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  1. Agreed, SMU has done what they need to do to position themselves to take advantage of the opportunity given to them. Win, draw eyeballs, and when the deck gets reshuffled again for college football they stand a very good chance of getting in because of their location. The big key is they have to win in the ACC and when they get a chance to beat a brand they do it. I think what is getting missed by some and it is understandable on a Texas board is that at some point programs are going to get left behind. Tradition, rivalries, conference brotherhood. All that shit doesn't mean anything when the networks offer enough money. Not taking a swipe at Texas, merely saying Texas supporters might not think about these things because they haven't ever been the school that someone said goodbye to and they won't be the next time. There are 68 teams in the current forms of the ACC, Big 12, Big 10, SEC, and those assholes at Notre Dame. Does anyone really think that ESPN, Fox, and/or Fox wants to have to play all those schools top dollars for their broadcast rights? Too many schools are in too small a viewing areas for someone not to be left behind when the deal gets paid and having been through it before it will happen, but people don't expect it to happen to say one of the Mississippi schools in a state of less than 3M, or an Iowa school, or a Kansas school, or whomever the powers that be deem excess baggage unless you have been left behind and you normal the idea of loyalty among conference mates is about as tangible as amateur student athletes. There is no way OU wants more than two Texas schools in whatever version is coming down the road. Why allow a program that has shown it might have more financial backing than you to now build some credibility? Makes no sense and for those who say the coaches will always insist they have those easy games in their schedule so keep the Vandy's etc...do you honestly believe what any coach thinks has influenced any of these conference changes?
  2. Still comes back to winning plain and simple. Barry recruited where he wanted not because of the number of games he played there, but the games he won. They never had a losing record under Barry, fewest wins in a season was 7 and over Top 10 finishes in his 16 years. Yes, he ran a program in which they not only cheated, but the players were out of control to a degree I am not sure we have seen elsewhere. Unless things have changed since I lived in the Metroplex, which family and friends say it hasn't, OU has no issue with media coverage in the area, aren't a forgotten program, and there are more than a few alums living there. They aren't Arkansas who is basically become anonymous since moving to the SEC> A second game in the Metroplex doesn't do shit for the program if they aren't winning and in fact, it puts you in an awkward position if you don't win the game. One advantage OU has to play against SMU and the Big 12 schools in Texas in recruiting is they play in the SEC which is just a different level of football. That mystique for OU takes a bit of a hit if they get beat by SMU or any of the other Big 12 teams. Any time Patterson beat a bigger conference school when TCU was moving up the conference ranks they broadcast that shit for months to anyone who would listen to them and even those who tried to ignore it. The Frogs win in Norman in 2005 combined with the wins over Tech and Baylor twice the next two years opened some big damn doors in recruiting and gave the program some credibility. There is more for OU to lose playing that game than there is for them to gain if they lose it, especially if they can't get their shit together which is still debatable with Venables.
  3. The video is only conjecture, but highly educated conjecture from the one former McLaren engineer and I enjoy this type of talk far better than the water bottle theory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTnAZxqD5w4 Skip to the 5 minute mark if you want to avoid the repeating of McLaren has a secret and Red Bull is calling them cheaters diatribe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L00FHrVFGaU
  4. I have been given a couple of kits which are cool, but this was pretty incredible when they were unveiled at Miami a few weeks back. https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/how-lego-built-life-size-replicas-of-every-formula-1-car-at-the-miami-gp/10719866/ https://www.espn.com/racing/f1/story/_/id/44983976/how-lego-built-life-size-f1-cars-miami-grand-prix-driver-parade https://www.planetf1.com/features/lego-full-size-formula-1-cars-miami-grand-prix If you want a car with a different bit of styling they also unveiled this last fall: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a62172677/lando-norris-lego-mclaren-p1/
  5. This reminds me of the "1" documentary where pit crews are putting barriers back together prior to a Grand Prix race because the track owners haven't done shit to get it ready for the race.
  6. Agreed, there is nothing wrong with a track that punishes them for not staying on track. Why paint the damn lines and far better than someone cutting a corner, we get 5 minutes of drivers whining about giving back positions, and then stewards have to make a decision. Much simpler, cut the corner, catch the grass and go sideways or spin out in the gravel and get buried and your race is over for today. A damn site better and far better to watch on television than from some parking lot.
  7. Good thing the Big 12 got Texas ready for the SEC. That or they were going to win those titles regardless of the conference.
  8. Great pull, that was one of the high points of Richard's time on the radio, especially with the manner in which Richard would defend La Russa and go on and on and on about how smart Tony was etc...
  9. Justice left the Chronicle well over 10 years ago and I believe writes for MLB.com where he can spend more time defending Tony La Russa and the players from the steroid era.
  10. I remember when Yordan signed that deal how there were some in the Houston media who believed the Astros screwed up and didn't sign him for a long enough period of time. Why does it feel like that isn't the issue at this time? Seriously, is this a lack of proper nutrition growing up in Cuba thing or why can a guy that big and strong not stay in the line up?
  11. True, but is exposure or Venables program the biggest issue for the Sooners in recruiting the Metroplex at this time?
  12. Nah....much more interesting using the spaghetti against the wall technique. If you have to guess on that then there is at least two of us not on that list.
  13. Where is the down side to your first sentence?
  14. I am curious which organization named Sanders and academic all-American. Here is a link to the https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/cosidaallamerican.sidearmsports.com/documents/2025/1/27/24AAA_Football_Final.pdf and Travis Hunter is on the first two teams, but not Sanders unless I missed the name. There are all-district lists, but I am too lazy to go through those.
  15. You forgot student body president, and Rhodes Scholar. All nice bullet points on your resume, but not sure if it gets a jersey number retired or any thing like that.
  16. General question on the graduation GPA. If I were to start my academic career two years elsewhere, say UTSA, transfer to UT and then graduate with my degree does the second school count the grades of the first school in the GPA graduation? Really a silly question, but I never really thought about it before and was curious.
  17. Do you really think Manfred knows what any of that means?
  18. PGFrog

    2025 NCAA Baseball

    Unfortunately, even when I "properly" quote and reply I look or at least read like a fucking idoit. .
  19. I like it from a theoretical idea, if a school wants to dump a ton of money into their programs so be it and if someone is just happy to offer sports as part of the college experience great as well. In theory a great way to weed out the programs who are part of the SEC and Big 10 that are along for the ride so to speak, but the biggest issues with any such idea are two fold. First, you have people in the conferences whose existence and compensation are based upon job tied to the current systems and they aren't going to willingly give that up so who is the entity that creates such change? Second, if you are a player why agree to any change from the current system where you have gone from having no control to a system where the only constraints are you are what are set by the courts. Granted, I don't think the current model is sustainable but there are just too many parties currently feeding at the trough and the changes needed are so dramatic I am not sure they can truly be put into place.
  20. Why would the Browns, the organization that gave Watson an enormous guaranteed contract while the stories were starting to come out about his legal issues, worry about the Sanders draft interview video be released when they long ago established they don't know what the fuck they are doing? They only thing it might establish is how many alarms of a dumpster fire, but regardless they are still a dumpster fire of an organization.
  21. I wouldn't have cared if he worked with Ray DeLeon from Banditos baseball if he would have just stopped trying to pull everything and settled on a swing and a stance. He also owes us the final episode of Salsa Fuego to explain why that prized formula taste so bad.
  22. This, anyone who has followed the Astros with any degree of interest the last five years or so has heard the continued flood of news that Alex has spent a winter retooling his swing, Alex changed his body, as well as the continued bits through the season about changing hands, stance, bat, hair cut, whatever...... I never understood how he actually knew what his original stance and swing were because he kept changing them like socks.
  23. They weren't last year. The Rockets have a need that can't be fixed by the draft. You aren't adding another 19 or 20 year old who is going to sit on the bench and find a consistent scorer in the play offs and there are not multiple options to fill that hole with someone who fits what you want concerning their age, fit with the head coach, and not cost you a ton of young players you are hoping to develop.
  24. Except that quality of talent in the NFL has been on the decline in key areas and they don't develop talent anymore with the manner in which they practice. NFL teams struggle to piece together decent offensive lines and if the scouting process has gotten simpler why do we continue to see more and more struggles finding capable quarterbacks. They don't need fewer schools developing talent, they need more and they need more players staying with programs and getting developed instead of hoping to a new team each year. The SEC and Big 10 are going to roll out players who can contribute sooner, but how many of those are maxed in terms of productivity? This is just an extension of the argument of why you shouldn't simply recruit from programs such as Katy, Lake Travis, Southlake, and Aledo. Those programs roll out some very good players, but a number are maxed out as well as been ground out and physically can't carry on much longer. There was always that need for the recruit who was untapped, raw, with the higher ceiling and there is a need for the NFL to be draft from more than 40 teams. Roughly just under 1,100 players from the SEC and Big 10 are in the NFL, but the league has over 2,200 players in it which means there are still a number of players from elsewhere and that math isn't going to change.
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