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  1. They were still alive for the post season when they made the decision, it’s right in your screen grab. They lost the game to make sure they didn’t make the playoffs no matter what the outcome of those games. Just because their tanking wouldn’t have mattered either way doesn’t change that
  2. This is wrong. They tanked to avoid the play-in/playoff in order to keep their draft pick. They were fined for it: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/apr/14/dallas-mavericks-fined-tanking-investigation FWIW, that was 100% the correct decision for the organization at the time.
  3. I feel like this his been covered 100 times, but this as a conspiracy doesn’t make any sense. The Mavs plan was to make the playoffs after the trade, and they would have if one or both of AD and Kyrie don’t get hurt. Playoffs equals no lottery equals no Flagg. Even with all the injuries, the Mavs were still fighting to get in. Beat the Kings in the 9-10 play-in and they were clearly trying against the Grizz for the privilege to get swept by the Thunder. Nothing about the way they handled the last month of the season indicated they had a wink wink deal for a rigged lottery. It wouldn’t shock me if it was rigged for us once we missed the playoffs and the NBA threw a bone to an entire fan base on the ledge. But it wasn’t part of the initial trade or thrown in as a sweetener because the NBA was trying to keep the Lakers relevant.
  4. I just looked it up, this movie had a $15M dollar budget. That is a pretty small for a theater release in 2025. The second lead is Ben Foster…who is a great character actor but not exactly anyone’s idea of a box office draw. This wasn’t put together to be a box office smash, even if I’m sure they expected (hoped) it would do better than it did. She hoped to get some Oscar buzz in the grand tradition of hot chick bravely makes transformation to less hot for a role (Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Ann Hathaway) . It’s not complicated. The reviews seem not terrible but not great, one critic I like basically said she did surprisingly well in the boxing scenes but still can’t really act.
  5. On board with all of this, assuming you left out ā€œStep 1: Fire Nicoā€ because it’s implied
  6. Alabama got their shit pushed in by a very average FSU team a few months ago and the committee has them at #4 (and the highest rated 1-loss team). They are completely willing to overlook a bad loss if the rest of the resume is there
  7. For any other poster, yes. For Helobious, it was just a Sunday
  8. Too hysterical. We beat a top ten team, that is all that will be discussed when it comes to resumes. Fuck the refs, they did everything they could to give Vandy the W, but they failed.
  9. I already pointed out with regards to Indiana and Ohio State last year, this isn’t true. Maybe I’m forgetting someone, but was there a bubble team with with a comparable OOC loss as OSU this year that missed out last season?
  10. I’d suggest we all stop being bitches on this talking point. First of all, we have no evidence of just how much (if any) we will be penalized for losing on the road in week one against the #1 ranked team in the country. We have not been screwed out of anything as of now. Second, we have a really fun upcoming slate of marquee games. Those games will be awesome and fun, pretty much the best games September could possibly have to offer. And we’ll win our share of them, and when we do, we’ll get a big boost in our resume come end of those seasons. If we lose literally off of them, fuck it, sounds like we have bigger issues that need to be addressed that isn’t solved by scheduling cupcakes. Let Texas be the leader on doing the right thing on this specific fight.
  11. Regarding Vandy, the committee has already shown they aren’t only concerned with W/L record. Last season they seeded Ohio State higher than Indiana, despite Indiana having one fewer loss and being in the same conference. Indiana had a joke schedule and Ohio State won the head to head A three loss Texas may miss the playoff, but it won’t be Vanderbilt taking their spot
  12. The BCS was a computer algorithm. The committee started with the playoff
  13. Even if their resume is more impressive than the two loss teams under consideration?
  14. What is the point of the committee then?
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