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The Original Greaser Bob

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  1. 14 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    My wife is half Irish, half British. We have a 10 year old daughter with ridiculously beautiful burnt orange hair. This photo could be an age progression of her 10 years from now. Christ.

    Congrats buy sorry she is going to give you grey hair.

    Red hair is the best.  I'm a dark as hell mestizo and I married a redhead and we've got an opie looking burnt orange hair grandkid who doesn't look to have an ounce of melanin. 

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  2. 2 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

    I'd never seen Bad Day at Black Rock. I watched it a few weeks ago. Solid. Great cast. I was late to appreciate Robert Ryan

    Check out Day of the Outlaw.  Robert Ryan as an interesting good/bad character.  Burl Ives steals the show buy Ryan is great. Mmm Tina Louise.

    When the bottle starts rolling is when all hell breaks loose.

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  3. 8 minutes ago, stork642 said:

    Isn’t really just whatever the olds are doing just do the opposite and that’s new and trendy.  

    I just traded my pleated dockers for stretchy skinny flat front chinos, so you all know what to do.

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  4. 28 “The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him. 29 But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. 30 But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

    31 “‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. 32 But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”

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  5. 4 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    This is good policy and good politics. Anyone worried about voters bailing on Biden over this should be more worried about how many younger voters would've stayed home had he done nothing. 

    Since I'm one of the long in the tooth surly moderates, I will say that I wish Liz Warren would just stop crowing about the debt forgiveness.  This is one I think that sells best when progressives are grousing a bit about it not going far enough.

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  6. 2 hours ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    f we're giving rebates to EV purchases and solar panel installs I don't see why 10k relief for education is that big a deal.  It really doesn't amount to anything though and I wish they would spend more time discussing the ridiculous cost of education instead of throwing a token benefit out there that really just means they are giving a bunch of financial institutions more free money. 

    I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and hope that the Dems don't lose  Congress and give them a chance to come up with some legislation related to the cost of education/grants/remodel of the loan system. 

    I'd prefer a cap on payments and total forgiveness after 20 years of payments and leave it at that.  But  I think this is astute, politically.

  7. 15 minutes ago, Horn of Gabriel said:

    Wait, wut?  You think that a Vandy is going to take a tens of millions of dollars cut to AD revenue, likely forcing them to sacrifice multiple non-rev sports for the privilege of playing in a lower league?  

    No, I don't think anyone is going to give up money.  The idea would be that there are going to be a whole lot of have nots over the next few years who will never under any circumstances be able to compete and they might want to be forward thinking. 

    I'm going to stop because this isn't what this thread is about.  But I am thinking that the superleagues are essentially driving the others out, and those others could form an "ABA" that could be pretty enjoyable.  To the point of perhaps setting up a new "league" that might eventually appeal to the superleague to come back and join it or take it over in a way that works for the superleague teams.  

     

     

  8. 12 minutes ago, utee94 said:

    Who on Earth would vote in favor of potential relegation?

    Stanford.  Vandy.  Perennial middling and lower ranked programs who don't see much of an upside of staying the course. 

    And teams like Texas and Notre Dame who would rather be independent anyway. 

    You set up a league with a structure that people would like and hope to pick off teams from the big leagues.  You also would couldn't have limitless lowest league.

     

     

  9. 16 minutes ago, utee94 said:

    I suppose if you paid every school at every level the exact same, it could work. That way relegation would just change the level of opponents, and not the cash flow.  But which of the top revenue schools are ever going to vote for THAT?

    Let alone the Supreme Court.

  10. Yeah, I'm just frustrated.   I'm thinking the only way it could ever get off the ground is if the schools that are left out of realignment just say fuck it, we're going to break off and form our own competitive relegation promotion league.  They get it off the ground, and then design it so that the larger teams would be interested in joining for some financial reason. Hell if I know what that reason is. 

     

     

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  11. With NIL, transfer rules etc., the only way to save this (at least in terms of making the sport very interesting) is to do relegation and promotion.  7 levels of 18 teams, divided by east and west.  Two open games at beginning of season for traditional rivalries.  8 regular season (counts for relegation), one level championship game. 

    You could flatten the divisions so that you have 8 different groups, 4 A league and 4 B league, the champions all feed into a ranked playoff.

     

     

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