Magus Ossis

If SEC settles on a 3+6 schedule format once we join (which seems likely), two of our 3 are almost certainly going to be OU and aggy. Who do you (1) think and (2) hope is designated our third ‘every year’ conference game? My thoughts: 1. A middle of the pack team without much clout in the conference. The premier teams already have established rivalries and don’t want an extra challenge getting to the CCG. Vanderbilt and its accompanying automatic W will be snapped up by connected schools. It is possible that a Mizzou- or Arky- type pushes for the game to help have a better recruiting presence in-state. 2. Vandy would be #1 for the win and the all-time record correction opportunity. Piggie is an old rival but one better left divorced IMO. Please not Mizzou or MSU — not much upside to visiting those holes every other year.

Bad news. Recent photos suggest that aggy ordinance disposal was unable to get the devices safely removed before the campus environment was all but devastated.

There's something about #s 5 and 6 on that list. Oh yeah, I have it. They both coach at "in-state little brother" schools and, as of the half-way point this season, don't even have winning records.

The SEC is not the supra-NFL legion of doom some media figures make it out to be, but we need to be careful letting ourselves believe it is easier to win than is the B12. Vandy, Mizzou, and Arky are not exactly murderers row, but winning a conference means coming out ahead of the other schools in contention for winning the conference. In the B12, this year the biggest obstacle to winning the crown appears to be OSU. If we were in the SEC west, we wouldn't even have a shot to play for the title without keeping Bama and Saban out of it (and then taking out UGA or whoever comes out of the east). The SECW currently has two undefeated teams plus a 5-1 Leach with access to SEC talent-- I would call every one of those three games at least hardish. And we mock aggy, but they will do their best to spoil our fun, and historically have done so approximately 33% of the time. And OU will be there, and will not likely stay down long (may I be wrong, o please may I be wrong). If by "cakewalk" you mean "easy to win double digit games without a conference title," then it sounds like I prefer a different kind of cake. I look forward to playing in the SEC, not because I think it will be easier, but because I hope our coaching will be good enough to win regardless.

UT puts more people in Tech’s own medical school than Tech does.

Sounds like a variant of turf toe. There are two main muscle/tendon units that run under/to the great toe: flexor hallucis longus (FHL) and flexor hallucis brevis (FHB). The latter runs only as far back as the hindfoot, whereas FHL comes from the leg itself. Additionally, FHB has sesamoid bones embedded in it at the base of the great toe (like tiny kneecaps under the ball of the great toe) that are typically contiguous with the joint capsule there (plantar plate). Turf toe is usually the common term applied to an injury to the plantar plate there at the first metatarsophalangeal joint (MTP1). If they are talking about a tendon that runs from the heel to the toe but is part of a longer muscle/tendon unit, that would be FHL. Either way, a partial tendon tear is often amenable to nonoperative treatment. He is probably done for the season, IMO. Sometimes you treat one of these non-surgically only to convert later after things don't get well-- adds to the overall timeline and could potentially make this stretch into spring ball. One hopes that will not be the case here. The good news is that sewing up foot tendon splits and/or partial tears is not usually technically challenging. If two team docs like nonop care though, it sounds good to me. edit: there are some other things like adductor hallucis that go to the great toe that would not generally fit the bill and were therefore left out of my answer.

There was someone with a sign, I think at Cowboys v Eagles, after that game that read, Hey Oilers Will Coach defense for food

OUDNA 22 pairs OU '22: smells like deuces or, wait for it, OU '22: dick eaters and chick beaters

It's 2022, and OU still sucks.

He has a funny way of saying, “my model was exposed as weak in this instance.”

OU is addicted to dickering over how to dictate an injury report. Looking through their diction, the best private dick would cock his pistol and shoot holes in their dictum that it’s more than Hurting like the dickens.

Duffy looked good other than that he tended to overthrow a lot of his longer shots, based on my first impression.

How does it feel to see us with gutsy (and effective in this case) play calling? Scares you to death?

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Looked like a possibly missed targeting call. That defender tried to put the crown of his helmet into Cosmi, but dude trucked on anyway.

He has a defect in his chest wall (missing, removed, or incomplete ribs), it appears. Poland’s syndrome often involves a defect there, but I’ve never seen one so dramatic. Wow.

They will occasionally compete for the right to lose the B1G CCG. They weren't ever going to be nationally relevant in the B12 either, and now they get a fatter media paycheck to go with their lifetime supply of 10-pound cans of suck. It is too late not to be classless on the way out the door. They are what they are now.

The roster size shouldn’t be too tricky to regulate. It just wouldn’t be done with quite so much emphasis on scholarships.

Common mistake

In some sports, they are essentially the entire earnings of the athletes. Additionally, teams in large/wealthy markets have players who are better set to make more money on the side. It is a known inequality in pro sports that has not ruined the idea of pro sports. And it would be virtually impossible to cap. You’d be back to restricting someone’s ability to profit from his likeness, just with a hypocritical half-way standard rather than completely.

That’s the kind of example I want for my boys.

Pro sports have no endorsement cap

“Rē” (the macron is not a real part of the letter but can help one understand pronunciation) is a declension of the Latin “rēs” (thing or matter). To use it less awkwardly in a sentence to mean “in the matter of,” place the word “in” before it, with no extra capitalization. You have probably seen it in all caps in the context of the header of a legal document, but that is because of the header position, not the expression. For example: ... in re OL play ...

Well it doesn’t matter cause we’re going in with both.

If only there were a stat that measured what percent of FBS games you actually won. Not sure how you’d code the algorithm for something like that.