Thermos H. Christ

Did they stop sending her out to face the press corps altogether? I feel like I haven’t seen a clip of that in weeks, possibly months.

Jacob Wohl is that stupid. He’s the wannabe right wing grifter who announced he had an unnamed lady who was ready to go public about being sexually assaulted by Robet Mueller, then called a press conference where he came out and said she decided not to come but tried to forge ahead anyway. Also the youngest person ever to receive a lifetime ban from ever working in the finance industry. Also notorious for claiming on twitter to hang out in “hipster coffee shops” where he overhears liberals talking about how they all know Trump is actually awesome and right about everything. E: After writing this out and remembering he is a grifter at the core, he may be deliberately doing stuff that only the most gullible people on earth could get behind, because once he amasses a following of those people he can’t fail at conning them.

Jerrod Heard

Slightly ahead of schedule

Well I did say more than two scores, so 14-0 I'm still watching, albeit with a sense of increasing existential ennui.

I'll watch in hopes of seeing two very good college teams play a closely matched game, my last chance to do so before the long, dark offseason. But if Alabama goes up more than two scores I'll probably tune out.

In a world where Texas and Aggy met for the first time since the divorce in a game with massive national title implications, it’d be such a bummer to have it played at Jerryworld. People would be amped up, but it’d be hard not to think about how the atmosphere would be 10x better if it was played at DKR or Kyle.

No, CFB is still making money hand over fist. People are just bored by the prospect of the preseason #1 and #2 playing in the Inevitabowl. There’s nobody to root for, no outcome that sounds exciting.

If back means back to where we were during most of Mack’s long streak then fuck yeah we are. This season at least. Before the season I thought we’d be like 6-6 this year. After Maryland and Tulsa I thought we’d be looking at like 3-5 wins. I am blown the fuck away. What a treat this season was.

If only more B12 teams would insist on pounding it between the tackles over and over without posing a vertical passing threat we would absolutely do this physical run defense thing all the time. They don’t, though.

How are we feeling about the future with two signees and one maybe along the OL in this class? I know amazing linemen don't grow on trees and you've got to take the best of what you can get when you can get it, but man I want to see us get to where we can dominate at the LOS every week. A couple of those drives against ISU were among my favorite moments of the season just because I was so hype about the physical dominance being displayed. After all the worry about facing one of the best defenses we were going to see during the regular season, we were able (at key times) to just straight up shove them all the way down the field. So good.

E: double post

Keep CCGs AND go to 8, with autobids for the champions, autobid for the highest-ranked G5 team, and 2 at-large. That’s really a full season long playoff for P5 teams at that point. Each division or conference round robin is a tournament, with winners advancing to the CCG stage. CCG winners advance to the Tournament of Champions along with some wild cards. Regular season conference games matter because they’re all part of the grand tournament. Noncons matter because good non con wins give you a chance to stay alive even if you don’t win your tournament. Imagine how much less shitty the sports chatter-verse would instantly become as everything becomes about predicting/discussing the outcome of games instead of debating idiotic and arbitrary/contradictory eye test metrics. Or a total fantasy that will never happen - break up the P5 into 8 conferences that all play round robins with autobids for winners. Promote a few G5 teams to make the numbers work. Then bring in relegation and promotion. A team like UCF doesn’t get screwed after going undefeated twice because after the first time they take over a P8 spot occupied by a Kansas or a Rutgers or somebody and then control their own destiny the next season. And every season after that until they finish last in their conference. And Kansas or Rutgers can go play in the MWC or wherever and maybe have a chance to win some games. If they ever get good enough to finish first in their lesser tournament, they get to move back up and take a slot from last place finisher at the next level.

Read the post. I said non-defenseless, which applies practically any time we’re talking about a ball carrier lowering their head to collide with a defender. A player in possession of and running with the ball is not defenseless. A receiver going up for a catch is not charging forward with their head lowered.

In college at least, helmet-to-helmet hits on a non-defenseless RB or receiver are perfectly legal as long as the defender doesn't lead with the crown. Keep your face pointed at the ball carrier instead of the ground and you can't get a penalty whether they go high or low or whatever. Easier said than done I'm sure, but it seems like it ought to be teachable.

He was up and down, but he definitely made some incredible plays along the way, and as you say he was going 1-on-1 with NFL guys all year long. And when you play everyone as close as we have lately, making the big play to break up a touchdown pass can easily be the difference between a win and a loss.

I’m probably not quite as sympathetic, but we’re still talking about amounts of money that, if managed well, could get a person set up for life. If you have $10m in the bank/investments, you can spend nearly $300k a year and expect your net worth to stay around the same long term. For a high first round pick they’re probably gonna have more than that from their signing bonus alone, after taxes. McCaffrey may have come from a comfortable upbringing but he’s probably not set like that.

This is why we lost and I won’t hear any different. In the stormtroopers we win that game.

As a fan obviously I’d like to see teams meet each other at full strength in the postseason. But I don’t see how I could get mad at a young person who likely came from a less-than-privileged background, who has worked their ass off since like age six to get to a point where they have a very real chance to make millions of dollars, who chooses not to risk all of that to play in one more college football game. Even if they want to play, they might reasonably feel they owe it to their family to make the smart business decision when so much is on the line. And it’s worth bearing in mind that the kind of players who leave early have generally contributed a ton to the program in the time they did play. Even without the bowl game the investment in their scholarship has paid off more than most.

On the penalties and mistakes front, I think we have to consider the possibility of players being tight or in their heads or whatever because of the moment. I think it matters that not one of these guys had ever played for any kind of title at the college level. OU at the Cotton Bowl is another big stage with high pressure, but we always have lots of guys on the roster who have experienced that game multiple times before. OU obviously hasn't played in a CCG lately, but they've absolutely played in games with the title on the line.

Gave this one away. Yeah refs were bad and all that but if we just didn’t empty multiple clips into our own dicks we win this.

The truth is he was mostly fine here and sometimes quite good until Mack demanded that he install the 1950's offense Bama beat us with. Despite the fact that what GDGD was doing had allowed us to keep it competitive with Bama in the NCG with our backup QB and a really quite bad OL.

Mack Brown hired Greg Robinson as his DC and I actually think it could work out. Greg Robinson is total garbage... except in the presence of Mack Brown. Gerg... your unbelievable work in 2013 is not forgotten. If we'd had anything resembling an offense we would've easily won the conference that year. I'm sure it's happened before but I've never seen a midseason turnaround as dramatic as what Gerg did after Manny was ousted. Defense went from being so bad to so good they held Mariota and Oregon in their offensive heyday to ONE TD (and three FGs). Case McCoy threw twice as many Oregon TD passes as Mariota did...

Boooooooo

Watch him parlay getting fired by Texas Tech into an NFL HC gig in like 3 years.