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Well well well- found an NIL source and a new home for UConn gear.
Don't laugh. Giorgio Armani is now the uniform maker for some soccer teams
Well well well- found an NIL source and a new home for UConn gear.
Well well well- found an NIL source and a new home for UConn gear.
Bring back the Aeropostale football uniforms!Don't laugh. Giorgio Armani is now the uniform maker for some soccer teams
These are the types of things that really show this is mostly a good ole boys club. SMU ain't delivering no goshdarn Dallas market.SMU has been to 2 ncaa tournaments in 30 years and only got there because Larry Brown was sketchy as hell.
I feel SMU has two purposes. Get the ACC into a second time zone/new cable boxes and get the ACC into a massive football recruiting ground. They have no other purpose.These are the types of things that really show this is mostly a good ole boys club. SMU ain't delivering no goshdarn Dallas market.
Well well well- found an NIL source and a new home for UConn gear.
Smu won’t deliver the recruiting ground either. That is so overstated.I feel SMU has two purposes. Get the ACC into a second time zone/new cable boxes and get the ACC into a massive football recruiting ground. They have no other purpose.
If the ACC could take Houston they would.
Except they could have and never did. This just has the feel of a pick up basketball game, where we are the last ones to get called and the captain is looking around and sees a grandma on the bench and asks her to play rather than ask us.I feel SMU has two purposes. Get the ACC into a second time zone/new cable boxes and get the ACC into a massive football recruiting ground. They have no other purpose.
If the ACC could take Houston they would.
Disagree. It helps expand for all existing ACC members. Nebraska lost its recruiting ways moving from the B12 to the B1G- Texas gone/program down.Smu won’t deliver the recruiting ground either. That is so overstated.
You know why they didn’t- because the ACC internally has conflicting vision. They are not unified.Except they could have and never did. This just has the feel of a pick up basketball game, where we are the last ones to get called and the captain is looking around and sees a grandma on the bench and asks her to play rather than ask us.
Well they f u n k’d up because they waited too long and all that is left is Granny.The ACC tried to get into Texas before, but SMU is definitely not the way to do it.
No it doesn't. Not in a state with 6 P4 teams. The ACC will never crack Texas, which is why they never bothered with Houston. Houston was there for the taking all along and is much better than SMU (it's also technically on the Atlantic coast). This SMU thing is nonsense, they will probably end up with the PAC schools.Disagree. It helps expand for all existing ACC members. Nebraska lost its recruiting ways moving from the B12 to the B1G- Texas gone/program down.
Houston was there for the taking all along and is much better than SMU (it's also technically on the Atlantic coast).
A state with 29MM people that added the equivalent of nearly 3 entire CTs in 20 years. A state that is madly in love with football at the HS level. SMU might not happen for many reasons, but there is no denying it is on the table. Now it might get kicked off the table today after this ACC meeting, but for this week it has been a thing.No it doesn't. Not in a state with 6 P4 teams. The ACC will never crack Texas, which is why they never bothered with Houston. Houston was there for the taking all along and is much better than SMU (it's also technically on the Atlantic coast). This SMU thing is nonsense, they will probably end up with the PAC schools.
Which part?
"Technically on the Atlantic coast." Pretty sure it's considered Gulf Coast.Which part?
I don't know if it's on the table, I simply know that if you walk into a sports bar in Texas, it will be tuned to SEC and Big XII games, no matter what. SMU isn't changing that, whether in the American, ACC or New PAC.A state with 29MM people that added the equivalent of nearly 3 entire CTs in 20 years. A state that is madly in love with football at the HS level. SMU might not happen for many reasons, but there is no denying it is on the table. Now it might get kicked off the table today after this ACC meeting, but for this week it has been a thing.
Of course not. No one has realistic goals to achieve that.I don't know if it's on the table, I simply know that if you walk into a sports bar in Texas, it will be tuned to SEC and Big XII games, no matter what. SMU isn't changing that, whether in the American, ACC or New PAC.
Nebraska lost its recruiting ways moving from the B12 to the B1G- Texas gone/program down.
Nebraska used to load up on recruits; that was their method. They used to dress 130 kids. No other school in the country was like that. I don't really know how they bypassed the 85 recruit limit, but that's how it was before entering the B1GDisagree. It helps expand for all existing ACC members. Nebraska lost its recruiting ways moving from the B12 to the B1G- Texas gone/program down.
Instate Nebraska kids got free tuition, and their OL were all big farm boys from their instate walk on program. Nebraska HS football eventually faded due to numbers and now i believe most HSs just have 7 on 7.Nebraska used to load up on recruits; that was their method. They used to dress 130 kids. No other school in the country was like that. I don't really know how they bypassed the 85 recruit limit, but that's how it was before entering the B1G
Yes but The Gulf of Mexico (GOM) is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean"Technically on the Atlantic coast." Pretty sure it's considered Gulf Coast.
I hear this argument many times, but it simply isn't true. Nebraska was in the Big 8 until 1996 when it formed the Big 12. The Big 8 did not have any Texas schools as members. Nebraska was only in the same conference as Texas schools from 1996-2011, for a total of 15 years. Most of the great traditional powerhouse Nebraska programs came in the era of the Big 8 - where "home conference" recruiting was: Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Iowa, Oklahoma and Missouri. The Nebraska program has been down for awhile now, but its faults don't lie with not being in a conference with Texas.
As a fan of the old Big 8 and a Nebraska fan, the reality is that the game changed. Those schools all featured dominant running games at their best. They had incredible OL talent from those local boys and got RBs from all over. The plains are windy, which is one reason why the Big 8 evolved to mostly avoid passing the ball and play great defense. As it all shifted to a passing game, Nebraska could never keep up. Even when they had some success somewhat more recently, the QBs ran the ball, like Eric Crouch.Instate Nebraska kids got free tuition, and their OL were all big farm boys from their instate walk on program. Nebraska HS football eventually faded due to numbers and now i believe most HSs just have 7 on 7.
Pretty sure it was something along those lines.