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  1. 1 hour ago, Blotto said:

    Seems kind of fucked up they continued playing this game. Duke is cancelling games just because Coach K's panties are twisted around his nuts , and these guys have to finish out a game after witnessing that? Who knows, maybe they would prefer to play anyways. 

    It's fucking ridiculous they played another minute. Total lack of leadership. 

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  2. 9 minutes ago, Hammerhead said:

    Why does he have to choose?  

    That is the hypothetical. I think this whole thing is hypothetical. It goes back to your conjecture that we've got him and he's just biding his time so as not to upset Ohio State's applecart. I mean, I can't prove that's not true, and I hope it is. I just don't think it follows that silence and/or lack of action can be explained away as "he loves Ohio State too much to hurt them" or any variation on that.

    Or to say it another way, I don't think that Urban's deep and abiding love for all things Ohio is the most likely explanation for the silence/lack of action. Right now there's no job opening at Texas, so that to me explains it. When there's a job opening here, I would expect a firm answer from Meyer within 48 hours even if that answer is a total lie. Once we have an answer, IF that answer is "he's coming" AND he wants to fill his staff with current Ohio State people, THEN I think his attitude towards Ohio State will be "tough shit". His own offensive coordinator was Houston-bound during the 2014 National Title game. That's just the way the game is played. He's not going to do Ohio State any favors-- they're going to be one of his biggest targets if he takes the job here. He can't afford to be sentimental towards them.

    And again, this is Urban Meyer. I'm surprised I even have to opine that sentimentality won't cloud his killer instinct. 

    it's all moot anyway, he's not coming.

  3. 15 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

    Sure.  On the field and in recruiting.  But he has a legacy and relationships there that are worth protecting there.  If he were to derail an ongoing National Championship run by creating distractions and poaching assistants, he would significantly damage that relationship and legacy.  I think it’s perfectly reasonable that he would be sensitive to that until after the season plays out.

    If he has to choose, he will choose his new employer. I don't think he'll go out of his way to fuck Ohio State over, but if he needs someone they currently have, his decision to poach that person will come down to "does doing this make me more likely to win at <new job>?"

    I thought this was Urban Meyer 101, understood by everyone. When did he get a reputation for being touchy-feely?

  4. 29 minutes ago, Hammerhead said:

    I’m in the camp that Urban has pretty much said yes. He just doesn’t want to disrupt anything dealing with ohio st since they are still in the hunt.

    if he was coming here, his attitude towards disrupting Ohio State would be "tough shit". 

    His loyalty and deference to Ohio State would end the minute he became responsible for the success of Texas' football program. 

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  5. 6 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

    Because of the Big 10's bullshit

    Well, OK, but I'd rather live with the Big 10's "bullshit" than:

    1) Doing anything to enable the playoff to become the SEC Invitational

    2) Using one of three playoff games for a rematch of a four-touchdown regular season beatdown

    3) Doing anything that rewards or favors A&M. Parabus ceteris, I prefer whatever outcome is worst for them.

    Lastly, the Big Ten's decision to waive its arbitrary CCG minimum to favor its best team isn't "bullshit" in this case. Ohio State would be playing in the Big Ten title game even if Michigan had been able to play this weekend and OSU lost to them. They beat Indiana head-to-head. People are complaining about the Big Ten finally doing something logical-- the conference made up a dumb rule in August and now that they've seen how dumb it is, they were at least smart enough to say "oops, that's dumb" and reverse it rather than saying "NUH UH RULES IS RULES". 

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  6. 40 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    The demand for a “real” national champion is artificial controversy ginned up by idiot talking heads

    Not so. There were coaches all the way back to the late 60s and early 70s who pushed for a playoff solution (ranging from a plus-one after the New Year's Day bowls to various 8, 12, or 16-team configurations) because there were too many regular seasons ending with multiple unbeaten teams that contractually couldn't meet in the post-season. There was a tremendous amount of fan interest in the idea, too-- I am not sure it was a majority opinion by any means but really all it took was a season where a power was locked out of the national title for their fans to start questioning why their team couldn't prove it on the field. 

    There is no perfect answer. The BCS worked perfectly in seasons like 2005, when it brought what were clearly the best two unbeaten teams together. It worked terribly in seasons like 2000 and 2008. If there was some legitimate way to adapt the post-season to the performance of the regular season-- top two teams one year, top four another, eight another-- that would probably be most "fair" in terms of taking the handful of teams that seem like legitimate national championship caliber squads and giving them a shot at it without exposing them to post-season participants that don't belong in that tier, but that's totally unrealistic for a number of reasons.

    I don't really know where I fall on this. A season like 1983 would just about kill me at this point, where we (and Nebraska) were locked out of playing for the national title, but I really don't see a lot of playoff scenarios that I think work all that well either-- we either get too locked into objective criteria or we're too reliant on the "eye test". 

  7. 3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Speaking of former posters fucking themselves over, hey @immamac have you all caught any shit from fitlump from her city council run?  I know she’s probably seen that thread.

    she's not saying anything until she's Mayor, and then she's going to Gitmo everyone associated with this site

  8. 2 minutes ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

    Where would he be going from Texas? If someone wants him enough to get in a bidding war, we might be in the position to win that one. 

    we're going to pre-emptively win that bidding war!

  9. On 12/6/2020 at 1:08 PM, Michael Knight said:

    Remember when we laughed when they said 2020 was the year Jimbo would have them competing

    I don't remember that. I remember them saying "NEXT YEAR NEXT YEAR NEXT YEAR" every single year since I've been aware they existed, so congrats to them for finally pinning the tail on the donkey in a season completely fucked up by COVID and ending up in an NY6 bowl two years after Mighty Tom Herman did it

  10. 11 minutes ago, GreenGiant said:

    Capacity is only 3,782 FWIW - seems like it is a bit far out to cancel that 

    Cancelling something that's 16 weeks out seems excessively cautious. 

    Then again it's 2020 America. 

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