****The Official NEW (new)^3 conference realignment & shit talk thread****

[Pitt Gorilla]

in memory of Saul Good. He will be missed.

[Eleazar]

So is the Big 12 going to stay at 10 teams forever? Maybe they should change their name to the Big Midwest if they can't find 12 suitable teams?

[kepp]

Originally Posted by Cochise

So is the Big 12 going to stay at 10 teams forever? Maybe they should change their name to the Big Midwest if they can't find 12 suitable teams?

They don't even have 10 suitable teams.

[Bambi]

There's an incredible gallery of Alabama fans literally sprinting in order to try and get nick saban's autograph. It's hilarious in that they still worship him after the ass ramming the Big 12 gave them just a few months ago. This stuff means so, so much to people in the South.

http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/in...rint_thro.html

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by Cochise

So is the Big 12 going to stay at 10 teams forever? Maybe they should change their name to the Big Midwest if they can't find 12 suitable teams?

Why would they add more teams? The financial split the member schools are bringing in is more than we've ever seen before.

[blake5676]

DirectTV is now officially on board. The bigger question now is....who doesn't have the SEC network?

[KChiefs1]

Originally Posted by blake5676

DirectTV is now officially on board. The bigger question now is....who doesn't have the SEC network?

What a total failure the SEC Network is...

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by Bambi

There's an incredible gallery of Alabama fans literally sprinting in order to try and get nick saban's autograph. It's hilarious in that they still worship him after the ass ramming the Big 12 gave them just a few months ago. This stuff means so, so much to people in the South.

http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/in...rint_thro.html

Come on Bams, everyone knows that Alabama wasn't even trying that game. It was a scrimmage. Lord Saban even came down from Mt Sinai and delivered the edict straight from Jehovah. (it's in II Tuscaloosa 4:17-20)

[TribalElder]

Alabama didn't care about those reject lovers

[Pitt Gorilla]

SEC Network now up to 87 million subscribers. You read that correctly.

[Eleazar]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

SEC Network now up to 87 million subscribers. You read that correctly.

They are almost at the level of market penetration ESPN has. ESPN is in 97 million households. (link)

[RustShack]

Originally Posted by Cochise

So is the Big 12 going to stay at 10 teams forever? Maybe they should change their name to the Big Midwest if they can't find 12 suitable teams?

There's no reason at all to go past 10. Perfect size for a conference. Unless ND decides they wanna join then I'd stay pat. Sure as hell wouldn't go past 12... SEC and B1G scheduling is reeruned.

I read the other day that Ohio State plays Oklahoma and TCU twice in the next five years... And only plays B1G opponent Iowa ONCE in that span.

Having cupcake schedules to pad the wins would be nice I suppose.

[Eleazar]

Originally Posted by RustShack

There's no reason at all to go past 10. Perfect size for a conference. Unless ND decides they wanna join then I'd stay pat. Sure as hell wouldn't go past 12... SEC and B1G scheduling is reeruned.

I read the other day that Ohio State plays Oklahoma and TCU twice in the next five years... And only plays B1G opponent Iowa ONCE in that span.

Having cupcake schedules to pad the wins would be nice I suppose.

Unless you are the cupcake, eh Cyclone...

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by RustShack

There's no reason at all to go past 10. Perfect size for a conference. Unless ND decides they wanna join then I'd stay pat. Sure as hell wouldn't go past 12... SEC and B1G scheduling is reeruned.

I read the other day that Ohio State plays Oklahoma and TCU twice in the next five years... And only plays B1G opponent Iowa ONCE in that span.

Having cupcake schedules to pad the wins would be nice I suppose.

I really enjoy playing all the teams in your conference every year. It's how American collegiate sports have always been played.

[blake5676]

Originally Posted by Bambi

I really enjoy playing all the teams in your conference every year. It's how American collegiate sports have always been played.

So if this is actually true and you believe it, all the years in the Big 12 prior to it blowing up in 2011 were not a good representation of "real American collegiate sports" and whatever accomplishments any team had, including KU, were tainted due to the imbalanced schedule??

[blake5676]

Here's a little history lesson for Bambi, just in case he's forgotten what a complete ass clown he is and how pathetically wrong he has been. Not to say anyone NEEDS actual proof what a worthless poster he is, but I figured I'd quote a couple of his "predictions" from the old thread.....


Bambi: "The SEC Network payout isn't going to be anywhere near what the Clay Travis' of the world have been shouting about.Some of us knew this all along. Apparently Mizzou is just finding out."

Bambi: " The network is still begging cable companies to take them on and it's not happening. I'd run quick and sign the petition. Hurts doesn't it? To beg to get accepted somewhere and still find out you're worthless."

Bambi on 6/2: "And not to rub salt in the wounds but here are the (potential) total amount of subscribers currently for the SEC Network…

ATT U Verse : 5.7 million
Dish Netwok : about 15 million
Google Fiber : so low they won't even publish a number

Bambi on 6/23: "Nervousness spreading in the SEC over the lack of interest in the SEC Network."

Bambi on 6/26: "lol, SEC Network...

biggest fail in the history of sport"

Bambi on 6/26: "more nervousness

http://awfulannouncing.com/2014/sec-...ng-launch.html

The South is smaaaalllllll........."

Bambi on 6/30: "I just thought the $1.30 subscription fee was laughable (which it is) so it'll be interesting to see where they land when it comes to $$ per subscriber."

Bambi on 7/8: "When one of the top ten cable providers in America hasn't even heard of your network you might begin to think there's a problem."

Bambi on 7/8: "I've said from the beginning the SEC Network will eventually get picked up by networks which already have the Big 10 Network, the Pac 10 Network, etc...

Always said the joke was the price. And it is."

Bambi on 7/9: "RCN is a top 10 cable company in America that hadn't heard of the SEC Network. What a joke."

Prison Bitch on 1/8: "All the folks who love it (football) are in one quadrant of the country. Doesn't make it meaningless at all, but it does prove it's limited reach."

Prison Bitch on 1/7: "Outside the South, people simply don't care all that much about the sport."

Prison Bitch on 1/13: "I'm always fascinated MU fans still believe there's still going to be this earthquake explosion of revenues that'll make them (and the SEC) rich ad everyone else a pauper. As if the other major conferences would ever allow such a scenario to occur, or go along with it when they could simply band together and freeze out the SEC, leaving them awful non-con games and relegating them to a true Southern quadrant attraction. NASCAR already proved you can't subsist on that regional support alone. Realistically it's extremely doubtful TV will ever pay for one league to have a size able revenue gap."

In PB's defense, there wasn't a whole lot of quotable material predicting failure for the SEC network. A couple times he responded to Bambi about the $$ per subscriber being asinine...but he never really threw out the words fail or gave any certain # he thought would be realistic.

Then again, he hasn't posted much other than Michael Sam homophobe stuff since April and I kinda got bored sorting through all of that.