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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Nov 28, 2016 17:00:12 GMT -5
Hawkguy Should South Carolina embrace being a basketball school now and switch conferences with Clemson? Discuss. Also whats your opinion on the starters for a team being sat in the 3rd cause they're dominating but being sent out specifically for a curtain call in the 4th? Eh, was it @clemson? Probably senior night for a lot of those guys...kind of dumb (if only because of injury risk), but not worth getting worked up over. |
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Post by ganews on Dec 30, 2016 19:57:28 GMT -5
Hey, UGA beat TCU in the bowl game today. I wish we could have had the matchup when we were both good.
Apparently Georgia now has the longest streak of bowl appearances in the SEC with 20.
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Post by Hawkguy on Jan 3, 2017 9:51:05 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2017 0:24:08 GMT -5
I don't even like college football and holy shit that was such a great finish!
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jan 10, 2017 8:27:05 GMT -5
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Post by Hawkguy on Jan 10, 2017 8:27:37 GMT -5
*lights everything on fire*
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jan 10, 2017 9:01:34 GMT -5
*lights everything on fire* Can't beat 'em, join 'em, eh? Have fun at the riot! |
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Post by Hawkguy on Jan 10, 2017 9:39:51 GMT -5
*lights everything on fire* Can't beat 'em, join 'em, eh? Have fun at the riot! join em? no im lighting them of fire! (not really but uuuuugggghhhh) |
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Post by Hawkguy on May 22, 2017 15:36:20 GMT -5
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on May 23, 2017 8:24:09 GMT -5
Adopting Olympics-style amateurism is a complete no-brainer to me, but I wonder if they are a good decade (at least) too late on moving in that direction. If they had done it earlier, I think a good amount of the controversies currently swirling around the sport would have just short-circuited. But now it would be seen as a half-measure on it's own. His scheduling ideas are the other aspect that makes the most sense and honestly, I'm surprised that no conference has felt forced to go that route yet as the membership sizes balloon. Maybe the new rules that allow a division-less Big 12 to have a title game will make other, larger conferences more comfortable playing around with this sort of idea. The mid-season 'bracketbusters' style non-con idea sounds like great fun to me, but the amount of future game contracts that you'd need to break for that gives me a headache. Also, just based on the smaller-scale reception I've seen in basketball to the mid-season Big 12-SEC challenge, I can already see the bitching and moaning you'd see from the higher profile coaches about that set-up. Relegation is a fun idea to play with as a fan of the sport, but there are huge logistical questions and I don't think it actually plays well with the (more important) rights and protections Connelly is advocating for players. What happens to players when a school drops into a tier with lower revenues and scholarship allotments? You'd need a far more robust revenue sharing model to make it go (or you'd need a sport more divorced from the actual learning institutions than ever, which doesn't seem to be what he's going for). |
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Post by Hawkguy on May 23, 2017 8:34:21 GMT -5
Adopting Olympics-style amateurism is a complete no-brainer to me, but I wonder if they are a good decade (at least) too late on moving in that direction. If they had done it earlier, I think a good amount of the controversies currently swirling around the sport would have just short-circuited. But now it would be seen as a half-measure on it's own. His scheduling ideas are the other aspect that makes the most sense and honestly, I'm surprised that no conference has felt forced to go that route yet as the membership sizes balloon. Maybe the new rules that allow a division-less Big 12 to have a title game will make other, larger conferences more comfortable playing around with this sort of idea. The mid-season 'bracketbusters' style non-con idea sounds like great fun to me, but the amount of future game contracts that you'd need to break for that gives me a headache. Also, just based on the smaller-scale reception I've seen in basketball to the mid-season Big 12-SEC challenge, I can already see the bitching and moaning you'd see from the higher profile coaches about that set-up. Relegation is a fun idea to play with as a fan of the sport, but there are huge logistical questions and I don't think it actually plays well with the (more important) rights and protections Connelly is advocating for players. What happens to players when a school drops into a tier with lower revenues and scholarship allotments? You'd need a far more robust revenue sharing model to make it go (or you'd need a sport more divorced from the actual learning institutions than ever, which doesn't seem to be what he's going for). The regulation/promotion is fun in theory but yea I think thats one of the more difficult ideas. Plus it like a lot of his ideas, even the ones that make total sense, would be a super hard sell to the majority of the traditionalist fan bases |
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on May 30, 2017 10:42:10 GMT -5
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Post by MarkInTexas on Jun 7, 2017 14:30:50 GMT -5
So...Bob Stoops is stepping down immediately? June 7 is an odd time to quit. I could see him announcing that 2017 would be his final year, but to pull the plug only three months before the season begins?
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Post by Hawkguy on Jun 7, 2017 14:43:21 GMT -5
So...Bob Stoops is stepping down immediately? June 7 is an odd time to quit. I could see him announcing that 2017 would be his final year, but to pull the plug only three months before the season begins? Gotta be a health concern |
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jun 7, 2017 15:58:40 GMT -5
So...Bob Stoops is stepping down immediately? June 7 is an odd time to quit. I could see him announcing that 2017 would be his final year, but to pull the plug only three months before the season begins? Gotta be a health concern He's claiming not. It kind of feels like they knew it was coming and kept it hush-hush so they didn't lose any of their recruiting class in the transition to Lincoln Riley. |
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Post by Hawkguy on Jun 7, 2017 16:04:07 GMT -5
Gotta be a health concern He's claiming not. It kind of feels like they knew it was coming and kept it hush-hush so they didn't lose any of their recruiting class in the transition to Lincoln Riley. Well I just won't be surprised if something, health or otherwise, comes out later |
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Post by Hawkguy on Jul 6, 2017 8:12:12 GMT -5
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Post by Hawkguy on Jul 18, 2017 22:11:33 GMT -5
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jul 19, 2017 7:59:53 GMT -5
Ha, I remember when he did that video. Also, finding out how far you can punt a burrito is important science. |
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Post by MarkInTexas on Jul 21, 2017 16:39:52 GMT -5
And Hugh Freeze is out at Ole Miss. I guess we know one SEC team that won't be a factor this season.
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Post by Hawkguy on Jul 27, 2017 11:05:11 GMT -5
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jul 27, 2017 13:55:55 GMT -5
It is bonkers that only 10 years ago Kansas-Mizzou and West Virginia-Pitt were high-profile games with serious national title implications. I mean, I was paying attention that season and I still don't really believe it. |
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Post by MarkInTexas on Jul 27, 2017 17:12:58 GMT -5
It is bonkers that only 10 years ago Kansas-Mizzou and West Virginia-Pitt were high-profile games with serious national title implications. I mean, I was paying attention that season and I still don't really believe it. You would think time would have healed my bitterness about Kansas taking our Orange Bowl slot, even though Mizzou won the North and beat them head-to-head. You would be wrong. |
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jul 27, 2017 17:34:45 GMT -5
It is bonkers that only 10 years ago Kansas-Mizzou and West Virginia-Pitt were high-profile games with serious national title implications. I mean, I was paying attention that season and I still don't really believe it. You would think time would have healed my bitterness about Kansas taking our Orange Bowl slot, even though Mizzou won the North and beat them head-to-head. You would be wrong. Yea, it seems even worse when you compare what happened with those two programs after those seasons. Not that Mizzou maintained as some perennial power, but they didn't immediately fall back off a cliff like KU. |
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Post by MarkInTexas on Jul 27, 2017 23:55:38 GMT -5
You would think time would have healed my bitterness about Kansas taking our Orange Bowl slot, even though Mizzou won the North and beat them head-to-head. You would be wrong. Yea, it seems even worse when you compare what happened with those two programs after those seasons. Not that Mizzou maintained as some perennial power, but they didn't immediately fall back off a cliff like KU. Mizzou wasn't a factor in the national championship race again until 2013, but they remained a good-to-great team every season except for 2012 (first year in the SEC), and the last two seasons. Kansas was good in 2008 again, and won their first 5 games in 2009, then dropped their next 7. Then Mangino got fired over abuse allegations, and KU made some truly disastrous coaching choices. At least they have basketball. |
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Aug 4, 2017 9:44:30 GMT -5
HawkguyMarkInTexasSolid Verbal is starting their conference previews with the Big 12 this week. Good time to jump on the pod.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Sept 4, 2017 13:10:53 GMT -5
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Post by Wallet Inspector on Sept 5, 2017 20:27:01 GMT -5
For one brief shining week, Kansas and Iowa State are atop the B12 football standings Superb Owl 🦉! (albeit in a 7-way tie) |
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Sept 5, 2017 20:31:49 GMT -5
For one brief shining week, Kansas and Iowa State are atop the B12 football standings Superb Owl 🦉! (albeit in a 7-way tie) It's really a shame that Baylor lost to the one FCS team you can't even really enjoy winning that game 😕 |
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Post by Hawkguy on Sept 9, 2017 9:37:54 GMT -5
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