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  1. 3 hours ago, Trey3216 said:

    I think they look shitty comparatively, because the teams they're playing in the Big XII don't look as good offensively (when playing WVU) because of how WVU is allowed to play.  It's as though they're not as good when they aren't allowed to beat people to death on the other end of the floor.   

    KU fits that description as well.

    Look, this conference will never get love in anything if f’ing Baylor carries the water. It didn’t when they won in football and it won’t in men’s basketball. Nobody cares about women’s basketball except them.

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  2. Just now, ChickenSandwich said:

    If this motherfucker has any sense of pride, accountability, or fucking dignity he resigns tonight. He has taken enough money to do absolutely jack shit at his job. 

    He has millions of reasons to counter the arguments you listed above. Dude ain’t going anywhere...

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  3. 2 hours ago, Brian Fantana said:

    Woot! Congrats to UT, way to go. I feel like the top 7 teams in this conference are all legitimately capable of making deep runs, gonna be fun to watch.

    It’ll be interesting—the Big 12 has been known to really fall apart come tournament time. I don’t see OU making any noise. Not looking real solid for KU, WVU  or Tech for making noise either. I’d peg Texas and Baylor as best bets, but have OSU as a true wild card as Sweet 16 and farther teams. The other four look too beat up or just not as good as they had been at certain points this season. Usually, that makes teams ripe for upsets by mid majors.

  4. I still like the idea of the Pac-12 getting the best of the Big XII and becoming the Pac-18. You get three time zones to have at your control. UT/Tech, OU/OSU, KU/ISU make up a division where everyone plays each other annually. Keep the current Pac-12 divisions as is. Each division plays 2 teams from the other two divisions, so you have 9 conference games. No kickoff after 7pm CST or before noon PST. Then, for football, the two best division winners play each other for the conference title.

    In hoops, each divisional team plays each other twice, then play the other 12 teams once for a 22 game conference schedule. 

  5. The reason that the PAC is the better option to join with relatively big  names not called Baylor or TCU. No lawsuits to fight. And join a better league with much better name recognition and better bowls connections. Join with OU, OSU, Tech, KU, and ISU.

  6. 1 hour ago, Randolph Duke said:

    No way OU gets into the BIG. Not AAU.

    Texas isn't joining the SEC. Ever.

    When the NCAA presidents get together to discuss the future of athletics, we will get some clarity on things. Until then, nothing changes. NIL rules have to be decided on. Congress is going to get involved. The report of the Knight Commission needs to be considered.

    Right now, individual schools know their financial situations moving forward. next, the conferences need to assess the overall health of the various schools and look at championships are going to be supported over the next few years.

    Once the conferences have their shit together, Congress and the NCAA should have the NIL crap sorted out.

    At that point (June 2021?), realignment can start to be discussed. My best guess is that the FBS splits into two separate sub-divisions with major ramifications for the continued existence of the current conference structures.

     

    I disagree on OU getting into the B1G. Since Nebraska is no longer AAU, that precedent has been set. And they will just pimp out that they take in more National Merit Scholars than anyone else to help ease in. The worst kept secret is the idea that OU and KU are the B1G's next combo to get to 16. 

  7. 53 minutes ago, Wiler77 said:

    1990 was also the year of LMU vs LSU.  148-141 LSU win in overtime.  I used to have this game on VHS and would pop it in every now and then to watch.

     

    This was the game where the sideline printer that would print out the details of each possession of the game burned up because the action was too fast...

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  8. Just now, ztejas said:

    Timeline is a bit off here. Melo was pre one and done rule. 

     I know he went second in the NBA draft after LeBron...so I guess you are correct, on that part. I know that after this, it just became one and done...

  9. Couldn't stand him or Georgetown. And as great as his teams were, how he only won one title is really amazing. 

    That said, he represents a big part of the golden era of college basketball--the Tournament became huge when CBS took it over in 1982, and we had great coaches AND players we all knew.

    Ewing and Thompson, Dean Smith and Michael Jordan,  Phi Slamma Jamma, Bobby Knight and Steve Alford, Larry Brown and Danny Manning, Denny Crum and his Cardinals, Tark the Shark and UNLV with Larry Johnson and his crew, Coach K and Laettner/Hurley/Grant Hill, The Fab Five, Nolan Richardson and 40 Minutes of Hell, Lute Olson and Miles Simon/Mike Bibby,  Pitino's UK teams that were just stacked, then led into Uconn and Jim Calhoun's crew, and Tom Izzo/Mateen Cleaves. 

    For those two decades, we had champions with kids we got to know and coaches who were larger than life. Then we got Carmelo Anthony as the first big one-and done, as the NBA wouldn't take kids straight from high school anymore. Nothing has messed up college basketball, in my opinion, than teams building around one-and-dones, which hasn't helped build any real fans to stick with the game. Instead, it just added to following the sport in March, at best.

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  10. 38 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    Yeah, I don't like Alabama but just like Oklahoma...I'd trade recent history and/or coaching staffs with them in a heartbeat.  We've averaged 5 losses per season under Herman and the line for some of y'all to suck his dick is a mile long somehow still.  Alabama, Oklahoma, et. al.  They still care about hardware at those places.  I've finally learned that we just don't.  We're a great fanbase and I love our program, but we just don't actually care as much as we think we do about winning.  This latest Alabama dynasty will be revered for decades and rightfully so.

    But how about all those revenues? Rich af...

    /sarcasm

  11. 23 hours ago, Jhawk said:

    I can see that.  It is insane that a bad actor (from a previous regime) who ACTED ALONE can fuck the future of a bunch of kids, fans, and fellow coaches.  If you really want to punish the university then fine its endowment or something.  Don't remove scholarships (hurt future athletic opportunities), ban postseason play (hurt seniors and potential star performances that lift a kid's draft stock), and say "now don't do this again".  The punishments are asinine.  The NCAA is supposed to be for the student athlete but when the adults in the room fuck up their solution is to punish the student athlete.

    The Zion lawsuit could blow this whole thing open but I'm willing to bet that Duke (or its boosters) might even step up and pay a settlement to keep him from being compelled to testify on payments and his recruitment.

    The NCAA is so backward it isn't even funny.  You're required to police yourself and then when you turn yourself in they throw the book at you because you didn't preemptively police yourself and literally anyone who might have any interest in your programs being successful in the entire world, both corporate and individual.  It couldn't be any more obvious that the NCAA as an entity is wholly maintained for the sole purpose of covering for the ass of the "amateurism" model.

    KU's best hope is to get into a long drawn out court case with the NCAA until they just want it to end.  Never cooperate.

    UNC gave everyone the blueprint--lawyer up, threaten back, put them on their heels, and wait until they settle/give up...

    Okie State and Mizzou are both living proof of what not to do with the NCAA.

  12. On 5/1/2020 at 3:40 PM, Goo Punch said:

    It's just really, really hard to win the tournament, and Gonzaga's schedule does them zero favors in getting them prepared to win what usually amounts to one easy game followed by five really tough opponents in a row. To me it's that simple. There's nothing about Few that prevents him from winning it all, it's just super hard to actually do it. 

    To back you up, since Wooden retired after 1975, there have been exactly 6 champions out of 45 that are from west of the Mississippi--Kansas twice, Arizona, UCLA, UNLV, and Arkansas. Its an Eastern Time Zone domination. Western and Midwestern teams just seem to have a hard time beating these teams in the EST for championships. Obviously, Duke, UNC, UK, Florida, and Villanova have dominated at times, but the reality is that the ACC and Big East tend to win this thing more times than not.

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  13. The thing with Mizzou that is amazing to me is that they literally have blown about every advantage a single power 5 state university could possibly blow. Think about past glories at Nebraska, Minnesota, or Colorado. Think about Ohio State, LSU, and even Utah. You can find national championships/ Final Fours/ BCS bowl games rather easily for these teams listed in the last 60 years. 

    Then think about the sizes of St. Louis and Kansas City and being stuck right in the middle of them. Its almost extraordinary to suck this bad. 

    Losing A&M, Nebraska, and Colorado were all more painful than losing Mizzou. WVU is a fine replacement for them. 

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