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  1. Just now, 903Cougar said:

    This.  Most of the time, I doubt they (Herpstreit, Cowherd, Skip, etc) actually believe what they spew out of their mouths.  

    I doubt they even come up with it most of the time. I suspect the producers have some hot takes prepped in advance and it's just somehow decided who among the on-air talent is going to be in charge of arguing which idiotic thing. 

  2. 23 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

    Serious question: Are any of those talking head morons actually not morons? Because I can't think of a single one that isn't.

    As I think someone already pointed out, it is literally their job to say wild shit so as to allow for vigorous argument and make the viewer at home say oh my god somebody better tell this idiot he's an idiot! Sensible people saying sensible things and agreeing with each other isn't a show.

    E: At least Finebaum kind of owns it, and makes the audience the spectacle. "I'm gonna poke these rubes with a stick for a while and then we'll all have a good laugh when they call in to holler about how mad they are."

  3. Oh my god who could possibly care? The point of all those shows is they sit around debating their takes strictly designed to get idiots riled up. That’s his job now and he’s doing it, and anyone who tunes in for that shit is far more to blame than him for the existence of Hot Sport Takes Punditry.

  4. It took me a few listens to fully appreciate it but the new Swearin' album is fantastic. Three years ago the band broke up following the end of the romantic relationship between the two singers/guitarists/songwriters, Alison Crutchfield and Kyle Gilbride. The reunited version of Swearin' makes more space for Gilbride. His voice and his style feature prominently on the album, and you can feel that both people are bringing in material that grew out of the time spent apart. The switching back and forth between them creates this tension and variety between the songs that makes the album more as a whole than the sum of its parts. The two singles are probably as good a place to start as any (other than starting at the beginning and listening through). Each video has an intro where they explain it works better with 3D glasses, you can skip that part.

     

     

     

  5. 1 hour ago, Zavala said:

    I hope Shane, Cam, and Casey got a fuck ton of 1v1 reps.

    I hope LJH and/or Heard got a couple. Either of those dudes can run or pass in a tricky play situation.

  6. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    For clarification, receiving a "buyout" does not indicate whether someone was fired, retired, etc.  A coach has a contract of a term of years.  That contract has very narrow terms (dead girl, live boy stuff), where the coach can be terminated with no further obligation from either party.  If the coach leaves early voluntarily, as by retirement, he forfeits the balance of the pay under the term of his contract and may even expose himself to damages for having to find a replacement prematurely.  If the University sends him on his way before the end of the contract, they will owe him some sum of money due under the balance of the contract. 

    A buyout is the result of negotiation of these terms and sums of money. It does not reflect whether the coach was terminated or left voluntarily.

    Mack was fired.  No other way he was leaving upright.  He may have been permitted to call it retirement, and DeLo$$ had extended his contract to 20 fucking 20, so he was owed a tidy sum.

    I think the contract extension actually reduced his buyout even as it increased his theoretical term under the contract. I think it was mostly for appearances, to convince potential recruits that the coaching situation was stable.

  7. I see no reason that Navy should ever wear anything but these or a "dress blues" equivalent with the same helmet and pants for home games.

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    e: like this but as a football uniform:

     

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  8. 2 minutes ago, Gene Parmesan said:

    Doesn't the NFL care about things like education, honor, and commitment?  Why do they keep drafting these guys?  It's obvious to me that their lack of moral fiber and selfishness will make them bad football players.

    lol are you serious

  9. 6 minutes ago, kopp0e said:

    That would require a science class, as to "how to tackle an all star running back", without the issues of today in being called for a helmet to helmet tackle..

    You're on your own as far as how to bring down a beastly running back with a head of steam, but you can't get a targeting penalty in that situation as long as you keep your facemask pointed where you're going instead of dropping your head and leading with the crown. 

  10. 49 minutes ago, NowThis said:

    now that players are skipping bowl games, i can see them skipping the last half of their JR year, maybe in October, to prep for the draft. CFB has been declining due to early exits, imagine the old days when super players stayed for SR years, we had loaded upperclassmen on top teams, now the layer of greatness is halved. 

    If the draw is watching great players, amateur sports may not be for you

  11. 13 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    Show me a loss, pussies.

    Even assuming we have Sam and he's somewhere close to 100%, with no other major losses to injury, WVU and ISU are not looking like easy outs at all. Plus it's college football so inexplicable losses just happen.

  12. 53 minutes ago, HornsOverIthaca said:

    Except it was asian people, but the dancing is similar.  You can't spell caucasian without asian.

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    Hey now Genki Sudo  and WORLD ORDER are awesome, I will not sit idly by as a high quality street theater dance troupe led by a retired MMA fighter is besmirched

     

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  13. I don't think Shane is that good at making the 5-10 yard throws in tight-ish windows that Sam does pretty well,  which is a problem in this offense. He used to be able to drop deep balls on a dime and I doubt he has permanently lost that ability. Frankly I think the strategy yesterday was pretty much right on for making the best of his skillset and the pieces we have around him - hand it off a lot to sustain drives and force them to defend the run, then look for big home-run shots downfield every so often and hope that one out of every X attempts nets us a big play or a score.

    Although I think we could probably run him more too (I know we did it some, but still). After all, Tom Herman's most celebrated accomplishment was a season spent murdering QBs and just plugging another one in to do the same thing whenever one went down. I guess maybe we did see LJH did get a couple of auditions for that Greg Ward/Braxton Miller WR/QB role.

  14. 4 minutes ago, Mileslong said:

    The only time I can remember both teams wearing dark jerseys was some color rush bullshit like USC vs UCLA a few years back. It’s probably been done before but it’s rare

    The red and the blue on the field together looks so awesome in that game. It seems like if the home team approves whatever the other team wants to wear, they should be allowed to wear it. Texas in orange and white against Tech in black and red or Baylor in green and gold wouldn't be confusing at all. Obviously you wouldn't want both sides wearing home jerseys in a Bama-Arky game, but it seems like common sense could prevail.

  15. Oh also expand the playoff to 8, with autobids for P5 champions and the top G5 team plus 2 at-large spots. Easy. I swear college football has to be the only sport where so many people actively root against underdogs and hate the idea of cinderella teams being allowed to crash the party.

  16. Just now, Huckleberry said:

    If you've been to Texas-OU games at the Cotton Bowl, college football games at Jerryworld, and are excited about watching a Texas-OU game in that sterile corporate environment then it's hard for me to accept the premise that you are a fan of sports.

    I would be excited about watching Texas beat OU in a fucking sinkhole that opened up under a garbage dump. Nobody's talking about moving the annual game to Jerryworld, There's no need to choose between the two. Beating OU twice is better than beating OU once.

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