FWD

The dominance of the 4th quarter given the circumstances was just incredible. The players showed mental toughness at everyposition and the coaching staff actually adjusted and out-coached Saban in the second half. This is just such a different team then we have seen before. They are really realizing their potential.

FUCCCCKKKKK YEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

I've been interpreting the "questionable" designation on these secondary guys as a ploy by Saban to have Sark gameplan too many slow developing deep passes. Until kickoff I wont buy that these guys are actually hurt.

Aggy has starting units full of elite players and Petrino's play-calling should help as well. I see them getting off to a hot start, including beating Miami, before run-of-the-mill injuries combined with a complete lack of depth, lockerroom culture issues, and infighting among the coaching staff cause the season to completely collapse until all that is left of the team is a pile of smoldering ashes. 6-6 followed by a lopsided loss to Kansas in the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl. All the top recruits decommit and the AD has no choice but to express his continued support for Jimbo as the head coach for at least another year.

Arizona is openly tanking, just look at all their offseason moves. He will land as a backup somewhere.

I remember walking out of the loss to Iowa State in 2010 and the crowd was just in shock, dumbfounded. We all took for granted games like that were not even supposed to be close for so long. Little did we know that was the beginning of the end.

The buzz around USC is this upcoming season is the year they go all the way. Pockets are opening up to make a big push.

Looking forward to the meltdown when a kid literally nobody on earth heard of a week ago doesn't end up coming here.

Big move for UCLA. They also just got one of the top transfer QBs (https://247sports.com/college/ucla/Article/UCLA-Football-Recruiting-UCLA-Lands-Kent-State-QB-Transfer-Collin-Schlee-200718469/), I wonder how that plays out.

Young QB and he had a bad day. We knew there would be up and down days with him. Hopefully this is just one of the worst ones and the team backed into a W despite that.

Good job.

I predict Jimbo will swap out QBs and the rollercoaster will reset itself.

Goes to show when the play the #1 team you can't make any mistakes. They played their asses off but too many little mistakes by both the players and the coaches them cost them the game. No moral victory in that.

Nice write-up. My take? Too many kids named Johnson.

Watching that play had me thinking about this one. Maybe not exactly the same but whatever I'm posting it anyway.

Well fuck. Collin Johnson carted off at Giants practice Wide receiver Collin Johnson has been getting snaps with the first team for the Giants this summer, but his bid for a role in the regular season appears to have taken a hit at Wednesday’s practice. According to multiple reports from the Giants facility, Johnson went down during drills with an apparent right leg injury. Johnson was looked at on the field and a cart was brought out to take Johnson for further evaluation. The results of that evaluation will determine Johnson’s outlook for the future, but the reporters at practice noted that the reaction of his teammates indicated a serious injury. Johnson was a Jaguars fifth-round pick in 2020 and he joined the Giants as a waiver claim last September. He had 11 catches for 105 yards in 12 games this season and caught two passes from Daniel Jones early in the team’s last preseason game. https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/08/24/collin-johnson-carted-off-at-giants-practice/

I believe you. Meanwhile, the state of California has a $97 billion budget surplus and has already determined to invest a significant share of that back in their university system. It is not a stretch to say the incredible UC system (plus Stanford) are the biggest things keeping California's economy driving in the long-run.

The UC system has 6 schools ranked higher than UT in the US News rankings. This is an embarrassment for the state of Texas and shows how little the state government values having even one world-class university. With this much money at its disposal, there is no reason UT should not be in the top 25 except for politicians disregard for the value of higher ed.

Seems about right.

We maxed out the 529 contributions for the first few years of our kids lives and figure 15 years of growth should add up to a good amount. UTMA of 5k each when they were born for a college graduation gift for a wedding or whatnot. If they can graduate debt-free and with that they should be in good shape and I don't owe them any more than that. I don't understand the logic of funding an IRA for them, shouldn't they be able to save for their own retirement during their working years? That seems like not my problem.

The highest bidder mercenary types always commit late to drive the price up. The game is different now though with NIL replacing bags, so who knows how it will play out.