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    Florida getting votes, LSU getting votes, Missouri being ranked, Alabama and Ole Miss in the top 15, this fucking conference is just living off of brand goodwill. None of those are good teams. Missouri is a bad team. Florida and LSU are bad teams. It’s pathetic.
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    I will never root for an OU win, but holy shit. Blowing out Bama with that shitty OU team is hilarious. I didn’t get to see any of it, and I cannot imagine how that could have happened. Did Milroe throw 3 pick sixes?
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    He opened at the Texas One Fund event held in DKR in May. There were around 1,000 people there across a spread of tables on the floor of the stadium. It was a really awkward set-up for a comedian, with a ton on unfamiliar blue hairs not taking much interest in a bunch of his jokes. He literally says “fuck it” into the microphone and just starts hatefucking the crowd with comedy, including a bunch of political jokes and shit talk about Texas. Towards the end, he mentioned he’s not sure why he was asked to do this gig. He and the crowd were bewildered with one another. I was fucking howling. Making a fool of myself at a table because it was the funniest, most uncomfortable shit I had seen in years.
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    Given that the UPI and later the Coach's Poll were both legitimate awarders of national titles in contemporaneous manners, your exclusion of them here makes the entire effort futile.
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    Add in Helm going in the mid-rounds after being a low 3 star and Taafe as a former walk-on and we could point and laugh at anyone claiming that Texas isn't developing talent these days.
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    Heather Dinich isn't some newbie getting airtime because she's a somewhat decent-looking woman. She was a student journalist at Indiana when Bobby Knight's last scandal broke out. He tried to use and bully her and she held her ground and published the truth in the student newspaper, which launched her career. She then built a career doing that kind of digging and sticking to her knitting. Y'all running over Dinich and Auerbach as bad reporters who are only getting on camera due to looks or DEI or whatever are being reductive and lazy.
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    I'd go to an away game against Miami, but I'd do so skeptically. I've been to Miami like 6-7 times, all on business. We made it a point to go out and do shit and I still didn't enjoy it. And I am an easy traveler. I want to have a good time. But everybody always talks it up, so, sure, I can root for that and another shot at enjoying it. Lots of good suggestions for roadies on here. I say throw Northwestern into the mix. Add Pitt. Let's get creative, CDC.
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    Yep. I think we all have stories like that. At least those of us who have been paying attention. I used to argue with sooners on Hornfans accusing Texas of the ol' "everyone does it" stunt. "If Texas ever decides it has a payroll to meet, you guys and the entire college football landscape are going to know it." Now they all know it.
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    Ouch, baby. Very ouch. Too soon. Taaaaaffffeee is allegedly viewed as a middle round guy. He’s had a great season. I’d love to see his measurables at the combine. He’s been paid better than a practice squad guy this year. If he doesn’t have a grade above 7th, something could be done.
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    It isn’t like Longstreet isn’t going to make a bunch of money at USC. The guy didn’t want to go to ATM if his home favorite was willing to take him.
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    They’re “hearing” that they’re more likely to flip Fasusi because the agent is telling them that. He’s also the reason they thought they were getting him earlier this spring/summer. All they have to do is convince him that College Station is the place to be, that the NIL deal blows everyone else’s away and that he will be an immediate starter at LT.
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    Unless you were born a Texas fan, I doubt you probably remember the Texas vs Hawaii cancellation debacle of 2000-ish either. That shit was completely embarrassing. I think Dodds blamed canceling it in part due to jet fuel costs or some shit. They just kept digging the hole deeper and deeper. Also, I think Texas should schedule a home and home with Hawaii. Also also, they should do that with Tulane too.
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    Well, there we go. All of those buyouts are shameful, including UT’s. The Fisher buyout was a horrifically bitter pill to swallow for the force behind it, and what ATM traded to get that done may be something they wind up regretting for decades. If LSU actually found someone willing to front the $61M buyout of Kelly, the cost on the other side for the program would also likely be that above rubies. These deals don’t just happen due to school spirit. All of the lamenting at the media level of the notion of boosters at Texas meddling, which was largely dumb outside the Jamal/Brown bullshit, will look remedial compared to what will start happening at some of these places. That said, I don’t even think LSU could put together a cabal of folks willing to post that kind of capital. They could be dealing with Kelly on the sidelines for years.
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    Just thinking out loud here, but it would be cool to have some sort reference area in which one of the things we house is a tracker of coaching salaries, buyouts, assistant buyouts, etc. We have the one dude with a weird handle name that does a great job of tracking eligibility for the UT football roster, @AP101S I think?, and that would go there too. I don't know, could add depth to the site that outpaces other places. Wondering what the actual size is of Kelly's contract, plus his assistants, made me think about it. I'm not lazy enough to not type this out here, but I am lazy enough to avoid going elsewhere and trying to decipher what in the fuck is real versus some coonass spitballing over it.
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    Ha. ctj’s law #1 of the sports Internet: the longer a college football coaching discussion carries on, the likelihood of Nick Saban being invoked approaches 1.
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    @TheContractor is a dumb motherfucker who has been wrong the whole way regarding LSU’s wherewithal in the NIL era.
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    Maybe. Some schools will have to because they are up shit creek trying to stay competitive for players otherwise. One casualty that I expect to see quickly is the Sexton Fisher Maneuver in which horrendously lopsided buyouts in favor of the coaches are woven into their contracts. No coach is so important that they deserve a full buyout when they’re putting dogshit on the field. That idiot Woodward is hilariously the one that started that and now LSU is trapped for years with that asshole Kelly.
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    Remember that guy who was on this forum declaratively telling us that LSU had plenty of NIL support and was always going to get theirs? I can’t really remember his handle but he was hilariously wrong and if he is still posting, he needs to be mocked for being an absolute clown. LSU has been beaten since NIL like a borrowed mule. I guess Kelly’s gambit of paying a bunch of guys for commitments early and then hanging on for dear life might be a little flawed. Who could have predicted that?
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    Hey man, get a fucking grip.
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    At least we’re in agreement that Die Hard, is, in fact, a Christmas movie. Now, Die Hard 2 is a different story.
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    This is their Perrilloux. Fuck those cheating asswipes. I hope they cry themselves to sleep tonight and every night through signing day. Dirty cajun clowns.
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    I like reading cookbooks and I use a lot of the recipes. My wife buys me a new and interesting one every Christmas and some of them are from decades ago. Or hell, Julia Childs’ stuff is something many of us have read and used. One common thread? All of them include at least one, and often, many, horrific recipes. One of The Art of French Cooking books includes multiple recipes for trapping meats and veggies in gelatinous molds. But yeah, the NYT buttermilk pancake recipe is delicious if you also use bacon grease and add vanilla.
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    Texas had Georgia and Florida scheduled for OOC home & aways from 2028-2031. To your point, there isn't a fucking program in this country that operates more clearly in the OOC scheduling with the attitude of "we will play anyone, any time, anywhere" than Texas. Anyone claiming someone else as close to this is full of shit. No FCS teams, usually competitive "cupcakes" that go bowling, sometimes 2 P4 teams. Notre Dame, USC and Maryland concurrently, LSU, Arkansas, Bama, Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame (previously UGA), vacant and likely major program to replace UF, then ASU. All of these pundits can go get fucked whining about UT's schedule.
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    ctj's law #12 of the Internet: The longer an opponent discussion thread goes on, the likelihood of it ultimately digressing into the most inane shit imaginable approaches 1.
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    Yes, we discussed upthread why this is a dumb take and you should feel bad. Read page 1 if it helps.

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