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Burt Macklin

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  1. Yeah, reading some of those posts on here was wild. Didn't some poster say they thought Maalik would be getting seven figures next year? He was pretty terrible all year and struggled to complete easy passes. Duke going 9-3 this year was due to them having a top 25 defense and playing a joke of a schedule in the ACC. I like Singleton, but he doesn't strike me as a guy worth seven figures. I can't see Sark being willing to go that high for him.
  2. This could be a huge pickup for Tech. They might be able to finish in the top 6 of the Big 12 or even beat Abilene Christian by more than 1 point at home if they land him.
  3. He and Johntay Cook are going to absolutely kill it at Prairie View A&M next year.
  4. Venables and the new OC to Emmett Jones:
  5. You mean the team who scored 3 points against Oklahoma just two weeks ago?
  6. That call was absolute bullshit just like all these weak holds. Are we back in the Big 12?
  7. I realize we’ve discussed it plenty on here, but I’m not sure Venables decision to go with Jackson Arnold over Gabriel gets enough attention. That may be one of the worst personnel blunders of all time. He watched both those guys practice for a year and decided to push Gabriel out. Absolutely wild.
  8. Not right now, but he does have potential. He only completed 59% of his passes and was a big part of why they lost 4 games. He threw 2 INTs in 3 of their 4 losses. He’s actually quite a bit like Marcel Reed, so I guess Klein has a type.
  9. Miami wouldn't have to change their offense that much from this year if they get him. I'm not sure how many blueblood offers he'll get, but I could definitely see him land at a Big 12 school next year and tear up the conference.
  10. He's easily one of the most fun players in CFB to watch this year. Here's hoping he goes to a school I like so I can root for him next year. Maybe Utah, but I can't see him ending up at Utah State. He's very good, and I expect he'll have some big offers.
  11. @Bruh Man
  12. This looks like the best mock draft I've seen yet. Not nearly as many head scratching picks as a lot of the others I've seen, and Brugler is actually reflecting this year's level of play in his mock. Interesting that he has Collins all the way in the first round. I think that's the first I've seen him there, but it makes sense. He's always had 5 star athleticism but he's finally adding the play on the field along with it. Collins is starting to remind me of Calais Campbell. He obviously still has a ways to go before he gets to that level. Also interesting that Scourton is not in this mock. He's looked slow and unable to rush the passer this year, so it's not a surprise. The A&M S&C staff have majorly failed him this year and cost him millions.
  13. TIL that going to a school that's a 9 hour drive from where you live counts as staying at home. This will have huge implications for recruits from Silsbee moving forward.
  14. Your constant fixation on number of losses without accounting for strength of schedule is getting very tiresome. Miami has played one team in the top 20 of F+ all year: 8-4 Louisville in a back and forth shootout. Bama played 4 teams in the top 20 and went 3-1. Miami only played 3 teams in the top 40 all year. Bama played 7. Miami got an absolute cakewalk of a schedule and still dropped two games. There's no legitimate basis for claiming they absolutely deserved a playoff spot. Exactly. I don't get why people act like SMU will be robbed if they lose to Clemson and are out. You can mess around with the cutoffs, but SMU has only played one team in the top 20 and they lost to them. Clemson will be their second. If they go 0-2 against top 20 teams (neither of which are in the top 15), there's no reason why they should get to be in the CFP. On the flip side, Clemson is 0-3 against top 20 teams, so if SMU is even one of the 20 best teams in the country, they should be able to handle Clemson and guarantee their spot in the CFP. People need to stop fixating so much on number of losses when there's such huge schedule disparity. The ACC is an absolute fucking joke of a conference. Their bad teams are horrible, and the ACC's top 3 teams (SMU, Miami, Clemson) didn't play each other. Duke is 46th in F+ and they went 1-3 against teams in the top 50. They are 9-3 because they go to play 8 teams outside of the top 50 in CFB. That's not a power conference schedule and shouldn't be treated as such. This is a great example of people not understanding how bad the ACC is. Oklahoma is 31st in F+. They would be favored on a neutral field against all of Duke (46th), Georgia Tech(42nd), and Syracuse (50th). Oklahoma would not have had to play all 3 of SMU, Clemson, and Miami, and they would probably be 9-3 instead of Duke. It really shouldn't be this hard to understand that you can't just compare records straight up, especially when you're talking about ACC teams versus the SEC.
  15. aggy Rob posting this tweet just days after getting absolutely dominated on both lines of scrimmage is absolutely hilarious.
  16. The reports are they did it because Audi wanted more emphasis on battery/electric for road relevance and they held this over FOM before they joined. Catering to manufacturers and greenwashing have really ruined a lot of racing in F1. I agree with your other posts. V10s on sustainable fuels (lets FOM still claim moral high ground on green efforts) and make the cars way smaller and lighter for better racing is the route they need to go to make the actual product better, but FOM has clearly shown they're more interested in catering to manufacturers and talking about sustainability efforts unfortunately. I understand why they needed/wanted manufacturers when it was only Ferrari, MB, and Alpine with Alpine looking shaky. But now we have Ferrari, MB, RB Power trains/Ford, Honda, Audi, and Cadillac. There's really no benefit to keep adding manufacturers beyond 4; if anything, they're a hindrance because they push for rules that hurt the racing product. And what fan really cares if there are 4 or 6 engine manufacturers involved?
  17. In a sea of dumb takes, HotownHown got worried he'd get left out. It was an obvious hot read where Helm was supposed to turn once he didn't have anyone lined up over him. You can't assume before the snap that you'll have time pump fake and throw deep on third and long with 5 on 5 blocking. These things are called pre-snap, and this was absolutely a hot read pre-snap. Quinn certainly could've thrown it better, but if Helm gets the hot read he very likely catches it and gets the first down.
  18. Yeah, that race was a clown show. Almost like firing the race director with three races left was a bad idea. The FIA is pushing out basically anyone with competency at this point, and it's becoming a huge problem for F1. Ben Sulayem is as big of a problem as people feared when he got the FIA president role. On the actual race, it was very boring. Lando fighting Max was our best shot for an exciting race. Circuits built for Motogp don't produce great racing for F1 cars. The only silver lining is that Lando getting that ridiculously harsh penalty kept the Constructors battle alive, which should make Abu Dabhi more exciting. Ferrari need a 1-2 with McLaren getting a 4,5 or worse, or a 1-3 with McLaren getting a 5,6 or worse. If Ferrari don't win Abu Dabhi, they need to finish 2,3 and likely have one of the McLarens retire. None of that is very likely, but McLaren not qualify well could at least give it a chance and make the race interesting. Otherwise, this race will probably be pretty boring.
  19. lol wut. If we only get one solid DT in the portal, we will be screwed. We got good production from Lole and Norton this year as backups. Collins and Broughton took huge steps forward and are the stars of the IDL. There's nobody on the roster ready to have anywhere near the year that Collins and Broughton had. You cited Mitchell who very well may not be on the roster next year. January looks ready to contribute, but who knows if he's ready to start. After that, it's bleak. If all we get is one guy like Lole plus what we have currently on the roster, then we will be in a terrible spot at DT.
  20. Agreed, but the expectation is this one will be more drastic than many others. The engines will be a 50/50 split between ICE (running on sustainable fuels with a 70 kg limit for a race which is much lower than current) with no more MGU-H, increasing the use of the electric power while taking away one of the sources for producing it. On top of that the reliance on electricity increases, but the energy storage does not, so there is concern cars will have to downshift on the straights to get more electrical power, which is also why they added the moveable aero to reduce drag on straights and avoid this, but it still may be required on long straights. They're also expecting the engine to always run at higher revs to basically burn fuel to create more electric power, even when cars are going extremely slow at hairpins or chicanes. Overall, these regs are pretty extreme and already seem quite messy. We'll see. The people developing the engines and cars are brilliant and they have over a year to keep figuring things out, but the outlook from people on the technical side does not seem positive right now. Definitely a lot more pessimistic than our 2022 regulation changes at this point.
  21. I saw this thread bumped, and it is unfortunate he's no longer the best in the 9.95/bathroom stalking business. We never get to experience 9.95er Hamm after a beatdown by UT. That would have been a really entertaining week on the message boards.
  22. All very true, but logical, thought-out planning is not how they operate. It's emotional swings, almost always in response to fear of UT success. He forgot to add the part where he gave the young man he just "gently" grabbed and laid on his back directions back to his car when he was lost after the game.
  23. That's not how this is going to go for many, if any, schools. There will be decommitments and movement right at the end, so you better get some flips as well.
  24. The engines are ridiculously complex yet also underpowered. Reliability is likely going to be bad, and the engines are looking to be so underpowered that they’ve had to change the aero regulations multiple times to accommodate the projections, including adding moveable aero so there’s less drag on the straights for the engines. A lot of writers and people around the paddock are expecting these new regs to go very poorly. As always, we’ll have to wait and see but the expectation is a lot of field spread and technical issues.
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