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  1. TAMU has never played a postseason game for a NC, or towards a NC, not in the Alliance Bowl Series, the BCS, the four team CFP nor the 12 team CFP. I count 28 teams that have: Miami, FSU, Florida, UGA (who really took a while to get there), Clemson, VT, PSU, tOSU, Michigan, Nebraska, Auburn, Alabama, LSU, OU, Texas, TCU, SMU, USC, ASU, Tennessee, UW, Oregon, BSU, Notre Dame, Indiana, Michigan State, and Cincinnati. Is that right? For all Ag delusions of stature and grandeur, that’s where the Ags slot- the bottom half of P4.
  2. Expected. I’m starting to fear that we’re not going to get that Biden-Trump golf ball driving contest that we were promised
  3. This isn’t a memorabilia item that I expect to appreciate, but it’s something I like. Bill McLanahan was an editorial and sports cartoonist for the DMN, and he did a weekly SWC cartoon. This is the original artwork for the one he did before the 1971 Cotton Bowl. I’m going to have it framed for my study.
  4. “Cult” it isn’t just a pejorative. It’s actually a pretty apt term. Years ago, my church offered a class on mind control cults- think Scientology, Hare Krishnas, that weird Church of Christ offshoot on campuses for a while. Anyway, it explained the traits and methods of mind control cults: Emphasis on conformity Lots of chanting (something about the constant expulsion of air from the lungs creates a near-euphoric state where the mind is more suggestible) Lots of jargon (using words in a different manner than their regular use also makes the mind more suggestible) Sound like anyone we know?
  5. Thanks. I listened to a clip of OU AD Castiglione explaining that a cap is coming, with enforcement mechanisms. I don’t know- I see some huge obstacles to work through… 1. Are teams from smaller conferences really going to accept smaller allowed revenue share with players? 2. Schools have to allocate the revenue share among athletes. If it is anything other than a “peanut butter even spread” among all sports and sexes, won’t someone be upset? 3. Castiglione says there will be an independent firm reviewing NIL deals for legitimacy, with significant penalty power. How will that work any better than the NCAA enforcing its rules against Auburn (Can Newton) and TAMU (Manziel)?
  6. I expect a slow (at least for UT) transition where funds raised by ADs end up being raised by NIL collectives instead. The LHF has 30+ years of experience in getting boosters and fans to contribute. I know the LHF and Bellmont do not want to let that money go, but I think competition will force it to. I think college ADs will have to become leaner and more efficient, now that the labor isn’t free.
  7. The Oklahoma governor signed an executive order allowing universities in that state to use their regular fund raising arms (Think Longhorn Foundation, as opposed to Texas One) to pay players. Here is a transcript copy from the Lehaman:Ikard podcast discussing it (they make a lot of assumptions about the future of NIL, collectives, give, etc.)
  8. No, I’m saying the B1G gets more media revenue because they deserve it- ratings, fanbase size, etc. it’s not some chance fortunate outcome There won’t be some point where the networks say, “What the hell are we doing, giving the B1G so much money? We should give some of it to the B12, because they’re so scrappy and exciting!”
  9. Thanks for the article. On the main board’s “Left Behind” thread, there are a lot of B12 fans arguing that the B1G has dull football, that it’s not so special. They don’t get that B1G schools get more revenue from media than any other conference for a reason. This trend will be very interesting to follow.
  10. The fucking B1G just had to throw Oregon a lifeline, didn’t they? They couldn’t let them go to the ACC, and be devalued as a poorer path to the NFL.
  11. Have you not realized that the LA wildfire is a huge disaster? That fire prevention and mitigation is as big of a failure as the levees in New Orleans during Katrina? oh, hell. Strike that. Y’all convinced me. This disaster was unforeseeable, unmanageable and unpreventable. All government offices involved did a great job.
  12. I heard on a (conservative) NR podcast a discussion about the length of time required for a controlled burn. Googling confirms the process of permitting and approval in California takes weeks to months, and that advocacy groups and neighbors get to challenge and one of the bases of challenges is impact to air quality.
  13. I love the undertone of “I liked it better when we were in the SEC by ourselves, and could be mediocre but still proud!”
  14. California bragged just a few short years ago about its budget surplus. California has an eleven figure (no lie) “rainy day fund”. Given that the damage from the wildfire will be at least five times as large as that fund, and given the environmental disaster (let alone humanitarian) this wildfire is, it’s fair to question priorities. Example- one argument against a controlled burn is the carbon released in the atmosphere from such a measure. Said carbon released is dwarfed by the carbon released by the wildfire. It’s time for the policymakers to re ask the questions and re run the math with the new known factors and variables.
  15. This may not be CR, but on the matter of policy and governance: On Ukraine threads, over the last couple of years, I have opined that supply policy should not be set by asking the question “How many artillery shells can the west produce readily?”, but rather, by the question “How many artillery shells does Ukraine need to win”. The former question wins political debates; the latter moves policy towards something useful. Similarly, on wildfire prevention and protection, the wrong policy setting question is “what emphases should be placed on competing interests, including wildfire prevention and protection?”, but rather, “What measures can be taken to reduce the risk of a wildfire approaching, and mitigate the damage it causes?” I have heard that it takes as long as three years in California for a controlled burn to happen, due to tiers of government approval with challenges from various groups and organizations. I’m not saying other groups shouldn’t have a say; however the process should be streamlined. Ron DeSantis is not the first Florida governor to perform well in a hurricane. Many predecessors, from either party, have done well. In Florida, a new governor knows, before being sworn in, that he will have to deal with at least one hurricane, and he will be judged by how he performs. California wildfires are on a different tempo. They may be several years apart. They will come, however (and water supply has been an issue for a century). Policy needs to be based on that understanding- they will come.
  16. The mid day 1310 show was speculating whether Sark would want the job. Har de fucking har. Like he would really pass on coaching Arch Manning so he could “coach” Dak Prescott under the watchful eye of Jerry Jones.
  17. I think it’s pretty clear that, no matter what intentions McCarthy had when he started in Dallas, the last couple of years were just about stroking Jerry’s ego and cashing them checks. Good for him. That’s the best anyone can do with this clown show.
  18. Typical Buckeye fan. Such a bitch. Everyone I saw at this game and the 2006 game were the same. Keep to themself, until they nailed down the win, and then start talking shit. Such bitches.
  19. Jerryworld sucks for college football Constant nonsensical racket from the speakers drowning out anything the band or cheerleaders want to do.
  20. Klatt has an interesting podcast on how he would “fix” college football: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joel-klatt-show-a-college-football-podcast/id1037085984?i=1000683760618 He has some really good ideas about the CFP and scheduling, but then he gets into NIL. He argues that there must be collective bargaining and salary caps, and the only NIL being “real” NIL. He admits that it would only work with strong rules enforcement. How does he propose to do that? It’s funny- all the OU and Bama partisans arguing, “Something must be done! This is ruining the game!” never felt that way about Switzer’s recruits getting $50k in a bag or Saban’s players gifted a new Dodge Charger. That was just “what are you going to do, everyone does it (they don’t) and don’t you want to help a poor kid trying to get by?” If something like that were to happen, I would hope that programs like Texas would split away into a new “no cap” league. Who might it be? Texas, UGA, Florida, Michigan, Ohio State, TAMU (I know), SMU,…
  21. I liked Chris Simms. That kid (man) gave us all he had, and won a lot of games. Some fans wanted to rate him on what he didn’t do, rather than what he did (for the record- ten thousand times more than those same fans contributed to the program). Because of that, Simms really doesn’t want anything to do with the Texas program, and to some extent, regrets playing here. I hope we won’t be that way about Quinn.
  22. Observation- neither CFP finalist played in a conference CG. As a matter of fact, Ohio State, eliminated from the B1G CG by their loss to Michigan, and motivated by that same loss to re-evaluate everything, used their three weeks off before the first CFp game against Tennessee to re-engineer their run game to a more counter-based scheme, and to redo their DL substitution philosophy. These changes have a lot to do with their dominance in the CFP- they were always this talented, but they really used their three weeks off, in a way that counterparts Indiana and Tennessee didn’t (or couldn’t). Teams in conference CGs didn’t have the time for such prep work. They had to plan for the CGs, and then had two weeks for the CFP. (UGA lost their two year starter at QB in the SEC CG). What does that have to do with the SEC schedule length? There is a lot of talk that the teams that were in favor of a nine game schedule (the stronger teams) might be less so, seeing how the CFP is such a weekly grind. I would argue that the SEC CG is a greater hindrance to a CFP run than a ninth league game. Who does the SEC CG really benefit, other than the teams that aren’t in it (they get a share of media money). I think we are seeing that, while the BCS and four team CFP were just natural extensions of the regular season, the 12 team CFP tournament is almost a a different season. Would the SEC be best off if it told the network (ABC/ESPN is the only SEC media partner?) “you can have a nine game league schedule, and no conference CG, for the money that the B1G gets (or more, I guess, if that can be negotiated)”? I ask that, because although I was a big proponent of the nine game league schedule, I’m wavering now that we see the impact of a tougher regular season schedule, a CG, and then the CFP.
  23. I couldn’t tell at the game, where it looked like PI, but Ian Boyd wrote that the ball was slightly tipped by Sawyer, so,- no PI.
  24. I have a question from the game. We stayed for the playing of “The Eyes of Texas”. The Longhorn band had to wait for the Buckeye band to finish playing what sounded like Queen’s “Fat Bottomed Girls”. What is that about?
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