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utee94 · « **Reply #462 on:** February 17, 2025, 10:13:50 AM »

Quote from: MikeDeTiger on February 17, 2025, 09:22:18 AM

Congrats to that one gymnast, I reckon, for parlaying an okay gym career into being an Insta-celebrity and causing riots at the PMAC.

She's cute, but it's definitely curious to me that of all the THOTs on Insta for rando dudes to simp after, she became such a focal point. Maybe it's because she's a college girl and an athlete, she seemed more like a real person, than so many other plastic chicks on the web? Just speculating.

MikeDeTiger · « **Reply #463 on:** February 20, 2025, 05:53:47 PM »

Just fair warning. You may kick us around in football and you may laughably kick us around in basketball, but baseball season's here, and in that, we will take our revenge.

Well, I hope, anyway.

But you've been warned nevertheless.

utee94 · « **Reply #464 on:** February 20, 2025, 07:40:19 PM »

Quote from: MikeDeTiger on February 20, 2025, 05:53:47 PM

Just fair warning. You may kick us around in football and you may laughably kick us around in basketball, but baseball season's here, and in that, we will take our revenge.

Well, I hope, anyway.

But you've been warned nevertheless.

Bulljive. We owe you for 2009. We'll get OUR revenge.

Texas baseball is going to return to prominence. I pity the fool that stands in our way.

Cincydawg · « **Reply #465 on:** February 21, 2025, 07:55:12 AM »

I keep thinking it would be fun to walk down to a Tech baseball game, and maybe I will when the weather gets nice. Not now, the weather is brutal, 26°F at the moment.

They have a nice looking stadium there. Where does college baseball rank in the minor league level? AA?

utee94 · « **Reply #466 on:** February 21, 2025, 09:18:24 AM »

I love college baseball. I have no idea how it compares to minor leagues since I don't follow any professional baseball at all. But it's relatively cheap (compared to football anyway) and spending a nice weather weekend at the ballpark is one of life's great pleasures IMO.

Cincydawg · « **Reply #467 on:** February 21, 2025, 12:52:03 PM »

My friend and pitching coach was a first round draft pick, he told me it was a no brainer to take the money at that time, but a 3rd rounder or lower would be better off in college, usually, he speculated. I figure the better college players could step into AA ball and not miss a beat, the best could play AAA, and of course the top few could play MLB with some adjustment. My friend said the jump from AA to AAA was the steepest, the AAA players generally are ready for MLB level play, perhaps with some small deficiencies they work on.

Some of it is who is ahead of you at your position obviously.

MikeDeTiger · « **Reply #468 on:** February 21, 2025, 04:00:16 PM »

Quote from: utee94 on February 20, 2025, 07:40:19 PM

Bulljive. We owe you for 2009. We'll get OUR revenge.

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, uh...your opinion, man.

utee94 · « **Reply #469 on:** May 09, 2025, 12:26:37 PM »

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6340696/2025/05/07/sec-football-nine-game-schedule-espn-money/
ESPN open to paying SEC more to add ninth conference football game to schedule: Sources
Seth Emerson, Andrew Marchand
5–6 minutes
May 7, 2025Updated 6:59 pm EDT
ESPN has indicated a willingness to increase its payment to the SEC if the conference adds a ninth game to its league football schedule, sources briefed on the matter told The Athletic.
There is no formal offer yet, those sources added, and the exact amount of the increase still needs to be fully negotiated. But the sources said the additional money would likely be in the range of $50-80 million annually on top of the current deal, in which ESPN pays the conference $811 million per year to broadcast its sporting events. Both ESPN and the SEC declined to comment.
A change in ESPN’s stance doesn’t mean the SEC will definitely move to playing nine conference games. Now the main hurdle to expanding the league schedule may be the future College Football Playoff format, which isn’t likely to be determined until at least June. That makes it less likely — though not impossible — that the SEC makes a decision on a schedule format at its spring meetings later this month in Destin, Fla.
Still, ESPN’s willingness to up its ante is an important development, as it has been one of the main sticking points among enough SEC members to resist the push for nine games. When the SEC announced the addition of Oklahoma and Texas in July 2021, momentum toward a nine-game schedule increased instantly, with commissioner Greg Sankey among those privately in favor. (Sankey finally went public with his preference earlier this year.)
But for the past four years, members have expressed enough opposition that the conference instead went with a temporary fix of eight-game football schedules for 2024 and ’25, the first two seasons with Oklahoma and Texas. Some of the concern was competitive, especially among teams worried about reaching the six-win bowl eligibility threshold. Some of the concern was economic: A nine-game schedule means schools could play one fewer home game every two years, and they wanted ESPN to help make up the difference.
“One of the issues in the room for our athletics directors is what seemed to matter most, is the number to the right, the number of losses, and how do we understand what that means for our schedule moving forward?” Sankey said in March during an appearance on the Paul Finebaum Show. “I’m one who said I really think we ought to be trying to move towards a nine-game conference schedule. I think that can be positive for a lot of reasons. You watch the interest around conference games. But not if that causes us to lose opportunities.”
One reason Sankey and the SEC went with the temporary eight-game schedule was the hope that the success of the inaugural season with Oklahoma and Texas would encourage ESPN. And that appears to be exactly what happened.
The two new SEC schools were part of memorable, highly rated games, including their annual Red River rivalry and Texas’ two losses to Georgia on national stages. The SEC championship game between the Bulldogs and Longhorns was the highest-rated non-Playoff game of the college football season, and at least one SEC team was involved in eight of the 10 most highly rated games of college football’s regular season.
Another consideration for the league is the games that would not happen regularly if the SEC stayed with an eight-game schedule. The eight-game format would include only one permanent opponent for every team, so some highly rated rivalries would only be played twice every four years, including Texas-Texas A&M, Alabama-Tennessee, Alabama-LSU and Auburn-Georgia.
If the SEC went to a nine-game schedule, all those games would be played annually. Those matchups are all part of the 2024 and 2025 schedules, an unsubtle way for the SEC to show ESPN what it could be missing. (The eight-game schedule format could always be changed to account for those games, but the conference has made no move toward doing that.)
As for the CFP format, the SEC has been waiting to see whether the postseason field will expand to 14 or 16 teams and whether any automatic bids will be installed in the new format; the SEC and Big Ten have discussed pushing for as many as four bids apiece. When the SEC only got three teams in the 2024-25 Playoff field, concern over further snubs immediately boosted leaguewide sentiment about staying at eight games. The introduction of automatic bids may address those concerns, but momentum for their addition to the CFP structure may have stalled.
Another factor in a potential move off of eight-game slates: The SEC has been working closely with the Big Ten, which plays a nine-game conference schedule, and the leagues’ consideration of future scheduling partnerships may hinge on playing the same number of league opponents. The SEC could also just settle for a stronger assurance that schedule strength will matter to the CFP selection committee and assume the risk of an extra conference game in order to reap the financial benefits. The new money that would head each school’s way from ESPN would likely not even account for half of the more than $20 million schools will be allowed to distribute to athletes under a new revenue sharing system starting this summer, but it would still help.

longhorn320 · « **Reply #470 on:** May 09, 2025, 02:34:22 PM »

If the SEC went to a 9 conference game schedule would that mean playing every team in your sub conference schedule (7 games) and the other 2 games be alternating amoung SEC teams in the other sub
conference?

MikeDeTiger · « **Reply #471 on:** May 09, 2025, 02:56:19 PM »

I guess it could, but it would also open the door for some of the "pod" formats I've seen proposed where each team permanently plays three other teams and rotates the other 12.

utee94 · « **Reply #472 on:** May 09, 2025, 03:33:36 PM »

Yeah I'm a fan of the 3+6/6 model. Each team has 3 permanent "rivals" and then plays 6 more teams for 2 years, and then alternates to the other 6 for 2 years. Or those 6-6 could alternate EVERY year but either way, you're playing every team in the conference at least 2 years out of every 4, and getting one home and one away game with them.

It's not a pod system because they're not all forced to play one another. For example, LSU's 3 rivals could be A&M, Ole Miss, and Alabama, but A&M could have LSU, Texas, and Kentucky, and Texas could have A&M, OU, and Arkansas, while OU could have Texas, Arkansas, and Mizzou. Mix and match however you like but the general idea is you play 3 teams every year, but you're not stuck in a pod with those 3 teams.

Gigem · « **Reply #473 on:** May 09, 2025, 08:53:30 PM »

I’ve thought about it. I used to advocate the pod system, and then the 3+6 or whatever. Now I’ve decided they all suck and I hate this bloated system we have.

Gigem · « **Reply #474 on:** May 09, 2025, 10:27:08 PM »

https://twitter.com/sec/status/1921024083111584146?s=61

MikeDeTiger · « **Reply #475 on:** May 10, 2025, 09:36:33 AM »

Quote from: Gigem on May 09, 2025, 08:53:30 PM

I’ve thought about it. I used to advocate the pod system, and then the 3+6 or whatever. Now I’ve decided they all suck and I hate this bloated system we have.

I agree.

I invite A&M, UT, OU, Mizzou, Arkansas, and USC to leave

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