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Spacebump posted:Out of conference games will still happen. Those games will be less risky when only the Power 4 can make the playoffs. Which is why the Lone Star Showdown will resume in 20XX.
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Spacebump posted:Out of conference games will still happen. Those games will be less risky when only the Power 4 can make the playoffs. This is never going to happen
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Metapod posted:Sec took a&m okst is better than a&m General Dog posted:This is never going to happen People said the exact same thing about A&M joining the SEC. Spacebump fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Sep 6, 2016 |
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Sep 6, 2016 04:41
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Spacebump posted:People said the exact same thing about A&M joining the SEC. The power 4 would have to leave the NCAA. Granted, never is a long time, but we're talking decades at least.
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Sep 6, 2016 04:43
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Grittybeard posted:Maybe this is what I was thinking of. I remember kayakyakr or some other Tech fan being really confident Tech would be fine back when Texas last almost blew up the conference. It's a Texas politics thing. It would be politically difficult for UT to make a conference move without TTU. Oklahoma State is actually even more politically tied with OU. OU would never be allowed to make a move without OSU.
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Sep 6, 2016 04:56
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Don't worry baylor will save the conference, AGAIN, then get framed for bad things by a Clinton in the whitehouse, AGAIN, then a building will mysteriously burn down, AGAIN
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Sep 6, 2016 05:00
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General Dog posted:The power 4 would have to leave the NCAA. Granted, never is a long time, but we're talking decades at least. I think we're about 85 percent of the way there. They just have to make a case to split FBS in half, which I think that you can. You don't have to leave the NCAA. Just change the rules in the NCAA to your benefit.
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Sep 6, 2016 05:08
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Metapod posted:Sec took a&m okst is better than a&m At what? Certainly not sports, academics or generating revenue. You seem to be letting your personal dislike of A&M get in the way of actually judging which team makes more sense. If Texas does go to the PAC they'd certainly take Tech with them but they could try to take the Oklahoma schools with them too. Thats what happened last time, after all. Oklahoma wants the SEC instead but Texas could always take OSU westward without them. Its still another "close" game for them and a natural voting ally. The fourth slot could, once again, go to Kansas (or Nevada or some other school in that part of the country.)
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Sep 6, 2016 05:21
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CaptainYesterday posted:There is no way Texas ends its other long-running rivalry via conference realignment. You mean they won't go back to the way it was for the vast majority of the series? Texas and OU being conference mates is a recent thing. It only happened when the Big12 formed back in the 90's.
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Sep 6, 2016 05:28
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CaptainYesterday posted:Which is why the Lone Star Showdown will resume in 20XX. It would be awesome to see the Aggie militia marching down the streets of Austin again
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Cliff Racer posted:At what? Certainly not sports, academics or generating revenue. You seem to be letting your personal dislike of A&M get in the way of actually judging which team makes more sense. Stop don't take the bait, nooooo
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Cliff Racer posted:At what? Certainly not sports, academics or generating revenue. You seem to be letting your personal dislike of A&M get in the way of actually judging which team makes more sense. At football the sport that matters
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Sep 6, 2016 05:51
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anne frank fanfic posted:Don't worry baylor will save the conference, AGAIN, then get framed for bad things by a Clinton in the whitehouse, AGAIN, then a building will mysteriously burn down, AGAIN *watching the 2014 Fiesta Bowl* somehow Janet Reno is behind this
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Cliff Racer posted:Oklahoma wants the SEC instead Who at OU does? Certainly not the administration or athletic department. Boren has had his eyes on the PAC since all this realignment crap started 5-6 years ago.
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Sep 6, 2016 12:58
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The Big XII isn't going to disappear without such a tectonic shift in conference alignments that it's not worth even discussing.
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I wish things would go back to the way they were.
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Komet posted:I wish things would go back to the way they were. I would like for the old, old Big East to return, but with Penn State and Maryland. But we don't get what we want.
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That would be a good conference. A Big East with Penn State and Miami may also have attracted FSU over the ACC.
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Komet posted:That would be a good conference. A Big East with Penn State and Miami may also have attracted FSU over the ACC. Thanks again, Joe Paterno
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Hey man, Paterno wanted an eastern football conference. I think the Big East basketball schools should be blamed for this.
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Komet posted:Hey man, Paterno wanted an eastern football conference. I think the Big East basketball schools should be blamed for this. Nah, Paterno didn't want Miami in the conference. There are plenty of things I can blame the basketball schools for, but this in particular wasn't one of them.
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The break-up of the Big XII is so far in the future that it's not worth discussing. Who cares what the current school AD's and President's think, they likely won't be part of the process when the Big XII actually breaks up.
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:I would like for the old, old Big East to return, but with Penn State and Maryland. But we don't get what we want. If y'all are taking Rutgers too then deal MourningView fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Sep 6, 2016 |
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MourningView posted:If y'all are taking Rutgers to then deal Do we have to? I guess that's a small price to pay.
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:I would like for the old, old Big East to return, but with Penn State and Maryland. But we don't get what we want. After the AP put out its all time top 100 list, I cobbled a new FBS/IA/Whatever the Hell based on the top 40. Four ten team conferences got me here: Atlantic Piedmont Clemson Florida State Georgia Tech Miami (FL) North Carolina Allegheny Penn State Pittsburgh Virginia Tech West Virginia Maryland Who gets to be murdered by FSU in the conference championship? The entire Allegheny division is abuzz!
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Not sure why you'd want Maryland over Cuse. Anyways, I don't blame the basketball schools for blocking Penn State's Big East application back in the day, it was only natural for some of them to be opposed. The real blame goes to whichever of the schools publicly supported Penn State but then voted against it during the actual application process. Didn't even have the guts to come out and admit who they were afterwards either.... And even then any hypothetical Eastern Athletic Conference would have turned into a shitshow in the 90s regardless of how many rivalries it preserved. Only Penn State was making money back then, Pitt was treading water and most of the others were actually in the red if I remember correctly. People talk about V-Tech and the Florida schools but they weren't perspective members way back when, it would have been PSU, Pitt, WV, Cuse, Temple, Rutgers, BC and whichever Metro team got good at the right time. It would be a very Texas and the Big XII situation and surely would have been peeled apart as other conferences expanded.
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Cliff Racer posted:Not sure why you'd want Maryland over Cuse. Guess who was #40 and who was #41 in the rankings I used to pick the top 40!
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Houston made its Big 12 pitch today - 
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I think the Eastern Athletic Conference might have been able to draw Notre Dame. Hard to say though.
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That was a pretty cool Thursday Night Big 12 game.
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Whatever, I'd take Houston and Cincy to fill the conference out until we get the end of the GOR and figure out if we're doing 4 megaconferences or playoff expansion or what. I hate adding yet another P5 school to the mix in Texas, but we don't really recruit well in Houston as it is. Would still rather see Tulane and UCF though. I just want to be able to go on vacation and see Texas win a game while I'm there. We currently have zero conference-mates based in cities where I would consider vacationing. And pulling some extra recruits out of SEC country would be a nice bonus.
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Either this is a negotiation tactic or Big 12 expansion hopes are dying for now. http://sportsday.dallasnews.com/college-sports/collegesports/2016/09/27/change-heart-ou-president-boren-quickly-sours-hopes-big-12-expansion It might be a blessing in disguise for Tulane if the expansion talks were put on hold for a bit while Fritz builds up the program.
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Cool this is great. Love it.
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I used to think Dave Boren was playing some kind of 3D chess around everything with his comments to media sources, hosting well-timed press conferences, shaping agendas ahead of committee and board meetings, and so on. Now I just think he ends up making his organizations look foolish.
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They look dumb, but not as dumb as if they'd expanded by adding any of the current pool of candidates. Not without an extension of the GOR.
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Houston can break a conference apart without even being in it next level poo poo
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General Dog posted:They look dumb, but not as dumb as if they'd expanded by adding any of the current pool of candidates. Not without an extension of the GOR. It's true, but did they really need to waste months on this only to be like "lol, nah"? Maybe they were expecting some *wild-card* unsolicited applications.
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Hed posted:It's true, but did they really need to waste months on this only to be like "lol, nah"? Maybe they were expecting some *wild-card* unsolicited applications. No such thing as bad publicity. People spent three months talking about realignment whereas otherwise they'd have spent three months talking about Baylor.
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General Dog posted:No such thing as bad publicity. People spent three months talking about realignment whereas otherwise they'd have spent three months talking about Baylor. Tell that cliche to Chipotle, Blue Bell, or Volkswagen. This is a good diversion. If the press was talking about Baylor for 3 months, that would be bad publicly for the conference and school. Spacebump fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Sep 27, 2016 |
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General Dog posted:They look dumb, but not as dumb as if they'd expanded by adding any of the current pool of candidates. Not without an extension of the GOR. How does extending the GOR make the current candidates more attractive options? If you don't like the available options, shackling yourself to them long-term sounds like about the dumbest thing you could do. Better to just let them hang out for a few years to gently caress our media partners out of extra money because they're obligated to pay full price for any team we add, plus it lets us do divisions and a CCG which is an extra chunk of change. Seems like plenty of teams would jump at a few years of extra cash and at least a remote possibility a nice landing spot in the aftermath.
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