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SwanderedTalent

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  1. welcome to politics, there is no offseason, it never stops and it never ends the goalposts move a lot though
  2. do you mean the Redskins?
  3. easier to renege on a deal when it's UCLA or Cal, harder when the opposite party has battleships and cruise missiles
  4. I will never get tired of the cycle of well-meaning but clueless white corporate buffoons inadvertently insulting angry black grievance pimps with pointless symbolism. I like a lot of things about this, but best of all is probably the fact that it's not making anyone happy.
  5. weeks later, still writing paragraphs wailing about how unfairly her neurotic political bleating is being treated by the volunteer moderators on a free sports message board just go shoot up a Congressional Republican softball game and be done with it, already
  6. On your first point, I'd be more than happy with a I-AA that didn't include Indiana or Rutgers or Wake Forest but since they're conference-affiliated deadweight, it seems pointless to advocate that. There also aren't the same kind of mission and admission compromises necessary for large public universities to compete-- to me it's not the same thing. On your second point, <shrug>, the service branches can run ads without actually being in the games. Nissan has a Heisman House, not a varsity program.
  7. A&M is now temporarily prohibited from recruiting players from a high school they've targeted in the past? A&M now can't leverage whatever advantage the NCAA thinks the rule-breaking gave A&M at that school? I feel like some of you look at this stuff and just say "OH IF THE NCAA SAYS IT THEN FUCK WHATEVER IT SAYS". I'm not arguing pro or con on the item, but it's not at all difficult to see why the NCAA would think this punishes A&M.
  8. Actually that pisses me off. It wouldn't shock me if Texas got pinched for the same thing, the way Michigan got pinched in 2008 (?) for incidental overages in the number of supervised workouts they did in the offseason or some parking-ticket level shit like that. A&M's over here fucking buying players, and they get a wrist slap for "just a little too much recruiting!"
  9. ummmm, you might have wanted to lead with that while you were being "candid"
  10. maybe we can jump on defunding the military too
  11. This is a good time for them to get out of the NFL Feeder tier of programs, where they haven't belonged since before the Vietnam War. I'm not saying they can't win games at this level. They do it all the time. I'm saying this (hypothetical) level exists to populate NFL rosters and compete for CFP playoff national championships. The service academics, love them as I do, don't need to be trying to do either of those things. This is a good time (again, hypothetically) to drop them to I-AA where I bet they could be beasts again. Or leave them at I-A and make the Independents a conference, whatever. There's no magic to 64, it can be 71 if we want, but (one more time, for this specific hypothetical), we need eight conferences to produce eight conference champions for the playoff. So I'm not sure where they fit, anyway. and yes I'm going to call them I-A and I-AA until I die
  12. Army, Navy, and the Air Force do not need to be competing at the NFL Feeder level. They should drop down to I-AA. As for Boise, SDSU, and Cincy, we don't need them, but I am sure there are other even less profitable P5 programs they could replace in NFL JR when it launches.
  13. never happen but it would be amusing to see someone in our hierarchy respond to one of those clickbait "when are A&M and Texas going to play again???" questions by saying "the values of Texas A&M preclude us from scheduling them". We're not run by John Sharp so it will never happen and I'm not advocating for it, but it would be fucking funny.
  14. to which, you can kind of understand why Mr. Leroy and company are so peeved-- how dare these employees criticize the company? y'all boys is PAID to be heah, Highway 6 runs both ways, y'all can git out, Jimbo will replace you
  15. This, and it also reveals his ignorance of modern America if he thinks a white person can approach a black person protesting and say something along the lines of "can't we all just get along?" and expect it to be well received.
  16. Grimes could have gone anywhere in the country and picked Mack Brown and North Carolina. That to me means a) he wants to be coddled and b) he wants to continue being treated like a big fish in a small pond. Not to mention, Grimes had A&M among his top four. That confirms my conclusions in point one above. He's attracted to coddlers and wants to remain a big fish.
  17. well, then, he should be locked up, don't you think? I personally like the idea of throwing people who offend the football team in jail.
  18. I made it through March just fine without college basketball. That just leaves college football, which had lost a lot of its attraction for me before this summer but has been my favorite sport since I was ten; I dropped the NFL more than 15 years ago, the NBA more than 20, and MLB after the 1994 strike, and I never came back to any of them. All I really miss about sports is how I felt about them when I was 15, when I didn't really understand anything anyway. There's not really any way to bring that back, barring a massive head wound of some kind. So maybe they're childish things and need to be put away. Sports message boards too, come to think of it.
  19. assuming you have two legs, you're missing some steps there
  20. when you get a letter about a specific action on your account that ends with "call <number> for help or with questions" and the number is the same top-level entry to the phone maze as ever so now I gotta wait on hold while the person I tumbled to tries to figure out if she's the one that can actually help with this question the letter might as well have just said, literally, "give us a call or, you know, like, whatever"
  21. COVID is the greatest threat mankind has faced. You need to show proper respect instead of asking questions.
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