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  1. I hope so. Really terrible how he’s handling himself. This could easily be the high point of his career, and he can’t lock in and see it through because he’s focused on chasing a brass ring down the road.
  2. That’s the thing, with Clemson’s implosion who in the ACC is out coaching him? There are no elite teams or coaches in that league. Best coach might really be Lashlee.
  3. They fired Pry in September ans just grabbed Franklin, unsurprising that they were floundering. What is surprising is how fast Franklin grabbed 4* OL from Penn State. Fong predicting more and maybe a T25 class. Franklin and VT can be a problem for the ACC.
  4. Ole Miss D is bad. Really bad. They’re a scary team for CFP first and second round then get bounced.
  5. VaTech is likely to emerge as the winner of this carousel rotation.
  6. I think the chances are very high that VaTech emerges as the biggest winner of this carousel ride.
  7. Feels more and more that many name schools are going to be facing firing remorse and another carousel ride as so many top and even middling candidates are choosing to stay put. Says a lot, IMO, about changing calculus with NIL and likely a nuanced understanding of how brutal some of these “destination” programs are on coaches. Rhule, Lea, Drinkwitz, Cig, Elko, Lashlee, Polasek. In past cycles a bunch of these folks are jumping to an Auburn, PSU, Florida. And of course Lane is the dog that hasn’t barked.
  8. Looks like the Beavers will go with a longtime assistant-level coach to take the HC job. I’ll admit to being completely unfamiliar with him. What happened to OSU and Wazzou is one of the shittiest pieces of realignment.
  9. Pretty standard plate but all good. Oven turkey had a fennel-thyme-orange-garlic rub under the skin. All homemade andouille dressing, giblet gravy, savory sweet potato casserole with thyme and pecans, sweet and sour green beans, cranberry-orange sauce. And a pumpkin cheesecake waiting.
  10. Why are you speculating that this is retaliation against the NG. Early returns see that the gunman was an Afghanistani who wasn’t even living in DC to be “menaced.”
  11. Two WV NG members killed, another injured in shooting near the White House. Suspect injured but alive.
  12. Remarkable how every single adult mentioned or implied in that story, with the exception of the plastic surgeon and team, could have easily saved that child’s life but just 
. Didn’t. I am not in favor of destroying the pit just yet. All the social workers involved in the decision to leave that girl in the home should be locked in a room overnight with it on a rotating basis until either the dog is dead or the social workers are.
  13. The Venn diagram of “pit bull owner” and “judgment proof” isn’t quite a circle, but it almost is.
  14. I agree that a lot of D1 coaches are the types of highly driven people who often just aren’t nice to be around. I don’t fault corporate speakers and guests who cut off their hobnobbing at time. Those contracts how they make their money, the fees are spelled out, and I don’t fault an other professional for leaving when their job ends. It’s fine if they are having fun and want to meet and greet, it’s also fine if they call it once they deliver what they agreed to. Different story if you’re assholish at dinners in your honor or kids events or something.
  15. Every convo with “anti-Zionist” crowd be like: “the atrocities never happen and when they do it’s one hundred percent justified.”
  16. Unpossible to believe that a mob mutilated a corpse and cheered it!
  17. Couldn’t really ask for more in an inaugural season. SLC on notice, this is a program that will compete. I’m hoping ACU knocks out Lamar.
  18. 1. Ohio State (11-0) 2. Indiana (11-0) 3. Texas A&M (11-0) 4. Georgia (10-1) 5. Texas Tech (10-1) 6. Oregon (10-1) 7. Ole Miss (10-1) 8. Oklahoma (9-2) 9. Notre Dame (9-2) 10. Alabama (9-2) 11. BYU (10-1) 12. Miami (9-2) 13. Utah (9-2) 14. Vanderbilt (9-2) 15. Michigan (9-2) 16. Texas (8-3) 17. USC (8-3) 18. Virginia (9-2) 19. Tennessee (8-3) 20. Arizona State (8-3) 21. SMU (8-3) 22. Pitt (8-3) 23. Georgia Tech (9-2) 24. Tulane (9-2) 25. Arizona (8-3)
  19. There’s definitely the .1 percent of experts but you won’t hear from them, they are all writing sober journal articles and trying to survive in the hellscape that is modern history departments or area studies programs. But the 99.9 percent of places you hear it? Mute: shrieking through bullhorns in western cíites, on podcasts, on TV, on streams, on social media, on message boards, from pundits, from any academic whose degree is NOT in a related field, on Twitter, from Western politicians, etc. Instant and reliable filtering of the dumb and angry.
  20. To Tucker I add you to the “mute” list, so— theory continues to hold!
  21. Good hire! And having the NT connection will be really valuable. OSU has to start getting some of the DFW athletes they used to lure.
  22. Tucker really proving my thesis that 99.9 percent of people who mention “Zionism” or “Zionist” can be safely put on mute. The terms hold no utility as descriptors, it’s just signaling to the angriest, dumbest and most conspiracy-addled. Safe to assume anyone using them is either in that group or manipulating that group.
  23. The recently revealed X accounts are overwhelmingly not actual hostile foreign influence operations; they are small-scale efforts made possible by Elon’s monetization policies. They flock to MAGA and Gaza/Israel because that’s the confluence of the terminally online furious and ignorant where a low-effort slop account can find max credulous engagement. The sub-continent needs to be geo-fenced from the internets. Of course other places have scam and slop accounts, too. The subcontinent is unique: all the authentic engagement and content emanating from there is irredeemably worse, several times over, than the fake OF girls and MAGA rage bait. Going online now is swimming in a digital Ganges.
  24. 100 percent accurate. And to complicate things further, stats start doing counter-intuitive things that go against the way people colloquially talk about a “difficult” schedule. Two simplified models for the five game “meat” of two schedules: Team A: Four games where they have a 75 percent chance of winning, one game that is very hard against a very good opponent and they have a 25 percent chance of winning. Team B: Five games, they are all favored, all have a 60 percent chance of winning. The probability of running the table for both teams is basically identical (a bit under 8 percent), and in fact Team B has a slightly lower chance. But most fans and observers will greatly reward Team A because of that one very good win, and comparatively dismiss Team B because they are all games that they “should have won.” And that’s where a committee needs to plunge beyond surface “best wins/losses” discussions and get deeper on analytics when weighing teams. In general, humans tend to do two things when looking back at events have have happened whether sports, elections, or games of chance: 1. Are over-impressed when something happens that is “against the odds,” even something that only has a 10 or 5 percent chance of happening WILL happen. And when it does, it doesn’t mean the original odds were wrong. 2. Are under-impressed when something happens that the “odds favor,” as cumulatively these things begin plummeting quickly.
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