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  1. I get that it used to be done, but seems strange at this point. At least it's limited to the points places in order to earn the point. Otherwise you'd see all the cars in 11th and lower positions coming in for new tires on the third to last lap to make one big run at it on fresh tires and low fuel loads. Not that they'd have a real high probability of hitting the fastest lap but there'd be no reason not to try. And if a front running car had some sort of wing damage early in the race and found themselves in something like 12th place with 3 laps to go they absolutely would do that.

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  2. 39 minutes ago, satyanash said:

    Suddenly I'm glad Texas has struggled to recruit IMG kids... not that it did any good for men's tennis

    So we've been led to believe for years that Stanford doesn't lower admissions requirements for recruits, even in football.

    Today we find out that is complete and total bullshit. It's apparently worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for their fucking SAILING coach to say you're a recruited athlete in order to help with the admissions process.

    The entire brand and aura they've created around getting admitted as a football recruit is one hundred percent bullshit.

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  3. But that's also simply school policy. The so-called recruits would still have to hit NCAA minimums for eligibility. The fact that the school might admit a lesser student if they're an athlete has nothing to do with the NCAA (see the Stanford bogeyman on the recruiting forum).

  4. Haven't read anything on that "proposal" but it would also seem at first glance to favor people who are already in a better financial situation. Poorer people tend to have children younger and therefore won't have as much social security savings as richer people who have kids later.

  5. This seems like a purely FBI and legal issue. To be honest, it sounds like the athletic programs were hurt, if anything, by the scheme. The entire concept was that unworthy athletes were being admitted as members of teams they weren't good enough to be on. Now obviously they probably just "quit" the team once they were enrolled, but I honestly don't see why the NCAA would punish anyone. It's completely up to each athletics program what students they allow on their teams.

  6. 13 hours ago, ShaggyBevo RIP said:

    Um, you do know that quite a bit of that was related to being a 1 deep team at many positions?

    This is completely wrong.

    When Texas was leading by 14+ points in the fourth quarter last season they were outscored 80-3. When the game was closer or Texas was losing in the 4th quarter Texas was outscored 68-55. Depth explains a very small amount of the situation. Inability to put teams away was a much bigger factor.

    The only points Texas scored when up by 14+ in the fourth quarter last season were from a field goal against Kansas to stretch the lead to 24-7.

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  7. Is that really going to have anything to do with the basketball situation? Hard to sneak a basketball recruit into a major school who doesn't actually play basketball. I would imagine it's more like the Loughlin deal with the crew team. Basically squads that nobody pays attention to anyway.

  8. Texas A&M in SEC with Big 12 recruits: 28-11 overall, 13-11 conference
    Texas A&M in SEC with SEC recruits: 32-20 overall, 17-15 conference

    Missouri in SEC with Big 12 recruits: 28-12 overall, 16-8 conference
    Missouri in SEC with SEC recruits: 24-25 overall, 11-21 conference

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  9. Ha, that guy deleted his Twitter, I assume hoping he could do so before people found even worse stuff on it.

    When you make me root for Russell Westbrook and anything having to do with Oklahoma without reservation you have to be a real piece of shit.

     

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  10. 11 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

     

    Eh, no he wasn't. Deep accuracy is one of the things he can greatly improve. He placed jump balls to Johnson nicely, though. But he missed Duvernay about a half dozen times on long gainers (not even including stuff like the one where Duvernay laid out against Maryland).

    He had a great season so finding areas for improvement will be a little nitpicky, but calling him extremely accurate on deep balls is, uh, inaccurate.

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  11. I actually think it was more because of Larson's acting, on which we also agree. She didn't convey the intensity or depth of the mental and emotional struggles at all.

    I actually told my family yesterday I almost wish Johansson hadn't been Black Widow so she could be CM now. Larson would have been fine playing Romanoff's assassin-who-is-trained-to-be-emotionless character.

  12. There have been plenty of bad reviews. I saw a bad review from a Buzzfeed girl, the opposite of an incel-type.
    I liked the movie just fine as mindless adventure but it's biggest problem is it confuses "heroic" with "most powerful." Just by giving Carol the most powers doesn't mean people are going to love her. Other heroic female characters mentioned in this thread (Ripley, Nikita, Alita) had scenes where they fought against true adversity. There wasn't even a hint of that for Captain Marvel in this movie. Everything comes easy to her.


    Her struggles were mental. That makes complete sense with a character that powerful (and that's the reason such supercharged characters are difficult to write).

    I know she was a fighter pilot but within the first minute of learning she can fly she's doing maneuvers? Can we have maybe 15 seconds of her struggling to figure it out at least?


    This complaint doesn't make any sense. This is a standard movie trope that has been used thousands of times. Star Wars is a classic example. Independence Day Day as well. If a character is a great pilot (and the story clearly relayed that she and Rambeau were great pilots only held back by females not being allowed in combat back then) then they can fly anything. If they're a great driver they can drive anything. Et cetera.

    The other thing is that Larson played her too stoic, either by choice or that's the way she is. There's very little charisma there. It's almost not fair to have her on screen at the same time with Scarlett Johannsen.

    I can't believe the directors went with that take in the mid credit scene. They weren't like "Brie, can you do it again, with a little more authority?"

    I think her character will be better in Endgame.


    100% agree with this part. Larson is not a good actor. Rambeau acted circles around her in limited screen time. Larson seems almost physically unable to communicate emotions with facial expressions.
  13. and why is there a market for Ehlinger jerseys? Would this market exist if Ehlinger was the QB at West Texas State? Would this thread even exist if Sam played at West Texas State? Would Sam even have the current platform he does at West Texas State? When the next #11 at Texas comes along, is that market being driven by Ehlinger, Derrick Johnson, Major Applewhite, Ricky Williams, Ramonce Taylor, etc.
    Who gives a shit?

    If football had never been invented would there be a market for Tom Brady jerseys? How does that matter at all when it comes to Brady's right to profit from those sales?

    And those of you arguing that players don't create value are incredibly stupid. If Texas and SMU swapped players over the last 25 years, what do you think the change in Texas brand value would be?
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  14. 18 hours ago, satyanash said:

    Like hell. A&M, Ohio State, and Michigan could and would pony up $12.9 million without a second thought in our situation.

    Stick to wailing and gnashing your teeth on the recruiting forum. Weeping in fear and jealousy of A&M's prowess makes even less sense in the basketball forum than it does over there. And that's saying something.

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  15. Not a good day for EPL refs. Sterling was offside.


    Meh, that call could go either way. He probably could have been called because he pressured the ball but the defender clearly played it off him.
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