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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
We are on the short list of great cities in terms of available corporate NIL (largest D1 town without an NFL team), we are in a great city for enjoying life, we are in a talent-rich state, we have a blue-blood pedigree, we play in the SEC, and now we have a coach who has learned under both Carroll and Saban. The coaches will come and go, but the other factors are unlikely to vary too much. Also, good university support these days with CDC at helm. EDIT left off large wealthy alumni base, relatively speaking. Oh, and developing hate complex publicity with horns down nationwide.
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Tell me about Nebraska
I have no ill will anymore for Nebraska. We utterly crushed that program. The names and faces have changed. Now they are the plucky spoiler in the B1G.
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Texas opens as a 48 point favorite v Louisiana Monroe
Our average MOV this year against teams not defending the NC in their home stadium is just over 50. Covering 42 points against a bad team sounds at least possible.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins
Practices that cover significant teams typically own an MRI. That study is available when the team doc wants it.
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SEC Refs Suck
I'm not sure we disagree. I don't see everything perfectly first time watching at normal speed. Sometimes I see things better than the official does. If the standard is perfection in real time, we are unlikely ever to be satisfied. If the standard is honesty and getting it better where replay permits, I think we have room for improvement.
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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
Corrected for silliness of those who ask the question
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Texas opens as a 48 point favorite v Louisiana Monroe
We seem to be doing a great job of rotation this year.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins
Yes. Week-to-week implies might be ready in a week or two. Some strains nag for the whole season: the low floor on the time estimate for recovery should not be taken to imply a low ceiling.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins
It is notoriously hard to prognosticate regarding strains. Think hamstring for a rough analogy to this injury.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins
This. Our evidence for what is likely in the future is what has happened repeatedly in the past. Prone doesn't inherently refer to the past or future anyway-- in this usage it merely (figuratively) means inclined (toward).
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CFB coaching carousel
Nebraska is not what I'd consider a destination job, but they may have enough money to keep a guy like Rhule long-term now that he has already tried dipping his toes in the NFL. My own gut is that the Florida is not the place nor now the time. I would not be shocked to see him at Michigan after another year or two.
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SEC Refs Suck
Some refs are unintentionally biased (read: all), sometimes enough so that it colors their officiating. Some are consciously biased and allow it to color their officiating. All have moments of inattention for whatever reason-- back hurts, thinking of soon-to-be ex-wife that is leaving them, have to sneeze, etc. They are often quick to defer to a colleague, magnifying errors that should have been corrected by a second set of eyes. Often only one set of eyes is on a play, and the moment of inattention means that it is seen out of context or not seen. Multiplying it out, there are on the order of 100,000 instances of a player being on the field for a play in FBS in a week. How curious it would be if millions of detectives with pause and rewind on their screens could find few or no examples of official error in such a large sample. The problem lies in sorting out and trying to address the distinct forms of error. We are not going to be able to do much for the guy who is distracted because he spends his game trying to hold in a wet fart. The egregious face-mask on the ball-carrier or the all-penalties-on-one-team behavior merits inquiry by a body with the will and ability to apply meaningful consequences.
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Florida Gators
I piggy-backed off that fact and did a little internet sleuthing. It is their worst combined start since 1947-- the inaugural year for FSU football.
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Florida Gators
When was the last time UF and FSU were a combined 1-5? What a train wreck!
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Texas DB & LB Talk
Churn beats the heck out of orange slices.
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2024 Texas High School Football
M.O. son #2's 6-man team got up early so he got snaps (usually not so much-- he's a So, only started FB last fall). Recorded his first pressure, TFL, and TD.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
And just imagine how tragic would be our lives were they squandered in the shadow of such common acronym errors, left all uncorrected.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
nolite alcem illudere
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NFL Week 2
Tua was so upset about the lousy wrestling tonight, that he went down to the garage and in a fit of depression cut off his own head
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Arizona State @ Texas State; 630 ESPN
The point is well-taken that referees see fouls differently. I honestly felt the first one should have been called. There was formerly (and may still be-- I have not looked to see what modifications have been formally introduced) a specific instruction that when it was not clear whether contact constituted targeting, the call should be made.
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Arizona State @ Texas State; 630 ESPN
Targeting: (1 ) No player shall initiate contact and target an opponent with the crown (top) of his helmet. This is defined as a point within 6 inches of the apex. (2) No player shall initiate contact and target a defenseless opponent above the shoulders. A ball-carrier is not considered defenseless.
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Arizona State @ Texas State; 630 ESPN
Failing to keep one's eyes up while tackling (i.e., spearing, [one form of] targeting) is the kind of "bad form" that has far and away the greatest impact on risk of cervical spine fractures that cause quadriplegia (in the offending player). There were once people against requiring helmets also.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
Yeah, but you guys didn't hear the moving speeches he's given to the team. His oratorical acumen is the proverbial tie that binds this close-knit team together.
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ESPN Channels and Disney owned ABC affiliates pulled from DirecTV right now
Market opportunity for YTTV/Fubo etc client software?
- Texas A&M Recruiting 2025: The Land of Melk & No Money
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