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Ghost of LL

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  1. I mean, the idea of a fixed number of bids for each league seems to work ok for the UEFA Champions League.
  2. From what I understand, it's the opposite. The television networks don't give a shit about how many people are in the stands. We have a couple of decades' worth of evidence with various bowl games to demonstrate that. If "butts in seats" were a metric of the financial viability of a college-football game, then things like the Hawai'i Bowl and the Bermuda Bowl would've been out the window a long time ago. Shit--the Hawai'i Bowl is being played this year in a stadium with a 17,000-seat capacity, and it'd be a miracle if that game sold out. The ratings on conference championship games indicates that, if anything, they'll expand. The Big 12 instituted a superfluous championship game back when it was a 10-team league precisely because its television partner demanded it. Has anything changed? Someone--maybe Joel Klatt, but I can't remember--laid down a purportedly highly informed opinion that Championship Saturday was going to expand in the next two years alongside an expansion in the CFP. According to whoever, the CFP is going to expand to 14 teams with the SEC and B1G being guaranteed four spots and their champions guaranteed the two byes. Those four spots will be allocated to the winner and loser of the conference championship game and then to the winners of two play-in games. So if that were the deal this year, you'd have a Saturday football schedule for the SEC that looked like this: 11:00 AM: Play-In Game (6) Alabama @ (3) Tennessee 3:00 PM: Play-In Game (5) Ole Miss @ (4) South Carolina 7:00 PM: Championship Game (2) Georgia @ (1) Texas (in Atlanta) I don't know how likely that is to happen. But understanding the networks' insatiable appetite for college-football content, I'd say it's significantly more likely to happen than getting rid of conference championship games altogether.
  3. I kind of agree with them, but when we tried to have mental-health experts do this shit instead of the police, Republicans screamed about the City "defunding the police." Well, you can't have it both ways. If you're going to be lavishly funded based on your presumed ability to address all of the City's ills, then you need to address all of the City's ills.
  4. I'm in the "bah, Humbug" camp these days. I have oral argument next week, and then three depositions and an MSJ hearing the following week. And I somehow need to get a hearing on a TCPA motion set before the end of the year. All of that is on top of the generalized EOY bullshit that comes with running a business, having various social obligations, and dealing with a wife and kids who expect presents. I don't have time for any of this holiday bullshit. Oh, and on top of it Mrs.LL thinks she wants to buy a new house in West Lake Hills. So bah, Humbug and fuck all y'all.
  5. I gotta tell you--I'm real concerned that Alabama is going to get stuck going to Columbus or South Bend and is going to get absolutely boat raced. Alabama is a good team, don't get me wrong. But they are very suspect on the road (their three losses are at Vanderbilt, at Tennessee, and at Oklahoma, with road wins coming at Wisconsin and at LSU). And I really hate to be all "SEC, SEC, SEC," but the fact is that Alabama being a controversial entrant to the CFP and then getting absolutely drubbed in the first round on the road would be a bad look for the conference and could harm Texas and other SEC teams in the Committee's eyes in the future.
  6. Another perfect Saturday—Texas wins, aggy, ou, and Arkiesaw all lose.
  7. There is some serious unappreciation of aggy tears on this thread right now, and I find it really very puzzling.
  8. Pooooooor aggy.
  9. Oh, yeah—this is the stuff.
  10. SMU needs to wake the fuck up, cause they could still pull a Miami here.
  11. Oh, my, ‘Cuse.
  12. SMU just appears to have lost interest in this game.
  13. Oh, shit—‘Cuse is about to tie it.
  14. I really don’t understand how Missouri is still ranked.
  15. USC and ND is very interesting. ND just isn’t that good.
  16. Don’t look now, but Miami can’t blow anybody out.
  17. Cal and ND miss field goals wide right at almost the exact same moment.
  18. I do pity an announcer who has to find new insight to communicate past the second or third overtime. But if any announcer can do it, . . . Joe Tessatore is not him. I mean, Jesus Christ, Joe—can you really not find anything to say other than “good, old-fashioned hate,” 30-game home winning streak,” and “seniors haven’t lost a game at home?” It’s just an unreal lack of talent at the announcer and Georgia QB position tonight.
  19. They definitely should’ve gone for 2. Their defense has given up touchdowns on four straight drives.
  20. Roll Left, baby!
  21. That was definitely targeting.
  22. We throw down some real main-character energy.
  23. Yeah--it's my birthday, so Mrs.LL sprung for some premium tickets. Something about the locker room--like there's a club in the locker room NFL teams use when they're playing there? I don't exactly know, but whatever.
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