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  1. ESPN may be paying the Big 12 more for more inventory. As for the holes, someone else pointed out that they have 14 games from the SEC CBS contract and 14 home games for UT and OU which pretty much covers what they lost from The Big 10. Now they still have half of the Pac 12 and Big 12, so they will need to renew those deals. The big hole for ESPN is basketball. I've seen they covered as many as 80 Big 10 basketball games (but haven't seen that verified from a source such as SBJ).
  2. I think the 4 new schools only get a half share at the start.
  3. Well, we are running out of time for 2023. And CBS still has the SEC game of the week in 2023. Newbies arrive in 2023. I think it will be 2024, same as USC and UCLA.
  4. Loftin said the same thing a year after the move in an article in the aggy student paper. He said he decided to wait for the right time after he couldn't do it in 2010. And the reason he did it was for branding. When they did surveys outside the state of Texas, nobody saw any difference between aggy, sand aggy and 3rd ward aggy. He also said he told the other presidents in 2010 that he was committed to the Big 12 "as it existed." In his mind, that meant with Nebraska and Colorado, even though everyone was talking about the Big 12 w/o Nebraska and Colorado. That way he could say he wasn't lying when he said it!!!! aggys are SOOO pathetic.
  5. For those posters a little older than me who may remember better, didn't they cheer him with "Woooo"
  6. RIP As fullback he was really a key part of that wishbone.
  7. If there is not a formal notice, the conference still has to vote on when effective withdrawal occurred. I don't think that has happened. So there has been no formal determination that UT and OU's votes don't count. Both sides are probably avoiding making that an issue by UT and OU just staying out of future conference issues.
  8. I have a vague recollection of UT and OU deciding not to attend that meeting. So it never came down to whether they had a vote or not.
  9. I think they probably don't join until the ACC raids of the 2030s. But I think its inevitable for the same reasons Texas and OU had to join the SEC. There is a power 2 and ND just won't be able to keep up in recruiting and otherwise unless they are in it. They won't have a say in the major decisions about how NIL, pay for play and the like get structured. And for all practical purposes Warren and Sankey will sit down and decide the CFP, just as Delaney and Slive did the original 4 team one.
  10. I think we move in 2024. That's when ESPN gets the CBS SEC game of the week. Although with this Big 10 deal, CBS is committed to two 2:30 games for the 2023 season. Maybe the change happens a year early. But I doubt it. CBS will want lot as they are making a ton on the SEC.
  11. The reality is that their "national" schedule is an NBC creation. For most of their history, yes, they did play USC, but most of their schedule was Chicago to Boston. In the 70s when conferences upped their number of conference games, they added independents Air Force, Georgia Tech and Miami as regulars. But they still normally had 6 or 7 games in their "conference' from Chicago to Boston.
  12. Swarbick knows there is a P2 and they will eventually have to join one of them. There's still some chance they decide to make that move in the next 6 months. If NBC doesn't offer enough, they will obviously go.
  13. People who listened to the interview have said ND was the least committed to independence that they have ever heard. Swarbick was complaining about travel to Tallahassee. So while there certainly wasn't any imminent to Big 10 statements, he didn't rule it out the way ND usually does. He also talked about consolidation. I think he understands ND eventually has to join Big 10. Doesn't mean he intends to be the one to make that decision.
  14. I don't have any problem with Alabama claiming that one. But Arkansas did get the shaft that year. They were also unbeaten in the regular season.
  15. That gate sharing finally got killed, so the conference lasted a little longer. Don't remember when that change happened. Its interesting that in the 50s, aggy played all their home games vs. Rice in Houston. They drew better there.
  16. CBS bid $300 million. I've read (not authoritatively) the ESPN number was somewhere north of $350 million for the SEC.
  17. I felt like you would have been able to outscore LSU.
  18. I don't think they ever had much of a shot at CBS or NBC prime slots. Now they have a better chance of keeping ESPN.
  19. You don't seem to realize how bad KU was last year. They beat us and also South Dakota by 3. They were 108 in the Massey composite, with only Duke, Vandy and Arizona in the P5 below them--and they lost 52-33 to Duke. UTSA was 34.
  20. That's big news. Probably good news for Pac and Big 12.
  21. Again, he's just making stuff up. I remember trying to go to a game in the Dome and after waiting for an hour in the ticket line (and I didn't get there until game time) gave up and went home.
  22. Since 1996, their worst average attendance year was 14,896, and that was CUSA. You are just totally making stuff up.
  23. Was looking at some past years. Notre Dame in 1943 raises some questions. They did beat #2 Iowa Pre-flight for their only loss, #3 Michigan for their only loss and #4 Navy for their only loss. Notre Dame was 9-1 losing only to 10-2 #6 Great Lakes Naval Station. The only top 6 team they didn't play was #5 Purdue 9-0, who did beat #6 Great Lakes Naval Station. 4 of the top 10 were military bases, Navy was #4 and Army was #11. Purdue did go unbeaten and beat the only team to beat Notre Dame. Purdue didn't play Michigan or Notre Dame that year. Only other ranked unbeatens were #12 Washington 4-0, #17 Bainbridge Navy Training school 7-0 and #18 Colorado College 7-0.
  24. Yeah, I couldn't believe it the first time I went there. I think whoever wins the Alabama-Tennessee game claims an MNC.
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