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  1. 1 hour ago, TKthunder2 said:

    $80 million is probably about right.  $50 million is way low. Live sport TV rights still have not plateaued so I’d still take the over.

    If ESPN truly doesn’t value most OOC games (which is debatable) then $811 million divided by the 8 current conference games would be roughly $101 million.  The SEC is under contract so this is still being negotiated without any outside bidders. I assume the price will not be a straight proportional increase since ESPN has most of the control.

    Would be curious to see the aggregated financials when half the conference loses an annual home game and likely they can pencil in a team or two being removed from bowl eligibility as well. Not to mention the potential cost of not making the CFP cut line by adding that extra loss. Are those negatives offset by the increase with their TV rights?

    ESPN clearly does not value the FCS games that all but one SEC team plays. They're all relegated to dogshit channels and times, if not only on something like ESPN+. They leaked their range. I'm sure this could clear at $100M with caveats about the FCS games going away or limited to X times per every Y years or something. Fixing that also removes an annual cost for every program to host one of those dogshit programs. You don't have to pay an additional SEC team to create a home and home each cycle.

    There is a zero percent chance that losing one home game, often the most poorly attended, every other season, is equal to or greater than in value to the additional $6.25M-ish each year, plus improved attendance and concessions every other year for that extra home game. The bounty of $6.25M + $.5M (additional ticket sales, sponsorships and concessions) + $1-$3M in not paying for the FCS game = $7.75M-$9.75M in new annual money seems like a no brainer, even for the biggest SEC pussies. 

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  2. Is there some history of gorillas taking down humans? I guess I can believe that it's happened on occasion, but I wouldn't put "gorillas" on a list of animal threats to humanity. Now, for gorillas, I feel fairly certain that, on their list of animal threads to gorillas, "humans" is probably pretty fucking high on the list. 

    That said, I thought Congo was a fun book and a terrible movie. Some rock club-wielding, psycho silverbacks clapping human heads deep in the jungle is a moderately terrifying thought. 

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  3. 10 hours ago, kilroydos said:

    This is the only piece I might take slight exception to.  He fought to get back on the field after missing seven calendar weeks and got a really nasty concussion near the end of the game he returned.  He may or may not be any good this year, but prior to the injuries, he was getting open in front of two QBs that were psychically incapable of staying in the pocket to find an option later in the play.

    He averaged 7.9 ypc, your mods hinted at him being reluctant to return to the field throughout all of October and most of November, and he had a long of 20 yards on the season. Prior to the season, from the spring of 2024, through magazine write-ups in June, through media days, and then through scoring his only 3 tds against an absolutely shitty Temple team, your talking heads and coaching staff told anyone and everyone how fucking great he was. What a steal he was! What was Purdue doing letting him get away!!

    Then? He got hurt against Tennessee and had to be begged back onto the field. Once injured again, he was done and talking of transferring. Your idiots running things with NIL overpaid to keep him. 

    He's a pedestrian slot WR who can't handle the physicality of the SEC. He'll be an afterthought riding a bike by the Texas/OU game. 

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  4. 7 minutes ago, oldhorn2 said:

    Mike Singletary deserves some consideration here as well.....,.high school stud ( too small for Texas to look at him). College AA several times, all pro..HOF...

    And that has absolutely nothing to do with the Texas 2025 offseason. Nothing. 

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  5. 6 minutes ago, Deej said:

    The real joke is everyone with power over the situation just looked the other way. I'm sure that didn't offend you as much as jokes years later, though. 

    But, you're right, lets just never mention the actions of Penn State again. Sweep it under the rug. 

    Yeah, we never mention Penn State's child rape scandal around here. That's a really poignant call out for the need for your unfunny shit up above. 

    Also, quick quips that hit often enough are your forte. Sometimes they don't land, oh well. It's smart to stick with those, though. That cheap rhetorical shit insinuating that you've got some moral high ground and that I was cool with what went down at Sandusky U can go get yourself fucked. 

    Or, fuck it, flesh it all out if you want and we can see how it turns out for each of us. 

  6. Boy, now I remember why I have the steamboat guy on ignore. He doesn’t seem to have a firm grip of the English language and, worse, is on here poopooing Ricky Williams and Vince Young, the best players in the sport during each of their tenures. No one gives a fuck if chronic wifebeater Jim Brown was also awesome. That shit is known. 

    Beyond that, the other old guy shows up to stan for Eric Dickerson, a cheating piece of shit who continued his piece of shittery into the NFL and beyond. And … and the fucking guy has nothing to do with Texas, much less the fucking offseason. 

    This thread has taken a really dumb fucking turn here. 

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  7. 2 hours ago, statsman said:

    Caveat: I, “statsman”, do not know shit about fuck on this topic-

    I have seen rumblings that a delay in the “House settlement” would cause chaos in college football. 
     
    Observation- in the last couple of transfer portals, teams have retained key players better than before. 
     
    Hypothesis: Have P4 teams all assumed that they will be allowed to budget $15M for football next year, out of AD revenue, which represents a big increase for about 80% of the schools in P4? Allowing them to retain and recruit. Would a delay in the “House settlement” require them to make up budget shortfalls from donors, causing extreme stress in program support? Or, in such an event, would AD’s just go ahead and write the checks to players anyway, and worry later about any consequences?

    Correct. 

    1 hour ago, cochamps said:

    My guess is that some of these programs might just renege.  bwdik?

    If House doesn’t pass, it’s safe to assume that many programs will not make payroll unless emergency funds flow in. 

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  8. 11 hours ago, Red Five said:

    The same posters keep saying this over and over. Literally zero Texas fans expect perfection from Arch Manning. 

    They cannot wait to sprint onto here, quote one idiot or two lamenting something about Manning, and claim that “Texas ZOMG are such stupidz!?!!”

    The media will do the same shit with zero perspective, just quoting some of the dumbest Texas Twitter clowns they can find. 

    Just a simple Ohio State loss and we’ll hear “there’s trouble brewing down in Austin” etc. 

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  9. 1 hour ago, Hayduke said:

    Highlights from Wikipedia entry on Trot Nixon:

    May 5, 2002, threw his bat toward Devil Rays pitcher Ryan Rupe, pretending the bat slipped out of his hands while swinging. Fined $2,000 and suspended  four games.

    Best year was 2003, hit .306 with 28 home runs, 87 RBIs. On October 4, in Game 3 of ALDS, had a two-run pinch-hit homer in the bottom of the 11th to win the series over Oakland. Hit .333 (8 for 24) with 3 home runs and 5 RBIs in the ALCS but Sox lost to the Yankees.

    Herniated disc and a tight thigh muscle kept him out of much of 2004, but hit a two-out, two-run double off the right field wall at Busch Stadium in St. Louis in the top of the third to give Boston a 3–0 lead -- the final score in the fourth game of Boston's World Series sweep, bringing its first title in 86 years. Batted .357 (5 for 14) with 3 doubles, 3 RBIs in the series.

    Endeared himself to Sox fans by briefly wearing a mohawk hairstyle, "one of many unconventional and bizarre hairstyles the Sox sported over the course of the 2004 season."

    Known for his "extremely volatile temper and steadfast dedication to his teammates. In August 2005, while officially on the disabled list, Nixon remained in uniform and in the dugout with the rest of the team during the game. When teammate Gabe Kapler ... hit a long fly ball off of the Green Monster, the umpires ruled it a double. Nixon leapt off the bench and argued with such passion that Kapler's hit had been a home run (television replays confirmed that the hit had landed above the home run line...) that he was ejected from the game."

    If Trott is like Trot, he deserves the spot.

    I faced Rupe in a non-district game in HS. Dude threw gas. 

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  10. 9 hours ago, TrashMaster G said:

    Who the fuck names their kid Trott?

    Excuse you, sir?

    If a thoughtful pair of parents want to name their son after a legend with a career OPS of .828 and a leader of the breakers of Babe Ruth’s curse, who are we to question that? 

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