Samson's Wig
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Yeah, but that's bullshit and the proof is in their punishing of BYU for losing in a CCG. Now Notre Dame is running scared as they know how likely a loss woudl be to BYU in a bowl game. Notre Dame played a weaker schedule than Aggie did this year. They didn't belong in the playoff. B etter than Tulane or JMU? Sure. But BYU had a better record with a tougher schedule than Notre Dame. Their only losses were to a top four team that looks as complete as any team in the field. In a holy war, the mormons beat the catholics in 2026.
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I'm all for a sixteen-team playoff, or play-in games of some sort. Still, fuck Notre Dame. They will forever be NBC's second choice, after Blow-U turned them down.
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Former players are often among the most ignorant people about football. They tend to know a lot about one position and jack shit about anything else. Their knowledge also tends to be stuck in the time they last played. And if we're being honest, football players are not typically drawn from the creme of the crop, intellectually speaking. I'm immediately skeptical of any football take that involves language along the lines of "they don't know ball" or "they never played ball". It just about guarantees that whatever they have to say next will be utterly stupid. My perspective on this is that of a former player.
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I got to demo this Rocket 3 while my bike was being serviced yesterday. The experience was downright spiritual. The owner knew what he was doing when he suggested I take it, damn him. Now I'm trying to talk myself out of buying one. It makes no sense on any level, would be a bitch to maintain, serves no functional purpose, but it was the most fun I've had on a motorcycle since I was a kid riding dirt bikes and building tracks with ramps in the cotton field after harvest. If you get a chance to ride one, and aren't intimidated by the largest production engine available today, do not pass it up. 2,458cc liquid-cooled inline-3 engine producing 180 horsepower and 166 lb-ft of torque
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Ugh. Over a boyfriend. Hormones are a bitch when you're young, and the lack of them is a bitch when you're old. Mother nature sucks sometimes.
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I can't wait to see the insane way this piece of shit leaves LSU in the lurch in a couple of years. I still don't understand why schools keep hiring the biggest douchebag in sports.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
Samson's Wig replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
I'm all for that, though I don't know how you can truly turn college football into an actual sport when it's been a glorified beauty pageant for most of its existence. And the more college football looks like a minor league NFL league, the lower the ratings will get (and they've already been sinking for a while). -
Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
Samson's Wig replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
I mean, let's be honest. SEC teams scheduling anything other than the most embarrassing of cream puffs in non-con is relatively new. The mouse will survive if things revert to the mean. That guy who created the fake school for Alabama to pad their schedule has to still be floating around somewhere. -
That's a hot take coming from an Oregon fan. The absolute closest comparison to what is happening at Tech now is what happened at Oregon when Knight started pumping in money, only they were a much, much shiitter program than Tech was before the cash. I'm still puzzled how this narrative even got started. Tech was outspent by several programs this year, including . . . wait for it . . . Oregon. They spent $12 million more than Tech did on NIL. Get fucked, Doug.
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Perfect description of the DS populace. Your pop has a way with words.
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I had a lot of family just up the road in Spur, but there are only a couple left now. Grandma grew up with Red McCombs there, and they dated in their youth. When she was still with us, I used to gently tease her about what might have been had she not dumped him and married my granddad. She was always quick to let me know that I wouldn't be around had she made that choice.
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That was the expected outcome after watering it down like they did. I'll be interested to see if Segura holds to his line about revisiting this next year. Somehow, I doubt it. I still want to know what the Bryker Woods folks did to get him to back down, because it sure as shit wasn't that a member of his staff was talking out of both sides of their mouth. That's simply SOP for him and his team.
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There used to be a nice little cafe in Jayton that I would stop at with some frequency a few decades ago. That town, like so many, has shrunk down to almost nothing now. Maybe 500 people?
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Thank you. I've never understood, especially since the BCS era started and continuing into the playoff era, any UT fan who whines and bitches as if the Horns don't get every benefit of the doubt at every possible opportunity. The media companies that run this sport beauty pageant want UT involved whenever possible, as it makes them more money. This same team, with almost any name other than UT, and maybe four or five others, wouldn't even be sniffing the playoffs.
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So are we now living in a situation where we get ridiculously early warnings even when the odds of any rain at all are rather slim? The Chicken Little Doctrine, aimed at avoiding litigation and political fallout, can't possibly lead to any unintended consequences. I'll believe it's going to rain when I see it falling from the sky. Anyone who has lived in Central Texas for more than a season or two should know that the odds of rain are higher when it's not in the forecast than when it is.
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