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  1. I hear it’s because he refers to the white linemen as his “Honky’s” and he is obsessive with the word to the point that he has a bootleg rap trac called Honky’s in Paris.
  2. His resources and influence are limited, Oregon has been his pet project but Nike is absolutely not going to let’s its swoosh cash cows in the SEC or B1G be challenged. If you want to talk about his fortune that he leaves when he kicks the bucket, we’ll he isn’t special in that case.
  3. The lower conferences don’t matter anymore they’ll agree to what the SEC and Big 10 want or they can rot.
  4. 2024 at the earliest as ESPN takes over the SEC from CBS but at that point why pay a hefty exit penalty instead of just letting the GOR expire.
  5. Fox and the Big 10 might have grossly overplayed their hand here. ESPN already has the ACC and SEC, if ESPN can help cause the remaining Pac to collapse and jump ship to the Big 12 and ESPN is able to swoop in for the Big 12 media rights ESPN would have completely flipped the Alliance on the Big 10 and Fox. The ACC needs to keep ND in their current semi joined state, the SEC wants to keep ND out of the Big 10, the Big 12 wants to keep ND independent so the Big 10 hold fast at 16 teams and the Big 12 can grab a homeless Oregon and Washington. At that point the Big 10 and fox are completely boxed in, the SEC throws some bones to the ACC and Big 12 with auto bids for the conference champs and use the deeper SEC to squash the Big 10 with unfavorable match ups. Have the ACC, Big 12 and ND eating up playoff spots the SEC can then get 4 teams like Bama, Georgia, OU, or LSU/UT/UF/AU and stack that up against OSU, UM, PSU, USC, but then there is the big drop off to Iowa, Wisconsin, and Nebraska which just can’t match the SEC in fire power.
  6. The Alliance got played in brutal fashion by the Big 10, the Pac tried to protect the Rose Bowl only to have the Big just out right take it. Sankey and the SEC worked to make sure that ND had a path to the playoff with the purposed 6 conference champs +6 at large. The ACC stupidly thought it had the genuine support of the Big 10 so they shot down the 12 team playoff in an attempt to force ND to join the ACC as a full member, however with both the Pac and Big 12 mortality wounded the SEC and Big 10 now control the playoffs future and thus if ND joins a conference its gonna be the Big 10.
  7. Which doesn’t actually mean much, NBC while a subsidiary of Comcast still operates as it’s own company and the limitations as purely broadcast company same with ESPN and Disney.
  8. Because they don’t have the pull to get either of those two.
  9. It’s one of the worst heat waves on record and Jimbo is still wearing a goddamn 1/4 zip pullover as a shirt. The man has 100 million dollars and not enough sense or taste to put together a semi decent outfit or at least pay someone todo it for him.
  10. Yep, everyone but the Big 10 and Fox benefits from ND staying independent. The SEC, ACC and ESPN are going to fight to keep ND from ending up in the B1G and any path for an independent ND opens up a path for the Big 12 and Pac as well.
  11. The Big 10 is signing their own death warrant if they take even more garbage programs like GT, BC, Cal, and ASU or they take wild cultural outliers like Duke and Miami all in the pursuit cable boxes. It’s not 2010 cord cutting is eating into that pie and cable adoption is basically zero and reaching the point when the average cable subscriber is 60 and the only ad revenue is from Medicaid supplement insurance companies. At that point the networks will derive most their value from the ad space they can sell in big match ups, OSU vs USC or UM vs ND is something that the networks will be willing to payout the ass for. But what happens when 50% of the inventory the Big 10 is trying to sell the networks is worthless garbage like Rutgers vs GT or Boston College vs Cal? Now these teams do nothing but eat into the pie that OSU, PSU, UM, ND, USC generate as they bring nothing to the table as programs themselves.
  12. The problem being the SEC and Big 10 don’t want all 8, the B1G only seems to want UNC and UVA, the SEC seems to be less picky and would take UNC, UVA, Clemson, FSU and Miami with NC state or VT being a consolation prize if UNC and UVA go north. But that means at most only 7 schools are getting picked up if you include ND.
  13. That’s not how it works.
  14. Dabo’s shtick is annoying and dumb but it’s tolerated because he wins, Venables seems like he is setting himself up the way Herman did in try to copy Urban and OSU, that’s shit only works if you win and win big fast.
  15. Well we know CTJ has at least seen the show. Because one of my favorite surly moments is when some lunatic followed CTJ from the TV board and went on a rant about Danny burning Kings Landing which lead to a Tom Herman recruiting thread debating the effectiveness of strategic fire bombing campaigns.
  16. Or the man is actually smart and realizes the need to build the identity of the Big 12 without UT and OU. The Big 12 no longer gains anything from the presence of Texas or OU as the talk about either team will almost always be in relation to the SEC, you don’t want a Big 12 title game between two teams that are literally leaving the Big 12 because the SEC narrative will overshadow the Big 12. Secure the financial compensation and use that to begin building up the new Big 12 brand focus on OSU, UCF, ISU, Cincy and how they are going to lead the Big 12 into a new era.
  17. “Derrick and his wife Emily are going through some relationship issues.” vs Derrick has been fucking a 23 year old he hired into his department and is paying her rent, but his wife won’t divorce him because she is afraid he will get custody of the kids since she has a OxyContin habit. Which one of these statements will start more shit if said at a office luncheon?
  18. This site is literally incapable of not getting duped by rando twitter accounts throwing shit against the wall.
  19. Because they weren't full of pissants, they had an actual core of quality programs to build the conference around, the Big 8 and SWC were 4 power programs with a dozen ticks hanging on it was completely and utterly kept alive by Texas, OU, Nebraska and A&M. Instead of the Big 12 being formed from the absolutely awful corpses of the SWC and big 8 Texas and A&M bolt for the SEC or Pac and OU and NU are able to jump to the Big 10 what happens to the rest of the conference? OSU, KSU, Baylor, TTU, KU, ISU where fucking hot garbage for decades, there was no middle class to hold up the rest of the conference it was all third rate teams in 5th rate markets.
  20. I wonder how many programs are mixing bags and unrealistic NIL pitches to get a massive recruiting boost while creating a ticking time bomb in their program. You drop a bag as a pseudo signing bonus make it seem as though that will be a regular thing and then tie that with a NIL pitch that just isn't realistic. Hey kid here is 250k and we can get you 2 mil in NIL if you sign with us. But in reality that 250k is a one time deal and the 2 million is if you are a Heisman finalist on title winning team. Only for the kid to get to campus ride the pine his freshman year to a 7-5 season and whopping 15k NIL money hawking discounts at a detail shop.
  21. You’re a fucking idiot.
  22. And that accounts for less than 1% of traffic, the vast, vast overwhelming majority of Americans drive less than 100 miles a day with the majority of those driving less than 50 miles a day which is well within the feasibility of EVs.
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