BradInATX

What do you think this graph shows/tells us?

I still have no idea what this team will end up being but damn if it isn't fun to watch an athletic squad of young guys. We haven't had this kind of athleticism since the last millennium.

I like this. Well thought out. Lots of pretty extreme expectations on this thread. Covid alone will occupy a significant portion of his first year. Covid and stimulus followed by voting rights is a good and attainable goal. Year two can have more focus on the nice-to-haves.

You must not have been reading this board lately. The GOP is splitting in half and is done for at least a decade.

Let's see how the last page of this thread ages when the Republicans successfully implement their plan of shifting their image to the party of the blue collar, including Hispanics, and take over that mantra while they (and the Democrats themselves) paint team blue into a corner of SJWs and woke elitists. Because that's what's probably going to happen and all of this fan fiction about Republicans being in trouble is probably going to unravel as soon as 2022.

Separation makes sense. The big vax sites like the Alamodome obviously would be really easy, just use different gates. I think you have to combine the pools of people into the same vaccination rooms or whatever, just keep them very socially distanced. The whole point of my plan would be to have everyone present and ready to go so you're at 100% efficiency distributing the shots. I'm honestly not that concerned that a bunch of people all wearing masks standing in lines outside then going indoors for 10 minutes is a super-spreader risk. I don't believe the "so and so told me that Bill told them that Mary Lou got Covid at the vaccine line" type stuff you hear online. I'm also assuming that they're checking temperature and screening for symptoms.

I'm sort of at that point myself. I went a couple rounds with @royiv about making sure that healthcare workers got them before people started trying to skip the line. But at this point I'm pretty confident that every healthcare worker that wanted the shot has the shot. Just get the shit into arms. IMO the big distribution centers should be setup like airport security. A precheck line for the olds and people with disability, and a cattle call line for regular people. Precheck skips the line, cattle call line moves as spots open. Still prioritizing the olds and fats, but making sure shots are getting arms as quickly as possible. No appointments. Democratize the shit. The ones that want it the most right away (and probably need it the most) will go stand in line for six hours to get it. Assholes like me who aren't in a risk group will wait a couple of months for the lines to die down. I should be on the city council.

This might be true. I really hate Bon Jovi.

To be honest, I didn't realize these were two separate things. I've never watched an inauguration or the made for TV nonsense afterwards. That's slightly less offensive. I still stand by the point though. It's a bunch of white Hollywood elites, bar Bon Jovi who is fucking terrible anyway. Get some middle America in there. Get some minorities in there. You can get stuff that isn't considered Hollywood and still have the performers not be Trumpers. Call up Sturgill Simpson. Get some people of color. It's four white people, three that are Hollywood/Cali types, and one that sucks shit through a straw. It's terrible. It reads exactly like the list that a San Francisco marketing company that employs nothing but super-white millennials that go to brunch twice a week would come up with. Complete with them throwing a single minority in at the very bottom of the card because they called up Hanks, Timberlake, Bon Jovi, and Lovato and then realized "oops, we don't have any PoC - fuck, we gotta get one in there!". It's insulting to the people that put them in office. I know in the grand scheme of things it's not a big deal, but it's microcosmic of the type of bullshit that cost Hillary the rust belt and gave us four years of Trump.

LOL. Yep, I'm the only one in the world who thinks that the 2020 college football season was a (admittedly entertaining) frankenstein bastard monster of what a real college football season should look like. You're really smashing them out of the park today. I can't help but wonder who in your life is so stupid that you've grown accustomed to these weak ass gaslighting attempts actually working.

If Bartles was really interested in painting a true picture of college football in 2020, his updates would include total D1 games played/cancelled, total games with ranked teams played/cancelled, and some accounting for how full-strength teams are when they play; I'd probably use average players inactive by week historically, then compare to this year. That's how you get a true capture of the full landscape. But of course every single person in this thread knows that the entire purpose of Bartles' updates is to spike the football, not to actually give a factual update of the state of the game. Otherwise cool gaslighting. You already know that won't work on me, though.

And the three previous lists are much more Americana/blue-collar focused. Biden's is almost purely California and Hollywood. And it's a bunch of fucking lilly-white people.

We're in the middle of a pandemic.

"Man, we really have got to get back to our blue collar roots and win union workers and hispanics back" - Democrats "Hey America, we're going to turn Biden's inauguration into a star-studded Hollywood spectacle in the middle of a pandemic, featuring Justin Timberlake and and Demo Lovato! That's really targeting our audience - good job everyone." - Also Democrats They just can't help themselves. I just can't with these tonedeaf self-fellating idiots sometimes.

Got you. But the aggy game would not have been worthless when originally scheduled. I don't know about the other two, but those teams were all pretty shitty, so we didn't lose much. Overarching point, though, is that there was a ton of that that gets missed in the "X% of games got played" narrative. A good deal of games ended up played, but a rescheduled date with diminished meaning (and opt-outs, players out with Covid, etc.). The marquee matchup of the entire regular season (Clemson/ND) was missing the best player in college football. That stat doesn't account for the fact that we missed out on a ton of great matchups. We lost some of the best OOC games in recent memory. We lost our LSU game. Ohio State vs. Oregon was lost and had huge CFP implications. USC vs. Alabama - same thing. Cincinnati missed a chance to prove themselves against Nebraska, which could have changed the CFP calculus (probably not, but if they blew them out, who knows). FSU vs. Boise. UNC vs. UCF. Notre Dame vs. Wisconsin. Auburn vs. UNC. One that I was really sad to see go was Coastal vs. ULL - that was probably going to be a great, fun game. The list goes on and on. Four of the six games I listed, which were great matchups with significant implications, get lost in the cherry-picked math of "P5 vs. P5". The intellectually honest thing to do is to admit that yeah, the season was still pretty fun and it was a net positive to society, but that it was a shit show, and we missed out on a lot of great, meaningful college football. Not use cherry-picked stats to attempt to make a point that anyone with two eyes knows is wrong.

Point was you were saying that they were scheduled for the week before, which would have made them all have a similar lack of stakes as when they were played. But the aggy game was scheduled for 3 or 4 weeks earlier, when the game was actually quite meaningful for aggy. Much more so than when it was played.

I literally bookended the paragraph you bolded by stating, twice, that I enjoyed the season and was glad we had it. "WHY DO YOU HATE COLLEGE FOOTBALL?!" Try to keep up.

They weren't scheduled the week before. The aggy game was scheduled for November 11. Had it been played as scheduled they would have been alive for the SEC title and very much alive for the CFP. When it was played, they were out of SEC contention and basically out of CFP contention barring a huge upset on conference championship weekend. Let's try to be honest when we're discussing these things.

I don't think you can rule out a change of scenery revitalizing him. We fired smokes weed and eats Pringles all day Mack Brown and now he's "eats a healthy diet and works out" Mack at UNC. Plus he might stay home more when he realizes the women in NYC are overrated and pale in comparison to Texas.

There were also three played on the same day as the conference championship which rendered them completely meaningless from a conference perspective.

I'm just here to post this

I mean I know most of those guys (don't know Cabarot or Reggie Perry). I guess looking for more of an updated depth chart. I'm assuming they're going to have to bring in some vets or G-Leaguers just to have enough bodies?

Can anyone who has watched all of Raised by Wolves help me out? Spoiler tag it or PM me or whatever. Do they kill off kids in the show? Want to watch it but wife has post-baby raging hormones and doesn't want to watch anything too dark with kids. TIA

Can one of you KD guys break down what the Nets have left roster wise? The big 3, deandre jordan, and Steve Nash are the new starting 5 I presume?

Intellectually honest would be comparing how many p5 vs. p5 bowls were played this year vs. past years. Since 2017 the average is right around 20 per year. They played 13, so we lost a full 1/3rd of P5 vs. P5 bowl games. And a big chunk of the remainder were unwatachable beacuse of optouts or because the P5 team featured was a trash can of a sub-.500 team. We lost more than 60 D1 games and more than 40 conference games. A team that won six games made the CFP. The Pac 12 championship game featured a 4-2 team that finished #3. And they won. The Outback bowl featured a 4-5 team. The Gator bowl had a 4-6 team. A 3-7 team played a bowl game on national television. The Rose Bowl was played in Arlington Texas. Bottom line is Surly's little band of "hurr durr it's just the flu" mouth breathers can cherry pick stats all you want, but anyone with a pulse knows this was a fucked up season that held more entertainment value in the novelty of the trainwreck than it did as an actual road to crowning champions. It was fun. I do concede that ultimately the best team won the title. Bama wouldn't have lost whether they played 5 or 50 games. But it wasn't the "ho hum all is well great season boys!" BS that you're selling.