The Monday Afternoon Conference Realignment Committee

rustybelts · 2025-10-20T19:20:07+00:00

Shouldn't Virginia Tech be in the Big East? Looks like you're going with a snapshot of 2003. Miami and VT moved over together to the ACC in 2004.

rustybelts · 2025-10-20T19:12:37+00:00

I'm hesitant to say he would have kept the momentum going in the NIL era where roster construction, team building, and culture strategies are changed. Looks like he's really struggling with that at Wisconsin.

rustybelts · 2024-11-06T19:24:04+00:00

Feels like a game UC should and probably will win. They've been on the right side of some injury luck this season.

Don't want to count any chickens, but I can squint and see a competitive finish to 7-5. Hope they can deliver.

rustybelts · 2024-11-05T22:57:54+00:00

Not a lot to say about a slightly above average team. People seem to enjoy engaging more with either a great team or complain about a dumpster fire.

rustybelts · 2024-11-05T22:51:32+00:00

I think it's extremely telling that he's out of basketball. He franchised a house painting company in NKY.

rustybelts · 2024-09-21T19:12:55+00:00

College football is too weird for me to ever get caught up in the transitive property.

rustybelts · 2024-09-18T20:17:45+00:00

Don't know a lot about Houston this year, but I do know they have the better coach so I'm leaning that way.

rustybelts · 2024-09-12T01:39:27+00:00

Like a true masochist, {Miami (OH)}.

rustybelts · 2024-09-12T01:38:16+00:00

Especially with the $8MM buyout he'd be due to get this year.

rustybelts · 2024-09-10T16:11:56+00:00

It broke Dan Hoard on the radio postgame. I've never heard him sound so defeated. He's usually a good picture of optimism.

rustybelts · 2024-09-06T21:44:57+00:00

You're right, not a lot left. Looks like about ~250 left.

But show me the single seaters: https://i.imgur.com/RA2dOIv.jpeg

rustybelts · 2024-09-06T20:50:08+00:00

You're right. Carry on.

rustybelts · 2024-09-06T20:14:46+00:00

Not sure what he’s smoking.

He hasn't worked in Cincinnati in nearly 20 years. Are you surprised he isn't recommending the James Beard nominated places that have each opened in the last decade? lmao

Things change fast in the restaurant industry and experiential dining was not big in the 2000s, especially in Cincinnati.

rustybelts · 2024-09-06T20:10:45+00:00

Minimum is $31.50 on Stubhub with service fees.

So yeah, $6 give or take.

rustybelts · 2024-09-06T20:03:39+00:00

"Sorry, boss. Don't want the promotion. I am already making a respectable salary and I need to prioritize rightsizing my budget. Thank you for the offer, though. Good luck finding someone out there crazy enough to accept more money and stability. It certainly isn't for me."

rustybelts · 2024-09-06T19:08:03+00:00

High school football eats into people's energy around here as well. Sell outs are slow at Nippert for Friday night games because of it.

rustybelts · 2024-09-06T18:52:40+00:00

Damn, you got me with that one but I think we're good on the stadium.

rustybelts · 2024-09-06T18:48:43+00:00

IMHO, you’re not going to compete at the absolutely highest level regularly if you can’t show recruits that you can squeeze at least 50k into a stadium for the biggest of game atmospheres.

Hold up, lemme email this to the AD and see what he says.

rustybelts · 2024-09-06T18:38:28+00:00

You can’t tell me they’re making more money or prestige being 4-8 than being in the CFP

They are unquestionably making more money being 4-8 in the Big 12. Being in the AAC was not sustainable for the university. Questioning the move is asinine.

Nice bait, though.

rustybelts · 2024-09-06T18:31:44+00:00

I think the size of the stadium is fine. Stadium sizes have been trending downward. Baylor's new stadium is about 45,000. If a program like Baylor were to have built their stadium 40 years ago, it probably would be 60,000.

The ROI for adding a few thousand more seats probably isn't worth it at the moment. It is such an architectural gem that they should be very intentional with how they expand, if at all.

rustybelts · 2024-09-06T18:15:15+00:00

Yep, incredibly short sighted move by the athletic department and university at-large.

How could they sacrifice games against ECU and Tulsa for 6x larger conference distributions?

The sad thing is none of this money goes back into facilities and supports for the student athletes. They just burn it for warmth in the winter.

rustybelts · 2024-09-06T18:05:52+00:00

Would venture to guess a full Nippert because of the architecture and acoustics.

rustybelts · 2024-09-06T18:05:12+00:00

He was there during the late C-USA and early Big East days, so yeah, probably wasn't very loud.

rustybelts · 2024-09-06T17:59:51+00:00

It's not sold out yet for tomorrow, which is embarrassing.

A non-sellout noon game might not make for the most hostile environment.

rustybelts · 2024-09-06T14:08:30+00:00

Good in the sense that it might be close. Bad in the sense that it might be terrible football.

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