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Richard Kimball

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  1. Have to disagree with this one for two reasons. First, it discourages tough OOC games. Second, it puts a "selection committee" back in play. I don't trust them not to put their thumb on the scale. Disagree for one of the same reasons: thumb on the scale. As long as some committee has a say in who gets in, we'll keep hearing about the "thirteenth data point," "quality of loss," etc. There are ~120 schools competing for the playoffs. If you make the conference championship game, at most, you have to be better than the six other teams in your division. If you don't make the game or lose there, then as far as I'm concerned, it's all there, black and white, clear as crystal. You stole fizzy lifting drinks, you bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and sterilized, so you get nothing! You LOSE! Good day, sir!
  2. Just watched my favorite Christmas movie, Die Hard, and want to add just about the entire cast. Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber Hart Bochner as the coke sniffing sleazy salesman that gets blown away. James Shigeta as Joseph Takagi Reginald VelJohnson as Sgt Al Powell Paul Gleason as the totally incompetent and annoying police chief Bonnie Bedelia as the remarkably hot MILF, Holly McLane. You know how hard it is to be a memorable character as the wife in one of these shows? Every one of them totally owned their screen time, and got out of the way when it was another character's time to shine. Especially true for Willis, who had individual interactions with all of them. Honorable mention to Argyle and most of the terrorists.
  3. You want to get away with this kind of shit, you'd better win a conference title.
  4. Both these teams have made some good plays. Enjoyable game.
  5. You made me think of the original movie. It always got me that the scientist thought he would impress the girl by killing the fish and turning them into skeletons. Why not just electrocute a cat?
  6. At least he doesn't have to decide whether to sit out a bowl game.
  7. Troof. Girl I dated for a while did her grad work at OU in that era. She said when she hit campus, the first thing she was told was NEVER go into the athletic dorm. EVER. Don't let anyone talk you into going in there for any reason. "You don't get out until you put out."
  8. They're still talking about the Boise State hook and ladder play against Oklahoma. Nobody's talking about the Alabama-LSU rematch a few years ago, other than as an example of what is wrong with college football. That game was worse than Rocky II.
  9. Just want to start off by saying good discussion. You and Ladiesman make some good points. In the NFL, back in the nineties, the Cowboys played the 49ers in the NFC championship several times. In each of those games, the winner went on to destroy the AFC opponent in the Super Bowl. Everyone knew they were the two best teams in pro football, but they met before the actual title game. I'm open to just about any system, as long as there is a clear path (and honestly, Rice ain't ever making the playoffs) but a path where IF Rice met a certain criteria, laid out BEFORE the first kickoff of the season, they would be included in the playoffs.
  10. In terms of destroying his career, going after Mike Leach is what did it. A lot of people saw it for what it was, and he's now the equivalent of Booster.
  11. Bet you thought love would keep us together.
  12. That's a valid point. I guess the thing about the NFL is all the tiebreakers are known before the season starts. Also, the NFL doesn't allow teams to game the system by selecting their non-divisional opponents, although it would be hilarious to see Green Bay play the Edmonton Eskimos to get a tiebreaker over the Bears. The primary absurdity is that over half the college football teams have no chance of making the playoffs, no matter what they do, and the "chosen ones" get extra chances. A lot of systems could work, but the current system of deciding what the requirements are to make the playoffs are determined AFTER the games are played is inherently corrupt.
  13. Carlin was great when he was younger. His personality changed after his first heart attack. If you watch his earlier stuff, there are a lot of great observations of the human condition. In his later stuff, he just bitches a lot.
  14. Yeah, the loser is eliminated because the conference championships would be playoff games. As to non conference being rendered inconsequential, you could make that argument, but in high school football, it's been that way for years, and if Lake Travis plays South Lake Carroll in a non-con, it's going to be a big deal. What I don't get is why people think a team (Georgia) that loses in the conference championship, or another team (Alabama) that doesn't win their half of their conference should get a mulligan.
  15. I hear where you're coming from. On one hand, it's hard to argue with you, but currently, the sixty someodd teams in the G5 have absolutely no shot at getting in the playoffs. The reason it won't happen is because the P5 prefers it that way, and they call the shots.
  16. Here's how I think it should be done. There are five P5s, five G5s and the independents. Have the G5 figure out a way to have their champions figured out by the end of the regular season. The G5 champions and top independent play each other in three games the same week as the P5 conference champions. You HAVE to win that game to advance. If you don't win conference championship, you don't advance. Took a quick look, and the P5 teams to advance would be (this year) Oklahoma, Ohio State, Clemson, Alabama, and Washington. The probable G5/Independents that would get in would be Notre Dame, UCF and Fresno State. (That's assuming they won their conference championship week game.) At the start of the season, every team knows exactly what they have to do to get in the playoffs, and every team has a path. No beauty contest. Another upside to this is that there's no reason for teams to avoid tough OOC games. If UT and Michigan want to play, it doesn't affect their conference standings.
  17. You can't trust review sites. There are dozens of ways to game the system, even if they try to keep it legit. Particularly don't trust a review site that takes advertising payments from the people being reviewed.
  18. Wanted to posrep and say thanks for starting the thread. I hadn't watched any of the Bond movies in years. Started watching with Dr. No and am going through the Connery ones in order. I'd forgotten how good the early ones were. Haven't seen any of the ones since whichever one had Roger Moore running on the crocodile heads. At that point it seemed like they had turned more into road runner cartoons than spy thrillers. Can't speak to the newer Bonds. Roger Moore was the jump the shark moment for me.
  19. Many moons ago, in the early eighties, I played Santa Claus at Highland Mall. A couple of kids came up. They were wearing T-shirts with the name of their church on it. I said, "My memory isn't as good as it used to be, but do you still live in Pflugerville?" They both turned around and said, "Mom! It's HIM! It's really him!" Two UT linemen got their picture taken sitting on my lap. I think they did it on a dare, but those guys were big. One on each knee, my head was at armpit level. Fun times.
  20. I was trying to find a picture of her from the film, but all of them were NSFW, for the nipples you mention.
  21. Are you talking about your friend or Roger Moore?
  22. Probably because I was just about to hi puberty when Goldfinger came out, but Shirley Eaton was my favorite
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