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AeroHorn

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  1. Made a mistake in the second plot. A few labeling errors. Here is the corrected one.
  2. I had posted this at the end of 2023-24 season. This is the same as the popular AP top 25 vs top 5 rankings chart but reduced to only top 20 teams that show up at least in one of the two rankings (top 25 or top 5). I chose top 20 because there is almost a full overlap (19 of 20 teams are top 20 in both). If I increase to even top 25 teams, there is a large variance. The only two teams that show up in only one top 20 ranking are Michigan State (#22 in top 25 and #19 in top 5) and A&M (#19 in top 25 and #21 in top 5) Here is the updated one till the end of 2024-25 season. Slight change at the bottom with 18 of 20 teams in both. Oregon joins this group by coming in at #20 in top 5 ranking (#24 in top 25). We overtook USC in top 5 last year and barring a disaster, should overtake Nebraska this year. That will put as in top 7 in both categories.
  3. In hindsight, it may have been a good option to have Arch play part of the OU game to see if he can handle a good defense, though it would have come against Ewers losing reps coming back from Injury. Also, IIRC, Arch took couple of shots when trying to make a play downfield where I was thinking a check down would have been more prudent. This tendency of Arch to be a bit reckless about protecting himself could have prompted Sark in not exposing an RS freshman when an experienced though flawed QB is available. Imagine what the reaction would have been if Arch had gotten hurt due to not being experienced enough to protect himself.
  4. One thing I liked is him being grounded and not acting like he is something special. There was no need to mention the USC's 4th and 2 call but he owned that mistake and didn't spin it as anything else. Nobody asked him about him being jobless but he has mentioned it multiple times, and those of us who have gone through layoffs know how uncomfortable/embarrassing it is. He could act as a big shot UT head coach but he repeats that he is not ever going to take this job for granted. All these reveal more about character than the platitudes from "personality growth" guru TED talks. This doesn't mean that he is perfect but he is climbing the right mountain, occasional slips notwithstanding.
  5. Agree. It was not coach speak, it was subject matter expert discussing their work. Also, the first time I have seen someone wax poetic about highway onramps of LA.
  6. Time for an appointment at, say, Snook cemetery?
  7. didn't he walk after pushing?
  8. I guess I am too used to reading aggy screenshots. The same visit to aggy would be described by their mods in far rosier terms filled with Elko’s gravitational pull on the said recruit and pointless potshots at the overrated school to the east, not to mention berating the 2%ers on not getting onboard the roller coaster.
  9. That's not how middle age is defined. Typically, middle age range is 40~45 to 60~65 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_age), with the breakup being 0~20 as teen and earlier, 20~40-45 as adulthood, 40-45 to 60-65 as middle aged and 65+ as old.
  10. My only close encounter with an athlete: This was in mid-90s (94 or 95) when we were having an all-day event at a Houston mosque and during mid-day prayers (~1:30pm), Hakeem Olajuwon walks in and I stand next to him during prayer. I don't see him at the afternoon (~4:30pm) prayers but he is there for the next (~7:30pm) one. One of my friends asks him where he was for the earlier one. Hakeem's response: "I was busy beating Spurs."
  11. Nowhere close. That was No. 1 OU, playing at OU, and a single loss. The Missouri debacle was against the worst conference team, playing at A&M, with a consensus pre-season #1 rank team, and 3 consecutive losses. It would be like losing to the 2003 0-8 ISU football team at home, three consecutive times, while having top 5 talent.
  12. And if we had Ricky or Bijan, we would have won the NC. And if we had Dicker or Tucker, we would have won the NC. And of course, if we had Colt or Vince, we would have won the NC.
  13. Based on very limited interactions with Aggies in the Bay Area (a total of 3 in last 20 years): it initiated with them getting to know that I went to UT and their first response is that they don't like what goes on in Austin and is said with a searching glance, as if to discern whether I am getting their drift and agreeing with them. When they see that I am (deliberately) not catching their drift and ascribing their question to mean UT's recent poor football season (and they have been plenty over the past 2 decades), they immediately put me down as the enemy. In other words, it is "othering" of UT/Austin in the fullest sense, politically, religiously, culturally, etc. The psychosis sets in when the enemy, fully in the evil camp, is somehow excelling in what they hold dear. This is like evil triumphing over good. The only way this can happen is that the evil is temporarily too powerful and the good will rise soon and vanquish it. Even if the temporary period lasts decades and centuries, good is axiomatically good and evil, however successful, will always be evil.
  14. I think athletic bigs like KD and Hakeem have a decided advantage against the edge cases such as Steph and Shaq. Against Steph on offense, they will just dominate the basket and if they miss, they will be playing volleyball by themselves. On defense, they can defend the basket and make him shoot from beyond 10 feet. Can Steph shoot >70% beyond the free throw line? Against Shaq, they have the range to shoot from middle range to pull Shaq away from the basket for an occasional drive. On the other hand, Shaq, starting his possession from beyond the 3-point line (I am assuming), can he consistently back his way to the basket without occasionally turning it over since he has no shooting range? KD/Hakeem have clear advantage against both types. MJ has athleticism, Lebron has strength and height, KD has reach and height and Hakeem has footwork and height. I chose MJ for sheer athleticism and KD for extending the range and defending the basket.
  15. Is this a pre-season "paid" game? Grizzlies are being treated like little kids.
  16. That was made by LSUFreek, I think. Wasn't it a GIF? He was very talented. https://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--lsufreek-terrance-donnels-merges-passions-to-deliver-wildly-popular-art.html
  17. If the offense hasn't substituted, can't they snap the ball regardless of the defense readiness? The defensive player is not lying on the ground playing dead.
  18. It is like saying Costco’s profits/stock price will be even higher if they raise their product prices. Then they won’t be Costco with parking lots full 100% of the time. Costco’s “altruism” is a sound business policy.
  19. I think the main difference was how Florida adjusted on defense. In the first half, they were sagging to defend the basket and were physically dominated giving up multiple second chance attempts besides leaving the lanes and 3point line free. In the second half, they switched to guarding the 3-point line and making UH’s bigs play away from the basket and play with their backs to the basket. Houston couldn’t do anything besides taking floaters or shooting 3s with hands in their faces.
  20. Houston lived up to its reputation. Go Florida!
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