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free_mhayden said:
Hop said:
free_mhayden said:
Hop said:
free_mhayden said:
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Pumpkinhead said:
Hop said:
Sounds like A&M pushed for this match-up as well.
The SEC/Big 12 somewhat determines the matchups based on how good they think the teams will be correct? To make sure the challenge is reasonably balanced with (hopefully) compelling games?
Them agreeing to this matchup seems to say that...uh yeah looking at our roster... they think we will be reasonably decent
Basically, they had A&M pegged for another road game. A&M folks were up in arms and demanded the Kansas game. Conferences checked with ESPN and they gave it the green light.
Are you hypothesizing or have you heard this is what happened?
I'm not hypothesizing.
So who were we going to play?
The way it was told to me, the conferences first inform schools if they are pegged for a home game or road game so they can fill out their schedules. Then the conferences work w ESPN to establish individual match-ups. A&M was very unhappy w being a road team for consecutive years and requested to play Kansas. The conference office checked w ESPN and they agreed to the match-up.
Ok. I get wanting to frame things in a positive manner, but it seems a little bit disingenuous from a journalism standpoint to state our AD "demanded" something and/or that ESPN thought so highly of A&M that they sent them to Lawrence when apparently the reality is that we requested Kansas because we got the shaft on no-home-game and ESPN said OK.
What the hell are you talking about? Your schtick is old. I posted exactly what I heard as a poster on this board. I have no idea what you are babbling about journalism and some "disingenuous" difference between "demanding" and "requesting". Geez...
I can't help you if you don't understand the difference between demanding and requesting.
It's really very simple -- one mod has the story has we demanded to play Kansas because we got the shaft on having to play a road game.
Another mod has the story that ESPN thought so highly of Texas A&M's team this year that they decided to send us to Lawrence.
Those two stories aren't really congruent. One frames it like this was ESPN's plan all along, another frames it like we were thrown a bone because of the schedule screwing us. Then the follow-up reply (which changes a "demand" to a "request") further muddles the story.
I simply wanted to know which was the actual story or if both mods are just hypothesizing on how things went down. If you aren't/weren't very sure, then you should have just said so.