closetojumping

I asked myself that question - who is the worst P4 team in the country this season? It’s either UH or Miss State. I guess you could throw Purdue in there potentially. The results weren’t very compelling. There are only a few truly terrible P4 teams this year and Miss State may be the worst of all of them.

Texas isn’t the only team pushing for 9 conference games and you have to assume that wins out. That will put Texas back to 10 P4 games because they’re going to continue to schedule a tough non-con. Supposedly, the one thing Texas really is pushing is ending the FCS bullshit. The networks aren’t fans of those games either. ULM and Kent State aren’t big ratings draws, but they absolutely outperform nonsense like playing Mercer or Furman.

So, just reading tea leaves, it looks like ATM went desperate again when it comes to winning a DT against Texas. The Elk was involved with the Fisher recruiting approach of just going fucking nuts to win any DT or Edge that they could buy and keep away from UGa, LSU and Bama. Forget any other positions, if you land the defensive front guys that everyone covets, then you will surely win titles. I guess we’ll see how it works out, but so far, that approach has been a comical disaster. The biggest part of problem looks like development, or lack thereof. The Elk is a good defensive coach, but he is a dogshit coach when it comes to development.

He’s the DJU of DTs. Some idiot P4 program is absolutely going to shell out more cash and convince themselves that they can fix him.

Something else that is kind of crazy to me is that, all of the sudden, The Elk is listing Enai White on the availability list. He’s not even “out”. He’s listed as “questionable” all of the sudden. Dude has been persona non grata with them since his injury last fall, now he’s in danger of showing up in a game? I’m honestly wondering if the conference didn’t call them out on listing the guy.

I’m kind of ignorant on some of this, but I read the Friday night numbers as really strong. Is that wrong? It seems like this could become a pretty big deal with the way Fox is handling it and the numbers following. Hell, the freaking late night game on the CW on Friday drew over 500k. Also, is there any way to get data regarding the Texas/ULM stream? I know it was off in the hinterlands of the CFB landscape, but I’m wondering if there was any kind of bump due to Manning’s first start.

I was mistaken regarding Anderson. He’s actually listed as probable, so I assume he’s playing.

I was mistaken. Anderson is not questionable, he’s probable.

Shanahan is out. I don’t even know if their $9.95ers know who is going to play C on Saturday. Anderson is questionable and that usually means he won’t play. That dude’s NFL stock is collapsing in real time. Good luck to them at S.

Shanahan is out. I don’t even know if their $9.95ers know who is going to play C on Saturday. Anderson is questionable and that usually means he won’t play. That dude’s NFL stock is collapsing in real time. Good luck to them at S.

Apparently the dude was swayed by Iowa State. Oklahoma has lost two DTs recently and now they’re going to have to reopen recruiting the position. Also, they should really look into Bear Alexander in the portal.

I didn’t want him and USC deserves him. Fuck that fat shitbag.

Guys, please keep up of the legal conversation on non-competes. The rest of us are fucking riveted.

Geez. The aggie fanbase is loaded with weak-willed men. Ron Swanson would not approve.

Christ. How much weed do we think this guy smoked? Is Captain Doobage running through so much of that shit that he’s at risk of flunking out or something?

Has anyone watched the guy? I’ve seen a little of him. He’s a far better running QB than passing QB. UNLV is winning as much because of their defense as anything.

I actually have been. Agreed it’s dead, which is kind of nice. Went to Carbone for the first time last night. It was fine, I don’t blame anyone that likes to go there. For. me, Piero’s is way better, way less expensive and you can almost always get a reservation, even day before-ish. The server last night explicitly stated that the Carbone veal parm was better than Piero’s, out of nowhere. So I had to try it. It was good but Piero’s is the best I have ever eaten, anywhere. And $45 less expensive. They’re building some sort of structure in front of the Bellagio fountains that I don’t recall reading about here. It looked permanent but construction and engineering are not my bailiwicks. The conference I attended was at Caesar’s, so I played some blackjack to bide time when the craps tables were dead. They were paying 3/2 on blackjack, which I haven’t seen on the strip in forever. I thought it might be a Caesar’s empire thing, but no, I played some blackjack with my wife after eating brunch at Mon Ami Gabi yesterday and it was back to the shitty 6/5.

Are they saying this on their boards or something? Last I was over on the ND 247 board weeks ago, Loy or Lemming or one of their guys was touting the promise of Carr, the highly ranked true freshman. Taking a new QB every year seems unsustainable, but it’s a new frontier, I guess.

Some thoughts are best tucked away and left to enjoy all on our own, Skipper.

Man, that is really ugly and bad for everyone involved.

Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a kid?

I have a friend who was dating Simms during that whole thing. She’s French and doesn’t give a shit about football, so she was totally ignorant and unprepared for what unfolded. Listening to her describe the overall experience and what he went through is both sobering and surreal. Mack mishandled it all, but Texas fans embarrassed all of us in that debacle. Texas should invite Simms back and recognize him the way they do so many of the past greats and celebrate him at a game. They’ve never done it. I know he never won a conference title and choked against CU and those teams never beat OU, but damn. My fear if they ever did have him on the field and show him on the big screen is that a bunch of the same fucking idiots would make his return feel shabby. That wouldn’t be on Mack. That would be on pieces of shit among our fanbase.

Not really. He punched down just fine and then famously “got a ring” for all of the apologists and Lake Travis honks to point to, but beating up a bunch of midgets as a “can’t miss” five star isn’t anything to debunk his bust status at Texas and reveal the fact that he was overrated and sucked.

I thought it was taking effect completely for this cycle. If not, my bad.

He’ll be sitting a year, then. So will Arnold, for that matter.