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July can't get here soon enough

Trailer reveal livestream:

LOL what is going on? I've never seen a TRO that says a Board can't go into closed session

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Wonder what they're including in the Heisman edition? Big launch is Thursday, probably find out then.

The funniest thing about realignment putting the SEC fully under the ESPN banner will be Herbstreit trying to maintain his "I'm a real journalist, we're not biased in favor of anyone and its outrageous that anyone would suggest that" facade. What a pompous ass, shut up and go read the narrative the suits want you to read.

That's awesome. In reading the thread I'm convinced that if this had all been in-person it would have been settled in 5 minutes over a conversation. Electronic communications are bereft of context and make people do unhinged ragey stuff that they'd never do in person. Giving the prof the benefit of the doubt for half a second, he probably felt pretty stupid walking out of the hearing and if he had any introspection at all realized that this was a tempest in a teapot of largely his own making. Hope he gains that insight. There's bumps in the road for us all, hook 'em.

Here's the problem with dropping the small schools @Al_4_ISU hates because they got a unwarranted seat at the P2 table...conferences don't drop teams. What happens is the either schools choose to leave on their own, usually because they're de-prioritizing sports (U. of Chicago, Ivies), or the creme of the crop leaves to form up or join a new conference with others more like them (OU/Texas -> SEC, Big12 formation). There's a lot of legal mess with kicking a school out against their wishes, and no one wants to spend money and time on it when it's relatively easier just to take the top x% and leave to form a new shiny conference. But herein lies the issue: the B1G and the SEC members are kinda stuck now with the private equity guys circling. If the top teams leave the SEC/B1G to form something new and drop the Vandys of the world, it provides an opening for the PE groups to fill that vacuum. There's an old saying in the startup world "do you want to be King, or do you want to be Rich?" Startup founders often have to choose between the two and rarely do they get both (exceptions are Jobs and Zuck). Right now the SEC and B1G are both King and Rich. They could be (marginally) richer, but they are opening a yawning gap on the G7 conferences (American, CUSA, MAC, Sun Belt, MWC, ACC, Big12) already. Do they trade control for even more money? Why would they do it when they have both? I see an impasse unless they can guarantee the control they want, no high level team like Texas, Georgia, OU, and Bama want to get put into a gilded cage by PE overlords - too proud.

The delicious irony will be when Shedder pisses off his teammates, which he will, and gets cut from a NFL team, which he will. Then one of them will hop on Twitter to write "Ion even remember him tbh. Bro had to be very mid at best."

I selected on Monday and pretty much the entire lower West side was red/selected. We are already close to the 50 and under the shade of the upper deck so we're happy but had hoped to move up a few rows but no joy. I had been toying with the idea of the Centennial Club because my wife has trouble with the heat but our donation level doesn't get us there because so few seats free up there each year. LHF advised me to make a 1-time $25,000 donation to jump up to Date 1 selection to get a shot. Yikes.

agree with all that but to be fair, Colorado had long since run off the cliff before Deion got there. In fact they had driven so far into the ditch that their admin decided the best way to get out was to turn to a grifter selling snake oil just for the spectacle. But like all grifters, it's a sham. He's selling a ponzi scheme with him and his son at the top. Everyone with a brain knows that he's gone as soon as his son is off to the NFL (e.g. after this season) and "God will call him to a different path." I don't care about that; if Colorado wants to whore themselves in that way go for it. What's sad for me is him pulling desperate players out of the portal to essentially prop up his son. He doesn't give 2 shits about Travis Hunter or anyone else beyond how it can enrich his family. Hunter will be fine on his talent alone but a lot of those other players aren't getting NIL, they were probably marginal P5 players at best that were lured in by the siren song of "playing for Dieon" only to realize once they got there that he doesn't know them, care at all about them, in fact they're just extras in his streaming reality show. He'll pop in every so often and make an impassioned speech for the cameras to stream on YouTube about player accountability between trashing former players or complaining about his jewelry getting stolen. It's sad for those players, they could have gone to a different/lower school and actually played on a real team vs. being part of the clown show. OTOH, they're adults with agency and no one forced them to go there so it's on them too.

Money quote from the Yahoo article above: "...the ramifications of the new CFP deal are deep, as two conferences distance themselves from the rest with uneven revenue distribution. Schwarz, the economist, sees it a different way. “The new revenue model is not causing the separation, it’s a reflection of the separation,” he said."

Was at the O&W game, some observations, probably made by anyone with eyes: Player Observations Wingo and Cook are studs. Hard to believe Wingo is an EE Fr, he's built like a Sr. Speed, hands, wiggle, the whole package. Cook has great elusiveness and another gear after the catch. Bond looked great too, but we expected that. Had a few catchable balls he missed. I'll be disappointed if we lose Red, even with his weight gain he looked pretty good! Soft hands catching screens and had some nice jukes and also ran over a few people. I guess we saw a lot of him due to his spot on the depth chart but if he's willing to accept a reduced role I think he could contribute. Owens looked mature, it's been awhile since we've had this depth in QB. We're set up for the next few years and when we land Lacey we could have an Alabama-like run of QB play of 3-4 starter level NFL QBs in a row. With Hill moving to the middle I didn't notice him as much, maybe he won't make as many flash plays there but probably will contribute more. It was good to see the OLine get a push in a goal to go situation It's really hard to assess defense in the spring game because they're playing with a hand tied behind their back and have to dial down the aggression and not hurt anyone. Formation/Philosophy We ran a lot of 4 WR sets, way more than the last few years. We hardly ran any 2 RB sets/pony package We ran a lot of screens, not just the TE screen but traditional RB screens as well. Some worked and some the D-line sniffed out. Showed off the RBs soft hands and working with blockers. There were a lot more slants and passes across the middle as a % of throws that I was used to seeing, thank god There were a lot fewer horizontal throws to the sideline (WR screen) We ran a lot of man coverage We blitzed over 1/3rd of the plays How much of this is just Sark experimenting, how much of this translates to the season...?

From the link above RE: Super League: NIL The deck proposes a national broadcast NIL (BNIL) construct whereby players receive pro rata shares of a collectively bargained “FB Player Pool,” which would come from the Super League’s TV money. That money would be distributed as follows: 5% to all rostered freshmen, 15% to all rostered sophomores, 30% for all rostered juniors and 50% for all rostered seniors and graduate students. As another means of maintaining competitive equity, the pitch deck proposes a cap that would constrain how much a program’s athletes could cumulatively earn via NIL. The suggested “NIL Roster Cap” would mandate that individual NIL payments for football players at a single school not exceed those earned via group licensing and broadcast NIL (BNIL) deals. If a school exceeds the cap for a season, then it would be punished by losing transfer slots, and possibly scholarship slots. If, on the other hand, a school were to fall below 80% of a pre-established “NIL Roster Floor” for two consecutive seasons, it would be relegated to the Under League until it could sustain a full season above the floor. ===== So lemme get this straight...after YEARS of Texas competing with one arm tied behind our back watching Bama, Auburn, and the rest of the SEC and other big programs drop bags and pay players under the table, we are now supposed to accept a "NIL cap" just when we're ramping up what should be our biggest (now fully legal) advantage? I don't think so...besides this will just re-introduce the illegal bag game and circumvent the rules again so the cheaters prosper. No thanks, status quo is actually in our favor for once.

Are we saying the same thing? I'm not suggesting dropping those in the free version, only the paid version. I don't know OTF's model but assume that ad reads are paid based on impressions like most ads? They get thousands of streams on YT and probably several thousand +++ pod streams too, would moving the reads out of the premium version impact those impressions much? Guessing my 9.95 is worth more than my ad impressions for reads...? My frame of reference here is a crime pod my wife subs to, they snip everything in the premium version and make it work. But, maybe the future is not "pay to get no ads" it's "pay to get fewer ads" ...sigh...Amazon just did that with Prime. Kinda feels shitty, like "we're going to enshitten the free product enough to get you to pay, but still keep some shit in the paid version too."

Agree and not trying to get pedantic but the ad free supported version should really be ad free, not just injected ads but snipped of reads for manscaped or whatever realtor. Heckuva double-dip to pay AND have to still ad skip.

YT mobile CarPlay app is terrible. And unlike you I'm not a dangerous driver fumbling with my phone as I drive.

I listen on Apple podcasts, and also noticed about 5 days ago the ratio of ads went up significantly. Even if these are "auto injected" ads, I doubt very much that Spotify and Apple both turned the dial on more ads simultaneously. This was an OTF decision and they went too far, it's definitely enshitification. Before I'm accused of not supporting OTF, etc, I'm totally willing to pay for an ad-free version that shows up in my podcast feed (I don't use YT stream and their mobile player isn't good for my use cases: car, workouts). In fact, I'd sign up for OTF just for that. I figure anything useful on the OTF website typically shows up here within a few minutes so I don't need that, but the ad-free pod would be a value I'm for which I'm willing-to-pay.

I had to get a shoulder MRI in January. The place at Cedar Park medical center had an older MRI machine and I didn’t fit. Like sausage in the casing. I’m a broad shouldered guy 240 lbs and they wanted my shoulder dead center in the machine - they even had a jig to hold my shoulder in place. Problem is that only leaves half the normal space for try rest of your body. It just wouldn’t work. I told the guy to pull me out and he said it’s common, they sent me across town where they had a newer machine with a bigger opening that could fit my gigantic girth.

It was good: war really sucks, especially when it's us on us regardless of the politics. Bad people (Plimpton) tend to pop up during war doing bad stuff. War is innocence lost. Mostly I found it as a love poem to war reporters.

Fun seeing the emotion in Wemby Hype Squad is shit, RIP Silver Dancers

HOLY SHIT! What a play

I gotta admit I have a soft spot for Mamu, mostly because I like players whose name doesn't fit on the back of the jersey.