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Brennan is leveraging a huge opportunity to seize momentum from the previous 9 win season. One that felt unattainable after the mess F*sch left. Noah Fifita returning was an absolute boon to a program in need and the fact he returns again to compete for a Big XII championship has this program in positional authority it has not been in for 12 excruciating years.

But we have to show up. We have to fill Arizona Stadium. We have to disprove decades of football complacency. We cannot show up to a few games "waiting on basketball."

We cannot have national broadcasts showing more gray seats than red shirts. We have to invest into football just as we do with basketball and then some.

Will you answer the call? Strategy has placed us in this unique, fleeting position. Let it not be lightning in a bottle but sustainable success that transforms the U of A into a perennial football power to compete with the likes of BYU, Utah and TTU, and dominates the state and takes position from ASU.

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Answer the call.

Effective ADs are leveraging sponsorship deals to secure effective NIL funds, particularly for football, which is the financial pathway forward. I have seen many bemoan this deals, but I tip my hat to those athletics departments that are paving the way to the future through this type of stewardship. Coaches of other sports may object but we have to put football first for all sports to have the financial league to stand on in our modern era.

Conference brands historically revolved around geographic and cultural sensibilities that are a little more vague in the era of realignment.

For example, we always associated the SEC with massive stadiums with raucous and forever tied it to Southern culture, hot swampy lowlands, etc. The Pac 12 was laid back, west coast, super fun after dark, where it never rained in Autzen Stadium. The Big 12 i always saw as kind of a blue collar, sort of cowboy conference with farms and oil wells.

But now with the new Big 12 it's a little more vague. What I see perhaps is a group of misfits that were all apart of something else and have come together to try to survive a new era.

What metrics, baselines and goals do you use to determine the efficacy of operations of your respective athletics departments?

This may be an uncomfortable truth but TCU is the only current member to have ever won a CFP playoff game.

They're also the only Big XII team to ever win a playoff game including when Oklahoma and Texas were in the conference.

How does this league improve from here?

So, we're going to hope for lawsuits to pan out to fill out the roster? We don't have a full roster 3 months before the season tips off?

This is why most coaches report to an AD. To cultivate strategy and structure and living within financial means. "Oppurtunism" is code word for "I don't have a plan to surpass the standard that's been set and I'll take advantage of an unguatenteed outcome to meet it."

But I digress. All the luck to best to our student athletes.

An interesting and well written write up on the current landscape. It's already a very unconventional contract redo as far as the reporting structure... no NBA buyout clause demand suggests he has his eyes on the NBA. Probably the Warriors when Kerr's contract is up.. after all. Lloyd himself said Kerr was his Michael Jordan. Code for up and leaving to them. Maybe he would do well. I have confidence our AD will find the right fit if that happens.

It could happen. What would need to go right? Keeping expectations to 8 wins but you never know, we're better positioned than ever.

1. Nebraska

2. Texas A&M

3. Texas

4. Oklahoma

5. Missouri

Arizona fan here, Desiree Francois-Reed has our athletics department deep in the black after the worst budget crisis in school history, major sports humming and ranked, and perfectly navigated a very difficult situation with Tommy Lloyd threatening to leave during the final 4. Our sports are lucky for her Bear Down initiative and I just want to thank Mizzou for laying the foundation for her success.

As I expressed. All rumors about our hardworking AD leaving to Wisconsin were false. Thank you DRF for Bearing Down and leveraging resources for so many great things! Let's get the Cats into the CFP this fall!

Football is the way of the future. How can we collectively generate revenue and get some teams to win some playoff games to leverage more invites to the playoff?

BYU almost lost their cosch snd Utah lost theirs? Blessed for the strength and stability brought by our AD

Why are so many people in Vail specifically phobic of 5G wireless frequencies? Some even artificial scents?

24/7 sports wrote a junior high tabloid on our AD eyeing Wisconsin. Please do not read this article as fact.

How many coaches in the Big XII in any sport actually don't report to the AD? 🤔

Just for fun.

#5 (Lily): She is definitely annoying and condescending towards the toys at first but Jessie wasn't exactly warm and welcoming either. I don't think Lily herself is evil and just operates the way she was programmed, in an ill-fated attempt to "optimize" Bonnie's life and find her "friends." She desires to make Bonnie happy and is a symbol that technology isn't inherently bad, it's how people use it. Her throwing herself in the donation box upon realizing Bonnie was cyber-bullied indirectly do to her tells me she's not evil.

#4. Gabby did some shady stuff in the beginning and had a creep factor along with the henchmen dolls helping her but evolved into a good character. Her desire to be loved lead her down a wrong path that was evil but she was redeemed as a sweet doll.

#3. Stinky Pete (The Prospector). This dude was very two faced and seeing his manipulation of Woody's Roundup gang come to a head when he sealed the vent shut in Al's apartment was an alarming revelation that he had nefarious intentions all along. His desire was admiration, not love, and his reveal as a cold and calculating character intending to deprive the other toys of their autonomy was shocking.

#2. Sid. This one goes without saying and some may be surprised he's not #1. The kid is demented and dismembered and literally blew up toys. The main reason I didn't put him #1 is that he is unaware of the sentience of the toys he's hurting and believes they are inanimate objects. When it is revealed that they walk, talk and have feelings, he freaks out to a degree that we can safely assume he never harms another toy. Still a psychological nightmare of a villain.

#1. Lotso. This guy is the most evil villain in my book. Not only is a manipulator and runs the daycare as a dictatorship, but has the darkest and most depraved thoughts about toys (that they are plastic meant for the trash). His own trauma of being forgotten and replaced is projected onto all other toys and they are disposable wastes of space unworthy of love (he doesn't even believe love is real). Then of course, he refuses to save the toys from the incinerator even after calling for help and Woody risking his life to save him.

Lots of misinformation being spread about our AD

I implore you to read this wonderful article from Southern AZ's biggest newspaper.

We should be saying "thank you" for her courage and grace despite so many attacks and negativity for no reason other than doing what she was hired to do and putting UA Athletics in its best position for the future.

I know there are thousands of posts about the Sorsby debacle and here's another.

This BS is exactly what TTU wants.

We are talking about a relatively obscure program in the middle of nowhere that controversially dismissed the most popular coach they ever had and has screwed up any chance of success they have had.

They haven't had much success until NIL and the expanded playoff opened the doors for them, only for them to get utterly humiliated.

They know that the integrity of the sport lies in their hands and what they're doing is causing unprecedented outrage. And what else does it cause? Attention and views.

If your didn't know where the heck Lubbock was, you do know. If you never planned on watching a TTU game in your life, millions plan to now.

Hate watching is a real thing (hence why Bama, who is pretty universally hated, gets so many views of their games).

TTU is already the most talked about program and is THE story of next season. Forget all the crap Lane Kiffin pulled and LSU.

TTU is going up be the draw of most weeks and will be the constant conversation piece for all the talking heads.

Controversy, outrage, and pushing the envelope for what you can get away with is what sells in America these days and it's allegorical to a bigger picture I won't get into (but most of you can easily find the parallel I'm referring to). Particularly since the power players involved in this mess support the same mentality that drives our bigger picture.

TTU or Sorsby aren't the main villain. We the people are for allowing what they're doing to be what creates attention and what sells in America.