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A nice little cross section of all the bitch-ass teams which have run away over the years, and where they finished in their respective conferences this year: Arkansas: 14th out of 14 Aggy: 6th out of 14 Mizzou: 8th out of 14 Colorado: 11th out of 12 Nebraska: 8th out of 14 Hope you guys are having fun!

Did any of them lose to Texas? No? Mission accomplished.

That's the part you don't understand. He's being played and has been played by Russian's for years because he's an easy mark that cares about nothing more than his money and his perception of winning. He's dumb because he let his kid take the meeting in Trump Tower. He's dumb because he hired Manafort/Gates to run his campaign after they spent a decade doing the Kremlins work in Ukraine. All he saw was the shiny object of winning the 'reality show' of being President and didn't give a shit how it got done. He's dumb because he assumed he could cover it all up once he ran the country and "his" Justice Department. That's now how it works, he's dumb. He doesn't understand that what he did was illegal because he's been scamming the IRS his entire life. He's dumb because private business is different than being an elected official and is subject to an entirely different level scrutiny than his shady real estate/vodka/fake university etc. deals he's always done. He's dumb for a number of factors, but mainly because he thought he could get more than 40% of the country to believe his shit. Granted, 40 percent is a lot of fucking rubes, but not enough to do as he pleases. This isn't some shithole country like he wants to believe.

You look at Oklahoma over there and it's just all about the tradition that OU sucks.

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No, it's fucking stupid and Oklahoma should be the conference champions for this season. It doesn't matter who is where in the standings, having a conference championship game after a full round robin is dumb and could only be created by the idiots in the Big 12 office who decided they needed to do it because they suck at publicizing all of these things: Conference Strength - The Big 12 is once again the second best conference in the country but nobody knows that. https://www.masseyratings.com/cf/compare.htm Schedule Design - The above set is based on a simple average but doesn't even account for the fact that the difference in conference schedules makes a Big 12 slate even more difficult relative to other conferences. Everybody plays everyone, so you don't completely miss matchups like the SEC in particular does. There are 45 possible matchups between the top 10 teams in any conference; based on the above ratings here is how many of those matchups took place in each conference: Big 12 - 45, Pac-12 - 36, Big 10 - 29, SEC - 28, ACC - 26. That is SEVENTEEN LOSSES that the SEC made disappear from their ten best teams' records. Related to #2 above is that we don't play FCS week in November. This also leads to #4 below. Calculated Schedule Difficulty - #2 and #3 are why this happens despite the SEC being better than the Big 12 this year: Average Sagarin SOS - Big 12 23.6, SEC 23.0. Essentially despite the SEC's average team being much better than the Big 12's average team this year, playing a Big 12 conference schedule was on average just as difficult as playing an SEC conference schedule. This is not a fluke, either, the Big 12 has had the toughest average schedule in years where the SEC was theoretically better. We are the only conference that ALREADY guaranteed that our two best teams played in the regular season. It already happened, rematches are stupid. The end. I'm sure there are more reasons but there you go. Along with the issue discussed above about the Big 12 administration having no fucking clue what the CFP committee is actually looking at and falling for bullshit.

Charlie? That you?

Why did he specify that it was physical snow? Are flights often grounded due to ethereal snow?

GM just announced opening of brand new Canyonero plant.

Going after a politicians minor children should be off limits. But not only are the Trump kids grown - they are actively participating in their father’s shitshow. In Ivanka’s case, she’s part of his administration. Don Junior and Eric snipe from Twitter and go on tv and radio and speak at rallies. Those fuckers are fair game. Chelsea Clinton was off limits when her dad was president. When she was grown and out campaigning for her mom on the trail, no longer off limits. If a politician’s children are adults and willingly put themselves in the public to support their parent’s policies, they’re no different than any other surrogate. And that goes double if they take an actual job working for them on the taxpayer dime.

Fuck you best 4-8 team in the country.

It's not like USF's fanbase is legion or anything, but there was definitely a smugness about their hiring of Strong in the form of "we're getting a high quality coach on someone else's dime, hahahahaha" from various posts and threads I read at the time, probably right there on the same linked site in the original post. The media didn't really go that far, but in every article grading the coaching hires for that year, much of the blame for Strong's failure at Texas was put on Texas itself. The boosters, the fans, the entitled players, blah blah blah. Well, now, for anyone who saw the guy's work over the last two years at USF, from almost losing to Stony Brook across to the current 5 game losing streak, what are the excuses? Is it the huge pressure of winning at USF? Onerous boosters? The cesspool of bad fans? Entitled players he's going to have to break and remold? Right. I thought it would go this way after seeing some of the crazy shit this guy enabled at Texas, but it is still gratifying to witness the schadenfreude with the fans and writers there. Strong seems like a decent guy and I still assume he can be a good assistant, but he's got zero business running a D-1 program. Taggart left him a terrific foundation to build on, and he's got no excuses for creating this kind of collapse, this quickly.

Hmm, registered 40 minutes ago and first post is to set us straight on falsely accused aggy using a set of pics shared from texags? Wonder what your intentions are here? My go-to source for unbiased info about this event isn't going to be random texags poster with some images he chose to share. Kragthorpe has said medical staff at Kyle Field checked him out after the incident. That should be easy to verify if it did or did not happen. If it did, these pictures are worth shit. You do know it would be easy to edit pictures like these or selectively choose ones to share that fit your desired narrative, right? You guys already aren't off to a great start with Jimbo claiming no knowledge of the incident despite video proving otherwise, and your ad office claiming to have no idea who Jimbo's credentialed relative is. But you guys never lie, cheat, or steal, right?

My son has autism. Some things like lines and crowds make him anxious. This Santa has appointment times where you show up and avoid the lines. Wife booked it months ago. And fuck ou. Fuck that dwarf qb.

So after reading everything about this shit, I think I can pretty much provide an accurate description of what REALLY happened. 1) LSU asst coach gets fired and gets hired by aggy. 2) After game, said new aggy coach starts talking shit to LSU head coach, asst coaches, and players. 3) Other aggy personnel, including Cole Fisher, get in on the shit talking. (Because aggy is so classy.) 4) Some LSU coaches and players start talking back. 5) Cole Fisher - like a little bitch - comes up and hits Kragthorpe when he's not looking. 6) Faulk steps in and the two get into it before being pulled apart. 7) Cole runs to Jimbo to make sure he gets his version of the story in before anyone else can. Most likely lies about LSU trying to start a fight. 8) Jimbo - unaware that photos and video show his illegitimate nephew started it and then talked to him afterwards - lies about not knowing anything. 9) aggy wonders why everyone is talking about bad officiating and sucker punches when they just won the best game ever. I think that about sums it up.

"So many campaign workers, people inside from the beginning, ask me why they have not been called (they want to be). There was NO Collusion & Mueller knows it!" First, it's a bad sign if you're directly linked to a major investigation and you're not being called to answer questions. Good chance it means you're a target. However, there could also be any number of folks who are not disclosing to the WH that they interviewed with Mueller and are cooperating witnesses. Second, behold the irony of Trump pleading that all these campaign workers want to be interviewed to prove the nothingness of it all, yet Trump himself has made no willing effort to personally clear his name with Mueller apart from months delay submitting incomplete written answers and ongoing refusal of an in person interview.

Stop. The ONLY reason we beat ou in 2015 was because we had Jay Norvell on staff. For the previous 8 years, Norvell had been the wide receivers coach at ou. He was let go in March 2015 and we picked him up as our wide receivers coach. After Watson, again, shit the bed against Notre Dame, Watson was relieved of play calling duties and this was assigned to Norvell. He knew ou inside and out ... knew their personnel, knew their tendencies and took advantage of those tendencies. Was it the Charlie Not-At-All who had anything to do with play calling or designing the offensive game plan? Hell no. Charlie Not-At-All assumed his role as a potted plant and Norvell was responsible for the victory. Charlie Not-At-All assembled the worst three year record in Texas football history. Charlie Not-At-All oversaw the worst offensive production in a bowl game in Texas football history. Charlie Not-At-All Oversaw the two worst statistical defenses in Texas football history. Charlie Not-At-All had a revolving door of assistant coaches their entire tenure in Austin. Charlie Not-At-All had a record of 2 wins and 17 losses when we were trailing at half time. Charlie Not-At-All had more shut out losses in three years than Mack had his entire career at Texas. Charlie Not-At-All suffered the first shut out by an unranked team for the first time in 53 years. Charlie Not-Strong-At-All was the very definition of incompetent. At Louisville, in 4 years, his team played a total of 2 ranked teams. Special teams? Under Charlie Not-At-All, our special teams were a joke. Under Mack Brown, between 2000 - 2010, we were second in the nation in terms of most punts blocked, most field goals blocked and fewest yards allowed on kick-off returns. Charlie No-At-All never understood the importance of special teams and he has taken that incompetence to USF. . His recruiting at USF is being regarded as underwhelming, they are on a 5 game losing streak and he is being exposed for what he is ... grossly incompetent on a felonious basis. To say that he left the program in worst shape than Mack is ridiculous. Charlie Not-At-All's losing persona had infiltrated the locker room and turned us not just into a national after thought, but a national don't even think about at all. OH MY GOD.. we won a game. Let's body surf the coach because we are shocked we won! Tom Herman is doing a masterful job of exorcising the stench Charlie Not-At-All left in our historically proud program. He should have been shitcanned the moment he "bedazzled" the most recognizable logo in college athletics. Thank God the nightmare is over.

"Just had the pleasure of my first visit to Kyle Field and have to say I was impressed by the graciousness and hospitality of the fine folks in aggyland (not to mention the farmer fight displayed by your men on the field!) The best part was getting to meet Fisher on the field after the game. He gave me the biggest, friendliest, warmest punch to the pacemaker I've ever received. I guess he showed me a bit of his farmer fight, too! Overall a potentially lifechanging experience, I still haven't fully recovered two days later! I should have clarified it was Cole, not Jimbo, but still a brush with greatness!"

Finally got him, meet Sam.

He posts as Henry James

Yeah, everyone with a brain realizes this. But Trump got millions of votes on the empty promise of bringing manufacturing back to the Rust Belt, so he needs to get hit hard when reality strikes and these inevitable events occur.

I'm a proud autism dad, I don't get offended with jokes and am happy to elaborate when needed. We're gonna bork shit up this weekend.

He doesn’t believe in superstars, organic food, and foreign cars. He doesn'’t believe the price of gold, the certainty of growing old, that right is right and left is wrong, that north and south can’t get along, that east is east and west is west, and being first is always best. But he believes in Leach, he believes in babies, he believes in mom and dad, and he believes in Mike.

Kinda long..but holy shit

A million fucking times, this. I swear to God, there needs to be just a goddamned 3 hour seminar in journalism school on "how to cross-examine a witness." Every junior litigation associate in the world could ask better, more direct questions than 99.9% of the journalists are doing. "The Climate report says X on page 7, based on data points Y and Z. What is your specific criticism of conclusion X -- why do you say it is incorrect?"

Quit drinking directly from the jizz jar, Penis Wrinkle.

Baker looking for another "boulder" for his shoulder. It's not like he quit at Tech and transferred in conference or anything. He's the biggest cunt of an athlete I've witnessed in my lifetime.

i hear he might be UNC's next DC.

He’s saying it bc it’s true. This team barely made a bowl last year and now we are playing for a conf title

Well based on how things went down in the 1980s when they won a few big Cotton Bowls they would act...basically the same as they do now. A&M is better than everybody at everything and is the center of the universe. SInce they are always champions in their own minds, during the few times they actually do achieve success it actually makes very little difference. When A&M beat us 10 out of 11 years I thought their gloating was insufferable and I couldn't wait to turn the tables yet...when we beat them six straight times their reaction was exactly the same as when they were beating us. Gloating. Trash talking. We suck and they are great. It makes no difference how good they actually do, they respond the same way. So people sometimes will say things like 'oh wow can you imagine what A&M fans would be like if they won the National Championship?' and you don't need to wonder because you already know. TAMU is the best school in the universe and the entire world worships College Station. That is just a given, so the facts will be interpreted to fit that narrative. If the facts just so happen to support that narrative, then great, but the narrative is still the same.

God damn it’s like you want to make a case on the Internet for why the guy shouldn’t pick Texas. Our OL is on the way up. It has improved significantly in the very short time coach Hand has been in charge of it. It was a fucking train wreck and the reason our team has been dog shit for a decade. Hand gets here and that same year we’re playing for the conference title. It’s not a coincidence.

He's gorgeous. Congrats! Have never been that much into dogs. But, when I got this one, I get it and am hooked. Here's mine.

I generally agree with this take. And your general take on immigration (reasonable work permits, tracking, taxing, etc.) is also very common-sense. But also see below: We, the U.S., are also acting in bad-faith here. There is a system in place. We should operate it -- properly and humanely. And if folks don't pass either the initial credible fear portion or the final asylum process, then back home they go. But we shouldn't manufacture a crisis where none need exist. Seriously, even 8,000 people isn't some huge, unmanageable crush. This should barely be a blip in our asylum application apparatus. But it was manufactured to get the base frothing at the mouth. And the tensions that are breaking out now are also manufactured. If we simply had our regular asylum mechanisms in place, and told folks that it will remain as it has been, and they'll be reached in due time (but not an artificially lengthened time), then tensions would controlled easily. Hell, look at Hayden's chart -- in the past decade, we've averaged around 60,000 refugee admissions per year. It's just not that big an issue - it's .00017% of the US population being let in. It's a demographic non-issue. But that's not the game being played here. Brown people are being used as a prop to further a nationalist, xenophobic agenda. Stephen Miller is an evil little shit. We're a dick country doing dick things because we're being run by fucking dicks.

Almost every season it will be counterproductive. A season like this one is the only type where it is beneficial - where the top seed needs a win to push into the playoffs, and where the 2 seed beat the 1 seed in the reg season. Will be ridiculous when a 9-0 team has to beat a 6-3 team it already beat to be "conference champs" and is a negative freeroll for the league in getting a team in the playoff.

American media continues to blow wide open layups. These people need to be A LOT better at their jobs.

Mack off the UT payroll? Mack off ESPN? Possibility of Mack failing spectacularly? Sounds good to me; next year should be fun.

Riley immediately contacted all the otheracting Big 12 coaches to see if they had any tendencies which Texas might exploit. He’s upset because they unanimously answered, “OU has the tendency to suck.”

Again, nevermind the politics of it - I remain most pissed off about the utter cruelty of him casually giving what any sane person knew was FALSE hope to factory workers in Ohio, coal minders in West Virginia, etc. "We're gonna make buggy whip manufacturing great again!" No. No you're not. It's not up to you. The laws of economics prevail, and those laws have dictated this trend for decades. Magic words from an orange man aren't going to change that. But desperate people have hope -- they WANT these things to be true, to they buy the line of bullshit. He's a con-man who sold a snake oil treatment to a critically ill patient who, in desperation, will try anything. And that patient is drinking the snake oil INSTEAD of undergoing the therapy that MIGHT save them - don't stay put and wait for your 1955 job to come back. Move to where the 2018 jobs are/learn how to do a 2018 job. Preying on the desperation of those people, not giving a rat's ass about how they are only going to get MORE fucked as time goes by -- that's just fucking cruel. And unforgivable. He's an evil fucker.

A point that is, as they say in both the hinterlands and the cities, utter bullshit. This Jesuit-educated poster, raised and schooled in a life of faith, is calling bullshit. If one of these families knocked on my door tonight, asking for help, my obligation per the gospel would be pretty clear and unambiguous: invite them in, feed them and shelter them. Maybe that would make me uncomfortable. Maybe it would cost me money. Living the gospel isn't supposed to make you comfortable. It's actually quite likely to make you UNcomfortable. Go on about your business, discuss immigration policy all you want. But if you ever want to wave the banner of Christ when you do so, you should just be aware that it says a lot of shit that's inconsistent with even MODERATE views on immigration (which makes sense -- Christianity is some radical shit. The empire may co-opt it for political purposes, but the empire hasn't re-written the gospels, and they are full of some radical shit).

What's he doing?

I was a regular poster on the Shag, but I've only been lurking ever since the domain change. I had an epiphany about our bowl scenario yesterday that was too good not to break my Surly silence... First, we mudhole the gooners this Saturday 45-35. Next, we play Georgia in the Sugar Bowl and win a close one. Next, Sam is asked in the post game interview: "You know the National Championship game is here next year, would you like to come back to New Orleans?". To which he promptly responds "Yes sir, we'll be baaaaack!!". Profit.

I'd like to personally thank Jimbo's roided up nephew for punching a dude with a pacemaker, getting his ass beat by Kevin Faulk, and then tattling on him (with obvious physical reenactment) to uncle Jimbo in front of TV cameras, for cancelling out a whole lot of the positive buzz around this game.

I’ve crunched the numbers and OU sucks.

1) Panera is chick food. It's okay, but nothing special. That said, when I am traveling with female colleagues, and there is a Panera in the airport, or near our destination, we often end up in one. I much prefer Jason's deli. 2) BUT, I think the thesis of the article is spot-on, and it addresses a much bigger problem we have -- the false dichotomy that is often boiled down to "that sucks, it's socialism, capitalism rules!" Which, in its application, actually means "anything that doesn't favor immediate yield/profit should be disdained as anti-capitalism!" As I've aged, and gotten a lot more real-world experience and perspective, I've become a lot more critical of Milton Friedman and what turned out to be simplistic views. A business and its place in an economy is a complex system. Reducing it to two simple measures - max money yield in minimum time - is not just simplistic, it's WRONG if your overall goal is actually a high-functioning economy. In simple metaphor terms, the short-term approach demands that all businesses plant crops that can be harvested in 60-90 days, so there's the shortest interval of time before you realize profits. That approach does not allow for anyone to plant trees, which will take 25 years to mature. That's folly, for several reasons (let's keep with the metaphor): on an annualized basis, the timber crop can yield profits greater than the short-term crops; the timber crop does far less damage to an important asset of any farm: the land; the long growth period of the timber crop allows the business to turn its attention to other things that may be profitable (leasing the land for hunting, maybe acquiring more land for different crops that can be grown on a shorter time-frame, thus diversifying the business, etc.). There are dozens of things that a business or society does that seem to be shouted down with "socialism!" simply because they don't yield an immediate profit. That leaves little room for long-term investment, which is necessary for a healthy, functioning economy. I remember as a kid, reading the economic cautionary tales of the Soviet Union, where they could grow great potato crops, but they'd rot in the barns because the Soviets hadn't invested in the necessary infrastructure to get the crops from farms to cities/market. Highways and bridges are a GREAT example of a long-term investment that costs money and doesn't yield direct profits. Yet, they are the lubricant that helps the rest of the economy flow, and are a force multiplier. Of course I haven't done the math, but it seems obvious that we end up with something that looks like "for every $1 spent on roads, $100 in commercial activity travels on that road over its lifetime." Simple public health measures have a similar calculus -- $1 to vaccinate a kid yields $100 in productivity that we don't lose because a parent has to stay home with a sick kid. Sure, it seems like a feel-good socialism thing to do, but it is actually a no-brainer economic move. Wages are another "investment." If you look at our "golden age" (around 1945 to 1975), you'll see steady wage growth. That allowed an American consumer class to grow, with real purchasing power, which pumped those wages back into the economy, leading to unprecedented growth in the American consumer goods industry (cars, tvs, etc.). An economy that invests in workers is an economy that creates consumers, which are the fuel for production. It's a long-term, collective benefit. It's like maintenance on property, a real-world economic activity (and man, do we see short-term investors cut corners on that). It costs money to do regular roof maintenance, but it keeps me from suffering interior structural rot. It costs money to replace worn out plumbing, but it keeps me from suffering a devastating flood. In the short term, by reducing the expense side of the ledger, I can show high profits from rental income. But the value of my core asset will actually be depreciating -- but what do I care, I increased profts by 7% this quarter, I got my bonus, and I'll be gone when the music stops and someone is stuck with a broken-down property that's worth far less than it would have been had it been maintained (in fact, the long-term investment yield of a well-maintained property can exceed the short term profits on an annualized basis). And we could go on, and on, and on with different examples and thoughts. Bottom line, we need to plant more trees. We need to invest in the things that yield long-term benefits, and contribute to the economy across the board. Will those things often make things better for people in general in the short term? Sure. But just because it's good for people doesn't mean it's socialism. We need to realize that good things are also good for business, if you take the long-term view of things. So, not socialism, but actually the opposite -- responsible and wise capitalism. I'm interested in reading more about Shaich's movement.