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#10 Florida St v. Georgia Tech from Dublin, ESPN
Voluminous Banality replied to shadow_operative2.0's topic in Football
Surly before the game: The line is way too high. Taking GT and the points all the way. After one FSU drive: This game is over. Tech fans, hide your women and children. After one Georgia Tech drive: I fucking told you!!!- 698 replies
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Does Velton Gardner play with a chip on his shoulder? Does he get the defense riled up during practice? Can we pencil him in as our short yardage and goal line back, having scored a grand total of one touchdown in his career? Is he the vibe? Until we can answer all of these in the affirmative AND he becomes a burgeoning fat ass with anger issues, let's hold off on anointing him as the next Savion Red. Make the man earn his stripes.
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This isn't that hard to figure out. Is it dumb? Yes, it's dumb. It was probably easier to ask parents to approve all subject material rather than wrangle in the legislature over what specific subjects need parental approval. Or possibly this is some asshole administrator's clever way of protesting or of screwing with everyone with the implementation, in which case, props to that guy.
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2024 Fall Camp Thread - Bubble Wrap ALL THE RB
Voluminous Banality replied to texifornia's topic in Football
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2024 Fall Camp Thread - Bubble Wrap ALL THE RB
Voluminous Banality replied to texifornia's topic in Football
Mea culpa. I was going for brevity, but that was definitely an inexcusable omission. You'll also be interested to know that 'troglodyte' has blown up in the last 25 years. Coincidence? I think not. -
2024 Fall Camp Thread - Bubble Wrap ALL THE RB
Voluminous Banality replied to texifornia's topic in Football
I love how sports message boards are bringing back classic words lost to the literarily unversed modern reader. CTJ pulling weight here.- 1987 replies
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2024 Fall Camp Thread - Bubble Wrap ALL THE RB
Voluminous Banality replied to texifornia's topic in Football
A couple of weeks ago, before Machinator's return, you might have been first with this.- 1987 replies
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2024 Fall Camp Thread - Bubble Wrap ALL THE RB
Voluminous Banality replied to texifornia's topic in Football
Savion Red is quite possibly the most overhyped, barely three-star, consensus #1414-rated recruit of all time. In a heated recruiting battle, Texas beat out Kansas, SMU, and Mississippi Valley State for his services. In two years with the Longhorns, Red totaled 131 rushing yards, more than half of which came against Texas Tech in the late 3rd and 4th quarters of a 57-7 blowout. After two seasons of ascent, Red managed to climb to 5th or 6th on the depth chart before transferring to Alabama Nevada where, reportedly, Red has been equally impressive and has been praised for his “moxie” and for “getting the defense riled up” during practice. This underwhelming list of achievements hasn’t kept half of Surly from ruing Red’s unfulfilled potential and devastating departure from the program. Even before the injuries to Baxter and Clark, these talent-evaluating cognoscenti would have gladly shipped off Jake Majors and Michael Taaffe to secure Red’s return. Taking injuries into account, they wouldn’t hesitate to throw in Hayden Conner.- 1987 replies
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Voluminous Banality replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Many posters here have a hard time separating their strong political leanings from objective analysis. It wasn't my intention to set forth a premise on the attribution of credit for gains in net US export of petroleum across some decades. I was responding to a tweet which misrepresented data from 2017-2023 and that was the extent of my response. Reading comprehension is key and my limited analysis was entirely correct. The original tweet by Rattner was misleading and the data was badly presented. It's possible to recognize this and still give Obama credit for the recovery in US oil net exports if that's how you wish to interpret the data. Understanding the data first is a good starting point whomever you support. -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Voluminous Banality replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Correct. The dude has now shifted to, "Well, Trump doesn't get credit for the increase in net exports during his term because he did fuck all." 🤦♂️ The original tweet was stupid and misleading, period. That's all I'm responding to, since someone asked. -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Voluminous Banality replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Correct, it's literally the flip side which I literally just said. It's evident that you neither understand the original tweet nor anything I've posted, so this is a good place to end the exchange. -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Voluminous Banality replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
I didn't miss the point of the tweet. To answer in the terms that you are using, in 3 years, Trump got us 90% of the way to becoming a net exporter of petroleum. In the next 3 years, Biden pushed us the final 10% across the line. You are right, of course, that it's not all about Trump and Biden, but this data hardly supports chest-beating over Biden's over-performance in this regard. -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Voluminous Banality replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Yes, you don't understand it. You posted a chart showing petroleum imports drastically decreasing between 2017-2020 and then decreasing at a slower rate after 2020: That corresponds to a rapid INCREASE in net exports or DECREASE in net export deficit from 2017 followed by a much SLOWER increase in net exports from 2020-2023: In other words, the chart you posted perfectly supports the statistical (non-political) point I was making. If you still don't understand it, that's okay. Have a good day. -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Voluminous Banality replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
It's not bullshit. Your'e not understanding the chart. Net exports between 2017-2020 rose by approximately 9 quadrillion Btu. Between 2020-2023, they rose by approximately 1.2 quadrillion Btu. I'm not even making a political point. I'm just responding to a statistical pet peeve. It's literally statistics 101. -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Voluminous Banality replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
For those like Steven Rattner who don't know how to read a chart, this is what the chart is really showing. I don't even care about the point he is trying to make, but the horrendous data presentation cannot be abided. -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Voluminous Banality replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Assuming that these numbers are accurate, net oil and petroleum exports increased under Trump by roughly 9 quadrillion Btu in the 3 years between 2017-2020 (3 quadrillion Btu per year). Under Biden, it increased by around 1.2 quadrillion Btu in the 3 years from 2020-2023 (0.4 quadrillion Btu per year). So more than 7 times the net increase annually under Trump as under Biden, which you would expect given their respective policies. Not making a political point, just a statistical one. People need to learn how to read charts better. For a New York Times contributing writer, that is either an embarrassing misinterpretation or an egregious misrepresentation of the data. -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Voluminous Banality replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Voluminous Banality replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
I don't disagree with you, but we're looking at it as college football fans. KFord is just using a formula weighted for competitiveness and quality. Nebraska has been anything but quality the last several years; they've been abjectly terrible. They haven't won more than 3 conference games or more than 5 games overall since 2016. -
Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Voluminous Banality replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
This ranking is based on a blend of "projected quality and competitiveness." The spread in those games (Texas-Florida/Arkansas) is projected to be high, thus making the games less "watchable" (according to this ranking). The spread factor is the same reason that aggy is on the list 6 times, including games against Auburn, Florida, and Missouri. aggy will be mediocre and those three teams will also be mediocre, so the spread in those games is projected to be low. The list doesn't suggest that aggy will be playing in a lot of huge games, just that they are in the middle of the pack and will be playing other teams around the middle or above them in the rankings. Thus those games are ranked as "watchable," despite being matchups of average teams. Similarly, the "projected quality" factor is why Texas appears four times in the top-10 while most of aggy's appearance are on the bottom half of the list. -
Texas Baseball 2025 - Your SEC regular season champions!!
Voluminous Banality replied to petscii's topic in Baseball
People who didn't want to be great: every national champion in the three major men's sports for the past 85 years. 😄 -
2024 Transfer Thread - The Pedantic Circlejerk
Voluminous Banality replied to closetojumping's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Deboer must have had a Herman-esques initial team meeting. Deboer at first Alabama team meeting, probably: -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Voluminous Banality replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
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As much as I'd like to pile on, give credit where credit is due. Eyeball test puts this at around 60 degrees.
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You watched that giant goober flounder around in the booth for several minutes like an upright beached whale and that was your takeaway? Did he even answer a single question without leading with, "Yeah . . .," followed by boilerplate clichés? His profound recruiting insight, delivered in monotone: "We will recruit players in Texas; we will recruit players outside of Texas." He then capped off that painfully colorless commentary with kudos to Elijah Robinson for "holding it together during some very difficult times" and a recap of his inspirational introductory message to the team which basically consisted of, "Let's go be what we should be that we haven't been"? That's the guy you thought did well in the booth and didn't sound like an Ag?
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