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boilerhorn

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  1. RIP, Mike Leach. College Football - on and off the field - was better with you here.
  2. A Redditor posted a cut-paste from the MSU 247 board: The use of "disturbing details" makes it seem a little more dire than a medical issue. EDIT: that said, there are rumors of coding multiple times. I'd characterize that as disturbing. Prayers for Leach and his family.
  3. Is this the modern day equivalent of calling Deion an Uncle Tom?
  4. According to https://www.statesman.com/story/sports/college/football/2022/12/11/this-year-our-staff-heisman-trophy-voters-agreed-on-the-same-player/69716486007/ (paywalled). Bohls: 1- Duggan, 2 - Robinson, 3 - Williams Golden: 1 - Duggan, 2 - Robinson, 3 - Stroud Still looking for FCB's ballot. EDIT: Spoiler'd a cut-paste of what is paywalled. Somewhat banal, but it is Bohls and Golden.
  5. Here's a decent summary of the results: https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/heisman-trophy-2022-winner-voting-results/aj03p9wopvjvxgcrvbisudij Voting results: Finish Player Pos. School Points 1st 2nd 3rd 1 Caleb Williams QB USC 2,031 544 168 63 2 Max Duggan QB TCU 1,420 188 357 142 3 C.J. Stroud QB Ohio State 539 37 119 190 4 Stetson Bennett QB Georgia 349 36 65 111 5 Hendon Hooker QB Tennessee 226 17 47 81 6 Bryce Young QB Alabama 141 17 28 34 7 Blake Corum RB Michigan 125 8 25 51 8 Michael Penix Jr. QB Washington 114 9 20 47 9 Bijan Robinson RB Texas 75 4 12 39 10 Drake Maye QB North Carolina 42 3 6 21
  6. My first reaction, too. Then I realized that Musk (and his buddies and his creditors) just paid $44B to buy Twitter. He owns it. CU has given Sanders an annual $5mm promissory note to coach the team and his first actions as coach are to publicly run off whatever talent he's inherited. He's an employee. He could have introduced himself, discussed his philosophy, noted how he was going to interview and evaluate everyone, and fielded questions. Made it about the players and the team and, behind closed doors, remind the players that they helped get the previous guy fired. Expectations will be high, etc. etc. etc. In true Deion form, he made it about himself and went full-on mercenary mode.
  7. IIRC, it is the academic progress rate (APR) that is used to place 5-7 teams. I'm not going out on a limb to guess Rice has a better APR than the Aggies.
  8. I'm a bit conflicted, but it seems like a TD there is an asshole move.
  9. IMO, Purdue would beat both ISU and WVU. Using the Sagarin method for point spreads (which matches many opening lines), Purdue and ISU are a pick-em.
  10. Down 17, they'd need a FG at some point. Plus, perhaps some big donor has Purdue +16.5... And Brohm knows.
  11. And the incomplete pass earlier. They are garbage.
  12. Holy shit - that was a textbook case of targeting. I guess my textbook had a misprint.
  13. Usiung Sagarin rating as a basis, Purdue-ISU would be a pick-em. Purdue has some decent wins (Illinois and Minnesota) and some bad losses (Syracuse, Iowa). Every other Big12 team - except Kansas and WVU - would be favored over Purdue. TODAY, 4 of the other 6 Big10 West teams would be favored against Purdue. Go Boilers!
  14. 5th in completion %-age (Nix, DTR, Rising, Penix) 2nd in total yards (Penix) 1st in yards per attempt 1st in TD, fewest INT top passer rating. Who is better? Who would you rather have?
  15. Breech or breach? I think either works when Holgo is involved.
  16. Those numbers do include the signing bonuses. There was a major rework of the rookie salary scale a few years back. Numbers are much lower now, but 100% guaranteed. 2022 Top-5 picks got 4 years for $31-$37 - including all bonuses. For reference the top RB in 2021 (Harris) received 4-$12mm. Yes - there is risk if he stays and the numbers are 100% guaranteed. Unless he projects to the 2nd round (he should not), Bijan should go to the NFL.
  17. Not sure what it would cost, but that seems to be at the top end. RBs have much lower value in the modern NFL than in the past. Zero RBs were taken in the first round in 2022, but the top RB was Breece Hall. Bijan is *much* better than Hall. In the past few years, the following RBs were taken in the first round: 2022 - none 2021 - Naje Harris (24), Travis Etienne (25) 2020 - Edwards-Hellaire (32) 2019 - Jacobs (24) Let's assume that Bijan is picked #10 (which is optimistic based on recent draft history). He gets a 4-yr contract in the $22-24 million range. IMO, $6mm should easily keep him...
  18. To pile on the OL comments. It seems crystal clear that Sarkisian/Flood wanted to build and develop the OL their way: try to make chicken salad out of what they had and grow through recruiting. Looking at the 2-deep, Texas has 2 FR, 2 SO, and a RS Senior as starters. The 2nd team has 4 FR and a RS So. The FR will make mistakes. Where it has experience, this OL is bereft of ability. Baylor's OL looked pretty good yesterday against TCU. By comparison, Baylor has RS So, JR, SR, and 2 grad transfers as starters. The 2nd team has 2 FR, RS Sr, Jr, and a grad transfer. Those grad transfers are 5th year seniors. I think this OL will be dangerous in 1-2 years. The unwillingness to bring in OL mercenaries though the portal may have cost us a couple of games over the past couple of years, but I think the build strategy (vs. "buy") is sound.
  19. Predicting 8-4 before the season and being satisfied with 8-4 after the season is silly. Before the season, the only real context we had was that OU, OSU, Baylor, ISU, and KSU were decent in 2021 - and would likely be decent in 2022. Losses to Bama, two of those five and "one we shouldn't" would have Texas at 8-4. Reasonable pre-season prediction with zero in-season context. Having seen this Texas team and the pile of steaming mediocrity that is the Big12, there is no reason this team should have 3 conference losses, especially not to TTU and OSU. However, coaching tactics contributed to those losses and I guess we should be somewhat thankful that the coaches did not choke away a couple more. That said, this team would steamroll what Texas put on the field against LaLa last year. There is marked improvement.
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