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  1. If you took a couple of kids out of my 8th grade class it would have made me the smartest kid in that class, but that wouldn't have made us a very smart group of kids.
  2. Wait, the guy who is trying to buy Tech into sports relevance is going to "fix" college football? In response to markstanco's comment, Sally Jenkins career was made off her last name and her Dad did a pretty solid job trashing that when he became a bitter old man.
  3. The situation with Max reminds me of a couple of sales offices that I have worked in where there is a dominant sales person whose presence and the way the company allowed them to operate and monopolize time and resources made it impossible for there ever to be more highly productive salesman in those offices. If I recall correctly, when Seb was on his run with Red Bull where he won the 4 straight titles Mark Webber finished 3rd 2-3 times so there wasn't this huge disparity in performance. During the early stages of Max's career when it was Danny and Max they were close to each other and would have most likely placed even higher if that hadn't had a few wrecks between themselves. We haven't seen this big gap between the performance of the first Red Bull car and the second car until the last few seasons so why is that happening? Have things gotten so focused on supporting Max? Are things that toxic inside the team? Were Webber and Danny just better drivers than Alex, Pierre, Sergio, Yuki, etc....?
  4. Yes, I think I read the are worth between $35-40 billion so the side venture of a F-1 racing team is pretty much a toy and more practical than say, buying high school offensive tackles.
  5. "Impressive" list of names at #10-12. Curious how much money has been spent by those 4 programs during that combined 53 seasons without 1 10-win season.
  6. Newey mentioned in his book that the estimated value of the advertising gained by Red Bull for simply being involved in F1 between 2000-2014 was 1.6 billion pounds so while they aren't a car company their has been economic value from sponsoring the team. I think the question is whether the son who owns 49% or the Yoovidhya family who owns the other 51% wishes to remaining in F1.
  7. She has done a tone of work in about 20 years.
  8. I like Vowles, Albon has had a solid season and you have to wonder how things would have played out if they had to retire the car a few times this season. My friend's primary point is right now, every team has some questions about how they will handle the new power units, chassis, as well as the utilization of the active aeros next season. Aston basically gave Newey the bank, built him a factory and a wind tunnel, but will the have a competitive PU? Merc has some experience to draw on from Formula E for the new PU, their parent has poured billions into battery technology, but will they address their cooling issues and the chassis issues that have seemed to plague them since the lost some of their engineering staff and the death of Niki? Ferrari is Ferrari so who knows what they roll out in 2026, Audi has had great success in other racing, and who the fuck knows what is going on at Red Bull. So if you are a guy who wants to amass drivers' titles that place him among the best in the sport where do you go to make that a reality?
  9. A friend posed an interesting question this morning. Remove team politics from the equation and work under the premise that no team has any drivers under contract for next season, if you were Max, and could go to any team that you wanted next season and be their lead driver which team?
  10. First, losing Yuki is an issue? He has scored 155 fewer points than Max and Yuki has only scored in 4 of 10 races with Red Bull. Heck 3 of his 10 points were scored with RBR. Second, even if they sign George to replace Max, none of that is going to matter is they don't have a competitive car and right now who knows what they will roll out with the new regs, change in leadership, change in design, and the new power unit. Consider that outside of drivers for the big 4 teams, there are 5 other drivers who drive for other teams that have scored more points than Alonso for Aston.
  11. If Tom Herman did something to drive the Brockermeyers away from signing from Texas you can't say he didn't do at least one thing good for the program. Trust me on this one.
  12. Why not burn it all down. You are starting with a new design group and new power unit being built by Red Bull and Ford. Makes perfect sense to blow it all up right?
  13. With a Ferrari power unit and who is designing the car because it ain't Newey and Marshall and the other engineering brain power that were critical in winning those 6 titles. Reminds of when when Bumpas retired and left Gary to run the TCU defense. Things were never quite the same.
  14. Fuck, we already have BYU and Tech.
  15. That number is pretty wild compared to what Tech promised to an offensive tackle prospect. I don't remember all the details about the story of the Sheppard brothers from Odessa High. The oldest brother I believe was Woody who played running back at OU. Younger brother was Daryl who was a highly sought prospect as a quarterback who signed with UH in a bit of an upset. UH ended up on probation and one of the issues was a new car Daryl was driving. I believe it was a Trans Am, don't remember, but the claim was that their mother had used their house as collateral for the loan on the car. One small problem, if I remember the story correctly from the Dallas paper, Woody also went to a college with a new car and that loan used the house as collateral , and the house wasn't appraised at a high enough value to cover the two loans.
  16. Had to be guilty based upon the company he kept right? I think my favorite fucking of Ok State by the NCAA was basically letting Hart Lee go states evidence and letting him play. He was a freak of an athlete. Know a guy who worked at Rosenberg Terry back in the day and he still loves to talk about the night Terry with Johnny Pittman played against Bay City with the Dykes cousins and LaBradford Smith.
  17. `Vindicators 1 was solid and gave us a good glimpse into what a complete shit show Rick was with his drinking, pettiness, jealousy. I am not really sure what they are trying to establish this season and this episode felt like Harmon, Rolland, Gun, and Snyder were making fun of all the people who bitch about their work and yet put money in their pocket. Basically a big fuck you to their fans.
  18. Johnny made his signings public years after denying them first, and after the O'Bannon case. There are multiple examples of athletes getting compensation for signings, etc..... Ohio State is a perfect example with Pryor. Shit, I can recall all the way back to a group of UGA alums who were insurance agents who wanted to set Walker up with a summer job as an insurance agent in which they would relist existing policies in his name. He was an out of control piece of shit in college who was used by another out of control piece of shit in Sumlin whose buyout was over $10M and somehow the Ags were so fucking stupid they dwarfed that mistake with Jimbo's clusterfuck of a contract.
  19. Being that this slide involves both Danny Ainge AND the Utah Jazz it is not only allowable, but incredibly gratifying.
  20. This is a fake post right?
  21. I don't understand the statement that Johnny lying about getting paid for signing all that merch "forced" college sports to recognize the players. Curious what was the byproduct of his lies, heck Sumlin begging not to have Johnny kicked out of school after his freshman year when he was a no one, or the Ags basically letting Johnny enroll in school but never go to class. None of that was new and Spike Dykes basically did the last one if I recall with Hanspard and Thomas. What I remember forcing the hand of the powers that be were things like the Northwestern players attempting to unionize or the judgement in the O'Bannon lawsuit, but feel free to correct me where I am wrong.
  22. Holy shit that was bad, best part was the after the credit bit which says all that needs to be said after the episode. Stealing money at this point.
  23. Max is actually a decent knock off, maybe something you might find off Harwin, Hilton on the other hand is something you buy out of a guy's trunk on the roadside next to the guy selling carpets, another selling lemonade, and another with rebel flags and fire wood.
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