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  1. The new tiebreaker will probably be CFP ranking so that Miami would have played Virginia in the CCG this year instead of Duke. If all the conferences did that the SEC CG would have been UGA v. Ole Miss and Alabama might have been left out of the field (though I doubt it). The other two would have been the same. 

  2. Just now, TwiceHorn said:

    The deadline to sign up is January 1, and was really December 15, so anyone that has attempted to sign up has seen their premium double, at least.

    At this point, the lack of subsidy is baked in.  Not sure how it changes anything for 2026.

    Okay it won’t change anything the voters will blame OBiden. Four more years!

  3. 36 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I assume this what you imagine is going to happen: Extension vote squeaks by, everyone put their name on their stance, maybe it dies in the senate. If it doesn't, president vetoes it. It goes back to the house where it won't gain any required super-majorities to bypass Trump, and it does with everyone's signatures on their positions.

    Because if this somehow becomes law, the only thing Jefferies has done is help Republicans get elected at the mid-terms. 

    People will not know or will ignore that it happened and when their premiums don’t go up they’ll say the librul media lied about the premiums and that Trump saved them from evil Obamacare. That is how stupid people are now. I’m leaning towards let all the bad things happen. There’s no reversing this shit. Let it fucking burn and rebuild from scratch with whatever’s left.

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  4. I'm convinced that gas station bathrooms in remote areas off an interstate are clues that we're in the matrix. Like, there is shit everywhere, on the walls, on the floor, on the sink, sometimes on the ceiling. The physics don't make sense how everyone else using those shitters are entirely incapable of landing their turd in the bowl. It's confounding.

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  5. Nicole accusing err'one of "black and white nonsense" then sammich guy comes in with "fewer immigrants crossed cause it's the law." Still no policy discussion, just "immigrantion bad."

    How about some follow up numbers.

    How many corporate executives whose companies use undocumented labor have been prosecuted?

    How much in shareholder profits have been disgorged for such heinous crimes? 

    I'll wait. 

     

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  6. JFC, nobody insulted you or was uncivil. It sounds like you just don't like being questioned. I literally proposed a solution. Legislation to make it legal to work in this country with criminal vetting and otherwise minimal barriers. You're hung up on immigration is bad if it's not legal. Several have said the problem is that it should be legal and the legislature has not done it because it's too good of a wedge issue. Feel free to ignore it yet again. I'm done here. 

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    38 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

    No one is claiming a moral or ethical or whatever high ground here. You are just factually wrong, period. If you say some shit that has no basis in reality, like spouting off a bullshit talking point that is taken verbatim from the very people that have made immigration a wedge issue in this country, you should expect to be called out on it, I don't care who you are.

    I don't think anyone thinks you are vile or terrible, aside from the serial murder, you just sometimes come off as misinformed on certain topics and don't seem to be the least bit interested in correcting that.

    But seriously, this, didn't think it was "browbeating" to have to push back against false narratives. The only browbeating I've seen is a wall post of "how dare you question my words." Looks like we got a new one here to tell us all about the "floodgates" and caravans and how it's all just so terrible that we need masked thugs putting people in their place for having the gall to have been born in a different country. Funny how there's been no comment on the crime rate of undocumented immigrants vs. natural born citizens. Or the economic benefits of immigrant laborers and corresponding lack of effective legislation. It might have been reported on PBS and is therefore FAKE NEWS. Easier to just say "CRIMINAL IMMIGRANTS" until everyone just accepts it and calls the police when they hear Spanish speakers in Walmart. No need to create a legal path to work, just jail them all and ship them to supermax in El Salvador, just as Jesus taught.

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  8. I think both things can be true.

    (1) The NCAA tournament is not the best way to determine the best team in college basketball because, as he said, one and done can and often does knock off a far superior team which is why the NBA does best of 7 series for each round.

    (2) It's fun as hell to watch especially when a Cinderella upsets a blueblood. 

    I agree with the comment above that college baseball is a far better system, it gives some flexibility for top seeds to drop a game early and still advance.

  9. I’m pretty sure they accept that it’s all because of Campbells money, just as I’m willing to accept that if Boone Pickens hadn’t built us a stadium and spurred others to donate for the indoor practice facility and other infrastructure we’d probably be in the new Pac 12 with Wazzu. 

  10. 2 minutes ago, MrX said:

    Dykes won with Patterson’s players, Klieman retired. Okie State in full rebuild. Cincy has Scott Satterfield. Utah just lost its coach. Deion is going to have to overhaul again. Leopold seems like he topped out. Iowa State replaced its coach. WVA has a ton of limitations. AZ seems a step behind ASU. Baylor kept Aranda. 
     

    Believe me I’m no ASU honk. But after Tech and BYU they seem like they’re in the best shape right now 

    Sure, for now. They should have an advantage next season. He’s saying like top 2-3 every year for eternity…because everyone else sucks. That’s just some shocking arrogance from a fan of a middling program like ASU. Especially on surly where most outsiders are pretty honest and straightforward about this stuff.

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  11. 32 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

    Past performance is no longer indicative of what should be expected. If past performance or reputation played a role in whether you SHOULD be good or not the we should be down there with Coach Prime in the gutter. Pre-NIL is what it is. ASU was a non-factor. ASU has benefitted most from Dillingham being an alum, but, and this is important, there is no UT or OU standing there to beat you up. It’s now just Tech. I hope they spend a ton of money and one day win the whole thing. I think in an era where money is out in the open that ASU should never be below 2nd or 3rd. If we were in the SEC we’re toast, but we’re not. This is a conference we can and should be good in football-wise. It’d be nice if basketball could be good, but not so much with Hurley and also because this is a basketball-driven league and there are schools who put their money on that sport instead which is fine. I’m all for handing as much money to the players as possible at every school.

    Ok I really thought you were doing a bit, but really? What do you think ASUs status is and has been? I looked and before last season your only NY6 (as we used to call them) bowl was 1996. A whole bunch of mediocrity between. Where are you getting that ASU is doing better in NIL than everyone but Tech? Your QB is bolting likely for better NIL. And mocking TCU? They played in a national title game just a few years ago. I also saw you say “as long as we have a good QB” . . . no shit Sherlock.

    The current BIG 12 will have nobody who “should” be top 2 or 3 every year except maybe tech if Campbell keeps burning money on one year mercinary contracts and I’ll bet good money that they have some down years from time to time. If you really think that your conference mates are all just gonna lay down for . . . ASU . . . I mean, wtaf? The commitment is there at all the schools now and there’s literally nothing special about ASU. Saying everyone else sucks is so damn asinine.

    My alma mater beat ou two of the last three and beat Notre Dame in the Fiesta bowl two years ago. Played in two of the last three conference championship games before OU and Texas left.  Gundy screwed up NIL and is now gone and we made a good hire who’s going to bring with him a good qb. Dillingham’s a good coach but bro calm down. 

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  12. 3 hours ago, C-Man said:

    Adding to the Conan information: https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/15/rob-reiner-son-nick-conan-obrien-christmas-party/#continued

    Rob & Michele Reiner MurdersSon Nick Seemed Out of Place at Conan's Xmas Party

    So, someone posted that Reiner's last IMBD entry is Conan's podcast and says 2025, and it is in fact there. I've been listening to the podcast pretty much every episode for a little over a year now. It looks like Reiner's last appearance was with Albert Brooks in 2023, so he may have done a recording very recently and has not yet been published. They usually publish several weeks after they are recorded. That would be even more tragic. Conan can be a very serious person about certain things and I can't imagine the decsion on how to handle it if his podcast really was Reiners last recorded appearance.

    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001661/

  13. 1 hour ago, TreatyOak said:

    This victim-shaming comment is very offensive and not appropriate. 

    it's time to do better, and time for Surly readers to rise together and empower the people and the community and show the world what we're made of.

    For this reason, I present some of the top mistresses who ruined public figure's lives, so you can rank them from 1-6. 

    • Jessica Dorrell (Bobby Petrino) The fomer volleyball star set the standard for the greatest press conference in history  
    • Ashley Dupree (Elliot Spitzer) The only high-end professional on this page, she brought down a governor 
    • Abbie Cornish (Ryan Philipe) Ryan Phillipe cheated w/ her on Reese Witherspoon, (coincidentally at the Four Seasons in Austin) and ruined his career 
    • Rachel Uchitel (Tiger Woods) Rachel caused a stir and remains one of the biggest names on a very, very long list 
    • Paige Shiver (Sherrone Moore) The reigning queen herself. We can't wait for her redemption story!  
    • Jamie Jungers (Tiger Woods) Things or time haven't been too kind for Jamie, who ended up busted for drugs in a Vegas brothel 

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    6, 1, 2

    4, 3, 5

    Big drop off from 5 to 6 tbh. 

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  14. I had no idea Albert Brooks' given name was Albert Einstein. That's pretty funny. According to wikipedia: "By the age of 19, he had changed his professional name to Albert Brooks, joking that "the real Albert Einstein changed his name to sound more intelligent."

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