Russia has to be one of the leaders in the clubhouse and even then it would only be just a few of the really top echelon. Ain’t no one opening the doors for the IRCG folks. “Never live your life where asylum in Moscow is a possibility” is solid life advice. But I think these people either crush the protests or or go down with the ship.
The Chinese might fly them somewhere but the CCP is not going to allow a bunch of Shia mullahs and IRGC types into China. Actually a really interesting theoretical on who might.
Tech had an elite defense this year; Bailey and Rodriguez are some of the best in the biz but there is also the scheduling piece. If you’re looking for other contenders, Indiana, Miami, and even that Oregon team you played are up there as well as tOSU.
Teaching my parrot to say “I deeply apologize for my words and pledge to work every day to demonstrate this incident does not define me” after I teach it to greet every woman with “hey sugar tits, do those legs go all the way up?”
Really insane numbers here from Indiana and hard not to think that this is a big reason why they play such controlled, mistake free ball. They are grownups.
At some point the center-left to left will need to determine whether it wants to increase the bargaining power of the American middle class workers and job seekers or if it wants to increase the bargaining power of the oligarch class and H1Bs are the starkest example of the dissonance on this. A non-insignificant number of middle class jobs in the U.S. are never even available for American citizens of any race, gender, whatever background to apply for.
Was thinking the same but he had 3 seasons as DC under Smart. And Parcells begat Belichek, and Belichek begat Saban, and Saban begat Smart, and Smart begat Lanning We all live in the world Tuna created.
To that note, wanting to move the game or Bigfooting it for CFP is also a subjective opinion based on personal biases. College football scheduling and playoff format is not a math problem, it’s all subjective.
Really fascinating to see the money man so clearly the face of the program and HC just a guy who stands on the sidelines. Very hard not to see shades of Jerrah and the Cowboys here. Lubbock is spiritually part of DFW so makes sense.
I said it will make the Army-Navy game worse without making college football better. But to the point— if think CFB is better when we don’t have a moment to all celebrate the uniqueness of the coolest and most meaningful game of all, then we just aren’t watching the same sport for the same reasons. I like that I don’t have to choose between Army-Navy and all the other rivalry games. It’s OK, team ESPN will win regardless.
No one wants to hear it but a major issue is that the NCAA doesn’t run the CFP, and it should have been given to them when a decision was made to go away from BCS. They manage to put on competitive, watchable, fun tournaments in every other sport and at lower levels of football that balance accessibility with a good product. That’s why you need a governing body, not a bunch of self-interested execs grubbing and fussing. I don’t think that solutions that downgrade, discourage, or eliminate traditional rivalries are the fix. College football won’t get better by fewer people watching Army-Navy, it will just make Army-Navy worse. Lots of parallels between boxing at its height and FBS IMO, that can lead to a collapse in cultural relevancy even as the money washes around. No decent governing body and an unsatisfactory title system; perverse incentives for big names to duck each other; too many cooks in the kitchen fighting over purses, obsession with immediate TV payouts and not long-term fan interest.
The best part of this is that she is displaying an internal Russian passport that they use to keep tabs on where you are inside Russia and not the external one where you’re allowed to leave.
Elite on one side of the ball, pretty good on the other. A season where you mostly only played teams that were a level or several levels beneath you talent-wise. Played a very good team, kept making mistakes, things snowballed and you looked much less competitive than you could have. This is not at all an unusual outcome. Oregon is a program in particular that has seen it happen to them a few times in years past.