Those two championships he mentioned are two more than Clown College has in my lifetime.
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Those two championships he mentioned are two more than Clown College has in my lifetime.
Iowa fans bad mouth Pollard because he has been talking shit about Iowa since he showed up in Ames. "We're the bear now". Yeah, a koala bear, even though that isn't technically a bear but facts don't matter. Him getting tossed from his kid's HS Bball game is all that needs to be said about him. And you guys lap up everything he says. Enjoy your "best season ever" and your future in a G6 conference.
Boy that will be awkward when they leave for the big ten
That’s great.USN rankings are by far the best we have, and millions of high school kids and parents pay very close attention to them and make their decisions based on them. Their methodology may be debatable, but They mostly get it right. Just like for football programs, you can look at revenues, you can look at results, you can look at amount of grant funding and publications and Endowment and admission rate etc and that means a great deal these days. A school like #3 Columbia University (at 3.6% admit rate, the second hardest to get in to next to Harvard’s 3.4%) Has enough endowment to guarantee every single student who has need financial support, as grants not loans. Half of their students get aid and it amounts to an average of over $52K per year.
oh, and columbia is #2 in the world in producing nobel prize winners, another great way to quantify impact on the world.
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Lower ranked schools don’t have nearly as good faculty, because they don’t have the resources to pay them etc, so About the facts recruiting talented students and generating grants and doing research etc. etc. so they are all interrelated
so the rankings get most of it right
It has nothing to do with what I’m talking about.
Although they will take a hit financially, it could be a good thing Texas is not in the conference moving forward. Agreements, as far as conferences go, should be on equal footing. It wasn't equal. The B12 might take a hit at first but will probably be fine down the road. They won't be a premiere conference, but they can be a healthy conference.
The four teams they added do not equal the two that are leaving. That means a smaller pie is being divided into more slices.
This is probably fairly accurate. They will all get significantly less money, but at least they will be equals, I guess.
That said, once any of these teams gets chance to leave, they too will be gone.
Not.gonna.happen. Unless the B1G could arrange a trade with the B12, NE for IA State. Even then I would be against it. Both teams suck.
It kinda does though. The ACC, B1G and Pac12 all put a lot of emphasis on academic and what they consider a cultural fit. Those mint-julip sipping folks at Virginia, UNC, Duke and Georgia Tech would not want themselves defiled by the moonshine guzzling hillbillies from WVU.
Combine that with their current pathetic tv contract that pays out less per school than even the Big12 you won’t see them expanding in the next 7-8 yrs …maybe once their contract expires. Especially for a school with zero market impact outside of one of the poorest states in the nation.
Sorry pal, your dreams of having WVU join the alliance are dreams indeed.
It will either be the SEC should they expand further, or they stay put.
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Well, according to this, Ames is one of the best college football towns in America. Baton Rouge vs Ames ..
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They aren’t my dreams ‘pal’, just what I’ve heard from some people with ties in the WVU athletic department.
Feel free to believe whatever you want. I don’t give a shit.
Agree 100%, this is bad for college athletics and I believe the alliance between the BIG, ACC, and Pac 12 is an 'FU' to ESPN. The alliance is going to dictate the future of college football, starting with if, when, and how the playoff is expanded. In addition to maximizing its revenue via realignment, ESPN was desperately trying to expand the playoff while they had control of the media rights. Now ESPN will have to win a bidding war, likely to include steaming services, if expansion even happens. ESPN over stepped out of greed and it's going to cost them dearly. I also wouldn't be surprised to see the alliance implement a commissioner for college football, uniform academic standards, and controls related to NIL and the transfer portal. Somebody needs to start looking out for the good of college athletics holistically.
That is a list of average to bad teams. The conference should be called AVER conference
Make it a 3-team trade. B12 gets kNebby, the sec gets isu (they think they are worthy) and the B1G gets Missouri.
Sure, and who do you think is doing the lobbying? Disney & Fox would both have major investment...
I like this idea better:
- Nub to B12
- Mizz to B10
- WVU to SEC
ISU stays put…it’s really where they belong.
And right on cue, "Knight Commission" releases "report". FYI, "report" is code for, "impending demands (s)"...
Don't get out much, huh? JFC, Everyone from Cory Booker to Anthony Gonzalez--who both actually played--to AOC to Bernie Sanders--and it would be impossible to tell who throws worse between the two--has weighed in.
"Congress isn't going to get involved" is akin to, "Biden would NEVER try to dismantle capitalism", or, "Biden isn't slipping, that's just Tucker Carlson talking".
Good God, this place can lower one's IQ in a hurry if one doesn't stay vigilant to, at a minimum, history and common sense.
FFS...what an embarrasment of a story. How can Ames even me mentioned in the same breath as those other schools (except Pullman, WA...another big fail) Big parking lots do not = a great college football town.Well, according to this, Ames is one of the best college football towns in America. Baton Rouge vs Ames ..
What is the best college football town in America?
Which college town has the best food? What about best scenery? Or pregame tailgate? If your school lands in the 16-team best college town bracket, vote @ESPNCFB on Twitter and Instagram.
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"Why not make Big XII 10 schools, and call it the Big XII, anyway?"
(Long pause) "These schools call themselves a 'Power 5" conference..."
"That's really where I get to express myself"
Anthony Gonzalez went to my high school and he’s extremely smart, like Cory Booker who was a Rhodes Scholar.
Gonzales finished OSU and a stint in the NFL, then an MBA from Stanford.
He’s retiring and leaving the Republican Party because it is “toxic” in his words and he was getting death threats from the crazies for voting his conscience.
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Anthony Gonzalez is toxic. His idea of policy is wetting his thumb and holding it up to test the wind.
JFC…there are still some that I don’t have on ignore.
Idk what Pollard has done surrounding this mess that you think has earned him anything but criticism. The man is on record saying the Big 12 is nothing more than the MWC without OU and Texas. He knew they'd eventually leave though, cause I'm assuming he's not a complete idiot, because anyone with the slightest pulse on college football knew they'd be leaving.
Since that lovely moment of honesty, he now claims its even better without Texas and OU. He has avoided or not been asked the most important and difficult questions.
- How was OU and Texas leaving a surprise?
- How was such a financially devastating event not better anticipated?
- How and why did the AD and BOR approve $90million in top level renovations. Renovations far exceeding the likely forecast for ISU football.
- How do you turn a profit with the revenue of a G6 school, but the overhead expenses of a premier program?
- What realistically needs to change for ISU athletics to survive?
- Were donors made aware of these high risks?
Instead, the grift continues. Pollard failed to put ISU in the spot they needed to be, leaving an even larger wake of destruction. So now, he's cutting his losses and going to back to lying and smiling at the camera. Anyone putting a penny into that program after what happened in July is a total sucker.
Lmao. Your IQ does seem really low. Idk if it was higher before this website, but you might be on to something.
You wouldn't understand high IQ, so I'll forgo explaining it
Pollard ran up big debts, just like they did at Cincinnati, and was a social media troll all these years. That flimflam only lasts so long. Sooner or later, reality hits hard, and it did nine days ago when the hype met the Hawkeyes, and a huge national audience saw Iowa State for what they were, aspirational flashes in the pan. Cincinnati will come crashing down too once they lose their coach and once they will be forced to cut budgets to repay their over $300,000,000 in athletic department debt. But this is now known on these boards, though probably not on Cyclone Fanatic. Soon the national media will begin to dig a bit and see beneath the hype and into the dollars and sense reality. The honest AD's like Goff at Kansas do see reality: this new b12 is a "poor" conference with zero chance of living large off of the big budget schools who have left, or living on borrowed time and $60M in debt (ISU), or $300M in debt (cinci).
I just spent fifteen minutes digging and this issue is worse than I thought, and needs a separate thread because it's not just about hype or Pollard. It's about parasitic policies based on debt and leeching off of current students.
They really should join the Big East for MBB...it's their best play at this time.
The rest of the sports could go AAC since they're now desperate to replace the schools they lost.
There might be a shot at joining the Pac-12, but it's a long one.
Once the Texas-OU exit fees are negotiated and their timetable is set there is going to be more expansion. Most likely in 2022.
I would just say two things about the financial situation at ISU.
1. Don't automatically believe everything you see posted by Cyclone haters on an Iowa internet message board.
2. Don't get your hopes up too high until the various aspects of the reorganization are determined.
I think one of them, but not both in the next round.
Boise makes more sense at this time, and would be a good travel partner for BYU.
They should add another "east" team for UCF's travel partner. I could see them adding another Florida school down the road, but for immediacy it looks like Memphis would probably get the invite.
Big12 (14) by 2026...
| EAST | WEST |
| Cincinnati | Baylor |
| Iowa State | Boise State |
| Kansas | BYU |
| KSU | Houston |
| Memphis | Ok State |
| UCF | TCU |
| WVU | Texas Tech |
What is funny with the Big 12 they are basically the conference of little brothers. Only in 2 states can you claim they are the best team and one is because they are the only 2 teams with K-State in Kansas. Only other state is West Virginia with WVU being the top school over only Marshall.
However the rest they are all the little sisters of the poor-
Texas/A & M over Baylor, TCU, Houston & Tech.
Iowa over ISU
OU over Okie St.
Utah over BYU (BYU won for the first time in 9 years this season)
Ohio St over Cincinnati
Florida/FSU/Miami over UCF
However the rest they are all the little sisters of the poor-
Texas/A & M over Baylor, TCU, Houston & Tech.
Iowa over ISU
OU over Okie St.
Utah over BYU (BYU won for the first time in 9 years this season)
Ohio St over Cincinnati
Florida/FSU/Miami over UCF
I still think some Big 12 members will find better homes. Just basing it off of what I’m reading elsewhere from a source I consider reliable. WVU and one other member of the Big 12 will be gone before 2026.
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