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  1. The entire NSS is a shift from viewing strategic interests in a long-term national lens to viewing the survival and expansion of Trumpian populism internally and externally as the overarching strategic imperative. For analysis on the NSS I would slightly caution seeking out lawyers or law blogs. The apparatus has long been (IMO) over-lawyered especially as ossification set in. One of the hallmarks of the new set is a pretty firm rejection of legally influenced thinking.
  2. Lack of character limits has really hurt his ability to penetrate social consciousness because no one wants to read walls of unformatted texts. The semi-correct placement of quotes around “aura” to signify its use in the pop-culture lingo sense was jarring here TBH.
  3. Lee Pace is great and he’s a current favorite “that guy” actor.
  4. That was the only thing I actually thought was a cool addition to the series. It’s clear the series didn’t have the budget to do a space epic right and so it turned into a lot of characters talking to each other. The books are OK for long plane rides.
  5. I Am Legend gutted a good premise and turned it into a very forgettable zombie movie. Forrest Gump is a pretty crass and frankly stupid book that was turned into a too-saccharine and also stupid movie.
  6. JMU’s fan account is doing amazing work on Twitter.
  7. The NIT is actually for the big boys who aren’t at the top of their conferences and the real dance extends auto-invites to champs of mid-major conferences. Because David v Goliath is actually a fun story and people like it. Because sometimes a 14 from a tiny conference knocks off a number 3 from a power conference, just like how G5 teams won 4/11 NY6 bowls and will one day be the best part of the CFP when they win a game. I really think most people don’t actually like college sports. Or rather, artificial consensus has been manufactured by sports talking heads who are reading a script.
  8. I want to see the academies blow this shit up. I want them to waive the service requirements for a short window and go buy some national championships and make it so miserable for the rest of the NCAA that we all just reset the sport for a bit, then the academies will too. ”Tell General Dynamics that they are buying us a football team. Yeah, put the NIL costs as a line item in the Virginia-class sub procurement. No one will notice it there. 50 million, 100 million, whatever. And tell that cornerback that we can put his name on a guided missile cruiser but we want all of the Clemson backfield to transfer with him for an aircraft carrier.”
  9. An expanded field of 12 is already a charity case except for programs that don’t need it, it’s going to be stocked with teams that don’t really have a chance. Last year only two games in the CFP were wins by less than double digits. We also got two games in the playoffs by fewer than double digits in both 2023 and 2024, out of only 3 games. The idea that the CFP is going to deliver great football games is untested at best.
  10. It is New Year’s Day 1991. Your eyes are blurry as you come to in your buddy’s S-10 in the parking lot of the Cotton Bowl. ”Hey man, you kind of overdid with the beers in there, I know the game sucked. What the hell were you talking about? ‘Private equity’ buying the Big 10? ‘Venmoing’ a ‘collective’ to get a seventh year senior DT from Middle Tennessee in a ‘portal’? Just recline the seat and chill out.” The future must not come to pass. The SWC must be saved.
  11. Super cool to see something that belongs to taxpayers (the Ute brand) get sold to PE and it’s somehow mitigating that if it all goes sideways a taxpayer owned institution has the right to buy it back.
  12. It was also really fucking boring to watch Alabama get meticulously dismantled by UGA and BYU look like dogshit on toast against Tech for the second time. And yet one of them got in and the other would be under these rules. If anything the lower half of the at-large bracket is equally capable of looking inept against the real class of CFB. JMU’s run is creating new college football fans for life and that’s more than a worthy trade off for yet another P4 second-tier team that is only a bit less of a charity case sitting out one year. The rules and selection committee get tweaked every year even more in favor of the helmet schools after some program with stacks of hardware and lauded recruiting classes and all the resources like ND or Bama or FSU melts down, and it’s beyond unseemly. The deck is already stacked one way, and it ain’t for the G5 programs.
  13. A detente with the ACC is most likely, the ACC is a tenuous conference that needs ND quite a bit. As noted today— most ACC games are well under capacity but 90 percent of games with ND are sold out. The highest watched ACC tilt was an OOC game with ND. GameDay only came to the ACC for an ND matchup. And this year the ACC needed that win over ND to even get a team in the playoff. Very well could have been Vandy or Texas if Miami didn’t have the signature non-conference win. And the media rights of an ACC with this agreement are worth quite a bit more with ND than without. Likely the message has landed that in future years the league can toot its own horn but has to be careful of the framing.
  14. The G5 is not the enemy and kicking them out to make way for the sixth place SEC team that doesn’t need the cash infusion to stay afloat is short sighted and makes college football worse, not better .
  15. You’ll be able to link your CC to place a prop on whether you have to crack the seal before midway through the seconds quarter. Diamond Piss Partners enjoy line cutting privileges and priority access when the other team’s band is playing.
  16. Or the bean counters come with a proposal to move the CFB season to the spring.
  17. They will install pay toilets or some shit at the stadium. The fan experience is about to plummet. Hope Utes enjoy another DraftKings FIRST DOWN!
  18. LOL it’s so over for this sport. Great job all around.
  19. Love is the best player but Mendoza will win. Rodriguez reminds me of another Tech linebacker who just made plays and won all the awards and was undervalued by the NFL.
  20. The Notre Dame AD is unseemly and has pretty single-handedly turned me from a mostly ND fan to a mostly fed up with them observer. You have a point but any playoff is going to have to sort the unsortable and someone gets left out. It happens, buck the hell up man. In lots of European countries there is a “pre-election silence” when no polls are released and campaigning stops. I’d like to see that for this. No CFP polls after week 10 and no school officials lobbying in the media. Just shut up for a bit.
  21. I messed that up real bad, mixed up UofA and ASU locations.
  22. I am secure enough to enjoy a decent musical for what it is even if it isn’t the flick I’d choose first. That is where this fails, a musical isn’t doing it right if I exit the theatre and am not humming one of the numbers. Music was forgettable and boring.
  23. And look at Miami: they are in the playoffs BECAUSE of playing ND, if they had played Stanford then they’re at home and Texas, Vandy, or BYU is in. All it will take is one less than blueblood sneaking in cause they scheduled boldly and the pendulum will go back.
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