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GODFUCKINGDAMMIT!!!

I may get negged for this, but I hope he succeeds. I don't think he will because he's too much show and too little substance. But he makes a good villain and is a certain kind of character. I like characters in college football. Same reason I liked Mike Leach. He may be an immoral piece of shit and his kids may be spoiled, entitled brats with huge egos, I don't know. They certainly wouldn't be the only ones.

What YouTube has proven to me is that you can be a hot girl and do literally anything and monetize it. Hot girl fishing, hot girl camping, hot girl sailing, hot girl driving boat recklessly, hot girl giving massages, hot girl speaking softly into microphone, etc. etc. etc.

Feast your eyes, boys. My best one yet. Hook 'em!

Yes we do.

I would ask, "Is that real!?," but I don't have to.

As my earlier post indicated, I'm most interested in how this all ends. That would tell us how things are likely to be for the next 5-10 years. Money is the only thing that matters here, really. Regionality, longstanding rivalry games, travel difficulty, stress on student athletes, etc. - none of that shit matters. So if it's all about money, that means more eyeballs on TVs and butts in seats. That means better games, which means fewer matchups against cupcakes and lower tier, overmatched opponents that have less interest and lower ratings. Everything that has already happened is leading in that direction. So, yeah, two conferences with a combined 48 teams or so. Those two conferences are currently vying for all of the highest value properties. ACC is doomed; it's just a matter of time. Same with Big XII. Once it all shakes out, it's going to be an AFL/NFL type situation with perhaps a merger in the future to create a whole new governing structure and financial model. I don't know if all of that is good, bad or indifferent. For me, I don't want college football to become NFL lite. I don't watch the NFL now. Just too sterile for me and I don't relate as well to the fans. Potential obstacles or things that could warp the gravity: ND - will they be better off as an independent even if there ends up being two super conferences? Antitrust issues - the lower tier schools who benefit financially by association with the bigger, more successful programs will have huge incentive to prevent this from happening and being left out of a spot at the trough. And what happens if the SEC gets the ACC schools? The SEC would be more way more powerful and richer than the B1G. Would that give the SEC total control to dictate the future of college football?

I didn't mean the old regional conferences with all the same teams. What I intended to say was regional conference made up of only P2 teams, or whatever we're calling them - revenue positive teams? Attractive media property teams? So, for example, the new regional conference for us would be: UT, OU, a&m, LSU, Arkansas, OSU, Missouri, Kansas, Kansas St., Colorado.

What does the endgame look like? If FSU and Clemson leave the ACC, the ACC is the new Big XII without banner programs. They go where? SEC? At what point do the SEC and Big 10 become the new NCAA? Why wouldn't they just become the new Division I? The NCAA already doesn't award the national championship in football, right? Why are bigtime football programs still following NCAA rules? What leverage does the NCAA have in football? I hate realignment. I liked the old regional conferences. There is an organizational solution that would be better for the athletes and fans, but not as good financially. The best financial solution is what we currently have, with everyone's sole goal of maximizing revenue. Is there any end where all of the schools in the former Power 5 form a new division, the G5 are in a second, lower tier division, and the schools are grouped regionally again? Edit: I didn't consider enough how much TV/ESPN is pulling the strings here. The last couple of posts made me realize that. If TV/ESPN is driving the train, then they would want better games, which means more good teams in fewer conferences and less cupcake games and uneven matchups to get more interest and eyeballs.

The umpires are having far too much of an effect on the outcome of games. It's maddening.

I don't hate this. Would I like to have Vlad, Jr.? Sure. But as a roster piece that would allow us to extend or sign other dudes, this could work.

Texas 38 Michigan 17 Michigan receiving yards - 224.

I fly fish freshwater rivers and tie my own flies for that. Recently got a Renzetti rotary vice that I love. I still use a casting rod in saltwater and fish about half bait, half lures. I have a saltwater fly rig and I've tied a few saltwater flies. I'm definitely heading the direction of doing that exclusively (if it's not blowing 20 mph). I have the ALPS wrapper.

This year I took up rod building. It marries two things I really enjoy: fishing and making shit in the garage. I'm still very new. I've only built two rods from scratch. I've added thread wraps to several rods I already had. Here are some pics:

Here, lazy ass.

In a bind with a scheduling conflict. I have six tickets to Saturday's game I'd like to sell at face value. Sec. 107 Row 17 Seats 3-8. $120.56 each.

There's a whole YouTube rabbit hole you can go down of people from different parts of the world trying different kinds of food. The tribal people (Pakistan/Afghanistan border area) ones are my favorites.

We also have the classic married couple situation where I can't find anything in the fucking house so I have to ask her all the time where shit is. Sometimes, the item is right in front of my goddamned face. My theory, supported by copious evidence, is that my wife never puts shit back where it belongs or puts shit in illogical places so frequently that I never expect things to be where they should be. So there is an automatic assumption in my brain that whatever I am looking for is not where it is supposed to be and is in a place I would never look. It's just easier to ask her.

I don't know if I changed or my wife changed, but I started to not want to have to listen to all of the irrelevant details maybe two years ago or so. Either that or she started conversing only in 99% irrelevant details. I will ask a simple question, like, "Where is that salsa I bought yesterday?" The answer: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth..." When I stop her at Deuteronomy and ask for the end of the story then I'm the asshole.

Or maybe not. Winning doesn't necessarily translate to an increase in profits. They had an operating income of $68.4M last year (among the highest in the league).

1. Go see some fucking dinosaurs. 2. Nov. 22, 1963. Grassy knoll, Dallas, TX. 3. Go back about 30,000 years before there were people in N. America and have an epic fishing session on the TX coast. 4. Go back and ask Jesus how he feels about women terminating pregnancies and ask him to write it down for posterity. Going to the future would be interesting, but possibly terrifying. It would be pretty sad if you went a couple thousand years in the future and Earth is nothing but ash.

Does anyone else think it's weird that Tucker has been out so long with a bruise? Are they just resting him or is it a more serious injury than they let on?

Yes, for sure.

Unfortunately, this was self-induced. Smoked some pot after years and years of not. Didn't know how strong it was or anything. So dumb. Basically initiated my worst living nightmare. It was very hard to get a hold of myself. I'm still sort of quivering about it. In my nightmare, talking about it is some sort of damning admission, which made the whole thing worse because I felt I couldn't talk to anyone about it.