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Posts posted by Crockett
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2 hours ago, royiv said:
What beers are y'all serving in that stadium?
Root beer
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47 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:
Ehh. Give me engaged crowds and fanbases every day. The Pac 12 and it's vacation spots are absolutely floundering as a college sports entity, while the flyover Big 12 is finding solid footing.
I love to go to the mountains, but I tend to do it when people aren't playing college sports.
See you in November
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3 hours ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:
This times one-fucking-billion. As soon as someone claims Ann Richards had fuck all to do w/ Baylor joining the BXII I know that they don't know shit about what happened at the end of the SWC/formation of the BXII.
Bob Bullock, David Sibley, Pete Laney and Rob Junnell were the Texas politicos who made sure Baylor and Tech didn't get left behind. Google is your friend. Ann didn't care one iota what happened to Baylor. Hell, if she was in Waco for any speaking engagement or official business at Baylor she was almost guaranteed to be wearing burnt orange or Longhorn jewelry.
There is BYU lore out there that BYU had a shot at joining the B12 back in the day, but that Richards kept us out for more Texas schools / Baylor.
If anyone here actually knows what really happened, then I am all ears.
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1 hour ago, CustersDoctor said:
The networks and the Big time programs both want conference consolidation. The networks would rather just broadcast marquee games. Big time programs like the idea of the giant pie of cash being cut into fewer and fewer pieces, thus increasing their share. But in the last thirty years the only legit consolidation was when the BIG8 added the four good Texas schools and shed the dead weight of TCU, SMU and Coug High. And then when the Big East money makers joined the ACC. But it now in order to stay relevant, the BIG12 had to let TCU back into the party, and now adding UH, Cincy and UCF the numbers of schools in the major conferences is growing not shrinking. Soon the PAC12 may replace USC & UCLA with SDSU & SMU. Its going in the wrong direction!
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On 2/25/2023 at 9:42 AM, Hermanator said:
Exactly. White coaches shouldn't say it. Black coaches shouldn't say it. Nobody should. Everything about it except the 3.5 GPA and never take a QB with a mullet is discriminatory and just flat wrong. Thing is there's very little chance he actually goes by that philosophy, with all the resources available to D1 scouting and recruiting it's madness if you don't evaluate the individual and just go by a metric. He's such an idiot he probably thinks that makes him sound smart and edgy.
Just when I want to pull for the guy he goes and reminds me he's a piece of shit. He's a racist, discriminatory, dumb ass piece of shit just as bad as any racist white good ol boy coach. Giving him a pass because he's black needs to stop.
Deion didn't mention race in his comments. Other people are assuming there is a racial component here. Who is the racist?
Is it really unreasonable that when you are recruiting for a position that requires leadership and must deal with a high degree of complexity under duress and with speed, that you should look for markers of intelligence and maturity?
And BTW, the Super Bowl just featured two black QBs from dual parent situations.
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2 hours ago, 'stache said:
I’d give them all back if we knew the PAC would collapse and the ACC would fracture. The 8 legacy XII plus UO, UW, FSU, Clem, Miami, and some others would be a stout third behind sec/big.
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39 minutes ago, Hurtlocker said:
Yeah, i don't even think B1G money is enough. Florida will make about $450m more than FSU over 13 years. FSU is looking at $470m in a GoR PLUS $120m buyout. There just isn't a number big enough to make it make sense until 2036.
When you sum the differences over a period of time the difference in money between these schools is incredible.
BTW, one of the reasons I'm on this board is because of intelligent, enlightening posts that you (and some others) post here.
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5 hours ago, closetohumping said:
Meh. Those 4 are so ugly they're just happy to get an invite anywhere. They will bend the proverbial knobby knee.
You are the Biff Tannen of Surly lol
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7 minutes ago, closetohumping said:
But you, a couple of BYU and Okie st guys continue to litter this thread with backhanded shots at Texas.
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31 minutes ago, 'stache said:
But if I'm SDSU and SMU I'd be warry of joining a sinking ship
Yeah, but it's still better than their current situation. They are better off with Oregon State, WSU, and whoever else doesn't get picked up (and maybe inviting a few more MWC teams to fill in the gaps).
Can you imagine Stanford and Cal with Boise State and Fresno State in the same conference? hahahaha. That's an Island of Misfit Toys...
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26 minutes ago, The Hot Dog Buffet said:
I'm not sure if extra money will really do much to elevate the BYU football program. Their recruiting advantages and disadvantages mostly revolve around the Mormon church and will continue to do so. UCF seems like the program that could really elevate itself with more revenue.
It certainly won't hurt, but you make a fair point. What may end up having the most positive impact is that we are now in a power conference with better access to the playoff (theoretically) and the 4 and 5 star Mormon/LDS recruits that would often pick P5 schools will be more willing to go to BYU.
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31 minutes ago, Trojan Man said:
Given a choice between Big 12 and Pac 12 I think Cincinnati, Houston and UCF would all choose the Big 12 over the Pac 12. BYU is the only wild card but I'm inclined to say they still go Big 12 after all the times the Pac 12 told them to fuck off in the past, plus it wouldn't surprise me if Pac 12 schools chose to die on the "no religious schools" hill.
We have more alumni and fans in the P12 footprint, but I agree with you: I think we still go Big 12 given a choice. Most fans I know and follow prefer the Big 12 option.
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1 hour ago, Gaffords said:
It's not the carrying that gets old, it's when you are already doing 80 percent of the work, while 2/3 of the others there to work are chilling under a tree and haven't moved all day and time is running out to have the job done before it starts cutting into your money because they are fine making enough to keep the lights on and the old lady happy. It's more than they've ever made before, while you are busting your ass because the roof is starting to leak, and the car is on it's last legs...
When you feel the burden, is when you've hurt your knee and can't get the work done, and that still doesn't light a fire under the others asses. Because there's still guaranteed money coming in for a few more years and Iowa St will be back on it's feet before then...
Is your burdened, broken-down example supposed to represent UT? I had no idea it's been so hard for you. My deepest sympathies.
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1 hour ago, Al_4_ISU said:
I really don't think you see a team dominate the top the way OU has the last decade or dominate the basement the way KU has for the same window.
The situation where you have Texas with a massive fanbase full of extremely wealthy BMDs, and high level historical success, or OU with an 80 year history of being great is gone. The resources are pretty similar from school to school. The ones where the admins and fans don't really invest in football could fall off, but they're also the ones with the most external advantages.
What will be interesting to me is how this massive increase of money for BYU -- compared to what we used to get -- impacts things. (Could say the same for the other newcomers.) I feel like we have been punching above our financial weight for some time and now I wonder what level of impact this huge financial bump will have on our performance and how long it will take for that impact to show up? I expect us to take our lumps initially in the B12, but hoping we level up and more than carry our weight in the conference.
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25 minutes ago, Trojan Man said:
If they go for ESPN they are getting exposure for their best games/brands but they'll still end up with a lot of games banished to ESPN+ and the 10:30 PM ET drunks and gamblers audience, ...
Haha I might steal that line
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9 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:
the vote was close enough to speculate about first presidency payouts to 9 key voters that swung the polls
why would the church corporation need to stoop to such lows?
in order to be ordained (pun intended) champion with both the writers and coaches, you had to win all your games, which you did, while also overcoming the following:
- you beat 1 ranked team, preseason #3 pitt
- after you opened at pitt, winning 20-14, pitt lost their first 4 and started 1-7-1 before finishing 3-7-1
- the next week, in the same stadium, 0u destroyed pitt, 42-10
- you beat pitt by 6; 0u beat pitt by 32 - this is important - we'll come back to 0u later
- no one in your conference finished with fewer than 4 losses - there's all kinds of comedy gold in your conference foes' out-of-conference results, but let's keep moving
- you remain the only team in history to 'win' a title and play your last game that season in december
- in that last game, you defeated 6-5 unranked michigan, the worst record ever held by a team that lost to the 'national champion' in the 'national champion's' last game that year
- 7 teams declined Holiday Bowl invitations to play you
- 1 of those teams was 0u
- many thought 1-loss oregon should have been crowned; the 10-1 ducks beat 9-1-1 0u by 2 scores, 28-17
- does the transitive property matter? barry switzer's shit-eating-grin during the 2008 bcs selection show answers your question
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aggy would gladly put that title on the wall at pyle. so there you have it.
you've bested aggy.
abracadabra.
It's real and it's spectacular.
btw, First Presidency payouts? hahahaha so dumb
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11 minutes ago, Steel Shank said:
I’ve laid a lot of pipe in the greater Provo/SLC area (including the surrounding counties) and I must say what the women lack in looks, they more than make up for in spirited enthusiasm when presented with a healthy, attractive Johnson.
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30 minutes ago, DCLonghorn said:
I will miss the Big 12. I will miss the Big 8 teams. BYU will be the team to beat in the Big 12. Thanks to all those non-Longhorns who have been in this chat for YEARS and taken illogical Longhorn hubris and assholery.
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2 hours ago, YouLoveMyPenises said:
Hope you get your own planet one day, though. That sounds dope.
You're welcome to visit anytime
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1 hour ago, Texas Wahoo said:
The AAU may not include any religious institutions, although that is probably because those universities do not tend to be top research universities. However, the AAU includes a ton of private universities.
BYU does some research, but it considers itself more a teaching university than a research university. It focuses more on undergrad, although it does have several top 30 grad programs (law, MBA, MAcc, ...), and it does not offer a lot of PhD programs (~30). If you look at average grades / scores for incoming freshman they are 3.9+ and around a 30 ACT. I'd say that's respectable.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
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