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Me last season: this is crazy! Colorado is actually winning some games! Me this year: WTF? How can he not... NVM. (Waits for wheels to come off)

Ocho Cinco v Ocho Dedos?

His chance to hang a loss on them?

Brown #2 time at UNC stinks

Fixed it for them

I'd buy that for a dollar!

We should at least about it.

If I'm the team doc and he isn't 100 (footballese 110) percent healthy, I recommend sitting that guy until OU. It's easier to hurt something more than to start hurting something like this. Ewers is not going to play 80% effort or 80% contact and shouldn't be throwing and getting hit at "80"% health. Don't take an injury 1-2 weeks away from being all better and make it 4 weeks away unless you are in single elimination and the player is mission-critical. That medical opinion may be worth exactly what you paid for it.

I like listening to Klatt now. Watching that game in real time, I loved the crushing victory (we could have named any score we liked in a conference championship!), and I loved the hit (sans penalty). Looking at old videos and stills of the hit makes me feel a little bad for him now. I guess I'm going soft.

1. QB quitting on team = wrong. Do not let your team down. Fight the man another way, but do not quit on your team. 2. BM promising money that won't be delivered = wrong. Looks very slimy. 3. NIL group comes off, to me at least, looking a little low-power but not necessarily culpable in this show. 4. HFBC needs to know more and/or intervene more if this was BM. If you aren't coaching it, you are allowing it to happen. 5. This makes them look like amateur hour and will hurt the opportunities for all involved when more professional counterparties are available in the future. 6. This increases my gratitude for the professional way Texas and its NIL program appear to be run.

Back in the day when I used to be in the ER more, this chick came in missing her front few teeth, upper and lower. She indicated that it was her "love groove." Just say no.

Punt on first down every possession and let our defense win this 2 points at a time. Avoid risking injury to our RB or QB.

Some people are so insightful that they can discern PfP when a commercial benefit independent of interest in the well being of the team motivates NIL. They are so insightful that they can tell the person making the deal himself, e.g., immamac, what that person is thinking and doing. They can discern PfP when playing is neither anticipated nor observed during the contract year. We should listen to them. Or maybe NIL very frequently functions like PfP without actually being it. Logical distinctions are tricky. Broad brushes are easy.

That’s great. There are now contracts that protect players in case of injury. How about addressing the issue of players receiving payments with the express understanding that they will not be playing as I also referenced. EDIT also, what about all the contracts where there is a more commercial benefit for the people paying for the NL? Is that paid to play?

Pay for play is: here is your money for last week's game; here is your money for last week's statistics; here is your money for next month's game against State; here is your money for next month's statistics. (To date, with legit contracts) NIL != PfP. Full stop. Does the likelihood of or reality of playing at school X change the market for NIL? Of course. No one is arguing otherwise. But don't be fatuous and say that Burnt Ends payments to tight ends that (1) don't even see the field during the contract year, (2) do, in fact have a contract (not with the school), and (3) fulfill the terms of their contract are PfP. If you interpret financial benefit that is associated with being a member in good standing of the football squad (especially a promising one at a position of need) as pay-for-play, then you have tautologically created your own conclusion. When you define something as more or less than it is, you can create or banish it quite easily. Some NIL will be motivated by love of school, some by love of publicity, some by market analysis and choice of profitable publicity. If the average UT student could demonstrably do a commercial that helped sell product X, he would get a contract. Does NIL get canceled for season-ending injury? If no, I guess it isn't PfP. If you see pointing out nuance as dissimulation, you will never be convinced.

Especially if that loss were, for example, early season and close to a great team. Imagine a rolling ball of butcher knives being left out of the playoff so that Texas State could go as the conference champion #5 or #7? Is the sacredness of a conference championship so great that either 11-1 tOSU or 11-1 Bama should sit at home and watch Liberty play for all the marbles? EDIT oh, and remember that meaningless game no one cared about in Ann Arbor. I mean, it didn't materially affect our path to the playoffs so why even play it? Probably no one even watched it. I bet no one tunes in for the game at Pyle field in November if we already have a CCG appearance clinched because the games don't mean anything in the era of the 12TCFP.

Arkansas Pick (slight fav) 4-1 Mizzou Loss 4-2 MSU Win 5-2 LSU Loss 5-3 USCe Loss 5-4 NMSU Win 6-4 Auburn Win 7-4 Texas Mudhole 7-5 Figure they could choke one away against Arkansas or Auburn, luck into a win against USCe or LSU-- should come out in the wash for an O/U of 7 wins before their appearance in the Purina Dog Food Bowl.

Maybe a more controlled environment. Media release of promo video which includes interviews with guys like Ewers about how they looked up to him or some such. Build up the positive image in hard-to-assail formats until the time is more opportune for a live recognition. EDIT maybe interview with guys like Colt. Ha I'm getting old.

There is not going to be a perfect solution. Smaller tournament = undefeated or otherwise "deserving" teams can be left out. Larger tournament = "undeserving" teams get to compete for the title. 12 is a compromise; any team not among the top 5 conference winners or top 7 at-large is unlikely to have a legitimate claim to be the champion. Conversely, one could think about it as our conference alignment is so good now that the potential champions largely get to face each other in exciting regular season games in pool play before the single-elimination phase. At least now the championships aren't mythical. This beats the heck out of our treatment in 2008.

Why go conservative once we're up?

But what if he thanked me for my paying the shipping fee?

I don't remember calling you out, but early on I sure didn't want to believe you. Your ideas were not popular, but there were a few who saw the writing on the wall.

Wow what a misperception on my part. I thought the alumni band was usually big and well-announced. Did I miss the information when I went for food at the beginning of half-time?