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  1. There have been organized mass anti-Israel protest marches in London, weekly, since Oct. 8, 2023. Was there something different this weekend? Edited- googling shows that the UK designated the organizers, Palestine Action, a terrorist group after members trespassed a RAF base and vandalized a couple of jets. The UK has different understandings of free speech and assembly rights than the U.S.
  2. I don’t know the rigor of the ESPN FPI model, but if you sum up the percent chances, by conference, of a team in that conference making the playoffs, the SEC comes to about 4.5, the B1G at about 3.5, the ACC to about 1, the B12 to just a little over 1
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    Comic Books

    Am I the only one who is ready for Warren Ellis to get out of comic book jail?
  4. ESPN didn’t buy them to sublet them. They’re making the best of a bad contract
  5. You’re a good fan. You remind me of one we used to have many years ago, Cowboy3949 (RIP). He posted once, “Running down your head football coach in public leads to positive outcomes like talking bad about your wife in public”.
  6. Why? Are you as interested in watching TCU-SMU, an even more regional rivalry? Would you rather watch that, than, say, USC-PSU? I’m curious as to why… Texas plays SHSU, out of Huntsville, closer than Dallas. Does that regional game interest you? Why or why not?
  7. Baylor, Rice, SMU and TCU have long series with Texas because there was a railroad between those cities. The series all got established before cars and buses, let alone airplanes. I see ND had a long series with Indiana in the late 19th and early 20th century, presumably for the same reasons. I don’t know why they stopped playing much for the last six decades. Are you ok with ND being given a slate that has them playing g Indiana every year? Because of the history?
  8. There is no reason for Texas to ever play at TT, TCU, BU, or SMU. There are more Texas fans there than the home fans. Why would Texas even do that to its fans? Rice, on the other hand, has a huge stadium. Why would one of those teams agree to play just an away game in Austin? I don’t know- ask TCU why they did that in 2007?
  9. It is simple. The B12 has a nice media contract. I contend a portion of it is a payoff to let Texas and OU out a little early. ESPN and Fox got a look at what ratings the B12 could draw without those schools, last year. This year, the B12 is putting on as many games as it can on off days, and off weeks, to attract more viewers. ESPN is dumping games onTNT to salvage some value. Baylor won the B12 four years ago and half its games are on streaming. Does the B12 have value? We’ll find out how much in the next media contract. Until then, Cody Campbell will try to drive national media revenue sharing. 😂 If any Left Behind wants to play a non-con game in Austin, or maybe even a 2-1 split, I suggest they begin their call with CDC’s assistant with, “Thank you for carrying us for all those decades”.
  10. Hypothetical: if Texas created a conference that included TSU, UTSA, Rice, UNT, OSU, OU, Arkansas, and Tulsa, and excluded TT, BU, UH and TCU, how do you think things would look in ten years? Myself? I think the fortunes of the included would be drastically better and those of the excluded drastically worse. I really don’t think the Left Behinds really bring anything of value to the table.
  11. No. Texas would expect to have every one of those teams claim Texas is their number one rival, circle the date and fire up the players by telling them this is their chance to get back at Texas for not recruiting them. Texas would expect revenue to decrease, because, although everyone tunes into Texas-TT to see Texas, Texas has to share revenue with Tech. Been there, done that, have a shelf of plastic SWC beer mugs.
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    Vollman

    https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-last-untamed-writer-in-america-6d2a129f?st=sBiDrQ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink A couple of things: 1. I’ve never read this author, but the article has me interested. Anyone able to comment? 2. The article writer is visiting the great author. The author, dying of cancer, offers a glass of whisky at 10 in the morning. The writer declines, leaving the author to drink on his own. What the hell? How do you turn that down? If a Time Machine takes you to 1955 Cuba, and Papa Hemingway wants you to start drinking with him at 8 in the morning, do you say anything but, “He’ll, yeah!”
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  13. Where would OSU be without T Boone? Would they even have done as well as Kansas?
  14. A Sooner Scoopmoderator noted that Nagy, the personnel GM (that doesn’t report to Venables) was on the sideline for the game Saturday. 😂 When the Sooners decided to “run the program like a pro franchise”, I didn’t guess they were going to choose the Dallas Cowboys as a model.
  15. I thought this was going to be about his back and forth with Lanning about NIL and generous benefactors.
  16. I have no beef with things. Do you? Why? Campbell used his own money to get TT the B12’s best roster. Problem is- this is only sustainable if he pays the same amount every year going forward. He’s hoping someone will “equalize” things so he doesn’t have to give eight figures every year to keep Texas Tech in the game. He’s not going to say, “Iwant media revenue shared, so I won’t have to give so much every year”. Instead he says, “Will no one think of the children (that play Olympic sports)?”
  17. Yeah, the SoonerScoop posters are struggling with this Venables concept that “true freshman Fasusi could have played Saturday, if we needed him (and it would have been a great way to get his first college game experience in), but they didn’t, so his first game will be against Michigan”
  18. Cody Campbell is an ex Tech player, chairman of the BoR, main financer of Tech NIL. He says he wants to save college sports and his big idea is that media revenue should be pooled and shared. Im sure he thinks that. Without his donations, Tech is another Iowa State. Making that $20.5M nut is a lot easier if you’re getting that sweet B1G or SEC revenue. Sharing media revenue ales it harder for the big ‘uns and easier for the small ‘uns. Unsurprisingly, as a Texas fan, I think that’s a shitty idea.
  19. “STFU”? In the thread devoted to mocking and putting down TT? Ha-ha-ha-ha! How about this for Mr. Campbell? TT worries about TT and Texas worries about Texas. Texas is doing fine in Olympic sports, and there is nothing to stop TT from fully funding theirs. They don’t need help from UT; they just need to manage their own resources.
  20. https://frontofficesports.com/cody-campbell-asks-congress-to-allow-national-college-sports-tv-package/
  21. Cody Campbell is an asshole who wants to leverage political influence into forcing the government to do for TT what it can’t do for itself. He wants schools with more media revenue than TT to collectively share with TT. He doesn’t want TT to collectively share revenue with schools that have less than TT.
  22. Good news! The Ohio Stadium says they have upgraded their concessions. They have bbq and Mexican food now! 😂 (I have learned not to eat bbq, Mexican food or Chicken fried Steak north of the Red River)
  23. I was so sick of mediocrity, I was fine with going after Meyer. (Background: I heard that, in the 2013/2014 search, Jim Harbaugh was approached. His agent said that any suitor needed to know that it would take $10M annually- highest in the nation- to sign him, and Patterson bowed out. I was pissed, because it meant that Texas was still full of hubris, thinking there were a lot of coaches that could succeed here. In my opinion, the proper response to the demand should have been, “That’s do-able. Let’s talk”.) I knew Meyer had a similar high demand. I was so encouraged when I heard that Meyer’s high demand was not a stopper for Texas. Finally, we were serious about this! That didn’t work out. I wasn’t so enthused about Sark. The way I saw it-Saban was the gold standard, and Kirby Smart was his only assistant to recreate the magic elsewhere. I didn’t like Sark’s chances of being the second (I don’t count Fisher, who I see as more off Bowden’s tree than Saban’s). I am very happy to be wrong on this.
  24. I see where Venables is using Ott as a KR, to get more explosiveness. Awesome! Stoops did that with AD Peterson in the 2006 RRS. He returned the first kick 59 yards. The next three went for a combined 35 yards. If you want to let our special teams gunners tee off on your all American RB, we’re fine with that. (edited: Wow! Joe Jon Finley had two catches for three yards in that game!)
  25. Meyer is a brilliant strategist, and a great player talent scout (although a lousy judge of character), perhaps because he looks at players as “objects” to do what he tells them to do, and is primarily concerned with their ability to execute his strategies. Briles is even more so on each of those points- strategy, scouting and disdain for character.
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