Yeah conference realignment sucks. I have to pull for USC and Oklahoma on the same day?
i was thinking, haha fuck usc enjoy that flight home, thatâs gotta be the longest losing flight home in the country. then i remembered ucla lost in louisiana.
lol angeles
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nope, usc flight is 400 miles further. good
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Urgent alert: huge freeze is still a walking trash bag filled with diarrhea
https://twitter.com/nextroundlive/status/1837635939482390654
(The reason he doesnât have a QB is that nobody wants to play for him because they know he throws every QB under the bus)
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Iâm happy to be able to root for a coach who will do the opposite of what Freeze did.
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i donât get it.
Freeze and Auburn deserve each other.
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Colorado fans are rushing the field after beating Baylor.
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chappelleâs show sketch âthe racial draftâ. i guess youâd have to watch it, different races are having a draft and picking people from other races that they feel like shoulda been their race anyway.
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Getting a little harder to act like the scrappy good guys just trying to keep it together!
Alright, I was able to track down a copy of the complaint to try to puzzle out whatâs what here. Iâve read through what feels like the relevant parts. Admittedly the very general citations to Californiaâs Unfair Competition Law are giving me more homework than I likely want to take on, but I get the gist of the situation. While not being able to give a confident read of the legal merits, I canât fault either conference too much for how they approached this.
Pac-12 was in a desperate spot, MWC took out some pretty draconian measures to leverage our desperation, but they did so out of what has turned out to be the very fair fear that we would ultimately be a threat to their long-term viability, Pac-12 agreed from their state of desperation to a clause that they likely never intended to honor without at least being forced to by court order. When MWC turned up the temperature during the past two months to really try to bleed the Pac-12 dry and make it unviable for the Pac to do anything but accept a lesser position, Pac-12 went on offense, and here we are.
Two lesser conferences got into a desperate existential struggle as a natural byproduct of the bullshit that happened among the big conferences and the major networks to consolidate power and leave everyone else out. I donât see MWC as villains here; I also donât feel bad about what our conference did. Personally I continue to point the blame upward at the conferences and networks that tried to crowd us out of existence entirely to continue moving toward a geographically nonsensical super-league that most fans donât want.
I donât disagree with anything youâve said, I guess I just wish we werenât in this position. And from an optics perspective, itâs not a good look. To me it also seems clear that the lawsuit is just part of the negotiation process - theyâre obviously going to pay the MWC something and are just using this as leverage to get them to accept less.
I agree, itâs difficult to win the PR battle on this one despite our position not being any more ignoble than MWCâs.
Of course, the long-term optics (albeit a different kind of optics) for our athletics of simply folding the conference and joining with the MWC, thus fully accepting a relegation that had nothing to do with merit, are even worse. And it seems like MWC wasnât going to accept anything but trying to force us to choose among shitty options.
I donât wish we had done otherwise under the circumstances, thatâs where I guess I land. But Iâm with you in that I badly hate the situation as a whole more than anything.
Oof, I just read the threads on r/cfb and the response is brutal.
Doesnât matter, but yuck
People being taken in by a simplistic talking point en masse? That doesnât sound like Reddit.
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Congress should step in and force FBS to return to 1990 conferences. All this bullshit started when the SEC expanded to 12 teams.
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Absolutely. 10 team leagues make sense for football and basketball. 18 team leagues are nonsense where Georgia has to play every top 5 team in the conference and Missouri has to play one of them.
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The ACC was fun as hell when it was just nine teams: Virginia, Maryland, UNC, Duke, Wake, NC State, Georgia Tech, Clemson, FSU (older purists liked it before FSU joined, but that was before my time). Basketball was perfect: home and home with each team, 16-game conference schedule.
Football was a nice, tight 8-game ACC schedule, played every team every season.
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