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  1. 6 hours ago, DFW Horn said:

    Yeah, I've read Sankey and SEC leadership want contiguous states for whatever reason. UNC and UVA are in their crosshairs. SEC SEC SEC

    NC (with Duke or another partner) was a target prior to aggy joining the secsecsec. 

  2. 8 hours ago, Trojan Man said:

    I think it was from a recent article on The Athletic.  The idea is since this would be Amazon's first dive into college sports they want to have some long term payout/security if they're going to invest in the marketing and infrastructure for it, hence the long GOR.  Losing Oregon and Washington to the B1G after only 5 years would be terrible for Amazon.

    You have LSU as one of Florida's games but Florida is not one of LSU's games.  Same thing with South Carolina/Florida.

    And Arkansas is listed a permanent rival for six teams

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  3. What are the characteristics of a success Power Five coaching hire? The recent past points the way

    The four traits of the best hires

    Looking at the broader takeaways from Power Five hires during this span yields four traits that bode well for a coach's tenure:

    The hire comes with multiple years of Power Five experience. With the exception of Klieman and Leipold, every successful coach hired from 2018-21 brought Power Five experience to his new position. Even those successful coaches hired away from the Group of Five were deeply familiar with the Power Five landscape: Kiffin was the head coach at Southern California and Tennessee, Norvell was the offensive coordinator at Arizona State, and Heupel was the coordinator at Oklahoma and Missouri.

    The coach leans older, or at least above that 45-year-old benchmark.While age is not the determining factor — just look at Day, Smith, Beamer and others — the numbers favor the older crowd, following the obvious conclusion that more experience is better than, well, less.

    He has a background on offense. There is no more obvious predictor than whether the coach arrives with an expertise on offense or defense.

    He has some sort of prior acquaintance with the program, or at least within the conference. As outlined, more than half of the 15 coaches who previously worked at the program have put together winning tenures. That percentage increases when you include new hires who have spent time in the same conference. Of the 19 successful hires between 2018-21, a total of 13 (68.4%) meet this criteria.

    …there have been 28 hires of coaches with an offensive background, a reflection of college football's evolution into an offense-driven sport. Fourteen of these hires have worked out, including seven coaches with teams currently ranked in the USA TODAY Sports AFCA Coaches Poll: Day, Heupel, Norvell, Oregon State's Jonathan Smith, Kelly, Texas' Steve Sarkisian and Leach.

  4. SIAP

    Awkward but endearing, Texas A&M wants what it hasn’t earned

     

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    Texas A&M is such a buzzkill. Jimbo Fisher talked so much trash about Nick Saban in that news conference over the summer, and Texas A&M is always giving fans in the SEC more junk to chew than the wall of beef jerky at Buc-ee’s, and now the game against Alabama is finally here and Fisher’s team looks about as awkward as a Fightin’ Aggie Yell Leader on a first date. “What are you doing with your leg, Kipp?”

     

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  5. 2 hours ago, blutow said:

    I typically sign up for a month of Sling to catch the 2 early LHN games.  Sometimes they have a free introductory month, but this year it's 50% off for the first month, so I think it was around $20 for the basic Sling package and sports add-on that includes LHN.  The offer is only for new subscribers, so you need to create a new account each year.  You get the 2 games, plus I usually watch some volleyball and other football content.  You just have to remember to cancel it before they charge you for month 2.    

    This was good advice.  Thank you, sir. Done and a worthwhile $23.

  6. 5 hours ago, DeadArmadillo said:


    My wife hasn’t had sex with anyone else but me since we got married 22 months ago

    Except that night last summer when she was gangbanged by every living member of the Wu-Tang Clan

    And this past St. Patrick’s Day when she let a minor league hockey team run a train on her

    But that’s it. She’s mostly been true to me

    So you’re married to South Austin’s mom?

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  7. 36 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:

     

    Maybe y’all shouldn’t run with made up numbers from an article written by a Baylor site. 
     

    Think about it, why would 4 schools who currently make $9 mil per year off Tier 1 rights, suddenly increase the Irate 8 from about $10mm per year (after UT and OU leave) up to $22mm per year like that article claims? 
     

    And idk what the Sugar Bowl contract looks like, but there’s no way the Big 12 keeps it long term. 

    Agreed, the values maybe specious, but if the payout is at that level, how would that affect the damages and ultimately the payout required to leave XII-2-2+2-2+4+x?  

    And would it serve the SEC to keep the Sugar Bowl contract intact to mollify the ir8?  It would also give the SEC some OOC games.

  8. 2 hours ago, DFW Horn said:

    Wow, that's better than I thought the revamped Big 12 would do. Only a $4 MM pay cut annually? The Irate 8 should be very happy with this result. They can potentially make up the difference with an expanded CFB Playoff.

    So does this mean damages would be limited to $32M (8 x $4m)?  $16M for each Texas and ousux?

  9. 6 hours ago, Lidig8r said:

    That was the start of my senior year at UT. 

    Went to Jorge's, which was then on Guadalupe (?) just south of the Campus. Damn, those margaritas back then were killer. Both my date and I had 2 of those things. And we were feeling no pain.

    Had the flask of Jack Daniels in the boot for the game. Found parking near the Nighthawk on the Drag.

    If I recall correctly, my date that night had a fairly liberal definition of her own morality.  (The Golden Age of Promiscuity) So, we hoof it to the game.

    Electric atmosphere, and Jack was doing his job ... until ...

    About midway through the 4th quarter, the date looks at me, says... I don't feel so good, and then BOOM!  Passes out in the stands.

    Oh, the joys of being young.

    Jorge’s on Guadalupe, it was the best…

    …well right after the Golden Age of Promiscuity. 

  10. 2 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    From IT's Humidor.

     

    All signs still point towards this being the swan song for Texas and OU in the Big 12. We still hear it’s fluid, but IT believes that’s more about the details of how the exit transpires more so than whether it will after this season.

    …it’s fluid…

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