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re: OU President David Boren puts Texas/Big12 on notice.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 5:50 pm to Mizz-SEC
Posted on 1/21/16 at 5:50 pm to Mizz-SEC
You are omitting the part that both OU and Nebraska built a leather helmet legacy admitting partial qualifiers. That isn't happening anymore.
OU went through a significant period of sucking before Stoops was hired.
No compelling reason to not believe blowu will suck after Stoops is gone.
OU went through a significant period of sucking before Stoops was hired.
No compelling reason to not believe blowu will suck after Stoops is gone.
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Posted on 1/21/16 at 6:01 pm to 5thTiger
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Both OU and OSU have big whig donors who can cover the GOR.
bullshite. The OU boosters couldn't afford the facility renovations they planned to keep up with us. No way they can afford a $100+ million GOR.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 6:05 pm to hoginthesw
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I would have loved to have Oklahoma over Mizzou
Posted on 1/21/16 at 6:09 pm to AllBamaDoesIsWin
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I'd love this. As much as I'd hate to see the OU/Texas game go away, Bama playing OU every year would be awesome
It wouldn't go away.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 6:10 pm to Mizz-SEC
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The one thing he didn't comment on is if the cable model blows up and it goes to OTA with streaming, name brand schools like Oklahoma will be the plums of any further conference realignment because the priority will become conference content instead of conference footprint.
That is true. Suddenly teams like OU, Clemson and FSU would be economically viable.
I think he is too aggressive about the timing though. Sure cord cutting is big with millenials but old people still pay for cable. It will take a generational shift to end cable bundles.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 6:16 pm to cardboardboxer
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That is true. Suddenly teams like OU, Clemson and FSU would be economically viable.
I think he is too aggressive about the timing though. Sure cord cutting is big with millenials but old people still pay for cable. It will take a generational shift to end cable bundles.
Cable company controls your internet in most cases so as soon as there is enough of a shift to matter internet cost will go up imho
Posted on 1/21/16 at 6:17 pm to FishFearMe
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OU went through a significant period of sucking before Stoops was hired.
No compelling reason to not believe blowu will suck after Stoops is gone.
That's dumb. Stoops has kept them in the game for the last 15 years or so. Prior to that, they had 10 bad years. Prior to that, they set the stage to have one of the winningest programs in the nation.
They have one of the best arguments that they will stay in the game after their coach leaves.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 6:39 pm to Grovewater
Oklahoma will not be in the SEC in five years, they had their chance and sucked the longhorn.....screw them and the big 12. They will be a dead conference in five years like the old southwest conference.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 7:12 pm to thelawnwranglers
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Cable company controls your internet in most cases so as soon as there is enough of a shift to matter internet cost will go up imho
Oh sure. Heck for some people (like us sports fans) the death of cable will suck. To get every channel you want (or the wife wants) you will have to have a pile of $10-20 monthly accounts. Add in more expensive Internet and the cost for consumers might be higher than it is now.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 7:13 pm to cardboardboxer
might be?? No. WILL be.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 7:42 pm to Gradual_Stroke
For some people sure. And for the rest we will have to deal with crappy throttled streaming options.
It will really take a while though. Grandma isn't going to go buy a Roku, hook it up and trade the Days of Our Lives for House of Cards. Cord cutting will plateau and then fighting over content (like Netflix's library being reduced recently) will push some people back into the arms of cable.
If there was a Spotify for video it would kill cable in five years but the video companies have seen how Spotify has crushed the profits in the music industry and they will fight tooth and nail to prevent such a thing from happening to them. Dividing content into a dozen pay services just adds to consumer confusion and excludes people who aren't technically savvy. Technologists are bad about assuming that their consumption habits will become mainstream immediately because they themselves can't see the value of the old way of doing it.
The real threat for cable is that millennials are happy to take a subpar product to avoid paying for video content- hence the rise of Youtube. But honestly ESPN is insulated more from that than most because young men (the most valuable demographic) need their sports fix.
It will really take a while though. Grandma isn't going to go buy a Roku, hook it up and trade the Days of Our Lives for House of Cards. Cord cutting will plateau and then fighting over content (like Netflix's library being reduced recently) will push some people back into the arms of cable.
If there was a Spotify for video it would kill cable in five years but the video companies have seen how Spotify has crushed the profits in the music industry and they will fight tooth and nail to prevent such a thing from happening to them. Dividing content into a dozen pay services just adds to consumer confusion and excludes people who aren't technically savvy. Technologists are bad about assuming that their consumption habits will become mainstream immediately because they themselves can't see the value of the old way of doing it.
The real threat for cable is that millennials are happy to take a subpar product to avoid paying for video content- hence the rise of Youtube. But honestly ESPN is insulated more from that than most because young men (the most valuable demographic) need their sports fix.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 8:26 pm to AUCE05
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Well, AM has a poor football tradition, and regional school. He wasn't far from the truth.
Except that every Texas A&M home game, even the rent a wins, is automatically the largest attendance in the conference. Had 104K+ to watch us play freakin Ball State.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 8:29 pm to FishFearMe
Posted on 1/21/16 at 8:32 pm to oman
Yeah they had 10 really bad years because they couldn't take partial qualifiers.
What "Name" Coach will want to follow Stoops?
What "Name" Coach will want to follow Stoops?
Posted on 1/21/16 at 8:39 pm to Score4OU
Hope you don't expect anybody on an SEC board to care enough to click your shite.
Do something useful and insulate your trailer pipes and leave us alone.
Otherwise go pester the PAC 12 or Big 10.
Do something useful and insulate your trailer pipes and leave us alone.
Otherwise go pester the PAC 12 or Big 10.
This post was edited on 1/21/16 at 8:41 pm
Posted on 1/21/16 at 8:52 pm to Score4OU
Oklahoma Politics is as dirty as Texas Politics. Oil and Gas money has created a lot of powerful people inside and outside of Oklahoma who influence the state's legislature. Also, T. Boone Pickens is not a man that will sit idle and see his school relegated to a subpar conference.
In the end none of this matters to the SEC. This conference isn't interested in a state with half the population of North Carolina. Even if they were able to separate themselves from Okie Lite, they aren't going to the SEC and the Pac12 is a long shot. The ACC on the other hand...
In the end none of this matters to the SEC. This conference isn't interested in a state with half the population of North Carolina. Even if they were able to separate themselves from Okie Lite, they aren't going to the SEC and the Pac12 is a long shot. The ACC on the other hand...
Posted on 1/21/16 at 8:53 pm to FishFearMe
Fish,
You posted that OU and OSU have the exact same BOR and they run both schools. Where did you learn this?
You posted that OU and OSU have the exact same BOR and they run both schools. Where did you learn this?
Posted on 1/21/16 at 8:56 pm to oman
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It wouldn't go away.
You'd be surprised how much Texas will hold it against OU for ruining their LHN gravy train.
Posted on 1/22/16 at 8:21 am to greenbastard
Fish seems to think a&M is an unstoppable juggernaut
Posted on 1/22/16 at 8:23 am to TigerTalker16
I said this from day one. I don't know where Texas got off thinking they were a brand unto themselves. They are popular in Texas but just another team in Texas. Notre Dame couldn't even pull this off. Maaaaaybe the yankees could but Texas is no more of a national brand than 5 or 6 other historical names in college football. They are popular to Texas fans. Nobody else cares about Texas anymore than they about USC or Bama.
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