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Ghost of LL

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  1. That may have been the most entertaining game of the weekend.
  2. I guess that counts.
  3. Come in, Clemson—turn it over one more time.
  4. This game is unreal.
  5. Haha—fuck your, Tech
  6. Perhaps Yeomark shoulda picked another team to pull for.
  7. Haha—eat shit, Baylor
  8. That’s the implication.
  9. Because the starter had led them to a total of 13 points into the 3rd Quarter against Central fucking Arkansas.
  10. TD Wyoming
  11. Oh my god—TCU is terrible.
  12. Yeah--and this is exactly when the court of appeals should administratively stay a district court's order in aid of its jurisdiction.
  13. I distinctly feel like you don't understand the concept of "risk." It's not certain that SMU is going to be a great program in the ACC. But what is the alternative? Staying in the AAC? SMU may not be a great program in the ACC. But it will definitely never be a great program in the AAC. SMU will make more money in the ACC--the math was done for you some pages ago--even without T1 television money. So even if they continue to "suck" (though I would dispute that characterization), it comes at no monetary or reputational cost. There's genuinely no risk based on the place from which SMU starts. SMU and TCU have never been in "equivalent conferences." And NIL support hasn't existed for 30 years because . . . and I think this is kinda important . . . NIL hasn't been a thing for thirty years. Look at the world over the past two years since NIL has been a thing. SMU has done very well in the transfer portal. And that's with them getting kneecapped when their coach left for TCU. But as queried above--would that happen today now that SMU is in the ACC?
  14. There's no risk here. At all. SMU's goal was to be in a Top-4 conference. It's now in a Top-4 conference. What's the risk? That the ACC may lose FSU, Clemson, and UNC in a decade? I mean, ok. But it also might not. And regardless--the playoff and media landscape is going to be entirely different in ten years. This is an obvious decision for SMU. The notion that they should stay in the AAC with the likes of North Texas and Memphis when they can get into the ACC is absurd in the extreme. They're in a better conference. They have more NIL support. And they have vastly better alumni/donor support. On a purely forward-looking basis, that puts SMU in a better position. That's not to say that SMU is going to be able to turn all that into a better program than TCU's. But it is to say that it puts them in a place where they ought to be able to.
  15. As an SMU Law alumnus and someone who is generally sympathetic to the Ponies' cause, I am pretty fucking gruntled this morning. You could conceive of a scenario in which SMU, with all its NIL money, recruits Dallas the way Miami recruits South Florida and builds a similar program. Not a program that is going to contend for national championships. And not really a program that anybody in its home city gives a shit about. But something that is still very competitive and fun to watch. And yeah--SMU's situation is now far better than TCU's. I think the point is that it's great for Dallas even if nobody in the city cares much about SMU. First, it's going to have conference games that are meaningful in the national college-football picture. And second, hosting a bunch of Olympic sports brings both money and exposure.
  16. Yeah--this is kind of tough. Because I think the "prospective tip" was something that, ten years ago, was only for if you wanted a prime spot up front. Probably 20 years ago, I went to Del Mar for the races, and I had a flight out of SAN that afternoon, so I was going to want to get out of there in a hurry. So I gave the guy a $20 bill on the front end and asked him to keep the car close so that I could get out of there. He did, and I did. But since then, I definitely think the prospective tip to the valet has become less of a "this is an unusual deal where I need you to take good care of my car" and more of a "it is expected that I do this on the front end so that you don't fuck up my car." And I don't like that. This sounds pretty reasonable. But there are some problems with it. What about complimentary valets? Am I tipping 20% of $0? That doesn't seem to make much sense. And I am starting to get a lot tougher on tipping valets as the tip rate for valets goes up. If I'm going to tip you $5 or $10, then you need to take the little tag off my keychain, take the slip from off my dash or underneath my windshield wiper, return my seat to its original position, and not take my headlights off the "AUTO" setting. If you can't do those basic things to restore my car to the condition in which I handed it over, you're not providing me a service. You're inconveniencing me. And why should I tip you for inconveniencing me?
  17. It's a country full of absolute slaves. They may have legally abolished serfdom in 1863, but they'll never get rid of that servile mentality.
  18. I think we're going to do a Silversea cruise next year through the Panama Canal. I've always wanted to do the Panama Canal ever since reading David McCullough's book 20 years ago. And a cruise is really the only way to see it properly. It being Silversea, you avoid most of the issues y'all are (rightly) identifying. There aren't any fat trashy people on that boat; there aren't many people on that boat at all. And to @SydneyCarton's point, my experience on Silversea (though it's very outdated experience) is that there aren't any limits on drinks. They'll serve you whatever, whenever. And they'll just stock your minibar in your room with whatever you want. So if you just want to sit on your balcony and drink, you can do that. Which maybe, come to think of it, . . . .
  19. And beyond that, Kentucky law requires the governor to appoint a member of the same party to a Senate seat that becomes vacant. I mean, I guess he could appoint a relatively liberal Republican. But where would you find one of those in Kentucky?
  20. And presumably, those didn't come from Ukraine. They were launched from Russian territory. So that is to say that there are Ukrainian SpecOps teams running around Russia with dozens of drones that they can launch virtually anywhere. Based on the numbers being thrown around on this attack (more than 20 drones), that's more than a couple of guys in a Lada. That's a bunch of people running around with a lot of drones in multiple vehicles. The question right now isn't "what air defense doing." It's "what FSB doing." At least, that's what the Air Force is asking. How in the fuck is the FSB so clueless that they're letting Ukrainian SpecOps run around Russia with impunity armed with drones? From what we've heard, not a single fucking Ukrainian has been caught inside Russia. But they're obviously there.
  21. Fuck--I said that at the time, and I wasn't joking even a little bit. It was completely predictable.
  22. When I toured the USS Missouri over the summer, I was struck by the number of command centers. You had the Combat Engagement Center, the navigation bridge, and a flying bridge (open air a deck above the navigation bridge)--all serving a different purpose. The wildest thing was on the navigation bridge, the helm was located inside a bunker in the center of the bridge. And when I mean a bunker, I mean a bunker. It is a small circular room surrounded by probably three feet of steel. They really didn't want that helm getting shot away.
  23. And I appreciate the fact that each viewer has his/her own viewing idiosyncrasies. And though I called out @LTbear individually, I didn't mean to call him out specifically. He has his own idiosyncrasies as someone who prioritizes regional games. But I was talking about him more as a stand-in for the generic college-football fan nationwide. And I think the scheduling and appeal to the generic college-football fan is what makes these moves so interesting. The B1G and the Big XII (and presumably soon the ACC) are going to be able to offer television inventory from 11:00 AM CT when its first games start straight through to 1:30 AM CT when the West Coast games end. More than 14 hours of football--four different time slots. That's something the SEC can't offer. And until last year, it's not something anyone even really considered. And it does kind of raise the possibility of fragmentation of the college-football audience. This year, if I'm a fan of the Big XII, I can watch only three games. If I want a late-night game, it's going to be a PAC 12 game. And let's be real honest--that 11:00 game is likely to be a dog that I don't really care about. I mean, I'm sure someone probably cares about Iowa State and UCF, but I don't. So I'd be inclined to watch the SEC or B1G 11:00 kickoff instead. But next year, with more teams across more time zones, I can (and maybe should) be more focused on the Big XII if I were still a Big XII fan. The PAC 12 will be gone; and that late-night game is going to be a Big XII conference game. And with four more schools, and consequently more inventory, there's a somewhat increased chance that the 11:00 game is one that is of interest. Point being, I could see a scenario in which the trend toward national superconferences actually (and paradoxically) makes college-football fans more narrowly focused on their conference of choice. No--they're not going to make every home game a night game. But I expect they will have USC and UCLA playing a lot more night games than they currently do. But between USC, UCLA, Washington, and Oregon, someone is going to be playing a late-night game every Saturday.
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