Red Wolf

Trying to imagine how bad it would feel to sponsor a coordinator job only to see something like the USC defense out there flailing about in your name. I guess it would feel fine knowing you had enough money to spend on something so weird.

Why does every team play to let Kansas City win? I personally would try to play so that my team won instead.

EDIT: Is this just an AFC thing? Is it a QB's that my mom likes thing? This happened over and over for Thomas Brady and the Patriots too.

8 minutes ago, See Red said:

I may have liked this comment prematurely. 

It's not the first time I've been wrong and it certainly won't be the last.

I like the leagues within a league naming. It's dumb, but this whole enterprise is dumb and also I'm a dumb guy that likes dumb stuff.

It's crazy that the Big Ten gobbles up so many postseason spots in football and basketball despite so consistently failing in both.

10 hours ago, Sec19Row53 said:

They moved up and won the conference title?  If they're good enough to do that, why shouldn't they qualify?

 

I can see limiting the money that they get initially to prevent flip-flopping levels, but that's another thing.

Sorry, the point I was trying to make is that the rule has failed its purpose. It's there to make teams wanting to move up only do so because they have the resources and commitment to make it work. Schools like James Madison, Old Dominion, and even Jacksonville State looked at moving up for years before it actually happened.

Sam Houston had no ambitions of moving up. They got a call from Conference USA and two weeks later made the move. Sam Houston moved up because they were worried that they would get locked out of the opportunity in the future with the NCAA raising the requirements to transition. The NCAA just this month changed the application fee from $5K to $5 million.

20 hours ago, See Red said:

On another note, JMU not being bowl eligible is bull.  That's a dumb rule.

I think it's a really good and smart rule. If you didn't have it then teams might move up divisions without thinking about it. Could you imagine if somebody like Sam Houston moved up two weeks after getting a call from a desperate CUSA when they weren't even looking to move up? That would be a really embarrassing thing to happen.

I'm so tired of these media darling schools. Why can't we get somebody that doesn't ever get talked about? You know, somebody like Notre Dame.

As much as people are (understandably) annoyed by the Deion hype train, his team has had the most exciting game 2 out of 3 weeks. Their line is atrocious and it's going to cause them to lose games for sure, especially in a Pac-12 that's going to be tough this year despite the state of everything off the field.

2 minutes ago, Cujo said:

4+ hours for a college football game? This is overkill.

This is the constant hell we've been living in for years. Between this and the obscene ad breaks, it's a sport that can only be enjoyed via constant channel flipping and/or multiple screens. Sort of like a homemade version of NFL Redzone.

38 minutes ago, MJWalker45 said:

With all that dirt, are we sure this isn't just temporary and that there will be bleacher seats put in after the season? At least on the sides of the building, I'd expect something else to go in there.

I believe this is the intended final product.

I would guess that the Pac will continue to exist in some form. Maybe the remnants merging with the Mountain West but keeping the Pac name for the better brand recognition. I mean, the Big West, WAC, and CUSA still exist, just not in ways that people are particularly fond of anymore.

3 minutes ago, BBTV said:

Can't stop staring at the bottom left of that decal.

I was staring at the top right myself.

1 hour ago, Dilbert said:

In that case I hear a school on Mars is joining Conference USA

It's good that they're getting some teams closer to El Paso and Las Cruces.

9 minutes ago, Sec19Row53 said:

I'm glad I'm not imagining stuff like that. I mean, it's the University of Kansas, but they go by KU (right?). University of Oklahoma - OU. dot dot dot

You're not imagining it at all. Same applies for the University of Colorado (CU), University of Nebraska (NU), and University of Missouri (MU). It's a whole thing.

Even fans of the schools get them wrong like the guy from that 30 for 30 that went to Naismith's grave and was talking about Kansas University even though it's the University of Kansas.

I've also seen high school kids call refer to the University of Arkansas State and I just don't know what to do with that.

23 hours ago, CS85 said:

 

 

clicks Shuffle

 

"Ah, there's a uniform I like"

Could be worse

EDIT: For clarity, I think the new ones are solid, but the number font should be a standard block instead of the Texans thing. But nobody pays me to be the uniform nerd at Arkansas State despite my lobbying.

1 hour ago, Sec19Row53 said:

Yeah, there's only so many ways you can parse those initials. I've thought about doing polls about who is IU, UK, KU, UT, UM, OSU, UW, and probably others I'm forgetting. I'm sure I won't, but I'd be curious on some of these and how they're viewed as a whole.

There's gotta be research somewhere that sorts that stuff out. I mean, that's why the old Big 8 schools have backwards initials in the first place, right?

If the Pac-12 fully collapsed, Cal and Stanford could find homes if they wanted. They just might not be happy with those homes.

I mean, shoot your shot. Arkansas State used to be in the Big West. Twice, even. So I mean...

9 minutes ago, Dynasty said:

It felt like roughly a decade ago, the Big 12 was the power conference with the murky future. How that has changed.

Yeah, that time when A&M, Mizzou, Colorado, and Nebraska were all leaving felt like the whole thing was going to collapse. Even recently when Texas and Oklahoma announced they were going to the SEC it felt like the Big XII was doomed. The Pac-12 not capitalizing on those moments along with USC and UCLA leaving, and general mismanagement really handicapped them.

19 hours ago, Red Comet said:

As a Mizzou fan, I completely agree that they shouldn’t have left. But the Longhorn Network was the final straw in a long line of Texas acting like it owned the whole conference and that just wasn’t going to do it anymore. And money, of course money. Really, the first mistake was letting in the refugees from the Southwest Conference or at the very least, not treating the University of Texas-Austin like post WWI Germany.

This did famously work out for everybody involved.

One of the aspects that I find interesting for the future of the Pac-12 is that they play nine conference games. Without Colorado they're currently set to have only nine teams, meaning they can only play eight conference games, which makes scheduling difficult.

It's funny that the Big XII had proposed a merger of sorts with the Pac-12, with the Pac-12 turning their noses up to the idea only to get poached by the Big XII. Reminds me of CUSA mocking the Sun Belt's proposal of more geographically compact conferences only to get raided a few years later.

3 minutes ago, PrimalCookie said:

This circus might just be getting started.

The circus never stops. Oklahoma and Texas haven't even officially left the Big XII yet but that announcement alone had the domino effect of giving around 20 schools new conference homes.

They were so close to having the Big XII name making sense again.

On 7/13/2023 at 8:12 PM, tBBP said:

 

Perhaps Dickey-Stephens Park may be an option...

Our AA team does bring in more people than the A's these days. Not that that's impressive.

4 hours ago, tBBP said:

Uhhh...and why exactly are we discussing giving  Atlanta a team for the third time now???

It's the best way to get a new team into Canada.

7 hours ago, roxfan00 said:

More info coming out of Colorado

 

"Uncle Neely (@theepregameshow) says Coach Prime and Colorado will rival Oregon in terms of uniform combinations #SkoBuffs"

 

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8BtqYkY4T6o

How long have teams been comparing their upcoming uniform nonsense to Oregon? Has it been forever? It may as well be.