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  1. Politicians got involved and demanded to move fast. Without bringing in CR, this is how DOGE layoffs that were ordered to go fast unfolded. Even without court orders people got told they were fired, then on admin leave, then fired again for another reason, then maybe rehired.
  2. Using seeding as the metric decreases the chance it will happen now that the committee uses straight seeding. The lower seeds had a better chance under the old format. This year the 10-12 seeds WILL include a G5 team, an ACC team, and maybe a 2nd place Big XII, fourth place Big Ten, or 5th place SEC team in those spots. Which one has a decent shot over the SEC/Big Ten top six plus ND and Tech over four games? BYU? Georgia Tech? Pitt? Virginia? JMU? USF? Maybe Texas has the roster to make that run if they play at their best with no coaching errors. Or if Tech if weirdness happens to strike in the CCG and they fall this far. Either will have very, very long odds. If a 10-2 ND falls this far, maybe they can. You and I both know the G5 and ACC do not have NC winners in them. You’re staking your argument on the very last of P2/Big XII/ND to get in running through four games versus teams that finished ahead of them. Possible? It will happen eventually. Very unlikely any given year? Yes.
  3. I didn’t say a word in my post about seedings. I said ā€œrankings.ā€ And Ohio State easily made it into the playoffs, they were ranked at 6 in the final CFP ranking before the playoffs. You just made up the fact that they barely got in;ā€ that team wasn’t even the lowest ranked Big Ten team. The 8-12 ranked teams last year were all pretty flawed. None of them advanced to the semifinals. (Well, Alabama didn’t get an invite).
  4. I’ve had a real arc with Pavia. At first I thought he was just a super COVID player being shoved down my throat to gin up interest in Vandy. The I begrudgingly admitted I’d love him if he was on my team. Now he’s just really punchable. Needed to knock off a really good team again to earn his mouthiness.
  5. LSU: Bad news, Kelly. You’re hired! BK: You can’t hire me! I’m fired!
  6. Ohio State was seeded 8 because last year the CFP committee didn’t do a straight seeding model. Boise and Arizona State jumped them, despite being ranked behind them in all the polls. They’d have been 6 or 7 without that.
  7. I have seen it before but the public comms from the institution have always been disciplined if they go that way: ā€œSWLSU has decided to reassess the direction and leadership of the football program. DC Cletus will take over head coaching duties on an interim basis and HC Ricky Bobby has been reassigned to other duties within the athletic department as those discussions continue.ā€
  8. I am a noted lover of books. The Iliad is maximum alpha.
  9. I didn’t think they’d be dumb enough to do this, but I was clearly wrong. There’s a procedure for firing for cause that was pretty clearly not followed. I guess they are hoping a LA court will just side with the Tigahs. At every turn they do exactly the thing that makes them the least attractive possible coaching destination. Landry is gonna end up coaching himself. Landry promising to provide a sideline tiger and producing a fat, inbred False Mike proving to be an incredible omen. The ancients would recognize this.
  10. I won’t say it will ā€œneverā€ happen because on a long enough timeline it will, but: the teams ranked from 10-12 (really more like 8-12, but I’ll be generous) are really unlikely to win a title. They may upset a team or two that could, but they won’t make a four game slog. Go back and look at past AP or Coaches polls and find a team with that ranking that really belonged on the field with the winner. 10-12 is talented teams with visible flaws.
  11. Take my rep, one of my favorite ever videos.
  12. I have no proof but I think OnlyFans and stuff is probably nuking brains in ways we can’t understand yet. Let’s take porn and add a parasocial component, and also strip away all the things that told the brain that the people in it are actors and it’s all fake. Really make it seem accessible and real.
  13. They aren’t nihilists, they have found a purpose and meaning: jacking off a whole lot in pursuit of a mental high. It’s just that the meaning they’ve settled on is disordered and crowds out alternate sources of meaning. One of my hottest takes is that all the bad stuff we used to call ā€œvices,ā€ like porn, drugs, booze, gambling, smoking, and promiscuity, are actually bad. That doesn’t mean all bad things need to be banned and brutally suppressed but removing all frictions and stigma and pretending they are value neutral or maybe good is stupid. The harm also falls disproportionately on those least equipped socially, intellectually, or temperamentally to moderate themselves. Porn should be legal, but making you ask for it at a gas station or venture out to a skeezy city limits store and park around back to hide your car was a good friction to maintain. Smoking is legal but it’s a good social friction to make it costly and to tightly clamp down on where you can do it. It’s good to make it socially shameful. Gambling shouldn’t be criminalized but you should have to go to a reservation or use a shady bookie or some shit. That is a good social friction; it’s not good to be able to make in-game prop bets tied to a credit card. Many such cases.
  14. Poland dumped the veto and a year and a half later got partitioned up. Not that the filibuster is good but just so we know the timeline.
  15. Those comparisons are good, and it’s a good play by her to try. No one is gonna stop calling her for bombshell roles because of this. But it’s smart for beautiful actresses to prove they can do something else BEFORE the sex kitten roles dry up, not when they already are.
  16. The Smashing Machine also fell really flat this year. It had Dwayne Johnson in it. I think it’s most likely that there is a limited market for Oscar-bait biopics about combat sports athletes that most people haven’t heard of. The dudes who want her to take her top off weren’t buying tickets for this anyway.
  17. Functionally Texas will be. With another loss Texas would go into a bucket with 10-2 teams from other conferences for the last CFP spot.
  18. One thing about this whole farce is that it proves ND is absolutely correct not to hand incredibly important institutional decisions to conference administrators. What a shitshow. As far as telling USC/Michigan to kiss off, it seems like a bad trade to force out 2 of your 4 most valuable brands just so you can take on PE debt with your weakest brands. But I’m not a Big Ten brain genius.
  19. Not even the weakest of this year’s crop of SEC playoff contenders per Massey, Sagarin, FPI, etc. That honor goes to Ole Miss. But in all objectivity, all the SEC contenders are clustered around the top 25 for sos and there is some subjectivity in any metric you can put together.
  20. Super unlikely that garden-variety birddogging rises to this level, especially if they didn’t invoke it when they canned him. A court won’t look kindly on using the thread of invoking it after the fact to negotiate your buyout down. If he violated the clause, they should have said so and terminated him for that reason.
  21. You can kind of cobble together a case that a lump sum big enough (time value of money) plus removal of the duty to mitigate could let him take a higher paying job that could offset and leave him better than the loss of guaranteed from LSU. But BK is a known asshole who might have trouble landing that good of a gig. It’s a gamble for him and he should for sure force LSU to agree to pay what they agreed to.
  22. Fantastic look for LSU as they are trying to convince a new coach to sign. ā€œNo, we will totally pay YOU. That’s different from whats going on with Brian.ā€
  23. Designing the entire world to function to serve the narrow interests of the generation born after WWII has consequences. Programs have been fucking over their core future fanbases for years in favor of chasing the high-end alum and corporate $$$.
  24. That’s not what ā€œcontrolling your own destinyā€ means though, especially since in some of those important games being a favorite is slightly better than a coin flip (like UGA vs Tex). And could change based on things like key injuries.
  25. It was always going to end this way, Dem constituencies are more vulnerable to the shutdown and the GOP was not going to cave. Extremely predictable. And in pure team sports play, fucking people up with healthcare costs that the GOP votes for helps the Dems, too.
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