Those game threads were the best. Normally, it was Cornelius Suttree and I live posting the whole thing.
dblplay1212 thinking that everyone in the country was as aware of Alabama football as he was is laughable
The term cuck is so cringey and over used, but it really does describe the remaining B12 schools perfectly. Revoking the horns down rule and offering them a bigger revenue share. Texas having getting too much revenue and influence over the conference is exactly why the conference is in ruins.
Unfortunately this is the logical endgame from the 3-4 weeks a year when we don't have a top 10/undefeated matchup anywhere and "THIS IS WORST CFB WEEK EVER".
Never said that. But acting like Alabama football wasn't a national brand until the last 30 years is just dumb. There's no other way to put it.
This cant be a foreign concept to you. The reason that the 4 schools left was because the revenue sharing was so out of whack, and Texas had an disproportionate influence on how the league was ran. After those teams left, Texas agreed to even revenue sharing to hold the league together a little longer until they made their next move, which is obviously this.
I didn’t know a lick about Alabama football 30 years ago. It just wasn’t discussed in Texas. The only National brands that we knew about was Notre Dame. it’s dumb to think Alabama was known nation wide. No other way to put it
have to say I appreciate everyone in here telling the KU fans that they are overestimating their own value so I don’t have to
“While OSU does not meet our academic standards, we were so impressed by their men’s wrestling program that we felt they should join our conference”
To be fair (to me) I was only commenting on the complaints about gameday not being fun anymore because more teams are in fewer conferences. I wasn't talking about all the other factors that will come out of this, almost all of which are bad for the sport.
If UT and OU join the SEC next year, it's going to create some scheduling issues For instance - Mizzou's OOC schedule next year is S Dakota, Middle Tennessee, New Mexico St & Kansas St. That violates the rule of needing to play 1 team from a power conference in your OOC.
it was a regional sport until relatively recently and no one cared about games outside their conference. I’m sorry to say for many of us that included Alabama
I get that but what specifically is the big 12 not catering to that the SEC will? Or is the tv money for the sec really that superior?
I am honestly clueless about the revenue sharing stuff. Are you saying Texas was getting a larger chunk in the TV deal that Mizzou and A&M?
Notre Dame signed a $38mm deal with NBC in 1991. By comparison, the rest of the schools' collective deal was for $185mm over the same time period. There was no other truly "national brand" at that time. No single conference could warrant the same kind of contract Notre Dame got. That said, y'all are lying or didn't follow college football at all if you weren't familiar with Alabama's "brand."
Yes. I think Texas and OU got the most then a sliding scale from there. That's mostly why the 4 teams left. Then the B12 switched to equal revenue sharing for Tier 1 rights to stabilize the conference.
Don't follow ESPN/Fox conf deals, but based on comments itt, ESPN it driving SEC additions and FOX is driving potential B1G additions. I assume $$$ + prestige of SEC. Also
I take back what I said about Alabama earlier, I did know about Forrest Gump and Tyrone Prothro before 08. That was it.
they were terrible in the 90s and hardly ever on TV here. I also grew up with KSU season tickets and a four hour round trip to go to the games every Saturday so we hardly watched games on TV anyway. I remember being aware of Tennessee before Alabama because we were in the running with them for the 98 BCS game.
I only knew about them as a team that lost big games by missing extra points. Otherwise, they never mattered to anyone that I knew.
granted, there was a stretch there in the late-90s-mid-00s where Alabama was on the path to being like Nebraska today. But you're either a child or a liar if you're going to claim Alabama wasn't a national brand back in the heyday of Bear Bryant. It's one of the greatest football dynasties for crying out loud. Michigan, Ohio St, Penn St, Bama, Texas, Nebraska, Florida St, and a handful of others were national powers for college football in the days when your team might not be on TV at all in a season, or maybe one time a year.
Growing if it wasn't a Big 8 team it was basically Florida/Miami/FSU/Tennessee/OSU/Michigan/PSU when they had Ki-Jana Carter and that's it