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  1. Hats off to Elko and the AD for building the sickest ever roller coaster yet for me.
  2. Seems like that’s been reported three times or so in the past month….but, it will be a great hire for them. It’s completely possible he will have VaTech in the CFP before PSU fixes itself.
  3. That segment on the UGA TE and his brother punched me in the feels.
  4. This will do incredible things for mental health.
  5. Fetterman is nowhere near as bad as Sinema or Manchin; he’s a +90% D voter and those other two were around 70% or below. You get Senators like them because states like Pennsylvania and West Virginia exist.
  6. We have the same lawyer to blame for that. After he originally issued his extreme fatwa based on the 19th century anti-deficiency act, he moderated it by clarifying the “life, safety, etc.” exception that formalized making people work without pay. Instead, he made the threat of shutdown just painful enough that it became useful as a weapon. It can’t be said enough: before this opinion Congress would get lazy and let funding lapse before getting around to it. People just kept going. No one cared. We could even argue things were more sane. This whole thing reminds me of dysfunctional self-harm rituals on a societal level. “If I fail this test I’ll cut myself, that will motivate me to study.”
  7. The House needed an additional signature on a discharge petition to move forward with an obligation to release. The new Arizona rep provides that, and could have long ago but Mike Johnson sent the House home and refused to swear her in until the Senate voted on a budget resolution.
  8. I’m workshopping an idea where these super conferences incorporate a “pod” format that distills things down into a manageable, round-robin format to produce one champion. Maybe these pods could be regionally grouped and structured with important rivalries, and they’d be small enough where teams could also do fun or historic “crossover” games with other pods. Then at the end of the year the pod champions could play other pod champions at a cool stadium in a neutral site, maybe name the games something local or evocative. IDK, probably not cooking here at all.
  9. 1. Everybody should be paid. ATC, essential workers, non-essential workers. 2. Congress doesn’t have to do shit to stop shutdowns. We didn’t have them until 1980. The AG then issued a legal opinion saying a shutdown was required if a budget wasn’t passed and no one questioned it. They just went along. Any AG at any time could issue a new one that says “we re-examined this and it turns out we were wrong in 1980. If Congress doesn’t pass a budget we will keep paying employees on credit and meeting ongoing obligations until they do.” Literally that easy, can’t be repeated enough that this happens because political leaders want it to.
  10. Oh, wow, megaconferences with no clear divisions have arcane and counterintuitive routes to a championship? Been amazing to see how long it took sports media to internalize that the thing guaranteed to happen, would happen.
  11. Curious why? To be clear I think PSU is going to downgrade from Franklin most likely. Brohm is from Kentucky; State College is firmly in Pennsyltucky. He has Big 10 coaching experience at Purdue; lots of East Coast coaching ties. They could do worse in terms of fit.
  12. It’s all just noise to me at this point. You want to be poised to have a bye and enough meat yet to keep it or move up and get one. If you’re bunched at 1-4 it will work out. If A&M finished with wins over USCe and Texas while Indiana closes with Rutgers and Purdue, my eyes will raise a bit if we don’t jump at least IU. Either IU or OSU will take an L if not two given the Big Ten CCG. An undefeated SEC champ should be 1 overall and a 1 loss SEC champ should be no lower than 2 IMO. But could see the committee saying that tOSU stays 1 till they lose. If we lose a close one versus Texas and that shoves us behind both Bama and Georgia that will be obnoxious. Maybe justified based on overall body of work, but for sure not a clear-cut call.
  13. Whats the score? Who’s playing? Is this an important game? I didn’t know there was a team there!
  14. I used to work with this guy who was a real sad-sack. Always smelled bad, dressed all frumpy, and was this complete horn-ball who whined about not getting women. I felt bad for the guy, so I’d invite him out for beers to the strip club or Hooters to try and get his confidence up or break the mystique around women. He was super uptight about it though. I thought maybe he needed to unclog the pipes so I offered to let him use some of the porn I had at home. He didn’t want to though. Really picky for a guy who wasn’t getting laid. He eventually started hanging around more with this other guy at the office who talked a lot about eating ass. Don’t know what happened to them.
  15. What I like is to go to a bar by myself and look for other middle aged guys like me who are there alone. I figure they’d like someone to talk to so I try to break the ice, maybe by asking a bunch of questions about the game he’s watching or about the menu.
  16. Seems like Neuralink would have more promise and efficiency as an individual crime control system. This dipshit can’t even get his fake sci-fi dystopia proposals sorted.
  17. I got smart and have moved most of my portfolio into Labubus. But seeking out rare combos to ensure I diversify.
  18. They gave me the most money and I liked having it. It’s fun on the inside. No regrets.
  19. No way, remember that the bracket wasn’t balanced last year. 1. Boise and ASU both got byes. Under this years’ format the teams that beat them (PSU and UT) would have gotten the byes. 2. The chalk bracket wasn’t balanced for the top seeds. Oregon actually had the toughest and not easiest path to the NC. Ohio State was 6 in the actual rankings but dropped to 8 because of the seeding format. Oregon would have gotten the winner of IU vs Boise; and UGA the winner of Tennessee-ASU if they used this year’s format. The bye advantage is huge. 50 percent of teams that don’t get a bye will be eliminated before the second round. Zero percent of teams with a bye will be eliminated before the second round. Rest vs. rust and the likelihood of injuries, and momentum vs stagnation can come into play and will be a factor for coaches but you take the bye every single time.
  20. Not really. Weren’t you earlier posting about how it was actually good for Texas that Georgia and A&M won this weekend based on how you were playing with the ESPN predictor tool? If you care to go look again the playoff chances for both those teams went up and the chances for Texas went down after your preferred outcome (which I said would happen). That’s because the math just works that way. My argument here also needs just a bit of math combined understanding of the playoff and selection format. Which is not at all like MLB. It’s pretty boring to keep explaining it, though. I have no doubt you’ll tell me I am wrong about the playoff chances math, too. (FWIW the FPI formula they used is not awesome and Texas’ chances are still pretty good, likely higher than shown. But the basic math— that it’s better for teams ahead of you and on your schedule to lose than win because it helps your chances to knock them out— remains stubbornly factual).
  21. Yes, that’s the argument. There may be 15 teams with the roster to win. Three of them will be outside the top 12. No use mentioning them. One will be replaced by a G5 team. And that means you need to hope that the remaining two must navigate the autobid and committee process and be in the right league at the right time; that is far from automatic and thus far some of the better ones will be left out. And even THEN these teams are still playing as dogs in a four game series. And further to the silly MLB analogy, you cannot plug holes in a roster at the trade deadline or dip into the farm system for the playoffs. The injuries and deficiencies you own, and that’s often what derails even very good teams. The SEC as a league is fine; individual teams for sure face a tougher row. Texas, OU, Oregon, and USC likely all looking much better for bids in the former conference format.
  22. And yet, there’s a plenty good shot that BYU will be there. Or even just 3 SEC teams while four and five sit at home in favor of a ACC team with a gaudy record.
  23. Major League Baseball is a terrible example, if you want to talk about not well thought out or intelligent. MLB has two leagues and there are big/smart spenders spread across divisions of equal size where they can get to the playoffs to begin with. Which is pretty fucking important. There’s not a wildcard spot reserved for the Savanah Bananas (G5 equivalent) or an autobid for the best AAA team (ACC this year). Turn this into two conferences with pods of equal size? Ok, I’ll buy the thesis.
  24. Nothing at all new or groundbreaking about the ACC having a couple teams (Miami often among them) capable of competing with the best in the country. Nothing new about the Big XII having one really good team. The very best from those conferences were always going to be in the playoffs. And if the format changed to “12 best no matter where or we saw wild realignment, growing from 7 real contenders to 12 would change the calculus. Moving UT and OU out of the Big XII and into the SEC makes likely playoff fields less strong, not more strong under the current format. Likewise collapsing the PAC-12 and moving their best programs into the Big Ten. There’s no reason to think college parity turns G5 teams into contenders. Thus far, they’ve mostly been raided in the portal. There’s no guarantee that boosters like Campbell come in hot to make another Big XII team into a beast. Maybe someone will. But the media deals show the P2 pulling away from the ACC and Big XII in revenue. They show the ACC getting further sliced and diced into have and have notes, which doesn’t seem at all to help the middle of the conference. Those are the long-term trends we know.
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