formed.  And it's not CU's fault that all of the complete idiot loser Husker and ag fans lump them into the discussion when blaming Texas for everything.  I haven't ever really seen a Colorado fan mention problems with Texas as their reason for leaving.  And no offense intended to Colorado fans, but I honestly don't notice them being gone.  Same goes for Mizzou, they never did much in the conference, and I haven't really noticed them being gone.

    I always liked having Nebraska in the B12 though, and it's too bad things worked out the way they did, but they were just doing what they felt was right for their own finances when they decided to abandon the B12.  What's annoying is that Nebraska was given a free pass to make their money grab in the B1G, but Texas was lambasted for STAYING IN THE B12 and working to get more money for everyone else, and not just themselves.  Go figure.

     

    And aggy threw a fit because they wanted their $20 million guarantee that the 5 left behind offered..  Tech tried to get it.  Texas and OU said, "no, wouldn't be fair."

    Yet Texas again is the greedy one.

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  15. On 6/18/2019 at 11:45 PM, Hurtlocker said:

    Especially since they just spent the better part of a half decade getting jobbed in the pay out department by the likes of K-State

    Yes.  And those Big 10 people love to say how they are so egalitarian and Texas is greedy.  Yet NU is $50 million behind where they would have been if they stayed in the Big 12.  Maryland made $26 million last year while the 12 "full" members made $54 million.  And Rutgers only made $11 million.

     

    Nobody anywhere is paying entrance fees like that.  The Big 10 is doing it simply because they can.

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  16. On 7/12/2019 at 10:34 AM, SnowAggy said:

    Why define yourself by who you're not?  It's dumb.  I've seen vehicles where someone went out and bought a Longhorns sticker and put it on their window upside down...boy, you really showed them...

    I mean, I get it, every other big 12 fanbase is gonna flash the horn down when they score on UT or whatever (including mine) but OU's trophy case says they should be better than making it their sign.

    Just because Oregon makes an "O" with their hands doesn't mean Oklahoma can't.

    From the OP's article:

     

    "..."We polled college fans and asked them who their biggest rival was," Havard said. "Texas has 11 different teams identifying them as a rival, by far the most in the country....""

    And 9 of the 11 do the Horns down now.  Don't think Rice does.  And I don't have a clue who #11 is (8 SWC, OU, WVU + ???)

    But in the 70s I don't remember anybody but aggy doing it.  With OU you would think they would have something other than an inferiority complex vs. UT.  They've actually won something since 1939.  It was only with the Big 12 it seemed to get widespread.

     

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