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  1. People make decisions based on emotion and then justify those decisions with whatever reason, rationale or logic they can summon or leverage. The committee leans heavily on their internal formulas to justify their decisions. They did that this past year. They admit doing that in this press release. So, yes, it will matter. Will it make everyone happy? No. Will many autists who follow all of this whine that we're not leaving it totally up to machines or a formula or transparently receiving the decision-helping tools? Yes. If you don't think this is going to put more pressure on OOC scheduling, I don't know what could be done to actually alter your POV. The build-up to the early OOC games this season has been enormous. The media is giving the programs Texas, OSU, Florida, OU, Michigan, Bama, Clemson, FSU, LSU, ATM, Auburn, Baylor, and Notre Dame a ton of credit and, really for the first time, the pansy schedulers are truly being ridiculed. Indiana and Penn State are being mocked aggressively. These rule changes further embolden the CFP committee to follow suit and, if having to split hairs, lean on SOS to justify a difficult decision. If Texas loses close road games to Ohio State and Florida and then loses the CCG in OT again, a 10-3 Texas is getting in versus a 10-2 Indiana who lost to Oregon and PSU and played virtually no one else. This rule change likely helps someone immediately this season. Schedule tough OOC games and don't lose ugly games and you have a great shot of getting into the CFP.
  2. Traylor was being wooed by TCU and maybe? Tech when Sarkisian was going 5-7. They cut a deal in the contract extension for him at UTSA that diminished the buyout if he took a job at another school in the UT system or ATM system. That wasn't an accident and you can go look it up. I added the ATM system in there, but I think that's right. Have things changed? Sure. Texas is in a totally different place these days. Likely/hopefully never matters for UT. ATM, however? Maybe. I thought he would have been a good hire instead of The Elk, but we'll likely never know that one either.
  3. A professor did it as some sort of survey for a study. The results surprised him and they went out and got it published. It's not like it was just some clickfarmer leveraging the Texas brand. I forget the methodology, but I feel like there was a plurality of voting involved, not just naming one opponent.
  4. To that prior post, this just dropped and I view it as great news for teams like Texas and UCLA that actually add tough teams to their OOC schedules.
  5. I am sure there is a better thread to post this, so someone should, but I'm in a hurry and saw this update on SOS changes with the CFP analysis and committee. Pretty fucking big deal. It's great for Texas and anyone who actually schedules aggressively OOC and it's great for rewarding those kinds of games in general.
  6. Couple of thoughts: 1) Michigan singing "Hail To the Victors" with a guy named Hiter on their team next in Germany is going to make people uncomfortable, I have to imagine. 2) Cignetti at Indiana might be able to say "just google me" in reference to winning, but you can also use Google to realize what a pussy that gasbag is with his scheduling. Dude showed up to Indiana and immediately canceled multiple P4 OOC match-ups and then replaced them with cupcakes. They play Old Dominion, Kennesaw State and Indiana State this season for their OOC. If they're anything close to the playoff discussion, unless they're undefeated with wins over Illinois, Iowa, Oregon and PSU, it's without merit. They were a fucking joke entry last year but everyone gave them a benefit of the doubt. Notre Dame proved them to be a fraud. This year, they bring a bunch of guys back and add Mendoza (QB from Cal getting draft buzz). If they're 9-3/10-2 or even 11-1, fuck those guys versus a 10-2 option with a harder schedule. Marler is an 8 conference game loving SEC honk, but he has a point here:
  7. One of the insiders on Aggies247 is opining about the DT roles and depth. I say "insider" because they all defer to him as such and he's attended practices and appears to talk to people in the program. Hicks has beaten out Onyedim to start alongside Regis. That got people wondering if Hicks is suddenly "coming on and playing like a 5 star" and the guy said "no, he plays high and lacks explosiveness but he works hard" and then they realize that, magically, Onyedim didn't blossom after leaving ISU for a final year at ATM. Apparently he's got either conditioning or work ethic issues or both. They're talking about playing DJ Sanders in a "key role" this season in the interior and Tarp confirmed that while also saying basically "hopefully not early though". Let's be clear here - DJ Sanders is a bad-bodied true freshman with S&C issues and no technique. Texas wanted him as a complete project who wouldn't touch the field for a minimum of 2 seasons. If ATM is playing that guy, they are well and truly fucked on defense. I know we've discussed this ad nauseum, but they really do not understand what a drop off in their front 3/4 is going to do to the rest of their defense. They're mostly in denial that there will be a drop off after losing 3 early round picks from the front 3/4, for starters. There's almost no analysis, beyond Tarp surreptitiously trying to let folks know, that a weaker front means the LBs are actually going to have make a lot of plays. Currently, per their discussion, they have a heavy rotation of Regis/Hicks and Onyedim/Evans and then Sanders is going to have to play, along with Landon Rink. I don't think any of those guys make the Texas two deep and Regis/Hicks would be fighting for the third rotation. An SEC LOS League front 3/4 indeed.
  8. Also, admitting that I couldn't see you because I was so far ahead of you is one of your greatest own-goals ever.
  9. I did that once. We were in a small plane over Baja. I couldn't let the other guy just jump and get away with it. It was like acid in my mouth. Underrated experience, really. Also, besmirching my honor with the implication of lies and damned lies is one thing, sir, but I'll not have you cast shade at the veracity of my triumph. If you want to relive it and have witnesses and recordings this time, name the time and place!
  10. I like Iowa State to win as well as Kansas and Hawaii. I haven't looked at Stanford's schedule but I've generally just assumed that they're going 0-12 unless they've lowered themselves to playing FCS schools like most of the rest of the pussies in FBS.
  11. This reminds me. I don't even remember how the footrace premise came about, whether I was shit talking someone or some other absurdity. The actual last footrace I was in was a 100 yard dash on a football field against @SydneyCarton. I beat the guy by 10 yards with our other friends pointing and laughing at him. I offered to wear a mini-parachute behind me to make the next race more competitive but he declined. You're normally fine. Don't be a pussy and get your feelings all hurt.
  12. Texas isn't the only team fucking around with putting an AA Safety in the Nickel role. OSU is trying to figure out Jordan Hancock's replacement. Hancock was a Swiss army knife for the OSU defense last year and guys like that don't grow on trees. No guys actually grow on trees, I guess, but you get the drift. Anyway, the most versatile guy on their defense these days is Caleb Downs. They're reluctantly giving him reps at NB. The problem with that is they are not in love with their back-up safety options. Should be interesting for Texas on 8/30.
  13. Your take was terrible in its logic and it was also uninformed. Shut the fuck up about it or own it, but don't be a bitch about it.
  14. The story at the time is that Mack was coming with Daboer and Daboer felt like he was a better for his offense. Alabama had committed serious NIL to Sayin and Daboer wanted to use it elsewhere, so he ran him off while they were both brand new to campus. Ohio State was waiting with open arms.
  15. Jay Valai is not only generally incompetent, but he is also one dumb motherfucker. Spoilered below is an interview with him where he attempts to shit more platitudes out of his mouth in under 30 seconds than any person has in logged history. Highlights: -Eli Bowen hurt his ankle in the spring and is still in a walking boot with 10 days before kickoff, but Valai isn’t worried about it, likely because he is too stupid to grasp the impact. -Gentry Williams is cemented as the other starter. Guy has struggled to stay healthy but the talent in the CB room is so barren that he’s a shoe-in from the jump to start again. -The Jacobe Johnson guy is one of their white stags. They’re constantly in pursuit of finding him in a place where he can actually contribute, and right now it is back to CB. -They talk up Courtland Guillory a lot but he hasn’t grabbed the other starting CB slot, yet. So a true JAG or a true freshman is going to be the day 1 starter opposite Williams. -All told, they only have 5 CBs on the roster and one of them is in a boot.
  16. While I have had my ass kicked plenty of times, I don’t think I’ve lost a fist fight to a grandpa yet. Of course, I’m now a grandpa, so some sort of first and potentially last would be happening.
  17. Now y’all have made me look it up. Got that fastball by me.
  18. OTF is hosting a happy hour in Midtown in Houston tonight. I’m thinking about showing up and offering outlandish critiques of the coaching staff and various players in order to see how many old and middle aged men I can cause to stroke out or to challenge me to fist fights or 40 yard dashes.
  19. What folks who are younger than most of us might have a hard time believing is that Auburn wasn’t even part of the national conversation. There was no SEC SEC SEC bullshit of note. No one watched those guys play that season and thought “yeah, they could beat Oklahoma or USC”. OU shit the bed against USC and hindsight tells those who weren’t there that an objective argument can be made in favor of Auburn being viable, but no one saw it that way then. SEC honks this morning are touting that team’s worthiness and it’s a joke. I saw Tuberville tweeting about being a champion. I don’t care about the politics, I just despise that motherfucker for his CFB profile. Boring, zero integrity, dumber than a sack of shit. His stunt leaving recruits at dinner in Lubbock to fly out to Cincy is spineless, dickless shit. And now that fucking asshole gets to claim being a national champion. If Greg Davis wasn’t a thoughtless, playcalling coward, I think Texas vs USC that year would have been a really fun game.
  20. I’ve told the story before, but I enjoy it so I’ll do it again here. OU punched down in 2022 on their first 3 opponents and looked like worldbeaters. The 3rd game was a routing of a hapless Scott Frost-led Nebraska team of failure. College Sports Sunday on XM 84 is hosted by Barrett Sallee and Tom Luginbill, then through now, and they were talking about all of the games from the day before. They were lauding how dominant OU looked and then pondering what their flaws might be. Then they have Chris Plank come on. Plank does work on shows for XM and he’s also either the color guy or sideline guy for OU radio broadcasts. While he went to Tulsa, he’s an absolute OU homer. He’s just on there gushing with those guys and then they ask him: “what is a worrisome flaw with this OU team?” Plank pauses dramatically and then says, “Gosh, you know guys, I don’t think there are any. “ That OU team finished with a losing record. These rubes do this every year and to Pato’s point, they’ve been rewarded for it for so long that they still can’t see the bullshit over the past few years and what’s currently going on in their regime. Guys on their sites are like “Teddy and Gabe are never gushing like this. They were giving out warnings last August.” No, they were not. Lehman and Ikard are in the tank and are the least objective commentators you could find for OU. Good summary of their current trap they’ve constructed for themselves.
  21. “Well other people are doing it, so that justifies us doing it. “ No, the “current landscape” doesn’t make that nonsense any less embarrassing. But, hey, Auburn is the craziest and one of the historically dirtiest programs in all of CFB, so, yeah, fuck it. There’s zero reputational risk because if it wasn’t for low class, Auburn wouldn’t have any class at all.
  22. Durkin is now at Auburn for a second season and has yet to kill anyone. I agree that these idiots are being flippant about this with Fasusi. Surely the medical staff isn’t that stupid. Separately, Fasusi being a starter isn’t like Banks being a starter. This dude needs time. Them rushing him to the starting lineup because the other guys suck worse is quite the thing for their idiot gurus to tout.
  23. Am I insane or is the absolute worst way to play a physical beast like Smith is with man press? It seems like you would have to be one bad motherfucker to regularly handle that guy on the LOS. I think Muhammad is a fine CB, but he’s certainly not a bad motherfucker physically.
  24. He had a heat stroke and they had to take him via ambulance to the hospital. Of course, they’re all saying he’s now perfectly fine. To be clear, I don’t think Wingo even passed out and the dude spent two nights under observation in the hospital and missed a week of practice. Things are handled differently up in Norman though.
  25. Yeah, it's like people constantly have to play "hold my beer" when it comes to attempting to plumb new depths of topic banalities here.
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