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  1. They weren't last year. The Rockets have a need that can't be fixed by the draft. You aren't adding another 19 or 20 year old who is going to sit on the bench and find a consistent scorer in the play offs and there are not multiple options to fill that hole with someone who fits what you want concerning their age, fit with the head coach, and not cost you a ton of young players you are hoping to develop.
  2. Except that quality of talent in the NFL has been on the decline in key areas and they don't develop talent anymore with the manner in which they practice. NFL teams struggle to piece together decent offensive lines and if the scouting process has gotten simpler why do we continue to see more and more struggles finding capable quarterbacks. They don't need fewer schools developing talent, they need more and they need more players staying with programs and getting developed instead of hoping to a new team each year. The SEC and Big 10 are going to roll out players who can contribute sooner, but how many of those are maxed in terms of productivity? This is just an extension of the argument of why you shouldn't simply recruit from programs such as Katy, Lake Travis, Southlake, and Aledo. Those programs roll out some very good players, but a number are maxed out as well as been ground out and physically can't carry on much longer. There was always that need for the recruit who was untapped, raw, with the higher ceiling and there is a need for the NFL to be draft from more than 40 teams. Roughly just under 1,100 players from the SEC and Big 10 are in the NFL, but the league has over 2,200 players in it which means there are still a number of players from elsewhere and that math isn't going to change.
  3. https://www.daytondailynews.com/sports/court-filing-pete-rose-accused-sex-with-underage-girl-1970s/TH1s1fHZJuQYoIiUC6SY0J/
  4. I would love to know what the NFL thinks about this gradual move to a super conference which will help a select number of schools, but will make it tougher for those on the outside to compete and fund at their current levels similar to a club being relegated in Europe. The NFL has had the perfect feeder system for decades in which they really spend no money on the development of their prospects unlike baseball.
  5. PGFrog

    2025 NCAA Baseball

    They have played crap in non-conference and I think I read their conference opponents this year at this time are a combined are roughly 120- 140. The only team out of the bottom six in the Big 12 (all the schools with losing conference records) is Baylor. I wouldn't be surprised if they got swept by Kansas, but it won't matter because the conference uses win percentage to decide place.
  6. PGFrog

    2025 NCAA Baseball

    A few years back we heard fan bases bitch and gripe about seeing the same teams in conference play, how one divisions was stronger than the other, how the systems favored teams in multiple conferences and so we get these garbage unbalanced schedules. That only gets compounded by the growth of conferences that are frankly too damn large to manage with divisional splits in some fashion that makes sense. The result has been multiple issues in multiple conferences in multiple sports where schools are playing much easier schedules and there really is not easy way to compare then and as result we get a bigger imbalanced pile of garbage than we did under the old divisional formats. West Virginia is most likely going to win the Big 12 this year with a completely garbage schedule as example.
  7. They also sold out a few games at home before joining the Big 12 as well against Utah and BYU similar to SMU last year. Two big differences is where they were ranked at the time and the athletic department did a much better job drumming up local support in Ft. Worth. Del Conte leaving TCU is understandable, but the big mistake was following his recommendation and hiring Donati. One of the few moves Jeremiah did that was the right thing was the firing/resignation of Patterson. SMU so far seems to have good support in Dallas and needs to build on that so I understand why they want this type of game on campus. As I said before, I am not sure what the attraction is for LSU and I really don't understand OU scheduling the game as they already have the game in the Cotton Bowl each year.
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    2025 NCAA Baseball

    Sorry, but there is no fucking way ATM should be in the field for post season play. I don't care if every team above them in the SEC is the modern day equivalent of the '27 Yankees, at some point you have to reward winning and not reward simply being part of a group. Understand, but Florida, the SEC, if what you do in the season doesn't matter then just fucking split off from the rest of the teams, have your own invitational , and crown your own title.
  9. They have no choice on playing at Vandy and the issue isn't the playing in a smaller stadium. The question becomes what do you get from playing the game in Dallas in the first place and that isn't a knock on SMU. TCU wanted the home and home with LSU, but instead the ESPN/ABC presented to them a one game "event" in Arlington. Same with the home and home with Ohio State. I have no idea what or if there was a termination clause in either contract and I do know part of the pitch used by Del Conte and others to raise the funds for the stadium rebuild was to play such games at home. There are the promises that are made and the promises kept.
  10. Which normally results in his going down for 30-days. Whitley pitching on a regular basis for the Astros would be great, but until it happens he is just a hope and a dream
  11. Professionals at this point? The only amateur part of this for a very long time is the manner in which the NCAA and the schools have handled this until they fucked up and let the courts and the politicians get involved which is always a great idea.
  12. You didn't read my second post did you and yes, we have grown accustomed over the years when playing at Ford to an abundance of empty seats and being able to sit where we wish almost as accustomed to a trip to the bathroom taking 30 minutes due to the lines or last calls for beer being with 5 minutes to go in the second quarter. SMU had a great season last year and it looks like they have the pieces in place to have another good season, but don't act like crowds have been piling into that oversize high school stadium for years.
  13. Technically, they had multiple games over capacity this past year as the official I believe is just over 32,000. Parking is a bitch and stadium concourses, bathrooms, and concessions really aren't enough to handle capacity, but i think they spent the money in the right place in the end zone complex. Unless you are going to add boxes and suites to generate more revenue, the fan experience is wasted money.
  14. So the NCAA is going to penalize two former Michigan assistants who now are coaching in the NFL. That sounds about right.
  15. Happened to TCU with LSU and Ohio State. Ford is a glorified high school stadium with an incredible new South endzone facility. Having been to the last two TCU - SMU games in Dallas before last year, I really am not sure how in the world they would handle a truly full crowd at Ford. Hell, they run out of ice and beer by half when they play TCU, That type of inadequate concession capability could turn ugly if LSU were to play there.
  16. Will Magic remind the kids to properly budget for bail money for a teammate when they get busted by vice for setting up the escorts for you after a road game?
  17. I would love to hear Max tell the story about hitting Carl Herrera with a weight during a fight.
  18. I am sure a number of people on this thread have already seen the documentary as it came out in 2013, but watched "1" over the weekend on Amazon. A pretty stark reminder of the dangers in racing in the formative stages and just how thrown together some of the races were at that time. The image of Martin Brundle running down the track to find the doctor to get cleared to continue racing after his car had been demolished in Melbourne was pretty wild. The days when teams had a back up car. I also had never heard the part of the story about Bernie acquiring the world wide rites to broadcasting F1 where he offered each team the opportunity to buy a 10% share for $100K.
  19. How well do fantasy teams do in the playoffs.
  20. If I told you that the Reds were held to 3 runs in 26 innings and the Astros scored 18 runs in the series I think most on this board would have thought the Astros swept the series. Funny how one little 10 run inning can fuck up a potentially great weekend.
  21. Watched it because of the host and WTF was that? I would say it was dog shit, but I don't want to insult dog shit and that old joke is funnier than most of that show.
  22. Where the fuck has this been the past 5 years because he damn sure didn't do that the first 2-3 months of the year for Houston.
  23. I didn't know Lucci had a cousin work in the media in Cleveland.
  24. If we are playing the hopeful what if game then trade Alpi for Yanis straight up, trade Jalen and Jabari for Booker, and get the #1 pick. Basketball gods say I can only have two of the three than Jalen and Jabari for Booker and the #1 pick.
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