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I love this thread. I’ve never contributed because my fucking bitch of a SIL causes more anger than humor. She’s never had kids, never had a career, got her folks to waste their retirement savings to fund her night clubbing and gig attending in Austin from her 20s to her mid 40s, when she married an older guy (no kids) with a decent job and pension. Now that she doesn’t need her folks for funds, she really has little to do with them. She’ll have flowers sent for gifts. The opposite of love, they say, is indifference, not hate. Why can’t I just never think about her? Because my nieces will occasionally drop how Aunt —— and Uncle _____ will take them to dinner or to do something. My SIL has not one bit to do with my daughter. Maybe it’s because my daughter is adopted (which would be really shitty of her, but is not outside of the bounds of reason), maybe it’s because my SIL is too lazy to leave Austin (or to call), maybe it’s because she just doesn’t want anything do with us. I just know that my 14 year old daughter has asked a couple of times, “Why doesn’t Aunt —— ever see me?” That’s when I get really pissed off at SIL We live in Arlington. So does her aging mom. SIL can’t be bothered to help with time or money. She doesn’t come up here. She’s got her own deal going. I hope to dance on her grave someday. I’m sorry this wasn’t funnier. I have hopes for that. If it takes a zany turn, I will update Edited- we will see BiL and his crew on Thanksgiving, but not SIL. Her own MIL and FIL are long passed, but she wants to do her own thing. What you have to understand is- my MIL is a saint. She has and would make any sacrifice for her kids. SIL isn’t moved. She has made it clear that she has affection for her own MIL, even more than for her mom. A few years ago, her Christmas gift to her own mother was a couple of teacups that her own MIL had painted. SIL made it clear that she thought they were so fucking amazing.

The dogpiling of the OSU guys got me to remember a Texas-OSU game where the Cowboys fans thought they were screwed by the officiating. In 2012, at Stillwater, Joe Bergeron scored the winning TD for Texas with 29 seconds left. OSU fans claimed he fumbled first, and the TD shouldn’t count (OSU came up with the ball). Googling, it turns out that play wasn’t as controversial as remembered. It was reviewed by replay officials, and confirmed. The TV crew was satisfied the call was right, too. The next year, a similar call was made on a Jonathan Gray carry against ISU. ISU picked up the ball and ran it back for what would be the game clinching TD. Instead, it was ruled “down by fwd progress” and Texas went on for the winning score. Ironically, Texas might have been really helped if that carry was ruled a fumble; Texas would have fallen out of league contention and pushed Mack out a few weeks earlier, and perhaps opened up a wider pool of candidates for HC. 2013 was the last time a B12 fanbase argued Texas got a favorable call.

It is fun listening to the SoonerScoop podcast, as they discuss the financial challenges facing them. “We’re not Texas! We’re not even Texas A&M!” They expect their program to perform at a certain level, because it always has.

It was Christian Jones that he called it on.

In NCAA football, a defensive player can maintain continuous contact with an eligible receiver within five yards of the line of scrimmage as long as the receiver hasn't moved past the defender. I don’t get the need for the B12 advocates to try to gaslight us into thinking this was something it wasn’t. It’s not egregious. It’s ticky tack; could go either way. The ump had been giving him the outside corner all game long, and then with a full count and bases loaded, stopped giving it.

That whole game was outrageous. https://www.barkingcarnival.com/2015/9/28/9407335/texas-oklahoma-state-game-an-amazing-angle-on-the-strong-ford Texas complained, after the game, not as stridently as the Utah AD. The league made a point of standing behind their officials. I get that. I do. The fact remains, an official got angry at a coach, and I started himself into the game’s outcome. A smart thing to do would be, behind the scenes, assure Texas that things would be taken care of. Then, in the offseason, quietly not renew contracts for that crew. That’s not how the B12 operates. It’s a democracy, and the majority vote is that Texas gets too many unfair advantages as it is, and deserves a comeuppance. What’s Texas going to do? In 2015, there was an Aggie and a Bear on the Texas BoR; they weren’t going anywhere. They can just humble themselves.

He wasn’t pulling him off balance. He was maintaining outside leverage. It’s football, not rhythmic gymnastics.

Uh, no. Technically, a hold. Not called scores of times per game. Would have been fine as a no-call.

I doubt the league was the intended audience. I imagine the fanbase was the intended audience

The accounting is interesting. You’d like to get the coach buyout off the ledgers quickly, but athletic departments typically spend at least what’s coming in, so it’s nice if a big booster foots the bill. That is a lot more plausible in 1997 (very low seven figure buyout) than 2024 (mid eight figure buyout). But, AD revenue and funds can be used on the buyout. They can’t (yet, but coming soon) be used on NIL. University funds can be used to fill AD shortfalls (although a bad look, a bad look that can be obfuscated somewhat). Bottom line is- any bad coach will be bought out. The buyout will be paid by a combination of AD revenue, booster donations and university funds. The constraint is how much shit the athletic director wants to take from the latter two sources.

On the Sagarin Predictor rating, BYU is 26th. BYU deserves nothing if it doesn’t win the B12 CG.

Let’s say 11-1 ND is in. Let’s say one ACC team is in. One G5 champ is in. Let’s say tOSU wins the B1G and UGA wins the SEC. That leaves seven spots. 12-1 Oregon. 11-1 Indiana. 11-1 PSU 11-2 Texas 10-2 Tennessee 10-2 Ole Miss 10-2 Alabama 10-2 Missouri 10-2 Clemson 11-2 SMU Which four of those teams would the B12 CG loser get in ahead of, even if it is a 12-1 BYU? I’ll give you SMU and Missouri. Who else?

What? That throw wasn’t going anywhere, because Utah blew up the pass protection. Utah won the game, in that play, and Mar’s crew stole it from them by flagging something irrelevant to the play that had not been called all game. Man, just bask in being the Big 12’s darling this year.

Kevin Mar does what the conference wants him to. The NBA has crews like that- they know what outcome the league wants (to extend a playoff series, for example) and they assign them as needed.

Yormark…”the Big 12 conference prioritizes professionalism, integrity, and fairness…” Ha-ha-ha-ha!

Eh, they needed forty yards for a last FG attempt to avoid OT. It’s not too much to ask your second year QB, making his eighth start, to understand that he should kneel and take the sack if anything goes awry.

Those guys bitching about Arnold were all predicting 3,200 yards, 30 TDs, 800 yards rushing, for him last off season. I love how they’re all bitching about their schedule.

We were in a “no win”. Big, bad Texas was supposed to win despite screw jobs. We had a relatively mild public reaction after the 2015 OSU game; media said that only losers complain about calls and the league said they backed the crew. Last year, after the Mar crew allowed the KSU secondary to mug our receivers to let KSU back in the game, Sark had a simple display of the non calls, and merely commented, “I don’t even know what PI is anymore “. The next week, against TCU, the Frog star cornerback and Dykes lost their shit when PI was called on them. I think Sark handled that as effectively as possible, given the situation.

Joel Klatt had a great discussion about the Defensive Holding call late in the BYU-Utah game. His point- secondary pass coverage is really difficult to call. You have to look at it in the context of the game. You ask the officials to call it consistently throughout- are they calling it tight, all game? Or did they spend the first 55 minutes “letting them play”? That was the first pass coverage call on Utah, for the entire game, he found. BYU had one pass coverage penalty, the entire game. His point- he didn’t like the call because the officials had been allowing contact the entire game, in pass coverage, and called the penalty on the o r play where Utah won the game, and the contact was not egregious enough to warrant it. Kevin Mar and the Big XII!

There were precursor events, by the Macabi fans, and there was coordinated attacks by the Muslim Dutch youths- https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/calls-for-jew-hunt-preceded-attacks-in-amsterdam-e3311e21?st=hEeU1k&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink

Thats a great point. BYU is #7 in the new AP poll. BSU is 13. CU and KSU are 18 and 19. No way will the B12 allow the #4 seed go to a MW team.

Latest Sagarins: http://sagarin.com/sports/cfsend.htm Top 10: three B1G, six SEC and ND. ACC comes in with the11th team, then the 15th and 16th. B12 with the 17th, 19th and 20th. Boise has top G5 team at 23rd.

I bet the Utah AD lost his shit in the game because of a bunch of calls/no calls to get to that point. Kind of like the Texas - OSU game in 2022. Utah AD- “Why the hell is a big game officiated by that Kevin Mar dipshit we fired from the PAC for being an idiot?” (Answer- he is a good company man)

News reading tip: when the headline is posed as a question, the answer is “no”