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I won't fight you but I've seen this sentiment a lot over the past two decades and I think it's born from watching the movie over and over again and analyzing it to death. That movie is about seeing it for the first time in the movie theater and getting the visceral gut punch that is the Omaha landing. We've become numb to it now because it's been done over and over and over again from Black Hawk Down to Band of Brothers/Pacific, etc. The Omaha Beach scene and then the ending battle are what makes it great because we'd never seen anything like it before. Point being, nobody who walked out of a movie theater in 1998 when the credits rolled were like, "yeah the middle of that movie was kind of meh" because you were still reeling because you had just experienced ~40 minutes of the most realistic depiction of war ever put on film.

Oh sure you will... I'm sure there's some 3-star Texas kid at Arkansas or Mississippi State that is already planning his revenge.

I see this line of thinking brought up all the time and I've yet to have someone explain to me how it would be any different than the current status quo. Who in the Big 12, outside of OU and Texas, have *ever* pulled anything approaching an elite recruiting class? Every once in a while OSU, Baylor or TCU might pop a top 20 class, but generally all three rely on classes that are far and away 3-star classes with maybe one or two 4-star guys sprinkled in here and there. All three rely on coaching/development and have all succeeded on specifically taking the players in Texas that OU/Texas/A&M *don't* want. How exactly does that change by OU and Texas moving to the SEC?

INNNNNNN Can't wait for this.

Holy shit that episode was amazing. "I'M IN OUTER SPACE... FUCK YOU LASZLO!!!"

"We want to focus on football..." Good thing the football media rights deal has nothing to do with....[checks notes]... oh wait...

Anyone check The Ocho?

Seems like they did put a price tag on it. $67mm (and counting).

Is that the thing where they tell everyone they do it one "pure" way but are actually not doing it that way?

Honestly I don't see any way for the Pac to be the #3 conference, even if Oregon and Washington stay. (Obviously that's way out the window if/when both leave for the B1G.) There just aren't enough people at all of the other schools who care enough about football to put them ahead of either the Big 12 or ACC. Oregon/Washington (from a brand/viewership standpoint) are marginally better than anything in the Big 12, but they aren't OU/Texas, so them being marginally better than the top legacy Big 12 schools isn't enough to off-set the fact pretty much all of the Big 12 fan bases are highly engaged and drive consistent viewership numbers all the way down the line, unlike the bulk of the remaining Pac schools that mostly don't care about football.

I don't think so. Whoever made that chart notes that they are non-canon. And yeah it's weird to include that as a recommendation and not the actual canon Thrawn books that Zahn wrote.

We have at least one P5 school on our non-conference schedule every year in between now and 2030, including home-and-homes with Arkansas, Oregon and Alabama. I think we'll be fine in the SOS department.

I assume that's the case as well; likely because non-conference schedules for pretty much every sport except football is done a year in advance, not like a decade in advance. And for the record, I'm for continuing Bedlam in all sports, including football. I'm just sick to fucking death of listening to assholes try and say it's somehow OSU's fault that Bedlam is being interrupted when OU is who left the goddamn conference. It's like one spouse leaving the other and then being like, "it's kind of shitty that you don't want to hang out with me as much any more" to the one who was left.

Jesus. Fuck. We're re-litigating the stupid fucking Bedlam football thing again? Facts: OU ended the Bedlam series in all sports by leaving the Big 12. The rest is he-said/she-said bullshit. Has anyone here ever happened to notice that when new non-conference series between P5 schools are scheduled it is typically done a decade or more in advance, barring like a one-off game at Jerry World or something? I don't care what the fuck anyone says, Bedlam football will return, likely some time in the mid-2030s. I'm actually looking forward to it, mostly so whiney OU people will shut the fuck up about it. It's funny how much time/effort/energy they put into complaining about not getting play a "non-rival", lol.

Yeah very strong start. This show is so great. I think my favorite bit was Colin Robinson being the annoying restaurant server, lol. "Can I get that without the cheese..." "Ooooh.... I'm gonna have to ask the chef..."

Holy shit it kind of snuck up on me... a new season already? Awesome! Colin Robinson running for Comptroller is so perfect, lol.

Agreed. I will say there are a lot of Star Wars YouTubers who have put together good summaries of Ahsoka's plot lines through CW and Rebels. I feel like people should definitely watch those at a bare minimum if they don't want to watch those series. But I really think Rebels is almost required watching, given that that Ashoka series is essentially setting up to be a live action new season of Rebels.

Yeah the late 90s / early 2000s were an AWFUL time for NFL uniforms. Off the top of my head, the 49ers, Bucs, Patriots, Eagles, Broncos, and Bengals (maybe more) all made horrendous updates going with like darker versions of their primary colors and stupid stylized fonts for the letters/numbers. Of those teams, I think the 49ers are the only one that has gone back to a more "classic" look. The others are still stuck in their early 2000 crap-fest uniforms, with a "throwback" week here or there notwithstanding.

Is the game being played 20 years ago when Miami was a premire program or now?

I don't think so. Or at least I hope not. I'm guessing that "master" line was more a reference of Ashoka continuing to help train Sabine as a warrior in the same way Kanan was training her with the darksaber? And in the trailer the hot dark jedi (or whatever) chick says, "You have no power..." So maybe wishful thinking but I really hope she's not force sensitive. It just gets old being like, "oh wait! That person has the force now!" I have more faith in Filoni than that, so here's to hoping. 100% this. I'm sure the show would be enjoyable for someone who hadn't seen those shows, but it's going to be WAY more enjoyable if you have seen them.

Couterpoints: Frank's Brother is a freaking tour-de-force of absurdity. Just having Danny DeVito play himself as like a 19-year-old just wearing his "go out" wig is all you need to know. Then there's the whole "Shady Nasty" thing and then the reveal at the end when everyone is old... it's fucking weird and absurd and ridiculous and hilarious. I understand why some people don't like the Female Boggs or a lot of the recent episodes just because they are veering in different directions with the comedy... e.g. the Female Boggs episode is a pretty blatant satire of female re-boots of classic movies, all the way down to the episode itself being intentionally not as good as the original. They've done lots of episodes like that over the past several years where they are trying to something very dryly satirical on a specific topic; stuff that is more "clever" vs. laugh out loud funny.

Are you sure about that part? I thought Oregon had viewership that was in-line with bluebloods. They wouldn't add incremental value to the Big 12's media contract?

I mean... he's just a man who needs his tools.... for... fetish shit. He also really enjoys the skins because the skins are the most interesting part of any animal. What's the big deal?

I think fans make WAY too much of thing about what kind of city/town the schools are situated in. I'm sure a handful of recruits make decisions based on that, but the vast, vast do not. They tend to go to places that are (a) successful and (b) help them get to the NFL. That means being a winning program and having top-notch facilities. I think the simple answer as to why Colorado fell off is that they weren't willing to keep up in the facilities arms race with the rest of the Big 12 that started in the early 2000s and essentially never let up. CU was always behind the blue bloods, but all of a sudden OSU, Tech, K-State, Iowa State, etc., started pouring hundreds of millions into facilities through the mid-2000s and also blew past CU in that regard. Now their facilities are dogshit compared to pretty much everyone in the Big 12 except Kansas; they compare a little better in the PAC just because most of the schools don't care about football, but still way behind schools they would be competing against for recruits like Utah, Oregon, Washington, etc.

Yeah I enjoyed the first two... especially episode 2. Haven't watched 3 yet. As for Mac's/Rob's appearance, I'm pretty sure that's exactly what the "nut allergy" joke was about as his face got more and more swelled through the episode. In fact, I'll have to go back and re-watch, but I think there was actually a line like, "I don't even recognize him any more..." Those guys are all extremely self-aware and it's one of the things I love best about the show.