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  1. Is it wrong to believe UCF has no legitimate claim yet hope they prevail so we can get an 8-team playoff?

    1 minute ago, Mileslong said:


    UCF isn’t going to have any effect on going to an 8 team playoff. Few enough words for you?

    I couldn’t care less what you think. 

  2. 24 minutes ago, Mileslong said:

    that should tell you all you need to know.  less words, better content. let me break down very quickly and easy for you understand.  you say UCF doesn't have the leverage to schedule good OOC games.  this little list shows all my points.  Just a sample starting at 2010, didnt look at their entire history.

    1) they can schedule good OOC teams if they want to. 

    2) When they do play good teams they lose 90% of the time.

    Shows regular season games and results of any decent non OOC games.  they typically have one OOC and the rest are scrubs from CUSA, Sun Belt, FCS, MAC Etc.

    2010: Kansas State - L

    2011: Boston College - W

    2012: Ohio State - L

    2013: Penn State - W, South Carolina - L

    2014: Penn State - L, Mizzou - L

    2015: Standford - L, South Carolina - L

    2016: Michigan - L, Maryland - L

    2017: Pitt - W

    Not one win against a good team and all losses against any good teams.  Their one signature win was against an Auburn team that didn't show up after getting blown out in the SEC champ to Georgia.

    Again and for the last time, when you play a schedule ranked 124th +/- you don't deserve a playoff spot.  if you want a spot, keep scheduling G5 teams and start beating them. do it enough and you will be considered possibly.  it there were 8 teams then last years team should have gone possibly.  put them in the big 12 and they would never win it.

    fewer words

  3. 19 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:

    Supposedly, that was the reason Ricky Williams cut his hair when he went to the NFL.  That and his dreads looked ridiculous in a wedding gown.

    For years, the NFL refrained from making any rules about hair. But in 2003, it enacted the “Ricky Rule,” which deemed hair part of an athlete’s uniform. This gave players the green light to grab an opponent’s hair to pull him down. The rule’s namesake, Ricky Williams, is a former NFL tailback who has the dubious distinction of being tackled by his dreads twice in one game. 

    Begs the question, when OSU holds Hager by the hair, will they call it?  Duh, of course not. 

  4. 23 hours ago, Tired of Lurking said:

    Meh, we had three opportunities in the 4th to win that game. Giving up the first score took the wind out of their sails, sure, but I don't think it was insurmountable. I was shitting more bricks with how the defense got carved up against OU than in that one.

    As opposed to three opportunities to pad our lead?  Nice. 

  5. When my grandfather left the farm to join my grandmother in the “rest home,” his children and grandchildren descended on the farm like vultures. Well, the ones who lived close by did, while those of us several states away got what they didn’t want.

    My dad flew back to Texas after he got his chance to get some of his parents’ things. Included in his take was the meat cleaver he mistakenly packed in his carry on (much hilarity ensued at the airport). He must have had to forfeit that item, because it wasn’t found among his things when he died earlier this year  

    I think the lessons of my extended family’s behavior stuck with me and my sisters. We didn’t squabble over anything when our parents died.

  6. Tell your mom to say nothing so the boat will flip completely over.

    Seriously, put me down in the “tell her nicely that granny’s kids should decide as a group who gets what AFTER granny dies” camp. They may have to draw straws or have a “draft” to determine who gets what, but don’t do anything that might get other people thinking about maneuvering to get the booty. 

  7. 3 hours ago, rpspeed said:

    I think the 2nd half might have been a tie between his love affair with  Brewer and mentioning how Baylor actually dominated the game except for the last 4 minutes of the 2nd qtr.

    I think he gave us credit for 4-1/2 minutes. 

    Why didn’t Charlie walk on at a Texas like Brockermeyer’s kid and dozens of others? Do the Brewers live in the poor section of Lake Travis?

    Edit:  Like Blanton said, except I think they may be poor.

  8. 1 hour ago, Lat22 said:

    Jeff Ward made his kicks. 

    Except when we needed it most. In the 1984 Cotton Bowl vs Georgia, Ward made 3 FGs, two of which were glorified extra points. He missed more FGs that game than he missed the entire season. We lost the game 10-9, and along with it the MNC.

    FML

    Edit:  Yes, I know he was a freshman. 

  9. 7 hours ago, Stoogey said:

    Gas station maps. Forgot all about those. When I bought my first car I went to the map store and bought the tear-resistant map and street atlases for the glovebox.

    Navigated from the passenger seat while my dad drove. 

    Drew detailed neighborhood maps for my first science fair to illustrate different scales. 

    A friend had a 3D topographic map in his cubicle and I commented how nice it was. "Yeah, I really love maps." He must have. Worked as an emergency road service dispatcher for AAA. 

    Gas station maps ftw. The station I always go to is nothing special, but I’m a loyal customer because they have a display of free state maps from most of the fly-over states west of the Mississippi (except cheap-ass Minnesota doesn’t give out free maps). And yes, I have at least one of each in both of our cars plus a set at home. 

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  10. On 10/9/2018 at 3:15 PM, Whatever said:

    Same here.  Can look at a map of Texas for hours.

    I had a drawer stuffed with maps when I was a kid. Every gas station we stopped at was thoroughly plundered and pillaged of Maps. I was never really bored on trips, 40+ years before smart phones.

    Not the least bit embarrassed to admit.

    I don’t know how anyone can develop of mental map from using a map app or GPS. The finer details disappear when you pan out and the surrounding territory is obviously lost once you zoom in. Give me a few minutes with a paper map, and I have a navigable version right there in the old noggin.  /getoffmylawn

    Wrong thread, I know. 

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