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Huckleberry

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  1. Here are the 2023 composite rankings of dozens of objective systems of these two sets of opponents. Rankings from here: https://masseyratings.com/ranks?s=cf 2023 Big 12 final 5 regular season games: #76 BYU #15 Kansas St. #53 TCU #35 Iowa St. #38 Texas Tech 2024 SEC final 5 regular season games: #111 Vanderbilt #59 Florida #81 Arkansas #41 Kentucky #34 Texas A&M There's definitely someone in this discussion who is blinded by BS, but it's not who you think it is. I was wrong, though. The Big 12 stretch isn't just comparable, it's objectively tougher than the SEC stretch. You better hope they all get better for your argument, because you need them all to improve by an average of 22 ranking spots to even up those schedules. Holy shit the SEC top-to-bottom toughness is such bullshit.
  2. We don't know that because it's wrong. And the orange-colored glasses accusation doesn't even make any sense because I'm comparing one Texas schedule to another. You have swallowed the kool-aid but that doesn't mean everyone else has to do it. The SEC is not "top to bottom" stronger than the Big 12 since existence. Its top teams have been stronger over time. There have always been crappy teams in the SEC and there have been at least a half dozen seasons where the Big 12 was a better conference than the SEC (before teams started defecting). It's not naïve, it's objective fact, at least objective fact from the perspective that I think my objective computer measures are solid. Vanderbilt, Florida, Arkansas, Kentucky, Texas A&M next year is at this point objectively pretty much the same as BYU, Kansas State, TCU, Iowa State, Texas Tech was this year.
  3. lulz I mean some team will probably step up but as of right now we finish with 5 straight games against teams more likely to be unranked than ranked. At least none of them are considered Top 25 in any of the early preseason lists.
  4. How are the Nationals not named after a city? The City of Washington is coterminus with the District of Columbia but it wasn't always.
  5. Obviously I'm sure he's new to that area but it still looks funny to say you signed an international free agent from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
  6. Oh sweet Jesus please happen. Tired of the Ohio Shitheads never completely missing on a hire.
  7. Because Alabama and Georgia never had close games against weaker competition.
  8. Yeah, loving Blues Brothers and hating Christmas Vacation raises a lot of questions about texifornia's childhood. That's some weird shit. Now personally I don't hate Blues Brothers, it's fairly average with some good moments. But the above opinion is wild.
  9. We're in the SEC the same year there's a 12 team playoff starting. It's essentially impossible to back into anything now. Hoping Alabama stays like they've been is silly. Try hoping Texas takes that position instead.
  10. For real. Last time I was down there for a cousins graduation (against my will) was 2011 and it was nowhere near what I consider a metro area. To me it was like a smallish/medium sized Texas city that runs together with a small city that grew up around a college..far from a metro area. As I've always said, it's a suburb without an urb, which makes it completely shitty.
  11. Correct, they can only get out of the NLI if we release them. But I believe the NLI still binds them for a full year, correct?
  12. How would it be a conflict of interest? His duty is to his clients and he's helping all of them make more money by using them to help each other. A conflict would be if he was getting paid by the schools.
  13. The good news would be you tell him he's on the hot seat after a loss and probably win some money after he attacks you if you get close enough.
  14. The room would be there if current Tide players leave in the next four weeks.
  15. My first assumption is that if he has space lots of these UW guys are planning to follow DeBoer to Alabama.
  16. Hire a new coach who had exactly 3 losses in his last two seasons at a powerish school including a Sugar Bowl win? Texas did do that.
  17. No, I'm talking about the reasoning being that none of them have caught touchdowns in national championship games. I agree the group as a whole may be weaker (but as someone else mentioned you're talking top 2 while as pass catching threats the top 3 next season may be better - no disrespect to Whittington but he made lots plays when the design made it easy but brought a ton of other value), but leaning on that is silly. It means almost no team ever has a great receiving corps heading into a season.
  18. No but it was funny because you're being absurd.
  19. Yep, I graduated in '99 and used TEX every semester. My Goodbye and Good Luck cap was like a beacon for 45 and older fans at the Sugar Bowl while those under that age didn't give it a second look.
  20. I figure leave it. We don't have threads for other individual schools' coaching searches usually. And his replacement is directly related.
  21. A guy who has been coaching way longer has way more results? No way.
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