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Magus Ossis

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  1. I do not allege, nor have I seen it seriously alleged, that the refs as a group are "out to get" Texas. One premise is that, since announcing departure, the departing schools have been penalized statistically significantly more often than have their opponents-- multiple teams over a multiple game span. The assumption is that this is not purely stochastic. If you wanted to run some statistical tests to rule out the null hypothesis more formally, you are welcome. The conclusion is that, given a known disparity in penalties, one reasonable explanation is that this represents (whether consciously or not) bias on the part of the officials. I do not see dispute regarding the penalty data nor regarding the fact that everyone has bias. Feel free to offer evidence to the contrary. I am not sure though that I fully appreciate what your line of attack is on the argument in logical terms. Is your argument that bias can't cause disparity without conscious intent?
  2. This. All humans have biases. Normally it doesn’t result in a statistically significant change this easy to measure. There are likely isolated cases of conscious calling one way or another, but the data support that the refs may have a bias against the departing schools.
  3. Jimbo 2024: you said “tape” twice
  4. Spoiler alert: a defense of humor. Don't read it if Sydney's shenanigans trigger you.
  5. He'd be doing them the favor of turning them into a redass
  6. Time for a new thread title: after the shave
  7. https://www.kbtx.com/2023/01/28/police-mutiple-texas-am-students-sexually-assaulted-by-same-suspect/ Link doesn't call out an OL but sounds a lot like one.
  8. OU will not vanish from the CFB landscape. They will however, as all other schools including Texas, have to survive in CFB 3.0. The SEC is not going to allow any one school an easy path to annual or near annual conference championships. Barring a fall of some of its powers, there won’t even be terribly easy paths for traditional powers even to play annually in the CCG. OU brings reputation and institutional commitment, but memory can be short, and many schools want to win. Going forward, getting Jimmys and Joes is going to depend heavily on a well-managed and funded NIL and portal operation. A Wilkinson-style desk full of cash helped launch some programs, but neither OU nor aggy nor even Bama can coast forever on that part of their past. OU may turn up a billionaire angel to keep them competitive— who knows. The day before our first B12 meeting against Nebraska, few would have predicted that they’d be in a ditch and the LA schools joining them in the B10 25 years hence. TLDR: OU has an enormous beta, both next season and long term. They are not a giant or terribly wealthy school.
  9. Recruit the minister of culture to make some pitches
  10. Words really fail to convey just how amazing that '05 team was. What adjective is best for a quarterback so unstoppable that the #1 ranked team refuses to punt out of fear of him with the ball one more time. Watching the Horns Sound video reminds me of what that season felt like. THANK YOU VY!
  11. I guess I don’t get what a softball poll is doing here.
  12. Sometimes you know the answer but can't help wanting to shout "How could you be such an idiot?"
  13. Hahaha not sure BO&W represents many other posters on this board.
  14. Their recruiting rankings are undoubtedly getting some "Bama shine" from the 9.95ers, but I am not entirely convinced that Bama has hit the inflection point yet. I also don't know whether Saban is constitutionally capable of acknowledging that the game he has played and won for so long is not going to be there for him in this age of NIL. If he has an eye for his legacy, he will throw everything into one last hoorah and try to go out having broken UGA's streak and won one last NC. He might well lose several games, but his toughest OOC game is us on his own field. He also gets LSU and other UT at home. If we do not pull the upset, he may well roll into the CCG so far up in the rankings that, like TCU this year, he is almost guaranteed a playoff spot before he even takes the field.
  15. Our game in Tuscaloosa will be the movable object (Portal-era Bama) versus the resistable force (road Sark).
  16. As always, I appreciate your information and your takes. The idea that small children could be nubile, however, is rather interesting. I think perhaps another adjective would be more suitable.
  17. I was poking around because of news that a TCU safety commit will OV to Texas and noticed no QBs in their incoming class. According to the 247 recruiting page for TCU, the Our Lads TCU depth chart, and news of Jackson's transfer, TCU has exactly one scholarship QB expected on roster for 2023. Do they have a secret stash?
  18. They prefer guys sitting for #1
  19. In retrospect, especially in light of MSfTCU#2, is there some cognitive dissonance in your first complaint?
  20. Publicly identifying Banks as aggy probably gives him ground for a libel suit.
  21. It would not surprise me one bit if there were designated informants just far enough removed from the coach to allow plausible deniability to tell jokes to recruits about Jimbo and his domestic life, among other embarrassing and entertaining stories.
  22. I like it, but you appear to have misspelled Fiddin’da
  23. Maybe leave all the catholic jokes and politics for the CR. Studies all run the risk of deliberately or unintentionally reaching unwarranted conclusions because of biases, but they are a better way, especially in the aggregate, than most alternatives to evaluate empirical questions. Cardiac complications are far higher in general in the population that contracted Covid than in the well-but-immunized, BUT there is literature that supports exceptions to this rule. A circa-20-year old healthy male, depending on the injection(s) he received, is in the right demo to be such an exception. The typical injection issue, though, is myocarditis. This story does not sound like death from severe myocarditis. 33-year-olds just have heart attacks (MI) sometimes, especially if there is a family trend. College kids pretty much do not. As stated above, drugs like coke can kill, sport can trigger a risk from silent issues like IHSS, DVT (blood clots) can go to the lungs (PE) and kill, but absent those circumstances, healthy-appearing college kids won't normally keel over. I am interested to see what if anything is ever discovered.
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