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Nothing ever starts on time anymore

Some of it is just bad luck - Phelia getting hit in the jaw and missing some games/early PT, the Sonya Morris thigh injury

yeah, I like our scheduling philosophy. If we move to 9 game SEC schedule, we should continue to schedule: 1 major P4 program 1 in-state G5 school (either within our system or Rice) 1 nearby G5 school

Coaches are always sticking around until the college blueblood or NFL come calling.

If it also doesn’t include games yet to be played, they played Bama, we haven’t played aggy yet.

That was my nickname in college

I assume this is schedule played so far? Their SOS should improve by playing Ohio State, but then they play shitty Purdue to end the year. Texas' should also improve, playing aggy next weekend.

Right, there's not some stats and programming nerd who can game out a program to do this for them at any of the schools in their conference?

Oh I'm sure it'll be "they can't help who they play!" because only Texas has 100% control over their conference schedule and clearly knew Michigan would lose Harbaugh, half the staff and a dozen players to the NFL when they scheduled this a decade ago.

You posted a tweet from this morning yesterday?

TeXaS pLaYs NoBoDy In the top 12, Texas would rank 7th in SOS, closer to Penn State than Oregon is to us. Can the internet and the committee start bitching about Oregon and Notre Dame and Miami and Boise instead?

Ouch. She's had a weird start to her Texas career.

Because all conferences use really weird wording that has two or three meanings. The mega conference scheduling is so fucked without divisions or pods.

Remember how long it took the Big 12 last year to clarify Texas had clinched spot? The B1G just took 2 days to work through all the tiebreakers to announce Oregon had clinched a spot. If it is taking conference officials 2-3 days to figure out their own rules, the rules are stupid AF.

Looking ahead to 2025 - Current roster - 20 Graduating - Skinner, Rutherford, Akana, Wenaas, Franklin Incoming - Krueger, Vander Wal, Gaido, Spears, Harvey I would expect attrition from the group that includes non players/barely played in Helmers/Byrd/Bunton/Tomkinson + the unknowns of Swindle and Devin losing their spots mid-season. Next year's biggest question marks - Setter - does Swindle leave and who is the backup until 2026, when Harris arrives? OH - Skinner and Wenaas are gone; we bring in the top 2 OH prospects in Vander Wal and Spears - does one of them redshirt/backup with Whitney getting a starting OH spot and the winner between the two get the other spot? OPP - does Devin stick around and let Gaido redshirt/back her up for Devin's last year eligibility or does Whitney move to OPP, opening up the floor for both Vander Wal and Spears to start at OH DS - Akana is gone, 2 6-ro players are gone (Skinner/Wenaas). Is Krueger ready to DS full-time as a freshman? What about Ramirez, Binney or Emereck? I am assuming we redshirting Harvey. Perhaps 2025 will be a slightly more experienced version of 2023 Nebraska - Murray was a freshman starting OH (Spears/Vander Wal) paired with a more experienced OH (Batenhorst/Whitney), a very experienced libero (Rodriguez/Halter), a very experienced OPP (Beason/Devin), a freshman DS (Choboy/Krueger(?)), and their MB tandem was quite young (SO Allick and FR Jackson / RS JR Singletary and SO Ames)

Yeah that would have been a real shame...

Sauce off

Ha, funny enough, I just started watching GOT for the first time starting 2 weeks ago.

We need flairs just for this reason. That’s flair worthy

UNI beat #8 Iowa State, 87-75

Your driver's license number was 3

McConkey if healthy enough to play

I think if you're a borderline top 16 CCG participant (think a #13 LSU or #15 SMU) and you get beat down by 3 TDs, you probably just ended up on the wrong side of the playoff bubble and opened the door for someone else who was maybe #3 in their conference but is ranked in the top 15-20.

I think the CCG runner-ups should make it, assuming they are ranked in the top 16 or so. The CCG is playing for a bye, but the loser should not be punished unless it's 70-3 or 59-0.