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#1 2019-10-23 15:28:10 - Worst/Best

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I think we had about 5 different designs during the Fedora years.......still prefer the 92-99 design the best. The feather one gets the worst design that looked like it came straight out of a HP home printer cartridge.

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#2 2019-10-23 16:21:16 - Worst/Best

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Nugget's Ghostbuster wrote:

I think we had about 5 different designs during the Fedora years.......still prefer the 92-99 design the best. The feather one gets the worst design that looked like it came straight out of a HP home printer cartridge.

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These helmets look tiny. No wonder we get our asses kicked so much.

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#3 2019-10-23 17:54:12 - Worst/Best

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Surprised the helmet Ace designed didn’t make the wall.....


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#4 2019-10-24 12:47:35 - Worst/Best

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I like Curly's plain black helmets and jerseys with no names. Let the shiftless punks earn the extras.


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#5 2019-10-24 16:34:45 - Worst/Best

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Mao Tse-gore wrote:

I like Curly's plain black helmets and jerseys with no names. Let the shiftless punks earn the extras.

Yeah, use the blank ones and let kids color designs on them. Might as well scribble on their jersey's too.


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#6 2019-10-24 17:54:42 - Worst/Best

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There was a period of time when some really good USM dark humor (like that helmet) got created. It was after it was clear we were 100% screwed, but before people stopped caring altogether. Or maybe it was when the smart people realized we were 100% screwed but not the naive people. So the smart people made helmets and the naive people made up stories about the Big XII.


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#7 2019-10-25 09:01:10 - Worst/Best

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AndreWhere wrote:

So the smart people made helmets and the naive people made up stories about the Big XII.

LOL .... that is correct.  During one of the last re-alignments, there were rumors that we were being courted by the BIG XII.... lol


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#8 2019-10-25 09:40:14 - Worst/Best

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rumors that we were being courted by the BIG XII.... lol

Jeremy has already spoken with Belt Commissioner Gill about moving USM and Rice to the Sun Belt West and kicking USA to the east................news at 11........


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#9 2019-10-25 09:46:26 - Worst/Best

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There was a period of about 10 years during which USM had a lot of home game vs. the Big XII.  Start with the A&M game (1998?) and then consider there were home games vs. OK State, Kansas, and Nebraska.

So,  had USM made the necessary investments and decisions during that time, maybe we could have at least flirted with the possibility of the Big XII farting in our general direction, e.g. instead of TCU. But that's the opposite of what "wee" did so "wee" got the opposite result.


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#10 2019-10-25 09:59:32 - Worst/Best

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AndreWhere wrote:

There was a period of about 10 years during which USM had a lot of home game vs. the Big XII.  Start with the A&M game (1998?) and then consider there were home games vs. OK State, Kansas, and Nebraska.

So,  had USM made the necessary investments and decisions during that time, maybe we could have at least flirted with the possibility of the Big XII farting in our general direction, e.g. instead of TCU. But that's the opposite of what "wee" did so "wee" got the opposite result.

although it would never happen, i thought that there was some minimum seating requirement the big xii had for stadiums ( ~40K?)
and we did not meet that.... not to mention tv 'market' and all other bs reasons

i have been to a few games at tcu and their stadium can't be more than ~45-50K


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#11 2019-10-25 11:02:02 - Worst/Best

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skyvoyager wrote:

although it would never happen, i thought that there was some minimum seating requirement the big xii had for stadiums ( ~40K?)
and we did not meet that.... not to mention tv 'market' and all other bs reasons

That was one of the main things I was thinking about with my "invest" comment.

I can't help with the TV thing except to say that it's been pretty well discredited- now.


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#12 2019-10-25 12:43:18 - Worst/Best

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Nugget's Ghostbuster wrote:
skyvoyager wrote:

rumors that we were being courted by the BIG XII.... lol

Jeremy has already spoken with Belt Commissioner Gill about moving USM and Rice to the Sun Belt West and kicking USA to the east................news at 11........

As bad as I don't want to beat the dead horse again..... Since UConn is leaving the AAC, are they staying at 11 football teams?


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#13 2019-10-25 13:13:15 - Worst/Best

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As bad as I don't want to beat the dead horse again..... Since UConn is leaving the AAC, are they staying at 11 football teams?

The American Athletic Conference commissioner said the league is, "'not targeting anybody," to replace UConn during his opening statement during AAC media days.

The Huskies plan to exit for the Big East at some point next year, leaving the American with 11 programs in football and men's and women's basketball (Navy is football-only, Wichita State is basketball-only).

"We have no plans at this point to add a member to replace UConn," Aresco said. "We're not targeting anyone."


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#14 2019-10-25 16:27:38 - Worst/Best

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Nugget's Ghostbuster wrote:
skyvoyager wrote:

As bad as I don't want to beat the dead horse again..... Since UConn is leaving the AAC, are they staying at 11 football teams?

The American Athletic Conference commissioner said the league is, "'not targeting anybody," to replace UConn during his opening statement during AAC media days.

The Huskies plan to exit for the Big East at some point next year, leaving the American with 11 programs in football and men's and women's basketball (Navy is football-only, Wichita State is basketball-only).

"We have no plans at this point to add a member to replace UConn," Aresco said. "We're not targeting anyone."

Not that we would have a chance but they have been asleep the wheel before
And got burned.... staying at 11 makes no sense

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#15 2019-10-25 17:58:09 - Worst/Best

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I've always wondered how much of USM's expulsion from C-USA tied back to a simple failure to maintain good relationships with the presidents and athletic directors at the other schools.

I can't imagine Shelby Thames and Gee-A-Ninny were much fun to be around. Shelby wanted to analyze people's urine, FFS. Richard made Dave Treen look like Dave Chapelle in comparison.


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#16 2019-10-27 07:48:55 - Worst/Best

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Sorry, but I'm here to challenge the auto-assumption that in this hyper-hypothetical scenario we would even accept such an invitation.


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#17 2019-10-27 09:09:18 - Worst/Best

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B&GBU wrote:

Sorry, but I'm here to challenge the auto-assumption that in this hyper-hypothetical scenario we would even accept such an invitation.

I've wondered about that, too. For instance, I've wondered whether the Interim Turkey Inspector rebuffed a bid, or at least an overture, from the Big East / AAC.


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