fulshearAg96 said:

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I've never understood the argument to leave the SEC. It is the best product in college football.

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Bama and Georgia are the best products in college football.

Everybody else is just sniff'n butts.

NBMaroon said:

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The Chicken Ranch said:

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Phoenix1 said:

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How about A&M to the B10 & give a big FU to tu.

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Just….no

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The problem is A&M will never leave the sec because they can't think outside the box.
All the great coaches think outside the box.

Not agreeing with the ridiculous comment about culture differences.
Do you go to the games to talk about politics or watch a football game? If you go to discuss politics, you are an idiot.

Academically Texas A&M belongs in the Big 10 where they have really great universities. The SEC is a glorified group of jr. colleges except for A&M Vanderbilt and Florida.

if you not interested in universities as learning institutions try the NFL

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UGA ranks higher than A&M. Some folks need to get out a little more.

BQAg84 said:

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NBMaroon said:

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The Chicken Ranch said:

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Phoenix1 said:

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How about A&M to the B10 & give a big FU to tu.

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Just….no

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The problem is A&M will never leave the sec because they can't think outside the box.
All the great coaches think outside the box.

Not agreeing with the ridiculous comment about culture differences.
Do you go to the games to talk about politics or watch a football game? If you go to discuss politics, you are an idiot.

Academically Texas A&M belongs in the Big 10 where they have really great universities. The SEC is a glorified group of jr. colleges except for A&M Vanderbilt and Florida.

if you not interested in universities as learning institutions try the NFL

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UGA ranks higher than A&M. Some folks need to get out a little more.

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Academic rankings are biased at best, flat out stupid at worst. The point about A&M being more aligned with the Big 10 than the SEC is completely valid. A more reliable measuring stick of academic excellence is the invitation only Association of American Universities of which there are only 67 US universities included. All Big 10 schools are members except Nebraska, which voluntarily withdrew. Of the SEC schools, only A&M, Florida, and Vanderbilt are members (no, UGA is not a member). The AAU is the gold standard for academic excellence in the US and Canada (there are two Canadian universities

AG81 said:

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BQAg84 said:

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NBMaroon said:

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The Chicken Ranch said:

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Phoenix1 said:

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How about A&M to the B10 & give a big FU to tu.

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Just….no

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The problem is A&M will never leave the sec because they can't think outside the box.
All the great coaches think outside the box.

Not agreeing with the ridiculous comment about culture differences.
Do you go to the games to talk about politics or watch a football game? If you go to discuss politics, you are an idiot.

Academically Texas A&M belongs in the Big 10 where they have really great universities. The SEC is a glorified group of jr. colleges except for A&M Vanderbilt and Florida.

if you not interested in universities as learning institutions try the NFL

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UGA ranks higher than A&M. Some folks need to get out a little more.

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Academic rankings are biased at best, flat out stupid at worst. The point about A&M being more aligned with the Big 10 than the SEC is completely valid. A more reliable measuring stick of academic excellence is the invitation only Association of American Universities of which there are only 67 US universities included. All Big 10 schools are members except Nebraska, which voluntarily withdrew. Of the SEC schools, only A&M, Florida, and Vanderbilt are members (no, UGA is not a member). The AAU is the gold standard for academic excellence in the US and Canada (there are two Canadian universities

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NBMaroon said:

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AG81 said:

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BQAg84 said:

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NBMaroon said:

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The Chicken Ranch said:

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Phoenix1 said:

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How about A&M to the B10 & give a big FU to tu.

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Just….no

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The problem is A&M will never leave the sec because they can't think outside the box.
All the great coaches think outside the box.

Not agreeing with the ridiculous comment about culture differences.
Do you go to the games to talk about politics or watch a football game? If you go to discuss politics, you are an idiot.

Academically Texas A&M belongs in the Big 10 where they have really great universities. The SEC is a glorified group of jr. colleges except for A&M Vanderbilt and Florida.

if you not interested in universities as learning institutions try the NFL

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UGA ranks higher than A&M. Some folks need to get out a little more.

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Academic rankings are biased at best, flat out stupid at worst. The point about A&M being more aligned with the Big 10 than the SEC is completely valid. A more reliable measuring stick of academic excellence is the invitation only Association of American Universities of which there are only 67 US universities included. All Big 10 schools are members except Nebraska, which voluntarily withdrew. Of the SEC schools, only A&M, Florida, and Vanderbilt are members (no, UGA is not a member). The AAU is the gold standard for academic excellence in the US and Canada (there are two Canadian universities

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UGA RANKS 231. TEXAS A&M IS IN THE TOP 10 ACADEMICALLY. UGA IS MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN JUNIOR COLLEGE ASSOCIATION. ONLY FLORIDA , VANDERBILT , AND TEXAS A&M BELONG TOTHE AMERICAN ASSOCIATIN OF UNIVERSITIES. (67 ALL TOGETHER)

AMEN BROTHER!

Nattie said:

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fulshearAg96 said:

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I've never understood the argument to leave the SEC. It is the best product in college football.

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Bama and Georgia are the best products in college football.

Everybody else is just sniff'n butts.

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SOUTHERN CAL AND MICHIGAN ARE UNDENIABLY THE BEST. UGA AND BAMA WILL BE HAS BEENS AFTER THIS YEAR. SOUTHER CAL AND MICHIGAN ARE FOREVER.

How did A&M get in the SEC if they can't think outside the box?

NBMaroon said:

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NBMaroon said:

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AG81 said:

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BQAg84 said:

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NBMaroon said:

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The Chicken Ranch said:

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Phoenix1 said:

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How about A&M to the B10 & give a big FU to tu.

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Just….no

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The problem is A&M will never leave the sec because they can't think outside the box.
All the great coaches think outside the box.

Not agreeing with the ridiculous comment about culture differences.
Do you go to the games to talk about politics or watch a football game? If you go to discuss politics, you are an idiot.

Academically Texas A&M belongs in the Big 10 where they have really great universities. The SEC is a glorified group of jr. colleges except for A&M Vanderbilt and Florida.

if you not interested in universities as learning institutions try the NFL

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UGA ranks higher than A&M. Some folks need to get out a little more.

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Academic rankings are biased at best, flat out stupid at worst. The point about A&M being more aligned with the Big 10 than the SEC is completely valid. A more reliable measuring stick of academic excellence is the invitation only Association of American Universities of which there are only 67 US universities included. All Big 10 schools are members except Nebraska, which voluntarily withdrew. Of the SEC schools, only A&M, Florida, and Vanderbilt are members (no, UGA is not a member). The AAU is the gold standard for academic excellence in the US and Canada (there are two Canadian universities

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UGA RANKS 231. TEXAS A&M IS IN THE TOP 10 ACADEMICALLY. UGA IS MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN JUNIOR COLLEGE ASSOCIATION. ONLY FLORIDA , VANDERBILT , AND TEXAS A&M BELONG TOTHE AMERICAN ASSOCIATIN OF UNIVERSITIES. (67 ALL TOGETHER)

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Do you have to be woke to get in the top 10? If so, I want out.

Who the hell is this all caps big 10 troll?

Whirligigs said:

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Who the hell is this all caps big 10 troll?

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I don't know but did he just quote and respond to himself? Its kind of fun.

NBMaroon said:

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Nattie said:

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fulshearAg96 said:

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I've never understood the argument to leave the SEC. It is the best product in college football.

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Bama and Georgia are the best products in college football.

Everybody else is just sniff'n butts.

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SOUTHERN CAL AND MICHIGAN ARE UNDENIABLY THE BEST. UGA AND BAMA WILL BE HAS BEENS AFTER THIS YEAR. SOUTHER CAL AND MICHIGAN ARE FOREVER.

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Michigan isn't even the greatest team ever in the Big10. And when we are talking that area geographically, might as well throw in Notre Dame. Michigan does make the podium in the midwest, but barely.

NBMaroon said:

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NBMaroon said:

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AG81 said:

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BQAg84 said:

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NBMaroon said:

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The Chicken Ranch said:

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Phoenix1 said:

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How about A&M to the B10 & give a big FU to tu.

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Just….no

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The problem is A&M will never leave the sec because they can't think outside the box.
All the great coaches think outside the box.

Not agreeing with the ridiculous comment about culture differences.
Do you go to the games to talk about politics or watch a football game? If you go to discuss politics, you are an idiot.

Academically Texas A&M belongs in the Big 10 where they have really great universities. The SEC is a glorified group of jr. colleges except for A&M Vanderbilt and Florida.

if you not interested in universities as learning institutions try the NFL

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UGA ranks higher than A&M. Some folks need to get out a little more.

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Academic rankings are biased at best, flat out stupid at worst. The point about A&M being more aligned with the Big 10 than the SEC is completely valid. A more reliable measuring stick of academic excellence is the invitation only Association of American Universities of which there are only 67 US universities included. All Big 10 schools are members except Nebraska, which voluntarily withdrew. Of the SEC schools, only A&M, Florida, and Vanderbilt are members (no, UGA is not a member). The AAU is the gold standard for academic excellence in the US and Canada (there are two Canadian universities

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UGA RANKS 231. TEXAS A&M IS IN THE TOP 10 ACADEMICALLY. UGA IS MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN JUNIOR COLLEGE ASSOCIATION. ONLY FLORIDA , VANDERBILT , AND TEXAS A&M BELONG TOTHE AMERICAN ASSOCIATIN OF UNIVERSITIES. (67 ALL TOGETHER)

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I saw that 6 schools recently have been invited to join the AAU. Those include Notre Dame, so that mean the Irish are now Big 10 ready. Other new members include South Florida, Miami and Arizona State.

Why on earth would anyone care about the B10 adding teams from the PAC? Sankey has stated plainly that the SEC is not interested in adding teams not in the SEC geographic footprint. I agree with him.

There are only a couple candidates to join the SEC and they are all in the ACC. These teams have a massive obstacle with their grant of rights to the conference. People are furious that we are adding Horn at zero cost but apparently seem to think we should subsidize the hundreds of millions of dollars that would be required to add teams from the ACC just to somehow spite Florida and SCAR.

Nattie said:

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fulshearAg96 said:

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I've never understood the argument to leave the SEC. It is the best product in college football.

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Bama and Georgia are the best products in college football.

Everybody else is just sniff'n butts.

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No doubt, hope it doesn't come to tier payments in the SEC.

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Why on earth would anyone care about the B10 adding teams from the PAC? Sankey has stated plainly that the SEC is not interested in adding teams not in the SEC geographic footprint. I agree with him.

There are only a couple candidates to join the SEC and they are all in the ACC. These teams have a massive obstacle with their grant of rights to the conference. People are furious that we are adding Horn at zero cost but apparently seem to think we should subsidize the hundreds of millions of dollars that would be required to add teams from the ACC just to somehow spite Florida and SCAR.

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I'm not sure I still want to be a member of a club that includes me…

SinKiller said:

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No doubt, hope it doesn't come to tier payments in the SEC.

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Hush. Don't give the sips any ideas. College Presidents like a steady flow of cash, and want no part of relegation. Even Alabama can remember the dark years of the Shula era.

rootube said:

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Why on earth would anyone care about the B10 adding teams from the PAC? Sankey has stated plainly that the SEC is not interested in adding teams not in the SEC geographic footprint. I agree with him.

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It's a 5 hour flight from ATL to Seattle. I don't care how pretty it is in Washington. That is too far for a conference game, especially in Olympic sports.

I just wonder about stadium size and if that would be a factor. I live half a mile from Autzen Stadium and it only holds around 55K. If they went to the B1G would they expand? The City of Eugene just did a land swap with UO for the purposes of improving the practice facilities but there isn't really room for additional parking unless they relocate PK Park (baseball) or take over adjacent city park lands. All the rest around it is privately owned.

On a side note, when we went to the UO/Utah game last year, our realtor (who gave us a couple of his tickets) asked what the main difference was between a game at Autzen and a game at Kyle Field. I told him that both had great fan involvement, but the "bits" they do at Autzen make it fun, like a minor league baseball game. The biggest difference though is the size, when I told him that Autzen was much smaller he was almost offended. Apparently he has never been to a 100K+ seat SEC or B1G stadium. We did agree that if UO ever plays at Kyle Field that we would both go.

Phoenix1 said:

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How about A&M to the B10 & give a big FU to tu.

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I do not agree with this idea.

frito said:

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I was there too. Many Cal fans were worse than tceh fans.

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Yes but are they worse than LSU fans

AG81 said:

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BQAg84 said:

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NBMaroon said:

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The Chicken Ranch said:

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Phoenix1 said:

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How about A&M to the B10 & give a big FU to tu.

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Just….no

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The problem is A&M will never leave the sec because they can't think outside the box.
All the great coaches think outside the box.

Not agreeing with the ridiculous comment about culture differences.
Do you go to the games to talk about politics or watch a football game? If you go to discuss politics, you are an idiot.

Academically Texas A&M belongs in the Big 10 where they have really great universities. The SEC is a glorified group of jr. colleges except for A&M Vanderbilt and Florida.

if you not interested in universities as learning institutions try the NFL

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UGA ranks higher than A&M. Some folks need to get out a little more.

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Academic rankings are biased at best, flat out stupid at worst. The point about A&M being more aligned with the Big 10 than the SEC is completely valid. A more reliable measuring stick of academic excellence is the invitation only Association of American Universities of which there are only 67 US universities included. All Big 10 schools are members except Nebraska, which voluntarily withdrew. Of the SEC schools, only A&M, Florida, and Vanderbilt are members (no, UGA is not a member). The AAU is the gold standard for academic excellence in the US and Canada (there are two Canadian universities

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You left out Missouri.

The AAU is a lobbying organization designed to grow federal government spending and steer that spending to…wait for it…AAU members.

I didn't know sucking at the government's hind teat was a virtue!!! Or in this case larding it up at the front one!!!

I wish everybody would just agree to the superconference format, crappy as it will be, and get the draft going between whomever the conferences will end up being so we can just get it all over and done.

In a handful of years, you'll see the superconferences start to break up because the inevitable will be that there will be 50% of the schools that will never have a real shot at equity in anything and will want to quit being the whipping boy and do their own thing. Kind of like tectonic plates, the changes will never last all that long in the grand scheme of things.

A bonus is that if there are 4 superconferences, which there will likely be, we can go back to the 4 team "playoff" that everybody jerks it to so bad.

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I just wonder about stadium size and if that would be a factor. I live half a mile from Autzen Stadium and it only holds around 55K. If they went to the B1G would they expand? The City of Eugene just did a land swap with UO for the purposes of improving the practice facilities but there isn't really room for additional parking unless they relocate PK Park (baseball) or take over adjacent city park lands. All the rest around it is privately owned.

On a side note, when we went to the UO/Utah game last year, our realtor (who gave us a couple of his tickets) asked what the main difference was between a game at Autzen and a game at Kyle Field. I told him that both had great fan involvement, but the "bits" they do at Autzen make it fun, like a minor league baseball game. The biggest difference though is the size, when I told him that Autzen was much smaller he was almost offended. Apparently he has never been to a 100K+ seat SEC or B1G stadium. We did agree that if UO ever plays at Kyle Field that we would both go.

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Do they currently have adequate parking for the Autzen Stadium and Knight Arena? They both look beautiful on TV. How are winters in Eugene? I know summers are great.

I know air service has improved to Eugene as people visiting the coast are looking to avoid PDX, but it would be a long flight to the Midwest. Maybe Uncle Phil will gift them Puddles 1 to help with travel.

McInnis80 said:

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Tree Hugger said:

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I just wonder about stadium size and if that would be a factor. I live half a mile from Autzen Stadium and it only holds around 55K. If they went to the B1G would they expand? The City of Eugene just did a land swap with UO for the purposes of improving the practice facilities but there isn't really room for additional parking unless they relocate PK Park (baseball) or take over adjacent city park lands. All the rest around it is privately owned.

On a side note, when we went to the UO/Utah game last year, our realtor (who gave us a couple of his tickets) asked what the main difference was between a game at Autzen and a game at Kyle Field. I told him that both had great fan involvement, but the "bits" they do at Autzen make it fun, like a minor league baseball game. The biggest difference though is the size, when I told him that Autzen was much smaller he was almost offended. Apparently he has never been to a 100K+ seat SEC or B1G stadium. We did agree that if UO ever plays at Kyle Field that we would both go.

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Do they currently have adequate parking for the Autzen Stadium and Knight Arena? They both look beautiful on TV. How are winters in Eugene? I know summers are great.

I know air service has improved to Eugene as people visiting the coast are looking to avoid PDX, but it would be a long flight to the Midwest. Maybe Uncle Phil will gift them Puddles 1 to help with travel.

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Parking depends upon how you look at it. Knight Arena is actually on campus and there is generally sufficient parking around, but I have only been to one basketball game and I parked at my wife's office adjacent to the University District and walked over.

Autzen has a couple of gravel/grass lots near it that are mainly taken up for tailgating. Many people either walk/bus from downtown hotels or pay to park in the privately-owned businesses and City Parks adjacent to the stadium. As I stated above, I live half a mile from Autzen (as the crow flies) but due to a freeway between my house and the stadium it is about a 1.5-mile walk each way, but that is actually quicker than driving over, paying to park, and fighting traffic after the game.

As far as Eugene, winters are grey, wet, and chilly with occasional snow. Summers are mild but can get hot at times. My house was built in 1957 and has no AC and it has been uncomfortably warm a time or two. The only heat is radiant ceiling heat (the person who designed that is a moron, it's basically an electric blanket on top of the sheetrock ceiling.) we are having a ductless heat pump/AC system installed next month.

Air service to EUG is much better than when I moved here 3+ years ago, there are direct flights from DFW and SWA has been here about a year and a half and is expanding their services.

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I wish everybody would just agree to the superconference format, crappy as it will be, and get the draft going between whomever the conferences will end up being so we can just get it all over and done.

In a handful of years, you'll see the superconferences start to break up because the inevitable will be that there will be 50% of the schools that will never have a real shot at equity in anything and will want to quit being the whipping boy and do their own thing. Kind of like tectonic plates, the changes will never last all that long in the grand scheme of things.

A bonus is that if there are 4 superconferences, which there will likely be, we can go back to the 4 team "playoff" that everybody jerks it to so bad.

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Is this a power conference, yes or no https://t.co/xtrKToBmR7 pic.twitter.com/6Np4k7ruhL

— Sidelines Sports Network™ (@Sidelines_SN) June 19, 2023

NBMaroon said:

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The Chicken Ranch said:

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Phoenix1 said:

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How about A&M to the B10 & give a big FU to tu.

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Just….no

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The problem is A&M will never leave the sec because they can't think outside the box.
All the great coaches think outside the box.

Not agreeing with the ridiculous comment about culture differences.
Do you go to the games to talk about politics or watch a football game? If you go to discuss politics, you are an idiot.

Academically Texas A&M belongs in the Big 10 where they have really great universities. The SEC is a glorified group of jr. colleges except for A&M Vanderbilt and Florida.

if you not interested in universities as learning institutions try the NFL

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You know coaches don't decide what conference we play in, right?

You don't know squat or you're a troll or both.The 67 universities in the AAU are GREAT UNIVERSITIES THE rest of the SEC is strictly jr college. So you didn't graduate I get it.

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Meximan said:

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Phoenix1 said:

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How about A&M to the B10 & give a big FU to tu.

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A&M would be an awful cultural fit for the Big 10

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Cultural fit is overrated.

Im not saying its a good move, but if it were better for the program I couldn't care less about culture - it's about money and football.

Are you really that impressed with the "culture" of l Arkansas and Mississippi?