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  1. The marching routines and formatuons change from game to game, and there have been some new ones thought up. The music in the repetoire is all traditional matches but also will be mixed and matched. I know the big “recent” addition was the Patton themes. I am not sure if a Space Force March got added or indeed if the Space Force has a march at all.
  2. Could have sworn that Javelina Stadium was a grass field but looks like they did switch to turf. Likely a lot more cost-effective in South Texas and holds up better for playoffs but I still hate losing real grass fields.
  3. The one upside of this stupid carousel season is that we are all about to learn some new names. Lots of assistants and hopefully FCS coaches getting their shot with a P4 program.
  4. It’s the most recent ranking, the new CFP ranking comes out Tuesday. The question was whether UT is being considered among other two loss teams and the answer is clearly “yes.”
  5. I mean you don’t have to ask them, Texas is the highest ranked three loss team and above teams with 2 losses including a traditional power like Michigan.
  6. ENMU used to be a chippy but not great team that ruined a lot of good seasons for LSC teams in Blackwater Draw. They were a triple option team.
  7. A player like Aaron Donald is of course invaluable and that’s why he may be the GOAT NFL defender. We also gotta define our terms: a truly bad interior DL that gets rolled is a tremendous liability that can’t get schemed out of. I am thinking more of the delta between good/really good/great and value. I think some are underselling the value of combining a pass rusher who can get home out of a base defense with a CB who can be left in man against WR1. They are impacting the game when they aren’t involved in plays. If you can do that you’re a long way towards eliminating game-breaking downfield plays on 1st and 2nd down and limiting what you have to scheme against. They are generating TOs and negative plays and making it easy to get off the field in 3rd down. They turn good offenses into pedestrian offenses by virtue of the plays that aren’t attempted. And of course— if the other areas on the field are Browns-level inept, you still won’t win. But if the rest of the D is “good enough,” you’re scary.
  8. If we are going to talk unit’s I’d argue that a truly great OL is what I’d build my team around before even QB. Then QB and DL.
  9. An elite DT is high value but you can scheme better to make-up for them to stop the run. You can’t as easily find a scheme to make up for no pass rush or bad coverage without more weakness. An elite edge rusher who can get home when rushing 4 and shutdown corner who can take away an option means you can put more bodies on the run problem. So my vote is pass rusher, CB, then OT. Serviceable at DT will be OK.
  10. Some fascinating storylines along the way to the likely same end (NDSU winning). First year the Ivies play in the playoff. Lehigh is a tough draw for Harvard but Yale has a shot to knock off Youngstown and then get mauled by MoState. ACU is capable of a run and has wins against SFU and Tarleton already. Two losses to FBS programs and two inexplicable losses to not great FCS teams. But the path to quarters is open. BTW, to get in the door at Montana-Montana State this last weekend was around $250 for the cheapest ticket. CFB is about regional rivalries and friendly tribalism and superconferences are killing that.
  11. Rutgers has under 75 total yards through three quarters against tOSU. This is a conference game.
  12. There is a small but not zero chance that the highest ranked ACC champ is behind two G5 champs. Some other stuff going on in the numbers, too, but that’s the big one.
  13. Playoffs are a bracket to determine a champion, not to measure SOS or determine which conference is stronger. The metrics— Sagarin, Massey, JBL’s own— have worked preseason ranking out of the formula by this point in the season, their SOS rankings reflect what was on the field.
  14. College football fans confronted with math running back to the beauty pageant when they don’t like the math LOL.
  15. Is her name pronounced like the makeup brand, or “Low-real” or “Lori-all.” Or something else?
  16. Why make housing more expensive for everyone to provide a benefit for only some classes of workers? If you’re doing a job in a community, that job is clearly needed by someone and it’s not obvious why those people shouldn’t also be able to afford to live close to work, too.
  17. Yeah, programs to help certain classes of buyers don’t do much to address the issue of prices being too high to begin with. The only way out is to increase supply and encourage efficient use. It needs to be economically not tenuous to park money in a single family home and then pay the mortgage with rent while treating the house as a long-term investment. It makes houses more expensive, it puts capital into piles of wood and shingles that aren’t making anything real for the economy. Ma and Pa investor need to be looking at index funds and business opportunities, not snapping up bungalows to extract rent. Obviously some carveouts for things like resort communities with no residents but once a certain number of single-family homes in an are become rental properties, penalties and incentives need to kick in to force sales t real people.
  18. We need more housing but we also need to do a better job incentivizing people and families to get in the right housing. We have too many retirees and empty-nesters occupying houses built for families and working families pushed into rentals and multi-family units. Entire neighborhoods clearly built to have bikes and kids that are deathly quiet cul-de-sacs without a child in them. There needs to be incentives to sell those houses or get families into them somehow. Things like a luxury property tax that kicks in once a single family home slides under certain occupancy per square foot. Tax incentives for selling to real people and penalties for selling to developers or PE. Additional taxes on rents from single-family houses. But of course instead we are debating not making retirees pay property tax. Universal Boomer Income. You want those people to sell houses and go to a condo!
  19. The SEC agreed to this, but the thing is that it’s a total fiction to equate 9 SEC games with 9 Big XII or ACC games, no matter the opponents. It’s a polite fiction. And frankly, it was a demand that never should have been agreed to. It’s a clear competitive edge to those quasi-power conferences stocked up with refugees from the G5 and the castoffs of the PAC. Tech’s schedule is close to the bottom half of all FBS teams. The teams you’re whinging about played much harder schedules, no matter how many conference games are on the schedule. Putting the little (c) after games against the likes of Okie Light doesn’t legitimize them somehow and make them quality wins. You’re griping about Samford when your non-con was Kent, Arkie-Pine Bluff, and Oregon State. You scheduled zero P4 teams non-con and every SEC team did at least one, including bottom-barrel teams going undefeated against “quality” Big XII teams. STFU with your “nine conference games” bullshit.
  20. ND’s schedule is harder than Tech’s and it’s not even close. In every metric you choose ND is around the top 30 and Tech is 50 or below.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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