I visited Phogistan for the first time in awhile.
It seems that their hopes for a stadium renovation are running low on gas (again). With several now saying that once again, it appears that it's going to be several years away. My gawd, even Northwestern has beat them to the punch on a stadium renovation and I was beginning to think NW was never go to touch Ryan Field again after their minor set of renovations back when Gary Barnett was coaching there.
The conference realignment thread is just fantastic as well. I make particular note of that as the Big 12 announced an all time record distribution which puts the Big 12 well ahead of both the ACC and the Pac-12. That's with neither OU or Texas playing in the Big 12 championship game, which drew at peak, 8 million viewers per Kurtz. I am digressing in the wrong thread. But I am tired of reading about how the Big 12 is a dead person walking. If you include the new members, the Big 12 played in 2 New Years 6 bowls and the CFPO.
The conferences that are truly sucking ass financially are the Pac-12 and the ACC. The Pac-12 simply isn't financially viable right now, they need radical thinking, and that starts with pushing hard for an expanded CFPO. I cannot imagine that some schools aren't thinking hard about making overtures elsewhere. If you're Colorado . . . how is that kinship with the West Coast feeling now? There's not a single natural rivalry, the money absolutely blows ass, no one cares, you had a brief cup-of-coffee near the top of the Pac-12, and your once national power football program is a shadow of its former self. All because you didn't want to be associated with us hayseeds.
Changing conferences hasn't worked out for any of the former Big 12 members besides maybe sorta kinda aTm. The rest are all conference middling to hind teaters, and the same is going to happen to OU and Texas, you can mark it down.
