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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
statsman replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
Sure. At that point, ASU had run 71 plays for 308 yards. Texas had run 39 plays for 224 yards. Piss poor complementary football Back to the topic- I have to think Sark thought that at some point he would get back the Quinn who started the Michigan game. If he had known that Quinn would be injured all year, would he have decided differently? -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
statsman replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
With seven minutes to go in the 4th quarter, ASU had six offensive points. I’d say they had some success, not plenty of success. If we played better complementary football on offense, they don’t break ten points. As to Quinn’s injury, yeah…I don’t know that Sark knew and understood he wasn’t getting better. I believe Ewers really wanted to come back against OU, knowing that if Arch starts and wins it, that’s probably it for him as Texas QB. Of course, I don’t know anything about, just talking out my ass. -
Good plan. Problem: 1. Europe has had three years and hasn’t increased its military capability one bit. 2. Their reason: the EEC rules for having the Euro as a currency require limits on budget debt. To increase defense spending significantly, they would have to cut elsewhere. 3. It has been suggested that the EU could change that rule and allow more deficit spending for defense. Nobody has run with that, indicating that they really don’t want to spend more on defense. 4. (Yea, the UK is not bound by EU rules. It really doesn’t want to spend more on defense either) 5. Each of the major European nations have hotly contested politics. Nobody wants to get involved in a war. They made a lot of plans based on the idea that the U.S. would be so big that it would be capable of deterrence. Nobody planned on the U.S. electing a guy who would rather see an international order based on the most powerful nations (he sees three of them) making all the decisions amongst themselves, rather than a rules-based order. (Also, those other two powers don’t see him as the kindred spirit he flatters himself to be. They think he is a rube).
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FTR- not trying to praise Trump. In my opinion, this would work a whole hell of a lot better if the U.S. had approached the Ukrainians and said- “let’s figure out a way where our two countries re more strategically connected, where we each have a real financial incentive to align ourselves as sovereign nations, where Uncle Sam would lose a lot of money if Ukraine fell under Russian control”, and then come up with some kind of deal like this. That’s not really how Trump works.
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Contrarian view: -the U.S. only makes money off this deal if Ukraine retains sovereignty. That answers the questions of the isolationists- “What’s the US’ interest?” -what is the Best Alternative To Negotiated Agreement (BATNA) for Ukraine? Counting on the Euros to save the day? -If Nguyen Van Thieu, “retired” in Massachusetts in the 1990’s were asked if he would have signed a similar agreement in 1973, what do you think he would have said? -Do you think Putin would be happy or upset (or maybe totally disinterested) if Ukraine agreed to this?
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https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college-football-tv-ratings/2022-season/ 2022 ratings: OU-OSU: 3.06 M Texas-TCU: 5.03 M Texas-OSU: 4.46 M (you actually see decent numbers for non-Texas and non-OU games, as if there is a halo effect) Ha-ha-ha-ha! Those idiots at ESPN and Fox thought the B12 schools were making part of the contribution to those numbers. Now, they know- when B12 schools play each other, get the streaming ready. The B12 needs to really enjoy its media contract through 2031; got a feeling there will be an adjustment later.
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On Saturday, Nov. 9, two premier B12 programs, TCU and OSU, played at 7PM on FS1. They drew 355K viewers. That’s 30k more than Army-UNT drew on ESPN2 earlier in the day. Yeah, B12’s got this! 😄
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I stopped posting on this thread, after a “shit posting” penalty (I linked a fact based WSJ editorial that made a point about Biden WH Ukraine policy that was confirmed two days later in a news report). I get it. I know what this message board is about. I realize this post may be turned in, too, which is fine. I’m going to make some assertions that I think are founded. 1. Trump doesn’t give a shit about Ukraine. It’s not because he is a sociopath (although I think there is plenty of evidence of many emotional dysfunctions)- for example, he likes Israel just fine. For some screwed up reason, evidence of atrocities and crimes committed on Ukrainians doesn’t register with him. Maybe it’s related to #2. 2. Trump really dislikes Zelensky. It’s obvious, right? I suspect that it’s because their very first encounter, on the phone in 2019, went so badly for Trump. Trump wants to demean and humiliate Zelensky. (Obviously, Trump’s litany of complaints is ridiculous) 3. Zelensky is not Winston Churchill. Churchill was the leader of an island nation that Hitler could never have conquered (due to the superiority of the RN). Churchill needed US help to take the fight to the continent. The historic analog for Volodomyr Zelensky is Nguyen Van Thieu, the leader of a nation that could not defend itself without U.S. support. Zelensky needs to understand and reflect on that. 4. Europe. This war has gone on for three years. Europe has a combined GDP that is over six times that of Russia. Ukraine does not need US help if Europe steps up. After Trump was elected, late last year, Zelensky met with several Euro leaders, seeking help. You can see the results. Macron called an emergency Europeans-only meeting on Monday. It was a disaster. Trump has called for Euro troops to be stationed in Ukraine to guarantee the peace. Starmer said he would send UK troops,…if Parliament agreed. Silence from the others (except for Poland, who said they were out, that their troops needed to stay in Poland). 5. Things are coming to a close. Trump’s best card to play is a threat of continued munitions support to Ukraine, and continued sanctions (This would also be a card Europe could play, if they had bothered to do anything serious the last three years), but that is a card he doesn’t seem to want to play. The way it looks to me: Ukraine deserves freedom from oppression. There is a chance for most of the country to get that,…if Europe will agree to send troops. (Opinion- if European nations are not willing to send troops to guarantee peace- like the U.S. did for decades in Europe and Korea- they can sit down and shut the fuck up). If Europe doesn’t send troops to help police a Ukrainian DMZ, then any “peace” will be temporary. (Europe really needs to consider the cost of millions of Ukrainian refugees). Final thoughts: The only heroes are the Ukrainians. Everyone else are clowns (west) and villains (Russia and its allies) Ukraine needs to develop a nuke program and keep it secret from the west and east.
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Season stats show that ESPN badly overpaid for the B12. Unless it was really that important to them to get a Texas (and OU) on the air against other good draws a little earlier. What we have learned is: Tech doesn’t bring the state of Texas TCU (and SMU) don’t bring DFW viewers UH doesn’t bring Houston. Baylor doesn’t bring central Texas. Phoenix may be the fastest growing city. ASU doesn’t bring its viewers. I would seriously advise B12 schools to adopt extreme frugality in advance of a new contract in 2031.
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The B12 doesn’t have viewers. Not in any numbers. Sure, there’s Colorado, but I imagine that will regress to the norm once Deion moves on.
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Two auto bids for the B12 and ACC are generous. They should say, “Thank you” and agree
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One model might be that the SEC would send four, based purely on the results of a nine game league schedule. Out of conference results would only factor in CFP seeding. That way, there is more incentive to schedule marquee non conference games.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
statsman replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Eric Liddell became a Christian missionary in China. Imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp, the U.K. kept arranging prisoner trades to free him. Each time, he told the captor to substitute someone sicker or weaker in his place. He ended up dying in that camp. -
Did you ever see him play? I did. He was fantastic, and if not for his knee blowout, would have been the offensive spark the 1983 team needed to approach the defense’s greatness. He came back (as a fullback?) and played as well as he could after major surgery on each knee. His speed was gone. The guy played as well as he was able.
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Worse idea. This is putting Texas back into a Gulliver and Lilliput situation. Auto bids are needed, because we have a quarter century of evidence that committees rate college football teams, first, by looking at the loss column, and there is so much variance in schedule quality. Check out the Sagarin final top 12, and who played them in the (pre CCG) regular season. The Buckeyes played three top 12 Sagarin teams. ND played none. Oregon played one. Texas played two. PSU played one. Ole Miss played one. UGA played four(!) (and Clemson wasn’t one of them) Bama played two two Indiana played one Tennessee played two LSU played two Michigan played four ASU played none ISU played none Clemson played one SMU played none The SEC is a sixteen team conference playing an eight game schedule, and its best teams averaged 2.2 tough games. The B1G’s best teams, playing a nine game schedule, played an average of 2 tough games. The B12 and ACC can barely manage any tough games. You want the SEC to go to nine conference games? You don’t want to guarantee it CFP spots? Then, show that you can differentiate between an 11-1 team that has played nobody and a 9-3 team that survived a murderer’s row. As yet, that hasn’t been shown.
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If Stewart Mandel doesn’t like it, doesn’t that support it being a good idea?
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Dallas Cowboys 2024 Season Thread -- Jerrah the Asshat Rides Again
statsman replied to Patrick Bateman's topic in Football
He leaned heavily into “Of Mice and Men” for that one -
That’s all fine. Best FIBA player of all time.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
statsman replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
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It’s not just about money. Look at schedules going back 125 years, to when football at Texas was more like a club sport. Texas always wanted to schedule tough national teams, while other SWC programs were happy playing Hardin-Simmons and Centenary. It’s in the program’s DNA.
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I think this is one of those “never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity” moments. In your office, you can encounter the sports fan who believes “Davis is better than Luka! He will do more to win a championship!” In the office, you tune that guy out. You know he is an idiot, so you do engage. If that guy phones a radio sports show with that opinion, he doesn’t get through. The reason sports radio listeners don’t hear that kind of opinion is because the hosts know it’s too stupid to talk about, bad radio. Not that no one thinks it. Nico really thinks Davis is better than Doncic. He will probably always think that. Obviously, he is an idiot.
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