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  2. I get that Sark isn't going to give up play calling. So maybe we have to force flood out solely to get a new OL coach/OC type that will actually help improve the run game in critical situations against quality opponents.
  3. I believe SOUN has positioned themselves nicely to benefit from this transition. I'm long SOUN.
  4. All I know is McLaren is praying that whatever happens this weekend that Oscar doesn't end up a certain amount of points behind Lando in second place in the drivers total so they don't have to go through the off season talking about Papaya rules and the switch over a fucked up pit stop.
  5. I'm in TX-32 so I'm interested in what happens here. This used to be Allred's district until he left to run for Senate and now Julie Johnson is in the seat. There are already several Republican candidates registered. No idea what's going to happen on the D side because it sounds like Johnson may move to another district instead of trying to hold on here.
  6. He is not a plus athlete. I can probably guess why you are saying that, but it is not from watching him play.
  7. You guys have lost your fucking minds. This isn't hard. There are only 5 maybe 6 teams that have the potential to win a national championship every year. 8 gets you those and some cinderellas that get a chance. You then make things meaningful by having cross conference play as a tournament with bowl games or exhibitions that's a little akin go the NIT for basketball.
  8. I'm fairly sure Tom Cotton tortured pets as a child.
  9. Should be simple, since aggy is the one pushing the mailcart in just about every office in Texas.
  10. What a load of shit. Being located in Europe is a requirement for all new members. As such, the alliance cannot, by definition, be composed of a majority of non-European nations and, therefore, cannot be "perpetually expanding," since the list of non-NATO countries is now somewhat limited.
  11. Last week I used our turkey carcasses to make a couple big batches of stock, and then made some mole' out of the batch with the smoked bird carcass. It was so damn good. I diced up what little leftover BBQ turkey we had, and used it as filling for smoked turkey mole' enchiladas. Pretty freaking amazing if I do say so myself.
  12. plus athlete? dude was a statue.
  13. Where you been man? Welcome news.
  14. Not a baseball talent expert, but shouldn't a 25 year be better than most of the players in single A? This reminds me of the 15 year old 7th grader dominating.
  15. There will always be arguments about the last team, but the arguments have much less meaning as you expand the playoffs. It was a massive deal when it was #2 vs #3 (call it 40%-50% chance to a NC vs 0%). You get to 24 and it is something like 2% vs 0%
  16. When the market is skewed by stupid debt financing that creates an unsustainable bubble, that's a problem. It's not like we haven't seen this umpteen times before. Loads of debt financing flows to asset X, inflating the price of asset X which is pretty harmful to ordinary consumers that actually need asset X. Then, the debt bubble inevitably pops, consumers are stuck with asset X that they overpaid for, and we all have to bail out the mega-players who got fucked to the tune of billions of dollars for their Vegas gambles on said debt financing. It's legal. It's just dumb, harmful, and destructive. Unfettered "capitalism" has its downsides. This is a known one, and not only have we done nothing to mitigate it, we've gone under the hood to remove all speed governors and soup up the engine, so when we hit the wall, we hit it at ludicrous speed. Lather, rinse, repeat.
  17. and i have a way to do that in 5 rounds with a system that takes account of all of the weirdness that's evolved since 1978 copypasta from wulaw/9-3 +++ below is the new australian Final 10 system which debuts next year in the case of the cfp, it would become a Final 16 system - double the bracket - it takes 5 rounds of games and requires KILLING THE BOWLS the committee still seeds the field, but there is the possibility of a double-chance for the seeded top 8 also, there is a new domer (& uconn) rule: they can't play in a qualifying final and they can't host in the first round - they can be seeded no higher than 9th after "championship saturday" just like this year where 2 teams are going to automatically 'move up' to 11 & 12 on sunday, undefeated and #1 domer automatically moves down to #9 for final seeding the first week labeled "wildcard" would be all of the CCGs ++PLUS++ 8 'wildcard' play-in games in each p4 league where 3 hosts 6 and 4 hosts 5 3/4/5/6 winners ARE NOT guaranteed a spot in the 16-team field but can make their case with the extra data point P4 CCG winners get to host a Qualifying Final with the opportunity to WIN against another top 8 seed and EARN a bye the following week & the losers of these games (1/8 2/7 3/6 4/5) are not out - the aussies call this "the double chance" it is therefore possible for a CCG loser to win away from home playing a CCG winner, and if the CCG lower wins the 1st round game on a CCG winner's camput, the CCG loser advances AND earns a bye, while the CCG winner that lost it's 1st round game at home IS STILL ALIVE this INCREASES the value of the CCG results but DOES NOT penalize the outcome for CCG losers i've never seen a system proposed that does both of these... rephrased.... ***ONLY*** the CCG winners and 4 other teams (seeded 5/6/7/8) get the double chance - a CCG loser could get a double chance - a CCG loser could also be seeded 9-16 and a non-CCG participant could be seeded 5/6/7/8 and get the double chance NOTE that only the winner of 4 of the 8 games in the first round earn a bye and get to skip a week - the loser of 4 of the first 8 games eliminated seeding: week 1: the Qualifying and Elimination Finals with the 16-team field, no guarantees beyond the P4 CCG winners and losers (8 teams) getting in P4 CCG losers get seeded with the rest of the field - a conference play-in 3/4/5/6 winner might nab one of the qualifying finals and play away with a double chance, or they might be seeded 9/10/11/12 and host a playoff game but if they lose they are out the 3/4/5/6 'championship saturday' winners might get in to the field - but they might not - although a 3/4/5/6 winner is likely to get in 8 ccg winners/losers and 6 of 8 winners from the 3/4/5/6 'playoffs' would leave 2 slots reserved for the G5 and/or domer in the final 16 there would be 12 games on championship saturday - it would be like new year's day in the 20th century this system gives 24 teams meaningful december football, and 14-16 of them are going to be playing in round 1 KILL THE BOWLS it's no longer the "Football Bowl Subdivision" remember - double this graphic - and the 'wildcard' round is the 3/6 and 4/5 intra-conference final data-point games on championship saturday - and the ccg games are themselves not shown either - the wildcard round is 'championship saturday'
  18. We have yet to field an elite OL since Flood came to Texas. Granted the last couple of years weren't an abomination like this year, they still folded like cheap tents when we played the elite teams. Flood should not get any benefit of the doubt at this point. He has had plenty of time to correct a lingering and worsening issue.
  19. There has been no subsidy for consumer pricing on silicon, it's not just that there is no evidence of this, but it's easy to refute because the prices for consumer products in memory per gb are demonstrably higher than what hyperscalers buy at scale with long term agreements. The main issue with this isn't supply/demand dynamics, it's an artificial demand bump and an intentional supply shortage. The primary thing that will happen from this which benefits only the hyperscalers and memory companies will be that there won't be memory available for consumer PCs. What has happened is people can run their own inference for cheaper than buying a cloud service and they are trying to remove the option for most people and have it be inaccessible. The rest of the consumer PC market be damned. The cost of a single board computer including all components - even the CPU and storage is $35 and now the memory alone will cost $35 dollars. This will either put the SBC manufacturer out of business with no margins or they will increase price and the value won't be there for the typical consumer of those items. This is way beyond normal commodity cycle things, this is intentional scarcity that impacts individual consumers and not large corporate entities by design.
  20. Yep. Every conference champ gets in and you still have 14 at large slots (after Pac-12 starts again next year). First two rounds on campus. No I don't care if bowls die.
  21. Does he have an attractive sister?
  22. Not to worry, Texans will use their first two draft picks in the upcoming draft on defensive tackles to address this issue.
  23. The only thing I've seen says they'll announce "the locations and times" at 11a CT Saturday - maybe that's because most cities are hosting games from two groups (Seattle's are B and G). We'll definitely know which teams are in which groups today, but maybe not which group games are where. Seattle (and Vancouver) being exactly equidistant between Europe and Asia, it will be interesting to see who gets placed in the PNW.
  24. Mack is not a friend of the program. The best outcome for Mack is for Sark to fail. Seems to be a bright guy, just reckless. But nowhere near the athlete that Cam was though
  25. She seems like she’s a fun person… Olivia Miles probably thinks so too.
  26. Yall have no skins on the wall this year. Your best win is USC. Texas has beaten the team you lost to and beat two other teams rated higher than USC. Yall would be lucky to break 17 points against us.
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