Paul Wesley

Strymon website says it needs 300mA minimum. Maybe it's just not getting enough current? Do you have a Strymon power supply from one of the other two? I'd try substituting one of those first.

Grown-ass man play by Simmons

There was no reason to snap that would have hit 2:00

I don't think there's a credible argument for "that's not holding." It is. There *might* be an argument for consistency, i.e. don't suddenly flag something that hasn't been flagged all day... but I kind of doubt the DBs on both teams were getting to yank the receivers hard enough to pull them off-balance on every snap.

Yeah, if they're really interested in player safety, then taking a free full-speed shot at a punt returner who is standing still and looking up into the sky - that ought to get you ejected along with 15 yards and a 1-game (or more) suspension. Sometimes I feel kind of bad for a defender who gets ejected for "targeting" when they're running up to make a play on a QB who's either already getting tackled or is about to slide. A lot of it comes down to guessing if the runner is going to slide head-first, feet-first, or not at all... and if the defender guesses wrong, they get ejected plus they have to sit out another half. I've seen several "targeting" collisions that seem like bad luck as much as malicious intent. Contrast that to sprinting 45 yards toward a defenseless guy standing straight up.

Really? I had to subscribe because I was taking an economics class that required access. The day my subscription started, the banner headline on their front page was "An Abortion Story Too Good to Confirm," where they loudly proclaimed that a child victim who got pregnant via rape and had to leave the state for an elective abortion was fictitious and did not exist (Biden had publicly referenced the case)... except they soon found out that she **did** exist and they had to print a retraction (I'll let you guess if the retraction got the same banner-headline treatment). That is decidedly not the behavior of a "top notch" news room. I didn't read the WSJ prior to that, and I thought they just catered to stodgy investment banker types. I was kind of shocked at how "Fox News" they were. The victim-denying headline story was far from the only story that seemed to be purely political propaganda and had not a fucking thing to do with business/investment/finance/Wall Street. I mentioned my surprise to a finance friend of mine who does investment analysis, and he laughed and said, "You know they're owned by Murdoch, right?" No, I didn't know that. Anyway, the class ended and I unsubscribed the first possible day I could.

The kickoff hold had a huge effect on the game. It was the kickoff after Georgia went up 7-0, and we were in excellent field position to answer a score with a score. Instead, we're snapping it 60+ yards back from our own 8 (? - this is from memory), and end up punting from our own end zone and Georgia got an easy FG to go up 10-0. I was at the game, so I don't know what replays showed on TV, but the replay on the Jumbotron left 100,000 Texas fans looking at each other and asking, "Holding on WHO?"

Weird that ESPN writes a feature story on an egregiously bad call getting corrected, but not one about a head coach who shoves the other team's player for no reason.

"The rest?"

I would like to congratulate Husker fans on the way you've dominated your new conference. You were right. You just needed to get away from mean old Texas.

That guy is an incoherent beating. I am dumber from having heard him talk.

Yeah, Sooner fans should panic. The talent disparity on the field yesterday was the widest I've seen in Texas' favor. The only comparable talent disparity in my lifetime was probably 1987, when OU was ranked #1, and the line for the game was something obscene... like 30 points... and they fucking covered. Oof. The rosters of the two schools have made seismic shifts in the last 30 months or so, and they've been in opposite directions. OU has a lot less talent than they did under Riley. We have a lot more talent overall compared to the Herman years. Herman had a number of NFL players, but also a LOT of JAGs, and we had BIG drop-offs from starter to backup at almost every spot. Our roster right now is pretty ridiculous. I mean, you could take our backup QB and a couple of "backup" WR, and all three would start at most every program in the country. The OU offense is Shawn Watson-era bad. I mean, they don't have a line, they don't have a QB, they don't have skill guys, they don't have a system, they don't know what they fuck they're doing, and they don't have a plan to fix it. As others have said: Venables was a really great DC in an era you could steal signals. Right now he's totally getting outclassed in every phase of this rivalry game, and it's pretty obvious that he has no fucking idea how to fix it. Mississippi Fucking State had better players, a better gameplan, and better execution vs Texas than OU did in the game they've been scheming up for 365 days. And yeah, I'm aware that their entire WR room was out yesterday. But several of those guys who were out were pretty JAG-ish. And I'm not sure having them play would have made it worlds better. What were they going to do with those WR - call MORE drop-back passes and have Hawkins make MORE downfield throws while running for his life? That translates into more sacks, more incompletions, more possessions thanks to those clock-stopping incompletions. Very high chances for strip sacks and picks. They'd probably have been better off yesterday running zone reads or down-the-line option football. Those couldn't have failed any harder than that little delayed misdirection handoff and a bunch of QB draws. Yes, I'm gloating.

Thanks for posting.

The counter-argument is that getting a G5 team in the playoffs builds interest in leagues that otherwise might not give a shit... plus it adds a Cinderella to the dance like in March madness. *Unless Texas finishes 12 and gets left out, in which case let me go ahead and say, "The system is a fucking joke. We would mudhole those clowns with all 22 starters on the bench. Ridiculous!"

Congrats to Ole Miss fans, who surely broke the record for synchronized surrender cobras on their shanked field goal. Somebody call Guinness.

As others have said, it's rarely smart to take points off the board. But the score and situation made it especially dumb. You're looking sloppy and sluggish vs a scrappy underdog, and you FINALLY got a 2-score (11-point) lead for the first time all day... And that's not hindsight talking. When our offense went back out there, everyone around me agreed, "This is stupid whether we get it or not."

100% this. Should have been a rule 10 years ago when it was obvious that the rules were getting clowned. If we care about player safety, then these kids who go down need to sit the rest of the quarter.

Probably not *actually* a touchdown. But I think they're gonna let it stand.

Quite the euphemism.

All true. But my disdain for Bro Country has nothing to do with its newness. There are a ton of even newer genres that I either embrace or am indifferent towards. My disgust for it is based on the distinction between art and commerce. And the fact that the teams of (mostly Nashville-based) musicians/producers/engineers making it actually *could* make great art if they chose to do so. But they don't.

OK, so I'm gonna bump this 6-year-old thread instead of starting my own. The local UT radio station is KVET. Which means that I often listen to the postgame while driving home. It's just about the only time I listen to terrestrial radio. But that means that on Sunday when I start my car, modern country invades my silo. Outside of that, my experience with the genre would be limited to trips to Walmart to buy a new car battery, and maybe the Jumbotron. So anyway... for 20+ fucking years, I am just stunned at how much the music sucks. I have soundhound on my phone, and about half my searches for the past two decades are on autumn Sunday mornings/afternoons, just to find out who the offending "artist" is that *made* this shit. Today, it was the wildly auto-tuned parody-of-itself first line of a song: "A beer has got 12 ounces." It turns out the guilty party is Luke Combs. And I just want to offer this thesis statement: Modern country is the single worst genre of music in the history of America. That would have been my subject headline had I not found a similar thread to bump. And I'm not saying that other genres are good, or that other genres don't have cynical mercenaries producing trash in the name of "art." I'm just saying modern country is the worst, and 100% of the musicians and engineers making it are cynical mercenaries. Just about all of them are ridiculously talented musicians. Mick to Rocky: "You had the talent to become a good fighter, and instead of that, you became a leg breaker to some cheap second rate loan-shark." Yoko Ono spent decades screeching and making dolphin noises, and it's utterly unlistenable, but at least she was making a sincere effort toward producing something with artistic merit.

Even when Christie is 100% correct (as he is here), it's impossible for me to watch him without thinking about how he carried Trump's water for 4 years because HE saw that as his own pathway to more power.

So RFK blocked her communications for her transgression of making a flirtatious remark? That story is a real-life version of an Onion parody: https://theonion.com/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucking-my-cock-1819583529/

It's pretty close to impossible to sing live if the guitar amps are several orders of magnitude louder than the human voice (including the level of vocal in the monitor). I don't know if he's got a legitimate beef with Navarro or not, but it's not impossible.

Agree that Sark gets a ton of credit, and the "level up" in talent certainly wouldn't have been this dramatic with a lesser coach. But we were definitely going to become more buoyant once we kicked off the anchor of Yormark's Big 12.