TheFlyingBoat

It may be too early, but I think this will be the best new show of the year.

While I think the show was phenomenal I think S5 & S6 were the two weakest seasons (while still being very solid). I think there was a lot more fun to be had with certain characters. Far too little time was spent with Jessie Eden (the character interactions between her and Tommy were so fucking well done), Ada (a critical part of what made family interactions so great), Pol (she should have had the second most lines imo), and Michael (a great foil for Tommy and a really fun source of drama both as an ally and as an enemy). Also, Arthur was too much of a caricature of himself in S5, though they largely fixed that this season and did a FUCKING FANTASTIC job with him in the final episode, holy fuck. Really speaking S5 and S6 could have benefited from two more episodes apiece that would have allowed them to take a slower pace with every scene. Every single modern great show seems to have this problem where they decide they're going to deny their golden goose their swan song (how do you like that mixed metaphor). Why they insist on this after the fiasco of GoT is beyond me. Thankfully the writing and acting is still top class here by and large so whatever issues there were were outshone by all that was good about it.

I think mediocrity is a bit harsh and I say this as someone who criticized S5 contemporaneously. Certainly relative to its peak where D&D could simply lift the screenplay from the book it was quite mediocre, but compared to the general corpus of TV it was solidly at the borderline of acceptable and good, perhaps slightly closer to the acceptable side. Season 7 was when it became truly middling, carried only by prior world building, beautiful set design, phenomenal casting, and good will powerful enough to look past most faults. Season 8 was impressively bad in execution (I am largely ok with the grander plot points). But S5 and 6 certainly had its redeemable moments.

Ok let's take this a little bit more seriously than you did. 2022- Quinn Ewers wins Heisman 1 (Texas plays Bama OOC) 2023 - Quinn Ewers wins Heisman 2, goes pro/ Arch RS (first year in SEC) (Texas likely plays Bama as an OOC game in addition to the SEC schedule) 2024 - Arch RSFr starts and wins Heisman 1 (second year in SEC) (Texas does not play Bama) 2025 - Arch RsSo starts and wins Heisman 2 (third year in SEC) (Texas does play Bama) Despite the lunacy of predicting 4 Heisman wins a row, my scenario is still more plausible than Texas' first SEC game being in 2025. Do better you coelenterate.

Realistically we only hit 5 here, but god it would be great to hit 6. Before the Pac-12 jumped off a cliff though this chart is why I wanted to go to the Pac-12 with OU. Had we gone with them that is 25 of the 27 times a school has accomplished that feat and 5 of the 7 institutions to do it. It would also be 4 of 4 Institutions to do it this century (Stanford, UCLA, Texas, OU). SEC is where the money and more importantly the recruiting focus is nowadays so there we must be.

This thread is gold. If you go later on you'll find out that Kyle Rittenhouse is the moral equal of the teenagers that charged Normandy and Calais on D-Day and that firing on people during a riot as Rittenhouse did is more honorable than serving in the military while Joe Biden is president.

LFG

The fact that he ended up at Blinn may be the cherry on top of this story

HD then Agent 99! Let's find our way into the finals!!!

Did BurntOrange&White actually go here? I know standards were lower at all universities 40 years ago...but was the standard for basic reading comprehension that low that long ago? Or did old age make him stupid?

I don’t know about the not hating OU thing. Aggy maybe not but looking at the NFL guys post during OU week, they care quite a bit about that game

He is kowtax. We pay him 10bux TREE FIDDY and then he keeps us in line. Without him there'd be a bunch of scat or worse, people being even more dumb than normal.

Agreed, my primary fear though is that I see no reason to believe any portion of our defense would be excellent next year no matter who our DC is unless there are massive cultural changes given I think everything besides maybe the interior DL will continue to be FUBARed

While Kansas will likely never be subject to review they are a lot less attractive to the Big 10 than other potential choices despite being AAU. This doesn't rule out them ever going as there are only so many potential choices, BUT when you look at Kansas' numbers they really don't have impressive research outside of clinical medical research which is like cool and all but doesn't really make you nearly attractive to the Big Ten Academic Alliance (also formerly known as the CIC) as strong research in math/natural sciences, humanities, engineering, etc. do.

If we did do the 3 permanent rivals + 6 rotating who would our 3 be? I presume OU, A&M, and Arky? I quite like that tbh.

How dare this guy out people's names after I explicitly ordered AND goaded him to!

This aligns with what I expect

This guy seems dumb. I’m comfortable calling Addison to USC

I’d agree if we had a line😂

I truly couldn't believe my eyes when they traded Collins for that cheap. The Cowboys deserve a better front office and I firmly believed for a long time the Cowboys deserved less than nothing. But jesus that how dumb the trade was. The past 20 years have made me pity-hate instead of hate-hate the Cowboys.

sent nick 100 via venmo

If we can get Edey into foul trouble I think we win by 10 if we can't I think we lose by 10. We don't have an answer for him.

That has to mean we're announcing that we won't be here for the 2023 season right? Is it possible we leave the Big XII and are in the SEC in the Fall of 22? I can't believe we would be using SEC branding now if not to send some sort of message. Either there's something big politically going on behind closed doors that needed a bit of a jolt...or things are about to close soon.

I presume there has to be some alum of the paper who would happily endow the paper in perpetuity. I feel like these threats rarely work out.

Surely you had to have enjoyed the Notre Dame game?