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That 4 week stretch away from home sucked (I think I saw longest stretch between home games in the country) but at least the well timed bye week helped us get healthy.
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Like one of the dad's (who's daughter was there and thankfully fine) told me after doing back of envelope math on revenue the Eastlands took in annually and bitching about their lack of preparation "you would think they could have at least afforded somefucking satellite phones"
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I think it should be one or the other. Either ATC and TSA get paid during a shutdown as essential employees or everything needs to just flat out close so there are real risks to a deadline so all the worthless politicians would never let it get this far. Because it's bullshit for all of these people we NEED to work to continue to show up without a paycheck. Saying this as someone currently on a flight to LGA. I thanked and chatted with TSA folks (minimal lines at DAL tonight) and they are hopeful and being told if bill signed soon they will get checks no later than Monday.
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That's the thing. There aren't any sure things out there. I don't love Kiffen at all and would be very nervous but who else would you feel good about? I've said it before, but there really isn't a single fanbase consistently happy with their coach. Very few fanbases of 'top' programs have adjusted to the new reality. I personally hope Sark sees it through and pushes to win a title before leaving. Job here doesn't seem finished yet. I think we made mistakes this offseason that can be corrected to make a run next year, but as we've discussed, the roster parity these days is real and that's only going one direction.
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I think what eventually happens if more Auto qualifiers are added is an intra-conference playoff that doesn't determine a "conference champion" but determines remaining playoff spots. For example, if SEC had 4 auto qualifiers, something like top 2 SEC teams qualify automatically and get a "bye' that weekend into the playoff and then the seed 3 plays seed 6 and seed 4 plays seed 5 on "conference championship day" to lock up the remaining 2 auto qualifier spots. Solves the issue of meaningless SEC championship games (from a playoff perspective) and adds an additional high $$ game to sell to the networks.
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This 100%. The Austin loss was a beatdown but we outplayed them in the Championship game and should have won but somehow most seem to have forgotten that. OT game with 2 missed FG's in regulation, a pick 6 that would have won it if Guilbeau doesn't celebrate and simply gets in the way and officiating so bad Sark (for the only time I can remember) had to say something about it at halftime. Yes, UGA made some plays in the 2nd half and OT to win but we outplayed them that game
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I agree with the first 2. Would be nervous with Kiffin. On one hand the results speak for themselves. But I also heard from people in coaching circles he has a rep as difficult to work for, checks out on details and kind of an organizational mess. But I've heard that and then he wins 10+ games every year with decently high staff turnover so maybe whatever he does is right and he would kill it. I just question if he could handle the Texas job + living in a city again (he desperately wanted miami for miami reasons purportedly but maybe he's grown out of that). Of course, I also can't necessarily think of a better #3 off the top of my head so maybe that order is right.
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Your lame schtick is beyond tiring. It's not "honest opinions" - It's constant negative gloom and doom bullshit before every game is played and then excusing away success when it happens. You hate everything about Sark and this football team. We get it. That's fine. Go find a team you actually like and support them so everyone else isn't subjected to your constant bitching.
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I mean yes, and GT absolutely did, but that was weeks ago. I'm not disagreeing with the new ranking. Miami would probably be favored by close 7 over GT on a neutral field. I'm saying they had to have heard the criticism last week as nothing that happened on the field could justify the flip flop. I mean we all know this but just further proof the committee can just kind of do what they want week to week without logic.
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The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
Skipper replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Other Sports
Yeah, not many questioning that trade at this point after he started slow post trade. And given recent contracts looks like a great deal for the Stars. -
Miami jumping Georgia Tech while they beat an awful Syracuse team (and GT was on a bye) is hard to reconcile. They just heard criticism so bumped Miami up? Also, as predicted, they may end up backing themselves into a corner based on where they slotted Utah last week (had to keep BYU in front of them) but we'll see how it plays out. The non-ACC teams behind those 2 all have opportunities for resume wins where they could jump them.
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I get that. But also, any competent AD should have a "war plan" gamed out for firing a coach with a thorough understanding of contractual requirements (particularly if there is a big buyout and there are issues that give you leverage for a 'for cause' firing). I mean this should be sitting locked in a file for every AD no matter how currently happy they are with their coach. It's just common sense given the buyout figures involved. If the idiot politicians gave an order unexpectedly, they still should have had a plan ready to execute. Like I said, this seems like a clown show across the board which is frankly not at all surprising for LSU.
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I think the 10-2 Vandy vs. 9-3 Texas would be fascinating. I don't think current "playoff" eyeballs that would be the debate in the room as much as the bigger picture "eyeballs" with non-conference inventory and whether to give Texas the nod to encourage difficult OOC matchups. As we know TX-OSU is highest rated game of the year to date. Klatt had a segment on this I thought was pretty interesting. He said flat out there is a lot of 'back room' pressure not to punish teams for losing tough OOC games so the leagues and networks get the matchups they want. He said at some point there was a model floated where 'points' are assigned for wins/losses to determine playoffs and in that model, for example, Texas would have gotten more "points" for losing to OSU than blowing out a directional school. 10-2 Vandy vs. 9-3 Texas would be perfect scenario to put that to the test and the Committee would always have the excuse to just claim H2H was the driver of slotting TX ahead.
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LOL. What a clown show if this is accurate. If your goal was to negotiate the buyout, how do you not have your ducks in a row from a leverage perspective as the season started going downhill and this was a possibility? Amateur hour all around.
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25-26 Dallas Mavericks Thread: The Season of Our Discontent
Skipper replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Basketball
Another nice next step would be settling the petty bullshit with the only fucking successful franchise in town as the Mavs look like an absolute shit partner in the Stars ordeal as well the more I've read about it. So do that, publicly apologize and admit you made a massive fucking mistake with the trade, then hire someone that is going to just blow it all up and start a rebuild around Flagg. That might be something I can start supporting again. Obviously the best case would be Adelson/Dumont is over all of this shit and just sells the team but doubt we're that lucky.
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