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 | re: MS State fans - will MSU hire Petrino after this season or next - cardboardboxer on 5/16/13 at 9:36 am
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A marriage made in heaven....
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| re: Who have you seen your team play the most in person? (In football) - cardboardboxer on 5/10/13 at 2:01 pm
Mizzou probably because my FIL always gives away those tickets....
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| re: IF the SEC went to 16, who should we add? - cardboardboxer on 5/10/13 at 12:41 pm
[quote]Entice Texas to come (they might be willing since the LHN is an obvious failure) by dropping A&M while also adding OU[/quote]
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| re: IF the SEC went to 16, who should we add? - cardboardboxer on 5/9/13 at 4:49 pm
[quote]Patterson is a top five coach right now,[/quote]
Lets see how he does next year. His first year in a real league didn't go as well.
[quote] TCU is probably the Texas team with the best fans to have a conversation with.[/quote]
Yeah, both of them are pretty smart guys....
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| re: IF the SEC went to 16, who should we add? - cardboardboxer on 5/9/13 at 4:05 pm
[quote]I want TCU.[/quote]
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| re: IF the SEC went to 16, who should we add? - cardboardboxer on 5/9/13 at 4:05 pm
[quote]I would hate to add them, but they add more TV sets and money than anyone else we could add.[/quote]
You act like they would share that money.
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| re: Which SEC states produce the "softest" football players? - cardboardboxer on 5/9/13 at 3:48 pm
[quote]Wonder if all that 7on7 practice has anything to do with it?[/quote]
Well that and the spread offense at a high school level and earlier.
When your high school is throwing the ball all over the field instead of pounding it up the middle it can make a difference.
Hence why A&M will h...
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| re: Hypothetical 16 team SEC, including Okie and Okie St. - cardboardboxer on 5/9/13 at 3:45 pm
[quote]Yep. Fricker drove it to SMU
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It paid off decades later when he convinced RSJ's mom that A&M wasn't full of racists. ...
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| re: Hypothetical 16 team SEC, including Okie and Okie St. - cardboardboxer on 5/9/13 at 11:39 am
[quote]Don't get me wrong, I really love having Arky and A&M join us in the SEC[/quote]
We love it too.
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| re: Hypothetical 16 team SEC, including Okie and Okie St. - cardboardboxer on 5/9/13 at 10:39 am
[quote]Isn't A&M one of the most penalized teams all-time in the NCAA in regards to cheating?
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Of course, we had to back in the 80's - 90s. We had OU out in front thanks to Barry Switzer's cheating in the 70s, and we had SMU on our tail out cheating everyone. It was either cheat or die (...
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| re: Hypothetical 16 team SEC, including Okie and Okie St. - cardboardboxer on 5/9/13 at 10:09 am
[quote]any mention of OU/OSU/UT is going to bring hateful reactions from any Aggie.[/quote]
Anything positive plus OU will bring hate from me.
I will always say OU stole A&M's destiny until this point. The state of Texas can support two top 10 programs. It would be Texas and A&M, but OU cheati...
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| re: SEC West edition: Schools that are 100% vs your team since 1960 - cardboardboxer on 5/9/13 at 9:36 am
[quote]Ole Miss 0-5 vs Texas A&M[/quote]
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| re: Hypothetical 16 team SEC, including Okie and Okie St. - cardboardboxer on 5/9/13 at 9:34 am
[quote] I refer you to dictionary.com for the word hypothetical. [/quote]
Hypothetically having two teams from that shithole state Oklahoma sucks. The SEC already has enough meth addicts.
Hypothetically I want OU turning down the SEC in 2011 because they were too good for it to kill their pro...
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| re: aTm's schedule, second easiest in SEC 2013 - cardboardboxer on 5/8/13 at 4:10 pm
[quote]Why should aggies fans be butthurt over the obviously rigged schedule by Silve to help A&M be successful early on in the SEC so that he can take all the money in ESPN's wallet.
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FIFY and we aren't butthurt about it....
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| re: Better Network going forward, SEC or BIG? - cardboardboxer on 5/7/13 at 3:53 pm
[quote]With the BTN's population footprint, however, I think it will be hard to surpass them in terms of revenue although it will be neck and neck.
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Actual total revenue for the network? Yeah maybe.
For individual team revenue? I bet the SEC wins year one.
What I have gotten from ...
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| re: Better Network going forward, SEC or BIG? - cardboardboxer on 5/7/13 at 3:21 pm
The SEC Network will have better production values, better exposure, and will bring SEC programs more money....
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| re: A 9-Game SEC Schedule? - cardboardboxer on 5/7/13 at 10:42 am
[quote]The overall number of games nobody wants to watch will decline, and the overall number of games everyone would want to watch will increase.
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A scheduling arrangement with the ACC would accomplish the same thing without reducing how many bowl-eligible SEC teams there are....
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| re: A 9-Game SEC Schedule? - cardboardboxer on 5/7/13 at 10:02 am
[quote]Pretty much everyone in the SEC wants a 9 game schedule except for bottom feeders like MSU, Vandy, etc who need 4 easy wins and a 2-6 SEC record to go to a bowl game and keep the fans happy.
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They will be screwed anyway when tons of bowls die and the win cap is 7 wins in the play...
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| re: The SEC Officially Has the Best Network Deal - cardboardboxer on 5/6/13 at 4:53 pm
[quote]There really isn't much else about the deal that could be more favorable for the SEC. [/quote]
They could be nice and bundle the LHN with it so the Big WTF lasts forever....
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| re: The SEC Officially Has the Best Network Deal - cardboardboxer on 5/6/13 at 3:59 pm
[quote]Once they have it in my market, it I will always have it on for the most part. [/quote]
The trick is to be proactive. Call your cable provider and demand they bring it to your market!
Bonus points if you threaten to teabag the manager or kill his wife's trees if he doesn't comply. Time ...
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| re: The SEC Officially Has the Best Network Deal - cardboardboxer on 5/6/13 at 2:54 pm
[quote]Every SEC school needs the value of the SEC Network to go up. As it goes up, we all get richer...[/quote]
Plus we all need to call and demand it from our cable provider....
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| re: The SEC Officially Has the Best Network Deal - cardboardboxer on 5/6/13 at 2:20 pm
I think this is a VERY easy sell to cable providers.
You go to them and say "You need live sports to keep people from dropping your services for Hulu and Netflix. You will pay $10 a month for the entire ESPN packages (1/2/U/SEC) and for that we will give your customers a reason to pay you an extr...
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| re: NFL.com: Manziel doesn't look like elite NFL quarterback prospect - cardboardboxer on 5/6/13 at 2:17 pm
[quote]And while personally I'm not sold he's suited for the NFL, I do believe he'll go after this year.[/quote]
All I want is two years dammit. I wouldn't let him stay his senior year because my BAS still fears that curse, but I hope someone tells him he could be a first rounder "if only he woul...
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| re: NFL.com: Manziel doesn't look like elite NFL quarterback prospect - cardboardboxer on 5/6/13 at 1:53 pm
This is great news!!
:nana: :nana:
I hope everyone who advises Johnny reads that article and confirms it with other NFL guys.
I will happily take two extra years of JFF in maroon....
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| re: With the Rising Costs of Football Tickets and the New SEC-Network - cardboardboxer on 5/6/13 at 1:26 pm
[quote] My fear is they use their point systems and concept of scarcity to price out the younger generation for so long[/quote]
Seems like with 100k seats the younger generation can count on just scalping tickets every game.
The real problem comes when this younger generation grows older and t...
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| re: The SEC Officially Has the Best Network Deal - cardboardboxer on 5/6/13 at 1:01 pm
[quote]Means espn also gets to decide what goes on.[/quote]
Here is why this is a good thing:
[quote]ESPN plans to use the 45 football games on the SEC Network to help it drive distribution. [b]Look for ESPN to program the channel with games involving teams in markets where it’s having problem...
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| re: With the Rising Costs of Football Tickets and the New SEC-Network - cardboardboxer on 5/6/13 at 12:19 pm
[quote]do you think it will start to hurt the attendance at your school? [/quote]
No.
Taking a client to a game in your corporate box suite will always be more impressive than taking them to a nice bar with the game on.
The regular folks who fill 80% of the stadium bring in like 20% of the ...
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| re: The SEC Officially Has the Best Network Deal - cardboardboxer on 5/6/13 at 11:43 am
[quote]I don't know where you are getting your info but the Big Ten didn't/doesn't put up any money on the production side of things. That's all Fox that does that.[/quote]
I am surprised that a Husker wouldn't understand this concept, as yall had to pay your way in:
[quote]Nebraska, which joi...
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| re: The SEC Officially Has the Best Network Deal - cardboardboxer on 5/6/13 at 11:30 am
[quote]Also, the Big Ten conference doesn't have any risk just as the SEC does. [/quote]
That is just wrong.
The B1G has half of the risks. That is the reason Rutgers gets a smaller payout early on- they have to basically buy their part of the 49% (Maryland does too they are just basically fin...
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| re: The SEC Officially Has the Best Network Deal - cardboardboxer on 5/6/13 at 11:28 am
[quote] owning 100% gives B1G more upside if they are successful[/quote]
But the B1G doesn't own 100% of its network. It owns 49% and Fox owns 51%. So the B1G shares WAY more risk than the SEC, and has LESS of a chance for upside.
The only network that is completely owned by the conference is ...
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