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Yeah, that’s not what I said. 4 AQs for the SEC last year would have meant that on Dec 7, 2024, there would have been an 11 AM game between SEC #3 Tennessee and #6 S. Carolina, a 3:30 game between #4 Alabama and #5 Ole Miss, and an 8PM game between Texas and Georgia. The winners of the first two games and both in the CG would have gone to the CFP. In this model, there are still a couple of at large places, and the SEC #5 (after play in weekend) will argue it deserves it more than the B12 #3 or the B1G #5. We’ll see. The only place for3-5 SEC teams is as November spoilers. Note that in this scenario, TAMU and LSU miss out because of league losses, and their OOC losses to ND and USC, respectively, play no part.
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In summary: ESPN will pay more if the SEC goes to nine league games. The SEC is concerned that “loss column bias” by a CFP selection committee will penalize the SEC if it has more league games (and more losses). That’s why it wants four AQs. Yes, that would mean a three (or even four) loss team getting in. 4 AQs also means that the SEC can make a three game play-in series on CG weekend, where 1/2 play for the SEC championship and seeding, while 3/6 and 4/5 play for the other two AQ positions. This would suck for the B12 and ACC, leeching attention. It would make a ton of money for the SEC. It would also mean that there would be a lot more November SEC games with playoff meaning, again hurting the ACC and B12 (who is going to watch UCF/ASU with playoff implications, when Tenn is playing LSU with playoff implications?) Finally, if the SEC has 4 AQs, the conference record becomes much more important than the overall record for SEC teams, meaning more premiere OOC opponents (again, more money for networks). Conversely, if SEC teams are competing for the at large CFP spots (5-11 model), they will be more hesitant to schedule tougher OOC games. In short- the 4-4-2-2 offers so much more money and benefits for the SEC (and ESPN), that I doubt they go to nine league game schedules unless that model is adopted
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No, Mike Leach, YOU'RE awesome! [Pirates Last Voyage]
statsman replied to Parliament's topic in Football
Royal explained why, when asked. People didn’t like his answer. Royal had an idea for college football that was unique. He really wanted to coach players and have them gain from the university experience. We all know how he invented “academic counseling for athletes” (he called them “brain coaches”), but there was more to it than keeping guys eligible per NCAA rules. Royal’s early teams had a phenomenal number of attorneys, judges, doctors and bankers. You didn’t have to be a genius to play for Texas, not at all, but you had to put in the academic work (and he worked with Allie’s like Professor Wright at the Law School to open doors). He bounced phenomenal athletes like Joe Don Looney and Bob Young because they wouldn’t get with the academic program. Royal was candid about recruiting African Americans. He pointed out that segregated schools in Texas sucked, bad, and weren’t preparing kids for UT. Does anyone disagree? He said the pool of African American recruits for UT was small, and they were very sought after. It’s not a secret that he was trying to integrate football for four years before he was successful. We all know that the 1969 varsity was all white (Whittier was on the freshman team). It wouldn’t have been if his first African American recruit, a LB, had not flunked out. Whittier was a solid player; he also became an attorney and a judge, which is not a coincidence. Over time, Royal adapted his program to be more like the others. Also, integration improved education for African Americans in Texas. The point is- there was more to the story than what hustlers like Switzer like to say. -
No, Mike Leach, YOU'RE awesome! [Pirates Last Voyage]
statsman replied to Parliament's topic in Football
Check your history. DKR integrated the SWC. He was AD at Texas and UT T&F integrated in 1963. (You are absolutely right about the assholes in his coaching tree. His 1984 Iowa staff is damned impressive) Royal hated cheaters in recruiting. His MO was to phone a coach and tell them what he heard about recruits being offered. He would say that if they didn’t address it, he was turning them in. He turned in Fry, at SMU. Fry was so pissed off that he searched for something to turn in Texas on. He found it. He discovered that on recruiting visits, Texas would give player hosts cash to take the recruits to a steak dinner in Austin (allowed). The players were so strapped for cash that they would take the recruits for hamburgers and pocket the difference. (Does that sound like a program that is paying players?). Fry turned in Texas and Royal burned with anger (reciprocated) after. -
No, Mike Leach, YOU'RE awesome! [Pirates Last Voyage]
statsman replied to Parliament's topic in Football
That rule was stupid- and besides, how did that asshole Hayden Fry get in the HoF with a poorer win %? -
-Greedy: nothing wrong with that -Vindictive: read the part about “Big Dog” trying to subpoena “The Frontier” for their internal records -Asshole: do I really need to explain?
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Really, what was he thinking? They want to start a sports media venture, and borrow the money from people associated with the sports they intend to cover? Even if it had made money, how was it going to work when they wanted to criticize Venables or Castiglione, and Stoops, as their financier, calls them in to make them stop?
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Many years ago, I wrote a ten part series for Barking Carnival about the history of cheating in recruiting. The premise was that recruits differentiate among offers based on perceived value. In a world where there are no illegal inducements, a scholarship to the University of Texas, to play football, has greater value than the same from any of our regional (and most of our national) peers. Bags are needed to overcome that, and it’s no coincidence that so many of our rivals were dirty as hell. Around 1982, Texas had to decide if it was going to compete in recruiting (requiring bags) and the Tower decided, “No, we aren’t doing that”, and we had those miserable years result. I think the subsequent period of NCAA prnalizationnof OU and the SWC, along with realignment, controlled the bag game for a while and Texas ascended again. In 2020, with NIL and the portal, Texas had to make a decision again- compete or basically relegate ourselves. This time, the Tower decided to compete, and that is the world we live in. I enjoy the recruiting success. I don’t enjoy calling for our most successful boosters to fund recruiting out of their personal largesse- that makes me feel small as a fan. I absolutely am thankful for their contributions and wish they could have more recognition for it. Immamac has alluded to a future where about $15M (from “the House Settlement”) would be allocated to football (the same as other P4 schools), and that would be the baseline pay. Stars would get more pay from corporate (“real”) NIL, and the idea is that the Austin economy is vibrant enough that Texas will still be super-competitive in pay for play. I hope that works well.
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Forgive me. I just can’t get enough of Okie icons behaving awfully. https://thelostogle.com/2024/10/28/stoops-co-take-berry-tramel-lawsuit-to-vindictive-extremes Googling shows about 20 years of Tramel writing about Stoops, the standup guy, Stoops the molder of men, Stoops the visionary. He never seemed to write an article about Stiops, the greedy, vindictive asshole.
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anyone with identity theft experience?
statsman replied to Wiler77's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
I am sorry this happened to you. Here is something everyone should do (you, too, if you haven’t already): https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/taxes/tax-identity-theft-ip-pin-irs-ab021643?st=DPHj1X&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink Wiler, if you discover someone else has already opened a SS# account with your wife’s SS#, you have to address it (well, you don’t HAVE TO, but you really need to) -
Tramel just declared bankruptcy after giving all his money to Stoops, Switzer’s SIL and the Toby Keith estate, after a failed venture. He is thinking, “I can eat enough at the free breakfast buffet to get me through the day, and pocket the per diem meal allowance…”
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Tangentially related to OU- Jim Donnan was OC at OU from 1985-1989 (replaced Mack Brown!). (still researching Switzer’s misdeeds) How is Jim Donnan not in jail? He ran a $90 million Ponzi scheme 2010-2012, with this other guy that did go to jail. They told ”investors” that they had purchased goods that already had ready buyers at high profits, and it was guaranteed to return great profits. They paid returns out of the funds from new investors. Donnan, from his career as a coach and TV talker, knew a lot of fairly high worth people (coaches and players) that were fairly unsophisticated about finance. it went to trial (in Georgia, I think), and Donnan’s claim that he didn’t know it was a scam worked in court (the Feds had a lot of evidence that he absolutely knew it was a scam). Are juries just biased to believe (somewhat) successful coaches? Side note- it sounds like Switzer and his SIL were early investors, and helped introduce later investors. As the scheme was unraveling, Switzer was able to get Donnan to give him his nut back, but then had to surrender that to the feds for repayment to others, as they investigated and took over control. Switzer was sued by later investors, but won in court.
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It will be awesome (and completely foreseeable) if Bentley commits to OU, O’Neal goes elsewhere, and then Arbuckle ends up somewhere else in 2027, taking Bentley with him.
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The Ags really are phenomenal baseball fans. Is there any other fanbase with greater support for less results? I almost suspect that part of it is a sick reaction to how great Texas baseball is.
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Great idea. When you’re president, every week brings a moment like 4th and 1 against the Eagles. https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/s/7g3gxWTIk5 Switzer talks a good game…
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Pro-Palestinian Nutjob Shoots and Kills Two Israeli Diplomats in D.C.
statsman replied to rage-a-holic's topic in Daily Texan
Not really. They were Jews. https://www.wsj.com/us-news/the-final-moments-of-two-promising-lives-cut-short-by-a-gunman-fixated-on-gaza-7f6bcba0?st=U9nUxn&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink The killer registered for the event (as typical for Jewish events in the western world, you have to register to find out where it is, for safety of attendees), an intra-faith meeting on alleviating suffering in Gaza, so he could execute (the article explains how he shot them from behind, finishing off the girl as she tried to crawl away) a couple of Jews. Despite all the noise on this thread, it wasn’t Likud he was targeting, or Zionists or Israelis. He was looking to kill Jews. Somewhere along the way, this guy decided he really hated Jews, a condition that has existed in this world for a couple thousand years, without interruption. -
It’s actually interesting case law now. He lied his ass off, to avoid prison, of course. It is so weird. You’d think OKC would be a big city, but the same grifters seem to have their hands in every grift, like a low budget 1980’s movie.
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That’s fantastic. Let me tell you, you go down some interesting and crazy rabbit holes when you google “Barry Switzer arraigned”, “Barry Switzer charged” and so on. I’m going to write a long post about it. Nack to “Sellout Crowd”- an Okie should know better than anyone that Switzer being attached to a project is a warning, not an enticement.
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Thx. Googling, it does look like “Big Dog Holding” was the founder of “Sellout Crowd Media”. Yes, Tramel should have had an attorney look at the loan. Yes, if the dudes in “Big Dog Holding” were decent guys doing business with someone they have known professionally for decades, signing papers they knew he was unfamiliar with, they would have made sure he understood that he was personally on the hook for the loan, and not the venture. Given who they were, you could argue Tramel should have known they weren’t good dudes, … except he had spent most of his career explaining to his readers that they were admirable guys.
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Was the “Big Dog” group associated with the creation of the failed venture? Or, was Tramel offered an opportunity to have an ownership share, and he sought out “Big Dog” for help in funding? The former looks a lot worse than the latter. Also, is OKC not big enough to have other people involved in shady ventures than Switzer and his SIL? Because it looks like they are attached to every scam and scheme.
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OU Football 2025 - Brent Venables Masturbates On Live TV
statsman replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Ha-ha! I didn’t realize I had done that (reference to Indian Territory) -
Reading more, evidently, when Tramel borrowed the money, he didn’t realize that it was written as a personal loan to him, and he is personally on the hook for it.
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I think this story belongs here, and not the new 2025 Sooner thread. It is a weird one. https://www.readfrontier.org/stories/funders-of-defunct-sellout-crowd-media-startup-sue-over-business-debt/ Some Oklahoma sportswriters (including Berry Tramel) started a news site exclusively for Oklahoma sports. They borrowed money from “Big Dog” (evidently the nickname of Bob Stoops. The site failed and Big Dog wants its money back (it’s gone). Big Dog is funded by Stoops, Toby Keith’s estate and Hunter Miller (Switzer’s SIL and partner in that -again weird- Ponzi scheme Switzer and Donnan ran about 15 years ago).
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OU Football 2025 - Brent Venables Masturbates On Live TV
statsman replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
The Oklahoma media is trained. No one goes off the reservation -
OU Football 2025 - Brent Venables Masturbates On Live TV
statsman replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
If they get blown out by Michigan (in week 2, I erred above in saying Game 1), they are a crappy team. Michigan is probably starting true freshman Bryce Underwood, and as talented as he is, he is a work in progress. Id love to see it, though.
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