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RE: BIG XII Megathread
(07-27-2023 01:58 PM)Eagleonpar Wrote: (07-27-2023 01:41 PM)Atlanta Wrote: (07-27-2023 10:17 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote: (07-27-2023 10:05 AM)Tigx Wrote: And we had a shot. Made two great hires in Fuente and Norvell. Had a 15-game win streak. National TV games galore. Bowl wins. Made a Cotton Bowl. Top 20 teams in multiple years. We had GameDay on Beale Street.
Most importantly, we we getting the 40K plus crowds for non-SEC opponents, which had never consistently happened before. Developed great rivalries with Houston and UCF and Cincy.
Had the best president we'll ever have in Dr. Rudd. Had the corporate community behind us.
But you just can't keep that kind of momentum up forever.
All that and we didnt get in. And that was before Silverfields last two seasons. Remember this happened after his first year when we went 8-3. What else could we have done? And I see why a lot of the big money folks are tired of giving money when it all goes for naught
Hired the right coach.
I’m no Silverfield fan but I doubt they had anything to do with it.
They write the checks to pay his and the staff's salaries. I'm pretty sure they were involved. If they are tired of paying the "arms race" $$$ coach salary escalation brings, they might get disinterested quickly.
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RE: BIG XII Megathread
(07-27-2023 02:56 PM)former guest Wrote: (07-27-2023 01:58 PM)Eagleonpar Wrote: (07-27-2023 01:41 PM)Atlanta Wrote: (07-27-2023 10:17 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote: (07-27-2023 10:05 AM)Tigx Wrote: And we had a shot. Made two great hires in Fuente and Norvell. Had a 15-game win streak. National TV games galore. Bowl wins. Made a Cotton Bowl. Top 20 teams in multiple years. We had GameDay on Beale Street.
Most importantly, we we getting the 40K plus crowds for non-SEC opponents, which had never consistently happened before. Developed great rivalries with Houston and UCF and Cincy.
Had the best president we'll ever have in Dr. Rudd. Had the corporate community behind us.
But you just can't keep that kind of momentum up forever.
All that and we didnt get in. And that was before Silverfields last two seasons. Remember this happened after his first year when we went 8-3. What else could we have done? And I see why a lot of the big money folks are tired of giving money when it all goes for naught
Hired the right coach.
I’m no Silverfield fan but I doubt they had anything to do with it.
They write the checks to pay his and the staff's salaries. I'm pretty sure they were involved. If they are tired of paying the "arms race" $$$ coach salary escalation brings, they might get disinterested quickly.
I’m talking about us being left out because of our coach. That had nothing to do with us being left out in the summer of 2021
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RE: BIG XII Megathread
(07-27-2023 09:54 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote: (07-27-2023 09:50 AM)fishman6581 Wrote: It really is crazy to think about how people got on here, swore up and down that we were in, then swore up and down that we were next, just for us to still be here.
It’s called being delusional and not knowing what the problem is.
Some call it being STAMMERIZED --others as being STAMMERED
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RE: BIG XII Megathread
(07-27-2023 06:41 PM)jsw3ent Wrote: (07-27-2023 09:54 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote: (07-27-2023 09:50 AM)fishman6581 Wrote: It really is crazy to think about how people got on here, swore up and down that we were in, then swore up and down that we were next, just for us to still be here.
It’s called being delusional and not knowing what the problem is.
Some call it being STAMMERIZED --others as being STAMMERED
Maybe Tubby’s lawyer will issue a comment on what Colorado to the b12 means for who’s 2nd in line this time. Fingers crossed that we get the link!!!!!
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RE: BIG XII Megathread
(07-27-2023 06:53 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote: (07-27-2023 06:41 PM)jsw3ent Wrote: (07-27-2023 09:54 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote: (07-27-2023 09:50 AM)fishman6581 Wrote: It really is crazy to think about how people got on here, swore up and down that we were in, then swore up and down that we were next, just for us to still be here.
It’s called being delusional and not knowing what the problem is.
Some call it being STAMMERIZED --others as being STAMMERED
Maybe Tubby’s lawyer will issue a comment on what Colorado to the b12 means for who’s 2nd in line this time. Fingers crossed that we get the link!!!!!
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RE: BIG XII Megathread
Anyone heard from Ike? Is he on the streets ?
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RE: BIG XII Megathread
(07-28-2023 09:09 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote: Anyone heard from Ike? Is he on the streets ?
I think he was recently in Hoover partying
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RE: BIG XII Megathread
(07-28-2023 09:09 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote: Anyone heard from Ike? Is he on the streets ?
As long as he’s on the street and not on the internet, we all should be okay.
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RE: BIG XII Megathread
Ike's sources aren't talking.
The Oregon Ducks have told the Peabody ducks to shut their bills (Nike contacts from Oregon via the distribution center).
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RE: BIG XII Megathread
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RE: BIG XII Megathread
(07-28-2023 10:55 AM)SouthernMSTiger Wrote: (07-28-2023 09:09 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote: Anyone heard from Ike? Is he on the streets ?
As long as he’s on the street and not on the internet, we all should be okay.
Oh he’s here. Just probably under another “persona”.
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RE: BIG XII Megathread
(07-28-2023 11:22 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote:
Good to see McMurphy admit that we exist
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RE: BIG XII Megathread
(07-28-2023 11:22 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote:
My gut tells me that Colorado won't be the only school to jump ship.
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RE: BIG XII Megathread
(07-28-2023 11:24 AM)msu35 Wrote: (07-28-2023 11:22 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote:
My gut tells me that Colorado won't be the only school to jump ship.
I think it all depends on Oregon and Washington. If they stay the conference stays together. Colorado is an outlier. They were stupid to leave the Big 12 to start with. Thinking they’d get more Southern California students
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RE: BIG XII Megathread
(07-28-2023 11:26 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote: (07-28-2023 11:24 AM)msu35 Wrote: My gut tells me that Colorado won't be the only school to jump ship.
I think it all depends on Oregon and Washington. If they stay the conference stays together. Colorado is an outlier. They were stupid to leave the Big 12 to start with. Thinking they’d get more Southern California students
If Arizona leaves, I could see that being the catalyst for a mass exodus.
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RE: BIG XII Megathread
(07-28-2023 11:33 AM)msu35 Wrote: (07-28-2023 11:26 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote: (07-28-2023 11:24 AM)msu35 Wrote: My gut tells me that Colorado won't be the only school to jump ship.
I think it all depends on Oregon and Washington. If they stay the conference stays together. Colorado is an outlier. They were stupid to leave the Big 12 to start with. Thinking they’d get more Southern California students
If Arizona leaves, I could see that being the catalyst for a mass exodus.
That too
I think they stay if Oregon and Wash stay
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RE: BIG XII Megathread
(07-28-2023 11:24 AM)msu35 Wrote: (07-28-2023 11:22 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote:
My gut tells me that Colorado won't be the only school to jump ship.
I would even be surprised if those choices aren't ranked in order of preference. Pac-12 schools, then 1500 miles away UConn for some unknown reason, then Memphis and so forth.
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RE: BIG XII Megathread
Driving down the road I just heard McMurphy on Jason/John show say that MEMPHIS had NO CHANCE and WASN'T EVEN CONSIDERED when the big 12 chose Cincinnati/BYU/Houston/UCF.
He also said that when the Big12 didn't expand in 2016 that we were even behind Tulane.
He said at least this time we are or will be considered if no more Pac 10 teams go to the big 12---one of 4
It's amazing to me that the guy that most consider the main guy in realignment circles------didn't even have a clue that we were told twice by the big 12 that we were 100% in---how out of touch McMurphy is---he needs to be STAMMERED LOL---whats even more amazing is that people really think that we were ---P.T. Barnum LOL----a guy from the far north was told but not McMurphy ---you can't make this stuff up
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Brett McMurphy was just interviewed and said that it the Big 12 does not get another Pac-12 team then Memphis is one of the four G5 schools that will be considered for 2024 to get the Big12 to 14.
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RE: BIG XII Megathread
If no one else defects, and the article is correct, we're in.
UConn - Is not going. They aren't leaving the Big East again.
SDSU - Will be the one school going to the PAC
UNLV - We can beat them head-to-head academically, on the field, budget, and market.
That leaves us. If this guy is right, and no one else leaves the PAC, we are the most likely pick.
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