USC & UCLA Are Already Regretting Their Decision To Join The B1G - Kliavkoff

You keep saying that. I've lived in the PNW for years. We have a home there. And I can tell you the cold weather in the PNW is NOTHING like the cold nasty weather in Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Illinois, etc. Go play a game up on Mt Hood in November and I'll agree that's the equivalent to some of the worst weather I've seen in Nebraska and Iowa.

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Something like 90% of the B1G season is complete by mid-November. During that part of the year, the weather is very much like the weather in the PNW. This has already been established multiple times in this thread.

Like I said...you're late to the party.
 
PAC be like....
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Something like 90% of the B1G season is complete by mid-November. During that part of the year, the weather is very much like the weather in the PNW. This has already been established multiple times in this thread.

Like I said...you're late to the party.
Johnny One Note. Your personal opinion establishes nothing. I have the experience; you don't. The Japanese Current makes the climate on the West Coast very mild. I've had a home in Oregon for 17 years so I know the difference. You just like to throw shit like some monkey at the zoo. I have been in business for a loooong time in that part of the country and the weather is more harsh. "Largely complete", you say. LMAO As in not finished. Adios, Johnny. Good luck in that wind chill that starts dipping in October.
 
Johnny One Note. Your personal opinion establishes nothing. I have the experience; you don't. The Japanese Current makes the climate on the West Coast very mild. I've had a home in Oregon for 17 years so I know the difference. You just like to throw shit like some monkey at the zoo. I have been in business for a loooong time in that part of the country and the weather is more harsh. "Largely complete", you say. LMAO As in not finished. Adios, Johnny. Good luck in that wind chill that starts dipping in October.

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And I have decades of weather patterns for both areas.

I get it, your still butthurt that USC took your coach and like a scorned woman...you're desperately hoping that the new girlfriend isn't prettier than you and that he won't be happy with her.

Well, she is prettier than you, her Daddy is rich and he seems happy.

Guess you're just gonna have to keep eating those pints of Ben & Jerry's while crying and trying to convince yourself you're better off without him.
 
Fast forward a few years and what you're going to either hate or enjoy are the stories about how a good USC or UCLA team dropped one after practicing for a couple of weeks in beautiful 65 degree weather and then having to go play a tough game in windy 25 degree weather. There will be stories about how players don't like being up for 16-18 hours because of weird starting times + the travel. It's a two-edged sword. Both schools will benefit from the B1G association. And the $$$ will be there too. It's just too early to say it will be mostly good, or a PITA or a combination of the two. We'll see.

For the bigger sports travel isn't an issue. I was in college 20 years ago and the football and basketball teams had private jets out of Stillwater. The reason why sucked-I was a Junior when we had the plane crash and after that we went full private travel. To the point where we had about tragedy when our girls basketball coach was traveling private on a recruiting trip. I don't want to get into it because I knew people who were supposed to be on the first one and even 20 years later that is tough but my point is if schools in the Big 2 are making stupid money travel isn't a problem. Stillwater has an airport big enough to transport the football team to anywhere they want in the country in under 4 hours. Rutgers and UCLA can do the same from New Jersey to LA. It's as far a trip in country as we can imagine but at $100 mil per year the schools can afford to not put softball teams on commercial.

And the weather thing. It happens. Last Monday I was watching my kid play soccer in a rainstorm. The game got called because of lighting but it wasn't exactly perfect conditions before that. If a bunch of 10 year olds can fade a little rain I'm sure 22 year olds can perform when it's kinda cold.
 
For the bigger sports travel isn't an issue. I was in college 20 years ago and the football and basketball teams had private jets out of Stillwater. The reason why sucked-I was a Junior when we had the plane crash and after that we went full private travel. To the point where we had about tragedy when our girls basketball coach was traveling private on a recruiting trip. I don't want to get into it because I knew people who were supposed to be on the first one and even 20 years later that is tough but my point is if schools in the Big 2 are making stupid money travel isn't a problem. Stillwater has an airport big enough to transport the football team to anywhere they want in the country in under 4 hours. Rutgers and UCLA can do the same from New Jersey to LA. It's as far a trip in country as we can imagine but at $100 mil per year the schools can afford to not put softball teams on commercial.

And the weather thing. It happens. Last Monday I was watching my kid play soccer in a rainstorm. The game got called because of lighting but it wasn't exactly perfect conditions before that. If a bunch of 10 year olds can fade a little rain I'm sure 22 year olds can perform when it's kinda cold.
Oklahoma State has had more than its share of tragedy. But Fate always seems to test the good people more than the bad people. I'm not saying the travel by itself will mess up anyone. What will get them occasionally is a long layover because of weather or equipment problems + the time change + the inevitable frigid game conditions that will all conspire to be more than a football team can handle that is used to being rested and playing/practicing in nice weather. It's going to happen and when it does the sports world is going to be all up in arms about if a (for example) top 5 USC team losing a game to a weaker team because of the playing conditions should drastically affect their playoff chances. It's life. Things happen. The sports that are played indoors won't have as many potential problems. You're an Okie so you understand the difference between the nasty cold rainy weather during late fall on the West Coast and the hellish wind chill that is common in NW Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle up into the Midwest. It's just a whole different thing. I've got friends who have moved from Oregon and Washington to that part of the country and they ask me WTH is with this weather? :)
 
Fast forward a few years and what you're going to either hate or enjoy are the stories about how a good USC or UCLA team dropped one after practicing for a couple of weeks in beautiful 65 degree weather and then having to go play a tough game in windy 25 degree weather. There will be stories about how players don't like being up for 16-18 hours because of weird starting times + the travel. It's a two-edged sword. Both schools will benefit from the B1G association. And the $$$ will be there too. It's just too early to say it will be mostly good, or a PITA or a combination of the two. We'll see.
We will have a lot more data points for "west teams traveling east" and vice versa, that's for sure.
 
Oklahoma State has had more than its share of tragedy. But Fate always seems to test the good people more than the bad people. I'm not saying the travel by itself will mess up anyone. What will get them occasionally is a long layover because of weather or equipment problems + the time change + the inevitable frigid game conditions that will all conspire to be more than a football team can handle that is used to being rested and playing/practicing in nice weather. It's going to happen and when it does the sports world is going to be all up in arms about if a (for example) top 5 USC team losing a game to a weaker team because of the playing conditions should drastically affect their playoff chances. It's life. Things happen. The sports that are played indoors won't have as many potential problems. You're an Okie so you understand the difference between the nasty cold rainy weather during late fall on the West Coast and the hellish wind chill that is common in NW Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle up into the Midwest. It's just a whole different thing. I've got friends who have moved from Oregon and Washington to that part of the country and they ask me WTH is with this weather? :)
You just described a blue norther.
 
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And I have decades of weather patterns for both areas.

I get it, your still butthurt that USC took your coach and like a scorned woman...you're desperately hoping that the new girlfriend isn't prettier than you and that he won't be happy with her.

Well, she is prettier than you, her Daddy is rich and he seems happy.

Guess you're just gonna have to keep eating those pints of Ben & Jerry's while crying and trying to convince yourself you're better off without him.
you don't know what you are talking about

@Goldbug has life experience. he's climbed to the top of Mt. Everest and nearly chopped that mountain in half with a simple karate chop

you just can't compete with that

sorry bro
 
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And I have decades of weather patterns for both areas.

I get it, your still butthurt that USC took your coach and like a scorned woman...you're desperately hoping that the new girlfriend isn't prettier than you and that he won't be happy with her.

Well, she is prettier than you, her Daddy is rich and he seems happy.

Guess you're just gonna have to keep eating those pints of Ben & Jerry's while crying and trying to convince yourself you're better off without him.
OK, you're proved you're either a moron or about 15 years old. WGAF about Muleshoe leaving now? It's water over the dam. We're going to be better off in the long run without him and it will start this season when Oklahoma has a better season than the (ribbed) Trojans. Hide and watch. The soft candy ass dudes on the West Coast will be whimpering about how they want their schedules loaded with home games at the end of the season. It might be tempting for some B1G teams to go along with that because the playing conditions in California are a LOT better than the typical Saturday afternoon in the Midwest starting in late October but the smart AD's will resist that and insist on playing a "normal" schedule that sometimes forces a team to play in the snow or sleet or just cold as heck conditions. You USC honks act like that could never happen to you. LMAO
 
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Baghdad George says he expects the other members of the PAC to sign a GOR of up to 6 years:


Guess that means the Big 12 will announce the addition of at least 4 schools this week.
 
OK, you're proved you're either a moron or about 15 years old. WGAF about Muleshoe leaving now? It's water over the dam. We're going to be better off in the long run without him and it will start this season when Oklahoma has a better season than the (ribbed) Trojans. Hide and watch. The soft candy ass dudes on the West Coast will be whimpering about how they want their schedules loaded with home games at the end of the season. It might be tempting for some B1G teams to go along with that because the playing conditions in California are a LOT better than the typical Saturday afternoon in the Midwest starting in late October but the smart AD's will resist that and insist on playing a "normal" schedule that sometimes forces a team to play in the snow or sleet or just cold as heck conditions. You USC honks act like that could never happen to you. LMAO

Ah yes, anger is one of the stages of grief. Good to see you're working through it.
 
At what expense to their athletes? Are these athletes being irreparably harmed by being on a plane?
 
Ah yes, anger is one of the stages of grief. Good to see you're working through it.
No matter what anyone says or tries to explain you always fall back on your cut-and-paste retorts when you can't/won't refute the facts. Oh well.
 
At what expense to their athletes? Are these athletes being irreparably harmed by being on a plane?
I always think that's a funny argument. "But what about the distance!!!!!"

What's really the difference between a 2 hour flight to Eugene Oregon and a 5 hour flight to New Jersey? Are we saying those 3 hours causes irreputable harm to athletes? It's a weird argument to me. Especially since I bet they often shove these kids on bus rides that are longer than that.
 
Baghdad George says he expects the other members of the PAC to sign a GOR of up to 6 years:


Guess that means the Big 12 will announce the addition of at least 4 schools this week.

I kind of feel bad for the guy. He just got the job, was actually trying to fix the mess Larry Scott made and was doing a solid job...then the next thing he knows he's desperately trying to hold the conference together because of issues that he had nothing to do with.
 
No matter what anyone says or tries to explain you always fall back on your cut-and-paste retorts when you can't/won't refute the facts. Oh well.

Your ''facts'' have been shown to be wrong multiple times in this thread.

Good to see your still working through your grief though.
 
Ah yes, anger is one of the stages of grief. Good to see you're working through it.
All I will say on that issue is if Riley doesn’t change his “we’ll just outscore them” and recruits 15 offensive playmakers to 1 LB recruit yearly in a few years you will have the same feelings about the guy alot if OU fans have. It’s really my only beef with the guy as OU had the filet mignon offenses to win a natty but sadly a chicken nugget defense.
 
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