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WTKA Roundtable 6/1/2023: Page 128 Comment Count

Seth June 1st, 2023 at 10:34 AM

Things Discussed:

  • HAIL TO THE VICTORS 2023: The Michigan preview with the most mentions of 45-23.
  • World's oldest 24-year-old Alex Drain watches Braylonfest.
  • Football preview: All the positions are great until we get to 2nd cornerback.
  • Kicker: James Turner would be the #2 Michigan kicker since 2003.
  • Realignment: What's driving it is TV contracts. Big 12 in best shape to be Conf3 because they have an ESPN contract.
  • Streaming: It's not going to stay how it is now. The battle is the same it's always been, where they try to make you pay for as much of what you don't watch as possible and you try to streamline as much as possible.
  • Future? There's more money to be made if you're not paying half of it to Fox.
  • Basketball: Can they salvage the offseason now? Depends on how they do with a portal G and Big.

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You can catch the entire episode on Michigan Insider's podcast stream.

Segment two is here. You can watch the video here:

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That's not a basketball player; it's the name of a halfling bard in my latest D&D campaign.

Comments

Vasav

June 1st, 2023 at 12:33 PM ^

I love watching B12 and P12 football - and I can't quite wrap my head around the B12 being more valuable. When I think of name-brand schools outside of the B10/SEC/Florida, and Clemson...I guess I just don't get why Utah would want to be with TCU and K-St more than Stanford and Washington. If Washington and Oregon go it's one thing, but if they stay it sounds like a better deal to associate with them. The Big 12 has a strong 'left behind" vibe to me - the castoffs of the old Big 8, SWC, and Big East. Plus BYU. Maybe I'm too old. Maybe I don't watch enough basketball. I'm sure there's a lot else the 4 corner schools are weighing into this decision. But the Pac12's TV contract woes sorta confuse me - is this really a worse conference than the Big 12? On the field, or on TV sets, when Oregon and Washington are still in it?

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Ihatebux

June 1st, 2023 at 12:37 PM ^

Talk about Gers being dead weight because they didn't have any post-season appearances this year.  However, Nebraska hasn't had a post-season appearance in the big 3 sports (football, basketball or baseball) in the last 2 YEARS!!!!  Get rid of Nebraska too.

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LeCheezus

June 1st, 2023 at 1:29 PM ^

This was mostly depressing in that I didn't realize I would be missing a bunch of games this year with "just" YouTube TV.  I am unsure how to proceed, because I'm not signing up for another 3 streaming services.

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Logan88

June 1st, 2023 at 2:44 PM ^

Is Brian just a figurehead at MGoBlog now? He seems so disconnected on the Roundtable segments and rarely publishes any columns for the board.

 

Tangential aside: Halflings suck, Bards suck and Halfling Bards are an abomination before the Lord.

/D&D nerd rant

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