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  1. I think the word "GrubHub" is fucking people up. It's not like their room service is some burnout bringing you In & Out. They are just using the same tech platform that GrubHub uses to allow you to order food from any of the 40+ eateries on site and have the food brought directly to wherever you are. I mean, that sounds pretty tits to me. When we did a daybed at the V pool in April, I would have loved having the option of having food brought to me from any of the V or Palazzo restaurants rather than being locked in to their poolside food option. 

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  2. Cracker Barrel is similar. The lunch/dinner is hit/miss, some is very good some meh. But the breakfast is very on point and is available all day. Momma's Pancake Breakfast is truth, biscuits and gravy great, hashbrown casserole money. 

  3. At least as of 2019, dispensaries were legally required to be outside of the “gaming corridor.” There was an exception carved out for the industrial zone which is why Reef and P13 are within a mile of the Strip.

    So options are:
    1) the law changed since 2019 and no one has put a massive Disneyland-style dispensary on the strip yet
    2) the places Gil saw are breaking the law
    3) they are selling something that isn’t THC

  4. If I remember right, when they announced the structure with the top six champs and all that, they said it completely assed 8, but in 12 only 4 teams in the top 12 over 7 years would have been knocked out.   Can't imagine many are going to cry about that.

    Right! Wasn’t saying that’s a problem was just pointing out the list actually still overstated the SEC participation.
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  5. technically a 12 school big 12 would also play every school in the north in 4 seasons, no?

    Sure! So the biggest benefit for a 12 team conf is virtually guaranteeing a bid with best shot at a bye.

    You do still get a more varied schedule playing more teams 3x every 4 years instead of some 4x and some 2x.
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    I think having 2 divisions is best because if you have another one or two loss team in a BIG12 south, who misses out on the CCG, they will still have a great shot at being an at large team
    Now if I a one loss South champion gets upset by a 3 loss North Champ.. that would suck.. 

    Your situation is much less likely than the situation of having a team with no shot at bid or bye. Also divisions are the reason for stupid schedule shit like aggy being in SEC a decade and still not played UGA at home. Pods allow a 14 team conf to play every team home and away in a 4 year period while keeping 3 annual rivals. Waaaaayyyy better.
  7. Fuck that. Six best champions is way better. The P5 will all make it unless there is a combo of they have a fluke champion (because they stubbornly stick to arbitrary divisions instead of vastly superior pods and top 2 teams playing) AND two G5 champs are worthy, like last year with Cincy and Coastal.  If a P5 goes to pod system and 1 vs 2 title game, I would guarantee their champ makes the field every season.

  8. Also you can't just look at top 12, because not all of the top 12 will get in.  

    Both 2015 and 2019 above have an SEC team bolded at 12, but neither of those teams actually make the field, because there aren't 6 conference champs in the top 12 either of those seasons. So the conf champ below them would replace them. 

     

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  9. Divisions are also terrible, and if you maintain the CCG, there should at least be pod scheduling and the top 2 teams playing, to avoid dipshittery where the 3 best teams are in one division, so you have some scrub team in the CCG which may cost the B12 a bid b/c if they win they may not be a top 6 champ. The only non-stupid part about the B12 CCG is that it's actually the top 2 teams in the conference. 

    If you have a sub to The Athletic, Andy Staples has a column on it today. 

    And the concept of "playing every team in the conference to see who is the best" being shit is pure nonsense. There is literally no better way to determine the best team. No one in a vacuum would say "Having a group of 12 teams, with each team playing 8 others, then arbitrarily grouping them into two groups of 6, then have the top team in each arbitrary group of 6 play each other" is a better plan than "Have a group of 10 teams, everyone plays everyone, best record is the best, if there's a tie, whoever won that game is the best."  No one. It's just some odd SEC dick envy or something that makes people want the first option.

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  10. The "one true champion" got mocked because then the B12 turned around and tried to have their cake and eat it and declare co-champions. The actual concept wasn't mocked.

    As far as improving everyone's schedule by replacing a conf game with an OOC game, that only works if they actually win, right? Right now, the 9th conference game adds a record of 5-5 to conference teams. You have focused solely on the extra 5 losses, but ignore the extra 5 guaranteed wins. 

    So if you replace that game with an OOC game and the conference goes 4-6 in those OOC games, you actually just made the overall record shittier than it was before. That's being ignored. The conference has to go better than 5-5 to have any benefit. Is going, say, 6-4, an improvement of one game over .500 for the entire conference that big of a deal? Given that the B12 had OOC losses to 3 Sun Belt teams last year as well as a very narrowly-averted disaster loss to something called Houston Baptist, that's hardly a guarantee. Also, our TV partners are not going to pay the same for TCU-Abilene Christian as they would for TCU-West Virginia. So either you lose TV money or you schedule loseable games. Period. 

    Remember also that the missed conference game for some of the teams is going to be a shitty team. Someone is going to miss Kansas, someone is going to miss the 9th best team, someone is going to miss the 8th best team, etc. It isn't like every mid-level B12 team is going to miss OU and play East Popcorn State instead and magically now be 7-5 instead of 6-6. Someone is going to miss Kansas and maybe lose an extra game instead now. 

     

     

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  11. So you're saying if ALL the B12 teams play shit OOC that will boost OU's schedule strength, which is a different animal. I thought you previously said OU doing it themselves would boost their own schedule, which is false.

    And also making OU and Texas play each other every year, while allowing other members of the conference to skip one (or both!) of them is going to really screw OU and Texas as far as their overall record, and allow slop teams to backdoor a CCG spot because they played Kansas instead of OU, which is lame as fuck. 

    Also no one is going to be fooled that beating a 4-8 Kansas is actually a good win, comparing to a 1-11 Kansas. The metrics that they are usually looking at is wins over ranked teams. The way that teams like TCU, Baylor, Iowa State, West Va, etc get ranked and get considered to be a good win is by beating good teams. Look at how disrespected Baylor was due to their shit OOC in 2014. Add two more of those games instead of P5 games and what happens?

  12. But the thing is, no one needs to change just b/c the B12 is different!  Also just b/c you are different isn't worse. Pod scheduling would be a huge boost to conference scheduling, esp for a conference without a title game. The first conference to go to that model will be "different" but not worse. You get fresher matchups and avoid competitive imbalance in divisions that ends up with one division sending a sacrificial lamb to the CCG year after year after year. 

    B12 in hoops does a full double round robin. Other conferences don't. The world keeps spinning. And the B12 has the most "accurate" reg season champ.

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  13. 54 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    Most of your "compelling road trips" would feature a shit atmosphere at the actual game.

    For the gameday experience, I doubt most of these mid-tier P5 programs will offer a more entertaining time even if they're in a more scenic or exotic locale.

    Also again it's just pie in the sky. Notre Dame being able to schedule OOC games isn't the same as the B12 trying to add 20 OOC games in the middle of the fucking season when everyone else is playing conference games. And for every "oh we could play FSU or Clemson" there is a Wake Forest or Syracuse that is just blah blah blah. 

    I do enjoy making road trips, and am going to Tulane this year, and plan on hitting most of OU's OOC games on the road over the next 20 years, but yeah, good competitive games in fun atmospheres are going to be few and far between.

  14. And the first time a team loses a bye or a bid, that team won't raise hell also? 

    I don't really disagree that they will stupidly keep playing it. I do disagree that we will be punished for not playing one, presuming they maintain a full round robin. After all, those conferences are free to decide their title as they want too.

  15. 6 minutes ago, camel at sea said:

    In 2018, OU barely edged Georgia.  11-2 Georgia finished ahead of 12-1 Ohio State that year.  Do I think OU might finish behind 11-2 Georgia AND 12-1 Ohio State in 2018 without a CCG?  Absolutely.  OU got one more good win (avenged its only loss) and closed the door on the argument to jump them.

    In 2019, same situation.  Nobody really looked the part for the 4 seed that year.  UGA had better wins than OU that year.  If OU doesn't pick up a 12th win over a Top 10 Baylor, does the committee argue "why should we punish UGA for playing LSU?"  I think so.  Why wouldn't they?

    Can't get a top 4 seed and bye if you aren't a conf champ, so non-champ UGA would be ineligible both years. 

    And you just keep missing the negative freeroll point. OU had a top 4 seed and bye locked in 2015. So who cares if they could have kept the 3 over Sparty?  Prob not, because again you are damaging your best win.  Beating a 10-2 team once looks better than beating a 10-3 team twice. Playing OSU or TCU again can only risk the bye that is a lock going into the game. TCU also had a bid locked that year and playing OU again can only risk it. 

    Maybe this is the disconnect, but the stats firm was looking at a 4 team playoff, not this 12 team model. I think the CCG (while still stupid and redundant after a round robin) is MUCH less detrimental in a 4 team playoff than in a 12 team playoff. B12 can reasonably get 2 teams in a 12 teamer but not in a 4 teamer. Also the fact that the 4 byes MUST be conf champs means the B12 champ can't get edged for byes by SEC runner-up, despite you keeping on saying that could happen. The 1 seed in B12 CCG is very likely to be one of the 4 best champs and the 2 seed winning is much less likely to be one of the 4 best champs. So the B12 will often risk the bye and/or second bid, with no upside. 

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