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Ghost of LL

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  1. Holy shit—I’m in a swing state. So many Kamala ads. Actually some good positive ads.
  2. Yeah--I get ESPN+. But that doesn't give me actual ESPN. So I could watch two D3 teams on ESPN+, but couldn't watch Florida State because it was on ESPN.
  3. Well, it brings one vote in Wyoming. Which I believe is something like 2% of the electorate in that state.
  4. WTF has happened in Wisconsin? I have thought over the last eight years that it was the least secure of the Blue Wall states. But polling over the past six weeks has consistently had it as the most secure (occasionally showing it outside the MOE, as is the case here). What's up with that? Pennsylvania is always close, but it almost always comes home for the Dems. I suspect it'll be the same here--five points feels high. If Harris wins it by more than three points, I'd be surprised. Pennsylvania is not more Dem than Michigan. It's just not. And I don't want to hear any bullshit about Dearborn; Harris is not going to run three points in Pennsylvania ahead of where she is in Michigan.
  5. Ghost of LL

    BC @ FSU

    We’re all focusing on DJ, but that’s unfair. This entire team is awful. The WRs can’t catch for shit. The offensive line is opening no holes and getting absolutely no push for their mediocre running backs. The DL is getting blown off the ball; they’re giving up 8 ypc or so (by my guess). They’re just terrible in every phase.
  6. Ghost of LL

    BC @ FSU

    Let’s not sleep in the fact that DJU’s receivers aren’t doing him any favors. They’re every bit as bad as he is.
  7. Ghost of LL

    BC @ FSU

    DJU still has a higher QB rating than Conner Weigman
  8. Ghost of LL

    BC @ FSU

    It’s going to be wild when SMU wins the ACC, Utah wins the Big 12, Oregon wins the B1G, and Texas wins the SEC.
  9. Ghost of LL

    BC @ FSU

    I think I just found Florida’s fourth win of the season.
  10. Ghost of LL

    BC @ FSU

    The Florida State defense may kill DJU after this game.
  11. People who aren't registered to vote in Arizona?
  12. My dude--do you think games are only lost on Saturday? Fuuuuuck no. It takes a whole week's worth of preparation to not coach. It starts on Sunday, when Jimbo doesn't look at any game film and doesn't start developing a gameplan. Then it continues on Monday when he doesn't meet with any coaches or players. It continues right on through the week when he doesn't attend any practices, evaluate any players, or provide any instruction. It culminates on Friday when he doesn't set the two-deep. It's a whole seven days of inaction, each of which earns $20,000. And that's just during the season. In the offseason, he spends every day not evaluating talent, not recruiting, not coordinating the NIL efforts, not chatting up alumni and fans, not being visible as the Head Football Coach of the third-best football program in Texas. That kind of nonfeasance doesn't come cheap, my friend.
  13. The future of the Big XII was put into sharp and sad relief this past weekend for anybody who was uncertain what it was going to look like. It's pretty clear that ESPN views the SEC as its bell cow. And it's going to do whatever it needs to do to maximize the visibility of the SEC (and hence its own revenue). So this past weekend, that meant Texas at 2:30 and aggy at 6:00 with Oklahoma on Friday. And that's what you're going to see throughout the rest of the season--Texas and Oklahoma and the big SEC teams not overlapping on timeslots and competing for viewers. They're going to be lined up in a series so that football fans never have to change the channel. The result this past weekend was that Baylor, Tech, and Cougar High were all shunted off to streaming (probably to the benefit of all of them to reduce the visibility of those awful showings). The Arizona schools play into the early morning hours. And everyone else plays on Thursday or at 11:00. No fucking prime time for the Big XII. And that continues on September 14--Oklahoma v. Tulane at 2:30 on ESPN; aggy @ Florida (yuck) at 2:30 on ABC; Texas v. UTSA at 6:00 on ESPN; Georgia at Kentucky at 6:30 on ABC. That's not leaving just a whole lot of inventory for Big XII games. Arizona State plays on Thursday night; the Kansas schools play on Friday. Cougar High is streaming on ESPN+ again. Three teams play at 11:00. TCU/UCF and Colorado/Colorado State actually get Fox and CBS in primetime--that's good for them, I suppose. Colorado/Colorado State will actually get decent numbers. But apart from those two slots, that's a pretty wretched schedule for a conference. Regularly shunting teams off to weeknights or onto ESPN+ just isn't great for visibility, recruiting, or fundraising. It feels a lot more Mountain West than it does SEC.
  14. Life moves pretty fast on Surly. You don’t stop and look around on Daily Texan, you could miss it.
  15. “We’re not going back!”
  16. This Arizona-NM game is really entertaining. But the Lobos wearing their red on the road is really throwing me off.
  17. We have our best team in 15 years, and aggy may have their worst. All in the year we move to the SEC.
  18. They can’t—only conference champions can get a Top-4 seed.
  19. Haha—eat shit, aggy!
  20. Holy shit, we are going to destroy aggy.
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