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  1. Why weren’t these done 30 months ago?
  2. More frozen precision in Arlington last night, but it’s all melting. I live in a light traffic neighborhood and the streets are wet, not ice.
  3. In some ways, I envy the younger fans who came along in the ‘95 season and later. That 1984-1994 stretch didn’t just warp Ag self regard, it did a number on Texas as well. from late November 1984 thru the same in 1994, the Ags went 106-26-2 for a near .800 win rate, while Texas went 72-54-2 over the same period. They represented the SWC in the Cotton Bowl six times, and were barred from contention by the NCAA two other times. Their program was built on cheating in recruiting and dominating weak programs (in 1992, they went 12-1. They played one ranked team the whole year-FSU in the Cotton Bowl- and were drilled, pushing them out of the top five). All of the Aggie braggadocio is based on two things- that 11 year stretch (which keeps receding farther and farther back in time) and being in the SEC (which they now share with Texas). They haven’t figured it out yet, so I don’t know that they ever will.
  4. I first encountered BI 13-0 back when these boards got going, in the mid to late ‘90s. That was a weird time; the Ags had a 11 year stretch where they beat Texas 10 times and pretty much dominated a dying SWC. In that context, an excessively braggadocious Ag didn’t seem so innately fucked up. But, he carried the bit on and on, after 11-3 years became 8-4 years became 5-6 years. He became a parody.
  5. Millbrook, right next to Interlochen. If you are familiar with the area, you know that the only way out is up either the Westwood or Bowen hills, neither of which gets sun until the afternoon. Getting up one of those hills tomorrow will be the main challenge. Hopefully, it will have melted enough by mid afternoon
  6. Snow starting to come down and stick in Arlington
  7. It’s raining pretty good in Arlington right now. I expect (and am planning for) the streets to be pretty nasty (ice, slush) Friday morning and increasingly passable as the afternoon progresses.
  8. Arlington hosted a Super Bowl a while back, and the area was all iced up and no special measures taken. Doubt they do it for even a CFp semifinal
  9. Non-CFP bowl games are exhibitions, probably less meaningful than spring games. Alabama played two top 10 (Sagarin) teams, winning one and losing one. They played six Sagarin top 30 teams, winning four and losing two (one of which was Michigan in the bowl). Who would you have above them? ASU, who played only one top 10 teams (losing to Texas) and only four top 30 teams)?
  10. I wonder if they’ll go to 16 in the CFP earlier than thought (like next season), because the 1st round bye sure looks like a boobie prize. (But, what to do about Conference CGs then? Georgia won the SEC CG but got their two year starter at QB out for the season)
  11. Loss column bias is real. There are five SEC teams in the latest Sagarin top 10. There are three SEC teams in the AP poll top 10. There are more good SEC teams (10 SEC teams in the Sagarin top 25) and it is a 16 team league. There are seven B1G teams in the Sagarin top 25 and it is an 18 team league. It is easier for a really good team to finish even a nine game B1G schedule with 1-2 losses. ESPN would love a nine game SEC schedule, and would probably pay for it, at least comparable to what the B1G gets. I think the SEC will need assurances from the CFP first (would have helped if Tennessee or Georgia could have won a game).
  12. Thx. That’s interesting. I figured that if the SEC stayed at eight games, OU would be the permanent rival, and Arkansas would be most pissed about us not having an annual game.
  13. The way they ascribe Texas’ success to Texas being cutthroat while the Ags have scruples…🙄 Jackie Sherrill is, in the hive mind, the bestest, purest Ag coach, ever. And that dude is one very weird sociopath.
  14. WRT guys not wanting to play their popular songs: About 1998, we saw Joe Jackson in Seattle. He came out at the start, and very politely said, “Here is how the show will go- We will play some of our hits you are familiar with. Then, we will play most of my new album, and you will behave while we are doing that. We will finish up with more familiar songs. Thanks.” Frankly, it was refreshing.
  15. Penn State has two MNCs (1982 and 1986). Penn State has never had a season of note without Jerry Sandusky grinning in the team photo.
  16. My understanding is that the original grave had Oswald’s full name and dates of birth and death, but was replaced by a simpler marker after defacing of the original
  17. Day after Xmas, found myself having to entertain niece and her fiancé for an afternoon. I had heard that Lee Harvey Oswald was buried nearby. Googled, and sure enough, his grave was about ten minutes away. The kids were up for it, so we went. (I did not bring the flowers). A little surprised by the flags- I knew he was a vet, but would have thought his discharge (after defecting to Russia) would have been less than honorable. Maybe a relative brought them? After, we went out for hamburgers and beer. So, not really bitching, just sharing a little bit of crazy.
  18. I didn’t include Note 2, because Note 2 defines a defenseless player- who is and isn’t one- and I freely admit that theASU WR was defenseless while catching the ball. It was not forcible to the head, no matter how much you want it to be. The officials on the field did not believe it to be forcible to the head. The officials in the review booth did not believe it to be so. You want, for some reason, to believe that Texas was allowed to break a rule, unpunished, even after review. How in the hell do you think that works? Why?
  19. Yes, he was defenseless. That doesn’t mean he can’t be tackled or blocked. He can. He can’t be “targeted”, which has a definition. Their helmets contacted. It was not a forcible hit to his head. It was a forcible hit to his body, instead, which is legal. If any helmet contact was targeting, there would be a couple dozen per game.
  20. This might be tough for you, but I’m going to ask you to use your reading and reasoning skills and not just an “appeal to authority”. I will grant you that the receiver was a defenseless player. I will grant you that the fronts of both players’ helmets contacted. It was incidental contact, not “forcible contact”. None of the facets in the quoted note are applicable. That is why the officials didn’t call it on the field. That is why the review booth declined to call it.
  21. I live 3.7 miles from the stadium. I will be there. Even if I have to walk.
  22. I would love to know the inner details of how the B1G decided to invite them to join. USC and UCLA are obvious takes: Major football blue blood, Major basketball blue blood, and lock down southern California recruiting. Win-win, all the way around for the whole conference. Oregon? As you say, there aren’t enough players for one national contender in that region, and Phil Knight intends for Oregon to contend nationally. Which means, taking Oregon into the B1G gives them that sweet media revenue and exposure, while enabling them to recruit against B1G schools, and (not incidentally) not adding viewers at a greater amount than any other school that buys itself into relevance. Surely, some B1G ADs wanted to let them wither on the vine.
  23. Coming from you, I will choose to take that as a compliment
  24. I feel stupid for not realizing this sooner. I knew the Ags suffered tragedy with every big Texas win. I failed to realize how much fun a four tier college football playoff could be, with them dying horrible emotional deaths every ten days.
  25. I know they talked about factoring team quality from recent history. Texas got better and OU got worse. Life gets harder when you suck; nobody knows better than UT. Best approach is to get better, and not whine. OU seems to feel that the SEC should have given them an easier schedule, to help support the OU brand. Sorry, the SEC is not the Big XII. There was another factor not mentioned by the SEC- UT’s rivals. The RRS is one of the great annual games, and must be played. ESPN and the college football world expect Texas to play TAMU (even if UT and TAMU can take it or leave it). Third, even though Texas is fine ignoring Arkansas, an Arkansas - Texas game is Arkansas’ greatest desire. There is 3/8 of Texas’ schedule, locked in.
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