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  1. Well, other Americans are to blame. They voted for other people.
  2. I desperately wanted this to be incorrect but this will be true of at least some 18 year old voters. Not really a "massive cohort" but really the point is I feel old as fuck.
  3. If Texas had won this year it would have been with several starters (QB, WR, CB, off the top of my head) that "defected" from various schools. Not to mention Kelvin Banks, who basically fell into Texas's lap out of luck and decommitted from Oregon only after Mario Cristobal left Oregon. Worthy also had to ask for a NLI release from Michigan. Do you think Michigan didn't have key transfers? Georgia the past couple years? Washington? TCU? It's an essential part of the game now.
  4. You are talking about trying to appease a group that thinks building s 1,900+ mile wall is a good idea and that the country on the other side will pay for it.
  5. Really fascinating account of covering Trump campaign during the 2016 election cycle. He has written other books I want to get to and is a good follow on social media. @Brisketexan may live on the ledge, but he rents it from Sexton.
  6. Never really been a thing he's liked to do. 3-4 guys has typically been the limit, though it's worth noting Golden's got a track record of missing time to injury. They brought in Milton in 2022 and he barely played, Neyor barely played, Cain played in 22 but barely played this year when Mitchell came in. He sticks with his guys at WR, pretty much the anti Herman in that regard. I am excited to see who the 3-4 guys are after the spring. I assume it'll be Cook, Golden, Bond, with some Bolden gadgetry but there is a lot of young talent to push. Wingo's skillset and build is pretty unique too. It may cost them some talent but they should end up with a stacked WR room for Ewers this year, which had to be the priority. Texas reloading at WR was really one of major conditions for competing for a championship again.
  7. I'm honestly surprised they took three portal receivers. Have to think that may drive a DeAndre Moore or a Ryan Niblett away after spring (hopefully not Wingo); but I agree reloading the WR room with the best talent available is the move with Ewers coming back.
  8. Good luck to him, I'm sure there will be sour grape but I understand why he'd change his mind. Onto the portal and/or a late bloomer in the Feb cycle. Well, that and a position coach.
  9. Weather or no weather, noncompetitive primaries/caucuses always have low turnout. Honestly, it can just as reasonably be framed as an accomplishment to get almost as many voters out as you did in 2016 in a negative 12 billion degree snowstorm to vote in a race that's already decided. I really would not spike the football over primary turnout.
  10. It's also a noncompetitive race and everyone knows it. I wouldn't read too much into turnout.
  11. https://www.heritage.org/judicialtracker https://www.acslaw.org/judicial-nominations/on-the-bench/ For most of his term Biden had been ahead of Trump and had confirmed the most judges since at least Reagan (as far back as this tracker goes). He has now fallen slightly behind Trump and Clinton. His admin remains more efficient than Trump in terms of getting hearings, cloture/roll call, etc. I am hoping the White House and Senate dems can see the writing on the wall for 2024, realize it's very unlikely they control both pieces of the equation after this year, and really prioritize confirmations this year. You can't really compete with Trump's 3 SCOTUS confirmations unfortunately but overall I think the Biden administration has been a plus with regard to the judiciary. They've played the hand they were dealt pretty well.
  12. Beyond HVAC and water heating, anything like a coffee maker, toaster, space heater, etc uses a ton of energy. At a fundamental level, generating heat is very energy intensive, though modern heat pumps are getting really good (we as a state refuse to incentivize these).
  13. Not defending the wider grid situation but morning is a peak energy use time in the winter. Coldest part of the day, more energy used in heating.
  14. The DL hire is done and it's someone in the NFL perry Bobby. There's no reason to delay and honestly they need the hire in place ASAP for recruiting. If it was Okam he'd be announced and working already. Rod Wright is an NFL guy and still coaching with the Texans winning yesterday.
  15. To add to what other posters have already said on this, Golden missed multiple games in both 2022 and 2023. It's likely injuries open up some time for others. And I'm not sure they roll with an obviously limited Golden, Cook, or Bond over what's behind them in the same way they have with Worthy the past couple years.
  16. The NFL is paying their GM and entire roster too. And NFL coaches get an actual offseason. A little different.
  17. Wow that's even more than Urban Meyer stole.
  18. To add to @SydneyCarton's point - really an Ohio State player has the localized NIL value he is talking about for a UT player in Austin across the whole state. LeBron James is the only athlete in Ohio's history to be categorically bigger than Ohio State stars - and he's a a fucking Ohio State fan, a vocal one.
  19. Nebraska is an awful job only worth considering because they will pay well and being a fired coach coasting on a buyout is great. In terms of MSA size all three of the big Ohio cities are essentially the same size at a little over 2MM. Cleveland has been the biggest historically but has also been shrinking. As it stands now Cincinnati is the largest, but Columbus will soon pass (as in the next couple years) as it is growing much faster. Yes, if you go CSA and lump Akron-Canton in with Cleveland, NE Ohio is still by far the biggest market/economic region in the state. It's also culturally distinct from the rest of the state to a small degree (both my parents are form Ohio so I've had the misfortune of spending quite a bit of time there). But really it doesn't matter because Ohio State's market/recruiting backyard is the entire state. Everyone from Ohio is an Ohio State fan. My uncle played D1 football at a smaller school in Ohio and still wears OSU gear on Saturdays. That's really their advantage. Georgia or Michigan are probably the closest comps in terms of having a large, talent-rich, football obsessed state on lockdown like that but neither has their state locked up quite as much as Ohio State does their home turf and Michigan doesn't produce as much talent as Ohio. You could add Penn State but interest in HS/college football wanes in Philly. LSU is close too - Louisiana is small but produces a freakish amount of talent. That's about it. Ohio State is in rare air for that factor alone.
  20. Glad he is coming back and I think he made the right decision for his individual future as well. Improve the finer points of his game and he will be a first round pick next year. Side tangent - Man the clumsy forcing of the phrase "with that being said" into these announcements will never not make me laugh.
  21. The thing is, the landscape has shifted pretty dramatically from what it looked like for most of that period. Bama is not going to be a top tier job in the era of NIL. As I list them out it's clear sing the top 10-15 description was a stretch; it's solidly top ten, but I think the following are a cut above: Georgia, USC, Texas, Michigan, Ohio State. And Alabama moving forward probably falls into that Tier 1B group - albeit at the upper end - with Oregon, Oklahoma, ND, LSU, Penn State, etc.
  22. Even accepting your premise for sake of argument, said waffling has been between Texas and Oregon. Perhaps you may have heard of a possible shakeup on the Oregon staff as well?
  23. Alabama's a great job but more like a top 10-15 job than a top 5 job. For Sark specifically, he just bought a ton of good will here and stringing together some 9+ win seasons with a couple CFP berths over the next five years will keep his seat from getting seriously hot. At Alabama that would get him fired as the guy after Saban. Assuming Texas is willing to commit to a hefty raise, I really do not see the upside of the Alabama job in his shoes. Maybe that's just burnt orange tinted glasses. I think the first call should to be Freddie Roach, Alabama's DL coach since 2020. He may turn you down as an Alabama alum but you have to make the call. Maybe it's Lanning at Bama and he wants to bring Tosh Lupoi and Tony Tuioti (who also has a tangential connection to Sark through working under Justin Wilcox at Cal for a couple years), at which point Texas is a really attractive landing spot for Roach. Beyond that, obviously Tosh Lupoi is a potential candidate if he ends up looking for a job in the wake of the Saban retirement. I could see also see Tuioti being a candidate if Lanning goes to Bama and does retain Roach. Sark likes his west coast guys, and he also has a couple years of NFL experience and was Harbaugh's player personnel guy at Michigan for a year. That said, I think Okam or Wright would be serviceable at a minimum and it is always cool to have an alum on staff. Just not sure they are more than fall back candidates.
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