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Horn of Gabriel

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  1. It's not about the state, the city, the market area or the DMA anymore. We're not living in the linear cable TV world. It's about the eyeballs the brands bring. If it were just about planting a flag in LA to "get the LA market," the B1G would only have taken USC and not UCLA.
  2. That might all be true, but I just can't see UW and Oregon swallowing their pride enough to join the Big12 w/ "lesser" schools in their mind. In their mind they are logo schools. We'll see!
  3. I think it's more likely that Oregon and Washington stay in the PAC and try to recruit Big12 teams to them than that they bail on the PAC for the Big12. Their preferred options have to be: Join the B1G Stay in an expanded PAC by poaching some Big12 teams Figure out some ACC/PAC merger? lol Join the SEC ... Join the Big12
  4. You got your edit in, good. The exemption that ND was going to get was under the old, not approved 12-team playoff proposal. All bets are off now. The suggestion that TV partners won't allow a playoff without ND makes zero sense. One of two things will happen: ND stays independent and leaves their rights with NBC who has zero juice to tell the B1G and SEC anything about how to design the playoff, or, ND joins a conference and this is a non-issue, they make more money, and the TV partners make more as well because they'll get ND into better matchups as well as the playoff.
  5. Viewership numbers suggest differently.
  6. The new G8 will probably consolidate down some if the supers go to 20 or 24, but actually relegation/promotion might be a bone to toss them that they could win their way into the supers? Fun to think about but doubtful it would ever happen because it would be too fun.
  7. Is there historical precedent for kicking teams out of a league? That seems much more difficult than a team making a decision on their own to leave to another league in their best interest. Feels ickier.
  8. 2 super leagues and G8 are more likely now than 4x16. I get why the new G5+3 would want AQs in the new world, they have a much easier path and then only have to win one game to get into the championship. It's just not realistic given the level of competition in the 2 supers vs. the lower leagues. You'd think the G8 would actually be advocating for expanded playoff now, not the other way around.
  9. Story apparently got broke by the Mercury News which is San Jose/SF. Probably someone in the PAC HQ caught wind and leaked in that case.
  10. What a hilarious FU to Houston, UCF, and Cincy.
  11. LOL, that might work in a world where the 4 supers are close to equal but they aren't close in that scenario. B1G and SEC are head and shoulders above the other two. I'll take that deal if SEC and B1G get two AQs each. Otherwise, the arguments for expanded playoff of 12 are still valid.
  12. The only way that works is when the SEC and B1G breakaway and create a 48-team super-DIV1 and make the AFC and NFC. Then they can stage their own sides of the playoff bracket and meet in the College Super Bowl.
  13. Mountain out of a molehill. This is a solvable problem through smart scheduling and windows. Plus it ignores the other side of the risk which is standing pat in the disaster of the PAC, which is arguably much worse.
  14. Very few threads deserve classic status on the title alone. This is one of them.
  15. How do OVs work for portal players, are there any limits or anything like recruits?
  16. What's maddening about this NIL-bullshit it how hairsplitting the inducement side is for recruits: Booster/Collective: "You'll get $50K if you come play OL for Texas next year" <-- Inducement! Illegal! Non-compliant! Coach: "Hi OL recruit, did you hear the report that all enrolled full-time students who play OL at Texas will get $50K/year starting next year?" <-- perfectly fine Everyone, I mean everyone knows that it's the same fucking thing. Even better is the Miami LifeWallet guy. Can we just drop the pretense and call NIL for what it is: Pay-for-play? I'm sure there were a handful of people just waiting on the sidelines to connect Longhorns with *legit charity causes* but couldn't because of the old system and are now overjoyed to give these worthy charities exposure (and any benefit to the players is secondary of course) but 99.9999% of SEC Collectives are doing NIL with the express purpose of making the team more competitive for championships; not side benefits like making players richer, giving charities better coverage, or whatever. Caterwauling about what NIL is or isn't or what it was "supposed to be" in terms of Name, Image, and Likeness is laughable. Once the barn door was opened to legally paying players, any rationale that people are willing-to-pay to support is now legit. So yeah, it's effectively salary, minus the salary-cap. Compliance and boosters need to deal with that - because the best players have certainly realized it.
  17. It's self-enforcement!
  18. Here are two great articles if you want to dig into the details of this epic business failure. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/business/cnn-plus-shutting-down.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/24/cnn-plus-what-went-wrong-why-it-was-canceled.html A few notable facts that will make you shake your head: CNN's free liner TV offering average audience was about 534k viewers last year. Yet, they somehow convinced themselves that they were going to sign up a MILLION paying users for CNN+... in other words they were planning on getting twice the amount of paying users that watch their product...for free. In what world does that make remote sense? I teach and consult in Marketing and Pricing and it's a good rule of thumb that for a freemium product (free version you try to convert people to paid), you can expect about a 1-3% conversion rate to paid, depending on circumstances. At the midpoint of that, 2% of 534K is 10,680...which is just over the reported 10K they actually got to sign up. They spent $300M on this product development and launch, including a hefty fee to McKinsey to do a market study for them(!!!). I saw a great tweet that I can't find now that said: "Interestingly there isn't a market for McKinsey to tell executives that their idea is stupid."
  19. Was that Christian Jones looking decent there?
  20. This is lazy and tired. If you're going to make this assertion, name names and actions. What specifically does administration do to make it an uphill battle? Who does it? Just saying "durrrr...Plonsky!" is insufficient. I've seen the administration raising a shit ton of money for improvements, massive budget for assistant coaches, basically giving Sark whatever he's asked for - I certainly haven't heard of the admin leaving Football wanting for anything. So what is it?
  21. Are you with an Endocrinologist? Sounds like an endocrine issue?
  22. Kinda B.S. They sent me the email on that this morning with all the "value" they've added to the subscription, of which I care about 0% and don't use. Maybe some of the add'l instructors but I don't do strength classes, I don't have a treadmill, I don't care about collabs with rando artists. I guess I'm in the ecosystem b/c you have a brick w/o the sub but still.
  23. Bob Wheeler is a cunt. I know from personal experience. I worked with him to build LFZ many years ago. He made promises of payments that never showed up, and was threatening and generally just a complete beating to work with at all times. He had an extremely high opinion of himself and his importance, and really got off on being worshiped on his own site. A hero in his own mind, as his book cover shows. Major little man Napoleon complex going on there, he's very sensitive about being called short, which he definitely is (notice how he's always wearing high heeled boots LOL). After I bailed on him when he shorted and failed to pay me several times for work, he left me a rambling VM about how worthless I was and how LFZ was nothing, he was going to "go take a HTML class and figure out this shit on his own." LOL, ok bro. Of course, LFZ crashed a few weeks later when he's trying to upgrade it, and he immediately calls me to swoop back in and fix it. Yeah, no - especially when you start off your message with "I know you intentionally fucked my shit up and you need to take responsibility and fix it or I'm going to sue you." He threatened to sue a lot. Eventually I told him "go for it, I'm judgement proof, p.s. fuck off" Never heard from him again. A few months later the OSU bus debacle happened. I'm amazed that people didn't see through his bullshit more, and feel bad that people got screwed. Imagine how bad it would have been if LFZ had progressed as far as Shaggy/Surly and treefiddy...I'm convinced he would have stolen a whole lot more than he got away with. Who craters their entire reputation for a few grand? It's been years since I thought of ole' Bob, I wonder what ditch he's slithering around in now out by Mexia...
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