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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Gut Wagon replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
In public, they whine that we and/or some other evil force cheated them. In private, they ask themselves why they're perpetual losers. -
I'll be over around 2
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Ben Sasse now seems like a layup pick. Stage 4 Pancreatic cancer is no joke.
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The Watch and See Conference with Bezos, Zuck, Thiel, Andreesen, Elon, Altman, Pichai, Kennedy, Miller, Cook, Jennings, Tucker and Hannity.
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@notre dame joe you should read this your celebration of special-ness is at terminal velocity answer the question deplatform domer Everybody wants to fix the College Football Playoff, but nobody seems to know how. There's a good reason for this. It's because the College Football Playoff isn't broken... college football is. On Saturday, college football die-hards and casuals alike tuned in to watch two games that were largely decided before a snap ever took place. Sure, the possibility of an upset always looms, but the first quarters of Ole Miss' 41-10 win over Tulane or Oregon's 51-34 win over James Madison made it clear quickly how those games would go. They were results that would do nothing to slow the ceaseless wave of the college football literati who had spent the last few weeks gnashing their teeth in despair over the possibility these blowouts would happen and what it would all mean. But the pearl-clutching, hemming and hawing are all directed at the wrong target. What we're seeing in the College Football Playoff is the result of a far bigger problem in the sport. College football has always been a top-heavy sport, and while we've seen a more even distribution of that weight up top thanks to NIL and the transfer portal (the GLP-1 of college football), on the whole, the sport is more top-heavy than ever before. Resources, talent shifting in one direction There is far more talent available and far more money coming in than at any time before, and it's all flowing overwhelmingly in one direction. If you look at the top recruiting classes for the 2026 cycle, you'll notice a couple of things. The first is that, for the first time since 2008, the top class in the country belongs outside of the SEC. USC took the honors this year, the first non-SEC program to do so since Miami way back when. Furthermore, Alabama is the only SEC school to finish in the top four, but while that's nice to see as far as spreading the talent around, it ignores the larger picture. Sure, the Big Ten has the top spot, but 23 of the top 35 classes call the Big Ten or SEC home. The only non-Big Ten and SEC schools to crack the top 20 were Notre Dame, Miami, Florida State, North Carolina, Texas Tech and Clemson. Of those six, only Notre Dame and Miami are in the top 10, and Miami is 10th. Damage done by mass realignment Recruiting rankings are not the only area in which the Big Ten and SEC have consolidated power. They're just another result of that consolidation. In the last 15 years, the Big Ten has added Nebraska, Maryland, Rutgers, UCLA, USC, Oregon and Washington to the fold. Taking the last four essentially killed the Pac-12, while reaching out and taking Nebraska caused a destabilizing effect on the Big 12. An instability the SEC was all too happy to take advantage of as it poached Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Texas A&M from the league over the last 15 years, too. Both leagues will exist in 2026 but largely in name only. Clearly, the Big 12 has survived the attacks much stronger than the Pac-12 has, but the league has seen all of its biggest brands taken from it, which leaves it at a disadvantage when it comes to finding a television deal, causing the gap to grow only wider. Perhaps that's why, while we were all forced to suffer the horrors of two uncompetitive football games on Saturday, Arizona State's Kenny Dillingham was sending out a call to any possible billionaires who wanted to buy him a new roster. Because that's where we are now with NIL. The sport dragged its collective feet and ignored the giant tidal wave coming at it for decades, only to dive in full speed ahead on openly paying players (some of) what they're owed. Only, you know, with hardly any regulations or guidelines that everybody can follow and no viable way to enforce them. Whose fault is that? I don't know? Everybody's? Anyway, right now, people are looking at the Group of Five as the problem with the playoff, but believe me: if finances continue to work the way they're working in this sport, it's only a matter of time before the ACC and Big 12 get the same treatment people are giving Tulane and James Madison. After all, it's the Big Ten and SEC who have been handed complete control of the future of the format as a compromise to simply let the ACC and Big 12 continue to exist. Big Ten, SEC will win out in the end But, the truth is, the Big Ten and SEC have always controlled the College Football Playoff. The Big Ten and SEC have won nine of the first 11 College Football Playoffs. Clemson is the only team from outside those leagues to win it, and it's done so twice. Of course, Clemson has only made the field once since the NCAA stopped forcing transfers to sit out a year after changing schools and hasn't won a playoff game at all. That's mostly due to Clemson's stubbornness, but it's fitting nonetheless. To drive the point home even further, of the 22 teams that have played in a College Football Playoff National Championship, 16 currently reside in the Big Ten or SEC. Clemson (4x), TCU and Notre Dame are the only teams to get there who aren't in those leagues (Oregon and Washington made it while still members of the Pac-12, but are now in the Big Ten). As the Big Ten and SEC expanded, the Big 12 and ACC did what they had to do to try to keep up. All of which has led to bloated conferences spanning the entire continent where you only play half the league in any given season, leading to ridiculous tie-breaker scenarios that end up with a five-loss Duke winning the ACC, which puts those damned Dukes of James Madison in the field! So what's the solution? How do we fix it all? I don't know that you can, but I do believe there's a natural outcome from all of this that at least leads to equilibrium of some sort. You simply let nature take its course. Let the Big Ten and SEC finish what they started. Whether you're excited about it or not -- and believe me, I am not -- the Super League or whatever dumb name you want to give it is coming. I don't know if it will be the result of a hostile takeover by the Big Ten and SEC pilfering all the remaining valuable brands once the current television deals expire, or if it'll be the result of a compromise between the four leagues to break off from the NCAA and form their own, fully professionalized league. But whatever the method, and whatever the final makeup of the schools involved, it is coming. And when it does, your College Football Playoff will finally be "fixed." The blowouts, however, will continue.
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Yup. Come see me and Peggy in CR. We are all moved on to the new condo. May never go back to the states.
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One Battle After Another, the next Paul Thomas Anderson film
David Dennison replied to mdmost's topic in Movies and TV
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Dadgummit I turned it off at 21-0.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
cochamps replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Liked the sign in the UT student section: “You yell, we win”. -
2026 Surly 10,000 Pushup Challenge
40acredropout replied to Celery Man's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
In for 10K pushups. As a little bit of a spreadsheet guy, I gotta know: did you you manually write 365 different sum formulas in the 'graph' tab? Don't see an anchored cell which would suggest you did (or Sheets had some autopopulating formula logic). -
Haha yeah Christmas a time when I can't get bothered by actual work so I do other work. I have a problem.
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Well Merry Fucking Christmas to you too.
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If I can get a Buffalo Trace store pick, Sazerac 100, Sazerac 125, and an Old Forester Rye Barrel Proof from the pick ‘em table, I’ll leave with a smile.
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I am officially intrigued by the seat-cover/upholstery and the old school seat belt buckle.
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But what if I told you that, heading into my teen years, I was pretty nerdy and on the introverted side? And I also realized that I was kinda lonely, and was clearly on the “not what girls are interested in” list. i didn’t want to be there. So, I just gutted up, and went through some real trial-and-error shit, some of which was really uncomfortable. I developed most of my social skills, I sure as shit didn’t come by them naturally or early. it doesn’t mean you have to be “the life of the party.” Be who you are, because being authentic is the only absolute necessity. But…you can be who you are AND be just engaging enough. My son is the introvert in our family. He put himself out there and made himself develop some skills. He’s still the most introverted among us, but he also does just fine, and has actually developed some public speaking skill. if you like to eat well, you probably need to learn to cook a bit, even if it doesn’t come naturally. You don’t have to be a Michelin starred chef. Just develop some basic techniques. Making friends/meeting women is no different.
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Yeah and now I'm looking at why search is being fucked up.
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you can say that again
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My son gives batteries with that note to one person every Christmas on a rotation. It's usually appreciated.
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Go into your account settings. Content preferences. Turn on change layout views. Choose the layout you prefer. There's a feed view that's new for those who were using the feed. Right now it's borked cuz I haven't built the feed. Go into your account settings. Content preferences. Turn on change layout views. Choose the layout you prefer. There's a feed view that's new for those who were using the feed. Right now it's borked cuz I haven't built the feed. Go into your account settings. Content preferences. Turn on change layout views. Choose the layout you prefer. There's a feed view that's new for those who were using the feed. Right now it's borked cuz I haven't built the feed.
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no edit theme option on mobile (yet?)
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Now THAT'S how you end an episode.
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Awesome, thanks! You know we don't like having to click too many times.
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xposting from the cfp general discussion thread, here's the wall-worthy stat from saturday: smallest margin of defeat in a 1st round game of the 12-team era WINNER Miami LOSER Texas A&M SCORE 10-3 MARGIN 7 Alabama Oklahoma 34-24 10 Notre Dame Indiana 27-17 10 Texas Clemson 38-24 14 Oregon James Madison 51-34 17 Ohio State Tennessee 42-17 25 Penn State SMU 38-10 28 Ole Miss Tulane 41-10 31
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