Richard Kimball

Carlin was great when he was younger. His personality changed after his first heart attack. If you watch his earlier stuff, there are a lot of great observations of the human condition. In his later stuff, he just bitches a lot.

Yeah, the loser is eliminated because the conference championships would be playoff games. As to non conference being rendered inconsequential, you could make that argument, but in high school football, it's been that way for years, and if Lake Travis plays South Lake Carroll in a non-con, it's going to be a big deal. What I don't get is why people think a team (Georgia) that loses in the conference championship, or another team (Alabama) that doesn't win their half of their conference should get a mulligan.

I hear where you're coming from. On one hand, it's hard to argue with you, but currently, the sixty someodd teams in the G5 have absolutely no shot at getting in the playoffs. The reason it won't happen is because the P5 prefers it that way, and they call the shots.

Here's how I think it should be done. There are five P5s, five G5s and the independents. Have the G5 figure out a way to have their champions figured out by the end of the regular season. The G5 champions and top independent play each other in three games the same week as the P5 conference champions. You HAVE to win that game to advance. If you don't win conference championship, you don't advance. Took a quick look, and the P5 teams to advance would be (this year) Oklahoma, Ohio State, Clemson, Alabama, and Washington. The probable G5/Independents that would get in would be Notre Dame, UCF and Fresno State. (That's assuming they won their conference championship week game.) At the start of the season, every team knows exactly what they have to do to get in the playoffs, and every team has a path. No beauty contest. Another upside to this is that there's no reason for teams to avoid tough OOC games. If UT and Michigan want to play, it doesn't affect their conference standings.

You can't trust review sites. There are dozens of ways to game the system, even if they try to keep it legit. Particularly don't trust a review site that takes advertising payments from the people being reviewed.

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By Grabthar's hammer. What a savings.

Wanted to posrep and say thanks for starting the thread. I hadn't watched any of the Bond movies in years. Started watching with Dr. No and am going through the Connery ones in order. I'd forgotten how good the early ones were. Haven't seen any of the ones since whichever one had Roger Moore running on the crocodile heads. At that point it seemed like they had turned more into road runner cartoons than spy thrillers. Can't speak to the newer Bonds. Roger Moore was the jump the shark moment for me.

Many moons ago, in the early eighties, I played Santa Claus at Highland Mall. A couple of kids came up. They were wearing T-shirts with the name of their church on it. I said, "My memory isn't as good as it used to be, but do you still live in Pflugerville?" They both turned around and said, "Mom! It's HIM! It's really him!" Two UT linemen got their picture taken sitting on my lap. I think they did it on a dare, but those guys were big. One on each knee, my head was at armpit level. Fun times.

Nobody expected it.

I was trying to find a picture of her from the film, but all of them were NSFW, for the nipples you mention.

Are you talking about your friend or Roger Moore?

Probably because I was just about to hi puberty when Goldfinger came out, but Shirley Eaton was my favorite

IIRC, Tom Brady was reported to have gotten a staph infection after his knee surgery when he tore his ACL/MCL. He made a full recovery. Hope Smith does, also. If I was him, though, I would hang it up.

Because you touch yourself at night.

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As far as capturing the dark side of New Orleans Cat People Angel Heart

As far as their nuts and bolts video people, stats people, and having the best site for keeping track of games and wins, ESPN is terrific. Their "on air talent" is must miss television.

I wanted Charlie Strong to succeed because he was the head coach at Texas. I wanted Mack Brown to be successful because he was the head coach at Texas. I want Tom Herman to be successful because he's the head coach at Texas. Don't care how the head coach at USF or North Carolina does. As far as opinions, Mack was good, but had fallen off. Strong caught lightning in a bottle with Bridgewater and pooled that into some sweet contracts. He's fine, as long as he has a personnel advantage and can motivate players, but not a good X and Os coach. Herman has improved a lot of facets of the Longhorns, but we'll have to see if his ceiling is up there with th big guys, or more Mike Leach.

I'm too lazy to look it up, but IIRC, after the second round, the salary flattens out quite a bit, and fifth rounders don't make that much less than 3rd rounders. Most obvious advantage is that the higher the draft rank, the more of a chance the player gets to stick with the team. GMs reputations are on the line with higher draft picks, and cutting third rounders looks worse than cutting seventh rounders.

Some players skip bowl games from fear of injury. Same reason NFL starters see darned little work in exhibition games. Others, who have no real NFL prospects, are tired of playing ball. They aren't playing ball next year and fifteen more practices to play in the Mothball Classic doesn't appeal to them. Others don't get along with the coaching staff, and see it as an early way out. Some, who have NFL prospects, don't bleed school colors. The school was a means to an end. I've seen several players that skipped bowl games to "get ready for the draft" add 25 pounds (and not the good weight.) There are more guys than we'd like to admit that have accomplished everything they want in the NFL when they sign the contract.

If they're dead, they are ineligible for the bowl game.

I agree. Thought for years the conference championships should be a play in (first round.) Where I differ from others is that I think the rest should be from the G5 and independents. The networks are, long-term, turning college football into a regional sport, and killing the chances of teams like UCF, South Florida, SMU and others by keeping their thumbs on the scale for the SEC and a handful of around eight blue bloods.

KState is actually a pretty good stepping stone school. Make a bowl game and fans are happy. Some schools, like Texas, USC, Michigan, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Alabama expect a conference championship or playoff berth every year. KState is one of those schools where people only pay attention when you're doing well. If you have a bad year, you can just kind of fly under the radar.

Why did you tease me, Georgia?