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« Reply #27575 on: May 10, 2016, 09:52:25 AM »
no but I try and keep a positive outlook (OU & Texas have the easiest path to the playoff!  Texas doesn't want to be Alabama's or Ohio State's sidekick!) and then listening to 3 very connected guys lay out just how the combo of greed, ego and lack of leadership is likely going to ruin my favorite thing in sports really hurts.

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« Reply #27576 on: May 10, 2016, 09:55:32 AM »
must be may (checks calendar) yep its may

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« Reply #27577 on: May 10, 2016, 09:56:20 AM »
Wow, I was just figuring out what road trips the Mountain West had to offer.  It's kind of like moving your kid from A or B baseball down to C, and watching them kick ass, albeit at a lower skill level.

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« Reply #27578 on: May 10, 2016, 10:24:07 AM »
I am afraid we don't get formally left out but the Big 12 is a distant 5th in the power 5 without OU or UT.  I haven't listened to the whole thing but this podcast with oscar Feldman, Stewart Mandel and Dennis Dodd paints a not very exciting picture of the futurehttp://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/texas-longhorns-big-12-expansion-podcast-050916

Who cares where your pecking order is within the power conferences? Only thing anyone should care about is fair and equal access to big bowls and a playoff. Even if in a doomsday scenario of us somehow being downgraded to something equivalent to the Mountain West, the playoff is about to expand anyway. The TV contract thing doesn't matter either because the bubble has already burst on that too.

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« Reply #27579 on: May 10, 2016, 10:26:19 AM »
The thing that these national cfb writers can't seem to grasp, because it ruins a narrative, is that UT has no reason to ever want to leave the Big 12.

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« Reply #27580 on: May 10, 2016, 10:42:04 AM »
The thing that these national cfb writers can't seem to grasp, because it ruins a narrative, is that UT has no reason to ever want to leave the Big 12.
I agree and really the only reason OU has is they can't make enough 3rd tier money to keep up with the SEC & top Big 10 schools.  I worry about the combination of that $10 to $20 million OU could get from a move with the usual UT envy when Castiglione and his longtime Big 8/Big 12 roots is no longer OU's AD.  He will be 60 next year so hopefully he is around thru the end of the GOR in 2025.

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« Reply #27581 on: May 10, 2016, 10:44:37 AM »
Wow...how awesome will K-State be with all athletics in the MWC and our school President being Brownback.  So many things to look forward to. 
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« Reply #27582 on: May 10, 2016, 11:19:25 AM »
It's going to be alright, and at some point all these gilded cages being built will come crumbling down. 

OU is a good example.  It's an athletic program that by and large wants for nothing.  All their facilities are nice, their major sport athletes live in a Taj Mahal dorm.  They just played in the F4 and CFBPO and some of their regents are asking the right questions and saying the right things. 

They were a bad loss CFBPO participant, they squeaked by in several other games and STILL made the CFBPO yet Boren is still worried about clout.   It doesn't get any dumber then that.

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« Reply #27583 on: May 10, 2016, 11:21:24 AM »
It doesn't get any dumber then that.
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« Reply #27584 on: May 10, 2016, 12:32:49 PM »
The thing that these national cfb writers can't seem to grasp, because it ruins a narrative, is that UT has no reason to ever want to leave the Big 12.
I agree and really the only reason OU has is they can't make enough 3rd tier money to keep up with the SEC & top Big 10 schools.  I worry about the combination of that $10 to $20 million OU could get from a move with the usual UT envy when Castiglione and his longtime Big 8/Big 12 roots is no longer OU's AD.  He will be 60 next year so hopefully he is around thru the end of the GOR in 2025.

The only dissenting voice that matters at OU is Boren and his BOR is telling him to STFU.

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« Reply #27585 on: May 10, 2016, 02:04:01 PM »
I don't think Texas will leave the Big 12 because of LHN and OU won't leave Texas and that's that. :don'tcare:

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« Reply #27586 on: May 10, 2016, 02:05:50 PM »
NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #27587 on: May 10, 2016, 02:32:30 PM »
Yeah, not worried at all.

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« Reply #27588 on: May 10, 2016, 02:57:04 PM »
So the athletic department is cold calling, begging students to buy icats. They must be struggling, those things are usually gone fast.

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« Reply #27589 on: May 10, 2016, 04:50:15 PM »
So the athletic department is cold calling, begging students to buy icats. They must be struggling, those things are usually gone fast.

They usually don't get sold out until the start of June or so.

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #27590 on: May 10, 2016, 04:57:22 PM »
I wouldn't really call it a cold call either. They probably reach out to ppl first who've purchased them, with their information.

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #27591 on: May 10, 2016, 06:48:51 PM »
The last day to buy icat tickets is Friday for whatever reason.


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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #27592 on: May 10, 2016, 06:49:44 PM »
Now that Apple is less popular and the "iThings" fad has passed can we change the icat name?


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« Reply #27593 on: May 10, 2016, 06:50:55 PM »
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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #27594 on: May 10, 2016, 08:12:57 PM »
what if I told you a few ACC and P12 schools were unhappy in their current situations?
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« Reply #27595 on: May 10, 2016, 08:37:56 PM »
So the athletic department is cold calling, begging students to buy icats. They must be struggling, those things are usually gone fast.

They usually don't get sold out until the start of June or so.
That is 100% false btw the last 5 years ICats have been sold out before finals.

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #27596 on: May 10, 2016, 08:49:15 PM »
So the athletic department is cold calling, begging students to buy icats. They must be struggling, those things are usually gone fast.

They usually don't get sold out until the start of June or so.
That is 100% false btw the last 5 years ICats have been sold out before finals.

Last 4 years they were gone within two weeks. It's now been over a month since they went on sale.

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« Reply #27597 on: May 10, 2016, 09:08:46 PM »
Now that Apple is less popular and the "iThings" fad has passed can we change the icat name?


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LOL, the icat name doesn't have a damn thing to do with apple, icat has been around for over 20 years. Double LOL at " the 'iThings' fad has passed" while having that signature that you have.

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« Reply #27598 on: May 10, 2016, 09:29:20 PM »
ICAT is 32 years old.


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« Reply #27599 on: May 10, 2016, 09:31:32 PM »
How much is icat now?