Regarding Houston Meeting with Larry Scott

Tequilla said:

Less than 5% chance Oklahoma goes anywhere without at least one of Oklahoma State and/or Texas.

rodmansrage said:

Dardanus said:

RaceBannon said:

Having spent time in Oklahoma, the two schools won't split

"I was there during the Dust Bowel. It was dusty." - RaceBannon

"I was there during the Trail of Tears. I was wet." - RaceBannon

FremontTroll said:

salemcoog said:

TierbsHsotBoobs said:

FremontTroll said:

TierbsHsotBoobs said:

FremontTroll said:

TierbsHsotBoobs said:

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RaceBannon said:

ESPN is going to launch the ACC Network. So that's 3 out of 4. It's between the Big12 and the Pac.

We? lose

Come up with a realistic conference realignment that cuts out the PAC.

Sorry to interrupt the self-hate session but it's not happening.

Current XII plus AZ and CA schools.

You're welcome.

So the Cali schools are going to abandon Washington and Oregon to go play West Virginia? Ohok.gif.

We already saw during the last realignment that the Big12 was in the weakest position by far due to having the smallest footprint by population, their location getting squeezed in between three other conferences, and the unequal sharing of power between Texas and the rest. Those issues have only worsened with the defections and the incursion of the SEC into Texas.


There is no PAC school that makes sense as an expansion target for other schools culturally, geographically, or economically. Which is why there has never even been a rumor floated of such happening.

Washington and Oregon (and their little brothers) aren't going to be left out in favor of WVU and Iowa State.

People forget that ESPN runs college sports.

Why do they need the Pacific Northwest?

Nike and Seattle.

Why do they need Iowa State, West Virginia, Baylor, Kansas State, or Texas Tech?

Nike is a fading brand and the NBA proved you don't need Seattle to grow your revenues.

You do point out several schools that can die in a fire though. The eventual culling of two mediocre conferences into the Western power conference will be interesting.

HRYK

Nike will be like Reebok is now in 15 years.

Adidas will be Adidas.

Under Armour will be Nike in 5 years.

This was a popular hot take in 2006. It will likely still be a popular hot take in 2026 and Nike will keep on dominating.

RoadDawg55 said:

Congratulations to the Coog and Boobie. You've managed to out stupid Tequilla in this thread. At least Sven's stupidity is mostly shtick.

Under Armour sucks, especially the shoes. They've never had one cool cleat or basketball shoe. It's a brand for middle aged white men.

College football wise, Nike has Alabama, Ohio State, Florida State, Michigan... Basically every blue blood program or elite program other than Notre Dame. They aren't going anywhere.

RoadDawg55 said:

salemcoog said:

RoadDawg55 said:

Congratulations to the Coog and Boobie. You've managed to out stupid Tequilla in this thread. At least Sven's stupidity is mostly shtick.

Under Armour sucks, especially the shoes. They've never had one cool cleat or basketball shoe. It's a brand for middle aged white men.

College football wise, Nike has Alabama, Ohio State, Florida State, Michigan... Basically every blue blood program or elite program other than Notre Dame. They aren't going anywhere.

Not real marketing major are you Doogie?


Kids care about what the professional players wear 1000 x more than they care about what college teams are wearing. Nike isn't automatically getting the blue chip pro stars as they used to.

I hope that offered a little insight as you chat back and forth with Chest about pre-season SRS rankings. Give him my best will ya.

Christ. I hope you're trolling. Nike doesn't have Curry and Tom Brady. That's it. Curry blew up after signing with Under Armour. His shoes still suck. His most recent release was rightfully destroyed online.The only reason he is with UA is because Nike hardly cared.

You don't think Nike gets the next LeBron? Nobody, or at least very few in the basketball world thinks Under Armour basketball shoes are cool. When LeBron retires, Nike will have a new LeBron. LeBron can still release shoes and gear after retirement like another guy named Michael Jordan.

Almost every big college football team is with Nike. Same for basketball (Kentucky, Duke, UNC (Jordan), Michigan State). Nike has the inside track to 90% of good players from the best college teams. That's not important though, right?

Tequilla said:

RoadDawg55 said:

@Tequilla, the Big 12 sucks. I can agree there. I didn't even read most of the thread. I was talking about how you're a moron in general. It had little to do with this thread.

You aren't even worth taking the gloves off with

godawgst said:

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

I'm very wary of Texass because of how they almost single handidly destroyed the Big 12, and at the least weakened it. They bring a lot to the table, but they're a school that needs to be kept in check, and a guy like Larry Scott and the ivory tower, p.c. West Coast types aren't the people to do it.

Your right that the Pac won't be able to keep Texas in check, and your going to take a lot of shit for giving them special deals, but I'd rather have them in the conf. and defend that position versus bitching/moaning/whining/ and having to try and sell the rest of CFB why the newly form West Coast Conference consisting of The current Pac-12 and Colorado State/BYU/Boise/Fresno St/San Diego State/San Jose State but minus UCLA and SC) is a 16 team power conf. just like the other four but gets no respect from the evil east coast bias media and thus gets screwed every year come 8 team playoff time.