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Burt Macklin

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  1. This looks like the best mock draft I've seen yet. Not nearly as many head scratching picks as a lot of the others I've seen, and Brugler is actually reflecting this year's level of play in his mock. Interesting that he has Collins all the way in the first round. I think that's the first I've seen him there, but it makes sense. He's always had 5 star athleticism but he's finally adding the play on the field along with it. Collins is starting to remind me of Calais Campbell. He obviously still has a ways to go before he gets to that level. Also interesting that Scourton is not in this mock. He's looked slow and unable to rush the passer this year, so it's not a surprise. The A&M S&C staff have majorly failed him this year and cost him millions.
  2. TIL that going to a school that's a 9 hour drive from where you live counts as staying at home. This will have huge implications for recruits from Silsbee moving forward.
  3. Your constant fixation on number of losses without accounting for strength of schedule is getting very tiresome. Miami has played one team in the top 20 of F+ all year: 8-4 Louisville in a back and forth shootout. Bama played 4 teams in the top 20 and went 3-1. Miami only played 3 teams in the top 40 all year. Bama played 7. Miami got an absolute cakewalk of a schedule and still dropped two games. There's no legitimate basis for claiming they absolutely deserved a playoff spot. Exactly. I don't get why people act like SMU will be robbed if they lose to Clemson and are out. You can mess around with the cutoffs, but SMU has only played one team in the top 20 and they lost to them. Clemson will be their second. If they go 0-2 against top 20 teams (neither of which are in the top 15), there's no reason why they should get to be in the CFP. On the flip side, Clemson is 0-3 against top 20 teams, so if SMU is even one of the 20 best teams in the country, they should be able to handle Clemson and guarantee their spot in the CFP. People need to stop fixating so much on number of losses when there's such huge schedule disparity. The ACC is an absolute fucking joke of a conference. Their bad teams are horrible, and the ACC's top 3 teams (SMU, Miami, Clemson) didn't play each other. Duke is 46th in F+ and they went 1-3 against teams in the top 50. They are 9-3 because they go to play 8 teams outside of the top 50 in CFB. That's not a power conference schedule and shouldn't be treated as such. This is a great example of people not understanding how bad the ACC is. Oklahoma is 31st in F+. They would be favored on a neutral field against all of Duke (46th), Georgia Tech(42nd), and Syracuse (50th). Oklahoma would not have had to play all 3 of SMU, Clemson, and Miami, and they would probably be 9-3 instead of Duke. It really shouldn't be this hard to understand that you can't just compare records straight up, especially when you're talking about ACC teams versus the SEC.
  4. aggy Rob posting this tweet just days after getting absolutely dominated on both lines of scrimmage is absolutely hilarious.
  5. The reports are they did it because Audi wanted more emphasis on battery/electric for road relevance and they held this over FOM before they joined. Catering to manufacturers and greenwashing have really ruined a lot of racing in F1. I agree with your other posts. V10s on sustainable fuels (lets FOM still claim moral high ground on green efforts) and make the cars way smaller and lighter for better racing is the route they need to go to make the actual product better, but FOM has clearly shown they're more interested in catering to manufacturers and talking about sustainability efforts unfortunately. I understand why they needed/wanted manufacturers when it was only Ferrari, MB, and Alpine with Alpine looking shaky. But now we have Ferrari, MB, RB Power trains/Ford, Honda, Audi, and Cadillac. There's really no benefit to keep adding manufacturers beyond 4; if anything, they're a hindrance because they push for rules that hurt the racing product. And what fan really cares if there are 4 or 6 engine manufacturers involved?
  6. In a sea of dumb takes, HotownHown got worried he'd get left out. It was an obvious hot read where Helm was supposed to turn once he didn't have anyone lined up over him. You can't assume before the snap that you'll have time pump fake and throw deep on third and long with 5 on 5 blocking. These things are called pre-snap, and this was absolutely a hot read pre-snap. Quinn certainly could've thrown it better, but if Helm gets the hot read he very likely catches it and gets the first down.
  7. Yeah, that race was a clown show. Almost like firing the race director with three races left was a bad idea. The FIA is pushing out basically anyone with competency at this point, and it's becoming a huge problem for F1. Ben Sulayem is as big of a problem as people feared when he got the FIA president role. On the actual race, it was very boring. Lando fighting Max was our best shot for an exciting race. Circuits built for Motogp don't produce great racing for F1 cars. The only silver lining is that Lando getting that ridiculously harsh penalty kept the Constructors battle alive, which should make Abu Dabhi more exciting. Ferrari need a 1-2 with McLaren getting a 4,5 or worse, or a 1-3 with McLaren getting a 5,6 or worse. If Ferrari don't win Abu Dabhi, they need to finish 2,3 and likely have one of the McLarens retire. None of that is very likely, but McLaren not qualify well could at least give it a chance and make the race interesting. Otherwise, this race will probably be pretty boring.
  8. lol wut. If we only get one solid DT in the portal, we will be screwed. We got good production from Lole and Norton this year as backups. Collins and Broughton took huge steps forward and are the stars of the IDL. There's nobody on the roster ready to have anywhere near the year that Collins and Broughton had. You cited Mitchell who very well may not be on the roster next year. January looks ready to contribute, but who knows if he's ready to start. After that, it's bleak. If all we get is one guy like Lole plus what we have currently on the roster, then we will be in a terrible spot at DT.
  9. Agreed, but the expectation is this one will be more drastic than many others. The engines will be a 50/50 split between ICE (running on sustainable fuels with a 70 kg limit for a race which is much lower than current) with no more MGU-H, increasing the use of the electric power while taking away one of the sources for producing it. On top of that the reliance on electricity increases, but the energy storage does not, so there is concern cars will have to downshift on the straights to get more electrical power, which is also why they added the moveable aero to reduce drag on straights and avoid this, but it still may be required on long straights. They're also expecting the engine to always run at higher revs to basically burn fuel to create more electric power, even when cars are going extremely slow at hairpins or chicanes. Overall, these regs are pretty extreme and already seem quite messy. We'll see. The people developing the engines and cars are brilliant and they have over a year to keep figuring things out, but the outlook from people on the technical side does not seem positive right now. Definitely a lot more pessimistic than our 2022 regulation changes at this point.
  10. I saw this thread bumped, and it is unfortunate he's no longer the best in the 9.95/bathroom stalking business. We never get to experience 9.95er Hamm after a beatdown by UT. That would have been a really entertaining week on the message boards.
  11. All very true, but logical, thought-out planning is not how they operate. It's emotional swings, almost always in response to fear of UT success. He forgot to add the part where he gave the young man he just "gently" grabbed and laid on his back directions back to his car when he was lost after the game.
  12. That's not how this is going to go for many, if any, schools. There will be decommitments and movement right at the end, so you better get some flips as well.
  13. The engines are ridiculously complex yet also underpowered. Reliability is likely going to be bad, and the engines are looking to be so underpowered that they’ve had to change the aero regulations multiple times to accommodate the projections, including adding moveable aero so there’s less drag on the straights for the engines. A lot of writers and people around the paddock are expecting these new regs to go very poorly. As always, we’ll have to wait and see but the expectation is a lot of field spread and technical issues.
  14. We need to enjoy this year and next year, because new regs hit in 2026 and the field spread will be massive and the racing will be god awful.
  15. Huh? aggy just lost their 5* star QB commit less than a week ago.
  16. You would have a point if teams played even remotely the same strength of schedule, but they don’t. SMU’s current SoS is a joke. If they go 0-2 against top 25 teams this season without even playing a single top 15 team, they don’t belong in the playoff. It’s that simple. This is a truly absurd take. Their resumes look similar only if you ignore the loss column completely. IU and ISU’s SoS isn’t that far apart. ISU lost to two shitty teams. Indiana beat all the shitty teams on their schedule with the only loss being at the #5 team in the country. ISU hasn’t even played a single top 20 team this year. If you drop two games without facing a single top 20 team, how do you belong in the CFP against a team whose only loss is at #5? And going back to ELS, which is basically how hard your schedule is if you’re a CFP-quality team, ISU is 80th with only .64 expected losses. IU is 43rd with 1.03 expected losses.
  17. That’s the good stuff right there. aggy remains undefeated in games they haven’t played. I fully expect them to start adding 13 wins to their all time record moving forward.
  18. The committee has said a lot of things and their hit rate on following through isn’t great. I don’t buy that teams wont be punished for losing. Especially if SMU loses. Their SOS is around 75th depending on the metric you use and their best win currently is an 8-4 Louisville. The only team currently in the top 25 they’ve played all year is BYU and they lost. If they also lose to Clemson and have no top 25 wins all year, the committee is absolutely going to punish them. And that’s probably the right move. SMU doesn’t deserve to be in the playoff if they don’t beat Clemson this week. Their schedule has been easier than every other CFP contender and their ELS (expected number of losses for a team 2 standard deviations above the mean) is .6 (84th in the country), so they’re actually underperforming the record a playoff-quality team should have with their schedule currently.
  19. I would really love to hear what makes Elko a high floor HC. You just admitted the narrative of football guy who coaches up his players hasn’t actually come to fruition, and he’s not known as a good recruiter nor does he look like he’s good at hiring.
  20. If only bizzle wasn’t stuck in that barren, internet wasteland known as Vancouver.
  21. PK is here to shutout the offense and bang @South Austin’s mom, and South Austin’s mom is waiting until after the game.
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