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  1. 16 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    If 2023 was a legit possibility, I think the SEC would have held back on releasing the conference schedule for next year already.  That really seemed to scream "2024" 

    They would have had Texas and Alabama cancel if we were moving next IMO.

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  2. 55 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    That Big 12 2023 schedule is going to be fascinating in a very bad way for Texas. This is exactly what the Irate8 wanted. Prolong Texas/OU’s departure for as long as possible and soak every drop out of the sponge. But hey, UT painted themselves into a corner by letting ESPN drive the bus and not suing immediately after the Brent Z leak. 
     

    Fans get screwed. The Tower, Bellmont, and ESPN don’t give a shit. Water is wet. 
     

    Maalik better be ready next season. There is no way in hell Arch takes a snap in a Big 12 game. 

    This comment is a power slide into progressively stupid takes.

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  3. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

    The Hill recruitment would not be over for two reasons I can think of:

    1) Texas may say fuck it and go all in on him with ATM potentially falling apart. 

    2) Major ATM NIL support will dry up if things don’t improve and Fisher refuses to address his staff.  

    So do these massive coaching contracts create massive nooses for athletic departments? If Fisher, Kelly or any of these coaches with decade long contracts piss the boosters off and they pull their NIL support and recruiting crashes, the product on the field crashes and then your booster are even less likely to want fund even more money. How the hell do stop something like this from becoming a self sustaining crash?

  4. 1 hour ago, texifornia said:

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    We did have a massive transfer purge after things went sideways last year, if ya didn’t notice. The difference is Texas didn’t whip its dick out proclaim to the world they have arrived with 100 million dollar coaching contract and the #1 recruiting class and a #6 start. They have doubled down so many times they literally must hit that straight flush on the river because they can’t fold as all of their chips are on the table and they done nothing but bump the pot arrogantly against everyone at the table trying to bluff them out when there is trips on the flop.

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  5. They kind of have a point about an early season loss at home when you are breaking in a new quarter back and starting a bunch of freshmen on the O line, nice of Texags to explain why Texas lost a nail biter at home to the #1 team and hiesman winner. As for why #6 lost at home to a G5 while starting a redshirt sophomore IDK, they haven't made any compelling arguments about that one.

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  6. 26 minutes ago, Da Fino said:


    If the defense really improves this year what are the chances that PK is offered a head coaching job somewhere. Even rice could offer him more than he’s making now. People on this board say he doesn’t like recruiting or isn’t good at it. What are the chances both leave? I don’t know either of their personalities at this point of their lives. That could be a weird scenario.

    PK doesn’t want to be an HC apparently doesn’t like the politics, recruiting management requirements it’s why Jimmy Lake got promoted over PK at UW.

  7. 3 minutes ago, Fud said:

    A&M should have lost to a terrible Colorado team last year and then they beat Bama 

    They still had Elko and Henson, Elko could field a D that would drag the O to the finish line and Henson could slap together a line to help make Jimbo’s glacial offensive have some effect.

  8. 3 minutes ago, Assman said:

    Who cares?  None of this shit matters.  We're a cursed program.  The best roster we've had in a decade and QE we'll be out for most of the season.  We'll go 6-6 at best, rinse and repeat.  Fuck this.

    You think this is the best roster we have had in decade?

  9. 1 hour ago, ermahgerdhorn said:

    Exactly.  And if that doesn't change the SEC will have to relegate some members to make it fair to the producing schools.  Based on current and known future members I'd split them as:

    Contributing:

    Alabama
    Texas
    Oklahoma
    Georgia
    Florida

    Marginal:
    Tennessee 
    LSU
    Arkansas
    Auburn
    Kentucky (Basketball at least)
    Ole Miss

    Bottom Tier; Not-Contributing:
    Missouri 
    aggy
    Miss St
    South Carolina
    Vandy

    It's hard to argue that the bottom tier school shouldn't be downgraded to FCS or a non P5 conference.
     

    I am sorry but you’re a delusional homer if you think A&M contributes nothing to the SEC, that is a Texags level of a cognitive dissonance take to make.

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  10. 1 minute ago, tx 3 putt said:


    you know, he had 18 months off to improve himself, and the funds for a high end qb coach ?

    and a trainer ?

    maybe spend less time on his mullet and beard. He looked like a 18 yo yesterday. I was hoping he’d look better / show some zip on that ball ?

    He's 19 and was held back a year, you stupid fuck.

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  11. 5 hours ago, hawkfan said:

    Reading the tea leaves, it seems pretty clear to me Swarbrick understands where this is heading with his comments from back in April stating that the B1G/SEC have started the end game:

    https://footballscoop.com/news/notre-dame-ad-jack-swarbrick-great-split-coming-college-athletics

    I continue to believe all of the conference realignment moves for the last 50 years have always been as easy as following the money.  It's pretty easy to see that the TV networks will eventually put more money out there for the B1G/SEC to dump G5/FCS games, and now that we're getting the expanded playoff and you'll see 3/4 loss teams get in, everyone will agree to comply for a pay raise from the networks.  The SEC has resisted 9 conference games for a long time but will be about to do that for a raise.

    If I'm right with that assumption, and there are only two real power conferences playing 10-11 games against each other, ND is going to have a pretty tough time putting together a schedule.  If they see the writing on the wall at this point, they can either join a conference in the coming few years and help shape what it will look like moving forward, or they can fight the good fight to stay independent until the end, which is likely the mid 2030's as Swarbrick references in the article.  Either way, they're gonna have to be in one of the P2 conferences for scheduling purposes once the B1G/SEC are done taking what they want from the P12/ACC.

    I don't believe for a second that we'll ever see a playoff format where 6 conference champions automatically get in, because I think the money makes it very clear that doesn't make sense.  The B1G/SEC can keep expanding and it will eventually just become top 12 rated teams get in with no auto bids, which will be 8+ B1G/SEC schools every season.

    The SEC isn’t going to 10-11 game conference schedule, the only schools the SEC want are locked up for 10 years, nor are the Big 12 or ACC going to 10-11 games. The only reasons that ND is going to join the Big 10 is purely because of money, the SEC and the rest of CFB are going to oppose the Big 10 in trying to create the conditions that would force ND into the Big 10.

  12. 1 hour ago, hawkfan said:

    This, IMO, is the "give ND cover to join a conference" clause:

    ND would be excluded from a first round bye if Feldman has that correct.

    Nope, ND actually pushed for this last year before the Alliance torpedoed it. The driving reason the ACC voted against the playoff expansion was because they wanted to make it hard for ND to qualify and thus could be pressured into joining the ACC as a football member. ND was just as pissed as the SEC was when expansion got shutdown last year.

  13. 1 hour ago, ClubWhatever said:

    Stewart Mandel predicts 4-8, so it's settled.  We can hit the coach reset button in 4 months and then all be one happy family again.

    Well considering his bold prediction on Michigan last year, we should win the Big and make the playoffs.

  14. 1 hour ago, slorch said:

    The Notre Dame issue is easily solved.  Any team not playing in a conference championship game gets an automatic loss not on their season record, but in playoff seeding/ qualifying.  That solves for some of the backdoor bullshit by other schools, and is a huge reason it would never come to fruition.

    Notre Dame already pretty much agreed to this before the alliance torpedo the CFP expansion.

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