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  1. I think that last sentence needs to be repeated as often as possible if this thread is to continue. That’s not just a personal opinion anymore; that’s a matter of public record…confessed to by lawyers of his employer, I might add.
  2. I don't necessarily agree with the premise regarding attorneys in general, but these guys? Yes, I too will believe it when I see it.
  3. Some men see things as they are and ask, “why?” Some men dream things that never were and claim “job creators.”
  4. He certainly did not help the effort, either.
  5. Wouldn't have been the right nuts to punch. Those belonged to one Fred Akers for 1) not starting Rob Moerschell at QB (in fact, making that decision right before the offense took the field for its first possession) and 2) that fatal 4th down decision in the 4th quarter.
  6. And what’s kept it going is that there are dozens of YouTube videos of these weirdos in court and they all contain the same people commenting about how they “schooled” the judge or they “destroyed” the prosecutor. Of course, they don’t show the inevitable follow ups on all of them, which is the judge actually considers the argument before categorically dismissing them in a subsequent session. They never show that; just the Moors and the sovereign citizens talking their shit.
  7. 1990-1994, and that’s sort of true. Detroit didn’t have one 1990-1991 and Atlanta had only a couple in name only but rarely used them.
  8. Son, in the good state of Texas, posting that picture even in jest is grounds for execution. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
  9. That man contributed more to the turning of bewildering inanities into a fucking language like no Texan ever did before, and imagine the territory that covers.
  10. Several years ago, there was a study done that found that Americans ranked at or near dead last in the industrial world in math, but ranked #1 in confidence in math skills. We're a walking, talking, breathing example of the Dunning Kruger Effect. I'm certain you feel you've explained everything.
  11. How the fuck is that war criminal still alive anyways?
  12. I'll repeat Christopher Hitchens re: Jerry Falwell's death, because it's very appropriate here: "I think it's a great pity that there isn't a Hell for him to go to."
  13. Are these things real or imaginary? Because if imaginary things are allowed, we’re in a lot of trouble because those on the right, that are inclined to get into this civil war talk, do not reside in reality. They live in a Fantasy World where Chairman Joe is sending in his socialist army of woke college students all over the red states to confiscate their guns and their bibles in order to more easily impose his radical environmentalist agenda of converting the US into Venezuela.
  14. If OnBoard had the foggiest idea of what socialism actually is, I'd be the first one to tell you. If OnBoard had the foggiest idea of even what fake socialism actually is, I'd be the first one to tell you. If OnBoard had the foggiest idea of what policies of the Biden administration even are, I'd be the first one to tell you. If OnBoard had the foggiest idea of how the US is actually "sliding into socialism [real or fake]" vis a vis these "policies," I'd be the first one to tell you. I haven't told you. No one else has, and no one else will.
  15. The only thing critical I'd have to say to General Milley would be: "You mean you didn't understand it already? It's not exactly an evolving concept, and it's not particularly new, either."
  16. It really is shocking to see the level of depravity at some of these institutions. What's especially shocking is that it's all in furtherance of a perceived future of success in fucking football. I remember the day Paterno got fired. They announced it at some press conference in the middle of the week and, IIRC, before the guy could even finish his fucking statement, some douchebag local reporter stood up and shouted off the first question: "BUT WHO'S COACHING THE NEBRASKA GAME ON SATURDAY?!!"
  17. I remember the pre-BCS system. Again just because that was a terrible system does not mean that the BCS was a good system. it was a terrible system and it was not the only option at the time.
  18. I already explained why it was a failure and it had nothing to do with what I wanted. That’s a canard.
  19. Oh that's been a well known ruse for quite some time. Here's an incomplete list of the fallacious ruses that have been offered in that fantasy world: "BUT TOO MANY GAMES!" "BUT INJURIES!" and its cousin ruse... "BUT THE NFL DRAFT!" "BUT PLAYERS CAN'T SEE THEIR FAMILIES AT CHRISTMAS!" "BUT THE REGULAR SEASON WON'T MEAN ANYTHING!" "BUT THE BOWLS WON'T MEAN ANYTHING!" "BUT FINAL EXAMS!" There have been others, but those are the big ones and they all fall under one of four distinct categories: 1. True but not indicative of the position (this is mostly a reference to the final exams excuse) 2. Not evidently true 3. Evidently not true 4. Fractal wrongness
  20. No, that suggests that the BCS was the only alternative to the Alliance, which is a false dichotomy. The BCS was concocted in the late 1990's. The other 3 NCAA football subdivisions already had a postseason tournament for fully a generation prior to that (and not at one point did they ever use a BCS-type system prior to that), so there's no excuse for this logical fallacy that you're trying to push. That model was absolutely available to the FBS, and the powers that be chose to eschew it. But that's what it was: a choice.
  21. That's like "the nicest guy in prison." Beating the Alliance concept is about as easy as it gets. Not a very high bar to clear. I didn't argue for what was being done prior, so this statement has no real application.
  22. It was a colossal failure because it failed at a colossal level. It promised to deliver an undeliverable promise, which was it was going to use human and computer polls to match the “top two teams” in a championship game. The very concept of that is absurd and for reasons already discussed here: it’s impossible to do such a thing using such tools for a league of that size. Hell, the BCS would be inadequate for the NFL, and you think it was appropriate for the FBS? Human polls are worthless. They are a consensus of arguments from imagined authority. Human polls are assumed improbable claims from credulous sources based on insufficient evidence, which by definition renders anyone who takes them seriously a fool. Computer polls have the same problem: the assign arbitrary weights to criterion that cannot possibly be measured accurately given the size of the league coupled with the limited schedule. It’d be like if you went to Port Aransas beach and someone asked you “which grain of sand do you think is the biggest?” I mean I suppose there’s a definite answer to the question but discovering it would be an exercise in futility on a practical level. So you’ve got two rankings systems with absolutely horrid flaws and defects, and we’re going to mix them together to come up with two fucking teams in a league of 130? That’s not a goal; that’s a fantasy. It’s a particularly stupid fantasy given that the template for a far more suitable alternative has been available now for literally 100 years. And by the way, they didn’t expand the BCS, either. As I said, the BCS is a compendium of polls derived by coaches who don’t pay attention to anything, bad comedy writers in sports media and computer nerds. The CFP is a selection committee of people associated with the P5. It’s also a stupid concept, but it’s also different.
  23. The BCS was a colossal failure.
  24. You didn’t even read it, had nothing to say in response, and all you had to contribute was that you’re butthurt that I negged you for being obviously dishonest. You didn’t make any “point,” much less did I “prove it” for you.
  25. High school? Yeah, it would, but not for reasons you think. You say that as if totally unaware of the existence of postseason tournaments in the other classifications of college football. Almost as if you completely ignored everything I said other than the letters "HS" FCS: 127 teams, 10 games against 10 opponents, 24-team playoff (maximum of 15 games) DII: 169 teams, 10 games against 10 opponents, 28-team playoff (maximum of 15 games) DIII: 246 teams, 10 games against 10 opponents, 32-team playoff (maximum of 15 games) FBS? 130 teams, 12 games against 12 opponents, and we'll not mention the playoff size because we haven't even established to which one you're referring. Oh right, but you brought up HS. Ok. Well I didn't look at the precise numbers in other states, but I'll just tell you how it works in one division in Texas (since they're all essentially the same): 5A Division 1: 129 teams, 10 games against 10 opponents, 64-team playoff (maximum of 16 games) It is dishonest to assert baseless speculation as though it were a matter of fact. There are 3 different NCAA tournaments in the sport of football, 2 of which concern leagues of noticeably larger size with shorter schedules. Tell me about all this trouble they've been having with achieving with "orderly post-season tournaments." I can't even believe I'm entertaining this because the notion is so stupid, but yeah they have, and the answer is the same: it'd be a logistical nightmare. The easiest way to even conceive of doing it is to construct a 50-team bracket of all 50 of the state champions in the top classifications of each state. Here are the problems with that: 1. There's no central governing body for high school football in the US. 2. You're, therefore, going to have to deal with 50 different governing bodies, and their rules aren't all the same, either. So whose rules are we playing by? 3. A 50-team bracket means 32 teams would get a bye. How do you go about sorting that shit out? 4. In addition to the 16 games that a lot of states require of their state champions, you're going to have to dedicate 6 more weeks of that. So that means that to play in the National Final, you'd have to play 21-22 games. Not even the NFL requires 22, and to get to 21 means that you'd have to be a wildcard team. You're comparing a seemingly impossible concept like a national high school tournament to a league that is as large as, or smaller than, its most immediate counterparts at the same level. That's about as dishonest as it gets. Oh and just FYI, no one serious gives two shits about that stupid, mythical "national championship" at the HS level. It's an absurd concept that includes an indefinite number of teams (there are between 4 or 5 every year), there's no governing body or any entity that even rewards a fucking trophy. It's just mumbo jumbo that websites and sports networks vote on every year. Meanwhile, the players and coaches can hardly be bothered to even care. They care about the state title, yes, but national? Shit, I even knew a guy who played for the 2004 SLC team in college that won it from 4 different services that year, and he wasn't even aware of it for like a month after they "won" them. The fucking guy graduated in the spring of 2006, which meant that he was at the school for 3 state championships they won in those 4 years and I never heard him say anything like "yeah man those 3 titles were really special but the 2004 one meant the most because some websites said we were national champions!"
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