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Ojo Rojo

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  1. Agree. So go back to one signing day in February. Leave the 30 day portal window for players whose coach was fired. That way, if schools try to fire a coach the day after signing day then all the kids they just signed can jump ship. Does that fix it?
  2. The rules don't speak to that. Only conference champions have any guarantees. Besides, you could argue that the best two teams in the conference aren't in the CCG. Bama could be the fourth best team, but yet made the CCG.
  3. This is a fact: the committee isn't going to make any choices based on the consequences of those choices on scheduling, TV dollars, meaningfulness of CCGs, etc. They will base those decisions only on one question: Which 12 teams are the best in the country? Unfortunately, the criteria they use to answer that question relies too heavily on W/L record. Why? Mostly tradition. College football is fucked up. Whoever has the power to change it should...wait...there is no one who has the power to do that. Which is why we have this fucked up system. The individual schools are all acting in their own financial self-interest. The culmination of those decisions is why we have this system. There has yet to be a financial incentive for that to change, which is why it hasn't. It's sad that no one can recognize the value of anything as greater than money, like cooperation, integrity, loyalty, etc. I guess until fans push back on this shitty system in a way that actually registers a financial loss, then nothing will change.
  4. This whole thing is really shitty. Whoever is responsible for the current rules sucks. The rules surrounding the calendar created this situation. Both parties did what they had to do, which sucks for the coach, the institution, the players, the coaching staff, everyone involved. Lane Kiffin might be a giant piece of shit; the Ole Miss AD might be a giant dumbass, but neither side is at fault for how this played out. It's really unfortunate and should be changed immediately.
  5. Gross
  6. If BYU loses how are we not in over them? Same with Bama? We beat a team that beat them; they beat a team that beat us. But the team that beat them is lower ranked than the team that beat us. Both have a shitty loss, but the shitty team we lost to just blew out the shitty team they lost to. Both would have a loss to Georgia. Their win over Georgia would be better than our win over a&m.
  7. The different iterations of the playoff system required different scheduling strategies. The goalposts keep moving. In the past, having a strong OOC win was an important data point that could mean the difference bw in or out. A loss in a game like that, along with an undefeated or at most one-loss conference record meant you could still get in. So the cost/benefit made sense. Now, with the expanded field and auto bid situation, it no longer does. In hindsight, the tOSU was the difference bw being in or out, all else remaining the same. The playoff system for college football is absurd, and always has been. When the system was created, with polls and bowls, less money at stake and all the rest no one foresaw where it was going to go. Change has been slow and difficult, all because of money and the relative power of everyone at the trough. The point of the playoff has never been about what is best for the fans, certainly, or the teams - players and coaches - but the institutions with the most power, the TV networks, the schools and conferences. From an organizational standpoint, the P4 and G5 should be separate divisions. I have no fucking idea why the G5 has an iota of leverage to give them a guaranteed spot other than pure charity. It's total bullshit. They have no chance at a title and absolutely don't belong. The P4 need to just take over college football entirely and officially from the NCAA. It's already slowly mostly happened. The conferences need to realign into 8 or 10 team divisions that are roughly equal. With 8, top two from each division make the 16 team playoff. Conferences cease to exist. CCGs cease to exist. With roughly 64 teams and a robust set of scheduling rules we would have more higher quality games in the regular season. The patty-cake games should go away altogether. The above scenario would probably result in higher revenue. The new Division two would have their own playoffs and a legit chance for a national championship those schools have never had. All of this said, it would require some entities with power to give it up so it will probably never happen. Also, the chaos and madness is part of what I hate and love most about CFB. So in the end the excitement, intrigue and distraction value is probably a wash.
  8. Strong OOC games only matter if you win. That's the only way any of this makes sense. The single biggest factor is number of losses, and it doesn't matter who those losses are to. The selection process is not putting the 12 best teams in the playoff, which is what it should be. We beat two, maybe 3 playoff teams; we lost to two other playoff teams. I think that proves we belong in the mix.
  9. WTF was that, LSU? Horribad.
  10. Same. I'm part of two different Scout groups - one Boy Scout and one Cub Scout. I'm a den leader for the pack and on the parent committee for the troop. I've been on many campouts and other events and I can happily say that politics never came up. I have occasional thoughts about where certain people stand politically, but it's not germane to what we're doing. Both groups have a lot of really high-quality people running them, so we've been lucky, I guess.
  11. I agree that "good losses" are an aggie thing, but a loss to OSU is different than a loss to Arizona St.
  12. Huh? I think you missed the point about the rankings being bullshit. In fact, there shouldn't even be a fucking preseason ranking. That's probably dumbest of all.
  13. I just imagine David Attenborough narrating: "In the first video, we see the model image of what corps members see as the ideal Aggie - the yell leaders. Voted on by the cadets, these individuals are the most bought-in to Aggie tradition." "In the second video, we see the bizarre tradition of first year cadets, who they refer to as "fish," chasing down and capturing the yell leaders in a simulated gang rape ritual." "In the third video we again see the yell leaders at what the Aggies call "Midnight Yell," where the students gather in the stadium at night to worship the yell leaders and practice their chants. In perhaps the most disconnected of all Aggie traditions is the yell leaders using strange body language and intonations while making "jokes" about the opposing team. In a show of solidarity and hero-worship, the students pretend to laugh." "Finally, we see the essence of Aggie corps culture - the awkward language and actions of closeted and conservative homosexuals who, being insulated from outside opinions through their elevated status and praise of their fellow Aggies, have no idea how strange and ridiculous they actually are. It's a sad tale."
  14. The rankings are bullshit. Head-to-head wins don't matter. Strength of schedule doesn't matter. The metric should be - if these two teams played, who would likely win? We have losses to the No. 1 and 4 teams in the country. In a vacuum, that could mean that you are ranked as high as No. 5. But it almost never does. The loss to Florida fucked us in this current system. Losses to unranked teams count too much. Losses to higher ranked teams, especially in the Top 10, don't count as a positive factor at all. Use the head-to-head metric. Who would likely win if we played Tech, BYU, Miami? We'd win every one of those games. We've already beaten Vanderbilt (12) and OU (8). How the fuck are teams we beat "better" than us? Makes no fucking sense. I'd take our odds against anyone ranked outside of the top 4. Oregon lost to the only really good team they played. Penn St. was No. 3 at the time Oregon beat them, but that ranking has proven to be way fucked. Wins at Iowa at 20? USC at 15? Please. Our wins over OU and Vandy are both better than those. Ole Miss lost to Georgia by 8; we lost by 25. They have wins over LSU (then No. 4) and OU. I'd say they should be ranked ahead of us. Tech hasn't played a bluebood. Wins over No. 16 Utah and No. 7 BYU. And a loss to unranked Arizona St. No fucking way they should be ranked ahead of us. ND lost to Miami and A&M. They had no other games against really good teams. USC and Pitt are their best wins. Fucking please. I could go on and on.
  15. Me: So what do we have going on this weekend? Her: Well, today (Thursday) you pick up boys X, Y, Z from school and I'll come get them at your office at 4:30. You then have a Scouts meeting at 6:30. What time will you be home? I need you to be home by 6 so I can take boy X to baseball. Can you pick him up at 9? Friday, boy X is camping and doing the long hike for Philmont. You saw where they changed the venue to be able to get a longer hike, right? He's going with his friend and his dad and they are bringing him home on Saturday, thank God. They are so great for doing that. Saturday, let's see, I talked to boy X's coach and they might have some games. It's the last weekend of the season for actual games. They don't start up again until February. But I told him he can't do any games on Saturday until probably 3 or 4, so I'm waiting to hear back from the coach. Boy Z has basketball at 8 a.m. instead of 10 a.m. because the gym wasn't available at the school so they moved it to a park. So I'm going to take him instead of going to work out. Then I'm going to get a massage because a girl is doing them for only $40. So I'll bring Boy Z home from basketball. Then nothing until Boy X gets home and you have to take him to his baseball game because I'm going to assist with that training when Chica comes to town and she'll be here this weekend and I will make $50 an hour. Is there a game on this weekend? Do you know what time it is? Do you want me to Google it? Me: It's at 2:30. But I don't care about it. Her: Okay, great. Me: And Sunday? Her: (Honestly, at this point all I heard was Charlie Brown adult voice, "Wah, wah, wahwahwah.")
  16. You know, I don't know whether to be encouraged or discouraged. It is encouraging that Trump (Stephen Miller) is slowly failing at just about everything he is trying to do. The foundation of American democracy is holding. That should be encouraging. Except, a plurality of American voters wanted this and they want Trump (Stephen Miller) to succeed. That is discouraging. I had another thought - American democracy has to expose itself to risk in order to maintain itself. It's like the tradeoff between security and freedom. How do we put restrictions on the president so that this kind of shit doesn't happen, while still allowing him or her to act as necessary for the benefit of the country? There are benefits to a strong executive when they are a good faith actor. Not so much when you have a bad faith actor who is literally constrained by nothing.
  17. Why do they allow questions at these things at all? Why not just do the photo op and move on? Maybe because nothing matters? I don't know.
  18. Aggie bed shitting in progress...
  19. LOL, this. Don't these dumb motherfuckers know you should wait until the end of the season? If he gets in the playoffs, wins a couple of rounds or whatever, then pay him. Until then, he ain't done shit. And you are rewarding "ain't done shit" again. The A&M AD is the ultimate fail upward job.
  20. When I was a poor student I had a Wells Fargo bank account and I overdrew it on occasion. I learned that what WF did is they would put through bigger checks first so that every subsequent transaction would rack up additional $35 fees. I thought that was fucked up and evil and I was in the office of one of their assistant branch managers to tell him so and he had a heavy brass business card holder that I was very, very tempted to throw at his smug ass face.
  21. Lighten up, Francis. It was obviously a bit. Not cool that there were kids around, though.
  22. Unlike Debbie Downer Futureman, I thought this was hilarious. The surprised look on the guy's face and body language like, "Was that wrong? Is that kind of thing frowned upon here?" The sales guy, "What the fuck is wrong with you?" Then the other customer saying, "Boollsheeit" when they explain he's training to be a cop.
  23. Did the crew survive?
  24. As a former replacement window salesman, I can tell you that you don't know what you are talking about and you are doing it wrong. Andersen is one of the highest priced windows you can buy. Wood windows, generally, are the highest priced windows compared to the other materials available - vinyl and aluminum. When it comes to sizing, there really is no such thing as "standard." Sure, a 3050 single hung window measures 36"X60" most of the time, but it's not the frame size you have to worry about - it's the opening size. That is affected by the type of siding you have - wood, Hardie, brick, stone, stucco, etc. I would recommend some good quality lower-end vinyl windows.
  25. Was that guy a dwarf? Or just a carnie?
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