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TreatyOak

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  1. Apologies if already posted, but Paige is apparently the daughter of long-time Chicago Bears scout Jeff Shiver. And this Michigan Man Rich Eisen video is really illuminating. Here are the highlights: 2:04 'I don't know what happened' 4:37 'This is a total mystery to me' 5:34 'I have no idea what this means' 8:27 'I'm as lost as everyone else is' 10:36 'This is so confusing'
  2. Winner of the best and funniest post. The humiliation from this season is endless.
  3. I wonder if all the Purdue fans hate their recent success. Guessing the answer is a big yes.
  4. I also mentioned that we are every impressed with the company and the brands they own. I'm not going to mention them here, as she would kill me. And yes, I am a very proud father, so I apologize for that.
  5. Great points and totally valid about cutting research. However, the Time of London has one of, and possibly the most highly regarded metric for world university rankings in the world. For their 2026 rankings, the US, as usual, has 7 of the top 10 universities in the world, and 13 of the top 20, as well as over 50% of the top 100. That is a fact. My point is that we always complain and think everything is at its most terrible. Do we have a lot of dumb, anti-education morons in this country? Hell yes. Do we have a crazy weird world of college sports? For sure. Do we have the most and best universities in the world. Also true.
  6. Well, I always believe that you are entitled to your opinions, and this a great place to share them. I enjoy and appreciate your posts, and I am glad that you are here.
  7. I see you're still telling people what they should and shouldn't think and post.
  8. I disagree. People are posting about how practicing and playing this meaningless game will help our players and team improve and I don't think that is absolutely true, as you are dependent on how good your coaches are and how motivated your players are. Did bowl practices help Strong and Herman's teams be better the following year? I don't think it helped one bit. In fact, getting more coaching from bad coaches may make you actually worse. If you listened to the Big 10 Championship post game interviews by the Indiana players said, it was very instructive. They both talked about going out to practice throwing and catching at 5:30am on Sundays. I was wondering how their 0-star receiver was making insane catch after insane catch, and now I know. When I watch our supposed 5-star players drop balls all over the field in big games, I wonder whether they have the same commitment or they are getting the best coaching and I don't think the bowl game will help one bit.
  9. If that’s the case, that’s pretty embarrassing for the rest of the world, because the country that doesn’t care about academics has won 41% of all Nobel Prizes and most of ours are in science and medicine. That’s more than the next seven counties combined.
  10. Got me laughing.
  11. My younger daughter works for a big PE firm in NYC. They own great companies, she loves her team and her pay in 2025 is north of $300K. I'd say that's a pretty good job for a 26 year old, and it sure beats her time in investment banking, which has to the craziest industry ever.
  12. So you don't think it's relevant to compare what the competition is able to achieve with far less resources than Texas has? I think it's certainly worth considering, no?
  13. Serious question. Has anyone else started to lose confidence that Sark can develop and get the same effort from our 5-star players and top-portal transfers that Cignetti seems to get from his 0-star players?
  14. I agree with this. Fans are also adapting, and will stop being mad at schools and players that identify that the costs of participating in these increasingly pointless and irrelevant exhibition events are greater than the benefits.
  15. I should specified non-playoff related bowl games. The market is over saturated w them and the ratings for so many of them are not good.
  16. I think the value of having your school attend a meaningless bowl game is slipping below the drawbacks. More and more marquee teams will opt out. More and more recognizable players will opt out. The college playoffs will continue to expand. Since the bowls have passed their relevancy, they will die, just as the runner-up game for the NFL championship game died in the late sixties.
  17. Three ways Texas can still make the 2025 College Football playoffs: 1. Form an alliance with Diego Pavia and play a game vs Vandy on Thursday. Win with such an impressive margin that the committee convenes an emergency meeting and bumps Miami out of their slot. 2. Book the James Madison team and coaches on Southern Airways Flight 932 from Stallings Field in Kinston, North Carolina, to Huntington Tri-State Airport/Milton J. Ferguson Field near Kenova and Ceredo. Tragically, the flight, once again, ends in a horrific crash and Texas is nominated to replace them in their game. Observe a moment of silence before kickoff. Submit a movie script to Netflix with all proceeds going to a survivor fund. 3. Simply declare that we are participating in the playoff and play a game vs Notre Dame. If we win, we 'advance' ourselves to another game vs another overlooked team, and finally play in an unsanctioned national championship game. If we win, we add another championship. Many teams throughout college football history have declared themselves national champions, so this wouldn't be too unusual of a development. 4. Pressure the Texas legislature to pass an emergency bill that requires Texas to participate in the playoffs or Tech and A&M are barred from participating.
  18. I think that makes sense from a players and coaches perspective, but I contend that giving a half-hearted effort in a meaningless game in front of a small group of fans with a lot of unknown players actually degrades the Texas brand. I admire Notre Dame's point-of-view.
  19. One of my favorite Longhorn players I've been fortunate enough to hang with. Really, really nice guy and I hope he finds success in football and post-football with his apparel brand. You can see his brand here:
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