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re: Check in if you’re one of the best SEC colleges for CEOs
Posted by cjohn on 2/4/26 at 9:19 am to Summer of Jimbo
I knew A&M has several, but I would have guessed Texas would be right there with them. Legitimately surprised.
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We gonna lose a few and are a dangerous team, but we are playing with house money now.
re: What benefits did SEC get by going to 9 conference games?
Posted by cjohn on 1/29/26 at 11:22 pm to BreakawayZou83
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1. If you go to 9 conf games, did SEC gain additional dollar commitment from ESPN?
Yes. It'll equate to about $5 million more per SEC school. Seems like it should be significantly more though. This is where the SEC/Sankey dropped the ball.
So just to put it in a better light...
Let's assume each team is having to give away a home game against a directional school for this. However, half of the teams get a home game because they are hosting a conference game instead. So that is a net .5 game loss per school in the conference (ie, 1 game every other year).
Schools with large stadiums make somewhere between $8M and $12M on ticket sales alone, not counting concessions or parking. So that means those teams lose between $4M and $6M on an annualized basis on tickets alone. ESPN is basically just making up for ticket sales for the big boys.
However, the big boys lose out on .5 game per year of parking, concessions and the towns lose .5 game a year of hotels.
It just does not make financial sense in any way.
re: Track and Field Rankings - week 1
Posted by cjohn on 1/29/26 at 6:19 pm to Serraneaux
Is this indoor or outdoor and is it mens or womens?
Have you have followed track?
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Texas Tech is the premier program in the State.
UTranny and Aggy get their scraps.
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Yeah, I can understand Texas but I'm surprised at A&M being #2. No offense Aggies.
Location, athletic dept revenue, number of students, number of alumni probably all play into it.
I would personally only have A&M no higher than 3. I would think Texas and Ohio State would be #2, then you would ha gaggle to choose from at #3 between Michigan, Penn State, A&M, ND and maybe USC but the USC brand seems to have lost an entire generation now.
Damn OP. Do you have the memory of a gnat or something? Weren't you guys ranked #1 going into last year? How did that turn out?
Besides money is the name of the game with NIL. Now it is all about who strategizes best with it, and that is not a proven formula yet for anyone.
re: When has a team ever beat a Top 5 team twice in a season
Posted by cjohn on 1/5/26 at 3:52 am to Victor R Franko
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2005 Texas Defeated 5 top 5 teams in 13 game season.
Defeated #4 Ohio St.
Defeated #2 Oklahoma
Defeated #24 Colorado
Defeated #10 Texas Tech
Defeated #2 Texas A&M
Defeated #2 Colorado
Defeated #1 USC
2008 Texas
Defeated #1 Oklahoma
Defeated #11 Missouri
Defeated #7 Oklahoma St.
Lost to #6 Texas Tech
Defeated #4 Texas A&M
Defeated #10 Ohio St.
It's not that uncommon.
Reading comprehension is skrong in this one.
re: Helmans is better than dukes.
Posted by cjohn on 1/2/26 at 7:32 pm to Slick Wandoo
My order is:
1) Hellmans
2) Blue Plate
3) Duke's
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8) Miracle Whip
re: How many times has your team given up 50+ in football?
Posted by cjohn on 12/23/25 at 12:20 am to Gideon Swashbuckler
What people really want to know is how many teams have given up over 70 points and won?
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This is a lame take that’s getting old. Bama fans are the ones that lack confidence.
Yup. A&M playing with house money picked to finish 9th in the SEC pre-season. Bama fans rationalizing the post Saban era.
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not that it matters any more, but A&M was pretty unfairly seeded. Thought they should have been a 2 at least.
From what I have gathered tuning into all the media and socials about the tournament, those who do the rankings and seedings lean heavily on reputation and have a ton of recency bias.
In reactions to the Nebraska/A&M match, there were "non-biased experts" who were saying there is now a clear path for Pitt to walk to the National Title.
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Are you trying to jinx A&M? Cos that doesn't work.
Disney already jinxed us by sending Gameday.
The real answer will come with the NFL draft.
re: Canes Aggie kickoff time
Posted by cjohn on 12/15/25 at 7:56 pm to CrimsonBoz
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Who gives a shite about JMU and Tulane being publicly raped up and down the field.
There are dozens of JMU and Tulane fans who care, which is exactly why the better games are not competing with NFL games.
re: Utah Utes 500M Private Equity Deal
Posted by cjohn on 12/9/25 at 11:48 pm to Slums_Alum
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This can’t be said enough. As much as we conservatives beat up on big government, and rightly so at times, corporations are not even close to being our friends. They will bleed out their own family members in a heartbeat to pick away at the carcass for an extra dollar. Shameful on so many levels
Complete understatement.
They are throwing employees out of windows by the thousands chasing the AI dream right now. Seems to be a fad that is still gaining steam.
No Hope here.. BAS lives on my couch.
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Aggies wins by resting extra week. Conference Championship means frick all now. Playoffs or bust.
I would not call it a win, but realistically we backed our way into a home playoff game and got a week off that we desperately need due to that loss. All in all, win or lose on that black friday did not mean much to us in the greater picture.
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As mentioned earlier, my beloved Corps is, in fact, the "Men's department" of the Navy...
Secondly, officials enforce "targetting" calls, these days...
I thought the Marines were the "straight department" of the Navy.
re: Texas busted season
Posted by cjohn on 12/3/25 at 9:13 am to FightinTigersDammit
it is pretty simple. Everyone knows and knew going into the season that it would take a 10-2 season to get to the playoffs.
Texas losing to Florida did them in this year.
Guess what. Next year, everyone knows you will have to be at least 10-2 to get into the playoff before the season begins. Some other team next year will be in the position Texas is in this year. Top 12 team, but not top 12 record. Hell, it will likely be us (A&M) as we have 5 road SEC games next year including LSU, Bama and Texas.
It is what it is.
re: Sark is crying about tampering
Posted by cjohn on 11/21/25 at 6:58 am to Aggie in TN
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UTrans ratted on every other school during the SWC days.
No dude, you got it wrong. It was just a coincidence that every school that got an upper hand on them suddenly went on probation with the NCAA. Pure coincidence.
Freaking conspiracy theorists/ *smh*
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