Magus Ossis

It is less commonly seen in formal writing, but it is a synonym when used as an adjective. Some people disapprove of using either predominate or dominate as adjectives, but etymologically, they were verbal adjectives before they were verbs.

Actually both ‘dominant’ and ‘dominate’ are correct. It goes back to the Latin dominor, a deponent verb. It has passive forms (like the pp dominatus) that have active meaning. And then we have the expected active participial forms that give us the more customary -ant ending.

Naming is what it is. Why is our country named for a dead Italian named Vespucci?

The list of HFCs who show up and dominate immediately and consistently wherever they go at any level is vanishingly small. Heck, guys around here even trash Saban, saying he only won because of his bag game, or that he doesn’t have it anymore. Sometimes this board discussing coaching feels like aggy and their QB— the next one is awesome, just wait and see! I view Sober Steve as similar but yet a distinct coach from Saturday Night Steve. He has been criticized for losing games in which ref chicanery is acknowledged and for abandoning the run against a team that sold out to stop it. He has been called 7-win Steve for only following up a 5-win season with 8 (again, with ref shenanigans etc as a headwind). I don’t know to what degree he sticks with things, chooses things, or abandons them for reasons that go beyond the game at hand (developing guys, recruiting, etc). I’ll eat my words if we only win 8 this season, but I think a lot of people around here are so beaten down by CS, TH, and late Mack, that they are focusing on any perceived negative to the exclusion of what is in front of our faces. Sure, injuries, refs, etc could sandbag us. But we are talented, experienced, and deep. Steve may not be the world’s greatest game day coach, but those mentioning coach O are right. Some other coaches who’ve won it all include Jimbo and Mack with GD. Sober Steve IMO is at least in their league. Stop crying and worrying (Godfather act like a man gif).

If espn wants to keep big 10 out of the SE, they should tell acc to make unequal revenue deals with the prime prospective escapees, throw more money into the deal for those schools, and tell those schools this is their payoff to let the cali schools in and to wait out the GOR.

Are we playing anyone in the first two weeks that might warrant such a heavy "end" package based on the strength of their running game and their suspect QB, I wonder?

Yes! Who is this typing at Satya's keyboard, btw?

I thought travel by bud was part of the attraction of CU.

1. Of course fans tend to notice calls unfavorable to their team as suspect with greater frequency. Put the straw man down. No one here is claiming otherwise. 2. Of course there were procedural penalties on Texas and again no one is arguing otherwise. Curious that OSU including its freshman OL committed zero such penalties. 3. Of course there were two calls Texas declined-- they were calls that didn't hurt OSU, a fact not lost on the refs. They ended up changing nothing. 4. While the other B12 crews that officiated Texas games could be argued to have made errors potentially explained by bias, the real argument from last year is about the OSU/Baylor crew. To argue that they called the game neutrally in the face of the overwhelming statistical and replay evidence to the contrary is the pinnacle of futility. To argue such is either supremely disingenuous or catastrophically fatuous. 5. The league COO is on the record mocking Texas. Just wow. 6. The officials will be biased against us because they are human. I think most will work hard to call a fair game and therefore will not have their thumb heavy enough on the scales to change anything but the closest of contests. If we get the monkey crew, watch out.

No. Their BS stinks because they don’t have any oils or herbs to cover the smell. They ran out of thyme.

What must be accounted is to what degree having a conference school in a given region/ state/ market/ city delivers viewership and interest. SE Texas and Houston metro are bigger both geographically and by population than many states. This “state” of “around Houston” is not delivered by Rice and not very well by Houston. More people there would tune in to see LSU or Texas by quite a margin. How many people in Phoenix would rather watch Bama or tOSU than ASU? As more people cut cable, the geography of the audience may well slide significantly further behind the brand name of the school on TV. Cities and states don’t watch games— fans do. ESPN/SEC maximizes viewers by maximizing the strength of its brand, both in reality and in perception.

The Seattle/Tucson region is getting torn apart, I tell you. Now instead of having drives of just over 1600 miles, conference mates will be scattered all over,

Isn’t there already a thread for talking about what turds the refs can drop? Everyone gets screwed sometimes. Lately there’s one crew that demonstrably screws Texas, but the others look to be relatively neutral when analyzed. Even the screw crew can be overcome— see Baylor last year.

Baylor East TCU West. You practically drive through the respective other campuses going to either UH from TCU or TTU from BU.

The whole 100-year of history of the PAC is revisionist BS. The AAWU was founded in 1959 by refugees of the old PCC after that conference crumbled in the aftermath of a cheating scandal involving Washington, UCLA, and USC. After going by Big 5 and Big 6, it settled on PAC 8 in 1962. The PAC has to survive until 2059 to have 100 years of anything. As of yet, it has not matched the longevity of the SWC.

I could see as few as 9 regular season or as many as 12. I think 10-11 is most likely. Sark hasn’t distinguished himself as a great game day coach, but he isn’t a total moron. The b12 refs will screw us, but that’s not a new thing. We aren’t as good as the 05 team, but we’re the best team on the field at least 11 of those games, and usually by a lot. We have an experienced OL. We have a receiver room I expect to be night and day better than last year. We’ve gained experience, talent, and some transfer help on D. No win would surprise me, and most losses would.

Madame Chancellor might wish to review the rules for correct use of parallel structure and of commas. Maybe not— how well does one expect the head of a notoriously supercilious university to command the English language anyway?

Also, nostalgia tends to overlook a few other minor details about the “good ol’ days” of cfb. Like the lack of a national championship game, like extremely limited availability of tv viewing of most games, like our hands tied behind our back while fedex and the pony cash express bought players, like segregation, like no helmets. There was never a time when cfb was “right” back to which it needs to revert.

I'm sure USC is going to feel like the aliens in ID4 when Russell Casse (Oregon) shows up saying "I'm back!" I for one am glad that the Ducks won't have regular conference games in Texas to help their Nike player shopping in our neighborhood.

One would have to be as bored as a football fan in the offseason with no recent big recruit commitments. Maybe even one whose kids have Harry Potter on TV yet again. 🤘

Ewe Can’t Always Get What Ewe Want

Not necessarily on Bussey, but I wonder how much aggy may have erred in having such a big-attendance weekend and including recruits already impressed by the competition. It would seem to allow for more potential unsupervised and unflattering chatter among prospects.

Deion is pulling back from that stuff. Really more an aggy thing. Or maybe you’ve wandered into the wrong forum.

I suppose a GOR to the league could be independent in time (longer) than existing contracts the league makes to monetize the rights, but my thought was that the league could try to negotiate early, trying to ensure that they were never within a short enough interval of the contract expiry that anyone could leave cheaply. It would raise the question of what happens if everybody but the PNW is ready to replace a contract expiring, eg in 2031, for one expiring in 2037.