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How did LSU’s president vote yes yesterday and Kiff is doing his own thing? Seems they aren’t on the same page.

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He voted no during the first round of voting and wasn’t the only one. Probably felt like he needed to pick and choose his battles wisely and voted yes the second round. They’re on the same page, don’t you worry.

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It went something like this:

All the eligibility rulings against the NCAA have been based upon anti-trust laws, which turn upon the fact that the NCAA is a monopoly. Conferences are not monopolies, so anti-trust laws, properly applied (which isn't a given in Louisiana judge) would not be implicated when conferences set eligibility rules.

Ultimately, if the schools are united in stopping this, they have the leverage to do so. All they have to do is tell LSU that they won't travel to Baton Rouge to play LSU if LSU is using NFL players. A local Baton Rouge judge would have no power to compel them to do so, and the financial loss for LSU would be catastrophic.

Petty…but I like it. :lol:

So few out of state students get in at A&M and Texas, I don't know that those numbers really mean much. Here's the rankings strictly based on in-state rates:

1. VANDERBILT Cost of attendance: $99,994 (private)

2. OKLAHOMA Cost of attendance: $58,823 (in-state, $40,145)

3. AUBURN Cost of attendance: $63,540 (in-state, $39,516)

4. KENTUCKY Cost of attendance: $60,838 (in-state, $38,344)

5. MISSOURI Cost of attendance: $59,232 (in-state, $36,070)

6. ALABAMA Cost of attendance: $60,400 (in-state, $35,392)

7. TEXAS Cost of attendance: $72,916 (in-state, $35,386)

8. MISSISSIPPI STATE Cost of attendance: $53,422 (in-state, $34,431)

9. ARKANSAS Cost of attendance: $56,256 (in-state, $33,988)

10. OLE MISS Cost of attendance: $52,938 (in-state, $32,148)

11. SOUTH CAROLINA Cost of attendance: $57,412 (in-state, $31,602)

12. TEXAS A&M Cost of attendance: $60,480 (in-state, $30,320)

13. TENNESSEE Cost of attendance: $49,672 (in-state, $30,212)

14. GEORGIA Cost of attendance: $52,156 (in-state, $29,920)

15. LSU Cost of attendance: $45,446 (in-state, $28,770)

16. FLORIDA Cost of attendance: $54,010 (in-state, $25,830)

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Y'all can reminisce over CBS all you like but ABC/ESPN has been a vastly superior product. It's been great getting high-quality conference games in the 11:00, 2:30, and 6:30 timeslots every week, rather than getting a terrible 11:00 game, all the good games simultaneously at 2:30, and a second-rate late game most weeks.

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The fact that some folks are downvoting this just goes to show how stupid people can be.

Dan Orlovsky must not have any really old male relatives. When he reaches the point where he can no longer cut his own toenails (and if you live long enough, there's a good chance that will happen to you, as my 98 year old father can attest for the last 3 years), he will have to eat those words. Now, why Sumrall needs them now, I can only imagine. :lol:

When I have time on a trip from my home (Wichita Falls) to Norman, I like to stop off at the Meers Store in the Wichita Mountains. The burgers are huge, but the huge bowl of peach cobbler is the real attraction in my mind.

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However I'd be curious if any Texas fans have any stories about why the Cotton Bowl seating is the way it is and always has been.

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I've always wondered why it is what it is. Naturally you'd think Texas would sit on the south side and Oklahoma the north.

I'm curious the reason as well.

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Best guess: Texas didn't want the end with the tunnel. They have to give OU a few hundred seats in the north endzone to compensate, and I would imagine that the OU fans who get those seats aren't necessarily excited about being stranded in a sea of burnt orange.

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Can’t find data from this year but the year the pitch clock was added, the average length of SEC games was 2 hours 49 minutes. That was down 21 minutes from the previous year

What takes the most time isn’t the pitching changes. It’s the reviews taking so long. They’ve already capped mound visits, added pitch clocks, and pitching changes are limited to 90 seconds from the time the coach starts walking to the mound. They also made run rules mandatory in SEC games.

The three batter minimum for pitchers is dumb at the college level. And limiting pickoff attempts is just inviting easy stolen bases, which results in more runs, and longer innings

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I would be interested in seeing the data from this year. My personal experience tells me that while the pitch clock worked to bring game times down initially, they have been creeping back up. As I pointed out in my prior response, pick off moves are now being used as a work around to circumvent the pitch clock, and the trend just keeps getting worse. The limit will stop that.

Pitching changes take up a huge amount of time. No one comes to the park to see the coach make pitching changes.

While replay takes up time, it has all but eliminated the long arse, deranged arguments that used to be common, so I think that just about is a wash.

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nobody knows what the’ve got until the games are played. throw a freakish 2026 Oklahoma-like run into the mix and now more than ever, winning a CWS is one part talent, one part coaching and two or three or four parts Baseball Gods.

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This. The Athletic had an article last week about the recruiting class of 2023. Maybe half of the top 20 prospects that made it to campus had careers that more or less fulfilled expectations, and the top college draft prospects in this years’s draft largely came from outside the top ranks of recruiting.