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Magus Ossis

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  1. Mack Brown approves of the name of BRENT VENABLES ou football camp
  2. Wouldn’t be the first time aggy made its mark there.
  3. So, let me get this straight. Eli was and is happy to get paid an order of magnitude more (for coaching a game) than his pediatrician BIL is for "saving lives." But young men's being allowed to receive market value for putting their health at risk in a manner necessary for his own enrichment is shocking.
  4. No divisions, 3 permanent rivals, play every one else H/H over any given 4 year span in a 9 conference game schedule was the best idea to me. Pending that, pods could be a reasonable intermediate step or a catastrophe depending on the implementation. If we were in a "far west" pod with OU, pig, and aggy, our scheduling in an 8-game pod arrangement would be very similar to the 9-game rival format. The biggest problem is cases in which there are teams whose rivals don't allow easy division into pods. Aggy, e.g., is the most important rival for Bama, UGA, Gator, and LSU. At least one of those teams will have to interrupt its historical and beloved rivalry, even if aggy doesn't get relegated to the "far west." I think this is the real answer. Cows, milk, free. Money ultimately talks, which means 9 games is the likely end game. We'll likely play all those teams more in a boogered-up SEC schedule than we would in any other conference alignment, and I can think of one or two other reasons to put/keep B12 in the rear-view. Patience. 2024 is a bonus year of early departure, and most of us besides @armybrat have a chance to live to see the schedule get fixed.
  5. One can say many things about Sanders. One piece of evidence that may fall just short of convicting him of fraud, however, is failing at the outset of his first season to lead his recently 1-11 squad to victory on the road against the national championship runner-up.
  6. We play in a conference with OU (never at DKR), some midwest mid-majors, some private pseudo-Christian schools, and WVU. Who the heck is the big draw to which Tech is being compared? The real tragedy is that in the B12 our home slate is so lame that a sellout is worth mentioning.
  7. Iowa State is not going back to playing teams like Grinnell or Simpson as they did in their early years. Why? There is no butthurt. Iowa State does not care about those teams. They are not suitable candidates to compete against a team like ISU for a championship. They don't bring much fan interest or revenue. They are yesterday's news to ISU. ISU has everything to lose and nothing to gain by playing them. ISU would be upset if someone dumped them in a division of 'purist' CFB with those regional and historical 'rivals.' Everybody has his own definition of who matters enough to be in the club, and a great many people think they are one of those who matter. There are not 72 serious contenders for the CFB national crown. The last team outside the new P2 and not named Miami, FSU, ND, or Clemson (aka the candidates already named as potentially ripe for taking by P2) to win a championship was Washington, who shared the title over 30 years ago, before Leach ever coordinated an offense or most Americans had heard of the internet. A nationwide 'purist' CFB consortium sounds great for people who don't want to watch a lot of blue blooded, red-faced, hate-inspired, championship-implications, etc type football. Great. Make the league and good luck against Grinnell. The system, for better or worse, has evolved from what some people seem to want (loose regional divisions) to what we are witnessing. Teams don't play high schools or city teams any more, and I am glad. I would rather see more games against Bama, UGA, LSU, OU, Arkansas, Florida, Auburn, and the like. If other teams "left behind" disagree with the logic, they are welcome to structure their next conference without using the criteria Texas, USC, OU, and UCLA have employed. My suspicion, though, is that they will do the exact same thing. They will decline to fill their schedule with teams in their backyards and instead play games that, on balance, look more exciting, more challenging, more lucrative, and less strictly 'regional.' Because it makes sense.
  8. Texas' historic conference rivals/members are Rice, SMU, Arkansas, A&M, SMU, Baylor, and TCU. OU and Texas were in separate conferences for a long time before rejoining in the B12, but they are the #1 rivalry in this discussion. The only semi-serious football school on that list that doesn't condone rape and murder and that won't be in our new conference is TCU. Texas is not abandoning its traditional rivalries-- it is re-establishing them. Tech is over 300 miles away from Austin, was a relatively late addition to the SWC, and only exists in anyone's football universe because of the late, great Mike Leach. UH is a former HS now commuter school aspiring to be the UT of Houston and another late addition to the SWC. There are plenty of reasons to hate on Surlyites and Longhorn fans in general. A post looking forward to leaving a league forged out of expedience and political blackmail is not one of the better ones, nor are posts defending it.
  9. The benefit of cable market coverage is fool’s gold long-term. Heaven knows in what form cfb will exist by the time the current acc deal expires, but it will likely have evolved to a much more streaming-oriented model for distribution. As a result, clicks and downloads will matter far more than generic subscribers. Ad buyers pay for viewers, hence media companies for blue bloods. Rutgers, UH, and all the other schools that ‘bring markets’ may look good in 2023, but in 2033 they’ll be 80% dead weight. Owning a share of a cable network won’t be nearly as lucrative. Texas, ND, Bama, UGA, OU, SC, tosu, etc: these will still command good deals when espn has been spun off by Disney and gets most its views by streaming. With distribution so granular, it will be easier for hybrid revenue models for conferences in which things more closely resemble ‘eat what you kill.’
  10. Looks like they celebrated the 25th anniversary of having "A&M" abbreviate nothing by letting making sure their cheerleaders didn't have those pesky letters anywhere on their outfits.
  11. This is true. My first impression of how I would have managed it is by weeding out the worst of the worst first, getting rid of other players as I find willing and available options in the portal. I probably would have tried to identify and motivate that segment of the team that looked like it could go from loser to winner. On the flipside, every single player on that roster had already voted with his feet to stay on a team with a pervasive culture of both losing and being ok with it in an era that facilitates mobility.
  12. Riley is trying to design a roster capable of beating Utah.
  13. They wish to be nothing if not consistent.
  14. If you expect to fail a test badly, copying answers from the guy who usually makes Cs and Ds might help your grade. But be careful; if you are one off on your scantron rows, you’ll find out how much worse than 50 you can score. It looks a lot like Deion is trying to build a foundation of other teams’ C and D material. If he does it consummately (‘sup, Trogdor), he may win a few games this year. There will be no new car smell next year, though, so he better find a way to start building something.
  15. With the protection they have for their future scapegoats quarterbacks, they're going to be dialing up 9-1-1 frequently. Fortunately for them, the personnel they have stashed on the defensive side of the ball looks about right to run a 9-1-1 scheme.
  16. Shag Surl suggestions: 1. You guys need capes to go with those orange pants 2. Need more stuff that just says OKLAHOMA and COWBOYS without the state
  17. Not so fast my friend. Backing out his long carry of 15 yards leaves only 46 on the other 19, meaning that he generally gets less than 3 ypc. He makes up for it receiving, though. He netted -1 yard on 3 receptions.
  18. Simple. Require each adult ticket holder to drink at least one caffeinated or alcoholic beverage at the turnstiles.
  19. After watching OU eat a big mouthful of 49-0 and deciding himself to skip spring football, he realized that while he was assigned Longhorn at matriculation, he identifies as a Sooner.
  20. I know that sportsbooks like to hedge somewhat, but this seems like the kind of action of which they can't get enough. If you break it down into the quantum and solve the relevant schroedinger equations, you will discover that the condition "CU championship 2023" has no real solutions.
  21. Don’t forget uncontrolled diabetes and terrible dental hygiene.
  22. Hard to know whether he lost that toe more because of the gravity of the injury, technical issues with his index/early procedure(s), poor protoplasm, poor cooperation with his postop restrictions, bad luck, or some combination. I have never had a sports surgery end in an amputation (this is where I would knock on wood if I were superstitious). edit I say toe, but that’s only because there’s one toe that matters more than the others.
  23. Yes, as in that coach may be super-expensive to fire and may not know it yet, but he is soon to be deep-hearted.
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