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Ghost of LL

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  1. I can't really tell. The ears look awfully rounded when you zoom in.
  2. Eight scheduled conference games, but with a flex week on Championship Saturday. Top 2 teams go to the SEC Championship Game in Atlanta. Both teams get an automatic bid to the playoffs. Then the 3rd place team plays at home against the 6th place team; the 4th place team plays at home against the 5th place team--winner gets an auto bid. This structure may already be in the works. And then for funsies--have all the other teams play. The 8th team at the 7th team, and so on. The 16 at 15 game is to avoid relegation to the ACC.
  3. And as it turns out, UCLA would've been a pretty easy game that would've provided (perhaps misplaced) credit for beating a B1G team on the road.
  4. He's using it ironically. As in "huh--that doesn't sound like they're treating illegal drugs as very haram after all."
  5. So we get Clemson at home in two weeks?
  6. Looks like we’re going to get Clemson in two weeks.
  7. I honestly don’t know how you put that in Quinn. Unless you think he was calling the plays. That play calling disaster inside the red zone was 100% on Sark, and looked exactly like 2023.
  8. This isn’t in Quinn—when he throws, he’s been right on. This shitshow is entirely on Sark.
  9. How we can be The University of motherfucking Texas and have a kicker who wouldn’t start for most 6A high school teams in this state is fucking beyond me.
  10. Carson Beck’s eyes look like they’re put on upside down.
  11. That’s just a pretty poor effort by Bond.
  12. So since we are the higher seed, I assume we opted to wear the Stormtroopers?
  13. I have no idea. But a guy like Mike Gundy . . . in a town like Stillwater? You know there are several skeletons in that particular closet. Probably drunk pregnant skeletons, if I had to guess.
  14. That's not true at all. You just grab the bottle by the neck and sling it overhand, letting the centrifugal force keep the liquid in the bottle as it spins. Uhhh, or so I would infer based on my vast knowledge of physics. Yeah. That's it.
  15. Yeah, but seriously--it's Mike Gundy. You know they wouldn't have to look very hard to find cause, right?
  16. Nope. No--we are not doing that. Snitches get motherfucking stitches, bitch.
  17. Just to echo the points made by others, Ford Stadium is great for SMU's needs right now, and its size is very consistent with the current trend in college football. Attendance across college football is declining. And for that reason, you're seeing other private schools in P4 conferences downsize their stadiums (e.g., Stanford, Northwestern). And when Northwestern went to a tiny temporary stadium this year, it actually increased attendance and revenue. And cross-posting to the Big XII thread, the comparison to the other P4 private schools that are in major metropolitan areas is interesting: USC: L.A. Memorial Coliseum, 77,500. Undergrad enrollment, 21,000. Miami: Hard Rock Stadium, 65,326. Undergrad enrollment, 12,883 (Miami and USC’s respective home venues are, or were, home to NFL teams. Miami’s home stadium is 21 miles from its campus.) Stanford: Stanford Stadium, 50,424. Undergrad enrollment, 8,054 TCU: Amon G. Carter Stadium, 47,000. Undergrad enrollment, 11,049 Boston College: Alumni Stadium, 44,500.Undergrad enrollment, 9,575 Vanderbilt: FirstBank Stadium, 41,000. Undergrad enrollment, 7,152 Northwestern: Ryan Field, 35,000*. Undergrad enrollment, 8,846 (* Ryan Field is slated to open in 2026) SMU: Gerald J. Ford Stadium, 32,000. Undergrad enrollment, 7,285 The Star-Telegram's commentary from which these numbers are sourced points out that TCU isn't filling up its stadium, and it's a really bad look. You'd really rather be SMU and Northwestern, which are filling their stadiums with premium-seat holders, than TCU, which can't fill Amon Carter Stadium. So I'd say that SMU is very serious about its stadium. Ford Stadium is probably the perfect stadium for SMU right now and into the foreseeable future.
  18. I am not familiar with the details of the case, so I'm not commenting at all on this specific incident. My comment is directed solely to the union's commentary of "well don't send us on mental-health calls, then."
  19. I mean, the idea of a fixed number of bids for each league seems to work ok for the UEFA Champions League.
  20. From what I understand, it's the opposite. The television networks don't give a shit about how many people are in the stands. We have a couple of decades' worth of evidence with various bowl games to demonstrate that. If "butts in seats" were a metric of the financial viability of a college-football game, then things like the Hawai'i Bowl and the Bermuda Bowl would've been out the window a long time ago. Shit--the Hawai'i Bowl is being played this year in a stadium with a 17,000-seat capacity, and it'd be a miracle if that game sold out. The ratings on conference championship games indicates that, if anything, they'll expand. The Big 12 instituted a superfluous championship game back when it was a 10-team league precisely because its television partner demanded it. Has anything changed? Someone--maybe Joel Klatt, but I can't remember--laid down a purportedly highly informed opinion that Championship Saturday was going to expand in the next two years alongside an expansion in the CFP. According to whoever, the CFP is going to expand to 14 teams with the SEC and B1G being guaranteed four spots and their champions guaranteed the two byes. Those four spots will be allocated to the winner and loser of the conference championship game and then to the winners of two play-in games. So if that were the deal this year, you'd have a Saturday football schedule for the SEC that looked like this: 11:00 AM: Play-In Game (6) Alabama @ (3) Tennessee 3:00 PM: Play-In Game (5) Ole Miss @ (4) South Carolina 7:00 PM: Championship Game (2) Georgia @ (1) Texas (in Atlanta) I don't know how likely that is to happen. But understanding the networks' insatiable appetite for college-football content, I'd say it's significantly more likely to happen than getting rid of conference championship games altogether.
  21. I kind of agree with them, but when we tried to have mental-health experts do this shit instead of the police, Republicans screamed about the City "defunding the police." Well, you can't have it both ways. If you're going to be lavishly funded based on your presumed ability to address all of the City's ills, then you need to address all of the City's ills.
  22. I'm in the "bah, Humbug" camp these days. I have oral argument next week, and then three depositions and an MSJ hearing the following week. And I somehow need to get a hearing on a TCPA motion set before the end of the year. All of that is on top of the generalized EOY bullshit that comes with running a business, having various social obligations, and dealing with a wife and kids who expect presents. I don't have time for any of this holiday bullshit. Oh, and on top of it Mrs.LL thinks she wants to buy a new house in West Lake Hills. So bah, Humbug and fuck all y'all.
  23. I gotta tell you--I'm real concerned that Alabama is going to get stuck going to Columbus or South Bend and is going to get absolutely boat raced. Alabama is a good team, don't get me wrong. But they are very suspect on the road (their three losses are at Vanderbilt, at Tennessee, and at Oklahoma, with road wins coming at Wisconsin and at LSU). And I really hate to be all "SEC, SEC, SEC," but the fact is that Alabama being a controversial entrant to the CFP and then getting absolutely drubbed in the first round on the road would be a bad look for the conference and could harm Texas and other SEC teams in the Committee's eyes in the future.
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