| Favorite team: | Texas A&M  |
| Location: | Wichita Falls, Texas |
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| Interests: | baseball |
| Occupation: | Attorney |
| Number of Posts: | 2895 |
| Registered on: | 7/28/2011 |
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quote:This. Presumably, the pastor was asked by the court to do an invocation, so he’s acting in a more or less offficial capacity, and then delivers a pitch for one of the parties in the suit. An invocation is fine, but doing one like this is ridiculous. I’d lay odds on this pastor being an awful person based upon his behavior here.
I've seen it done in several courtrooms in Mississippi; however, I've never seen the pastor invoke God's grace on one of the parties. What a sham
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What an embarrassment. Stuff like that just might get an appellate court motivated to do the right thing and clean up this travesty.
quote:We are already there. UT shares PUF funds throughout a larger system. Several schools in the A&M system don’t get PUF funds despite being part of the system. When you look at the number of students supported by PUF funds, it’s pretty close to even pro rata.
Aggies will never rock the boat for even footing per student because they don't want to open the PUF "Pandora's Box".. because if they do, then the less fortunate systems will suddenly have more lobbying power to be included in the pie with new structuring.
The legislature should be trying to boost other schools, given how much the state has grown, but cannibalizing the PUF isn’t the answer.
quote:Its not a new stadium. Renovated the old one.
I would put Tennessee’s new stadium ahead of ole Miss and bump every else down and maybe switch 5 & 6
re: Lindsey Nelson Stadium Renovations Almost Complete
Posted by twk on 2/12/26 at 11:23 am to Rocky Top 14
I'd say they've done a good job, but I'm a bit surprised that they didn't just start over, as the old park imposed some limitations on what they could do to make it better. Besides the outfield dimensions, the way the seating goes straight down the line creates bad sightlines for seats down the line. Big ballparks usually design their seating so that it's set back further around the infield and then can be angled back toward the lines so that fans sitting down the line are looking at the infield and not centerfield. Not much they could do about that now, but that's not how you would design a ballpark from scratch if you intend to have a bunch of seats down the line and care about the fan experience.
re: SEC revenue 1.03 billion this year
Posted by twk on 2/6/26 at 10:38 am to DarthRebel
quote:They already are, under the terms of the House settlement. No more partial scholarship. You are allowed to provide a full ride for your full roster in all sports. Not everyone is taking full advantage of that yet, but some schools are.
Seems like they should scholarship more sports with such windfalls
re: Question for the legal experts re: local judges ruling on eligibility
Posted by twk on 2/5/26 at 3:18 pm to SEC Doctor
We used to have this problem in Texas with high school eligibility until the legislature passed a law making Travis County (Austin) mandatory venue for any suit against the UIL.
Probably need to add a provision to the SCORE Act (the one that is supposed to implement the House settlement) making venue for any suit against the NCAA based upon eligibility mandatory in the US District Court of the Southern District of Indiana (Indianapolis).
Probably need to add a provision to the SCORE Act (the one that is supposed to implement the House settlement) making venue for any suit against the NCAA based upon eligibility mandatory in the US District Court of the Southern District of Indiana (Indianapolis).
"John and Janet Donorname Training..."
Kind of catchy.
Kind of catchy.
re: The Red River - it's a beautiful thing
Posted by twk on 1/30/26 at 10:06 am to texas tortilla
quote:Under the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, the south bank has been construed as the border (it doesn't say that real explicitly, so the Supreme Court had to clarify that). And, determining what is the south bank isn't as easy as you might think. There is a lot of normally dry land that appears to be on the Texas side of the river that is actually part of Oklahoma.
An okie told me the boundary between tex and Oklahoma is the shoreline on the Texas side. The entire river is in oklahoma.
re: The Red River - it's a beautiful thing
Posted by twk on 1/29/26 at 9:19 am to SWOK Sooner
quote:You can say that about many rivers west of 99 degrees longitude. It's called intermittent flow.
Sometimes it is. I've seen it small enough to step over at Burkburnette
FYI: It's Burkburnett (no "e" on the end). Named for the guy that owned the 6666 ranch.
re: What is the state of your athletic program?
Posted by twk on 1/29/26 at 9:09 am to Wishbone85
Kind of a mixed bag at A&M.
Football trending in the right direction
Soccer was abysmal, but the coach retired, so there's hope
Volleyball won the natty
Men's basketball pleasantly surprised. Future looks good
Women's basketball abysmal. Coach will be fired at the end of the season, I think.
Swimming - no idea
Tennis - women's side is great, men have their moments
Track - Pat Henry is a great coach
Golf - Ok. They have their moments
Softball - like the coach. Heading in the right direction last year's finish notwithstanding
Baseball - need a big rebound or we'll make a change
Really, you're looking at three programs that need a course correction, which isn't too bad.
Football trending in the right direction
Soccer was abysmal, but the coach retired, so there's hope
Volleyball won the natty
Men's basketball pleasantly surprised. Future looks good
Women's basketball abysmal. Coach will be fired at the end of the season, I think.
Swimming - no idea
Tennis - women's side is great, men have their moments
Track - Pat Henry is a great coach
Golf - Ok. They have their moments
Softball - like the coach. Heading in the right direction last year's finish notwithstanding
Baseball - need a big rebound or we'll make a change
Really, you're looking at three programs that need a course correction, which isn't too bad.
re: The Red River - it's a beautiful thing
Posted by twk on 1/28/26 at 2:01 pm to Windy City
Not a creek
re: NCAA Lied about NIL. College Sports are More Popular Than Ever
Posted by twk on 1/27/26 at 11:30 am to Old School Tex
You have to take all the ratings numbers this year with a big grain of salt. Nielsen changed the way it does ratings for live sports and the result has been a noticeable change across the board due solely to this change in measurement. That doesn't mean interest isn't up, but when you start talking numbers from this year to prior years, you are really talking apples to oranges.
Florida looks like the outlier. I suppose all those retirees who have made it to their 80’s and left other states skew their stats.
re: The SEC has not been kind to Texas
Posted by twk on 1/23/26 at 8:12 am to Wishbone85
Geez, it's a one time moving expense. The one thing that the sips aren't is short of money. They knew they would have a short revenue year, and planned for it. It may have been less painful for them than paying Jimbo's buyout was for us, but we'll both survive.
I'm sure there was more interest for this game than some in years past, but comparing ratings this year to any previous year is a matter of comparing apples to oranges.
After much complaining by the broadcasters that past measurement techniques failed to properly capture live sports audiences, Nielsen made adjustments which have resulted in broadly higher ratings across the board for live sports. This is good for content producers, because it means advertisers will have to pay more for ad time on live sports broadcasts, but posts like this, comparing the new numbers to the old, are borderline fraudulent.
After much complaining by the broadcasters that past measurement techniques failed to properly capture live sports audiences, Nielsen made adjustments which have resulted in broadly higher ratings across the board for live sports. This is good for content producers, because it means advertisers will have to pay more for ad time on live sports broadcasts, but posts like this, comparing the new numbers to the old, are borderline fraudulent.
re: Cody Campbell (TTU super booster): Alabama, Auburn too poor to compete
Posted by twk on 1/21/26 at 8:37 am to SEC Doctor
Cody Campbell likes the current environment, and is concerned that the advantage that he has in the current Wild West environment might not last. If Congress ever passes the SCORE Act, we might see a little bit of sanity return to the game, but, as long as things are being run by lawsuits, guys like Campbell, who are willing to write NIL checks with no expectation of any tangible return on that investment, can have an outsized influence on the game.
re: The NC game should never be played in Miami again
Posted by twk on 1/21/26 at 8:26 am to Che Boludo
quote:When you go to one bowl game per season, something to do besides the game is a factor. But with three neutral site trips, most fans are looking to simply get in and get out -- the game itself is all that really matters.
Playing at random college stadiums would be weird. The big bowl venues offer a lot more in their surrounding areas for fan experience.
As far as price gouging, I think IU being in the game was a bigger factor than Miami playing at home. But, what you need to remember is that each competing school got about 20,000 tickets that were sold to fans at face value, which wasn't cheap, but not nearly as expensive as the inflated secondary market prices we see quoted. So, when you talk about the price for the average fan to attend the game and base it on the secondary market, what you're really talking about is the price for fringe fans to make it in.
quote:It wasn’t a matter of signed contracts, but, rather, the fact that there were a bunch of deals that the NCAA didn’t uncover in the original investigation, and SMU feared that if they didn’t keep paying, those guys would rat on them (and they ultimately did).
From what I understood was they had signed contracts with some players and had to continue paying them. They backed themselves into a hole they couldn’t get out of.
quote:They need to do that, but even going up against NFL regular season games is a problem.
Then end the season before the NFL playoffs start.
Frankly, I think the solution is to move the regular season up one week, hold the conference championship games Thanksgiving weekend, then start the playoffs with the first three rounds (of a 16 team playoff) on the next three weekends, and the final on New Year's Day. I'd go to the NFL and tell them, we want to get our playoffs over before yours start, but we're going to need you to cooperate by giving us some clear TV slots on those December Saturdays.
Getting the NFL to cooperate won't be easy.
It would kill the bowls.
But, it would allow you to conclude the season on January 1, then have a transfer portal before the spring semester starts at most schools.
quote:It's actually OU and Texas's fault that we haven't played Georgia at Kyle Field, yet. We were supposed to do that in 2024 or 2025 (and make a trip to Lexington, which we also haven't done, yet), but that game got thrown out the window when we added two Big XII refugees. So, if you want to see who's to blame for that, look in the mirror.
Since joining the SEC in 2012, Texas A&M has played Georgia once in 2019.
Meanwhile, their big brother Texas has played Georgia 3 times since joining the league (once in Athens) and OU plays in Athens next season.
Let me guess, the SEC scheduling prevented the Aggies from facing competition. Haha.
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