Mizzou Links, 7-26-10
by Bill C. on Jul 26, 2010 5:34 AM CDT
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PrintI started this morning's post thinking I had a ton of links to share ... and relatively speaking, I do ... but approximately 90% of them are from PowerMizzou, so ... I hope you're a subscriber!
Mizzou Football Links
- PowerMizzou: Next in Line
Although Jackson and Kemp are only juniors, they are the oldest members of the receiving corps with the exception of backup Forrest Shock, who is the holder for the kicking team. They have by far the most experience of any players coming back, and they have embraced the leadership role and taken the incoming players under their wing to get them up to speed.
"We're on them real hard right now," Jackson said. "In 7-on-7 we're making sure they do everything that we feel that the coaches will like. And we've got some good athletes that came in and right now we've just got to teach them and guide them."
Jackson said it's important for the older players to show the new guys the ropes, on and off the field, if they want them to contribute early on. He credits older receivers like Alexander, Maclin, Jared Perry and Tommy Saunders with helping him when he was a freshman.
"They're the reason I played as a true freshman," he said. "They taught me everything quick, taught me how to run things, get used to the college speed, how we run. And without them, and without us helping these freshman, there wouldn't be any way that they'll play as a true freshman."
Kemp said that the work he and the other receivers, like Jackson and newly named starter Michael Egnew are putting in with Blaine Gabbert on their off time has really improved their chemistry since the close of spring practice. - The Trib (Dave Matter): Huskers, Sooners are the choice
- ESPN.com (Big 12 Blog): Mailbag: Missouri edition
- PowerMizzou Previews Fall Camp
PowerMizzou: Fall camp preview: Cornerbacks
PowerMizzou: Fall camp preview: Safeties
PowerMizzou: Fall camp preview: Special Teams - PowerMizzou Looks Back at Previous Recruiting Classes
PowerMizzou: All-sleeper Team: Defense
PowerMizzou: All-expectations Team: Offense
PowerMizzou: All-expectations Team: Defense
Big 12 Football Links
- Media Days
The Trib: Departing schools will top the talk at Big 12 media days
Houston Chronicle: 'The savior of the Big 12' -- and how he did it
Daily Oklahoman (That Fruity Guy): Twelve questions we hope are answered at Big 12 Media Days this week3. How much resentment lingers against Texas?
UT took the bull by the Longhorns in the conference realignment shuffle. Texas effectively sped up Nebraska's departure to the Big Ten, scared half the league into thinking the Big 12 was doomed and thrilled the other half into thinking it was headed to the Pac-16.
Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne, whose disgust with everything Texan trumps anything Oklahomans ever thought about, apparently won't be at the Westin Hotel this week, though he'll appear at Big Ten Media Days next week. Drats. Dr. Tom is leaving us just as he's getting interesting in his old age.
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10. Why does no else think Missouri's Blaine Gabbert is the league's best quarterback?
Gabbert was one of the league's best QBs last season. Gabbert ranked second (behind McCoy) in pass efficiency. Second (behind Kansas' Todd Reesing) in passing yards. Second (behind A&M's Jerrod Johnson) in touchdown-interception ratio.
If Gabbert hadn't bummed his ankle against Nebraska, Mizzou would have won the North and all that Nebraska title-game controversy never exists.
- Tubs Speaks
Dallas Morning News: Tommy Tuberville: 'I just hate we lost two teams'
Dallas Morning News: Tommy Tuberville: Agent incidents 'a nightmare for all of us' - Recruiting Rules Changes
Austin American-Statesman: NCAA may say 'not so fast' to early commitments - PowerMizzou Scouts the North
PowerMizzou: Scouting the North: Running Backs
PowerMizzou: Scouting the North: Receivers
PowerMizzou: Scouting the North: Offensive Line
PowerMizzou: Scouting the North: OFFENSE - Ron Prince Is Still a Story
Topeka Capital-Journal: KSU attorney: Hasty changes made in Prince deal
Topeka Capital-Journal: KSU case tough to make
Mizzou (and Big 12) Basketball Links
- The Missourian: Best of Big 12 coaches? Take a look at Self
- Big 12 Hoops: Which Big 12 team that missed NCAA Tourney has a chance this season?
- Recruiting Stinks
ESPN.com (Dana O'Neil): ESPN.com coaching survey on dirty college basketball recruiting
Other Mizzou Links
- Mizzou Baseball
The Trib: Jamieson seeks top recruiter
SimmonsField.com: Retro Simmons Field Photo - Mizzou Soccer
MUtigers.com: Meet Dominique Richardson
And don't forget ... coming soon ...
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What I got from the article about Dan Beebe:
The quickest way a staffer can get in trouble with him is by withholding an opinion. Second-quickest is not to go along with a decision once it’s made.
Sounds familiar.
He landed in enforcement during a dirty era. As an investigator and later a director of enforcement, he was involved in SMU’s precursor to the death penalty and Barry Switzer’s demise at Oklahoma.
So, he’s probably not very well liked over at OU nor certain parts of Dallas. But he has played his cards right and made powerful friends in Austin.
The Big 12 has a $480 million deal with ABC-ESPN that runs through 2015-16, and a $78 million contract with Fox Sports Net through 2011-12. Beebe got both networks to keep everything intact, guaranteeing the remaining schools a bigger cut. It was a big concession by ABC because 10 schools meant no football championship game.
Nothing new was signed, but between Lulla’s projections and Beebe’s conversations, there was reason to believe the top schools eventually would get $20 million per year.
Emphasis mine. Notice the continued trend?
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent
I'm still a little bothered...
…by all the “eventually would get” and “estimates” and “arrangement” quotes in all the Big 12 articles. You can’t help but wonder if when the contract is actually signed, it’s more like $14 million/yr or something…we shall see.
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Likewise,
Who is considered a “Top Team”. That kind of ambiguity is how one could circumvent fair decisions and award friends in high places. For me it isn’t so much about the amount, its about the distribution.
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent
I'm probably in the minority, but so long as the distribution isn't
any more uneven than it is now, I’m much more concerned about the size of the pie than whether Texas gets 5% more than us when distributed. The biggest threat to Mizzou isn’t the ginormity (yes, made up word) of UT, IMO. It’s that schools with similar geographic profiles like Iowa, Purdue, and Wisconsin are getting $10-$15 million more than us per year in TV revenue.
I would agree money is important
but as commenter achillbreeze pointed out,
3.7 Wins per $100k
is the approximate value of that revenue. Its still possible to succeed on low recruiting/operating budgets.
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent
It's really hard to get past this
He started with a warning shot before the league’s June meetings, telling a radio station he wanted to know “where we’re going and who’s going to be on the plane when we take off.” He also sent an e-mail to school presidents with an attached five-page document marked “confidential,” and titled, “The Case For The Big 12.”
He left Kansas City on a Friday, still asking for commitments — “or else.”
Colorado bolted the following Wednesday, then Nebraska on Friday. His aggressive push was backfiring.
I know Colorado always had one foot out the door and Nebraska was scheming behind everyone’s backs to break up the conference, but this sequence of events exposed Beebe’s utter impotence as a commissioner. ESPN saved the conference because it was in their best interest and they are one of the few entities powerful enough to tell Texas to sit down and shut up. Beebe gets the credit, but I expect that’s how all of the AD’s and other entities involved want it.
What I got from the ESPN article on recruiting:
There’s also an interesting gender dynamic at work. As noted earlier, almost all of the NCAA investigators are women and they are policing a man’s game. That doesn’t go unnoticed by the coaches, nor does it help the investigators get taken seriously all the time.
Along with the coach who called the women, “the gestapettes,” another said, "If the NCAA was serious, they’d hire someone who knew what they were doing, not these women out here trying to get a husband.’’
This blows me away. Either the individual coach is a real pig, or there is a kernel of truth and the NCAA has some real issues. Never know because none of the other coaches will speak up.
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent
Ron Prince can not coach my football team...
… but he can sure as hell help me negotiate a contract. Every single story that comes out about that debacle gets even more and more incredible.
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I'm pretty unimpressed with these Power Mizzou fall camp previews.
It seems like an awful lot of them either leave something big out or make a really baffling claim – like the “deepest unit” comment on the defensive ends piece, the assertion that Kenji Jackson is the safety to watch (even though Matt White is the one I seem to recall listed as the starter alongside Jasper Simmons) or the comment that Jake Harry was merely good last year.
None of them are all that offensive in and of themselves, but the combination makes me not inclined to pay money for that subscription when I can read RMN for free.
Making fun of the "Mizzou Needs a Fullback" Club since...well, for a while, anyway.
I have a hard time justifying,
Paying for news on what is supposed to be a leisure activity.
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent
Looking at newspaper revenues...
I think leisure activities are the only news people seem willing to pay for anymore.
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We could have a whole argument/discussion...
About misplaced priorities and various industries taking advantage of consumers/fans, but I don’t think anyone’s mind would get changed and given SBNation’s recent infusion of capital…
Last summer, Comcast’s venture capital arm, Comcast Interactive Capital, led the second-round financing that delivered $7.95 million to SB Nation.
I’m betting Comcast is banking on sites like this as new sources of revenue. I hesitate to dip into the whole debate about the death of old-school journalism, although I hope we take a lesson from Rupert Murdoch:
Less than three weeks after the Times paywall went up, data shows a massive decline in web traffic.
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent
As Dave Matter has pointed out...
…a decline in traffic might not matter if they’re still making more from the people who didn’t leave. If 90% of the readers leave, but the remaining 10% pay for content, you’re still making more than you were before. We’re all aiming for large numbers of hits, but for a news organization in desperate need of revenue, it might be more profitable to lose readers but keep the ones willing to pay for content.
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But how do you rationalize
Alienating fans/readers who would no longer have access to news about their various interests? Paywalls essentially create barriers to information, along the same lines as the information asymmetry discussed by Freakonomics authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner .
when one party in a transaction has a lot more information than another — and how the Internet is very good at correcting that asymmetry.
When I see examples of businesses implementing this concept (via the Internet no less) on what should largely be a stress-relieving, leisure activity, I become concerned for the future of sports.
But then I remember that anything that can be monetized will be, eventually.
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent
P.S.
I have to stop coming to this website, I inevitably draw myself into debates about something…
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent
that's the point.
and it’s good because these are your opinions and not your girlfriend’s or what have you. it’s what makes these comment threads on rmn so great :-)
Anyone who wants to be a can't-hack-it pantywaist who wears their mama's bra, raise your hand. -Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez
by threadkiller on Jul 26, 2010 12:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Gee
Thats going to take a while to go away, huh?
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent
This is Rock M Nation.
It’s never going away! :) But that’s part of the fun.
Making fun of the "Mizzou Needs a Fullback" Club since...well, for a while, anyway.
Its a good thing
I never take anything too seriously.
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent
i hope so.
it was a classic.
Anyone who wants to be a can't-hack-it pantywaist who wears their mama's bra, raise your hand. -Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez
by threadkiller on Jul 27, 2010 12:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Speaking of Comcast...
When the SBN Local Hubs launched, Dan Shanoff had this to say:
Of course, the best fit is Comcast.
*The cable giant has existing local sports presences hubbed around TV networks — their online strategies are still a work-in-progress that would benefit from SB Nation’s reach and depth.
*Comcast has aspirations of becoming the dominant national sports-media rival to ESPN; SB Nation gives them an instant online foothold locally, a prerequisite for any would-be juggernaut.
*Comcast obviously has more than enough cash to do a deal, and the upcoming incorporation of NBC’s assets is the right time to fold in other acquisitions. (It complements NBC Sports’s recent push into Yahoo-style “national” blogs focused on each sport.)
*Oh, and let’s not forget: Comcast’s internal VC unit happens to have an investment in SB Nation; they have already signaled their faith in SBN’s potential.
It feels like the right move for both, particularly given that the acquisition market for content companies is beginning to heat up. Put it this way: I don’t think SB Nation is an independent company in 2011.
I got my first exposure to CSN this summer, and I really see the symmetry. Locally-based content supported by a national brand, as opposed to ESPN’s big behemoth that’s trying to localize.
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That may be true
but as a former Comcast customer, I must say that I hope their corporate identity (not any, you know, people, just the company itself) dies in a fire. Cable companies are notoriously bad, but Comcast takes it to a whole new level. We would lose service on cable when the humidity rose. Not joking.
Making fun of the "Mizzou Needs a Fullback" Club since...well, for a while, anyway.
I, for one....
… welcome our [wholly speculative and proposed] new overlords!
/we can haz money?
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Fruity Pebbles said something nice about Mizzou?
I was wondering why the Four Horsemen were wandering around my parking lot.
new punching bag-
NU. Wonder if ol’ Fruits is just choosing the most attractive raw meat to wave in front of his audience. Mizzou bashing is so early June, NU is the new red-headed (literally) step child…
Of which I heartily approve, although the whole ‘take borderline juvenile pot-shots at non-local teams to drive newspaper sales-internet hits’ approach is still ugly and not an admirable trend.
Give me Matter/Wally who will go out of their way to not take cheap shots at others for the sake of claps from the fanbase any day.
RE: Big 12 BB coaches
Barnes can recruit, but look at last year’s squad. Immense talent but he couldn’t get them to gell. Think about Durant’s squad. Best player in the game and they lose in the second round. I think he is overrated as a coach.
Really...
…I’ve always wondered just how hard it is to recruit to Texas. I’m thinking all you need is a God-fearing warm body with a firm handshake and a smile.
by achillbreeze on Jul 26, 2010 10:05 PM CDT up reply actions
and smooth like cheese grits Texas drrrrrrawl.....
Given enough velocity even a pig will fly
by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Jul 27, 2010 10:58 AM CDT up reply actions
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