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  1. The issue for the Big 10 is that it is going to get $70 million per school and there is probably no west coast school that will generate that type of revenue on TV money. But I suspect they will do a 6-7 year buy-in, look at it strategically, generate money from sponsorships and BTN and make it profitable for the existing 14. Rick Neuheisel said Washington and Oregon are a done deal. Brett McMurphy never retracted his earlier comments. Their courting was very public. Warren basically said 18 or 20 was going to happen and that the only issue was 1, 5 or 7 years. Its possible Warren doesn't have the votes, but I think its just a matter of timing and we will see the announcement sometime before July 1. The question in my mind is whether they stop at 18 or go to 20 with Stanford and Cal. 20 gets harder to justify financially.
  2. Speaking of the Pac, Jon Wilner, its biggest cheerleader, says its doom is imminent. He just thinks its 7 years away, not 1. https://tucson.com/sports/pac-12-hotline/pac-12-hotline-big-tens-tone-changes-which-is-good-news-for-pac-12-stability/article_17ea0aac-4c02-11ed-aafe-ef44767ae34d.html "...Never say never when it comes to realignment, but 20 doesn’t appear imminent. Which means the Pac-12 is more likely to sign a medium-length media contract and move forward with the 10 remaining schools. But that’s not the end of the story. Because by the turn of the decade, the market forces will have shifted and the Big Ten will be strutting to the negotiating table for another media contract. As we outlined recently in a deep dive into the future of the sport, the next wave of realignment could very well strike in the late 2020s with the Big Ten and SEC expanding again and a third super-conference emerging. The third league would feature many of the schools currently in the Big 12, plus those from the Pac-12 and ACC that don’t make the jump into the massive SEC or equally massive Big Ten. Consolidation around the Big Two is inevitable. A western arm of the Big Ten is inevitable. An exodus of Pac-12 schools into a reconfigured Big 12 is inevitable. But increasingly, it appears that point is years, not weeks or months, away."
  3. 2024 just makes sense. ESPN gets the SEC contract from CBS. USC and UCLA move to the Big 10. Pac 12, if it exists, starts its new TV contract.
  4. Yes. CBS is probably going to trade some games to NBC or Fox next year. There are a few weeks where they don't have SEC games at 2:30.
  5. They executed a lot when it counted. Except for the INT, they executed every single big play last week.
  6. Call was a fumble. Referee mistakenly announced call was that runner was down. So the graphic copied that mistake.
  7. That was a really good point with this win. Sark was something like 2-7 in one score games at UT.
  8. It looked pretty obvious it was a shoulder hit. QB sympathy?
  9. I just don't understand how you leave Hutchinson all alone. Nobody was within a yard of him on any of his catches, usually not 3 or 4 yards. Secondary was REALLY dogging it today. On that one TD, Jordan was jogging after the receiver made his move before he realized he needed to cover the guy. And then he never dived for at least a chance to tackle the guy by the ankle. And all day a receiver would get hit and everybody stood around and waited for the one guy to make the tackle (3 or 4 yards later) instead of flying to the ball. Were they all hungover from the night before?
  10. Cain dropped a wide open pass for us also.
  11. Rick Neuheisel? He said a couple days ago Washington and Oregon is a done deal, just a question of when. Brett McMurphy has never reversed his frequently repeated position that the Big 10 people were telling him they were expanding more on the west coast. He expected UW, Oregon, Stanford and Cal. Big 10 commissioner Warren said the other day expansion wasn't his top priority, but he still expected 18-20 team conferences, but wasn't sure whether the timeline was within 1 year, 5 years or 7 years. Pretty clear he was referring to the Big 10 and SEC expanding to 18-20 team conferences.
  12. The $55 million CBS contract still controls the 3:30 SEC time slot for one more year. CBS isn't giving that up. And without that change to the over $300 million ESPN contract, there's not much incentive to move in 2023.
  13. It doesn't really screw us, just the R8. They will want OU and UT at home as much as possible the next two years. If we are here 2 more years, BU, TCU, TT, OSU, KU, KSU, ISU, WVU and the OU game are likely our 9 road games. OU will be the same.
  14. Why would the conference do that? The R8 would want to get Texas and OU at home.
  15. https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/big-ten-commissioner-kevin-warren-expansion-not-something-we’re-doing/yhkdudzkguta6y6e4j5nqbsb Money quote: "...When people ask me right now: Do I think certain conferences may grow through a natural evolution to 18 or 20 schools? I do believe that. Now, over what time period is the critical question. I don’t know if that’s within a year, or five years, or seven years. I just think there’s been kind of like that … kind of like the Big Ten grew in the past. I just think there’s going to be some natural growth. But I made it very clear: Some of my can’t-miss priorities, the things that I have to make sure we execute flawlessly are:..."
  16. https://www.ajc.com/sports/kennesaw-state-on-track-to-join-conference-usa-move-up-to-fbs/EGHB7WFBLZGWDPCQPQRBMCIM2Q/ "Kennesaw State received conditional approval from Georgia’s Board of Regents on Wednesday to move its athletic programs to Conference USA, launching its football program to the NCAA’s highest and more lucrative level of competition. The one condition the university must meet is a demonstration of support from student and faculty governing bodies and other community members. Then, University System of Georgia Chancellor Sonny Perdue can sign off on the move. Other details of Kennesaw State’s potential shift from the ASUN to Conference USA have not been disclosed, and there was little discussion of the move during this week’s Board of Regents meetings held at Dalton State College. ESPN reported that the school is expected to join its new conference in 2024...."
  17. Right. Just like you aren't an asshole for failing to admit you specifically said "Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area" in your initial post I corrected. Right???🙂
  18. Wrong. It is not in the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is a separate Athens MSA. The commuting patterns make it separate. It is in the Combined Statistical Area. That's where they throw in Athens, Rome (practically to Tennessee), LaGrange (practically to Alabama), Thomaston (halfway to Florida) and a bunch of other communities. With DFW, its when they throw in everything from Corsicana to Mineral Wells to Sherman to Durant, OK. With Houston, they include Huntsville, Brenham, El Campo and Bay City.
  19. I'd settle for another Blake decade, not 2+. When your biggest rival is Rice level bad, however, it takes some of the fun out of it. Nobody really cared about aggy in the 70s. They had been bad for decades. We had to promote pig and commuter aggy to our 2nd and 3rd biggest rivals behind OU.
  20. And maybe Riley knew something the rest of us didn't when he cut and ran for the coast. His cupboard may have been empty. And he took what was valuable there with him.
  21. Georgia is actually just outside the Atlanta metro area, but only about 75 minutes from downtown Atlanta. Georgia State and Georgia Tech are both in downtown Atlanta. KSU is about 25 miles NW. They have an 8300 seat stadium. The way it is aligned, it will be difficult to expand. Its nice and relatively new, but little. Atlanta United sometimes plays there. Atlanta United 2 uses it as its home base (think AAA soccer). KSU has 40,000 students and on campus housing, but the kids all go home on weekends, so its a lot like a commuter campus. Baseball, softball and basketball are also new, nice and small, but they are probably big enough for CUSA.
  22. Oregon AD Mullens, originally from WVU, was interviewed on TV there and made the comment that TV and USC/UCLA broke the regional tradition and that there was going to be more and more change. Didn't say anything specific, but definitely supported the idea that UW and Oregon might move to the Big 10.
  23. had a chance to get fired up. Now I wasn't at UH 1990 or Ricky's 1998 game. Those, especially UH, you could tell even on TV they were loud. Those are the only two that possibly exceed that Tech game.
  24. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=brackens+hit+on+texas+tech+punter&atb=v314-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dzorwg3ZtGEg Brackens hit on the Tech kicker in 1995 was the loudest moment I've experienced. And the game was the loudest. It was a night game so everyone
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