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jimmyjazz

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  1. This bickering about which loss kept us out is silly. Let's imagine a collection of road games against top 5 teams VS a collection of road games against teams barely in the top 40. Which opponents are more likely in the long run to saddle us with losses (which are apparently the #1 criteria of the committee)?
  2. Well, there is a non-zero chance tOSU or Michigan pulls the plug on playing us in Austin. I wouldn't be upset if they did. They'd have to pay us.
  3. He also called anyone who thought 10-2 Miami would get in over 9-3 Texas "mongoloids". The criteria are fuzzy, and so the results can seem absurd. Until the CFP committee locks down the criteria (which would likely mean they render themselves irrelevant) there are always going to be head-scratcher results. Ultimately, I'm not all that upset, because this team just isn't great. It's very good, but I don't think a run to the finals would be in the cards. I would have liked to have had the chance, though.
  4. I have been following college sports for decades, and fans consistently posit that expansion of the field will solve these who gets in, who gets left out arguments. Whether it's March Madness, the CFP playoffs, or whatever, it never does. It just shifts the argument to slightly less capable teams. The selection crtiteria are the problem, not the number of teams.
  5. Ohio State was #6 in the final CFP rankings just last year.
  6. Well, we used to get called "soft" by the media and other fanbases, but at some point in the 90s we started scheduling really salty nonconference games, and it helped dispel that perception. Now that it's clear those games do not help should a team lose, fuck it. Cancel them all.
  7. I wouldn't have a big problem with our final slot had the CFP committee stuck to their stated ranking criteria. They didn't.
  8. That's too simplistic. If we're going to be penalized for losing at Florida, then Alabama should be equally punished for losing at FSU. Quality of wins and losses should matter, too, and that goes in our favor against most if not all of these CFP contenders.
  9. Not familiar with Octopus Project. Links to listen to?
  10. We can't get Florida off the schedule, but A&M can clearly get UGA off the schedule? OK. SEC pundits are like SEC fans -- average IQ of 85.
  11. A couple of friends went to the Austin show last night, and they raved about it. Enjoy.
  12. I can't stomach being slotted below BYU. That just doesn't make sense. They have no wins of note. We have 3. Alabama is a tougher call, because they did beat UGA once. But, they lost to OU at home and we beat the snot out of OU at a neutral site. And, their game against UGA was less competitive by a good margin than ours was. We will get fucked because we played and lost to tOSU in Columbus, book it. So much for what the committee says.
  13. It's just so exhausting, which is the point.
  14. jimmyjazz

    Pizza

    (It's a lot closer to Dripping Springs than Austin, and I don't care.) I got dragged to some "holiday market" this morning and on the way back spotted Route 12 Filling Station. "Pull over, honey, I need a beer." We ordered a margherita pizza and I'll be damned if it wasn't a great pie. I didn't see the oven, but they claim it's wood-fired. The pizza was roughly Neopolitan in style, and it was terrific. I have no idea what this place's reputation is or if we just got lucky, but I'd go there in a heartbeat if it were in Austin. As is, it's more of a weekend drive destination, which is fine.
  15. The "zero inflation" misunderstanding drives me nuts. So what you actually want is to go into what amounts to a depression?
  16. If I'm getting a Peace Prize, I definitely want it to be awarded by an organization with a history of racketeering, fraud and money laundering indictments.
  17. jimmyjazz

    Tex Mex

    Home Slice in Austin? That's a take.
  18. So age 90 and below?
  19. I was a member of a touring music group based out of Chicago, and a bunch of my 'mates went to Loyola. Those Jesuits do not fuck around. Very bright kids.
  20. You think one of the United States' esteemed "journalists" will ask the question?
  21. Well, we're not executing any justices, and even the idea of a new round of Nuremberg trials is laughable.
  22. My son, who is now a junior at UT, was going through the soccer recruiting dance in HS, but it was a weird time -- covid. He might have played lower level D1 but was mostly getting attention from high D2, and some of those programs just shut down ~ 2020 (cough St. Ed's cough). It was a super hard time to get a read on what opportunities would actually exist in a year or two. He's glad he just went academics at UT instead of playing for a lesser school. The whole recruiting circus had my head spinning, for sure. Kudos to you both (and your kids) for getting through it.
  23. 15 minutes to soft boiled? Or hard boiled?
  24. That's not lost on me, but try reading things a bit yourself. You called people "mongoloids" for thinking 10-2 Miami might be ahead of 9-3 Texas. Care to address my fucking point?
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