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Probably the most boring and pointless college football realignment piece ever.

this article

Frank The Tank

"Condoms are for bananas" Thad Castle

Wasn't this guy even more wrong about A&M to the SEC than Chip was?

All the Frank the Tank pics and gifs rescued this thread

"Condoms are for bananas" Thad Castle

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The Big Ten certainly has no need to expand at this point without a school from the ACC or Big 12.

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This, having ignored that there are rumblings that GTech and Virginia have been lined up for expansion for a half year now pending the Maryland lawsuit.

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...and Comcast SportsNet Houston, which carries Astros and Rockets games and is co-owned by those teams, still not having anything in place with DirecTV and DISH Network...

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...Ignoring the fact there's actually higher demand for football content of any kind as opposed to basketball and baseball, which has to fight for coverage... also ignoring the fact the Rockets and Astros are a tough draw right now (even though the Rockets just made the playoffs, they still don't generate much hype statewide, just in Houston).

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To be sure, the Big 12 (a) probably will always be a pretty good conference in terms of football on-the-field by virtue of being the most prominent conference in the recruiting rich state of Texas...

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Frank provides good BDF trollatio with this piece. Just count the words; small paragraphs for the power conferences, followed by a Big 12 manifesto.

On the SECN topic, Tanker went full retard. His comparison of the attractiveness of carrying SECN to national cable providers with Texas-subscribers to the LHN and network that pimps Rockets basketball fails to acknowledge the obvious: Rockets basketball and Hoarn football have regional, NOT NATIONAL, interest. SECN football has national interest, and the carriers will gladly play in-state rates so their Texas subscribers can watch.

Frank gives great trollatio on most of his Big-12 talking points, and fails to note the obvious: hoarn and OU face real risks of Big-12 mean reversion in terms of recruit quality. Simply put, studs want to play in the primetime national TV network that is the SECN.

brought to you by the same brilliant author who penned this gem:

http://frankthetank.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/you-cant-always-get-what-you-want-aggies/

and this one as well:

http://frankthetank.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/the-jump-to-conclusions-game-why-angry-aggies-arent-enough-to-move-texas-am-to-the-sec/

#prophetic

I don't recall Clay Travis "bloviating" anywhere.

frankthetank is one of those idiots who kinda, sorta got something right in regards to realignment (no doubt it was something pretty broad like the big10 is going to expand).

Now he considers himself an oracle on college football but his misses far outweigh his hits (see chip brown and the dude from wvu as other examples of this).

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brought to you by the same brilliant author who penned this gem:

http://frankthetank.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/you-cant-always-get-what-you-want-aggies/

and this one as well:

http://frankthetank.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/the-jump-to-conclusions-game-why-angry-aggies-arent-enough-to-move-texas-am-to-the-sec/

#prophetic

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Thank you, PFlat. I had not read, seen nor even heard of these articles before, and they were most enlightening. Blue Star, sir.