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Slorch, it is sending me that you’re looking at a packed lot near a major airport and you immediately think the hotel is offering a parking and shuttle benevolence service for people who craftily found a way out of using The Parking Spot. I promise that the owners of that lot are getting paid. If it’s pissing you off that you don’t have a good spot, go down and bitch to the manager that more spaces need to be reserved for guests or leave a Google review or whatever. It’s very likely that the margins on a “use at your own risk uncovered parking spot” approach or even exceed housing a hotel guest with a free spot and a continental breakfast tho.
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
956 Worldwide replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
And most times the new school will cover the cost of the buyout as part of the new contract with the coach. Just depends how badly they want the corch. -
Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
956 Worldwide replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
No notes, 10/10 on how we are living in the enshittening era. -
Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
956 Worldwide replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
Hugh Freeze everyone. “I don’t wanna poor-mouth Jackson, but he is the reason I got fired.” -
Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
956 Worldwide replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
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I should rephrase— tOSU is hurting you but it’s not at all clear that replacing a tOSU loss with “automatic” is a real difference maker. There’s lots of alternatives in there— if OU and Texas swap OOC opponents and results Texas is in, and beating Michigan at home is easier than beating OSU in Columbus, but that’s an imaginary scenario that didn’t happen, just like swapping SEC schedules with other SEC contenders didn’t happen and is an imaginary discussion point. I do think that saying UT-OU-Bama is “far more likely” is way overstating the likelihood, since the committee has shown ample willingness to throw out H2H. Especially since replacing tOSU with a patsy damages your SOS and doesn’t really help your SOR vice those teams. The best you can say is “it’s a possibility.” Which I concur with. And of course the big hypothetical here that no one considers is that Texas could have won that game. Based on how the committee treated tOSU and Tennessee last year, that could easily have resulted in a home playoff game spot for a two-loss Texas against G5/ACC and so there’s a more than a little desire to have cake and eat it here.
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
956 Worldwide replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
One of my favorite artifacts of that era is a grumpy LA Times column bemoaning that USC hired Carroll instead of Franchione. -
Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
956 Worldwide replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
I can’t think of a direct equivalent to what is happening to them. Their 2026 class is going to be entirely what they get in the portal and any leftovers from ESD. Or walk-ons. On numbers for depth alone it’s gonna be a disaster. -
Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
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James Franklin currently has a top 25 class at VaTech and PSU signed one recruit. -
I mean this is kind of semantics though because the committee is pretty opaque about what metrics are most important. In the rankings as released Texas is located in the middle of a bunch of 10-2 and 11-1 teams so the refrain “only the loss column matters” is false: Texas is ranked higher than teams with fewer losses and so by definition there is more going on.
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None of this can be “proven or disproven” but there are a few pieces of evidence and facts. Hypothetical: Texas played and convincingly beat a middling G5 or bad P4 team in week one instead of losing to OSU. Let’s use . . . 7-5 CUSA LaTech as a stand-in. - FACT: Texas is the lone three loss team in the top 15 of these rankings. Functionally, they are being treated like a two loss team. - FACT: Bama, OU, ND, Miami, Vandy are all jostling as two loss teams for a spot. That’s Texas’ current competition as a three loss team. - FACT: A two loss team or three loss Texas needs to be ranked 10 or higher to get in. The last two slots are going to be G5/ACC champ or G5. - FACT: The committee has no issue looking beyond H2H for these rankings, although it’s not guaranteed they will. - Justified conjecture: The committee is not going to give the SEC 6/12 slots in the CFP absent an extremely odd and compelling circumstance. Texas is in a spot with UGA, OM, Bama, OU, A&M, and Vandy and two are getting left out. Less justified conjecture: think the committee looks barely considers OOO wins against inferior comp. A loss will hurt but winning certainly gives you no credit. So let’s presume an identical record and a 42-10 win over LaTech in place of the tOSU loss. In fact, some teams have pretty compelling cases to still be ahead of Texas right now. - Bama finished above Texas in the SEC standings. The record against common opponents is identical (2-1) and Bama’s win over UGA is the strongest. ‘Bama’s loss to FSU came week zero and not midseason. FSU slumped but they had a talented roster, and UT played LaTech that week. It is very easy to give them the nod based on conference standings. - OU has a weaker case but they still have one. They certainly get to point to an early W against Michigan as more valuable than a win against LaTech. They have no loss against an unranked team. They have a road win against Bama as strong as Texas’ versus A&M. Texas has the Vandy win and the H2H. This is a hypothetical, maybe the H2H carries the day, maybe it doesn’t. It’s in no way “proven” either way. - Vandy: Texas would for sure be above Vandy. But Texas is already above Vandy. Scheduling LaTech gets you nothing. -ND: You say a 10-2 Texas with a loss to Florida and win vs G5 is ranked above ND. I say: if it comes down to ND vs. a sixth SEC team, the smart money bets ND. The case is not near as clear-cut as people are making it out to be. It basically hinges on the committee choosing to reward H2H vs OU abd that is not at all a sure proposition.
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LOL, letting AI do this is basically giving the decision making power to message boards with an extra step involved.
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Yeah, that was totally my dumbness. But— tolerance for crazy and difficult in a woman plunges quickly as she approaches 40, especially if it’s not directed at a pre-existing partner with obligations. You can’t be 39 and bringing 27 year old drama to a man with options.
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This guy is heading into his 40s single, a partner at law firm, rich enough to fund destination weddings and expensive mental treatment, and public receipts of supporting a difficult ex. And he seems pretty tall. He is about to clean up if he wants to. She is flying into late 40s with a public history of abrasiveness, airing of mental illness in the NYT and a high-stress spotlight job that led to a breakdown and then blowing up her marriage. It’s about to get much worse for her. Lots of nerdy dudes sell themselves at the dip in their twenties cause they don’t have the patience to get into their 30s. This is a windfall, best-case scenario for him.
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