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The point is- we are talking about the attraction of SMU’s AD job. It is limited. You’re trying to fill a 32k stadium and you have games on the CW(?) channel. You play games on a Friday night. He captured what I meant when I said SMU was # 4 in Dallas, exactly. It’s ok. TCU is #4 in Fort Worth.
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SMU needs to know its place and stay in its lane. Last time it didn’t, it fucked itself over for decades. (And saying that with an MBA from Cox) SMU is a regional private school. It’s nice that its rich alums want good sports teams. They are still, even at peak performance, #4 in Dallas, after Texas, TAMU and OU (and when not at peak, they are behind TT, OSU and Arkansas)
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Is he the foot guy? Or is that Rex?
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Besides the teams that play ASU, there are two B12 teams playing a team from the 2025 CFP: TCU and BU play SMU. There are no B12 teams that have a game scheduled against a team that finished in Sagarin’s top 12. I will give the B12 this: they have designed the schedule so as to at least not have nothing but dog shit games the first few weeks. ISU plays KSU in Ireland in week 0. Cincy plays Nebraska the Thursday before Week 1. They have 2-3 P4 on P4 games the first four weeks. Nothing too compelling, but they have to work with what they have.
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ACC, struggling to hold together, is considering adopting unequal revenue sharing. They have extended their ESPN contract to 2037 (set to expire in 2027). Their path to holding together had two elements- placate Clemson and FSU, and don’t let the media deal expire (like the PAc-12 did). (Also- hope that the SEC and B1G are taking a break from expansion) The B12 deal goes through 2031. I don’t think any of the teams are a threat to jump to another conference. The threat to the B12 is that their next media deal may be based on viewership numbers. Colorado is a ratings draw, or more precisely, Deion is a ratings draw. I don’t think you’ll see any extensions to the B12 media contracts before they’re about to run out.
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Thanks. I am glad to hear we plan to keep TexasOne going. (Suggestion- on the online donation site, provide an option to donate “in honor of (someone)”. I was disappointed last October to discover that I couldn’t make my donation “in honor of Kirby Smart” (I was a little pissed at Kirby) funny thing- the “rules following” trait of Texas athletics, as near as I can tell, began with Darrell Royal. He was the guy who wanted to play by the rules and get alumni out of recruiting. He did a great job of reforming the program. Prior to Royal, DX Bible built the program by instituting “The Bible Plan”. That was the name for Bible dividing the state into 23 regions, with a different Texas booster assigned to each region, to lead efforts to get top players signed. My point is- there is no reason to recoil from this new era.
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statsman replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
That makes no sense? Because, as great as Jeremiah Smith is, those funds could be applied to getting 4-5 other great, proven players. (it would be like trading Jokic for one second team all-NBA player, when you could easily get at least two for him). -
“Goodfellas”? ”The Big Heat”?
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Perspective- the Russian total population for WWI was 160M. They had 2M KIA in WWI (WWII was worse). The casualties from Ukraine are horrific to a modern, free country, but don’t expect it to drive change in Russia.
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My larger point stands. This league is just fine with generational talent finding its way to the Lakers.
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“NBA justification in approving this trade”? Easy. It’s the Lakers. Wilt finished with the Lakers. Kareem finished with the Lakers. Shaq spent most of his later career with the Lakers. LeBron is finishing with the Lakers.
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NCAA enforcement always relied on the schools submitting to it. That worked for decades. Then, Auburn (Can Newton) and TAMU (Manziel) said, in response to (well substantiated) NCAA allegations of cheating - “we’ll see you in court”. The NCAA has always been toothless without the schools willingly submitting. If there are ever to be rules, again, the enforcement body will have to be submitted to, willingly. My guess is that the rules will have to be set and enforced by whoever is distributing the money.
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Cutting the workforce (although- I would be in favor of a constitutional amendment barring unionization of any federal employees, including the postal service and military) won’t solve the budget issues. the dollars aren’t there. Cutting defense, even in half, won’t do it, either. The $$ aren’t there. It will take entitlement reform. That won’t happen until it has to happen, politically. (The GOP proposed a SS plan in 2005; the Dems used that as a scare to win the mid terms. The Dems have an announced SS plan involving minute increases in FICA and phased delays of retirement- they have never proposed it as legislation). The U.S. has one “get out of budget spiral hell free” card. The U.S. government is unique among nations in that it (the government) owns a ridiculous amount of land. It can sell some prime location military reservations and national parks and raise a couple trillion, when the shit hits the fan.
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If there were an NFL style draft of college football players, would Colin Simmons would go in the top 5? I think so.
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Georgia will be OK. Resource and alumni-wise, they are in the upper echelon of the SEC, plus that state is producing a ton of elite talent now, compared to 25 years ago. They don’t have Aggies, and their neighbor state rival doesn’t have to poach recruits from them to stay competitive. It is fun to see Texas approach its potential, though.
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Yeah, clearly, OU’s recruiting hasn’t taken a step up, nor has Texas taken a step down. Is it because OU doesn’t know how to allocate the funds, yet, between sports and players? Have their donors said they are out once AD money is in? I don’t know and am hoping someone can shed light on
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On Sooner Scoop, they are reporting that tomorrow’s OU regents meeting has a vote to approve transfer of funds from the AD to the OneOklahoma NIL fund, pursuant to the Okie governor’s executive order.
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I can’t argue with you, and I am very disappointed in where the U.S. seems to be on this. Ukraine needs Europe to step up, but I don’t know that they can. Internal politics makes it hard for the UK, Germany and France to make the required commitment and EU budgetary requirements (designed to support the Euro as a currency) gives all but the UK an excuse to not mobilize. You could argue that they are behaving worse than they did 1936-1938. Mark Twain is said to have stated, “History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme”. It’s certainly rhyming now. The only saving grace is that Russia has a schitzkrieg, instead of a blitzkrieg.
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Is it less cost efficient than the future we will be in, if Ukraine loses?
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I don’t know, so much, that “we” includes the U.S., anymore Three years ago, Russia was in a similar position to NATO, with respect to artillery production. As their initial schitzkrieg stalled, and the war settled into its current form, they also realized they needed more shells. Like Ukraine, they scrounged for shells from partners and used up stores. They also committed to production expansion. Now, Russia has all the shells they need, as inaccurate and unreliable as they are. As Stalin said, “Quantity has a quality of its own”. NATO/ the west/the U.S. could have matches (and exceeded!) Russia. Look at this list of ranked economies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) Russia has the 11th largest. I count five NATO nations with larger economies, individually. The reason that Ukraine’s allies aren’t giving more shells to Ukraine is not that they aren’t capable. It is that they prioritized other things higher. Russia can win this. If Ukraine’s allies continue to twiddle their thumbs and look at each other to take the lead, the Ukrainian defenses can collapse. If that happens, you will see a flood of refugees. Russia’s economy is a mess- high inflation, collapsing currency, high interest rates. Funny fact- Germany’s economy was similar in 1938: with the economic growth from rearmament stalling out, there were too many marks chasing too few goods (industry was hindered by troop mobilization). Taking Czechoslovakia solved the German economic problems; now there were plenty of good for the marks to purchase. The same thing can save Russia’s economy. The “west” better decide tout suite if that kind of future is unbearable. The time for doing something about it is almost past.
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In 1941, before Pearl Harbor, the U.S. realized it needed bombers, lots of them. It signed a contract with Convair to buy as many B-24’s as they could build, 39 per month. As the U.S. entered the war, it realized it needed more, so Convair doubled production by building a new plant in Fort Worth (that’s why locals of a certain age still call it “the Bomber Plant”, even though it has built fighters for almost 60 years). Knowing that still wouldn’t be enough, the Army signed Ford to build bombers in their Willow Run plant (war time rationing pretty much starved civilian car production). The Convair engineers struggled to conceive of higher rate production, while Ford engineers struggled to imagine production as slow as a bomber per day. By the spring of 1944, 2.5 years after Pearl Harbor, Willow Run was completing one B-24 per hour, 24 hours per day, seven days per week. Each B-24 weighed 18 tons, empty, had four engines and tens of thousands of hand bucked rivets. That was 80 years ago. This year, we are about to see a different kind of motivated development program, as the U.S. takes on the AI challenge from China. We have seen Lunar missions planned and executed in 10 years. We have seen a vaccine to a novel virus developed in eight months. Maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about (but I think I do). It wasn’t funding that kept the U.S. (or the UK, or Germany or France) from matching Russia in artillery shell production (remember- the Russkis had to ramp up to their current level). It was funding and commitment.
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Same answer as 2.5 years ago: when Ukraine has as many (better- more) artillery shells as the Russians have. The U.S. has the industrial capacity to produce that many, but it would require a financial commitment. Europe has the industrial capacity as well, but that would require a financial commitment. There are political reasons that one of Ukraine’s backers have stepped up, basically domestic butter prioritized over Ukraine guns. Politicians are really good at explaining why something is someone else’s responsibility. Also- the major European national governments all seem near collapse and are walking a fine line. I think their calculations are wrong. Know what’s going to cost more than arming Ukraine at a higher level than Russia? Defense costs if the Ukrainian defense collapses and Russia breaks through. If that happens, there will be millions of Ukrainian refugees (the Ukrainians know what Russia does- they rape the women, shoot the men and send the children east). With Russia farther west, the Euros will be forced to increase annual defense higher than a measly 2% of GDP.
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"Saturday Night" - movie about 1975 SNL
statsman replied to Chuckie Finster's topic in Movies and TV
Yes, even that “gentle soul” David Bowie had a 13 year old fuck buddy in LA. You can’t say “it was the ‘70s”. I was alive back then and k ew it was wrong. -
Dallas Cowboys 2024 Season Thread -- Jerrah the Asshat Rides Again
statsman replied to Patrick Bateman's topic in Football
Game respects game. The players respect Jones’ ability to get out of the house and chase strange at an advanced age. That’s all.
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