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Ah, I see they brought Dewey back. Yost was pretty non-committal on that point after last season.

Oops. I completely forgot the Mike Haywood debacle. Make that 4 in 5 years for Pitt.

Strong rumors swirling that Wisconsin will be hiring Paul Chryst soon. That's exactly who I figured they'd go after. Poor Pittsburgh, starin down the barrel of their 3rd coaching change in 5 years.

I'm not all that impressed by the guy they cast as Ra's, but they've booked him really strong thus far. I really expected Oliver to win and set up the OH SHIT THIS DUDE IMMORTAL return later in the season. I wonder how long they plan on keeping Oliver on ice. They can still use Amell in the flashbacks, so it's not like they'd have to go a stretch completely without their star. I'd be interested to see Brandon Routh get a shot at carrying the present day action for a few episodes as...whatever they're doing with Atom.

I can't imagine two more radically different responses to disappointment than Gary Patterson and Art Briles. Patterson has been pure class every step of the way.

It's official: Nobody wants to coach at Wisconsin.

So CONSTANTINE has been rounding into a decent show. It's kinda hard to get a feel for because they've been airing episodes out of order, so stuff that seems improved one episode will revert right back the next. But I thought the most recent ep with the faith healing preacher was pretty watchable, and it was a badly needed episode for Manny, who to this point has been nothing but a blackhole of exposition who sucks the life out of the show when he shows up. The sooner he gets kicked out of Heaven for helping Constantine, or whatever, so he can actually play an active role in the stories, the better. It's getting kinda ridiculous how he can't have both sidekicks in the same episode, though. And the explanations are worse. "Zed's at ART CLASS today, so it's just me and you!" Really, you couldn't send her a text and be like "hey, evil spirit murdering families in birmingham gtg, can u skip class today?" But I guess ART CLASS is a plot point now, since the hunky nude model is EVIL.

Truf. That is unbelievably gonzo.

Anarchy Afterword makes you appreciate Chris Hardwick more. First there was the shitty host who clearly didn't know much about the show, and now there's NO HOST AT ALL and it's just Sutter looking down at the table and going uh...uh...uh....

I literally could not believe what I was watching.

Seriously, what was up with that ambulance? Was there any attempt to explain why Dean was arriving from the set of a Sisters of Mercy video?

From the studio that brought you GOTHAM, now comes..........KRYPTON! Based on the life of Supes' grandfather. In development at Syfy right now.

I saw it. Was mainly just disappointed Kevin Rankin was stuck playing another racist criminal character.

BYU went the ND route by setting up their own broadcast network which was the reason for them going Indy. Nobody to share their football dollars with at the end of the day. Would BYU join one of the five major conferences? That depends on if they get to keep all of their TV network money. How much money do you think BYU makes off their TV deal?BYU went independent because they have a national fanbase and the Mountain West had a terrible TV deal that failed to reach a sizable portion of that fanbase. Currently, BYU gets roughly $1 million per home game (give or take, depending on the attractiveness of the opponent) as part of their TV deal. So we're talking between $8-$10 million per year. Good money, for sure, and definitely more than they were getting from the Mountain West. But the Big 12 annually distributes double that number to it's member institutions in media rights fees (with that number projected to increase exponentially over the course of the contract), and obviously has no problems with national exposure thanks to their deals with ESPN and FOX. BYU would jump to the Big 12 in a heartbeat. You underestimate the drawing power of their fanbase. $8-10 million is pretty good money for a startup channel. It is not they have been doing this for decades like ND but that is their model. Home games in Utah, their own channel, and away games in places where they can sell tickets to their fanbase (soon). Do I think they would jump to the Big 12? Yes but like ND it would depend on them keeping the money from their channel. I think you misunderstand BYU's television situation. They didn't break away from the Mountain West and form their own TV channel for sports. They broke away and cut a deal for their home games with ESPN. BYUtv was in existence long before they broke away from the MW and isn't a dedicated sports channel, though it does carry a lot of their non-revenue sports. As part of their deal with ESPN, they do get to carry 1 game a year on that channel, but that's no different than the deal Texas has with the Longhorn Network or any of the other B12 schools have with their individual media rights. It would not be a hangup in negotiations.

BYU went the ND route by setting up their own broadcast network which was the reason for them going Indy. Nobody to share their football dollars with at the end of the day. Would BYU join one of the five major conferences? That depends on if they get to keep all of their TV network money. How much money do you think BYU makes off their TV deal?BYU went independent because they have a national fanbase and the Mountain West had a terrible TV deal that failed to reach a sizable portion of that fanbase. Currently, BYU gets roughly $1 million per home game (give or take, depending on the attractiveness of the opponent) as part of their TV deal. So we're talking between $8-$10 million per year. Good money, for sure, and definitely more than they were getting from the Mountain West. But the Big 12 annually distributes double that number to it's member institutions in media rights fees (with that number projected to increase exponentially over the course of the contract), and obviously has no problems with national exposure thanks to their deals with ESPN and FOX. BYU would jump to the Big 12 in a heartbeat.

If they're looking to go west, BYU. They've been reasonably successful trying the independent thing, but they'd join the Big 12 in a heartbeat if offered. The Sunday scheduling would be a pain in the ass, but they're desirable enough with their huge, nationwide fanbase to override that. More likely though, the Big 12 would try to move north and east to expand their footprint and create travel partners for West Virginia. The ACC is currently locked down tight with enormous buyouts, and WVU would block Marshall (not that they're desirable at all in the first place), so really they'd be looking for Notre Dame (and there were rumors of mutual interest during the Big 12's last spin on the realignment carousel, although how much of that was Texas bullshit coming from Chip Brown, I don't recall) or teams from the American. Cincinnati would be a take, for sure.

I gotta know what "overturning plates of cookies" is a filter for.

Guys, I don't want to cause a panic, but ERNEST SAVES CHRISTMAS is on Discovery Family* right now. *Apparently this is what The Hub turned into.

They've proven time and again that not only can they hang with major conference teams, but they can beat them. Should they join a major conference there would be growing pains, no doubt. But, it's naive to think that the major conferences don't look at Boise and say, "Is it really worth bringing them in and possibly knocking off some of our already established top teams?" That's not to say the lack of a TV market doesn't play a role, it's probably the main factor, but there's also a healthy amount of not wanting to lose face to a team that the casual fan still, misguidedly so, thinks of as inferior to every major conference team. Nobody cares about any of that. It's all about the additional revenue you can bring to the table. If fear of the usurper could keep a moneymaker out of the major conferences, then Utah and TCU wouldn't be where they are today. But both brought something of value to their respective conferences. Utah expanded the Pac-12's footprint and brought in the Salt Lake City market. TCU helped the Big 12 compensate for the loss of A&M in Texas. Boise brings nothing to the table. Plain and simple. Believe me, as a Southern Miss fan, I'm well aware of the fairytales that fans of quality mid-major programs tell themselves to make themselves feel better about their lot in the grand scheme of things. But its simply not true. But here is the thing, Southern Miss is not a threat to beat anybody? Presently, no...god, no. But historically, Southern Miss has been one of the premier mid-major programs. They've beaten lots of big name competition in their history.

AT LAST I am fully caught up on ARROW and FLASH. Didn't think I'd ever get there. So this season of ARROW is surely leading to Waller sending the Suicide Squad after Oliver & Co., right?

Poor South Alabama. You get your first bowl bid in history and you get to go to...Montgomery. I'd be like, "Nah, we'll just wait till next year."

They've proven time and again that not only can they hang with major conference teams, but they can beat them. Should they join a major conference there would be growing pains, no doubt. But, it's naive to think that the major conferences don't look at Boise and say, "Is it really worth bringing them in and possibly knocking off some of our already established top teams?" That's not to say the lack of a TV market doesn't play a role, it's probably the main factor, but there's also a healthy amount of not wanting to lose face to a team that the casual fan still, misguidedly so, thinks of as inferior to every major conference team. Nobody cares about any of that. It's all about the additional revenue you can bring to the table. If fear of the usurper could keep a moneymaker out of the major conferences, then Utah and TCU wouldn't be where they are today. But both brought something of value to their respective conferences. Utah expanded the Pac-12's footprint and brought in the Salt Lake City market. TCU helped the Big 12 compensate for the loss of A&M in Texas. Boise brings nothing to the table. Plain and simple. Believe me, as a Southern Miss fan, I'm well aware of the fairytales that fans of quality mid-major programs tell themselves to make themselves feel better about their lot in the grand scheme of things. But its simply not true.

Nobody is scared of Boise winning their conference. No major conference will give Boise the time of day because they bring nothing to the table in terms of TV markets. Nobody is desperate to add Idaho to their footprint.

Well, Jeff Long outright said that the 13th game was a big influence on their decision. Can't get much clearer than that.

I realize I'm late to the party on this, but EDGE OF TOMORROW (or whatever they're calling it now) was pretty good. It kinda lost some of its charm in the last act when , but overall, it was a fun 2 hours, if not the overlooked popcorn masterpiece some are touting it as.