Seems to be a common observation among COOGFANS about that guy. There are a couple here (well, really at least 3 or 4) of them here who continue to have threads locked with their inane repetition. He’s one of them.
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See when I look at Timmy B’s Top 15, I still see mostly full shares B1G and SEC schools or ND (11 of the 16 on the list including the tie).
Boise is on there, but they haven’t beaten a P4 team this season. If they couldn’t beat now unranked Oregon, which they couldn’t, then I don’t see them being a real contender.
There are three Big 12 schools on there, but none in the Top Five.
And the only ACC team on there is a team is indeed ranked #1, but that’s a team with four prior natties. Hardly an underdog as such.
That’s not exactly what I call “parity,” but whatever.
That’s mostly the rich and established getting richer and more established.
Should an ACC, Big 12, or G6 team win it all, we’ll reassess. And if it’s Miami, it wouldn’t exactly be unprecedented or an upset.
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Given that you’ve gone back and forth with me a bunch of times, I’m not sure you have much room to talk.
You’re in the top 2 that’s had threads locked; on baseball forum, football too. Doesn’t matter, you take up too much of the moderators time, they must be tiring of you too. And there you are again butting into someone else’s conversation
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I’m allowed to respond to any post and on any string within the guidelines, last I checked. That’s what happens on message boards. People post stuff, and others respond to it within guidelines.
And I haven’t done so disrespectfully…except when disrespect is first directed my way.
This string, I stated my opinion, and the facts/reasoning behind it. No disrespect towards anybody. Someone else directed disrespect towards me without provocation (as did you) and when they did, I fired back, as I suspect most would.
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When facts become “disrespect”, do some introspection.
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Those aren’t “facts.” It was just unprovoked disrespect.
So I gave him the same suggestion back, which is appropriate, given that he keeps reading stuff that he knows he doesn’t like when he could choose to do otherwise.
Again, I don’t disrespect anyone unless they disrespect me first. This string is a perfect example.
I believe I’ve met that guy before at various UH games and practices. Not sure why he suddenly fired that stuff out there. I had never disrespected him.
I’m pretty sure that everything I posted in support of my position is factual.
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I presented facts. The guy you’re speaking of is one of 100
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In baseball there were a few for me. Football, haven’t seen it. The owner told me to “chill out” on one but that’s it. So your assertion about football threads is non-factual.
The only football thread of mine that was closed was one where I got duped by a bogus tweet I saw. Hardly a big deal.
So you’re saying TU is getting richer 
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If you mean UT (I don’t imitate Aggie ways), they ain’t getting poorer, I can tell ya that much!
But yeah. They have UNDERACHIEVED.
That said, their conference, plus full shares B1G members and ND still dominate Tim Brando’s Top 16. 11 of 16, as I mentioned. That’s not exactly my idea of parity. That’s P2/ND DISparity.
Nothing has changed in that regard during the NIL era, and when you look at the last three natties, the richest conference of all has dominated.
Rich getting richer. At best, there’s perhaps more parity in the P2 alone, hence the rise of Indiana and Kentucky, but not in college football overall.
Idk man a couple of those SEC/B10 schools are traditionally basketball school. Seeing them break through in their respective leagues when they’ve traditionally been pretty mediocre at football would be an indicator that the sport has more parity. I mean we haven’t had an SEC school play for the title in 3 years after a very long run of that being case. We’ve also had 8 different teams play for the title in the last 4 years. Pretty sure that’s a first.
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In the end, Georgia has won two natties, and full shares B1G teams have won the last three; those are the NIL era natties.
I agree, Indiana and Kentucky are traditional basketball schools.
But as full shares SEC and B1G members, respectively, they have VASTLY more money to hire and retain coaches and staffs, update facilities, distribute to players through revenue sharing, etc. than ACC, Big 12, and G6 teams do.
That provides a very DISPARATE advantage.
That’s why I don’t see today’s era as one of “parity.” It’s one of the richest conferences dominating more than ever.
Perhaps NIL (see Cuban in Indiana’s case) has allowed a few of those P2 teams to move up in ways that they couldn’t in the past.
But that’s not so true across all of college football.
I disagree with the guy that posted that it may be possible for a G6 to win a natty via NIL. The G6 has only fallen further behind in the NIL era.
Funny thing is he thinks me and many others read all his dheot. You read one you read the other 100+ in the thread. This is true… this morning when I posted my thread at approx 6 I had not even put my phone down but saw his thing replying immediately. I didn’t bother to see what he wrote just laughed seeing how he spends every second ready to post . SAD. Now at lunch I checked the board.had to laugh again.
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Funny how you’re still responding to what I write.
If what I write bothers you, then why do you read and respond to it?
Hey listen, I think I may have met you back in 1989 in College Station with my Dad after the UH v aTm game, and possibly at some UH practices as well back in the mid-90s.
Am I wrong about that? If I am, you may correct me.
But in any event, I don’t think I ever disrespected you in any way, so I’m not sure why you fired out what you did against me here.
As to why I post and respond as often as I do, …the answer is SIMPLE.
Because contrary to what RobDob once alleged…I’m anything but a CASUAL UH fan.
UH sports are my life Bro. And that’s how fanatically I follow them, and how fanatically I keep up with them and and want to discuss them in this and other forums.
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Within minutes.
You can’t make it up .
I rest my case.
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You likewise just responded to me within minutes.
Mutual case likewise just made and rested.
Why do you read and respond to what I write if you don’t like it?
Just curious.
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I guess my thought is that you’ve always needed (well at least in my experience as a fan which started in the BCS era) high level resources to be able to put together team that could win a national title. But you also seemed to have to have some tradition. You needed to have been good for a while or somewhere in your past, to actually attract the necessary talent to compete. Now I don’t think you need the latter. You need the resources and maybe it’s not clear how many ACC and B12 programs have the resources but we know there’s 34 SEC and B10 programs that do and I think that’s definitely more than in the past. I’d also say that since those leagues have become more competitive internally, I don’t think the very top teams are ultimately as good as the top teams we had even a decade ago. And I think the fact that they aren’t probably leaves the door open enough for some of the best ACC and B12 teams to be good enough to compete. But obviously we need more data on that to be sure.
Now the G6 is certainly in a worse spot. For one they’ve lost their best programs repeatedly over the last two decades (Utah, TCU, BYU, UH, Louisville, etc), and two they’ve become really bloated with teams moving up. Admittedly some of the recent FCS jumps are actually the best programs still in the G6 but nevertheless, the G6 today looks like an FCS+ division. I still favor including them in the playoff and not separating from them entirely but I wouldn’t be shocked if in the next 10 years FBS splits. I just don’t think it will be a 30-40 team break off. I think it’ll be more in the 70-80 range to capture a few more viewers and also to allow for deep enough pool of teams to let more big brand teams to feel like they’re good.
Some of the previous top teams in the P2 aren’t quite as dominant as in the past.
But I have heard some people talk about how now that there is NIL, Georgia and Bama won’t be as dominant.
I dunno.
They are both listed among Brando’s best, and Georgia already won two NIL era natties.
Prior to Indy winning last yeat, traditional B1G blue bloods Michigan and Ohio State won.
Seems as though not that much has changed.
Perhaps Miami or, ideally, a Big 12 team can break the P2 stranglehold. But Miami has yet to beat a team that was ranked when they played them, and the Big 12 hasn’t gotten it done in past playoffs.
Again, I’d love to be proven wrong in that regard.