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  1. Possibility of play-in games if a conference has multiple guaranteed spots
  2. Dave Campbell has gotten a long ride based on having really good writers in the ‘60s and ‘70s
  3. Chamberlain, M. Malone, Olajuwon, Bird, Durant, LeBron, Russell, Jordan, Johnson, Robertson
  4. I buy three every year- Dave Campbell’s Texas football (to keep my collection complete), Phil Steele (comes out in early July) for the ridiculous amount of data and objective analysis, and Wadlington’s “Thinking Texas Football” (comes out when he is damned well good and ready)
  5. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joel-klatt-show-a-college-football-podcast/id1037085984?i=1000710848310 Klatt has a good comp of 4-4-2-2-4 vs 5-11. He points out that the B12 is less likely to, over a five year span, get as many teams in the CFP under the 5-11. He winders why Yormark is for 5-11. My suspicion? Yormark knows that the 4-4-2-4, through play-in games and SEC/B1G OOC games will help the SEC and B1G much more than it helps the B12, increasing the gulf between the P2 and Mid2.
  6. …and SMU didn’t beat anyone that finished ranked and lost to BYU. At some point, shouldn’t a CFP team have a good win? Rather than just not have many losses?
  7. There are at least three other places for CR discussion- CR, and the two DT sections. Is that not enough?
  8. OK, I remember CDC catching grief for not shit-canning Pierce immediately after season end. His plan was, since we’re paying severance, we could let him go when it suits us, and not him (Pierce, like Earley, always had the option to quit). CDC didn’t want everybody asking him about the opening, while he was working to fill it. It turned out that the guy he was going to hire didn’t finish his season until the very last game. (That seems to be CDC’s MO- wait to fire the guy until after the new hire is lined up). Could Alberts be doing the same? Still working a search, but having to wait until a candidate’s season is over?
  9. Caitlin Clark is young. She should go to Europe for a couple of years. She can grow her game there, draw huge crowds and ratings (her American fans can still follow and watch) and let the WNBA think about things, while Reese et.al. grow their league. (word getting out that she was thinking of this might focus their thinking a little)
  10. Most people really want to leave something to their heirs. I know that I do. And I had an elderly relative whose son stole from him, and that was a rough one to talk through
  11. The Conference CG, in conferences with multiple bids, hurt. Georgia, for example, lost their two year starter at QB (and their fantastic punter). Teams like ND, tOSU, Tennessee and Indiana didn’t play in the CG, so they got the extra week of rest even without a bye. The Buckeyes used that time to restructure their run game and clean up their defense. The old BCS and four team CFP seemed like a conclusion to the season. The 12 team CFP is more like the NCAA tournament, a whole second season.
  12. Yeah, brain fart. I knew we got a DL from Louisiana and my brain was coming up with all these names other than Malcolm Roach.
  13. NFL teams win Superbowls all the time with 4-6 losses, often to some of the league’s worst teams. We understand why- there is a lot of parity. The SEC is a tougher league. They play more games against teams that can beat you.
  14. Texas OOS recruit team (just listing, not ranking) QB: Simms, Applewhite RB: R. Williams, Bertelsen, AJ Jones, Metcalf, B. Robinson, Norris TE: Helm, Fitzgerald, Scaife WR: Worthy, Wingo OL: Braun, Sendlein, K. Studdard, S. Thomas DL: Ford, Ossai LB: Leiding, Edwards, DB: Spec Sanders, Steinmark, Cade, That’s just off the top of my head…
  15. Keeping thread on track, I think Texas lost 9 out of 10 to OU from 1948-1957. That was getting dominated by a superior program (and Texas proceeded to win 12 of the next 13 against the Sooners). the 1984-1994 streak- that was one program shrinking back from the cheating and another leaning in. Throw those years out and the series looks more like Baylor or Arkansas.
  16. Yeah, that’s not what I said. 4 AQs for the SEC last year would have meant that on Dec 7, 2024, there would have been an 11 AM game between SEC #3 Tennessee and #6 S. Carolina, a 3:30 game between #4 Alabama and #5 Ole Miss, and an 8PM game between Texas and Georgia. The winners of the first two games and both in the CG would have gone to the CFP. In this model, there are still a couple of at large places, and the SEC #5 (after play in weekend) will argue it deserves it more than the B12 #3 or the B1G #5. We’ll see. The only place for3-5 SEC teams is as November spoilers. Note that in this scenario, TAMU and LSU miss out because of league losses, and their OOC losses to ND and USC, respectively, play no part.
  17. In summary: ESPN will pay more if the SEC goes to nine league games. The SEC is concerned that “loss column bias” by a CFP selection committee will penalize the SEC if it has more league games (and more losses). That’s why it wants four AQs. Yes, that would mean a three (or even four) loss team getting in. 4 AQs also means that the SEC can make a three game play-in series on CG weekend, where 1/2 play for the SEC championship and seeding, while 3/6 and 4/5 play for the other two AQ positions. This would suck for the B12 and ACC, leeching attention. It would make a ton of money for the SEC. It would also mean that there would be a lot more November SEC games with playoff meaning, again hurting the ACC and B12 (who is going to watch UCF/ASU with playoff implications, when Tenn is playing LSU with playoff implications?) Finally, if the SEC has 4 AQs, the conference record becomes much more important than the overall record for SEC teams, meaning more premiere OOC opponents (again, more money for networks). Conversely, if SEC teams are competing for the at large CFP spots (5-11 model), they will be more hesitant to schedule tougher OOC games. In short- the 4-4-2-2 offers so much more money and benefits for the SEC (and ESPN), that I doubt they go to nine league game schedules unless that model is adopted
  18. Royal explained why, when asked. People didn’t like his answer. Royal had an idea for college football that was unique. He really wanted to coach players and have them gain from the university experience. We all know how he invented “academic counseling for athletes” (he called them “brain coaches”), but there was more to it than keeping guys eligible per NCAA rules. Royal’s early teams had a phenomenal number of attorneys, judges, doctors and bankers. You didn’t have to be a genius to play for Texas, not at all, but you had to put in the academic work (and he worked with Allie’s like Professor Wright at the Law School to open doors). He bounced phenomenal athletes like Joe Don Looney and Bob Young because they wouldn’t get with the academic program. Royal was candid about recruiting African Americans. He pointed out that segregated schools in Texas sucked, bad, and weren’t preparing kids for UT. Does anyone disagree? He said the pool of African American recruits for UT was small, and they were very sought after. It’s not a secret that he was trying to integrate football for four years before he was successful. We all know that the 1969 varsity was all white (Whittier was on the freshman team). It wouldn’t have been if his first African American recruit, a LB, had not flunked out. Whittier was a solid player; he also became an attorney and a judge, which is not a coincidence. Over time, Royal adapted his program to be more like the others. Also, integration improved education for African Americans in Texas. The point is- there was more to the story than what hustlers like Switzer like to say.
  19. Check your history. DKR integrated the SWC. He was AD at Texas and UT T&F integrated in 1963. (You are absolutely right about the assholes in his coaching tree. His 1984 Iowa staff is damned impressive) Royal hated cheaters in recruiting. His MO was to phone a coach and tell them what he heard about recruits being offered. He would say that if they didn’t address it, he was turning them in. He turned in Fry, at SMU. Fry was so pissed off that he searched for something to turn in Texas on. He found it. He discovered that on recruiting visits, Texas would give player hosts cash to take the recruits to a steak dinner in Austin (allowed). The players were so strapped for cash that they would take the recruits for hamburgers and pocket the difference. (Does that sound like a program that is paying players?). Fry turned in Texas and Royal burned with anger (reciprocated) after.
  20. That rule was stupid- and besides, how did that asshole Hayden Fry get in the HoF with a poorer win %?
  21. -Greedy: nothing wrong with that -Vindictive: read the part about “Big Dog” trying to subpoena “The Frontier” for their internal records -Asshole: do I really need to explain?
  22. Really, what was he thinking? They want to start a sports media venture, and borrow the money from people associated with the sports they intend to cover? Even if it had made money, how was it going to work when they wanted to criticize Venables or Castiglione, and Stoops, as their financier, calls them in to make them stop?
  23. Many years ago, I wrote a ten part series for Barking Carnival about the history of cheating in recruiting. The premise was that recruits differentiate among offers based on perceived value. In a world where there are no illegal inducements, a scholarship to the University of Texas, to play football, has greater value than the same from any of our regional (and most of our national) peers. Bags are needed to overcome that, and it’s no coincidence that so many of our rivals were dirty as hell. Around 1982, Texas had to decide if it was going to compete in recruiting (requiring bags) and the Tower decided, “No, we aren’t doing that”, and we had those miserable years result. I think the subsequent period of NCAA prnalizationnof OU and the SWC, along with realignment, controlled the bag game for a while and Texas ascended again. In 2020, with NIL and the portal, Texas had to make a decision again- compete or basically relegate ourselves. This time, the Tower decided to compete, and that is the world we live in. I enjoy the recruiting success. I don’t enjoy calling for our most successful boosters to fund recruiting out of their personal largesse- that makes me feel small as a fan. I absolutely am thankful for their contributions and wish they could have more recognition for it. Immamac has alluded to a future where about $15M (from “the House Settlement”) would be allocated to football (the same as other P4 schools), and that would be the baseline pay. Stars would get more pay from corporate (“real”) NIL, and the idea is that the Austin economy is vibrant enough that Texas will still be super-competitive in pay for play. I hope that works well.
  24. Forgive me. I just can’t get enough of Okie icons behaving awfully. https://thelostogle.com/2024/10/28/stoops-co-take-berry-tramel-lawsuit-to-vindictive-extremes Googling shows about 20 years of Tramel writing about Stoops, the standup guy, Stoops the molder of men, Stoops the visionary. He never seemed to write an article about Stiops, the greedy, vindictive asshole.
  25. I am sorry this happened to you. Here is something everyone should do (you, too, if you haven’t already): https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/taxes/tax-identity-theft-ip-pin-irs-ab021643?st=DPHj1X&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink Wiler, if you discover someone else has already opened a SS# account with your wife’s SS#, you have to address it (well, you don’t HAVE TO, but you really need to)
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