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2025-26 CFP General Discussion
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.
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The Lost Generation essay
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.
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The Saban coaching tree
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.
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2025-26 CFP General Discussion
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.
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Tell me about Texas Tech
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.
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2025-26 CFP General Discussion
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.
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2025-26 CFP General Discussion
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.
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Biden's legacy
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.
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2025-26 CFP General Discussion
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.
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2025-26 CFP General Discussion
Indiana looks like an unstoppable force. Of the teams left, Miami is built to turn the game into a rock fight like the Big Ten CCG and somehow stumble into a NC. It would be very unsatisfying, like those NYG Super Bowl winners that derailed clearly better NE teams. Except it would be screwing up a magical year by a non-traditional power. Open question as to whether this is a better system than just matching two teams that had magical years. Other scattershots: Lots of griping about the G5 and then a blue blood SEC team and a consensus first round bye pick looked equally inept. And the cold truth is that only ND and Texas have a legit case to complain about being left out; you could have put them in place of Bama and TTU just as easily as JMU or Tulane. But ND and Texas are also capable of laying eggs against both good comp and mediocre comp, as demonstrated by the regular season. The uncomfortable reality is that there is no good way to get to the top 4, 12, 16, 24– whatever— without some arbitrary cutoffs and also letting in some teams that aren’t great. There aren’t 12 actual NC contenders. Finally, this is the tweet of the year and 95 percent of CFB analysis whether on message boards or from “ball knowers” boils down to this.
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2025-26 CFP General Discussion
If UGA hangs on it will be 2-2 this year. TTU-Oregon were 4 and 5 seeds; the only actual upset would be Miami. It happens. As you mentioned, throw out last year’s. All the favorites won.
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Trump’s America
- What's happening in Iran?
Russia is making most of its Gerans indigenously.- 2026 CFP Quarterfinals Rose Bowl - #1 Indiana vs. #9 Alabama
- 2026 CFP Quarterfinals Rose Bowl - #1 Indiana vs. #9 Alabama
- What's happening in Iran?
Inshallah the mullahs get the Ceausescu treatment in 2026. What a beautiful country and brilliant civilization that deserves so much better. Would also completely upend militant Islamism, which is running out of steam worldwide anyway.- 2026 CFP Quarterfinals Rose Bowl - #1 Indiana vs. #9 Alabama
- 2025-26 CFP General Discussion
We are likely going to get four regular season rematches in the CFP assuming Indiana doesn’t collapse. That’s too many, and it could have been mostly avoided by just a minor reshuffle of 1 loss non CCG participants.- Shit I've Cooked Lately
Leftover Christmas hambone black eyed peas, tallow cheesy cornbread. This is a main reason I usually do a Christmas ham and not prime rib.- Hegseth & the Boys
Hegseth hated Cavoli but he has a hardon for COCOMS, especially geographic COCOMs. Senate confirmed 4*s in theatre are immensly powerful and credible actors and receive deferential treatment from Congress. They are maybe the most powerful non-elected people in government not on SCOTUS. EUCOM is also dual hatted as Supreme Allied Commander Europe and so commands immense actual authority and prestige among NATO Allies. That’s why Hesgeth and crew want to slash and combine COCOMs and why they hate EUCOM especially— to eliminate actors with any institutional interest. There is a similar dynamic afoot with the recall of dozens of ambassadors with no nominee in the pipeline. Senate confirmed ambassadors outrank everyone inside their country except for the president. As a rule they execute instructions from the Secretary and assistant secretaries but at key and important moments that political cover and technical reporting chain can be deployed to great effect. Replacing them with non-confirmed acting peiple means greater control. It’s all about the vertical of power now.- Adding to the pit bull argument
I like the first part. On the second part my hangup is with an oft present regulatory problem: regulatory solutions often saddle additional burdens on the conscientious and responsible who aren’t creating the issue, and are insufficiently compellant on the irresponsible who are. Being a dangerous dog owner strongly overlaps with ignoring regulations and ordinances. Many owners and breeders of pitbulls will simply ignore insurance requirements, vet exams, etc. while most owners of Yorkies will dutifully get annual bite radius checks. Parallel to liability insurance laws: responsible drivers will get it without being told to because we don’t want to wreck our lives if we have an accident. Irresponsible ones will ignore the law and don’t have a lot at stake if they do mow someone down. The fun part is that we end up having those uninsured driver costs factored into our insurance anyway, just like homeowners insurance has the cost of other people’s pitbull attacks factored into our. A simpler and easily enforced “you can’t have these dogs” rule is better for dangerous dog owners.- RFK Jr. off the chain and off his rocker
Everything normal heading into 2026!- Racist Magat in NYC denies using racial slur...after being caught on video
The crowdsourcing campaigns introduce an element I always forget about. And now, it often seems the cancelee comes out of ahead of the cancelers. I guess my broader point is this: what is the desired and intended effect here of this becoming an ongoing semi-national story? I recognize the person in the video: not smart, no self control, no future orientation, imbalanced. A cloud of chaos follows them and they treat it like weather or geography instead of something they created. This person will say “they made me angry” when pressed on why she just engaged in some completely unacceptable outburst and she will legitimately not understand why that is not sufficient justification and cannot imagine reacting any other way to real or imagined affronts. They exist on or around the margins and it’s not that they DESERVE to be there— it’s simply unavoidable absent external intervention. No one deserves to die by suicide but you will be dead all the same if you jump off a tall building. She wasn’t and never imagined wielding racism as a weapon, for instance by lobbing a fake assault charge which would be truly evil and calculating. She is manifestly not exercising power of any sort because a Cinnabon cashier in 2025 is less powerful than anyone with enough in the bank to buy a Cinnabon. Her purpose was simple: to be as grossly offensive as she could imagine being because she was upset; she succeeded and in the process mainly committed a public act of self-harm. Don’t get me wrong, the customers should have documented it and sent it to ownership and she needed to be rapidly unemployed. But beyond that— what other consequence is warranted and what is remarkable about a marginal person behaving like a marginal and unstable person? I now see that the purpose of this system is to somehow grift off of GiveSendGo, which she couldn’t have done if TMZ tossed the video in the bin as “not news.” It seems like a machine to enable the calculating and purposeful racists to instrumentalize the impulsive and irrational ones.- I for one welcome our new AI overlords
Well know it isnt real because it’s having sex with us.- Adding to the pit bull argument
The appearance and continuation of domesticated animal breeds is artificial and their extinction is the natural part. It’s like saying three-wheeled ATVs went extinct when manufacturers relented to a consent decree and stopped making them because they were dangerous. Domestic breeds don’t exist if we don’t make them, they are anti-natural. - What's happening in Iran?
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