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  1. I did a quick search - roughly $30mm. $500k per month for 5 years. I actually thought Smith would be competent there. Funny - some MSU fans were hopeful that Oregon State would take him off their hands.
  2. This looks like a solid hire for Oregon State. Vigen replaced Choate when Choate joined the Texas staff in 2021. Vigen was 47-10 at Montana State.
  3. IIRC, that is after the 2024 game. In 2023, FAU beat USF 52-14. Herman left the starting QB in during the 4th quarter and had him throwing, too. I guess Golesh did not take kindly to it and brushed him off.
  4. Seems like a good hire. Let's hope the AD went to Sam's and purchased a few crates of bleach to sanitize the place after Petrino is gone. I suspect the Waltons could donate it, too, as part of their benevolence.
  5. Driving from Fort Collins to the Denver airport takes as long as getting from airport parking or rental return to the gate. May actually be more convenient - DIA access-wise - to live in FC than in Littleton, for example.
  6. Understood - I want to see them all season. The challenge with the evolution toward 1-2 16-28 team super-conferences is that future historical records will approach 0.500. Outliers will approach 60% wins. It will be interesting to see what happens to donations, NIL, etc. when 10 wins becomes an anomaly for the top teams. There are not enough children's hospitals in Louisiana or enough treated lumber customers in Alabama to support such a thing. Edited to add - all records are 0.500 (duh), but the top-28 to 32 teams are well above that...
  7. The only ones in favor of G5 inclusion are lawyers, the people who pay lawyers, and the conferences who *might* have to pay damages. Otherwise, it's a waste of a playoff slot.
  8. High quality entertainment and opposition for the fanbase. A home-and-home with tOSU is better than 2 home games with Rice.
  9. Wow. Maxwell. My father grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, and attended Pitt for 1 or 2 semesters. After his first Calculus class, he concluded he was not yet mature enough for college and enlisted in the USAF (or he did not understand the language of maths). He drove a desk for the Air Force near Washington, DC during some of the Vietnam War. He was always clear that he was an "Era Veteran" not an actual Veteran of the War. As I got older, I understood the distinction. After his stint in the Air Force in Virginia, he worked at Burroughs Corporation, stationed at Maxwell, later Maxwell-Gunter, in Montgomery, AL, where he wrote operating systems software for the Burroughs mainframes. We lived there for 7 years, while he worked and got 2 business degrees at Auburn University at Montgomery. Moved to Austin at that point...
  10. Every time I think, "Hey maybe I should consider a Tesla in my auto search..." I come back to this thread. Stream of consciousness after catching up.... Nope. Scratch Tesla off the list. Why do I have that stupid thought? what was done to USAID is criminal Confederacy of Dunces is wonderful on audiobook. abebooks.com is a good resource for used books - you can often find books for under $4, shipping included. In some cases, those books are sourced by Half Price Books, but you could not pay $4 to get them in store I am not sure why Elmo keeps touting FSD, especially with the obvious successes of Waymo and Zoox. Aptiv (nee Delco), Mercedes Benz, etc. are also developing autonomous technology. Elmo keeps talking about it and delivering garbage. Tesla's FSD sucks. Waymo seems to be doing fine with it.
  11. LSU made the right decision to keep his father away if that's how the son is going to behave. "Free BK" and "my boy" - Jeebus, be your own man.
  12. Sagarin's computer rankings have PSU in the top-12. I guess his computers are giving them credit for losing to good teams? http://sagarin.com/sports/cfsend.htm SMH College Football 2025 ratings through games of 2025 November 22 Saturday - Week 13 RATING W L SCHEDL(RANK) VS top 10 | VS top 30 | PREDICTOR | GOLDEN_MEAN | RECENT | STRONG RECENT HOME ADVANTAGE=[ 3.43] [ 3.23] [ 3.45] [ 3.60] [ 3.60] 1 Ohio State A = 97.09 11 0 72.14( 46) 0 0 | 3 0 | 94.84 1 | 98.45 1 | 101.11 1 | 107.30 1 BIG TEN (A) 2 Notre Dame A = 95.29 9 2 74.21( 27) 0 2 | 2 2 | 94.17 2 | 94.80 3 | 99.55 2 | 104.58 2 I-A IND. (A) 3 Oregon A = 94.12 10 1 74.63( 24) 0 1 | 3 1 | 93.15 3 | 95.05 2 | 96.33 4 | 98.16 5 BIG TEN (A) 4 Indiana A = 93.64 11 0 71.58( 49) 1 0 | 3 0 | 92.18 4 | 94.31 4 | 96.69 3 | 104.50 3 BIG TEN (A) 5 Georgia A = 90.92 10 1 75.80( 16) 1 1 | 4 1 | 89.07 6 | 93.38 6 | 92.50 6 | 93.70 7 SEC (A) 6 Texas A&M A = 90.26 11 0 75.36( 19) 1 0 | 5 0 | 88.48 7 | 93.90 5 | 90.84 8 | 91.86 11 SEC (A) 7 Alabama A = 90.14 9 2 78.64( 6) 1 0 | 6 1 | 90.16 5 | 91.61 7 | 90.36 9 | 91.19 13 SEC (A) 8 Texas Tech A = 89.70 10 1 66.50( 71) 0 0 | 2 0 | 87.80 10 | 89.31 10 | 94.36 5 | 102.03 4 BIG 12 (A) 9 Miami-Florida A = 88.90 9 2 72.79( 38) 1 0 | 1 1 | 88.39 8 | 89.51 9 | 90.27 10 | 92.82 9 ACC (A) 10 Mississippi A = 87.50 10 1 73.41( 34) 0 1 | 3 1 | 86.48 11 | 89.77 8 | 87.79 15 | 89.44 16 SEC (A) College Football 2025 ratings through games of 2025 November 22 Saturday - Week 13 RATING W L SCHEDL(RANK) VS top 10 | VS top 30 | PREDICTOR | GOLDEN_MEAN | RECENT | STRONG RECENT HOME ADVANTAGE=[ 3.43] [ 3.23] [ 3.45] [ 3.60] [ 3.60] 11 Oklahoma A = 87.24 9 2 78.17( 7) 1 1 | 6 2 | 86.16 13 | 87.53 12 | 89.41 13 | 92.51 10 SEC (A) 12 Penn State A = 87.07 5 6 73.76( 31) 0 3 | 0 4 | 87.89 9 | 84.97 18 | 90.21 11 | 89.34 17 BIG TEN (A) 13 Utah A = 87.05 9 2 71.00( 52) 0 1 | 0 2 | 86.47 12 | 85.26 15 | 91.52 7 | 96.82 6 BIG 12 (A) 14 Vanderbilt A = 86.40 9 2 74.56( 25) 0 1 | 4 2 | 85.15 15 | 85.96 13 | 89.63 12 | 93.33 8 SEC (A) 15 Texas A = 86.28 8 3 76.37( 14) 0 2 | 2 2 | 85.60 14 | 87.88 11 | 86.58 18 | 85.03 22 SEC (A) 16 Southern California A = 85.18 8 3 75.09( 20) 0 2 | 2 2 | 84.73 17 | 85.15 16 | 86.71 17 | 88.23 18 BIG TEN (A) 17 Tennessee A = 85.15 8 3 72.73( 41) 0 2 | 0 3 | 85.05 16 | 85.54 14 | 85.82 20 | 86.85 19 SEC (A) 18 SMU A = 84.62 8 3 69.83( 59) 1 0 | 2 0 | 83.83 19 | 83.40 21 | 88.07 14 | 91.84 12 ACC (A) 19 Washington A = 84.54 8 3 71.10( 51) 0 1 | 0 2 | 84.38 18 | 83.18 22 | 87.35 16 | 90.57 14 BIG TEN (A) 20 BYU A = 83.53 10 1 73.11( 36) 0 1 | 1 1 | 81.81 26 | 84.61 19 | 85.20 21 | 90.06 15 BIG 12 (A)
  13. Bears have beaten 2 teams with winning records at the time they played them: Commanders (3-2) and Steelers (6-4). Commanders are now 3-8. I can see the Steelers going 2-4 to finish out the season 8-9.
  14. Bad back 7 and bad QB will make it difficult for Steelers/Tomlin to get to 9 wins this year.
  15. I will admit that I was one who suggested that Caldwell should potentially play more - and maybe even start a game. Manning looked injured, frustrated, and even appeared to have the yips. I will also admit that it was a foolish (or even stupid) suggestion. He needed to play through adversity and get more comfortable. He's done just that. [Not to mention the impact of benching him to recruiting, team dynamics, etc.] Because of Arch's play, Texas was eviscerating Vandy until the defense went a little softer and the refs put their thumbs on the scale. Texas crushed Arkansas yesterday, and Manning was a primary reason for that. It's an even bigger win without a small handful of miscues. Looking forward to kicking the crap out of Aggy.
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