thatskablamo
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Here today for the game in Chicago. Goldie just hit one to nearby Skokie.
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3 hours ago, dennis_w said:
i would get to see sincere and the locomotive, wont be depressed by that
You would also be in Moberly, MO.
Makes Hannibal look like Shanghai.
But you are sincere in your travel plans, I’ll give you that!
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On 9/20/2021 at 4:31 PM, dennis_w said:
Might have to catch a greyhound game, not a long drive for me
That sounds like the most depressing Greyhound ride. Ever.
bring your Boone’s Farm
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2 hours ago, slufanskip said:
I’m sure we’d give Mizzou a 2 for 1 with 2 in St.Louis therefore isn’t it Mizzou that doesn’t really want to play
Why wouldn’t Chris May do something like hold the wood bat games we traditionally play with Missouri out in O’Fallon hostage until the MU AD agrees to a basketball home and home? Missouri Baseball gains absolutely nothing except throwing some junk freshman from Zumwalt so his mom (Carol) and dad (Dan) don’t have to drive to Columbia. Yet this game is routinely scheduled…why not sign a contract for this game to continue another 10 years and put some hoops pork into it? Get creative, Chris!
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16 hours ago, Duff Man said:
That's Roy in the corner.
That's Roy in the spotlight.
Losing his religion.
This may be one of the greatest posts of all-time. Had me in stitches!
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17 minutes ago, sigourneyanderson said:
After reading through the Goodwin thread I was curious about others thoughts regarding the play of our other 4 year senior.
I am a big Hasahn fan and have been bummed by how his senior season has gone so far.
He doesn't seem right. Maybe it was the early season concussion, off-season covid, grandmother's passing, etc.
I don't know what it is but he hasn't been the dominant Hasahn from past seasons.
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10 hours ago, CBFan said:
Nm
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10 hours ago, CBFan said:
Does anyone know why Memphis is not going to the big 12?
I think the Memphis football and basketball programs are in good shape.
In 2016, Memphis-based FedEx reached out to the BigXII about a massive corporate sponsorship deal in an attempt to get in the good graces of the conference. Plus, the U of M was about to introduce a $500m capital campaign. In 2021, Memphis is still on the outside looking in.
I’m wondering if Memphis is holding on to a card (the SEC) that would keep them viable in some incredibly ripe recruiting ground. I just don’t know, from a facilities standpoint, if the Liberty Bowl is up to snuff. It would be the closest conference game (71 miles) when Ole Miss comes to town.
Can you imagine GameDay at Graceland?
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On 9/5/2021 at 9:37 AM, HoosierPal said:
Okay, just for fun, who are your 20?
Eastern Division
UCONN
Providence
St. John's
Seton Hall
Villanova
Georgetown
VCUDavidson
Richmond
St. Bonaventure
Western Division
Butler
Loyola Chicago - (no DePaul - enjoy the Valley)
Marquette
Saint Louis
Creighton
St. Mary'sDayton
Xavier
Wichita State
Gonzaga
I don’t think you’re going to see DePaul cave and relegate themselves into obscurity. When you count both Mayor Daley’s amongst its most notable alums, I’m sure there will be some backchannel deal to ensure DePaul stays relevant.
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3 hours ago, thetorch said:
Agreed. SLU's is the weakest of the bunch. I really like Daytons's, Rhode Island, St. Joes, and Bona.
Some of these schools (unfortunately) have football programs and helmets to boot.
It’s nice to pretend, though.
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1 hour ago, TheA_Bomb said:
Nice I got a MS from the McCombs School of business.
Big time to donate enough to get naming rights. Plus he's a very noticeable supporter. I don't think I've seen Red McCombs at a basketball game, if he's at football he's in a suite.
Better than the McBroom School of Business.
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6 hours ago, slufanskip said:
I hope he really works on his perimeter shot and becomes a rainmaker.
Hahah!! Great Grisham puns. Avis Meyer would be proud
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On 8/19/2021 at 4:58 PM, Major Majerus said:
John Grisham’s latest novel is about a college basketball player from Africa who gets a scholarship at a low D1 college & leads them to the NCAA finals - good read
All Pelican fans should read this brief.
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On 8/5/2021 at 4:15 PM, Compton said:
I'm not interested in experiencing what the conference realignment spin-cycle feels like once we have a few football first C-USA programs move in.
I might be open to adding Army basketball. Not because they're good, but just because they lend a certain national awareness and have their own unimpeachable kind of prestige.
Do we want any sort of Kevin Bacon lineage with Jim Crews? Can we sever that link forever and ever amen?
I know Army gave us Coach K and Bobby Knight, but it also gave us James S. Crews and I’m assuming the S stands for sucks.
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On 7/28/2021 at 7:07 PM, BLIKNS said:
Heard that...
Can see Pac 12 possibly adding BYU, Boise State, San Diego State, and maybe a Texas school( TCU, TT or Baylor)
I can’t see SC or UCLA playing on BlueTurf
. It’s almost a sacrilege. Can you imagine the uproar the Song Girls of USC will cause in Provo (Utah)?
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44 minutes ago, brianstl said:
The argument that was being made for Rice was two fold. First was that this conference would need a presence in Texas and Rice was the only available institutional fit. Second, is the belief that Rice has the financial resources needed to be competitive in that conference despite it’s size. Rice would have the third largest endowment among those 24 schools and it would be by far the largest on a per student basis. Rice’s donors have deep pockets.
Essentially Rice will be the Vanderbilt/Northwestern of its new conference.
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2 hours ago, brianstl said:
Craziest speculation I heard would be the 9 AAU members in the PAC 12 vote to dissolve the PAC 12. They along with Rice (AAU member), because of Rice’s Houston location, team up with the Big 10 to form a new 24 member coast to coast Big 10. Fox bankrolls the whole thing as their answer to ESPN’s SEC expansion move.
The Rice paradox is that while it is located in the fourth largest city in the country, it is the smallest non-service academy affiliated D-1 football program in terms of enrollment. I just don’t see Rice bringing anything to the table except for it’s baseball program. Some people give a hoot about that.
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58 minutes ago, A10Ref said:
I think that the Pac 12 will pick up Baylor, Tech, TCU, and Oklahoma st to make a 16 team conference with two divisions. North/West - Oregon, Oregon St, Washington, Washington St, Stanford, Cal, USC, UCLA | South/East - Arizona, ASU, Utah, Colorado, Tech, Baylor, TCU, Oklahoma St... I think this would actually be a helluva conference for both basketball and football
People in the P12, so worried about the health and vitality of the student-athlete, are voicing their concerns over the two time zone change to play in Texas. Ok, well, you already have one time zone change when you go to Boulder. And if it wasn’t for Arizona being so weird, you’d have had one time zone change in place for the last 30 years anyway.
The Time Zone Warriors at the U of Hawaii are laughing out of their leis (LOL) at this.
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12 minutes ago, A10Ref said:
I think it's all going to be chaos. There are going to be 4 16-team ish conferences... I see Big 12 going to Pac-12, Big 10, and ACC (outside of Texas and OU). I also think that there will be some shakeup in the basketball schools.......
This will eventually force the hand of the Irish to the ACC in all sports. I’m sure Swarbrick is wringing his hands this morning. They’ll keep Navy on the schedule, but this may put the USC rivalry game on life support. I just don’t imagine seeing potentially back-to-back road games at Miami then to Los Angeles. Hey, at least some of the kids with NIL money from NetJets will be ok.
I also wonder what the Catholic schools with FCS football programs will do. Duquesne opens their season with a money game at TCU…
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13 minutes ago, slufanskip said:
So still not sure I understand your original statement about what Texas did to the SWC and Big 8. Were you able to find the years Texas was in the Big 8?
I don’t think Texas did anything personally to the SWC. Sure, they flirted with the California girls of the Pac10, while the Aggies did the same with the southern belles. If anything, the public schools of the SWC looked at private schools as charity cases.
Switzer said it best: “too many little sisters of the poor.” But you will hear different stories on 6th Street in Austin or at the Dixie Chicken in College Station or at Campisi’s in Dallas about what “really” happened to the SWC.
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3 minutes ago, A10Ref said:
Probably right but nowadays it seems like an annual tradition of TCU beating UT in football
I think this whole thing is just OU and UT getting ahead of the chaos that's going to ensue over the next 3 years. In 2024 the college athletics landscape/conferences are going to be completely different, and I am honestly excited about it.
The money TCU alums are making in the Barnett Shale to keep Gary Patterson happy in Fort Worth is worth every penny. It’s a black gold Brinks truck.
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26 minutes ago, slufanskip said:
I'm still not understanding what Texas did to the SWC besides flirt with another conference as the one they were in was as you correctly stated on it's last legs
Again, another Texas campfire tale, but there are people who don’t wear burnt Orange that will tell you Texas AD DeLoss Dodd turned in SMU so that the NCAA wouldn’t move its office (or lynch mob) from Kansas City to Austin. Now, obviously we know that SMU itself killed SMU football, but as George Costanza said “it’s not a lie if you believe it.”
Financially speaking, there was almost a “luxury tax” that Texas, A&M and Arkansas were paying - basically subsidizing the rest of the league via gate profits. Look at Rice, look at SMU’s Ford Stadium and Baylor’s old field - then look at Royal in Austin and Kyle in College Station - shrines to the game - and almost always sold out on Saturday. I think Dodd had enough of making sure the coffers were full in Lubbock and Fort Worth, etc, especially after the glory days of SMU, when they’d play their home games at Texas Stadium in Irving.
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45 minutes ago, slufanskip said:
Just curious what you believe Texas did to the SWC and then the Big 8? Which years were they in the Big 8?
As early as ‘93, Texas had flirted with the Pac10. As soon as Aggie AD John David Crow caught wind, he started to flirt with the SEC, just like Arkansas had a year prior. However, then-Gov Ann Richards (a Baylor alum) said that Texas and Texas A&M weren’t going anywhere unless they brought Baylor, and for some reason, Texas Tech with them. So that ended Pac10 and SEC flirtation for a couple of decades.
The writing was on the wall for the SWC with the SMU death penalty; Arkansas got out, but that was Jerry Jones money talking. They wanted media money, even at the sake of continuous mediocrity.
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55 minutes ago, brianstl said:
It only takes four votes to reject a program from becoming a conference member in the SEC. Texas has at least 3 votes against before the process even starts. A&M, Arkansas and Missouri will all be no’s. The fact the the three programs that have been in business with Texas before will be no votes should be all the information other conference members need to reject Texas.
LSU will also be a no, as they’ve settled in nicely as A&M’s thanksgiving weekend rivalry game. If Texas comes to the SEC, it will more than likely slot that Longhorn/Aggie Game back to its traditional Friday-after-Thanksgiving date. It’s been 10 years since the two teams have played. I was at the last game in College Station and it was bitter.
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