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  1. There are several national championships I find questionable. There are a few I find highly questionable. BYU's national championship being towards the top of the list. They still count. The President, Congress, the Supreme Court, the United Nations, the alien race from the nearest settled star could all come together to poo poo Texas winning a national championship this year as not being all that impressive and I will give no fucks whatsoever. There's no asterisk for this shit. Why anyone would waste a second thinking about it is beyond me. Now, retrospective national championships granted by obscure publications reading through box scores can fuck right off. Those are the ridiculous ones.
  2. Georgia could have really used Vince Young on that 4th and 5 there.
  3. Kinda. People have different coping mechanisms. I can respect that. I was traumatized yesterday, too. Especially since our history is full of such clutch field goals. I'm not actually used to the opposite, and we got a double dose, along with a heartfelt successful icing from our head coach.
  4. I have a certain amount of respect for an insufferable fan base. I like to think we're one.
  5. Penn State was offered the spot first. Joe Paterno refused. It was only then they reached out to Notre Dame. All of Joe's whining over the years how the POTUS decided the national championship, and Royal's only reply was, "I never understood why he didn't choose to decide it on the field."
  6. I have no problem with allowing them into the playoffs. But pretending like Arizona State and Boise State had a resume that validated a #3 and #4 seed requires an incredible suspension of disbelief. It's the DEI of college football. I also didn't really have an issue with SMU being allowed in over other teams. The committee was trying not to penalize teams for results in conference championship games, and I can respect that. It's a bummer to be punished for what should be incentivized. It makes no sense to create a system where teams would be better off not making it to the championship game. The biggest issue was Ohio State losing to Michigan. If that doesn't happen we don't have Ohio State as an absurd #8 seed when they're clearly the most talented team in college football this year, with a payroll to match it. The other thing was Texas losing to Georgia. We had our opportunities, but we fucked up. The combination resulted in this crappy bracket. But watching this game and the Penn State/Boise State matchup reminds me of my thoughts when I first saw it come out.
  7. "So coach, what do you think it will take for Texas to win the national championship this year?" "Well, first Notre Dame has to lose."
  8. A couple of people were commenting on how come we don't have a quarterback who can hit a receiver in stride the way Stockton did once. Then people commented on how come we don't have a field goal kicker who can make field goals the way Georgia and Notre Dame can. Meanwhile I'm watching this abortion of a football game thinking why in the world would we want to emulate either of these two teams? The way the bracket lined up with Texas, Ohio State and Oregon all on one side of the bracket was absurd. Especially with Beck out. They have these dumb rules in place to throw a bone to the practically irrelevant Big 12 and ACC, plus a guaranteed Group of 5 entry, so I guess it is what it is. But at least one of those 3 teams should have been on the other side. I feel like Oregon got especially screwed as the #1 overall seed, being given the "opportunity" to face Ohio State in their opening round game. In any case, I'm not impressed at all with either of these two teams. I don't know what to think about Penn State. I spent the whole game watching them against Boise State wondering why they didn't just run the fucking ball. I feel like Franklin is simply waiting for a quality opponent to completely fold his tent like he always does. Watching this game, though, it makes me think that won't be until the national championship.
  9. I wish we had this Georgia quarterback who hits his receivers in stride.
  10. He thought he was in overtime.
  11. I've never seen a head coach have his field goal kickers be more clutch at the end of games than Mack Brown. Not a big fan of his, but he had some magical super power shit going on in regards to that specific aspect. Sarkisian appears to be channeling more Bobby Bowden right now.
  12. It's weird to think of Notre Dame as the plucky underdogs, so I refuse to do so. But they really haven't had a clear talent advantage in big time postseason games since the 1980s.
  13. You're such a nuggetable nelly.
  14. You keep making comments like this. Are you watching this game thinking you wish we looked more like Notre Dame or Georgia here?
  15. Leavitt would have torn Georgia a new asshole with the way they defend quarterbacks who can run.
  16. There is the James Franklin quotient to consider.
  17. I hate both of these teams. I guess it's too soon to hope for someone to drive a truck into the Superdome and run both teams over. Also, a hope for a meteor is probably a more politically sensible choice. And the winner plays Pedo State. There's not much for me to root for in these playoffs outside of Texas.
  18. This is no stomp a mudhole post. That's for sure.
  19. Until Pearl Harbor World War II was a European war. Roosevelt won reelection in 1940 in part campaigning on the idea he kept us out of it. 90% of the population doesn't give a shit. Probably more. It's funny talking to people from other countries and trying to explain how overwhelmingly indifferent Americans are to foreign involvement. They sputter and infuriatingly point out all the activities the US has engaged in, how much the US uses its influence in foreign affairs, militarily, economically, and otherwise. The elites of this country have been responsible for all that. In my opinion, mostly for the good, and certainly for the benefit of Americans. But in the vast majority of Americans' minds, we're better off undoing all the international linkages. As a populist message it's going to sell well. As an actual foreign policy, it's a nightmare that can't be undone. The general population honestly just doesn't give a shit about Russian atrocities. That's the blunt truth.
  20. I feel like Elliott went all in the last three years for the national championship. It worked out two of those years as well as could possibly be hoped. I thought this team had a real shot at a three peat. The roster looked more talented than anyone in the country not named Nebraska. But they just never came together like last year's group did. After virtually ignoring a couple of classes in terms of development, outside of Halter and Singletary, and maybe Kahahawai, I'm interested to see how he handles the next two classes. He's been winning a lot of his recruiting battles the last 3 years, so he should have a lot of his first choices for the most part. I'd like to see us make a serious run at the SEC title. I believe next year is the first year for a volleyball tournament. Not a big fan of it, but I'm also not a big fan of coming in second this year to Kentucky after beating them head to head. After having so many transfers littering the lineup, that one only has Lauenstein. I'm interested to see what kind of serving lineup we put out there. Starting with Swindle, Halter, Lauenstein, and Kahahawai is pretty stout.
  21. Or a Navy destroyer with a phalanx system accidentally left on.
  22. I think the line with Bo Robinson the next year was even better. Not that Robinson was better than Giles, but all of them were improved from the previous season. A criminally underrated defense because the offense was so incredibly stupefyingly horrific. A little racist, but I don't mean it that way. I loved Giles his senior season.
  23. What a waste of a class. I don't blame them for transferring out. I'm a little surprised Bunton isn't on the list. Not to blame the coaching staff wholly. Not sure how anyone can be upset with 2 national championships. But with all the transfers coming in there wasn't a chance for playing time. Hopefully we get to see the incoming players develop some.
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