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  1. 1 hour ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

    What are they gonna pin on him, not being Eddie Sutton's designated driver in 2006?

    But let's say they reduce his contract and tell him the money he's forfeiting has to go to their NIL. He's making $7.5mm now, right? How much of a haircut are they going to give him & what impact do they expect that to have? Would he take a $2.5mm pay cut and hope that allows him to buy another 5 years worth of employment?

    I have no idea.  But a guy like Mike Gundy . . . in a town like Stillwater?  You know there are several skeletons in that particular closet.  Probably drunk pregnant skeletons, if I had to guess.

  2. 5 hours ago, Gandalfish said:

    Empty plastic bottles don't go far or have much impact. A full bottle with no cap is difficult to throw without spilling all over yourself.

    That's not true at all.  You just grab the bottle by the neck and sling it overhand, letting the centrifugal force keep the liquid in the bottle as it spins.

     

    Uhhh, or so I would infer based on my vast knowledge of physics.  Yeah.  That's it.

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  3. 1 hour ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

    Whoa. The plot thicks. What could oSu possibly have on Gundy that they're confident enough to say "sign this reduced contract or we're gonna fire you & not pay you a dime"?
     

    Yeah, but seriously--it's Mike Gundy.  You know they wouldn't have to look very hard to find cause, right?

  4. On 11/22/2024 at 11:52 AM, nnm said:

    SMU can’t be considered a real program until they get serious about a stadium. Ford field isn’t as big or as nice as some TXHSFB stadiums. 

    And they’re having a very nice season. TCU’s had a bunch of those this century. A nice season doesn’t make a sustainable program. 
     

    That said, TCU squandered every bit of its momentum from the CFB CG run (using GP’s players) on a second-rate HFBC and a POS OC who’s not even good at his job. They’ve regressed quickly from GP’s sustainable program. So maybe you’re right. 

    Just to echo the points made by others, Ford Stadium is great for SMU's needs right now, and its size is very consistent with the current trend in college football.

    Attendance across college football is declining.  And for that reason, you're seeing other private schools in P4 conferences downsize their stadiums (e.g., Stanford, Northwestern).  And when Northwestern went to a tiny temporary stadium this year, it actually increased attendance and revenue.

    And cross-posting to the Big XII thread, the comparison to the other P4 private schools that are in major metropolitan areas is interesting:

    USC: L.A. Memorial Coliseum, 77,500. Undergrad enrollment, 21,000.

    Miami: Hard Rock Stadium, 65,326. Undergrad enrollment, 12,883

    (Miami and USC’s respective home venues are, or were, home to NFL teams. Miami’s home stadium is 21 miles from its campus.)

    Stanford: Stanford Stadium, 50,424. Undergrad enrollment, 8,054

    TCU: Amon G. Carter Stadium, 47,000. Undergrad enrollment, 11,049

    Boston College: Alumni Stadium, 44,500.Undergrad enrollment, 9,575

    Vanderbilt: FirstBank Stadium, 41,000. Undergrad enrollment, 7,152

    Northwestern: Ryan Field, 35,000*. Undergrad enrollment, 8,846 (* Ryan Field is slated to open in 2026)

    SMU: Gerald J. Ford Stadium, 32,000. Undergrad enrollment, 7,285

    The Star-Telegram's commentary from which these numbers are sourced points out that TCU isn't filling up its stadium, and it's a really bad look.  You'd really rather be SMU and Northwestern, which are filling their stadiums with premium-seat holders, than TCU, which can't fill Amon Carter Stadium.

    So I'd say that SMU is very serious about its stadium.  Ford Stadium is probably the perfect stadium for SMU right now and into the foreseeable future.

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  5. 15 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:

    I agree with all this too but what mental health expert can handle someone wielding a knife threateningly?

    I think the cops have a point here. Garza has been targeting them for any and everything.

    Both Garza and the cops are assholes. Both are right and both are wrong to an extent. I can easily frame an argument for and against them both.

    At the end of the day, we as a civilization don’t deal very well or effectively with people going through a mental crisis. We either let them go system’s revolving door with next to no accountability or support (Garza) which punishes the community, or we go too far with enforcement (APD) and they end up with fines/jail time making it difficult to return to normalcy or in extreme cases they get killed.

    I am not familiar with the details of the case, so I'm not commenting at all on this specific incident.  

    My comment is directed solely to the union's commentary of "well don't send us on mental-health calls, then."  

  6. On 12/3/2024 at 12:01 PM, royiv said:

    The expanded playoffs are going to ultimately kill demand for the conference championship games. People only have so much money that they can drop on last minute travel during the holidays if they think their team is a contender to make a deep run.

    From what I understand, it's the opposite.

    The television networks don't give a shit about how many people are in the stands.  We have a couple of decades' worth of evidence with various bowl games to demonstrate that.  If "butts in seats" were a metric of the financial viability of a college-football game, then things like the Hawai'i Bowl and the Bermuda Bowl would've been out the window a long time ago.  Shit--the Hawai'i Bowl is being played this year in a stadium with a 17,000-seat capacity, and it'd be a miracle if that game sold out.

    The ratings on conference championship games indicates that, if anything, they'll expand.  The Big 12 instituted a superfluous championship game back when it was a 10-team league precisely because its television partner demanded it.  Has anything changed?

    Someone--maybe Joel Klatt, but I can't remember--laid down a purportedly highly informed opinion that Championship Saturday was going to expand in the next two years alongside an expansion in the CFP.  According to whoever, the CFP is going to expand to 14 teams with the SEC and B1G being guaranteed four spots and their champions guaranteed the two byes.  Those four spots will be allocated to the winner and loser of the conference championship game and then to the winners of two play-in games.  

    So if that were the deal this year, you'd have a Saturday football schedule for the SEC that looked like this:

    11:00 AM: Play-In Game (6) Alabama @ (3) Tennessee

    3:00 PM: Play-In Game (5) Ole Miss @ (4) South Carolina

    7:00 PM: Championship Game (2) Georgia @ (1) Texas (in Atlanta)

    I don't know how likely that is to happen.  But understanding the networks' insatiable appetite for college-football content, I'd say it's significantly more likely to happen than getting rid of conference championship games altogether.

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  7. 20 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

    As Anglophiles, @Ghost of LL and I prefer "Happy Christmas." 

    I'm in the "bah, Humbug" camp these days.  I have oral argument next week, and then three depositions and an MSJ hearing the following week.  And I somehow need to get a hearing on a TCPA motion set before the end of the year.  All of that is on top of the generalized EOY bullshit that comes with running a business, having various social obligations, and dealing with a wife and kids who expect presents.  I don't have time for any of this holiday bullshit.

    Oh, and on top of it Mrs.LL thinks she wants to buy a new house in West Lake Hills.

    So bah, Humbug and fuck all y'all.

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  8. I gotta tell you--I'm real concerned that Alabama is going to get stuck going to Columbus or South Bend and is going to get absolutely boat raced.  Alabama is a good team, don't get me wrong.  But they are very suspect on the road (their three losses are at Vanderbilt, at Tennessee, and at Oklahoma, with road wins coming at Wisconsin and at LSU).  And I really hate to be all "SEC, SEC, SEC," but the fact is that Alabama being a controversial entrant to the CFP and then getting absolutely drubbed in the first round on the road would be a bad look for the conference and could harm Texas and other SEC teams in the Committee's eyes in the future.

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