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  1. There's a very strong narrative that MIlroe was terrible in the beginning of the season, and is now a very good / borderline elite quarterback. And that doesn't make any sense at all. Against Texas, he made some mistakes, but showed amazing athleticism and made several good throws. Yesterday against Auburn, he made some mistakes, but showed amazing athleticism and made several good throws. Narrative should be that he's been good all season, and his performance is a function of the quality of the defense he's facing. Benching him against USF didn't make any sense. He had a solid game against a very good UT defense the previous week. I don't know what they were expecting. Milroe's QBR against ESPN Defensive Efficiency Rank: Top 25% (UT, TAMU, Auburn, Tenn, Ole Miss) = 72.5, which is very good considering the level of competition, and only 2 points lower than Ewers' total QBR on the season. Next 25% (Kentucky, Miss St, Ark) = 85.5 Bottom 50% (MTSU, LSU, Chattanooga) = 93.0 To put that in context, in the game MIlroe was benched, Alabama QBs combined for QBR around 13, which is horrendous. TUSF has the 118th ranked defensive efficiency per ESPN. A very good QB is slightly worse against good defenses. News at 11.
  2. lol Bert leading the country in scoring
  3. Having Sweat anywhere on someone's Heisman list this late in the season would have been a Surly sock material 3 months ago. Don't want to derail this, but it's refreshing to see Daniels #1 after being ignored for most of the season. Video game numbers, probably going to finish the regular season with almost 4,000 passing, over 1,100 rushing rushing, and 50 total TDs. Lamar Jackson numbers. Also up there with Murray and Burrow in terms of total offense and total TDs. But probably going to Nix because Daniels is going to get knocked for 3 losses, which would be 6-7 without him.
  4. Holy shit. This is unconscionable. UT, whether implied by tradition or some express bylaw or something (do you know?), keeps these separate in part because it's borderline fraudulent. If something like this was done by a normal corporation or legal entity, its audit would come back dirty AF. Like a 501(c)3 founded to help low income kids funding the CEO's hookers and blow. If UT did anything like this (hopefully we never have?), faculty/staff would freak out and protest, and I would probably join them. So they're creating a financial instrument for this buyout and hiring the next staff with collateral from a fund with an express purpose for academic-related capital projects. So this is waaaaaaaaay more than the sticker price we're all looking at. It's an artificially low cost of capital by design for academic stuff and I don't know what kind of mental gymnastics they're going to use to justify this. The "right" way to do this (if that's even possible) would be for the athletic department to pay a higher cost of capital than a normal AUF bond, tracked by some capital account, thereby giving a nice little rate spread to the academic side and allowing them to save a little face and retain the plausible deniability of remaining as an academic institution. But I highly doubt they're going to do that. Is there some payout schedule or is this all at once? Either way, I guess it has to be financed. Bought a Ferrari on credit, wrecked it, now stuck with the note.
  5. Ok, where is the idea coming from that this buyout is going to come directly or indirectly from the AUF? There are strict requirements on uses, or maybe I'm confusing UT's requirements and oversight for PUF/AUF funds and projecting that on A&M's governance. So maybe I just answered my own question. Money is fungible and and people can rationalize all kinds of crazy things, but holy shit I can't imagine even A&M doing this.
  6. Texas 69 KSU 0 KSU 420 punting yards
  7. If someone wore this backwards, he would be dickbutt.
  8. Taken to an extreme, moral relativism would tend to require extreme accountability to oneself (our "highest self" or whatever is equivalent in your belief system), otherwise it inevitably becomes a tool for justification of self interest. But the accountability to self requires some absolutes. I believe in 2, and one is arguably a corollary of the other. English does not have a word to describe the first, but at its most pure, the best description I can conjure is unfathomable grace. Agape, one of the Greek expressions of love, is probably close. Divine love for those who view this through a religious lens. This grace has unconditional reverence for all creation (including Self) without judgment or attachment. I believe all humans, regardless of culture or background or belief system, are capable of brief moments of this when they are at their best. Most of us, including me, fail 99.9999% of the time, but that is the entire point, otherwise we would not have the human experience. Why am I here? To live a human experience. I think the virtues most of us recognize are just expressions of this grace contextualized through human experience. It nearly always has to catch a ride on something familiar for us to recognize it. And then all of those virtues can be perverted when one spends too much time on the context or dogma and not the intention behind it. And that leads to the 2nd absolute, which is free will. I do not believe this exists in a vacuum, but on a continuum from a simple organism behaving according to its programming (like a bacterium), to humans, which are furthest along on that continuum. Humans possess the ability to observe ourselves and choose/evaluate/discern more than any other species. But the aforementioned failure rate (despite knowing better a lot of the time) creates evolution and infinite perspective, and it is from those infinite perspectives that destroys the universality of most (all but 2) moral judgments. I believe a community of humans living according to these 2 absolutes, with superhuman accountability to themselves, would create utopia, and that utopia would be expressed arbitrarily through whatever culture they happen to share or create. But unfortunately (or fortunately?), the practical requirements of life get in the way, so the ability to sustain an existence of unfathomable grace is.....difficult. This is my worldview based on my own biased perspective and I don't expect anyone to agree. Or, Dickbutt.
  9. Is the Big 10 going to change up the divisions? Part of Iowa's absurdity is that the West is so awful. In 10 interdivision games between East and West this year, the East is 7-3 with an average score of 32-13 in favor of the East. And of course Iowa misses Ohio State and Michigan. And is there some bizarre rule where Iowa gets to avoid Ohio State most years? They've played 3 times in the last 13 years. And most of their best years in the Ferentz era, they missed both Ohio State and Michigan. Iowa's seasons in which they've finished the season ranked since 2001 (Ferentz era): 2002 - #8 - miss Ohio St 2003 - #8 - played both going 1-1, losing to Ohio St 2004 - #8 - played both going 1-1, losing to Michigan 2008 - #20 - miss both Mich and Ohio St 2009 - #7 - played both going 1-1, losing to Ohio St 2015 - #9 - miss both Mich and Ohio St 2018 - #25 - miss both Mich and Ohio St 2019 - #15 - miss Ohio St 2020 - #16 - miss both Mich and Ohio St 2021 - #23 - miss Ohio St 2023 - #24 so far - miss both Mich and Ohio St So in the last 10 years, their successful seasons are 100% correlated with missing Ohio State and 71% correlated with missing both. The formula seems to be: continue milking 2002-2004, avoid Ohio St at all costs, and finish ranked in the years you miss both Ohio St and Michigan. Even including 2002-04, he's never beaten both in the same year. Maybe that's the best they can expect.
  10. There's broken brain Quinn (first 3 quarters of Wyoming, first Q against OU), then there's.... normal(?) Quinn? Through 6 games, he has the highest QB rating since Colt in 2008. I had to include only QBs with more than 100 attempts in order to filter out.... Case McCoy in 2012. Hahaha This includes 2 top 10 defenses according to FPI and the toughest strength of schedule in college football. Zooming out, broken brain Quinn is so frustrating to watch, but mix in normal Quinn and he's damn good. Very little correlation between strength of the defense and his output- similar numbers against the bad defenses.
  11. The 8-year old in me is still amused by transposing syllables, turning his name into Butt Dickus. RIP
  12. Texas 69 OU 6.9 (rounds up to 7) Texas 420 rushing yards
  13. Texas 69 Kansas 6.9 (rounds up to 7) Kansas 420 yards of offense
  14. I hope this doesn't mean Ja'Tavion Sanders, Jahdae Barron, Jake Majors, and Jaydon Chatman are going to transfer.
  15. https://www.texastech.edu/board-of-regents/bio-campbell.php Also, Permian Basin. Edit: you caught it before I posted, good on ya
  16. QE also stands for quantitative easing. I'm not sure what that means but I'm certain it's significant. He just looks uncomfortable. Still. When he looked good last year, he had kind of a Manziel energy of I'M MILDLY OUT OF SHAPE AND PROBABLY DRANK TOO MUCH LAST NIGHT AND I DIDN'T WATCH ANY FILM BUT I HAVE A MULLET AND F YOU MM looks comfortable and confident. I'm not sure he's a better option but body language was much better.
  17. Texas 69 Bama 0 Bama 69 yards offense Texas 420 yards of offense Only 8008 Bama fans left in the stadium at the end of the game
  18. Unless I'm mistaken, the Danube is considered international waters and countries do not need to give permission to transit through if the ship isn't docking at a port in that country. So legally, this isn't a problem. A ship can move between Romania and Croatia without involving Serbia. Practically, that part of Croatia is sparsely populated with little industry, and I don't think there are any sizable ports on the Danube. The Sava is a tributary that meets up in Belgrade and upriver forms the southern border of Croatia with Bosnia (the confluence of the Sava and the Danube has bars on barges everywhere and is one of the best party scenes in Europe), and in theory that could be used to get further into Croatia, but I don't think it's wide or deep enough to handle big grain ships. About the same size as Lady Bird Lake. Croatia idea sounds cool but probably not likely to have an impact.
  19. Putin: Regions can form their own armies, we will help pay for it Tatarstan: Ok cool [1 year later] Putin: Ok, dissolve your army Tatarstan: lol no
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