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South Austin

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  1. I wouldn't be surprised if he woke up, forgot what year it was, and referred to him as Little Marco.
  2. Yep. It's a huge fucking difference in the CFP committee's perception of Ole Miss as a playoff team. They might not go far without Kiffin at the helm, but their odds are a hell of a lot better with at least Weiss calling the plays. Ole Miss is in.
  3. Pretty sure BYU would hire a Scientologist.
  4. William F. Buckley, Jr. has never been in my kitchen.
  5. I thought that maybe a party in a suite hired the mariachi band to play for someone as a birthday surprise, and then they told the band, "Hey, there's a big football game going on out there. Want to play for the crowd during a break?"
  6. Weird. My wife asks me that all the time.
  7. Though I was far from objective, I had no problem with FSU getting left out. At the time, only four teams got a shot at the playoffs, and giving FSU one of those because of a 13-0 team that clearly did not reflect the strength of the team at the end of the season would have been a waste. The Texas/Washington and Michigan/Bama semi games were both competitive right to the end. If FSU got the nod over either Texas or Bama, the semis would have been a snooze fest. That's not what the playoff committee is trying to produce.
  8. This is a very good point. I recall FSU looking like dogshit and limping to a conference championship. Texas fans at the time were praying for Louisville to beat FSU in the conference title game, but apparently after that the committee thought, "Well, we've seen enough of FSU." If the committee debates at all whether to keep Ole Miss, I can see an argument of "Who knows how this same team will perform without Kiffin and the offensive staff" weighing in favor of giving them a shot.
  9. I get that perspective, and understand I'm arguing in a vacuum. But if part of the discussion is -- as it has been in the past -- who are the best teams right now for the playoffs, an 11-1 Ole Miss team right now is going to be worse that the same team was a week ago. That much worse to drop from playoff consideration completely? I don't know. But it's a valid discussion.
  10. Maybe. But in the discussions over whether to drop Ole Miss, or where to seed them if they are in, I can see committee discussion along the lines of: "Sure, their DC is staying. But who's calling the offensive plays? Who's scouting the first round opponent and formulating an offensive game plan? Who's managing the clock and making halftime adjustments on the offensive side of the ball?" I can't think of a data point for comparison, but has a highly-ranked team finished the regular season, only to play a bowl game after its head coach and offensive staff left the program? I have to imagine that throws even highly-talented teams in disarray.
  11. It's not a completely unreasonable decision for the committee to leave Ole Miss out of the playoffs. It's not just losing their head coach. Kiffin is taking the entire offensive staff with him. It's comparable to leaving out Florida State in 2023. FSU was undefeated and conference champions. But they lost Jordan Travis late in the season, and while they still won the rest of their games, they were a completely different team and everyone could see it on the field. Here's what the committee said: ESPN: Undefeated Florida State left out of College Football Playoff I'm still resigned to Texas getting left out. But dropping Ole Miss in the final CFP rankings has some precedent.
  12. That makes sense, because apparently the church's official position on caffeinated soda was released in 2012. NPR: Can Mormons Drink Coca-Cola?
  13. To clarify, the mental gymnastics of the Mormon church does not require abstinence from all caffeine, only "hot" drinks like coffee and tea. An in-house lawyer for one of my clients is a devout Mormon and drinks about 6 Diet Cokes a day.
  14. Most did, I'm sure. But we went with our best couple friends, and the wife is an aggy grad (though one of the least aggy aggys I know). She said before the game something along the lines of "We always shit the bed at some point in the season, and we haven't yet, so tonight is probably that time." She knew.
  15. I see no issue with this. You go to a restaurant to detain and deport the kitchen staff, you might as well get some delicious food first. Also, For God sake, if we're kicking them out of our country, then yes, please save the recipes. I don't want Cleetus making my enchilada plate.
  16. Communications Director seems a good fit for him.
  17. He seems like a lame white guy who sucks at parties. So he’d fit in quite well at BYU.
  18. They probably still think Vince Young is overrated.
  19. If we don't make the playoff, he shares the blame for not having his team ready for Florida. But still, glad to see he's not just sitting on his ass and is out there making a case.
  20. I for one trust what a Juilliard-trained physician has to say about the health of our President.
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