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Lots of tweets here but pretty interesting:

Whenever you speak I have almost no clue what you are actually saying

It means absolutely zero that WVU wants to be in the league. Lots of teams want to be in the league. ESPN is litearlly gatekeeping all of these moves. See UConn being blocked in 2011 as an example: Just because you are “good” at football doesn’t mean you’re valuable to a league monetarily. WVU is an absolutely atrocious academic school located in a declining population state with an already small population that brings nowhere near the national or local audience needed to not just meet but grow the existing ACC revenue per school. It’s the same reason Iowa State and Kansas and the rest of the B12 teams are screwed. The “Irate 8” as they’re being called average the exact same TV audience as the AAC games do when they play one another (i.e. no games v TX/OU). Stewart Mandel laid this out on The Athletic: The AAC just signed a $7M per team per year deal with ESPN and ESPN is actively trying to fold some of the remaining Big 12 teams into the American. Anyone that thinks any of these teams is getting into the Big Ten or ACC or PAC12 either doesn’t understand or doesn’t care to understand the financial component to all of this. All 8 of those schools are in essence, filler.

I get that some people feel a certain way about the OBC, but I think he's fantastic.

Hopefully anyone who before refused to believe ESPN had a major SEC bias and influenced college football behind the scenes to build them up is starting to understand they have been doing this for a very long time. ESPN built the SEC. They were lucky in that Alabama emerged as a power house program to help foster all their BS. ESPN has been preaching that no conference in the country is anywhere comparable to the SEC for a very long time even though, that wasn't the case. Slowly, that reality has influenced many major things throughout college football. This all just builds on my already dislike of ESPN and the SEC.

Or did ESPN facilitate ($$$) the building up of the SEC via an army of bag men to top recruits, planting saboteurs in competing conferences, pressuring conferences to move in certain directions (confirmed), and giving nation wide broadcasting praise/exposure to the SEC while bashing everyone else. ESPN is more of a shady syndicate than a media company.

there is a warm place in hell waiting for him

Trump doesnt support refusal to get the vaccine. He most recently said he encourages people to get the shot but also respects an individuals ability to decide for themselves. He bragged for months about "his" vaccine and how YUGE it was. Leading up to the election who was more critical of the vaccine? Joe and Kamala or Trump? Trump has plenty of dumb things to discuss but lets not act like Trump was anti-vax.

I am so ready for fall camp to start so we have something else to talk about other than crap that doesn't have anything to do with the season like NIL or conference expansion....etc. GBR!!!

If you read the articles posted here from others about the demise of the SWC and the BIG12 Texas arrogance is very evident to all. Your mileage may vary- but my job took me to the entire state. Later on I had a business for 15 years where I worked with HS football coaches from McAllen to Nacadoches- everywhere in the state- hundreds of coaches and football people. When people saw my Aggie ring, they would talk about the Aggies AND Texas if they were a longwhores fan. I also had the pleasure of attending most of the Texas/NU games and of course A&M/ Texas games. While not as violent as Colorado or Missouri fans, the longwhore fan is in many ways much worse. At the end of the day- the longwhores definitely have the lowest ROI in terms of titles over the last 50 years, its really almost comical. Lavish spenders, great recruits- losers on the field- yet they somehow still think they are the cats meow when it comes to college football. On top of it- Austin used to be a great place to party- 6th street etc. I went there often when I was in school and even later. Now it is a dirty. busy, crowded, dangerous, absolute homeless liberal mecca mess. Took a 2 week jaunt to Texas last month- was within 50 miles of Austin and didn't bother- didn't even consider stopping. On my last trip I had several people tell me they don't consider Austin to be part of the state anymore. There's a reason the Aggies and Hogs and most other teams fans down there hate the longwhores- it has nothing to do with me. It is based on their personal experience. One of my best buddies down there is a Horned Frog fanatic- he and his buddies dislike the longwhores worse than I do, by a large margin.

More pathetic in my view. In this case they were trying to realize profit from a kids signature. Something at the time , said kid couldn't even do. Kid forced to sign autographs for free so that someone else can sell it for a profit sounds well wrong.

I am just sick of the blame one of the sides narrative. It is our entire elected body on both sides. Both tried to turn the narrative of covid to their side to score political points without actually giving a damn about any of us. They have adjusted their views to whatever polling says will get them the most votes. the 1% that actually come in thinking they can make a difference either have to walk the line or the party they are affiliated with will spend against them to get a new person in their place the next cycle. Trump made mistakes regarding the pandemic/vaccine and so did/is Joe. Additionally if I am not mistaken half of African-Americans are vaccine hesitant. Didnt know they were Trumpers and anti-vax.

You don't think any of these statements could have caused hesitancy? Like not even a little? “If and when the vaccine comes, it’s not likely to go through all the tests … and trials that are needed to be done.” “When we finally do, God willing, get a vaccine, who’s going to take the shot? Who’s going to take the shot? Are you going to be the first one to say sign me up?” “The question of whether it’s real, when it’s there, that requires enormous transparency. You got to make all of it available to other experts across the nation, so they can look and see. So there’s consensus, this is a safe vaccine.” “Only if it was completely transparent, that other experts in the country could look at it. Only if we knew all of what went into it, because so far nothing he’s told us has been true.” “If the public health professionals, if Dr. Fauci, if the doctors tell us that we should take it, I’ll be the first in line to take it, absolutely. But if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it, I’m not taking it.” Or articles such as this, Democrats Fear Trump Will Rush Unsafe Vaccine To Help His Reelection Bid | HuffPost Fact check: Coronavirus vaccine could come this year, Trump says. Experts say he needs a 'miracle' to be right. (nbcnews.com) Biden, Seizing on Worries of a Rushed Vaccine, Warns Trump Can’t Be Trusted - The New York Times (nytimes.com) Again we can criticize Trump for a lot of things, we can criticize the GOP for several things, but lets stop pretending that freedom of choice in EUA vaccination is the same as anti-vax. The entire undertone during the election were doubt Trump dont trust Trump or a "Trump approval of a vaccine" They might have been rushed. We need full transparency etc. This isnt a blame one side or the other this is a blame politics in general. Recently IE post election you could place more blame on the GOP in terms of potential vaccine hesitancy but again most of them are advocating for freedom of choice. Which is quite ironic given many of their positions on other topics for the last several decades.

You do realize we have signed top 20 classes the past 2 years and that the vast majority of our team are underclassmen. With the extra year of eligibility, we only have one senior that counts towards our 85 scholarship limit. One... transfer receiver Samori Toure. This will be a very small recruiting class that would never have a chance of being top 25 due to the low number of players that will be taken. https://theathletic.com/2709022/2021/07/15/nebraska-huskers-football-recruiting-analysis-on-hayden-schwartz-and-scott-frosts-entire-2022-class/

Whooooooo!??!!!!!!! I live in Texas, and for most of my life, holmes. Millions and Millions and Millions do too. You need to check yo' self before you wreck yo' self. What you are saying and spreading around is inaccurate. Stop hating and stirring up bulls#!t.

Vokolek must not be an Alpha yet.

That's not even an apples to apricots comparison. In your examples the AD could move new-rugby conferences by himself. What's happening now is the media companies are re-engineering college football so they can sell it for a higher price. And all of the things that made CFB unique are being tossed aside for a point of Disney stock.

What a great time to hate Texas Longhorns

Surely ESPN has done something against their contract with the Big 12 by trying to sabotage the conference in order to avoid paying out what the contract says. There is no way that can be legal.

This is what happens when you let Disney design the football conferences. They make them for what is good for Disney, not the fans, players, or schools. I like that ESPN is behaving like Silicon Valley and making lots of enemies even the casaulty is college football.

And, using your extrapolation model for Rs, how many millions of cases and thousands of deaths should we blame Fauci for?...you know, since he knew at the time of these lies that it was an aerosol?

https://www.wired.com/story/how-masks-went-from-dont-wear-to-must-have/

Especially within a 12 month time frame.

Yeah I cant think of anyone else that admitted to misinforming the public on the effectiveness of masks to "save them for the medical staff".

I've never said Democrats have no blame, they too messed up their messaging at points in the pandemic that lead to poor outcomes. My contention is simple: Republicans handled it worse than Democrats would have and more Americans have been harmed as a result. This is easy to demonstrate, as 99.5% of all deaths by COVID are among unvaccinated individuals today, and being unvaccinated is strongly correlated to support for President Trump/the GOP. Would anti-vaxxersbe dying anyway? YES. Are there more anti-vaxxers as a result of right-wing disinformation? YES. But I get it. Nobody wants to admit they support a political party that is more harmful than the alternative.

wear red and chant loudly

Bumping because it needs to be bumped

I already brought those up and no one replied :-(

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/563771-guess-who-undermined-public-confidence-in-vaccines Harris had stated that any such effort pushed by then-President Trump was untrustworthy. This was consistent with the Biden campaign theme that the Trump administration had been incompetent in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic — a position that morphed, when President Biden took office, into a claim that the Trump team hadn’t even had a workable plan on vaccine distribution (a claim so patently false that even Anthony Fauci, director of the Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, denied it).

You bring up the main point and that is a continued dis-trust in the federal government as a whole. People are realizing that they don't care about them and therefore why should they trust or listen to them. If this virus would have hit in the middle of a presidency you most likely would have seen a very different reaction but it landed during an election year which screwed us all.

You skipped over alternate uniforms. Shown off at Fan Day today?

I don't think so, if their actions have been detrimental to the future of the BIG 12, they could be liable for the remainder of the contract, plus any damages they have caused. That is if the BIG 12 can be found to have standing in the suit.

Amazing (if true). Let's see if this makes any sense. ESPN owns SEC Network ESPN still owes Texas $160 million for the Longhorn Network ESPN owes the Big 12 $1 Billion over the next 4 years Sounds like the big player in this has been ESPN, the entire time The plan (discussions 6 months ago?) - move 2 teams to SEC, implode the Big 12, and get a billion off the books.

With all due respect, you are the one that won't rationally consider the fact that we may have ended up here regardless of leadership at the Nat'l level. We may have come through better off too, who knows. Other Countries without Trump at the helm fared as bad or worse than the US. You have ZERO proof of what might have been the outcome with Hillary Clinton in the seat occupied by DJT for all of this. His shaping of the response may be substandard to you and I, but we could surmise that hers would have been as bad or worse. And, if I am playing your game, I will stick to that as Gospel, and discount your opinions otherwise...well...just because. (Conjecture: an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information.)

Amen to that! But you know there will still be the same cadre of insufferable twits that will dump on every story that comes out of camp

I’ve long thought the season ticket model will need to be revamped for 95%+ of college football schools. The donations used to be largely tax deductible (changed in 2018) so it was a win win for both the STX holder (reducing taxable income) and the schools (generating unique donations which is a ranking criteria for sites like USNWR). As an example- I bought season tickets for Wake Forest this year and there is no required donation for club level seating which also includes 2 alcoholic drinks per seat per game, however there’s a (small) donation required for parking ($125). Quite frankly if there was any level of donation required at all for the seats, I would’ve had zero interest in being a season ticket holder. I’m a UConn grad and similarly to Nebraska, they have some season ticket options without donation requirements and some with. The highest level of donation requirement per seat is $900 to sit in the suite/club level which includes a buffet and some other things, but the ticket availability on the secondary market is so good it doesn’t really make financial sense to buy season tickets with the donation attached when you can just get individual game tickets for $30/pop. One of the biggest ways to “offset” the donation is obviously with additional STX holder exclusive benefits or perks, whether it be access to additional events, programs, content, etc or doing something else. I don’t have NU season tickets so I don’t know what kind of perks come with the tickets now, but that’s what I think schools in general will have to get creative with in order to keep folks interested. The other piece is regularly playing games against local teams and teams that fans want to see games against. This is why you’re seeing teams like Alabama, UGA, etc start to schedule multiple high level non-conference games in the same season. With respect to NU, and I know this year was last minute, teams like Buffalo, Fordham, etc don’t really move the needle locally. Even looking into future years, games against GA Southern, UTEP, LA Tech, etc don’t provide any local “buzz”. If I was building future NU non-conference schedules I’d try to make it look something like: Home and home series with big name team (OU, LSU, ALA, TN, UF, Miami, Clemson, USC, etc) Home and home/buy game with “regional” FBS opponent (MO, KU, KSU, CO, OSU, ISU, Tulsa, Colorado State, Air Force, Wyoming, maybe Texas schools like TCU, UH, Baylor, SMU, Rice, etc for recruiting) Low FBS or FCS buy game with regional ties: Dakotas, Montana, Montana St, Idaho, Idaho St, Missouri St, Northern Iowa, Drake, etc The counter balance to seeing games the fans want to see is NU wants 7 home games per season- that’s a lot easier to do when you have 4 non-conference games vs 3. You would hope the Big Ten would decide to scrap divisions and break into pods (direction CFB seems to be headed). 14 is a weird number for pods but you could use the existing divisions to guarantee a certain number of permanent opponents for each team and then split the other opponents into groups that you rotate home/away with on a regular basis. Long story short- yes I agree on the donations. Something has to change to continue to get butts in seats, whether it be non-conference scheduling, access to the program, conference scheduling, or something else. If it doesn’t, it’s hard to see the benefit for fans to continue to donate to buy tickets on a regular basis.

I wonder what would happen if they changed how they sell tickets. Right now, they sell season tickets to people who are required to make a donation. To do that for a pair of tickets, can be pretty inhibitive to many people especially if they know they can't go to all the games. Also, everyone knows that boosters buy up tickets to conserve the sell out streak. So.....why not sell season ticket packages to common fans for just the cost of the seat? THEN, have the boosters donate the money they have been buying unsold tickets with as a simple donation. The boosters would still be donating to the program to make it better. More common fans can afford season tickets. More fans are experiencing game day in Lincoln with their own tickets and becoming more and more loyal to the program. I know the donation part of season tickets have kept me from buying season tickets for years. I might consider buying them if it was changed like this.

Couple things. 1). That number is definitely not a good number and hopefully the declines as quickly as it went up like previous peaks. 2) FL’s peak high was last summer and was quite a bit higher than it’s winter peak. No reason for the tweeter to compare the current rise to winter. 3). This seems to confirm some regional seasonality with Covid. 4). Deaths still seem to be decoupled from cases but we will see if that holds true.

Unfortunately he is:(.

Really? Then, are masks going to be required at games? It's going to be really comfortable standing in line in 97 degree heat.

To be fair, I shot my buddy in the face with one Senior year. He voted for Trump, twice.

If you want people to take it who refuse to take it, tell them they can't have it. Trust me on this.

People in OR and WA do not consider themselves to be the "West", but the "Northwest". I should know, I used to live there. The Union states went as far West as Minnesota and Iowa. No way will I ever consider Ohio, Indiana and Michigan as the "middle" of the USA. Illinois and Wisconsin COULD qualify, but that pesky landmark/boarder called the Great Mississippi is still to their West. Back in the day that river was seen as a divider between the East and West, crossing it meant you were now in the Wild Wild West. Why people want to abandon it, makes no sense to me.

Missouri is a total culture fit with Kentucky and Arkansas and Council Bluffs.

Maybe it would help if you viewed the Fordham game in the proper context (how that game actually came to be). Fordham replaced the later season SELA game to give us an earlier season home game, you know, for recruiting and working out some kinks against a clearly inferior opponent. The exact type of game every program schedules. The Oklahoma game did not get canceled and it never got beyond the misguided idea of that possibly happening. If people are going to go off about things that didn’t actually happen, well, I guess we’ll continue to have discussions like this. Try to keep it real.