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  1. There’s really not much of a case for them as places like VCU, ODU, GMU, JMU invest and grow, and similar places up and down the coast. Going to Tech or UVA or William and Mary is clearly better but no one gives a shit anymore if you go to “commuter” schools, in fact it’s probably better in the market than some tiny obscure college. Those that have some nominal affiliation with a religious tradition have mostly stripped that part of uniqueness away so that’s not even a case for them.
  2. Knew some girls from Mary Baldwin. Virginia is odd, every hillbilly Scots-Irish holler town has a college that costs 55k a year in tuition that no one ever heard of. I heard Sweetbriar was going under a few years back, not sure if they saved it.
  3. I was friends in HS with a girl who did some sort of summer science program for smart kids at UTMB Galveston and she convinced her parents to let her do Greyhound from Galveston to the RGV. This was 1999, she had a cell phone, and spent most of the trip narrating the trip to me in fear/hilarity. Not really a “smart kid” move.
  4. Today MTG is hanging out with The View ladies and talking more about the need for affordable healthcare.
  5. If you’re a Texas fan, you need to hope for an ND loss and for UVA to play well and win out, staying in the top 10.A 10-2 Texas is in comfortably. A 9-3 Texas around the 11-12 spot would be sweating if the ACC and G5 champ are behind them, cause they will move up and bump.
  6. And all the incentives here are for bad decisions: these donors have no skin in the game beyond the satisfaction of a winning team. Once your NIL or buyout contribution is gone— it’s gone. You’re not making it back. You only get “paid” if you see the team in the CFP. The risk is all on the institution for the future. If you decide you’re done paying for buyouts when the coach you demanded falls flat— you can just walk away clean. The next buyout is someone else’s problem. I do think this all comes crashing down. Big Beanie Baby vibes. All that has to happen is for people to decide “a football trophy doesn’t really matter that much.” We haven’t seen a real bear market since NIL came along.
  7. The theory is that a hire like him will immediately unlock booster cash and excite the portal to make an immediate run at the whole thing. And that conversely donors will not be energized by an unknown.
  8. Beginning to think that Lane is calling the dumbest big booster at every SEC school and tell them he’s always dreamed of coaching there (or going back). Also, the funniest possible outcome will be if Auburn hires James Franklin and pays him more than Penn State did. Low probability but not impossible.
  9. Really entering the wicked stepmother/mad king era.
  10. Nancy Mace posted a 20 minute video of airport security cam footage with Hans Zimmer-inspired AI music overlay to prove….something?
  11. I have just learned that a ND linebacker spells “Drake” as “Drayk” and I’ve changed my mind; under no circumstances can they be allowed in the CFP.
  12. UVA replaced Georgia Tech as the “gotta put them up there till they lose” team. Tony Elliot has done a great job and this can be a good launch point to do well in a pretty wide-open ACC in future years. Their schedule sets them up to maybe be one loss headed into the ACC CCG, although they should be careful with Duke. The win over Louisville was good. Other than that they haven’t even beaten an OK team. 5-4 Cal is the closet. Most computer models have UVa with a weaker slate than Texas Tech, although Tech has outclassed their opponents.
  13. DeJean isn’t the Eagles return man this year, right? I think of him as a legit really good CB and Wetjen/Dwight as pure return specialists.
  14. No they didn’t. They had a slow start and missed some kicks. They never trailed, they outgained BC 458-281, picked them off 3 times, and Love looked like a Heisman candidate. The kicking inconsistency is one reason they are a T2 and not T1 team.
  15. MTG is passenger rail posting and talking about affordable health care. She’s on track to becoming the MAGA Fetterman.
  16. I watch a LOT of games, will admit I don’t follow GT as closely as you. My own take is that Vandy and Tech can play pretty well and still likely go down against ND. They need hero ball or some serious ND mistakes. Maybe both. Texas and ND both playing well against each other is a much closer run thing, maybe edge Texas. Georgia has looked uninspired for long stretches and never really dominant. They better come to play against Texas. They can’t just out-athlete y’all.
  17. I tend to lean on serranos over jalepenos simply because the heat is more consistent than jalepenos at the grocery store. I save the jalepenos for stuffing or just grilling and serving on the side.
  18. Arbol is an OG hot pepper, no need to seed them. That’s what South Texas cooks would use. A few fresh chile pequins will turn it up, too. Anything above habanero is a novelty pepper, IMO.
  19. Tech and ND have a common opponent: NCSU thumped the Yellow Jackets and ND completely wrecked the Wolfpack. Transitive property and all but GaTech has struggled a lot more against some pretty terrible teams and have relied on Haynes King doing it all. ND has not really stumbled since the early season. Tech and now Virginia are the only teams I look at in tje current top 25 and really think “overrated.” Vandy and Utah are interesting choices. Vandy has looked overmatched against more talented rosters and relies on hero ball as well. ND is a more complete team. They could lose that game but are better everywhere on the field save QB and maybe TE— Stowers is a dude. Utah intrigues me the most of all the ones you pick. I’d honestly be more likely to slot UT ahead of ND before any of these. If Texas plays well, they’re much better than Vandy or GaTech for sure.
  20. This essay is delightful. I didn’t know I needed it. I’d take a Greyhound anywhere if it involved 6 UGA cheerleaders and 3 UGA horsey girls.
  21. It will depend on a lot of things but they won’t necessarily not deserve it, either. If we are talking “deserve” let’s be real and admit that none of the G5 is really a top 12 team. The ACC probably doesn’t have one either. If we are talking about the best 12 teams I’m going with OSU, IU, Alabama, Georgia, A&M, Ole Miss, Oregon, Texas, OU, ND, and one of BYU or Tech. My simple ask with ND is: tell me who behind them is clearly better based on record, roster, and coaching. Right now, not based on projected W-L.
  22. Thinking about Iowa and their crazy good white return man was giving me deja vu and I finally remembered Tim Dwight. He’s an all-time “oh yeah, that was a guy.”
  23. A 10-2 A&M would have the H2H against ND. A 10-2 Texas would have clearly better wins across the board. That freshman QB at Pitt will command some big money in the portal. That said, he’s doing freshman things against a top 25 ND defense, and ND can lean on Love against a Pitt D that’s given up 30+ four times this year.
  24. Bill and Barack are easily two of the three most successful politicians of the past 50 years (Reagan being the third) and a good chunk of the leading D intellectuals are convinced that they are part of the problem. If you give off normal guy energy and make voters believe you like America, they will make you president as a D. This even worked for Biden.
  25. Ok, well, that’s not a platform. If your argument is “promising to do what people want” is good politics, I won’t argue. I Mamdani is really, really unpopular at the national level. He’s killing it in NYC, no argument. To extrapolate his winning coalition of upwardly-mobile, highly educated people and young foreign born New Yorkers to a national electorate that is much older, less-educated, more native-born, and less wealthy is a bit of a stretch. Not to mention— there are actually Republicans out there fighting back. Especially since the data shows he’s really not well liked at all among people who have heard of him.
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