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Magus Ossis

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  1. Ultimately, I think the combination of Texas to the SEC, moving to NIL, and expanding the playoff field to 12 teams is good for almost everybody errbody from the old 12: 1. Athletes may be better compensated for their talents and efforts. 2. Texas leverages the wealth of its donor base to support our recruiting, and sponsors have more avenues. 3. Texas and SEC both improve their TV revenue situations in the marriage. 4. Texas is still virtually guaranteed a playoff berth and chance at redemption in seasons marred by one frustrating loss. Finishing in the top 3 in the SEC is basically an autobid, and 4th still looks not-bad. 5. The Big 12 remnants will have a clear path to the playoffs that does not require beating a single traditional power. 6. Sadly for teams that benefitted from the limited policing of under-the-table money previously, not everyone can be a winner in this. Boo hoo.
  2. No college competing in the same leagues is going to be purely fans of another. There is always some degree of rivalry. ISU has never been particularly hateful or small compared to some other schools (Nebraska, aggy certainly). The AD expands in that interview that he's tired of having to do two versions of everything as a conference, not knowing how many teams will be involved. He doesn't rag on UT at all. You guys calling him a nothing and cussing him are part of the reason why so many are ready to hate Texas and call us all arrogant. And in many cases people from the same crowd later complain that we are hated and called arrogant. Thanks for representing us well. Good riddance to Baylor. To ISU: I want to congratulate you on your new business and I'm sure you'll do very well and good luck to you. Especially since your interests don't conflict with mine.
  3. Or Kliavkov is doing what increasingly desperate men do.
  4. The 71.3% of Texas applicants who are rejected largely go to less selective colleges and have someone else for whom to cheer. The slough from the aggy applicant pool go to Blinndergarten or McDonalds.
  5. A man who earns a living juggling lizards at birthday parties is no herpetologist. Football writer’s job is not football.
  6. Can the Big12 schools left behind or joining now afford to pay the exit penalty with the money they'd get for going ACC? GOR aside, there is a significant payment ostensibly required to depart.
  7. I’m not so sure we’ll see OU/aggy as rivals. They don’t have a super-rich history together, and aggy is going to cry and whine not to have to play OU. With enough time they’ll come up with 77 different excuses.
  8. Mahomes brings something to the table as an NFL quarterback that Elway, frankly, never could. An ACL in his left knee. Playing a postseason on a high ankle sprain was impressive. Playing a career on a blown ACL is crazy.
  9. There will be no blue bloods, but I strongly suspect there will be haves and have nots. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
  10. I don’t know about anyone else here, having myself no particular NFL allegiance. I for one though always look forward to reading well-thought-out arguments that rest on propositions such as, “that admitted infraction doesn’t meet my unstated personal preferred threshold of egregiousness,” or better still, “blah blah blah fans of team that didn’t play in the game.” These posts make this place interesting and educating, and they demonstrate the insight of their authors.
  11. Aggy should have the two schools we least worry about recruiting Texas as its other two "rivals," if we are wish casting what's best for Texas. Keep those other schools out of our backyard as much as possible.
  12. Yeah, I'm pretty new to watching football, so maybe you can help me. It will be little effort on your part, I have little doubt, to post representative stills of the Philly Jersey sticking out on an illegally held receiver on each of the Eagles' offensive plays-- I won't ask you to do it for KC. Your blanket statement about holding is a commonly accepted one, but in the context of offensive holding at the LOS, not defensive holding when the receiver makes a cut in the secondary. I would be interested to see your objective criteria for "pretty egregious" defensive holding which facilitate fair and reproducible snap officiating decisions at the time of the foul.
  13. To summarize Bow: 1. Yes, I know the defender held an eligible receiver running a route in the secondary 2. Yes I know it turned out to be the intended target of the pass. 3. Yes I see the still frame of the jersey sticking out proving the hold. I get that this is a way refs are trained to identify holding. 4. Yes I know the refs saw the foul and flagged it. 5. Yes I know the defender admitted unequivocally he was holding. 6. Yes I know the defender knows holding is a penalty but did it anyway to try to impede the rout, hoping to get away with it and influence the game. 7. Yes I know an improvised play when timing is off is more susceptible to error. 8. Yes I know defensive holding is holding before the pass and thus is not penalized based on its EFFECT, even when the player held is never considered for a target. 9. Yes I know it rewards and encourages rule-breaking and conspiracy theories to ignore penalties. 10. I have judged the style of this hold unworthy of a flag, based on my vast expertise of skiing technique. I also think Jimbo would never have put his team in such a vulnerable position. That’s why he’s got a natty.
  14. We’d scream it because we know holding isn’t pi. Defensive holding isn’t judged on catchability
  15. If Texas is throwing for a TD on third down, and if we see that jersey sticking out toward a db hand, and if the call is not made, every person here screams at the tv “holding!— why didnt they call it?!? You could see his $(@& jersey being tugged!!!”
  16. Not only will there be no pods, the absence of pods will keep a few potential "rivalries" from being implemented. For example, if our "official rivals" are OU, pig, and aggy, that restricts theirs somewhat. If aggy has us and pig, they can't be rivals with OU. This is better for aggy anyway. The turdition/myth of "running out of time" is harder to square with reality (though likely less so for aggy, as reality intrudes so seldom and so minimally into his mind) when one annually plays the team you begged successfully to run the clock whilst they gave you historic beatdown.
  17. Reading between the lines, there will be no divisions. There will be no pods. The decision has been made, and the 3+6 alignment has already been determined. At this point, details are being ironed out, ruffled feathers are being smoothed, and one or two schools that didn’t get their way are being given a chance to get in line. Just because we only just got the announcement that Texas and OU were joining in 2024 does not mean that this has not been in the planning stage for a very long time.
  18. Historical irony of Tech being ungrateful to Texas after we helped them into their dream of SWC membership and after they blackmailed their way on our coattails into the big 12.
  19. This graphic is from Navigate and reflects their projections done last year for conference revenue. If the ballpark is correct, the delta between playing for a power 2 conference and another of the old power 5 is $40M- $50M per annum by 2028. As the revenue bell cows of the other 3 flee to the power 2, this effect could be exacerbated beyond what is already projected. Paying $50M once to get in on $50M annually is such a no-brainer that I have to wonder about people who ask where we'll get the money or whether it will be worth it. What do you call the Big 12 5 years after Texas and OU leave? The C-USA AAC Big Nothing (CUSAAACB0). They will still get an autobid for March Madness, nor will they need it-- they will play some great basketball. They will send in 10-12 seeds to the 12-team CFP with regularity. Tech can't sell out its own stadium against teams not named Texas or OU, let alone draw a national audience to support a rich TV contract. And they are one of the relative big boys in the CUSAAACB0. The Pac 12 refugees could add some credibility to the league, but the truth is that the LA schools gave their old league the lion's share of what value it had. The four corners schools will be leaving a sinking ship to get on a floating barge. Good riddance to the league, and good luck to the orphans of fate (e.g. ISU).
  20. Or how about let other teams play who they want OOC and not worry about it. Bama's playing the Carolina College for Amputee Klutzes has not made them an unworthy opponent for us. Let's schedule good teams and enjoy beating them and mind our own business.
  21. Think how much cooler 2005 would have been playing Western Kentucky than these guys.
  22. Based on the average recruit rankings by school for 2023 per 247, there is a clear line separating 15 schools from the rest in terms of quality. Among the top 15, Bama (#1 class, #1 average of 94.78) and Clempson (11, 15, 90.76) are the bookends. For the rest of the top 50, Ole Miss (27, 16, 89.84) and Illinois (43, 50, 86.23) bracket the list. I find it at least mildly interesting that the lists don’t overlap at all and that there is little fall-off as one moves down through the second tier. data from 247 as of 2/8/23
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