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  1. Have you ever wondered why TT hires such shitty coaches? Have you ever thought that maybe it’s because coaches have agents, who know which employers are good and which aren’t? That Tech claiming SI may have hurt it, in future hiring? If a court told Texas it had to pay Beard, Texas would have paid, and not claimed SI. For two reasons: Texas has the money, and CDC is smart enough to know he will be hiring other basketball coaches in the future, and he wants Texas to be the preferred destination.
  2. For those upset about the direction of college football, bemoaning the loss of parity between institutions, check out this 50 year old Texas Monthly article: https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-southwest-conference/ To set the stage, in the mid ‘70s, like today, the main sources of AD revenue were ticket sales and media payouts. There were three major TV networks, and they contracted with the NCAA for games. The NCAA, being a democracy, placed limits on how many games per season any team could have (max of three per season and five every two years). There was also radio, but although appreciated, the income was much smaller. Ticket sales were the biggest source, and the programs we lovingly call the IR8 struggled there, to the point they weren’t competitive. (Fun aside- check out the OOC slates that the SWC smaller schools had in the ‘60s and ‘70s. They almost exclusively played P4 teams, and usually on the road, because 40% of an East Lansing gate was greater than 60% of a Waco gate). 1984: UGA and OU win lawsuit against NCAA over media rights. There are now more networks, and the conferences do the negotiating. Being in a conference with Texas is now more valuable than before. Teams can follow the KSU example and schedule patsies OOC without it hurting the bottom line. The point of all this- current trends are just the next step in a constantly evolving competitive landscape. The big universities with large, enthusiastic (and hopefully well heeled) fanbases have always had an advantage and probably always will.
  3. We are so fortunate, on this board, to have Red Raiders like Fontana and Iceman to explain to us how our program works or would act in different situations
  4. …and there is that TT education we have learned to appreciate and shield our children from.
  5. Let’s see a show of hands from those who care what Fontana thinks.
  6. They’ve got that Tom Herman thing going, where, for example, we had a room full of WRs that were highly rated recruits, with none distinguishing themselves, and say, “we’re deep at that position”. Sark came in, fresh from his Alabama roster, and said, “Why do I have 18 WRs on scholarship, and none that can play?”
  7. I’ve been reading SoonerScoop. They believe they have the nation’s best DL. Reason- it’s their deepest position, with the fewest concerns, so…it has to be the nation’s best? I mean- you’d think they might take a look at a couple other team’s DLs, like Georgia or Ohio State? For comparison?
  8. Yeah. In a way, it was the MNC that exposed all the flaws in “loss column bias”, setting the stage for Alkiance Bowls, BCS and CFP. The egregious ones are those claimed by Auburn and SMU (among others) for years where we all remember nobody thought they were champs.
  9. Really fucking stupid. Like the Mannings, of all people, wouldn’t have already considered that?
  10. Cool, just as long as you understand- the point t of this thread isn’t to provide a hangout for the handful (five or less) of Tech fans. It’s to provide a place for the tens of thousands of Longhorn fans to mock and deride Tech. https://www.theunticket.com/the-texas-tech-elite-doll/
  11. I’m talking about real NCs.
  12. My take when I saw the game on live TV- if the official on the field called it bad, it wouldn’t have been reversed under review (it wasn’t) and if it had been called good on the field, it wouldn’t have been reversed under review. A crazy call that really could have legitimately gone either way.
  13. It cracks me up that you think the “Left Behind…” thread is for treating former conference members with respect. That it upsets you when we don’t. Here is a fun thought- how do you think the BU AD office conversations go when they discuss trying to set up a home and home with UT?😂
  14. Ha-ha-ha-ha! In the Bible, Jesus said what we do to and for the least of us, we do to and for Him. Baylor University roofied Jesus, ran a train on Him, and when He complained, they told Him to fuck off.
  15. My memory- it started in 2008. It wasn’t just that B12 coaches voted OU and TT ahead of Texas, in the votes determining the B12 south champ (and then BCS CG), but that they voted Texas down artificially (6th or lower). It was clearly a vote to create space for OU. My guess? They didn’t want a Longhorn team at peak capacity, dominating the Texas recruiting the whole conference relied on. It is hard to describe how pissed Texas was. (Hell, I still am). ‘Stache, remember that maybe-missed FG against ISU? Imagine replay showed it clearly good, and the review still disallowed it, after consulting with conference ADs. That’s how pissed we were. (in the off season, a photo showed the team conference hall, where 2008 -with an asterisk- was up there on the list of conference champions. Texas was roundly mocked for that. That didn’t help the mood in Bellmont, or the Tower or the BoR). Texas was done playing nice. The plan was to develop the LHN and weaponize it. Screw the conference- we were no longer going along with the fiction that their third tier content was worth anything. We were going to have specials about star HS recruits and big HS games, and the LHN was going to highlight Texas as the place to be and play. The league (especially the Texas schools) pitched a shit fit. Texas had to back down. But, Texas decided the B12 really wasn’t a collegial confeeence wheee everyone supports everyone else being as good as they can be. And Texas really started to look out for itself.
  16. Yes, Texas didn’t want to sign on to Larry Scott’s vision for taking the PAC to a new level (Scott said, basically, my way or the highway). How shortsighted!
  17. You think there is a connection? Explain it.
  18. The B12 and ACC have good media contracts for another seven years. What we saw in 2024: B12 games can’t draw media viewers in numbers needed to support those payments, now that the SEC and B1G have a bunch of better matchups. That’s why Farmageddon is in Ireland on week 0. That’s why a bunch of B12 games will be played in Thursday and Friday. That’s why ESPN is selling inventory to TNT. That’s why FSU and Clemson believe getting to the SEC or B1G is an existential need. Now, there will be a larger and better inventory of SEC games. ESPN really wants that. The next media contracts will increase the gap between SEC/B1G and ACC/B12. When we look back on 10-20 years ago, and wonder how this happened, a reflective IR8 fan or booster might wonder, “Is there anything we could have done to keep Texas and OU happy here? To have kept that first domino from falling, or even delayed it?” People tend to be self centered, so they’ll probably just decide, “Naw. Those Longhorns are just big selfish jerks”. They’ll never realize what huge strategic errors the coaches’ votes in 2008 were, the hostility against letting Texas really weaponize the LHN was too, that the fun from seeing Deterding screw the Horns in 2015 was self defeating. The Lilliputian’s did as they wanted and Gulliver split town.
  19. The thing is- y’all couldn’t win NCs before. In the BCS era, NCs were won by teams in the SEC, B1G and a couple of ACC teams that might get into the SEC or B1G. Of B12 teams, the only ones to win MNCs were Colorado (1990) and TCU (1935, 1938). What you could do, and you hate that these days might be over, is beat a blue blood and screw up their season. Those were games that delighted IR8 schools and they hate that they’re diminished
  20. True rivalries are unique. We hate OU, but we’d play them in a parking lot if we had to, and they feel the same about us. Alabama-Auburn and UGA-Florida are similar, I think. A lot of so-called rivalries are pretty weak. TCU and Baylor have played 130 times but either o e would give the game up for a magic bean (and either would surrender their first born for a home and home with Texas). Arkansas, back in the oldest SWC days, had a regular OOC game with Ile Miss, often played in Memphis. The ACC needs to go to nine conference games, but I bet they don’t get offered the same payout that the SEC teams do.
  21. On SoonerScoop, someone checked with the Fasusi camp, and the kid got a couple of IVs last night and expects to be back at practice, soon. (I think they are being optimistic). Also, their indoor facility doesn’t have AC, yet.
  22. Sark is great. He has this program in as solid of a place as many of us have ever seen, and better than all of us expected to see again. I would love ten more years of this. Sark is also a recovered alcoholic, who has had rib splitting heart surgery and may have an eventful personal life. I am just enjoying each day he is here and not counting on anything too far in the future.
  23. I saw where a SoonerScoop moderator was saying that they had five CBs they could play, which sounds like a strength. I’ve been paying attention long enough to know that “5 CBs that can play” really means “five bodies at CB, and none have separated themself”.
  24. You have to admit,…James Thurber
  25. They are really believing: Wow. Deepest defense since 2003 and deepest OL since 2017. The former team played for the BCS championship and the latter played in the CFP.
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