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  1. On 2/22/2024 at 9:15 AM, Juicy said:

    Isn't it 4 games? 

    Round of 16

    Round of 8

    Semis

    Final

    You are correct, even more reason to do away with CCG and maybe even drop a non conference regular season game and go back to 11.  

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  2. On 2/17/2024 at 11:40 AM, oSuJeff97 said:

    Yeah I'd like to see the details of this very scientific sounding "study."

    Obviously OU and Aggy are going to list Texas as their biggest rival. Beyond that, maybe a handful of Texas-based FBS schools... maybe Tech, TCU, Baylor, Houston... maybe SMU... who are the other four? UTSA? SFA? Rice? Texas A&M-CC?

    Nah man, K-State and Iowa State for sure have us on the list. They really have an irrational hatred of all things Texas to the extent that it is a boogie man complex. Baylor, TCU, and Tech as well. Nebraska, Arkansas, OU, A&M. That leaves two more schools and I have no idea where those are coming from. Houston and Rice maybe? 

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  3. 2 hours ago, Duane Moore said:

    WTF? Were the schools asking for this so they could cut back on the ever-escalating arms race of recruiting amenities? Because both the photo shoots and hotel swag seem like entirely harmless fun that recruits would enjoy and give them some tangible souvenirs of the process once it’s over. The NCAA just seems hell-bent on making itself as unlikeable as possible. 

    Enjoyment of recruits and players is at the bottom of the list for the NCAA, but this is right in their wheelhouse. Making completely arbitrary rulings on random minutia is what the fat bureaucratic slop pigs want to wallow in all day every day. 

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  4. Going to 16 teams will ensure that every team needs to play 3 games to win the title. That will drastically impact the regular season. I could see conference championship games going away since the top teams will essentially play an NFL schedule. 

  5. 8 minutes ago, TexEx15 said:

    As a parent of a child with a peanut allergy, fuck that. Look if he said some stupid shit on video then I get it but we are literally talking about life and death, of which he was aparently aware. Now if there is new information in the future that refutes his involvement and or his understanding of the seriousness of the allergy then we can talk about it being terrible for him.

    Some school will end up taking him anyway we know how this shit goes.

    The only thing I will say is that the extent of the allergy may not have been known. If someone comes to me and says "Hey, even the very sight of a peanut could kill me. It is really serious.", my next rational thought is not going to be how to smear peanut products all over him as a joke. But if I think a kid might just break out in hives if he eats a peanut, then the prank is within the realm of just being a dumbass. I seriously doubt there was true malicious intent to put the kid's life in danger. But I could also be wrong and the kid is a Charles Manson junior cadet.  

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  6. The person I am most concerned for is Gus. I can just see him flying out of his mind on a call.. "FUMBLE PICKED UP BY <INSERT TEAM>! THEY AREN'T GONNA CATCH HIM! NOAH.... KNIGGA.....   MY KNIGGA!"

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  7. 4 hours ago, satyanash said:

     

    On the flip side, I could just as likely see a push to have home games at say Cincinnati or Troy or any other 35,000 seat stadium moved to the nearest neutral site location that can house a much larger number of fans. Thus negating any real home field advantage because a lot more of the opposing fans will show up. It shouldn't happen, but it could. 

  8. 42 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    I was scrolling down, skimming the thread. Then I come to this post and thought "I wonder how long it is going to take this Michigan honk to, yet again, start shilling for JJ McCarthy?" and he did not disappoint. He can't help himself. 

    JJ McCarthy is far more likely to get a GM fired than Caleb Williams or Drake Maye, and I'm not huge fans of either of those guys. McCarthy had how many high leverage throws during his time at Michigan? How many quality defenses did he play? How did he do in those games? How many hits did the guy take behind that brick wall of an OL? None of those answers favor anyone touting this guy as someone who should go any higher than the middle rounds.

    McCarthy should have come back for another year. Anyone drafting him early this year is doing so because they've heard Jim Harbaugh wax poetic about his intangibles and then they stared too long at too little tape and convinced themselves that this McCarthy guy is the next Tom Brady. 

    I am a bit of a QB scientist myself, so let me go ahead and just spoil the intrigue over the next few years, as I have done accurately in the last several drafts. 

    JJ McCarthy is nothing more than a game manager at the next level with a likely 1 or 2 year starting career followed by a longer string as #2, he was nothing more than that in college. Can a pent up 1980's power run offense by a former DC turned HC win with him? Sure, if he has a stacked team around him (see Purdy, Brock). But don't expect him to be able to put the team on his back more than once per season and deliver.

    Caleb Williams is the Deshaun Watson of this draft. His bust potential is as high as his boom potential, and he may do both. Williams is elite in almost every physical category and can make a QB guru type coach a career if he gets that dude (see Reid, Andy). He has clear flaws and question marks between the ears, but an elite game planner/play caller will save him from himself. If he doesn't get that, then he could be 5 and out. Sean P

    Drake Maye is Colt McCoy with more pro tools. He has that wicked accuracy and decision making but with a better arm. Solid leader, by all accounts a decent dude, and a hard worker. However, unlike Colt, he was not good enough to mask major deficiencies on the rest of his team. If I am drafting him, my main question is how come he didn't carry his team more than he did. I think he starts longer than JJ, but not much longer unless he finds himself in a perfect system. Sean McVay or Sean Payton are probably the best coaches for him. 

    Jayden Daniels is a guy that I think could have a solid career, but he is going to be minimized at the next level athletically and not able to get away with some of the shit he did at LSU. He is not the next Lamar Jackson. 

    Bo Nix... lol. A checkdown master with scrambling ability will make a bad team just as bad. 

    Michael Penix is the guy we could all look back on 5 years from now and wonder why all of the obvious signs that he was going to be great seemed to not register. Put this dude in a downfield passing attack and he could be a three contract guy in the NFL. His decision making, throwing to leverage, and insane downfield accuracy are all better than anyone in the draft. If they try to put him into a more traditional progression based system he will underperform, if they put him behind a bad OL then he will be injury prone, but if he gets a Shanahan/McDaniel/Reid type system then he is going to be a monster. 

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  9. 5 minutes ago, BurntOrange&amp;White said:

    They had previously asked him if he was allergic and he told them yes and it could kill him. They intentionally gave him the peanut product knowing this. No this shouldn't be taken lightly or brushed under the rug. This isn't some huehuehue meathead bullshit.

    So you're saying that they did, in fact, get together and say "Let's try and kill our teammate today."

  10. 9 hours ago, Spider2YBanana said:

    Jesus Christ. Football over a kid's fucking life. It's a fucking sport, and this is attempted murder. Fucking bullshit. I hope that kid is OK. Pieces of garbage. 

     

    Lighten up Francis. I am sure all of those kids got together and said "Hey, let's try to kill our teammate today." More likely it was just a bunch of meathead 17 and 18 year olds making meathead decisions with no real grasp on true consequences just like we all did back then. 

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  11. I love the sudden new belief that you can't call plays as a HC and win in the SEC. Especially when Andy Reid just won the Super Bowl back to back doing it. They are desperately clinging to any measurement they can to prove that Sark is going to flame out here, when all signs are pointing the other direction. The same as when they were desperately clinging to any measurement, or just ignoring them completely, to prove that Jimbo was an elite coach until he wasn't. Now they are just praying that Sark is our Jimbo. Never change aggy. 

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