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ABSR

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  1. So you're saying life isn't fair? Come on man, spoiler that shit!
  2. This is an interesting discussion, and I don't necessarily disagree with you, but in reality it comes down to a dog-and-pony show as much as anything else. I found the following which has average football viewers in 2021 to get an idea of the teams and to work to segregate into the "Yes", "Maybe" and "No" in order to get to your Top 48 options. https://medium.com/run-it-back-with-zach/which-college-football-programs-were-the-most-watched-in-2021-49ef4f315858 Some assumptions I make are that SEC and Big 10 all get in (no change to current membership) and while I love the military academies, and Navy and Army have the eyeballs in top 48, they don't make the cut. One thing that is in question is what about basketball schools? I throw some into "Maybe" that certainly don't make it based on football alone (Kansas, Duke). The number next to them is their average football viewership from the link above. So who are your nine Maybe's to make the cut? YES (39) Ohio State — 5.22M, Michigan — 4.74M, Alabama — 4.64M, Penn State — 3.87M, Georgia — 3.61M, Oklahoma — 3.46M, Auburn — 3.22M, Michigan State — 2.89M, Notre Dame — 2.84M, Oregon — 2.57M, Wisconsin — 2.41M, Nebraska — 2.29M, Texas — 2.26M, Florida — 2.21M, Arkansas — 2.03M, LSU — 1.90M, Texas A&M — 1.86M, Mississippi — 1.81M, Clemson — 1.74M, Iowa — 1.64M, Purdue — 1.63M, Oklahoma State — 1.58M, Tennessee — 1.51M, Minnesota — 1.28M, Florida State — 1.27M, Indiana — 1.24M, UCLA — 1.18M, Illinois — 1.13M, Southern Cal — 1.11M, Kentucky — 1.08M, Miami — 1.038M, Maryland — 971K, Mississippi State — 858K, Stanford — 778K (if they want in I think they are in), Northwestern — 716K, South Carolina — 575K, Rutgers — 488K, Missouri — 462K, Vanderbilt — 37K So there are 9 from the Maybe list to get to 48. MAYBE (30) Iowa State — 1.219M, Cincinnati — 1.216M, Baylor — 1.16M (I say F'em), North Carolina — 1.032M (with basketball I think they get in), Utah — 994K, Washington — 985K, West Virginia — 948K, TCU — 907K, BYU — 893K, Texas Tech — 798K, Arizona State — 739K, Boise State — 657K, Kansas State — 636K, Louisville — 616K, Virginia — 611K, Pittsburgh — 550K, Kansas — 540K (Without basketball they are a hard no), Wake Forest — 526K, NC State — 525K, Washington State — 483K, Georgia Tech — 459K, Virginia Tech — 447K, UCF — 407K, Colorado — 366K, Arizona — 337K (need basketball to matter to be considered), Louisiana — 334K (basketball helps push them up a lot), Oregon State — 321K, South Florida — 303K, California — 222K (I think if they push they get it), Duke — 64K (need basketball to matter to be considered), NO Navy — 1.039M, Army — 804K , Tulsa — 358K, Tulane — 356K, East Carolina — 301K, Air Force — 255K, Appalachian State — 241K, Houston — 232K, Coastal Carolina — 223K, Syracuse — 219K, San Diego State — 198K, Memphis — 193K, Western Michigan — 171K, SMU — 164K, UAB — 163K, Northern Illinois — 163K, Boston College — 156K, Hawaii — 139K, Ohio — 130K, Eastern Michigan — 122K, Buffalo — 119K, Kent State — 117K, Temple — 112.7K, Ball State — 112.6K, Western Kentucky — 97K, Utah State — 91K, Akron — 90K, Marshall — 85K, Nevada — 78K, UTEP — 63K, Colorado State — 59K, San Jose State — 59K, UTSA — 51.9K, Georgia State — 51.7K, ULM — 50K, Fresno State — 45K, Wyoming — 38K, UNLV — 34K, South Alabama — 26K, New Mexico — 25K, Troy — 24K
  3. People keep talking about this, but Vandy is the SEC's only private school and all conferences want at least ONE private school so that the conference can deflect/avoid FOI type of requests or requirements.
  4. Stanford does care about athletics overall as can be seen by them winning, or coming close to winning, the Directors cup every year. While I would agree about their lack of interest in the Brave New NIL world as it pertains to Football, does Football provide the meal ticket to pay for all of the other sports as it does with almost all other programs? If so, then I believe they would be reticent to bail on football (and conference alignment and money) based on the impact to all of it's sports. Additionally, without a conference, and even if they kept all their other sports, it would be a struggle to get games/schedules as an independent (not impossible).
  5. Maybe it was a giant Reward Trip for Popeye's employees? They don't play.
  6. Hey, it's never a bad time for a Cupgrade!
  7. For him it's more like a side shuffle.
  8. Not completely. The island was located close enough to the Ukraine coast to be hit by long range artillery and MLRS systems. It is NOT that close to Crimea or Russian controlled areas. I am pretty confident that the improved artillery and MLRS systems were the key for Ukraine.
  9. Well if you were as drunk as .... well yourself, how do you really know?
  10. Per leg? This guy is one more piroshki from needing a crane to get him in and out of bed.
  11. Heck, with all the shit they like to talk they would die from "Disin' Terry" well before that!
  12. If she said "white" or "asian" would you have made fun of your colleague?
  13. I think The Brazos County Women for Traditional American Values Auxiliary Journal proudly stated that Texas A&M was #2! So yeah, put it on the stadium.
  14. The real question is who had (knew) they had jurisdiction? Plenty of Blame to go around and everyone covering their ass and pointing fingers and everyone but themselves. If DPS showed up and that meant they had jurisdiction, then it is on them. However, not sure how DPS fits into the hierarchy, and my guess is that the city PD still likely had jurisdiction, and that the ISD PD still likely were saying they had jurisdiction. Shit show no matter what, but if someone actually has a real factual answer on this it would be appreciated.
  15. In 110ish days Russia has lost 30+ thousand soldiers (dead) and we can estimate 2-4 times that injured. Their standing army is about 280K of soldier. The soldiers sent into Ukraine were mostly top line contract soldiers and not conscripts (mostly). Oryx shows 4,353 pieces of equipment lost and as this is solely a visual/picture identified inventory the real number will be higher. So to continue this for just another 200 days at the same pace of operations would mean about 100K of their regular army dead and 1,500 pieces of equipment lost...approximately. Two years?? As long as Ukraine has the means (West supporting with equipment, intel and training) and the will to fight (So far they have), eventually Russia will bleed out as an army and fighting force. But it will be bloody and deadly for both sides.
  16. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-zelenskyy-travel-business-91e642254c31aca6db72dd203f031fb8 "More than 1 million people, including nearly 200,000 children, have been taken from Ukraine to Russia in the past two months, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Monday, according to the state-owned news agency TASS."
  17. As long as they weren't "slave labor" spiders they are okay. So union, coffee breaks, time and a-half for overtime. PETA's cool with it.
  18. I’m almost out on this and I have suffered through this crap my whole life. Are they saving the Jedi so they can bring them back and create an army of Jedi to fight the Empire…just in case? If they want DNA then get blood, skin, hair and put it in a matchbox sized compartment. And the plan was to “Swim” into the super fortress with a plan of disguising Obi Wan as himself. Maybe pull his hood down lower to really confuse them. Then the exit plan was to walk the annoying kid out under the same cloak of stupidity. That is after rescuing her from the basketball gymnasium sized torture chamber built for one from the least believable bad guy character of the bad guys who we are suppose to believe is really bad.
  19. He saw a balk not get called?
  20. Not Vodka or spirits as then it could not be sold in most grocery stores or other "beer/wine" only locations. From quick search "Hard seltzer is legally classified as a flavored malt beverage (FMB), which is within the broader beer category". But it is today's version of Wine Coolers or Zima type products.
  21. Not that I disagree, but enjoy your Phlegm McMuffin.
  22. Sorry, but this statement seems very aggy. On here we would make fun of any aggy statement bragging about a business they love that they now refuse to go to because they found out a “Sip” owns it. Now Blue Bell is a little different, because I use to like their products from growing up in Texas, but then found out they had the Listeria outbreak knew about it, hid it, kept selling tainted products, then when forced to deal with it they did not fire or remove senior leadership responsible directly and in general because they are all from the same college and protect each other. I did not know or care who ran Blue Bell before, but could easily guess which school it was, and regardless of aggy F them until they do the right thing….which they will never do.
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