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Burt Macklin

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. We need to enjoy this year and next year, because new regs hit in 2026 and the field spread will be massive and the racing will be god awful.
  10. Huh? aggy just lost their 5* star QB commit less than a week ago.
  11. You would have a point if teams played even remotely the same strength of schedule, but they don’t. SMU’s current SoS is a joke. If they go 0-2 against top 25 teams this season without even playing a single top 15 team, they don’t belong in the playoff. It’s that simple. This is a truly absurd take. Their resumes look similar only if you ignore the loss column completely. IU and ISU’s SoS isn’t that far apart. ISU lost to two shitty teams. Indiana beat all the shitty teams on their schedule with the only loss being at the #5 team in the country. ISU hasn’t even played a single top 20 team this year. If you drop two games without facing a single top 20 team, how do you belong in the CFP against a team whose only loss is at #5? And going back to ELS, which is basically how hard your schedule is if you’re a CFP-quality team, ISU is 80th with only .64 expected losses. IU is 43rd with 1.03 expected losses.
  12. That’s the good stuff right there. aggy remains undefeated in games they haven’t played. I fully expect them to start adding 13 wins to their all time record moving forward.
  13. The committee has said a lot of things and their hit rate on following through isn’t great. I don’t buy that teams wont be punished for losing. Especially if SMU loses. Their SOS is around 75th depending on the metric you use and their best win currently is an 8-4 Louisville. The only team currently in the top 25 they’ve played all year is BYU and they lost. If they also lose to Clemson and have no top 25 wins all year, the committee is absolutely going to punish them. And that’s probably the right move. SMU doesn’t deserve to be in the playoff if they don’t beat Clemson this week. Their schedule has been easier than every other CFP contender and their ELS (expected number of losses for a team 2 standard deviations above the mean) is .6 (84th in the country), so they’re actually underperforming the record a playoff-quality team should have with their schedule currently.
  14. I would really love to hear what makes Elko a high floor HC. You just admitted the narrative of football guy who coaches up his players hasn’t actually come to fruition, and he’s not known as a good recruiter nor does he look like he’s good at hiring.
  15. If only bizzle wasn’t stuck in that barren, internet wasteland known as Vancouver.
  16. PK is here to shutout the offense and bang @South Austin’s mom, and South Austin’s mom is waiting until after the game.
  17. Why the fuck do we keep snapping it with 20 seconds left in the clock?!
  18. Got dam. I love Satya so much. This is such a brilliant schtick. Makes me laugh every time. So true. The guy who was literally puking his guts out against Notre Dame to the tune of 2 INTs and 3.3 YPA and who was 6/18 for 64 yards against a shitty LSU defense. That guy scares me to death.
  19. WTF Sark! Just keep running the damn ball and stay ahead of the chains.
  20. Seriously. So far he claimed Gerry says we’re getting Hilson (definitely not what Gerry’s saying) and he’s calling A&M a poverty school in NIL. Anyone dumb enough to waste their time reading and responding to Spider2ybanana deserves what they get.
  21. You’re confusing the House settlement (schools paying players directly) with third-party NIL money. Schools will have a cap on what they can pay to players, but not third parties. Currently, there’s no legal way to put a cap on NIL from third parties. It would require a player’s union and a CBA, but even then I wouldn’t expect a cap on what a player can earn through NIL because that would mean th schools would pay to buy up all their NIL rights (in addition to the currently expected $22 million annual number for House) . There’s not a single sport in the world that has something like that.
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