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  1. I love the undertone of “I liked it better when we were in the SEC by ourselves, and could be mediocre but still proud!”
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Jerryworld sucks for college football Constant nonsensical racket from the speakers drowning out anything the band or cheerleaders want to do.
  8. 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,…
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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?
  13. …and if you only count FBS games…
  14. This was a very good team, with significant flaws. There really isn’t a great team- the NC will be either won by a team that lost at home to a 6-5 rival or a team that lost at home to NIU. This team overcame some issues and not others.
  15. Texas A&M. Michigan
  16. This is a very flawed team, that lost in a semifinal. We have no RB we can play that weighs over 200#, because of crazy injury luck. Our QB is small and has poor pocket presence, and got hurt mid season and never really recovered. We have one WR that could get snaps at tOSU. Our kicker got worse from last year. This was a very good year and Sark did a very good job of navigating it.
  17. I wondered that, when he didn’t come in for 1st and goal from the 1. He can do a lot more than run, but sometimes it’s good to have more size at QB in those situations
  18. Why weren’t these done 30 months ago?
  19. More frozen precision in Arlington last night, but it’s all melting. I live in a light traffic neighborhood and the streets are wet, not ice.
  20. In some ways, I envy the younger fans who came along in the ‘95 season and later. That 1984-1994 stretch didn’t just warp Ag self regard, it did a number on Texas as well. from late November 1984 thru the same in 1994, the Ags went 106-26-2 for a near .800 win rate, while Texas went 72-54-2 over the same period. They represented the SWC in the Cotton Bowl six times, and were barred from contention by the NCAA two other times. Their program was built on cheating in recruiting and dominating weak programs (in 1992, they went 12-1. They played one ranked team the whole year-FSU in the Cotton Bowl- and were drilled, pushing them out of the top five). All of the Aggie braggadocio is based on two things- that 11 year stretch (which keeps receding farther and farther back in time) and being in the SEC (which they now share with Texas). They haven’t figured it out yet, so I don’t know that they ever will.
  21. I first encountered BI 13-0 back when these boards got going, in the mid to late ‘90s. That was a weird time; the Ags had a 11 year stretch where they beat Texas 10 times and pretty much dominated a dying SWC. In that context, an excessively braggadocious Ag didn’t seem so innately fucked up. But, he carried the bit on and on, after 11-3 years became 8-4 years became 5-6 years. He became a parody.
  22. Millbrook, right next to Interlochen. If you are familiar with the area, you know that the only way out is up either the Westwood or Bowen hills, neither of which gets sun until the afternoon. Getting up one of those hills tomorrow will be the main challenge. Hopefully, it will have melted enough by mid afternoon
  23. Snow starting to come down and stick in Arlington
  24. It’s raining pretty good in Arlington right now. I expect (and am planning for) the streets to be pretty nasty (ice, slush) Friday morning and increasingly passable as the afternoon progresses.
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