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  1. 2 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    Big 12 CCG drew good ratings, right where you would expect, below SEC and BIG, and above PAC and ACC. I'm still not seeing why you think we're in any more danger than the PAC and ACC. It's clear SEC and BIG will continue to be the strongest conferences financially, but Big 12 is clearly 3rd. Prestige is still there too, OU keeps making the playoff, and UT is still considered a blueblood despite struggling on the field. Baylor, TCU, OKST, KSU, WVU all get plenty of respect when they are playing well. ISU has gotten respect in their recent surge. People still remember that even KU won an Orange Bowl in 2009 and Les will draw attention. The conference is fine as is. I still think in concept a CCG rematch is stupid, but it draws ratings and money, so it is what it is.

     

    https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college-football-tv-ratings/

    The Big12 is mediocre.  Texas athletic department is mediocre.  Texas' revenue is #1.  If Texas desires to stay #1 in revenue, it's going to have to make a move.  The position we have in the Big 12 is going to be our death in the long run.  We need to take some risk and get stronger.  The Big 12 is not helping us.  The thought of an easy path to the playoff is not helping anyone in the Big 12.  Soon if we aren't already there, the Big 12 will not garner a spot in the playoff unless the champion is undefeated.  A one loss OU or Texas will be percieved as weak because of OU's poor performances in the playoff.  It's coming.  The B1G and SEC will poach more and more Texas talent due to the perceived weakness of the B12.  Right now, Texas is weak.  We are not a great football school.

  2. 20 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    Really don't understand this. Per school, we will be competitive in any new deal. And you'll always be taken care of with LHN or other tier three rights. We already make more than PAC and I think ACC per school, or it's at least close. The PAC is the most in trouble because they just aren't drawing ratings. Time zone and general indiferrence in their markets. Big 12 markets draw big college football ratings.

    We will know soon.  I don't think the money for the next B12 TV deal is going to be close to the Fox deal with the B1G or SEC and Disney.  At best we are even with the B1G deal when adding the LHN money and behind the SEC.  Should Texas be earning the same TV money as Purdue and less than Vandy?  NO.  Why will the B12 command less $$?  Last year we had to prostitute our CCG to Disney because no one else wanted it.  The only reason Disney ponied up was because of Texas' relationship with Disney.  The desirable TV markets in the B12 are mostly in Texas.  Right now Fox and Disney are trying to move Texas in their direction.  Fox is making their power play with OU to pry us away.  Disney just upped the ante with it's deal with the SEC.  Our real problem are the doddering fools in our administration who can't make a decision.  Disney is trying to make it easy by overpaying but some people have ideologies that can't be compromised. We shall see.

  3. Going independent is a non-starter.  Creating a new league without a TV contract is a non-starter.  The fiscal hit taken by going independent without a NBC TV deal would be catastrophic.  It won't happen.  We aren't getting a TV deal like Notre Dame because we aren't Catholic.  At this point, we have 5 options.

     

    1.  Stay in the Big 12 and add no teams.  This is a loser in the long run.  The Big 12's next TV deal will not be as good as the B1G deal with Fox or the SEC with Disney.  The Big 12 will slowly die on the vine.  TV deals will be progressively worse over time.

    2.  Stay in the Big 12 and add G5 teams/Az schools.  This is a loser in the long run.  The G5 schools are not profitable outside of TV money.  The G5's need to be subsidized in down years.  They do not generate enough revenue.  They would drop the payout per team in the B12 because they don't command enough TV money.

    3. Move to PAC 12.  This is not palatable due to the TIME ZONE changes.  It could be remedied by combining an eastern division with AZ schools, CU and Utah.  The biggest drawback would be that the Pac just sucks.  They don't generate enough TV revenue.  They are not football States.  The one thing that could save this option, would be for Apple or Amazon to break the piggy bank and grossly overpay for a league with Texas and OU added.

    4. Move to the B1G.  Fenves actually stated that this was his preference.  Financially it is a viable choice due to the Fox deal but the closest competitor would be OU and next would be over 800 miles away in the frozen tundra of the north.  This is not a good decision because we would be in the B1G West where the football stinks.  It would not be attractive to fans to watch the conference opener against Illinois in early October.  Blah

    5.  Move to the SEC.  This is the best option.  As stated above, we regain all of our historical rivals and then some.  Our current LHN contract is with Disney.  The SEC just hit the jackpot with it's current disney contract.  They are a natural fit.  We belong in a league with gomer, piggy, and blo u.  They are who we want to play every year.  They are our natural rivals.

    What are the obstacles to joining the SEC?

        1.  Belmont Hall has a stick up it's ass when it comes to academics and the SEC.  The PC idiots who run our school think that we can have a PC University and make PC decisions when competing with Schools who run their athletic programs like a business.  We need to reject the PC politics and get down to running a business.  Dodds was excellent at bringing in revenue but was not good at making good football coaching hires. 

       2.  Our current teams in the SEC would regularly be middle of the pack or near last place.  Let's face it.  We are soft.  The money has made us soft.  We don't demand excellence in our athletic department.  Our fans demand it but the admins don't.  In many ways, we are like the Dallas Cowboys.  A move to the SEC would remove the ease of the Big 12 and force some changes which would be demanded by the fan base and BMD's.

     

    Personally, I think Texas choses option 1.  We are lazy and it's the path of least resistance.  If OU does the same, we will slowly become irrelevant in college sports, especially football.  So it's up to OU to save us.  Please OU, have some balls and kill this conference.

  4. We are going to be fighting to stay out of last place.  That new arena is going to be empty for a decade if Shaka isn't fired immediately and the transfers/bottoming out process allowed to take place.  At some point we have to cut our losses.  We should not let Mike Perrin or Fenves, who are responsible for the Shaka extension, anywhere near another athletic department decision.  They are pathetic.  Keep political correctness out of our athletic department. 

  5. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

     

    The UT Athletics Department is a strange place, for sure. There was interest and support, allegedly, in getting Smart out after last season. There was monetary support from boosters to do it. Countering all of that, there's like 2 really big boosters that had walked away from Herman already and they were throwing their energy and money into basketball. They like(d) Smart and they were firm in seeing him stay. That didn't stop CDC from indirectly shopping him to Wake and elsewhere. 

    Meanwhile, the money was allegedly aligned to send Herman out on a fucking rail after this season. CDC pushed back. The word was that they were ready to put forward the $20+million buyout. So you have one situation in which the AD and the majority of the boosters and fans were ready to send the coach off, and another situation where the AD basically held up the move. Weird.

    You talk to people involved with fundraising and boosters these days and it is quite clear that they are tired of having to answer for Smart. They almost roll their eyes. That makes its way back to Del Conte. I assume that anything short of a sweet 16 run this season will mean the interests are aligned closely enough to send this guy off. But who fucking knows. One big swinging dick could subterfuge all of it. 

    Would these boosters happen to be alumni from OU?  At this point, that's the only thing that makes sense.

  6. 4 minutes ago, justhookit said:

    Huh? I’ve already said on here I’d be shocked if we go .500 in conference. We suck and I wanted Shaka gone last year and would have been happy to see him gone at the end of the year before that. I agree with pretty much everything Derka posts about Shaka. But yes I was happy Barnes was fired. You weren’t?

     

    Not happy that he was gone but he had been here too long and the team had become stale.  I did have high hopes for Shaka but once I saw the regression after the huge failure of his first year, I knew we were in trouble.  The same can be said for Herman.  We are in trouble.  Don't renew any season ticket subs for any sports.  Buy a cheap big screen with the savings so when you throw it out your window while watching Texas sports you will still be in the black.

  7. 13 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

    it's the people who make posts like this one who seem to have shitty lives. why so reactive to such a benign post? i frankly can't believe how many people around here still act this way despite how clearly dead our program is. anyone who cares about the program knows Shaka's got to go, yet we get constantly "fan shamed" if we aren't just blindly happy with the W/L record. that's crap. and so is the lashing out about how miserable the rest of us must be to not be jizzing ourselves over Shaka Smart's latest sub-.500 team. come on. 

    He's upset because I pegged him.  He is one of the fans that thinks 5th or 6th place is acceptable because he really likes Shaka.  He was probably calling for Rick Barnes head when we finished in 4th place in the B12 and was happy when we fired him.  It's ridiculous to think that under Shaka a fourth place finish in the B12 is miraculous and worthy of a 5 year extension and 4th for Rick Barnes means termination.  CDC better grow some balls because Texas athletics is going in the toilet in all sports except for Swimming and Golf.

  8. 5 hours ago, VinyVango said:

    Yep.  There is an unmistakable stench in the room... and the injuries, team youth, new system excuses are all way past their expiration dates.

    Just under 2 weeks until this team has to strap on the big boy pants.  A 5th-6th place finish in the B12 won't cut it for me.  Gotta be better.

  9. 8 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

    If Harrell wasn't coming we would know by now - USC would have announced it.  Herman is taking his time because there is no reason to rush the hire.  He doesn't give a shit whether you or I 'like' his hire.

    Apparently he didn't give a shit about winning the B12 either.  He didn't get it done.  He hung onto comfort hires for too long.  Now he is staring at year 4 with many new coaches and a deadline.  From an objective view, it's not looking good for him.  We will likely overpay for an OC and underpay on the comfort hire for DC.  We've seen this before.  TH"s hubris and arrogance cost us and him this year.  IMO, the overly physical practices were the foundation for all the injuries.  Did he really think drinking 8 glasses of water a day would keep players from typical football injuries?

  10. 4 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

    Who cares?  I’d take that over 5-7 and all the bullshit we’ve been dealing with.  Let’s get back to 10 win seasons and then raise expectations afterwards.

    I was trying to be positive in a Mack Brown sorta way.

  11. 3 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

    And yet SB was pretty unremarkable under beck?

    He was non existent with Beck and TH.  We did have Sam tho.  Any wonder why Sonny beat CS?  Herman needs to not screw this up.  He needs to not meddle with the play calling. 

     

    THE way to know if Mensa is meddling:  If we are going for 1st down while on the opponents 35 with 4-5 yards to go while the game is within 7-10 points.  Also if we TURTLE at any time with the lead, we will know that Mensa is meddling with the OC.

  12. 8 minutes ago, Rhinotx said:

    I think Tim Beck thinks vanilla is exotic. It seems like Herman installed his offense and felt that with Becks history at OSU he could run it. Herman took over because he needed to and kept trying to get Beck to take over to terrible results. I think Herman likes his system but in reality with Herrall and Lashlee they both use spread concepts to open up the run game. Herman wants a high scoring offense that can run the ball and both Herrell and Lashlee have shown to be able to do that. I think that unless we have a heck of a buyout on Herrall, Bringing in Lashlee and Samples would be a great fit that might stick for a few years. 

    Does Lashlee get those results without SB?  Herrall was dealt a hand of crap and turned it into prime rib.  I prefer Herrall with Greg Lewis as WR coach.

  13. 11 minutes ago, Rhinotx said:

    Plan B take SMUs offensive coaches. 

    Sonny Dykes is a "Leach" disciple.  Refer to my reference of above regarding the modified "Air Raid".  I like Sonny.  I used to hang out with him on Spike's house boat at PK.

  14. 3 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

    The calendar hasn't turned to December and we have already plummeted to #48 in KenPom's rankings. Pathetic.

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    It's become comical.  The games look like a meals on wheels convention.  So many blue hairs in the stands with nothing better to do.

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