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  1. these people totally exist! they totally want to support Texas in a large way! they just don't like this place because of it's political bent! i promise they exist! they made their money via a tech exit! or a wealthy uncle died and left them a huge inheritance! or they won the lottery! either way they totally exist! i promise!
  2. major layoffs coming, both open and stealth. somewhere between 10 and 20% (14-28k folks globally?) RIF firing 10+% of your workforce is a great indicator for growth - right? + the CEO of a 140k employee company now saying he must approve ALL NEW HIRES we've all worked at companies where you have seen a version of this. Elon sending it to all employees is just cherry on top lol and 100% of the time it's bad. going on a full hiring freeze to the level your micromanager CEO has to individually approve hires is a great indicator for growth, right? + cutting shift time on the Cybertruck production line by 12.5% 5 months in to delivery and with 3 days notice is totally normal, right? https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-tells-cybertruck-employees-shifts-shorter-austin-gigafactory-2024-4 all totally normal things for a company with "unlimited growth potential"
  3. the fact that they nixed the midgate and kept the bed so small is example eleventybillion of why it's dumb as hell side note, the upcoming Silverado EV has a midgate https://www.motortrend.com/features/2024-chevrolet-silverado-ev-multiflex-midgate-avalanche/
  4. imagine what +$44b would have done for SpaceX at this point in time. instead he lit it on fire and somehow found a worse investment than drafting off the betting that Ippei was doing that also makes him look like a dumbass
  5. Will Buxton (i know) said something recently on a podcast that made sense to me which was why drop Antonelli in Williams for example to learn F1, the team, etc only to drop him into the MB seat in another year where he has to learn the team, etc a second time. if you are bailing on 25 (and at this point they are closer to last than they are the WDC) why not just take the leap?
  6. Nuance and innuendo don't compute in your brain very well do they. I imply it would take a miracle to get his kid drafted (if that was the main reason he left as reported by many) yet you throw me the kids entire history and say I'm the one saying dumb things? Ok chief, I'm sitting here in my office seriously trying not to bust out laughing, congrats. yes, it would literally take a Henry Rowengartner/Rookie of the Year style miracle to get his son drafted. even typing it out is fucking dumb, but again par for your course to even mention it. i would venture that this is the first time in the history of the internet someone has ever even hinted at him getting drafted - and it's you, of course. it's a dumb comment made by a guy with a long history of making dumb comments.
  7. he isn't going to get drafted, stop posting dumb shit he isn't some raw high schooler. he's a RSJR who has been in college for 3 years and touched the field 8 times out of 22 games played. the career of Beau Davis so far: 2020 as a recruit: #87 player in Michigan, reported offers from FIU and Florida Atlantic, went to a JuCo 2021: East Mississippi Community College, played in 6 of 9 games, had 2 solo tackles and 7 assists 2022: Southeastern Louisiana University, played in 2 of 13 games, had 0 solo tackles and 3 assists. was not one of the 5 DEs listed on their 2 deep for their last regular season game 2023: I think he was at Southeastern Louisiana University, was not on the participation report for any games 2024: going to be on the roster at LSU
  8. didn't someone here say they know his family? or live close to his parents/know them?
  9. man, Motown sure cares a lot for a guy who has repeatedly said he didn't care, this would be his last post in the thread - no THIS would be his last post in the thread - no THIS would be his last post in the thread, and who went into the situation knowing who and what he was dealing with. if anyone didn't see his true stripes before, they most certainly have now. fuck that guy
  10. i just want to point out this funny thing from On3's visit tracker this is not a situation where a guy visits one place a million times and nowhere else. but of course he thinks that's the case pulled another random WR from socal who went to USC, Xavier Jordan. was ranked #10 last year in the state https://www.on3.com/db/xavier-jordan-153230/recruiting/
  11. Nando (and can't blame him):
  12. he pointed out how this one 81 yard run in the OU game run showed him that Foreman had some crazy burst and how he was outrunning little dudes. on the run he pointed out, Foreman was caught from behind by 2 DBs and a 3rd would have tackled him if the first 2 didn't. and yes, i pointed out that outside of that on erun, Foreman wasn't great that game. he had 36 yards on 8 carries and had 0 touches in the 4th quarter the parallel he is pointing out is dumb. using any single run as a "this guy is awesome" example is dumb. comparing two guys together because of one run is dumb. that guy has a long history of posting dumb shit on this site. i
  13. my guy, you can't say someone was out there outrunning little guys (DBs) then he gets caught from behind by said little guys, one of whom he had a 5-6 yard lead on and the other who crossed from outside the numbers on the other side of the field to tackle him.
  14. googled and got some more info. didn't turn over, it was a friend's game. https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/elon-musk-and-the-infinite-rebuy
  15. would never work/happen. no team or ownership group would ever agree to put themselves at risk to lose that much money. like wood said, better to expand # of teams because that is way more realistic than promotion/relegation anyone have an example of a sports league from the last 50 years that didn't start off as pro/releg that then flipped? soccer already had that. F1 does not. it devalues the teams if they can be relegated and someone bought in before that was the case. nobody is ever going to agree to de-value their team (hence the fight not to add a 11th team) soccer is way different than f1
  16. NoName

    Whatcha reading?

    he's a damn good writer. highly recommend the Danny Ryan books, highly recommend the cartel/power of the dog series and highly recommend The Force (which was optioned to be a movie and still hasn't happened yet)
  17. once again you are blinded by a single run from a single game Foreman went 9 for 117 in the 2015 OU game. 81 of that came on one play. he was not touched until he was 10 yards down the field, a guy got 1 arm on him there. then another guy dove at his ankles and he shrugged that off and then he wasn't touched again until he was tackled. this was a bad OU defense. Heard attempted 11 passes, Texas completed 9 passes for 55 yards and rushed it 58 times. Texas won 24-17. Foreman didn't outrun anyone lol. he had an 81 yard run and was tackled from behind at the 10 yard line with 3 dudes around him that all would have tackled him here's the 3 guys associated with that tackle (10, 13, 15) that touch happened with 10 seconds in the 3rd Q. that was his last touch of the game as Texas salted away the win with Heard (21 carries) and Gray (22 carries) the rest of the game he had 8 carries for 36 yards, or 4 yards per carry. dude was an incredible player at Texas. not denying that at all, but that single run is stuck in your mind as some kind of wild play where he ran away from a bunch of little dudes is absolutely incorrect.
  18. more shitting on cybertruck thedrive: Tesla Cybertruck Gets Worse Towing Range Than Model X With the Same Trailer https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-gets-worse-towing-range-than-model-x-with-the-same-trailer also this is absolutely the most Elon Musk story i've ever heard
  19. it's a great move. i hope they sign some talented dudes ASAP
  20. just to be clear, this took less than 10 min thanks to https://collegefootballdata.com/ and Excel - not a long project and can be done even faster if you know anything about R and Python
  21. i agree with the tiny sample size issue totally and completely. the point of that is that the data we do have and do have access to does not back up the "Guy A is more explosive than Guy B" eye test. all we do know is that at every opportunity for their careers at Texas the coaching staff, which has access to way more data and way more information than we do, has said chosen to give more snaps to Baxter over Blue. here's is to hoping Texas has some wildass RB room next year and they both run for thousand yards. i agree that a lot of the value of those terms is better in other sports vs football in general. there is no CFB version of wRC+ out there to compare how good True Freshman Bijan was vs true freshman Cedric Benson or even an easier way to compare someone like Blue to someone like Baxter. i agree that the sample size is too small in CFB i agree that there are huge swings in variability to make any one of them the single best stat or single best metric. also i think there is absolutely value in looking some of the advanced stats as a piece of the puzzle and a piece of how good a player/team is. i think they are more valuable at the team level than the player level (much larger sample size at that point) but there is no be all end all stat i think some of the RB stats we had access to are useful (highlight yards vs line yards for example) - but again that doesn't show everything and isn't the end all be all. of all the (public systems) out there, prediction tracker tracks like 50 different (public) systems that all make game predictions and last year 2 total systems beat the line straight up and the best one was only 0.5% better than the line SU. ATS, the line was better by almost 5%. none of em are perfect, none of them are the end all-be all. that said, the very basic stats around Blue vs Baxter absolutely do not back up the "Blue is incredibly explosive and way more explosive than Baxter." the comparison to Herman hurts i like stats, i think they add color to the discussion and add value to the discussion. you have to balance between the gut/eye test and the stats side of things. anyone who uses stats alone is as bad as someone who uses the eye test alone.
  22. yeah, that's wrong. pulled the per play data for only the ISU game, the TTU game, the Oklahoma State game and the Washington game - games after Brooks got hurt and those two basically split rushing attempts. here's the results edit: fixed my %s, i had hardcoded formulas - my bad By percentage, Baxter had fewer rushes that went for negative yards (2% for Baxter - 1 rush, 11.1% for Blue - 4 rushes), more rushes that went 5+ yards, more rushes that went 10+ yards. Blue had more rushes by % that went 20+ yards (2.8 vs 2.0%) and 1 that went for 30+ yards, Baxter had 0. this is just to prove that nobody was out here ripping of 18 yards very often and getting dinged by my 20 yard threshold Blue's rushes of 10+ yards: 11, 12, 69, 12, 16, 12 Baxter's rushes of 10+ yards: 12, 13, 13, 14, 21, 13, 10, 14, 13, 16 people get blinded by a 69 yard TD - which was awesome - but the guy was touched like 1 yard beyond the line of scrimmage and never touched again despite this guy having 40 yards and this angle on him (he took a really bad angle)
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