SB Nation Conference Re-draft: 7th round just went down

I’m shocked Arizona State is still available.

Utah or maybe Virginia

Motion to rename conference from “The Twelve Pack” to “Hot Tang Time Machine” …

Colorado’s still out there too. Ski bunnies ftw.

Round 8 has gone South Carolina, BYU and Utah so far …

FYI, round 7 should have begun with pick #37.

And we get the last pick in the draft, right? So we eventually get to choose “Team Irrelevant”.

On that, my vote is Harvard.

Damn, Utah, South Carolina and BYU before Colorado? Half a national championship 20 years ago doesn’t mean as much as it used to.

At what point does Texas Tech enter the discussion?

When we begin to discuss hot girls living in a bleak wasteland.

without alcohol.

Dude, Lubbock isn’t dry any more. So it’s got that going for it…and hot girls. That’s all I’ve got.

At what point does Texas Tech enter the discussion?

When we begin to discuss hot girls whose fathers meet dates at the door with a 12 guage and won’t let their daughters move to Austin.

If Arizona State is still on the board, you have to take them. Best Tang west of Texas, imo.

Yeah, unfortunately Dennis Erickson comes along with them. And an NCAA investigation into it’s baseball team. And shitty academics.

But they’re in the mix. Such is the power of Hot Tang.

Ole Miss! Ole Miss!

I’m with Nordberg — Ole Miss over ASU every day of the week.

“lubbock isn’t dry anymore”

that reminds me of many years ago when austin had a drinking curfew at midnight. many chafed at that, especially bar owners, and the city looked into the possibility of changing to a 2am curfew.

evening news one night, a tv brainiac interviewed a bar owner and asked him why he thought it was in the interest of the city of austin to make that change.

the guy said, ‘i don’t know whether you’ve noticed it, but at midnight there are still a lot of people out drinking, and a midnight curfew puts an awful lot of people who have been drinking on the street at the same time. what we bar owners want is another two hours to stagger them out.’

i think i was helpless on the floor before i could quit laughing.

we’re not going to like these numbers.

conf pts std dev % behind
SEC 677 12.2
Big Ten 657 11.8 3%
PAC-12 567 9.6 16%
ACC 537 11.2 6%
Big 12 456 16.9 18%
Big East 352 10.0 30%

hope this table is readable. i’ve never done this before.

• gave a score of 100 to 1st team chosen, 99 to 2nd, etc.
• summed the scores for the conferences to this point.
• std dev gives some measure of how cohesive the conferences are regarding attractiveness of members.
• the third number is % behind to show how far each conference is behind the next higher conference right now. eg, the big ten would only need to raise its score by 3% to equal the sec. we would have to raise our score a whopping 18% just to match the acc.

wow.

No wow from me. We were pointing out that the Big 12 is utter dogshit when we chickened out on making the move West.

Both Mizzou and Kansas are in the top half of the Big 12-2, in terms of overall appeal. ’Nuff said.

Also: conference name change, already? Several months have passed, Colorado and Nebraska are officially out the door, and it’s still the Big 12 somehow. That’s retarded.

I say we call it the “Big Deal”, to be spoken in a derisive nasal tone a la the fat kid from The Goonies.

Scip, I don’t think they chickened out. I think both they and A&M were told to work out the B12.

But B12 football is what it is.

Anyone who doesn’t do exactly what I want must be disparaged in some fashion.

scip, you probably know i was opposed to the move west. i was very hopeful that we could work something out with the big ten. i wanted whatever academic benefit we might get from associating with them through that cic arrangement. and i couldn’t get past the impression that the pac boys want us for our tv value but want to quarantine us in a low-rent district across the tracks from the real pac-8 with their castoffs.

that said, with what the known universe is learning about ohio state and other ignominies i can’t help feeling like we dodged a bullet by not heading north. i wonder if our clever leaders realized that all along. i suppose it is possible that they know even more than i do.

anyway, i don’t know what to hope for now. with baylor’s lips bonded to our sphincters, i don’t know that we can go anywhere. yeesh.

I’m rating the best available (after 3 picks of the eighth round):

Big 12 — Tech
Big Ten — Nobody thrills me; Purdue or Northwestern, I guess
SEC — Mississippi
ACC — Boston College, Virginia, Georgia Tech. Good TV market in N. England
Pac-10 — Arizona State or Colorado
Big East — Rutgers
Others — TCU, Memphis, San Diego State (sleeping giant potential)

ed, i’d figure those noisy boise boys would show up some time or other.

ASU? Pretty sure letting community colleges in is against the rules.

Not Northwestern. It’s like taking Rice.

This is a state-school, big-football-attendance, TV-watchers party.

uh: Boise is strictly a mop-up choice IMO. Would you have taken them five years ago? Will you care about them in five more? More people live in Bexar County than in all of Idaho. Comparable metropolitan areas are Toledo and Wichita (slightly larger).

Put USF in your pocket as a sleeper. 35k students, South florida recruiting. State that will have some growth.

I would look at BC and CU closely, but probably take UVA. Of course, I would have taken South Cackalacky before Clemson, so what the hell do I know? Not much.

ged: Only problem is that USF remains largely commuter. They’re dwarfed in a big city area by UF and FSU fans, much like UH is in Houston with Texas and A&M.

But in my mind, they’re quite comparable to Miami, and Miami is long gone.

Matt, I’m with you on SC-East before Clemson, but they didn’t ask me either.

Such is the power of Hot Tang.

I thought that was something the astronauts took into space.

Oh we asked you. You guys wanted Mississippi State or something.

Vash, there’s a typo up top there. Baylor is not listed and yet you didn’t select them in the 7th round. Can you fix that plz? ok thx.

BiH –
Good point. I was more thinking of them as a late round pick that could act as a staging area for our other heavy hitters to pull in a local game for some of the recruits. Too early here.

I know they’re our ugly stepsister and all, but I hope you all realize that TCU ranked in the top 10 in the nation last year in football budget. (Yes, it turns out the “Cinderella” is driving a Ferrari.) Just because they have a ridiculous mascot and hideous team colors doesn’t mean they don’t pull in real NFL-caliber talent, especially on the defensive side of the ball.

They spent $20.61M in 2009. That’s twice as much as Utah, about the same as USC, and only 20% than the BurntOrangiverse. Not exactly your ‘cute, little non-AQ team’ budget is it?

Whether you like the University or not. A Top 10 budget deserves a Top 40 pick.

As soon as Patterson leaves, TCU will regress to the mean.

I don’t think the meet any of the other criteria.

TCU just came off the board. We are on the clock …

I go with the consensus… Ole Miss.

Our commissioner is going to be happy.

Looks like the 8th round went S. Carolina, BYU, Utah, Arizona State and TCU. 12-Pack picked Virginia to end the round, then Boston College to start the 9th.

It’ll be 10 picks ‘til 12-Pack is up again. Exceedingly slim pickings by then . . . Colorado, Purdue, Tech might be as good as it gets. I’ve liked S. Florida as an 11th or 12th round pick for some time. Another Big Ten wouldn’t be dreadful, but Indiana and Minnesota don’t have big-time football commitments, which probably leaves Purdue — though Northwestern is in a good TV market.

BC over Ole Miss? I demand an explanation.

Nickname this the Wet conference. Every school in a state that touches some body of water.

Yeah well they should have taken Arizona St and Ole Miss and called it the wet conference for entirely different reasons.

PERV ON!

Clemson is better than UConn or Okie St., but I think Pitt, Illinois and Mizzou were the better options in terms of all criteria, with the slight possibility of hot tang. Thing is, any hot tang from South Carolina only maintains its superiority as long as it doesn’t employ its vocal cords.