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Enjoying the misery of others is some of the best therapy available. I think the Germans even have a word for it. Of course they also have made us crap like zeitgeist...

Clearly it's 1985 - again.

They don't need that fancy technology. They just take on all comers at the glory hole - just like aggy always has. It's turdition.

Seems a bit low based on results. I'll wait a bit to see if the pessimists drive it under 10. If so I'm giving the points.

So his biased algorithm is just now moving towards the conclusions that any objective human observer would have come to in week 1.

Sadly, aggy may be the best - or at least the most talented team to face Bama to date. By week 7 of the CFB season that "grueling $EC schedule" will have featured a gauntlet to shame the Bataan Death March: Duke, NM State, USCe, Southern Miss, Ole Miss are the new Murders' Row which validates Tide greatness when they go undefeated against it. I give them the benefit of the doubt since they've been consistently good for a decade. OTOH this year's team hasn't proven anything against anyone. I could see aggy giving them a challenge for a half before the adrenaline runs out.

Lanolin is one hell of a drug...

They have values (of a sort). I think they might even have an ethic.

It's more like slightly favoring AIDS to beat cancer.

Purdy has not looked good all day and his line has done him no favors. He still comes up big late.

I'd say his view of some of those girls is a little slanted...

Listening to the halftime show on Fox. One of the commentators pulls out the comment about how much better OU's defense is this year and how they are averaging 14 PPG less than last year. I'm just not seeing it so I pull up the stats. Sure enough they looked pretty good on D during their non-conference schedule last year too. 2018: UCLA - 21 points, Army - 21, FAU -14 2019: UCLA - 14, S. Dakota - 14 and Houston - 31 OU's defense actually looked better in 2018 and went on to give up 40+ in 6 games. They might be better this year but you really can't see it from the early season stats when comparing apples to apples. Unfortunately Tech probably won't be much of a test either on that side of the ball. They're playing better D the last couple of seasons but their offense is a mess.

Looks like she has a shot at the podium if she can just nail the triple-triple combination in the long program...

After playing aggy in consecutive years they should have learned that Baaa Means No!

Cargo Cult on the Brazos Last spasm of prosperity dates to the same period and just as likely to return.

I have trouble telling the difference. Is he sweating more than usual?

Like most Fantasy Football guys, Connelly over-focuses on the eligible players on offense and almost completely ignores OL play. I suspect that's because there aren't many stats to measure the success of the line except indirectly. So it's a stat geek version of the drunk looking for his keys under the same streetlamp because that's where the light is. I'm sure he's undervaluing the Offensive Line. If the logical conclusions from that hold, it's pretty clear why he can't correctly value Tom Herman teams. He's looking at skill position production as a partial proxy for something he can't measure (OL effectiveness). But because he can't (or at least won't) separate line yards from RB yards he simplistically attributes 100% of the yardage to the back. Thus the loss of a plurality of Texas' running game "production" with the departure of Tre Watson from 2018. That type of assessment is always going to undervalue a rising program and especially one driven by large improvements in the play of the O-Line. His system completely misses the fact that Texas returned its two best starters (Cosmi and Shack). It doesn't account for adding a GT all-conference Guard. And it cannot see (more excusably) the value of a RS freshman breaking out at the other Guard position - just like it missed Cosmi doing the same at Tackle last season. Connelly's code sees "2 returning starters" not 4 veterans (all 4 good and 2 great) and one young beast. The systemic flaw here is Billy's inability to measure something critical and the refusal to admit that it is is critical. That arrogance is compounded by incorrectly attributing most of that critical factor to a result, not a cause (RB yardage). It is further aggravated by assuming that the OL blocking which constitutes so much of that production leaves with the runner. To top it all off, he uses only the crudest measure of OL quality which leads to wildly inaccurate conclusions with coaching staffs that have a history of producing high-quality OL regularly and especially when they are starting from a low base from which major improvement is likely each year for some time. Connelly's model works fine for steady state programs where the future looks pretty much like the past. Where there is a significant change from year to year his model will always be behind the informed humans that actually watch the game.

Exactly. You want Sam's safety net in position to make adjustments to the blitz with a hot route and burn the D for it. They are so much in synch right now you'd think their dads were college roommates or something...

i wouldn't trust em with live squares How about sluggish cubes?

If they'd watched film, they wouldn't have to ask where the bodies are buried. Obviously the answer is "across the LOS from Karic."

So, came for the game; stayed for the MS Paint?

Let's bring this back to the original point of the thread. Do you not see the obvious correlation between having a conference full of doormats in reality combined with media hype to hide that weakness and the ability to get SELECTED to play for those titles? The good SEC teams have 3-4 automatic wins OOC and 6-7 auto wins in conference. Look at Georgia this year. ND was the only possible OOC loss. Unless Florida is much better than they've shown to date, Auburn will be Georgia's only real challenge before the CCG and they will make the SEC championship even if they lose that game. They are essentially guaranteed 11 wins and in the regular season and a spot in the CCG at this point with 8 games still to be played. In the Big XII there are a bunch of outstanding coaches that can make their 2nd tier talent into truly dangerous and occasionally dominant teams. See Patterson at TCU and Gundy at OSU for longstanding examples. ISU's Matt Campbell is headed in that same direction. 3 of the 1st year coaches have come from hugely over-achieving programs at lower levels. KSU got Kleiman from ND State. Tech hired Wells from Utah State and WVU got the coach who beat LSU while at Troy. In the past, Texas and OU have had to face the likes of Leach at Tech, Art Briles at Baylor and the Purple Wizard at Kansas State. Where are the comparable coaches at 2nd tier programs in the SEC? They don't exist because those who become a real threat to the reigning powers get driven out like Huge Freeze at Ole Miss or Hal Mumme at Kentucky - both driven out for "violations" that were and are standard practice throughout the conference. The message is clear: if you coach at a peasant program and threaten the aristocracy you will be destroyed. There is a reason that good, ambitious coaches rarely go to designated doormat programs in the SEC and those that do don't stay long enough for the machine to mobilize against them.

Seriously. One does not simply run a QB successfully in the SECx3. Not unless he has the passing ability of a Nick Fitzgerald to make him a TRUE dual threat anyway...

Jimbo was already early Stage 4 Mack his last year+ at FSU. He's simply metastasized from Tallahassee to Collie Station.