Jump to content

956 Worldwide

Full Members
  • Posts

    11563
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    26

Everything posted by 956 Worldwide

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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€
  11. 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 $$$.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Eight games involving SEC teams this year already and Pitt-ND is a cool rivalry with big CFP implications. Also no ACC or ND games this year.
  15. I feel like this has been explained. That was the preseason line and it’s not updated. You can’t lay a bet on it now. If you can let me know. I don’t bet on sports, and I’d take that line. I bet most of the degens on the site would too.
  16. This is what’s going on. 10.5 was the preseason line.
  17. Well, based on how they manage money they can touch, that was probably good foresight to keep it away from regents’ grubby paws. I’m sure LSU would be trying to liquidate its endowment to buy Andy Reid and a few five star OL or some shit.
  18. Also just caught that this is a California pension fund investment which means that somehow UCLA alum retirees are going to be paying UCLA football players and fund managers will be raking a cut. Fantastic system, no notes.
  19. What’s happening is that these schools are taking expensive money from an institutional partner with one ethos: ā€œfuck you, pay me.ā€ Combining that with institutions which need to have a long-term, collective health outlook is a total mismatch. Rewatch The Goodfellas tiki bar scene to see how this goes. It’s insane on its face to put public institutions on the hook for a PE vig.
  20. ND hasn’t played a really bad schedule. Theirs is better than most teams in the Big Ten or ACC. Four opponents currently in the CFP rankings. Only two G5 opponents (fewer than nearly all actual P4 schools). One of those was a CFP team last year and the other was one loss team. Beyond that, ND-Navy has been played since 1927 with only COVID interrupting. A lot of the things people shit on ND for are actually cool things ND does. They could easily replace that game for another bigger payday but it’s one of the older and cooler games in the sport and its awesome that every Middie player gets a shot at Domer.
  21. I was being tongue in cheek. Today is Sunday and I dont care about that format as much as Saturday. For me, anything that sterilizes CFB sucks.
  22. It’s the cumulative thing. In any given contest, the difference isn’t that big: maybe Auburn had a 15 percent or so greater chance to win against A&M than Minnesota did against tOSU (pulled that from my ass, BTW). But over five games those probabilities cumulatively mean a huge difference. This has always been the secret about the SEC, btw. And why it’s so maddening to try and figure out why it is. The bottom and mid teams are just a BIT better than the bottom and mid of others. In indibidual games- doesn’t seem noticable. In a full season it shows up. I think tOSU is in the right spot, btw.
  23. I just wish that someone would create a football format where about 30 relatively evenly matched teams would play each other and about half make the playoffs to crown an undisputed champion. Maybe some form of revenue sharing, and you just openly pay the players.
  24. Very much dependent on how you look in the losses and what the teams do with rest of the schedule. Blowing out UGA at home, thumping Arky, and dropping a tight one to A&M is a good look, or you can swap the results for UGA and A&M assuming they both win out otherwise. Likewise, eking out a win over A&M but losing big to UGA is likely less helpful.
  25. The committee will look for reasons to have more rather than less conference balance.
Ɨ
Ɨ
  • Create New...