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boilerhorn

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  1. Observations on LSU/OU: Both teams are really very mediocre. Both teams are not very football smart. Van Buren would be Texas's 5th option at QB Venables seems like he's not a very smart man. Camera men and producers did a good job finding random attractive women in the crowd. Made the game more watchable.
  2. I am not sure how any sane person could watch any of BYU, Miami, or Michigan and conclude, "Yes, they are superior to Texas." Of course, tOSU are solving the Michigan problem for us.
  3. Yeah - agree. That said, it seemed to be a call they could have let go - just a warning not to do it again.
  4. Beck sucks. Pitt playing stupid. And refs have their thumbs on the scale. ACC will not let Miami lose this. See 2023 FSU/Louisville and 2024 ACC champ game.
  5. How was he not ejected for that?
  6. I missed the joke, too. He did play; we just kicked his ass. Funny - I even posted the DJ Campbell cut w/ him owning Howell.
  7. Call him and tell him to meet you for the back 9.
  8. Wisner looked faster, stronger, and more decisive in this game than any other game this season. He's definitely an Aggy killer.
  9. The networks will be very interested in (and invested in) the OOC scheduling references/suggestions. 2024 Week 2, Texas/Michigan: 9.19M 2025 Week 1 TV ratings/viewers: Texas-Ohio State (FOX): 16.623M Notre Dame-Miami (ABC, Sunday): 10.800M Alabama-Florida State (ABC): 10.700M LSU-Clemson (ABC): 10.400M TCU-North Carolina (ESPN, Monday): 6.184M South Carolina-Virginia Tech (ESPN, Sunday): 5.400M Georgia Tech-Colorado (ESPN, Friday): 3.700M Nebraska-Cincinnati (ESPN, Thursday): 3.300M South Dakota-Iowa State (FOX): 3.044M Auburn-Baylor (FOX, Friday): 2.832M Syracuse-Tennessee (ABC): 2.600M Some other random OOC games Michigan - OU: 9.7M UND-aTm: 6.2M Wisconsin-Bama: 4.5M ISU-Iowa: 4.28M SJSU - Texas: 3.7M If Texas had scheduled Purdue or Michigan State instead of tOSU in week 1, Texas now sits at 10-2 and that game likely sees around 10M fewer viewers. The networks would not appreciate it...
  10. My comment was about the distraction Brian Kelly might cause by accompanying his son on senior day - and thinking about the impact to the *other* seniors being honored on senior day. There was a non-zero chance it became a fiasco.
  11. Texas would end up... Opp Win Pct: 0.504 - 9th above - (SJSU, UTEP, and SHSU are a combined 7-26; add in UF and Ark: 12-43) SOS: 10 - 3rd SOR: 13 - 12 Wins vs top 25: 2 - T4 Before playing aTm. Opponent's win percentage in games Texas won: 0.421 - 0.468 discounting their losses to Texas.
  12. Roads, schools, and hospitals will suffer for the next decade. Worth it for them , though.
  13. I did a quick search - roughly $30mm. $500k per month for 5 years. I actually thought Smith would be competent there. Funny - some MSU fans were hopeful that Oregon State would take him off their hands.
  14. This looks like a solid hire for Oregon State. Vigen replaced Choate when Choate joined the Texas staff in 2021. Vigen was 47-10 at Montana State.
  15. IIRC, that is after the 2024 game. In 2023, FAU beat USF 52-14. Herman left the starting QB in during the 4th quarter and had him throwing, too. I guess Golesh did not take kindly to it and brushed him off.
  16. Seems like a good hire. Let's hope the AD went to Sam's and purchased a few crates of bleach to sanitize the place after Petrino is gone. I suspect the Waltons could donate it, too, as part of their benevolence.
  17. Driving from Fort Collins to the Denver airport takes as long as getting from airport parking or rental return to the gate. May actually be more convenient - DIA access-wise - to live in FC than in Littleton, for example.
  18. Understood - I want to see them all season. The challenge with the evolution toward 1-2 16-28 team super-conferences is that future historical records will approach 0.500. Outliers will approach 60% wins. It will be interesting to see what happens to donations, NIL, etc. when 10 wins becomes an anomaly for the top teams. There are not enough children's hospitals in Louisiana or enough treated lumber customers in Alabama to support such a thing. Edited to add - all records are 0.500 (duh), but the top-28 to 32 teams are well above that...
  19. The only ones in favor of G5 inclusion are lawyers, the people who pay lawyers, and the conferences who *might* have to pay damages. Otherwise, it's a waste of a playoff slot.
  20. High quality entertainment and opposition for the fanbase. A home-and-home with tOSU is better than 2 home games with Rice.
  21. Wow. Maxwell. My father grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, and attended Pitt for 1 or 2 semesters. After his first Calculus class, he concluded he was not yet mature enough for college and enlisted in the USAF (or he did not understand the language of maths). He drove a desk for the Air Force near Washington, DC during some of the Vietnam War. He was always clear that he was an "Era Veteran" not an actual Veteran of the War. As I got older, I understood the distinction. After his stint in the Air Force in Virginia, he worked at Burroughs Corporation, stationed at Maxwell, later Maxwell-Gunter, in Montgomery, AL, where he wrote operating systems software for the Burroughs mainframes. We lived there for 7 years, while he worked and got 2 business degrees at Auburn University at Montgomery. Moved to Austin at that point...
  22. Every time I think, "Hey maybe I should consider a Tesla in my auto search..." I come back to this thread. Stream of consciousness after catching up.... Nope. Scratch Tesla off the list. Why do I have that stupid thought? what was done to USAID is criminal Confederacy of Dunces is wonderful on audiobook. abebooks.com is a good resource for used books - you can often find books for under $4, shipping included. In some cases, those books are sourced by Half Price Books, but you could not pay $4 to get them in store I am not sure why Elmo keeps touting FSD, especially with the obvious successes of Waymo and Zoox. Aptiv (nee Delco), Mercedes Benz, etc. are also developing autonomous technology. Elmo keeps talking about it and delivering garbage. Tesla's FSD sucks. Waymo seems to be doing fine with it.
  23. LSU made the right decision to keep his father away if that's how the son is going to behave. "Free BK" and "my boy" - Jeebus, be your own man.
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