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  1. 14 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    Navy.

     

     

     

    easier to renege on a deal when it's UCLA or Cal, harder when the opposite party has battleships and cruise missiles

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  2. 5 minutes ago, camel at sea said:

    If they don't qualify for the top tier because they don't populate NFL rosters, nor do they compete for the CFP... then you probably have to kick out a LOT of schools from the top tier.  There are a lot of schools who don't do either of those things.

    For the military, top tier football is about service academy recruiting.  They need those big TV games to run their ads.  

    On your first point, I'd be more than happy with a I-AA that didn't include Indiana or Rutgers or Wake Forest but since they're conference-affiliated deadweight, it seems pointless to advocate that. There also aren't the same kind of mission and admission compromises necessary for large public universities to compete-- to me it's not the same thing. 

    On your second point, <shrug>, the service branches can run ads without actually being in the games. Nissan has a Heisman House, not a varsity program. 

  3. 42 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    How the fuck does this one have anything to do with punishing aggy?

    A&M is now temporarily prohibited from recruiting players from a high school they've targeted in the past? 

    A&M now can't leverage whatever advantage the NCAA thinks the rule-breaking gave A&M at that school?

    I feel like some of you look at this stuff and just say "OH IF THE NCAA SAYS IT THEN FUCK WHATEVER IT SAYS". I'm not arguing pro or con on the item, but it's not at all difficult to see why the NCAA would think this punishes A&M. 

  4. Actually that pisses me off. It wouldn't shock me if Texas got pinched for the same thing, the way Michigan got pinched in 2008 (?) for incidental overages in the number of supervised workouts they did in the offseason or some parking-ticket level shit like that. 

    A&M's over here fucking buying players, and they get a wrist slap for "just a little too much recruiting!"  

  5. 42 minutes ago, BluTechsan said:

    Used to I'd agree.

    But the academy's can recruit a higher level of athlete because it's my understanding that their active duty can be deferred until after pro career has ended.

    This is a good time for them to get out of the NFL Feeder tier of programs, where they haven't belonged since before the Vietnam War. I'm not saying they can't win games at this level. They do it all the time. I'm saying this (hypothetical) level exists to populate NFL rosters and compete for CFP playoff national championships. The service academics, love them as I do, don't need to be trying to do either of those things. This is a good time (again, hypothetically) to drop them to I-AA where I bet they could be beasts again.

    Or leave them at I-A and make the Independents a conference, whatever. There's no magic to 64, it can be 71 if we want, but (one more time, for this specific hypothetical), we need eight conferences to produce eight conference champions for the playoff. So I'm not sure where they fit, anyway.

    and yes I'm going to call them I-A and I-AA until I die

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  6. 15 hours ago, BluTechsan said:

    65 - P5 + ND

    66 - BYU

    67 - Boise

    68 - San Diego St

    69 - Cincy

    70 - Air Force

    71 - Navy

    72 - Army

    Army, Navy, and the Air Force do not need to be competing at the NFL Feeder level. They should drop down to I-AA. As for Boise, SDSU, and Cincy, we don't need them, but I am sure there are other even less profitable P5 programs they could replace in NFL JR when it launches. 

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  7. 57 minutes ago, GhostofDanJones said:

    I knew aggy was racist, but god damn! So glad we don't play them anymore. Fuck that entire institution that they call a school.

    never happen but it would be amusing to see someone in our hierarchy respond to one of those clickbait "when are A&M and Texas going to play again???" questions by saying "the values of Texas A&M preclude us from scheduling them". 

    We're not run by John Sharp so it will never happen and I'm not advocating for it, but it would be fucking funny. 

  8. 11 minutes ago, The Marsellus Wallace said:

    And it's been answered: Fed Ex and cash.

    to which, you can kind of understand why Mr. Leroy and company are so peeved-- how dare these employees criticize the company? y'all boys is PAID to be heah, Highway 6 runs both ways, y'all can git out, Jimbo will replace you

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  9. 20 hours ago, C-Man said:

    I didn't mean that it did but I probably was clumsy in my post. I *think* he thinks he's making a salient point. In his brilliant mind, he thinks he's being progressive to say there are no white aggys, or black aggys, just aggys. He's too ignorant, too backward and probably (at least) a little racist in asking his question that way. I mean "blaggie" rolled right off his tongue like he's been using it quite often. It's way the fuck out of bounds but I guarantee he doesn't think so at all.

    This, and it also reveals his ignorance of modern America if he thinks a white person can approach a black person protesting and say something along the lines of "can't we all just get along?" and expect it to be well received. 

  10. Grimes could have gone anywhere in the country and picked Mack Brown and North Carolina. That to me means a) he wants to be coddled and b) he wants to continue being treated like a big fish in a small pond. 

    Not to mention, Grimes had A&M among his top four. That confirms my conclusions in point one above. He's attracted to coddlers and wants to remain a big fish. 

  11. On 6/22/2020 at 5:30 PM, Brothahorn said:

    Not really missing sports right now. And I thought I would. Maybe it's time for America to move on from the old forms of entertainment. It's time for a reset to get our priorities right and change some of the people and things we over value.

    I reserve the right to change my mind, come the first Saturday in September.

    I made it through March just fine without college basketball. That just leaves college football, which had lost a lot of its attraction for me before this summer but has been my favorite sport since I was ten; I dropped the NFL more than 15 years ago, the NBA more than 20, and MLB after the 1994 strike, and I never came back to any of them.

    All I really miss about sports is how I felt about them when I was 15, when I didn't really understand anything anyway. There's not really any way to bring that back, barring a massive head wound of some kind. So maybe they're childish things and need to be put away.

    Sports message boards too, come to think of it.

  12. when you get a letter about a specific action on your account that ends with "call <number> for help or with questions" and the number is the same top-level entry to the phone maze as ever

    so now I gotta wait on hold while the person I tumbled to tries to figure out if she's the one that can actually help with this question 

    the letter might as well have just said, literally, "give us a call or, you know, like, whatever"

  13. 12 hours ago, msucolt45 said:

     

    There’s nothing better than a Football Friday Night in Texas! As a Texas football referee for the Junior Highs up to the Varsity level, I love my “side job” during the Fall! I enjoy working with the smaller crews referring the junior high kids as much as the Varsity on Friday night, because I love the game and assisting the younger players/levels too.

     

    I hope that we have kids in school this Fall, which will help have a football season, but who knows? I think we’re still at least through July for a “final” decision on that!

     

    I’m looking forward to it and if things go right we’ll have our Fridays back, plus the Longhorns on Saturdays. Nothing is better than the Friday Nights in Texas - here’s hoping it happens! Even though I reside in a large city, the one-school towns have the best atmosphere for football - IMO.

     

    COVID is the greatest threat mankind has faced. You need to show proper respect instead of asking questions.

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