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Harassing their spouses can do that to some people... unless you are Ted Cruz then it is just a kink.

I can't seem to figure out Oregon St & Washington St as 5 of my 8 losses have come from those 2. I guess I am just going to have to pick Oregon St to beat Arizona in 2 weeks with max confidence points.

At least I wasn't the only one who had no idea how to assign the confidence points this week.

I think the bigger question will be will the Democratic party in any sizable scale agree to vote a moderate republican (see Liz Cheney) in as speaker in order to prevent that spineless bootlicker Jim Jordan from being 2 steps away from the Presidency.

I see Utah is helping UCLA prepare for those epic slugfests they are going to have coming up against Iowa and Minnesota

Something about every accusation is a republican confession. They are a Madison Cawthorn sighting away from being a Jerry Springer special.

How soon before Congresswoman Escort Boebert rails against drag shows and the LGBTQA community for their "lewd and corruptive behavior" again?

They were picked last in the coaches preseason poll I know of and I think Vegas had the O/U at 7 wins I believe but I think a lot of the doubt surrounding them has been in regard to the HC situation. They won 9 games last year and return quite a number of veterans for this year including QB Will Rogers which imo gives them a decent advantage over a number of SEC schools given the state of QB play in the conference. They also have a manageable schedule given they play in the SEC West with 8 home game and they don't have to play either Georgia or Tennessee from the east. I had them pegged as an 8 win team coming into the season and given the way some of other middle of the pack teams over there have struggled I like their chances.

Got it to overtime on the road against a top half SEC team despite getting hit with the de Laura special today. Aside from Jayden being awful not much to complain about.

Aresco was pretty quick to get that message out. Could tell he wanted nothing to do with being on the other end of a OregonSt/WashSt Dear John letter.

Losing the LA market was the kill shot of the Pac-12. For that reason UCLA even if you belief they aren't worth that much would have had all the leverage in the world to have gone to the Pac and said "we are willing to stay, send me a blank check and I'll write in how much I think is appropriate" and the conference would have been better off to do so.

They would have a 2 year grace period to get back up to 8 if needed.

Stanford being in the same conference as Boise St is something I find about as likely as Notre Dame giving up independence. Also anything that involves a conference dissolving without all the schools of said conference moving somewhere "up" is usually a pretty telling sign that it is made up.

Basketball isn't going to be immune to the cash grab. It is only a matter of time before they try to wrest control of the tournament from the NCAA. If there is a snap back to regionalism then it will be centered around the non-revenue sports.

As long as ESPN, Fox, Apple, Amazon etc... believe there is money to be made from it we are going to see further consolidation rather then a return to regionalism. The next version of the ACC in the post Clemson/Florida St world is going to resemble the Pac-4. Once Clemson & Florida St announce their departure so too will any school that could find a home in the B1G/B12/SEC which is pretty much everyone outside Boston College & Wake Forest.

Those lawsuits would drag on for years, not sure they would be wanted by the B1G/SEC until those suits were settled.

ACC to Berkeley & Stanford: "Hey, we found a travel partner for you guys."

Not that it would come as a surprise

I can understand if he was being spoon fed information from someone within the West Virginia circle but that doesn't explain how he seemingly has a source at every university that pops up in a rumor. What he does is he combs the internet for tidbits then spins a story that he will push. As an example.

If there has ever been a rumor about a school leaving someone he pops up claiming to have a source at that university every time. If we crowd sourced a made up rumor it would only be a matter of time before he picked it up and ran with it. Things he has said were happening - Arizona, Arizona St & Colorado leaving to the B12 (multiple occasions since the Pac-16 fell apart) - Arkansas & LSU leaving the SEC to go to the B12 - Nebraska leaving the B1G to return to the B12 - West Virginia leaving the B12 to go to the ACC and on and on, if you throw enough stuff out there you are bound to be right at some point. I know it makes it sound like I hate the guy but I don't. I actually find his schtick to be entertaining to follow, I just don't take anything he says seriously.

Other than Oregon St & Washington St unfairly being pushed down, I think the worst thing about all of this is that people are going to think this guy is legitimate when in actuality he has been poop slinging for near 15 years going all the way back to his West Virginia scout message board days.