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  1. Layne had two. I get the modernity bias, and for sure the title is what fans care about in college. Only one player is in both the NFL and CFB halls of fame. He also played in an era where media bias for northern schools was very real. He can’t be left off.
  2. Yep, and not a lot of FBS coaches are going to sign a player from 8 or 9 man, especially at FBS schools that are a better place to play than NDSU or SDSU. But plenty of guys who could easily play at that level.
  3. Take a look at these schools’ rosters especially along the lines. They recruit heavily from their home states and neighboring states/upper Midwest. They are stocked with a lot of corn-fed beef of the phenotype below, from states that have very few FBS schools. They would be getting FBS offers if they weren’t playing in little towns on the prairie or tundra, especially now that so many southern FCS schools jumped up.
  4. I thought I was stroking out trying to decipher “Nodak State” in the thread title.
  5. I’d like to drop here that in a Cotton Bowl win Bobby Layne scored every single one of Texas’ 40 points. He led the SWC in total offense one year and passing two years. There are some really stupid takes in this discussion and I’m an Aggie. Relative to national competition while playing he’s absolutely in your top 5 and probably top 3.
  6. Kinda got derailed, I love my dog to pieces, but only take him to spots that are specially advertised as dog friendly, not just “dog allowed.” The difference in kids and dogs are that the one is always going to be a dog, but all kids are going to be adults some day and have to learn to navigate the world. Also, all of us are going to be relying on either our kids or someone else’s to wipe our asses or just keep the lights on when we are old. I did used to wish for a drink when I had to take them on errands though.
  7. It’s hard to quantify “losing their luster,” although I agree that in the current era of college football, big programs balk at hiring people like Campbell or Fleck. That may be to their detriment because it’s not like hiring the hot hand is a more likely path to success. The fact is that a career 8-5 coach at Iowa State is a damn good coach. The may be on the Ferentz program. Which you can laugh at the Hawkeyes’ miserable offense (and I do) but in terms of W-L since 2001 Iowa quite literally has probably enjoyed the best case scenario for them.
  8. I don’t think it’s CR until it veers into US politics; but I’m unclear as to what CR really means.
  9. Their population growth is at close to 3 percent a year, compared to the U.S. at about .5. Which does not help with housing at all. Builders can’t keep up. https://www.nerdwallet.com/ca/mortgages/harsh-housing-market-how-did-we-get-here
  10. Justin Trudeau resigned today has stepped down as leader of the Liberal party and as PM. Up next: a national vote for leader of the Liberals and then likely a vote of no-confidence in parliament to set off a new round of national elections. It’s wild that he’s been in office since 2015, almost a decade. There’s a lot going on up north but one thing that’s been an issue is broad dissatisfaction with what has been some extremely loose immigration policies. Almost 23 percent of Canada is foreign born with huge proportions coming from South Asia and that is a recipe for social instability no matter how well managed.
  11. One of the things that critics forget about MeToo and false accusations (which there have been) is that there used to be no accusations at all— true or false— because it was just the way things were. It’s for sure better that we aren’t in that space anymore.
  12. Guessing he’s thinking of Casey Hampton. It’s really close between the two, different positions. Both amazing resumes, Hampton was on the ballot this year. He has great case to be in eventually. Kind of similar players in terms of accolades thus far. I don’t know where I’d rank Mike Evans for A&M NFL players. Vonn Miller probably has a better on the field resume but is a mess off the field. Myles Garrett will be better individually than both but needs to get out of Cleveland. All three betting favorites for HoF.
  13. There’s been some talk of repealing the Impoundment Act.
  14. All the time I’m hearing about how fucking smart “tech founders” are and how we need more disruption and to listen to their TedTalks and then they get into cars designed by Elon Musk and just let themselves get steered onto railroad tracks.
  15. The inconvenient truth about the H1B program is that at this point it’s basically beyond reform to be something other than this. It has been for years. There are two things at work here— one is the aims of the bringing companies who want to do exactly what you’re describing. The second is the visa brokers and aspiring workers from countries where the H1B visa itself is the prize and not the well-paying job. Both ends are manipulating (and often outright defrauding) the system and aside from country caps there is no way to account for this. Across the board, H1B recipients from developed nations that have good rule of law standards use the program as intended, to temporarily fill important gaps and bring in well-paid professionals where they are needed. You will never, ever, ever reform your way out of a program that targets places like South Asia or the PRC as the prime recruiting ground and hope to get something other than a body shop.
  16. @Brisketexan would say that real gumbo is to make a roux…then put whatever the hell you want in there. I nearly always have a jar of decent anchovies on hand. There are very few sauces or stews or other dishes that aren’t improved by adding a few of them at the beginning when you’re browning the vegetables and garlic. I absolutely add them to gumbo, as the trinity is getting mixed in with the roux. You will not taste the strong fishiness, it just deepens the savoriness.
  17. Spirit will soon be rolling out a “no pissing on your leg” fee.
  18. The intelligence level of the person who did this is the same as the people who used to do those “fill out and tag friends” posts where you were supposed to list your first car, mother’s maiden name, year you graduated high school, etc.
  19. I don’t want people like him here, he’s a scam artist who got rich through an MLM scheme. I also don’t want people like Elon here. It’s a shame that MAGATs can only use crude racism to identify the problem people.
  20. This is the story for chains, it has been played out time and again. PF Changs was bought by private equity in 2012, saddled with a heavy debt load, and in 2019 sold to new private equity. They are now slashing any costs and going to take it apart for parts. That’s how this works.
  21. I don’t understand how this happens, I don’t really follow her but I know she’s an A-lister and married to a mega A-lister. No one watches that movie with it her. How does she not say “fuck this shit, you need me far more than I need you.”
  22. I really have been struggling to understand the appeal not just of Cybertrucks but really “FSD” and other Tesla doo-dads aside from just being fast and electric. Then it hit me: the target audience is people who used to shop at Sharper Image or stuff from Hammacher Schlemmer in the in-flight catalog.
  23. There is a sorting mechanism where all the smart kids now become Democrats and especially the smart ambitious kids. They’ve all also been segregated into AP and honors classes and then gone to college and have really never been around just ordinary people. It absolutely gets in the way of their ability to communicate. Clinton and Biden (when he was able) never came off as smarty-pants or lecturing to inattentive classmates (Clinton’s particular genius was coming off as a regular shlub while actually being smarter than basically anyone he ever met). Kerry, HRC, and Gore were all smart kids. Obama was an exception and he overcame it by being the best orator of a generation, although it was his one weakness and he hastened the party’s move into the “AP kid” direction. To Snake Diggity’s comment above, many of the identity litanies are extremely off putting— thinking here of land acknowledgment and explaining how every single problem is especially acute for “black, brown, indigenous, women, LGBTQIA+, the unhoused, etc…..” Sort of the same issue, even if it’s accurate it’s not how anyone talks and it’s exhausting to have to constantly ensure you’re invoking the approved language.
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