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I will point out if we don't give up the TD with 20 seconds left in the half from the 25 yard line on that screen pass, the score is 14-14 there and we kick the field goal. Well, try to kick the field goal in any case. Then it's on the defense to stop them. That TD on the screen pass changed the complexion of everything.
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I agree. But that screen pass for a TD with 20 seconds left until half was pivotal. It's going to be tough to compete with programs like Ohio State, Texas, and Oregon year after year in the portal era. I expect us to have a significant talent advantage against most teams from now on until congressional legislation is passed. And who knows when that will be or what it will look like. It's a shame this wasn't for the national championship. Probably will be in years to come.
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Why Ohio State Stomps a Mudhole In Texas' Ass
SL Xpress replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Just to point out it hasn't happened, yet. -
Game Week Thread 2024 Week 17 - Cotton Bowl CFP Semifinal Texas vs Ohio State
SL Xpress replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
Yeah, it seems like if the betting is as one sided as that little snapshot makes it out to be, Vegas will be rooting for Texas. My only thing is that I don't think that twitter pic is reflective of the actual betting, otherwise we would have seen the line move in the other direction. -
Game Week Thread 2024 Week 17 - Cotton Bowl CFP Semifinal Texas vs Ohio State
SL Xpress replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
I hope Sarkisian has a long heart felt talk with him prior to a game winning field goal. -
Game Week Thread 2024 Week 17 - Cotton Bowl CFP Semifinal Texas vs Ohio State
SL Xpress replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
You'd be amazed at how little I care about Ohio State football. As far as I'm concerned college football wasn't even played from 2010 to 2022 other than the 2018 season. And that one was like enjoying a mirage. Since you're not a Texas fan you have no idea really what I'm talking about. But no one gave Texas a chance in 96 against Nebraska, and more surprisingly, USC was practically crowned the champion prior to the game after the 2005 season. That one made no sense to me. I at least understand why everyone is picking Ohio State in this game. I just know Texas is an extremely talented team, and if they put it together Ohio State could be the ones wondering what truck just hit them the same way Tennessee and Oregon felt after their games with the Buckeyes. Especially Ewers. If the Ewers from the Alabama or Michigan game shows up, it could spell real trouble for Ohio State. -
Game Week Thread 2024 Week 17 - Cotton Bowl CFP Semifinal Texas vs Ohio State
SL Xpress replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
It feels like Nebraska '96 and USC 2005 all over again. As long as it's not Miami 1990. But this is a different Texas team than that one. They absolutely belong on the field with this Ohio State team, regardless. -
When you say it's not working, what do you mean? There is no question there are fewer helmet on helmet collisions. We're not going to have zero. Maybe we should have a ceremony in the middle of the field where we cut the offender's right hand off right after it happens. Or send them to the prison. We still see facemasks occur, too. We're paying large, fast men to collide into one another as hard and as fast as they can. There's an inherent danger to that. We can minimize some of the risks, but at the end of the day there is always going to be a health risk, both short term and long term. It's like road safety. There is no question if the speed limit on all highways were reduced to 50 miles an hour and strictly enforced, there would be fewer traffic accidents, injuries, and fatalities. There's a tradeoff involved. Same thing with football. There's no question in my mind the sport is safer now than it was 20, 30, 40 years ago. But the risk and physicality is part of its appeal. I also don't think targeting is ever going to be consistently applied as a call, any more than holding or pass interference will be. Maybe we'll see improvements, but I predict it's always going to be a controversial call in the future no matter what is done. Some of this is CYA in any case. "See? We're doing something to make the game safer! Now purchase the advertised products, pay for tickets, and buy lots and lots of concessions and merchandise!"
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Why Ohio State Stomps a Mudhole In Texas' Ass
SL Xpress replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
The curse is real. No one has ever won a game with the mudhole curse upon them. OSU's doom is sealed. -
The 4th and 13 touchdown pass seemed like a big deal at the time as well.
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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
SL Xpress replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
The reason Carter turned the Panama Canal over to Panama is because his administration came in with the mindset that the US policy was way too pragmatic and not focused enough on humanitarian issues. We were supporting too many bad guys (e.g. the Shah) and needed to be more of a good guy ourselves. Handing the Panama Canal to the Panamanians felt like the right thing to do. -
The only thing making Oregon elite really is Phil Knight pouring in a massive amount of his wealth into the athletic department in general and the football program specifically. They don't have the talent instate or even regionally to compete on a national basis, even if they secured every one of the best players in the Oregon/Washington/Idaho/Montana region. There's not enough money in the state, or the alumni base. The student body is not massive, and neither is the alum base. The area is geographically gorgeous. There's all kinds of mountains and streams. Outdoor activities galore. There's snow skiing. The beaches are spectacular, even if the water is too cold to recreationally swim in. Hiking opportunities. Coming from Houston, the demographics are stupefyingly white. Especially in Eugene and the rest of rural Oregon. The town itself is nice. The metro population is about 200k. It's very much a college town. It doesn't compare to Austin or any college town next to a sizable city, but it's also not a tiny burg. It's a similar population size to Lubbock, without feeling like it's out in the middle of nowhere. Knight has thrown so much money into the athletic department, it's unbelievable. The Hayward Field has to be the nicest track and field facility in the world. It's absolutely gorgeous, and it's right in the middle of campus. The Matthew Knight Arena is a nice multipurpose sports facility for the basketball and volleyball teams. It's also right on campus. The football, baseball, softball, soccer/lacrosse facilities are all bunched together on the other side of the campus, about a 10 minute walk through a beautiful park area and over the picturesque Williamette River. Their big problem is how do they increase their revenue? The stadium only holds 54,000, and they can't increase it a great deal without carrying empty seats for a lot of games and giving up tons of seats to visiting fans for the big name opponents. They have a real dearth of luxury seating, both in the football stadium and in the basketball arena - which has none. They're very much limited by the economics of the region, the alumni base, and the populations they're working with. One thing they do have is culture. Athletes there are treated like royalty. I'd say it's a bigger deal to be an athlete at Oregon than it is at Texas. Whatever the sport. I don't know if their facilities overall equal Texas, but they come close in many sports. And there's no question who has priority on campus. They've torn down the science center this past year to build a brand new 170,000 sq ft football only facility, which should be completed in the next couple of years. The cost has not been revealed, but everyone knows who is paying for it. They also have a problem keeping their coaches. Rich Brooks left for the NFL after a 17 year career. Mike Belotti retired and became the athletic director after 13 years, so he didn't go anywhere. But Chip Kelly left for the pros after 4 years, Mark Helfrich was fired after 4 years, Willie Taggart left for FSU after 1 year, and Cristobal left for Miami after 5 years. It's so challenging finding the right guy to be the head coach, which makes it paramount to be able to keep them when you do. Dan Lanning already refused to listen to Alabama's overtures, so maybe he's there for the long haul. Dunno. I also don't know what happens to them when Phil Knight passes away. He's leaving a large largesse to the athletic department - at least, that's what he's told them - but suddenly it's a relatively fixed number being provided each year rather than Phil Knight being able to dip as deep as he wants to go into his vast fortune, and that will change things. Also, they're getting 1/2 the television funds of other Big 10 members, but that changes with the next contract in 8 years, or however long it is.
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It's a court settlement that hasn't even been approved yet. With more lawsuits in the works. State legislated NIL rules don't supercede federal law or federal court settlements, but in their absence they do. And there's a lot of absence. What they do do is supercede NCAA regulations. At least until a lawsuit is filed and it's deemed otherwise. The only legislative body that can create any real stability is the US congress. So far there's been no appetite in the current political climate for congress and the president to wade into college athletics. Maybe that changes, although it's difficult to see how. Until then we'll veer wildly from one court case to another, with no real enforcement mechanism other than bringing another lawsuit. There have been some enforcement mechanisms proposed with the upcoming settlement approval, but I haven't seen anything to make me think they'll be at all effective. If you don't have effective enforcement, you don't really have a rule.
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Game Week Thread 2024 Week 17 - Cotton Bowl CFP Semifinal Texas vs Ohio State
SL Xpress replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
NSIAP, but this youtube video from the guys at PFF college football has a very interesting analysis on the change in Ohio State success from Michigan to the Tennessee/Oregon games. A chief attribute was going from primarily a Chip Kelly inside zone team with an offensive line that wasn't capable of successfully executing it to a counter team. According to these guys OSU ran 50% of their running plays as counters, when the teams during the regular season that ran counter the most topped out about 35%. It also allowed success in the passing game building off of different looks in the counter attack to go play action. It's a bit Ohio State heavy, but not overly so. I enjoyed the analysis: -
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.
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Georgia could have really used Vince Young on that 4th and 5 there.
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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.
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I have a certain amount of respect for an insufferable fan base. I like to think we're one.
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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."
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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.
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"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."
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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.
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