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  1. Relevant: Fucking MBA brain. Every gotdamn. Time: “What if we don’t prepare the food and just have our customers cut their own salads” made it out of committee.
  2. Sark’s squat game is weak. On the balls of his feet. Temporary, appears to be crouching in fear. As an Armenian he should have been in close enough proximity to use the superior, menacing gopnik Slav squat. Flat-footed: you don’t need a chair in Eastern Europe. In your face, unafraid. Bringing a “about to smash you in the face with a cheap vodka bottle” vibe to the function. Blyad.
  3. I’ll be curious to watch Klein. Elko gave up quite a bit of his value to increase the assistant pool and incentives. Klein can afford to wait for the right time and job— but far from a guarantee next year’s roster and schedule will make him look as sexy as this year’s. But if OSU isn’t ready to up its game to play with the Techs and BYUs of the Big XII, that’s a P5 job that can kill a career on the vine.
  4. HR and its splinter sects needs to be mercilessly suppressed as a foreign and anti-American practice and ideology. Hire a talented manager of anything, aligned with organization goals, and pay them well to run personnel departments. Give them some employment lawyers and clerks and let them figure it out.
  5. Oregon looks pretty good vs the others in this chart. Mostly green. - You can color 31 SOS red and color 27 SOS green but the difference is negligible. Four spots of difference out of 120+ FBS teams. That’s not an important gap and without common opponents it becomes self-referential anyway. The committee will not see a meaningful difference and neither should an observer. - Best win for Ducks is Iowa and best win for BYU is Utah. Ok, tells me nothing. Likewise the IU vs. Tech loss. Every year and every ranking style it’s the same shit: complaints about where individual teams fall, but almost no one bothers to actually restack and show their work. Team X is “overrated” but no one can explain who really belongs ahead. Offer a 25 team ranking that you feel is more defensible before you slam the one that you see, or call a team overrated. After 5-6 or so, I PROMISE I can find stats to trot out showing why you’re probably at least as wrong as the ranking you dont like: It’s absolutely baked in to trying to rack and stack 25 out of 120+. If I were sports media tsar I would ban hot takes about where a team deserves to be unless the commenter offers up his own full list and shows his work.
  6. To broaden the aperture: 3/6 of the top half of the bracket are not blue bloods. Add Tech and Oregon in there too. All with key portal additions. It may not happen this year; it will happen one year. Playoffs make it weird. 2023 recruiting rankings are pointless. Who is stil on the roster? Who got brought in? The churn is unbelievable.
  7. That is a long and well-thought out post. I think the key difference you’re not accounting for is the portal and how it changes the game. The model of “stack five stars, keep them and roll a three deep” isn’t the model. It’s “sign as many 5 stars as you can. Dump the dead weight and rob G5/lower tier P4 for the gems you missed the first go-round.” And that is a different game that involves money, planning, and timing more like a pro team than the old model. Keeping a 5* mid on roster does nothing when you can go get a former 3* who busted out. You can’t project next year’s roster. In Jan. 25, Texas had a much better WR room than A&M. Now you would absolutely trade for ours straight up. No honest poster on this board will deny that. Will you next year? Maybe. Maybe not. The point is, a smart team and coach can create their own WR room and pass the team who stocked the blue chips. Likewise with OL. Two of our starters are transfers. The unit is a Joe Moore semi-finalist. We didn’t get all those guys in HS. We took nthem from Kansas and Utah. Colin Simmons is a future first rounder you signed in HS. Cashius Howell is a likely first rounder we stole from Bowling Green. It doesn’t make a a shit how they got on the field. What matters is the sacks and TFL they deliver now. There is another Howell out there and someone will grab him. You can shit on Tech’s recruiting but Bailey is a first rounder. Rodriguez is having the best season for an MLB since Teo. The gap isn’t near as big as you think it is.
  8. As best as I can tell, ESPN accounts for momentum by updating their model in-game based on previous plays/drives as they happen. What fans and even players feel as “momentum” is a descriptive feeling of what has happened and doesn’t have predictive power. Which makes a lot of sense, as we all can remember when our team had ALL the “momentum” and then suddenly the other team “grabbed it back” with an ill-timed INT, or fumble, or explosive play, or ST mistake, or great defensive stand, or soul-crushing long drive. The models can’t account for momentum but they come closer at explaining how likely it is that the other team does something like the above.
  9. ESPN has a vast set of data and it updates algorithmically. A huge portion is historical data— similar scores, similar points on field at gametime, home vs away and also includes FPI data for relative team strength/weakness. 25 percent is probably about right for a team that has trailed most of the game, away, late in the 3rd. I understand the analytics geeks admit that models collapse in tight games late in the 4th through overtime.
  10. I think you’re right and that’s a good call. Plus— salad bar. Thought about McAllister’s too but don’t recall if they have breakfast.
  11. Let’s be objective: Texas did (and still does) get credit for that. Last week Texas was the highest ranked two-loss team in the CFP rankings, ahead of several one loss teams. Squarely in the field for the CFP, even with the ACC and G5 participants. In fact, it can be fairly said that the tOSU loss wasn’t punishing Texas, although it wasn’t rewarded as a win. Had that been the only L on the schedule Texas would maybe have been the highest 1L team, and in the bye. This week: Texas is the highest 3 loss team in the rankings. Ahead of name brands like Michigan with fewer losses. A small but existent path to the playoff. The 2L teams in front of you have excellent to good wins: USC, Bama, Mizzou, Notre Dame, Georgia, Tennessee, among others. All teams currently ranked in the CFP. They don’t have losses to sub-.500 teams, they don’t have non-competitive losses, they have mostly put away inferior teams in regulation. There’s no unfair treatment here. Texas is in the mix with teams that have fewer losses and well ahead any other 3 loss teams that are all well and truly out of the convo. They are getting credit foe that schedule.
  12. lol, she knows she give him any time to even take a gotdam phone call; it might be one of his kids getting coached by a hostage therapist.
  13. If I’m trying to keep myself alive and decently functional for a year, Panera Bread is a good bet. Breakfast, soups, salads, sandwiches, fruit cups, and they do lots of limited menu items so you can break the monotony. With effort you can design a decently healthy diet. The problem is I don’t ever “want” anything from there, Panera Bread is just a place I end up sometimes, somehow.
  14. All these intricate helmets are designed for the insta reveal and not the game. Many such cases.
  15. I need more Belichek-Jordon storylines. He has to stay at UNC another year. I’m just not done, I’m sorry. I need that OTL.
  16. Teams and storylines to watch: - Ole Miss: This is a team that seems solidly in the playoffs but Joey Freshwater has introduced a lot of needless drama. What if the distraction leads to a flop in the Egg Bowl? What if he calls a bluff and bails before the CFP? Long shot, high stakes. Ingredients are there for a spectacular explosion but will someone light the fuse? - Bama: Not in danger— yet. But DeBoer teams don’t have the killer instinct. Bama went from weeks of the most impressive football in the country and Heisman play from Simpson to mortal. There are rivalries where the better team usually wins, and there are rivalries where all bets are off: the Iron Bowl is the latter. Also intriguing is the possibility of a non-competitive CCG loss to drop to three losses. - Oregon and USC: A great race between old and new money to win the PAC-10. Wait, no. A race to be the third Big 10 team in. What are we doing? Anyway, Oregon can finish strong with wins over USC and Washington to maybe angle for a top 5 seed. USC can spoil that and get a CFP appearance for the first time by beating Oregon. Great, high-stakes football between two talented but not quite elite teams. - ACC Chaos: Who wants to win here? Miami has the longest odds of contenders but will be the angriest if a two loss ND gets in ahead of them. GaTech can beat Pitt and get to the CCG. Other teams need help along the way, including the aforementioned Pitt, Virginia, and even SMU still lurking. This race is wide open, and the champ will likely not be the highest ranked team. Such are superconferences. -Texas: To stay alive they have to thump—not just best— A&M in Austin. Oh, and also avoid a letdown against Arkie. Should be easy, right? The voices will be loud, but the non-competitive loss at UGA means a showout against A&M is needed; and even then it may not be enough. The loss to tOSU isn’t the killer. Rather, its the Florida game and the UGA result. The committee looks at that and sees a team that had a late-season shot at a top-tier team, and just didn’t match up.
  17. Rankings out. I thought there might be a chance UGA passed A&M but last week the committee praised Indiana’s grittiness in overcoming a struggle against a talented team that didn’t live up to its preseason billing—- so tough to reverse course out of that. I continue to be unpersuaded by anti-ND takes. I can see bumping up Bama a spot, maybe, and if Miami is sitting pretty at the end it will be a discussion. Other than that, no team behind them with a solid argument for a better resume or eye test. Pitt and USC are good wins, their losses aren’t bad, and they have handled business against P5 opponents across the board. And Navy is beginning to look like a top-tier G5 win. 1. Ohio State (10-0) 2. Indiana (11-0) 3. Texas A&M (10-0) 4. Georgia (9-1) 5. Texas Tech (10-1) 6. Ole Miss (10-1) 7. Oregon (9-1) 8. Oklahoma (8-2) 9. Notre Dame (8-2) 10. Alabama (8-2) 11. BYU (9-1) 12. Utah (8-2) 13. Miami (8-2) 14. Vanderbilt (8-2) 15. USC (8-2) 16. Georgia Tech (9-1) 17. Texas (7-3) 18. Michigan (8-2) 19. Virginia (9-2) 20. Tennessee (7-3) 21. Illinois (7-3) 22. Missouri (7-3) 23. Houston (8-2) 24. Tulane (8-2) 25. Arizona State (7-3)
  18. Gonna be very sad if it’s not a possum.
  19. Everyone dunked on Mike Pence for his “no dinners with women without Mother” but on the other hand people understate how aggressively some young women go after silver foxes with a bit of power.
  20. Man, truly sucks when your HC is borking the best season ever by basically checking out at the key moment to flirt with major rivals’ coaching gig. As an Aggie I’m really glad I haven’t gone through that in the past two years.
  21. She wants to be Joan Didion, and is failing. And she’s not close to Hemingway.
  22. It is 2025. The king is gilding the throne room and his physician recommends cures and potions. The peasants are tied to the soil paying rents to the great lords (50 year mortgages). The head of the war council is in his cups. Plagues ravage the land. Medieval ass country.
  23. Y’all need to be following the Olivia Nuzzi shit. She’s cashed in on the RFK dalliance, with a book (“American Canto”) and fawning NYT and Vanity Fair profiles about her complicated and beautiful life. Then her ex dropped that she also banged SC governor Mark Sanford (who she wrote a profile on) and also was Keith Olbermann’s sugar baby for years. And she wrote this:
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