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College Football 2011: Enough of realignment and scandals. Gimme Footbaw!

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Kepler said:
I thought the Michigan crowd looked very impressive on TV, with their day-glo poms poms, etc. And it's never a bad thing when you can't hear their band.
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Indeed

Priceless said:
Going? ;)
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...like a fox!
Hammer said:
What you saw in the past were 3:30 kickoffs that ran into the late evening/night. When that happened, ABC, or whoever else covered the game, brought in temporary lights. This was the first night game in Michigan Stadium history.
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That is what I thought. They said on the tv they are only going to do one a year.
 
Re: College Football 2011: Enough of realignment and scandals. Gimme Footbaw!

I really would like to see OU put up 100 on FSU this weekend. Please?
 
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Kepler said:
Sooners football is the only good thing to come out of Oklahoma since Woody Guthrie.
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Not a fan of Sooner football, especially coming in the Pac. Seeing my ASU team in a division with a bunch of Texas and Oklahoma schools would stink. You might as well throw a few Big East teams into the Pac as well at that point. You even would have to ask if you retain "Pac" in the name, when at that point half the schools would be in states that don't border the pacific ocean, some nowhere near it.
 
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So can someone explain to me what legal footing Baylor, Kansas and Iowa State would have for suing the SEC or TAMU?
 
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Shirtless Guy said:
So can someone explain to me what legal footing Baylor, Kansas and Iowa State would have for suing the SEC or TAMU?
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They were part of a conference with TAMU. Among the legal ramifications, they all share a TV deal. They have legal grounds to sue TAMU for leaving the conference. As I noted earlier, each school is realistically only due 1/9 of whatever fee conference members have to pay to leave the league. Since Colorado and Nebraska had to pay nothing, unless they changed the legal wording on the new charter, Baylor et al are each due 1/9 of nothing.

The league would have had legal recourse against the SEC for tampering if they had accepted TAMU's first request, before the Aggies had withdrawn from the B12. The SEC's policy is not to accept any team unless it is clear of legal entanglements - that is really what is holding up this deal. The SEC doesn't know how this infighting will shake itself out so they have not formally accepted TAMU.

Bob Gray said:
You even would have to ask if you retain "Pac" in the name, when at that point half the schools would be in states that don't border the pacific ocean, some nowhere near it.
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You mean like Louisiana Tech belonging to the Western Athletic Conference or a team from Texas in the Big East? And are you sure someone from Arizona should be complaining about schools being from states that don't border the Pacific Ocean? ;)
 
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Priceless said:
You mean like Louisiana Tech belonging to the Western Athletic Conference or a team from Texas in the Big East? And are you sure someone from Arizona should be complaining about schools being from states that don't border the Pacific Ocean? ;)
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Hey...when the big one hits and southern California falls into the Pacific there will be a nice new place called....Arizona Bay.
 
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Proud2baLaker said:
Hey...when the big one hits and southern California falls into the Pacific there will be a nice new place called....Arizona Bay.
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Based on this topographic map UA will be on the coast, but ASU will be at the bottom of the sea.

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Priceless said:
They were part of a conference with TAMU. Among the legal ramifications, they all share a TV deal. They have legal grounds to sue TAMU for leaving the conference. As I noted earlier, each school is realistically only due 1/9 of whatever fee conference members have to pay to leave the league. Since Colorado and Nebraska had to pay nothing, unless they changed the legal wording on the new charter, Baylor et al are each due 1/9 of nothing.

The league would have had legal recourse against the SEC for tampering if they had accepted TAMU's first request, before the Aggies had withdrawn from the B12. The SEC's policy is not to accept any team unless it is clear of legal entanglements - that is really what is holding up this deal. The SEC doesn't know how this infighting will shake itself out so they have not formally accepted TAMU.
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But for what? TAMU is somehow legally bound to stay in the Big Twelve? I highly doubt anyone can make them stay.
 
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Priceless said:
You mean like Louisiana Tech belonging to the Western Athletic Conference or a team from Texas in the Big East? And are you sure someone from Arizona should be complaining about schools being from states that don't border the Pacific Ocean? ;)
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Yup, we're all counting on California dropping off into the ocean eventually and having oceanfront property just a couple hours west of Phoenix. Of course Arizona schools get a lot of players from California high schools, so it'd definitely be a double-edged sword! Then I guess we'd be stuck look east to Texas and the like for big time college sports affiliations. Suddenly California dropping off doesn't sound so good.
 
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Shirtless Guy said:
But for what? TAMU is somehow legally bound to stay in the Big Twelve? I highly doubt anyone can make them stay.
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TAMU is legally bound because they entered an agreement with the other 11 (now 9) schools to form a partnership. Try not to think of it as a sports conference and more of a business partnership. It's not likely the other "partners" can make them stay, but they might make TAMU buy its freedom, or delay them leaving long enough to make alternate plans.
 
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Nobody wants to talk about the high number of helmets finding the field? (or losing the head)
 
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Shirtless Guy said:
But for what? TAMU is somehow legally bound to stay in the Big Twelve? I highly doubt anyone can make them stay.
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From what I've heard, the legal claims Baylor was throwing around were about "tortious interference". So essentially, that the SEC interfered with the contract between A&M and the Big XII (I think).
 
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alfablue said:
Nobody wants to talk about the high number of helmets finding the field? (or losing the head)
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I've noticed that in both college and the NFL. Picked up one of the Schutt helmets PSU players wear - it was so heavy I'm not surprised they don't stay put. :eek:
 
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