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  1. Certainly our "endowment" at UT is more than just the Permanent University Fund (PUF) but the PUF is always going to be a massive part of it.  And the PUF money can't be spent on just anything, constitutionally it is bound to:

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    PUF bonds may be issued for the benefit of all 14 institutions of the UT System, but may only be used to finance capital expenditures – generally speaking, that means the construction or acquisition of new buildings or land, or the purchase of long term durable equipment (an MRI, for example).

    https://www.utsystem.edu/offices/chancellor/blog/understanding-puf-what-permanent-university-fund-2016-08-22#:~:text=PUF bonds may be issued,an MRI%2C for example).

  2. 1 hour ago, gmr548 said:

    Really need the ninth SEC game and for them to rebalance the A&M and Arkansas home/away years. The home schedule this year is Georgia and the six dwarves.

    I aint complaining because 1) it's worlds better than the Big12 slate we've been getting and 2) we're set up nicely to contend for the SEC championship with our first schedule.

    I really hope that we don't give up on scheduling the marquee OOC game.  Bobby was talking about how when we go to the 9 game SEC schedule we should only schedule creampuffs OOC.  Meh, I really like have the opportunity to play another helmet school home and home and go check out some new venues.  I think the first few years of the 12 team CFP will be informative.  If a P2 team can lose 2 in conference and 1 marquee OOC and still get in as 9-3 with credit for SOS, we'll get the good OOC matchups.  If that team is left out for the first two or three years for a Big12 or ACC non-champ, I think we'll see ADs schedule creampuffs to eternity. :( 

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  3. On 2/11/2024 at 10:38 PM, markstanco said:


    No! I like his energy. But if you want a bunch of old people running CGD, it will die fast. Maybe the CW channel game day with andy griffin and leave it to beaver will be the bookends on your hopeful programming.

    LOL I'm in my 40's, so I guess I am an old now.  I don't care about the age of the people on CGD, I care about how stupid they are, and McAfee is 100% an idiot.  Don't care if it's an act or genuine stupidity, or if ESPN has decided that turning on dumb-mode is how to attract a majority dumb audience.  Not for me, or many others.  But I guess the WWE crowd enjoys it.

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  4. 32 minutes ago, Texzilla58 said:


    It was their model T. Lots of Germans put deposits on them and never got a car. The Beetle was integral to rebuilding post war Germany.

    I never got the love of VW vans. Shitty fucking vehicles. A school buddy his dad drove one. My dad thought he was likely a communist which he also categorized Plymouth owners. Anyway it was hot as shit and went about 26 mph.

    LOL why Plymouth?  1970 Cuda is commie now?

  5. 18 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    It’s funny- there’s a lot of “weaker elements to Sarkisians regime,” and yet program trajectory looks to be at its absolute apex since what- 2004 after beating Michigan in the rose bowl?

    Pretty sure our program apex was roughly 1 year after we beat Michigan in the rose bowl in '04, and we haven't surpassed it yet.

  6. 6 hours ago, 59 Burst said:

    I’m an old guy so it’s not hate. But, as iconic as he is on GameDay, Corso should have politely retired some years ago. Give him his victory lap season and move on. 

    Watching Reese, Desmond and Herb try to prop him up when he struggles is one of the reasons I flip the channel when he gets air time. Maybe it’s my own mortality, but it is difficult to watch.

    Same, and I love Corso.  It's hard to watch and it's been hard to watch for several years.  On one hand I want the best for him and empathize, because my lived experience with my father is that once someone stop working and "loses their purpose," they can degrade very, very rapidly.  It's probably healthy for him mentally and physically to put on the suit and do all the prep even if he can't express himself verbally as he once did.  

    I'm kinda surprised that they haven't transitioned him into a Tom Rinaldi type and do packaged pre-recorded video hits of him; live shots play to his weakness.  But OTOH his strength is his chemistry with the team.  Aging sucks.

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  7. I think Saban will actually be a plus addition and will be able to be more loose and funny now that he's not wearing the coach hat.  Can he please replace MClownAfee?

  8. 43 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    There will two power conferences left, akin to the AFC and NFC.  North vs south.  The SEC and BIG will grow and ingest more and more schools, tell the NCAA to take a flying fuck, and the table will be set.  Then you will have all the other schools doing their own thing similar to how the FCS is now, but with larger and formerly prestigious P5 schools left out and the only path to a title being joining one of the two larger conferences.  

    Agree we are heading to the P2.  Disagree w/ the 2nd part about the only path for former P5 is to join the P2, because at some point soon the P2 economics on expansion won't make sense to grow larger.  I think it's more likely that after FSU, North Carolina, Clemson and Virginia are sorted out that we're done.  Then the shift will be the SEC/B1G will change the playoff to reserve 9-10 spots for themselves, leaving 2-3 for "everyone else" to maintain the facade of access and avoid anti-trust.

    The final step will be the SEC and B1G syncing and then jointly negotiating their media deals, which is where the real money shows up.

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    Esteemed Dartmouth Students, Alumni, Academic Staff, and Administration:

    Since 1769, Dartmouth has embodied excellence in all endeavors: academic, athletics, and societal.  We are proud of our accomplishments, including educating Samuel Ford McGill, the first African-American medical school graduate in 1839, performing the first clinical x-ray in the United States in 1896, and starting today's artificial intelligence revolution in 1956.  Our impacts echo through time as evidenced by our multiple Nobel prize winners in chemistry, physics, and other disciplines.  We believe in educating the whole person at Dartmouth, and providing opportunities for our students to expand their horizons inside the classroom, laboratory, board room or courtroom, and by encouraging competition in intercollegiate athletic programs.

    You may have seen the recent news that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has declared the students on our men's basketball team to be employees of Dartmouth and eligible to form a union.  We disagree with this decision.  In our discussions with the NLRB, we outlined our position that intercollegiate sports at Dartmouth are an extension of the learning environment - not profit-seeking ventures as you may expect at a larger institution.  Like all ivy league institutions, Dartmouth does not offer athletic scholarships.  Scholarships are based solely on need and academic achievement.

    Today, athletics at Dartmouth are revenue neutral.  In 2023, Dartmouth Athletics collected approximately thirty-five million dollars in revenue, with costs also approximately thirty-five million dollars.  These costs pay for coaches' salaries, facilities, travel, uniforms and more.  With the recent NLRB decision, we expect to be required to pay salary, benefits, and incur other overhead to comply with treating our men's basketball team as employees.  If this were a single team or a handful of students, we may be able to overcome this challenge. However, Title IX mandates equal treatment of all student athletes at Dartmouth.  This means that in short order we anticipate being required to bring rowing, softball, swimming & diving, and eventually all student athletes under the employee umbrella.

    I have asked Athletic Director Mike Harrity to estimate the financial impacts these challenges will create for Dartmouth.  His team's analysis is, in a word, staggering: our costs to serve our student athletes will increase by at least 50% under the most conservative projections.  Unfortunately, there is no viable path to increasing athletic revenues by this amount under our current model, and our Board of Trustees has reaffirmed our longstanding policy that we will not subsidize athletics. 

    For the reasons outlined here, I and the Board of Trustees have made the difficult to decision to focus Dartmouth's future on academics over athletics.  2024 will be the final year of Dartmouth's participation in NCAA Division I-FCS.  Starting in 2025, all teams will be converted to student-led, all volunteer club teams, and our athletic department will shift its focus to serving all students at Dartmouth by providing opportunity for healthy competition outside of the NCAA framework.

    We understand that this change will feel abrupt, and that for many of you it may create an uncertain future.  All coaches and employees in our athletic department will be fully paid under their current contract terms.  Students who wish to transfer or explore opportunities elsewhere will receive our full support.

    For over 250 years, the Dartmouth community has weathered change.  As we turn the page to our next chapter and look forward to the next 250 years, we appreciate your support.

    Thank you and Go Big Green,

    Sian Leah Beilock
    President
    Dartmouth College

     

     

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  10. What is fucking Dartmouth playing with here?  Do their alumni give two shits about their basketball program?  Maybe they do...but they're an ivy right?  Their president should welcome the team to unionize if they want and then shut the thing down if they choose that path.  Decisions have consequences...turn mbb into a club level all-volunteer thing and make the issue moot.  What are they trying to get from unionization anyway, ivies don't even offer athletic scholarships?  Are the players looking to be on salary?  L-O-fucking-L if so.

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  11. 22 minutes ago, Ghost of Shag said:

    I think it’s reasonable to like Sark and still hold cautious optimism regarding his future. Simply, I think Deboer and several others are better coaches. 

    Can he learn to manage the clock better? Can he learn to take what the defense is giving him? To kick a field goal when the moment calls for it?

    I like Sark. But I would have expected a better string of final plays against Washington for all the offensive genius he has. That moment seemed to big for him.

    Sark can still grow, every coach can.  DeBoer screwed up his clock management in the Sugar Bowl and got very lucky to squeak out with a win considering how they outplayed us.  He would have been dragged hard if they ended up losing that game.

    But Sark is probably a legit top 5 coach right now when you consider the full gamut of coaching responsibilities: 1) talent acquisition and roster management, 2) assistant coaching hires, 3) off the field CEO stuff w/ the AD and boosters, 4) in-game coaching, 5) player development, etc etc.

    I'd put Kirby ahead on #1, even on 2, 3, 4 and 5.

    I'd put Harbaugh ahead on #4 and 5, behind on #1 and #3, not sure on #2

    I'd put DeBoer ahead on #2, 4 and 5, behind on #1 and not sure on #3

    That's who I'd put above Sark but after Kirby it's close.

    Below Sark...

    Lanning is maybe ahead on #3, slightly behind on #1 although he's done well in the portal, slightly behind on #2, slightly behind on #4 and unsure on #5 although Nix was developed he was also 8th year, so...

    Day is slightly ahead on #1 (ranks ahead of Texas in 2023 team talent composite)

    Riley is slightly behind on #1 and 3, and way behind on #2 and #5

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  12. On 1/3/2024 at 1:32 PM, TheMailBox357 said:

    Penix definitely reminded me of Joe Burrow in the 2019 LSU-Texas game.

    Agree w/ Vogel's tweet here.  Texas' Defense certainly wasn't great, but it wasn't lack of scheme or effort.  Murphy had Penix dead to rights after shaking two blockers on a play and Penix casually sidestepped him and dropped a 20 yard dime.  Penix is just damn good, and has 3 NFL wide receivers.  Babers made an interesting point on the OTF podcast: he thought that UW was going to attack the safeties, which are a coverage weakness, but mostly they didn't - they attacked the corners.  Ryan Watts, even Barron.  They all got cooked at one point in 1-on-1 coverage, and most of Penix's big completions were outside the hashes where a safety isn't going to be a big factor.

    UW neutralized our biggest strength in Sweat and Murphy by 1) good protection, 2) running away from them, and 3) Penix being elusive in the pocket and getting the ball out quick.

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  13. On 1/2/2024 at 10:38 AM, utexas8 said:

    Moral of the story. Buying cfp-rsvp as soon as it opens for next season.

    How does this work exactly?  When you buy the option if it hits, you get a ticket but is it "whatever they have available in the nosebleeds" or can you buy an option for a certain type of seat?

  14. Just now, Al_4_ISU said:

    FSU and Clemson make a lot more sense in the SEC, IMO.  At least in an actual logical sense, not a "college football 2024" sense.

    From a regionality standpoint and rivalry standpoint yes.  From a TV and recruiting perspective, no.  SEC already owns Florida and the southeast.  Why add a new brand there that dilutes your recruiting for existing members, and adds eyeballs you already have anyway?  Might be a few net-new FSU and Clemson eyeballs but I bet they already watch SEC a ton.  No way that's worth the $60-80M/yr ESPN would have to pay out.  Especially when ESPN has them at a bargain rate now.  It's gonna be a lawyer war for awhile.

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