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closetojumping

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  1. You idiots are talking about the next transfer cycle in the last transfer cycle thread.
  2. In addition, Dallas Wilson is made of glass. I’m tired of potential. Get a guy who has actually played productive and full seasons. Give me OL, RB, and CB.
  3. You guys liked it? I thought it was the worst one in years. The aggie part was the only thing that was remotely funny to me.
  4. We're 3/4s through the regular season of CFP. What have we learned? Here are a few thoughts/notes from my end (spoilered most of it for the dummies who click on a thread and only want to read a few sentences and then say something idiotic), but I know there's some good stuff out there otherwise: -The bottom 6 teams in the Big 10 are a combined 2-31 in conference. Maryland is 1-4. Their win? Conference winless Wisconsin. Rutgers is 1-5. Their conference win? Conference winless Purdue. -The SEC plays one less conference game, but the bottom 6 in the SEC are 6-28. Only Arkansas is winless. -Indiana finishes its season, @ PSU, vs Wisconsin, and @ Purdue. They're going 12-0. I think they're really good, but I also think the mask is about to be pulled off of Oregon (more on them in a second) and Illinois has also been proven a fraud. Not playing Michigan, Ohio State, USC, or Washington is certainly a big help. Separately but the same, a bitchmade non-con of Old Dominion, Kennesaw State and FCS Indiana State also hasn't hurt a thing for them. Did the Big 10 move to a requirement to schedule a non-con P4/ND team? They need to, as clearly Indiana is being rewarded for being gutless bullies.
  5. I keep seeing this thread with a star by it. “What in the hell did I say on that thread? Did I project this shitbag as being a successful hire at Auburn?” Whew.
  6. Is this a triple dog dare, sir?
  7. It wouldn’t surprise me. The media has been really down on Texas due to the weirdness of the schedule and the team’s behavioral profile. Texas is SEC Iowa this year is the analog many talking heads have used to either justify the premise that Texas is overranked or that Iowa should be ranked. I do think Iowa is a lot better than recent vintages, but that’s because I’ve actually gotten to watch them. They play their standard great defense and special teams, but the offense is developing into being fully competent. They didn’t look like that at the beginning of the season. The Wetjen dude is really fun to watch, also.
  8. JFC
  9. I think it was 16 games due to the UT win, no?
  10. HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!! Also, I've stood in the second level crowd of Bryant Denny Stadium when they sing Dixieland Delight after the 3rd quarter, which I don't think they do anymore. It was quite a thing to behold. Bucket list kind of thing for a sports fan to experience.
  11. I'm really hoping that Manning doesn't play tomorrow. It has nothing to do with how he's looked in prior games. It's just hard to believe that the guy will be fully healthy and able to run the offense in just 7 days from the injury. There's a bye week next week. Just take another 2 weeks to get fully healthy and ready for Georgia.
  12. Channel groups will often have disputes with a service provider, irrespective of whether they're carrying sports on those channels. I've seen it with whoever own the Food Network and also with CBS' parent, I guess Paramount?, at some point. The big ones we all see are always Disney and Fox, of course.
  13. How often do you have to clean your tinfoil hat in order to keep it from causing your scalp to itch?
  14. Excuse you, sir? I'll not sit idly by and watch Dixieland Delight's good name get besmirched by some Internet dandy. Apologize for this transgression or the consequences will be swift and decisive!
  15. I had Directv and YTTV subscriptions until this morning. I read about YTTV/Google thinking they could fuck with Disney on a CFB weekend. Went into the app to cancel, they'd removed the "Manage Membership" option. Gone. On both my phone and in the app on my Apple TV. I had to use go to tv.youtube.com in order knock it out. Took me less than 5 minutes and felt great. I hope millions more do the same. In this blame game, I blame the company that is already raising pricing again and thinking that they can just shut off about half, or more than half, of the reason I subscribed in the first place.
  16. With Bueckers gone, UConn is supposed to be even better? Wow.
  17. Dumdum didn't understand that the post he was responding to wasn't referring to OSU, but OU.
  18. Thinking about this as an upset weekend, I am with you. I have been thinking the same thing. It's just got one of those looks to it, whether it happens or not. Some that I think could make sense: -Memphis @ Rice - Rice isn't hot garbage this year and Memphis just played their game of the year. Memphis also has Tulane next week, so this is a sandwich game and it's one of those weird Friday night roadies, too. Memphis is a big favorite, so this is probably farfetched. -Duke @ Clemson - Clemson is giving 3.5 but they haven't looked like a good team all year. Duke isn't great, but they're good enough to make Clemson actually earn it, and that hasn't gone well with Clemson this season. -Navy @ UNT - Navy does not have a good defense. UNT has a great offense. I get why UNT is favored. That considered, Navy is well-coached and they have a strong offense that is tough to defend. -Miami @ SMU - SMU has plenty of talent and plenty to play for, and this is a home game. They're getting 12.5 points? Wow. I just feel like Cristobal has another headscratcher or two left to lose this season. -Texas Tech @ KSU - Another road team giving up a TD or more. Tech is another program that always seems to find ways to lose games like this when the expectations are on them to produce. KSU has put some wins together and gotten healthier. I don't, KSU getting 7.5 at home seems like a lot. -Virginia @ Cal - The road team is giving up 4.5. Cal doesn't suck. Wilcox is a damned good coach. The travel, the expectations, this just seems like destined for failure on the Virginia side. They've scraped by some tight games and now they have to make this trip? -USC @ Nebraska - Another home team getting roughly a touchdown. Riley versus Rhule? Give me Rhule. I feel like Nebraska should be the team giving 6.5. -Ga Tech @ NCSU - Again, a road team giving up a decent number at 5.5. NCSU has a history of winning games they shouldn't at home. This one screams upset too. None of these underdogs would surprise me with a win.
  19. It's not like the plane story was ever public. We gossipped about it on the recruiting board, if memory serves. The biggest thing regarding Herman's wife that was ever a public story was her alignment with Zach Smith's battered wife and her aiding the woman during times of need. Also, she was smoking hot. I think these things happen everywhere. Cleat chasers and coat chasers often become girlfriends, wives, mistresses, you name it. Hell, the shit that was out there about Barnes was as scandalous as any of this two decades ago. I assume if we were all USC or Georgia fans, we'd have stories like this about coaches and players there as well. I can tell you that the shit coming out of Bama for 18+ years behind the scenes absolutely holds a candle to anything we can throw out there right now. Kiffin was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time! Players couldn't get a drink at the table.
  20. He ended up being despised by everyone. The players, the administration, almost every booster he met, the media, the $9.95ers who held recruiting influence, the trainers/street agents, high school coaches, you name it. I think it just became a thing where no one wanted to deal with his shit anymore.
  21. Thanks for updating us on you've been up to lately, and congratulations. What does this post have to do with anything? Who was talking about "first" regarding this discussion? That's more incel "look at me" bandwidth drain from you. No one pays attention to your constant spewing of banal thoughts and your overall disdain for logic.
  22. Why is everyone avoiding the idea that the time out could have been for rehab and the family, employer and friends knew as much? Everyone drawing the conclusion that one of the possibilities was a bender but not examining a rehab notion is odd. I've always assumed the break was due to some bad old habits resurfacing and the guy needing a restart. You don't have to post every thought that springs to mind on this site for you. Holding back even a little would you avoid embarrassing posts like this. Broken hand or not, Thompson mostly played mediocre to poor. There's a reason he continued to fail downward with every new stop. He just wasn't very good.
  23. It’s a good description but I think the offense is better than that. They can actually move the ball. Wetjen is a witch on returns and a dynamic guy with the ball in his hands. I personally think they’re going to beat Oregon, but I don’t know if I would bet on it. Iowa is currently the team everyone is comparing to Texas in regard to rankings madness, saying they have a better resume. I think both deserve a late teens/early 20s rank and other programs that don’t do anything super well should be more deeply reviewed.
  24. I offer a ton of positions. Oddly, they’re not all going to be right. Shocking. Nonetheless, when I offer info that isn’t my own, whether it is related to recruiting or certain programs where I make it clear that the info is sourced, how often am I wrong? Can you idiots who bring out the “closetojumping predicted this thing incorrectly!” trope understand the difference? Doesn’t seem like it. That’s a you problem. I am also usually pretty obvious in differentiating between my own position and that which I am passing on. I try to compel people to take a position by taking my own and attempting to be provocative in doing so. I enjoy fomenting discussion on this site. One of the downsides is that I have to hear this bullshit every now and then from posters who have never once taken that chance in their entire posting history, like you, here.
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