GameForAnyFuss

This is an excellent post from top to bottom.

Conference affiliation has ramifications that go far beyond athletics. In fact, as a former U employee in the research field, I would argue that the educational/research benefits of being in the PAC12 are actually greater than the athletic benefits. I can say unequivocally that we would not be in the…[Read more]

So…nothing? All sports involving human beings have politics involved.

To answer the original question, as someone who loves sports in general and not just the popular American sports, I’m happier than a pig in slop for the next three weeks. Right now I’ve got the Dalhausser/Lucena beach volleyball match on one TV, and a rousing fencing game on…[Read more]

Newest rumor: SEC also courting Michigan, Ohio State, Clemson, Florida St. Going for the 20-team superconference.

Would this force the PAC12’s hand? Would this cement a merger of the PAC12 and the remnants of the Big 12?

If the money is there, absolutely the legacy teams will want to be a part of it. Universities are under extreme financial pressure – their costs are rising astronomically, they’re dealing with budget cuts from their states/sponsor organizations, and you can’t just infinitely raise tuition to cover it. Sports, donations, and patent licensing are…[Read more]

I don’t think scandals will factor in. Penn St. and Michigan St. have much bigger scandals in their recent past than Baylor, yet their status in the Big 10 was never even questioned.

Didn’t you hear? Texas and OU are going to the SEC. So they’re off the table.

I’d go with Baylor, Texas Tech, Kansas, and Nebraska. That would make the PAC16 better in football and basketball.

What will you do when Brewer throws a bad interception? Who will you like then? Every QB is going to throw on eventually. I mean, Tom Brady has thrown some terrible INTs…

If this were to happen, what should the PAC12 do? Snag two of the Texas schools (i.e. Baylor and TT)?

Fu and I are the same age. Our freshman year we were next door neighbors in the old dorms. Most people don’t know that he was super homesick that first year. He was putting up big numbers on the field in spite of that. When he wasn’t playing football or studying, he mostly played Hawaiian folk music on the guitar in the dorm common area. He…[Read more]

Just flag the fights. Then coaches will take it upon themselves to make sure there’s no fights.

I wasn’t aware that this was even an issue. Was there some massive fight over this that I missed? Or is this a solution looking for a problem?

^This.

In general (again, there are exceptions) we lost players in positions where we were deep and gained players in positions where we were thin. So if you were to lose a player in a deep position, and pick up a player of equivalent ability in a thin position, you’d call it a win even if the trade was a “net zero” from an ability point of…[Read more]

Honestly, you’ll probably get better-informed answers on Cougarboard. Utah County church members have an unsettling fetish for ice cream.

There’s some pretty amazing kids in this world.

I say hell to the yeah. They’re not quite my bag, but Gen-Z loves shoes like that. My kids would rob a gas station to buy a pair of those.

P.S. You forgot to say “get off my lawn!” 😉

What do you mean “after this year”? There are already mouthbreathers on CB who are saying the streak reset because Utah forfeited last year.

Personally I’m a little puzzled by this pickup:

It’s hard to say, really. If you’re a good player in a college town, you might not have the name recognition of an all-American at Alabama, but you could still do really well with local endorsements. For example, Nick Emery repping the Provo Volkswagen dealer would make some money. Hell, he got a free car…and it wasn’t even legal back then.

All…[Read more]

Never. Play. BYU-Provo. In. Any. Sport. Again. Ever.

Can there be any doubt what the outcome of that first game will be? You could set your watch to “England loses to Germany on penalties”.

The Spain/Croatia game was mental. You gotta feel good for the much-maligned Alvaro Morata who came up clutch for Spain in OT.