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Braff Zacklin

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  1. I'm sure we got bumped to No.7 for the potential matchup with No.2 Tennessee. The committee had their pick. Guess they figured we already got belted once by Marquette so might as well let Tennessee have a crack. Both are flawed Nos.2, though.
  2. Shocked and somewhat stoked to see that Texas got a 7 seed, as that seems very generous to me, but the possibility of playing Virginia does not instill me with confidence. Please convince me that I'm a pessimistic idiot.
  3. Texas was favored but it taking down the Brooks Bros. was still a huge win and no small feat. That same team was responsible for one of my favorite all-time regular-season wins--beating a stacked UCLA side at Pauley Pavilion. How stacked? Russell Westbrook, Kevin Love, and Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, for starters. Several great teams that season, and Texas was one of them. Barnes put together a special crew.
  4. Imagine being one of the world's wealthiest people, capable of buying or doing virtually anything, yet somehow believing you're the victim and that life has been unfair to you.
  5. Negative. I was more worried you'd try the "old celery trick" again. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice ...
  6. Yikes. Bet LeBron was like, "I know how you feel, Kent State."
  7. Yeah, if they've sourced him accurately, then Lunardi must've stroked out or something.
  8. Saw today's result. Yikes. Just assumed the team would bounce back and win today and tomorrow to take the series. Bad, bad losses.
  9. What's being overlooked is the unnecessary FiberCon. With that many enchiladas, your bowels aren't going to require any assistance moving them along.
  10. Again, no one is contending that victims of abuse are guaranteed to become abusers. Most do not. But data does suggest that victims of violence are indeed more likely to perpetrate violence than those who were not victims. Another study: https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/sexual-trauma-life-histories-rapists-and-child-molesters This one compared sex offenders with a control group of non-offenders. 31 percent of the sex-offender group reported some form of trauma between the ages of 1 to 15. Only 3 percent in the control group reported something similar. And another study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0145213419302121 You can continue your own cycle of abuse all you want, but your insults strike me as ironic.
  11. Wish we had him for every single game of his career. Miss him immensely.
  12. That article does not say what you seem to think it says. Also No one is contending that victims of abuse are guaranteed to become abusers. Most do not. But data does suggest that victims of violence are indeed more likely to perpetrate violence than those who were not victims.
  13. Sadly, victims of molestation as children have a very high incidence of "paying it forward," so to speak, as adults. I don't know the percentages, and it is absolutely not a guarantee that a victim will become a future predator, but it does happen at a much higher rate amongst the abused than it does amongst the rest of the population.
  14. C'mon, man. Lobo would never write a post that short.
  15. You said Dak couldn't win without a running game. He obviously can. Doesn't make Dak elite and it doesn't make him a playoff Wunderkind. It does mean, however, that you were wrong. Move the goalposts all you want (now you're trying to redefine what constitutes a win! LoL), but it's not going to change any of those facts.
  16. Was it a rye old-fashioned? Those are the best, imo.
  17. This will continue to happen until Baylor fans step up and stop making excuses for the institutional rape culture that Briles in specific and the athletics program in general enabled. Nobody holds Baylor fans responsible, mind you, but the "it could happen anywhere" or "it's all been blown out of proportion" excuses that dominated the Shag when it was current and topical have not been forgotten by many. Same reason I'll never root for PSU--until that program falls on its sword and performs a very public mea culpa, they will not be forgiven. Because they don't deserve forgiveness if they can't be contrite. Fuck Baylor and fuck Penn State.
  18. Melo, McNamara, Warrick ... that Syracuse team was young but talented, and we caught them on a night they couldn't miss. In contrast, as good as our '08 team was, I don't think we ever had a shot to beat the Derrick Rose-lead Tigers. That team was a terrible matchup for us and we could've played them 10 times and lost all 10, even if Memphis had returned to form and not converted 83 percent (30 for 36) of its free throws. Funny thing is, that Texas team would've had a good chance at beating Chalmers and KU if it had been our 'Horns against them in the finals. Instead, Memphis suddenly remembered that free throws were their Achilles heel and choked it away at the line.
  19. So you continue to redefine what you consider to be a viable, legit or proper running game, and then say I'M the one playing games with semantics? 🤣 Even in your clarification, you posted a bunch of irrelevant stats that, like your initial statement, are completely undermined once one takes a closer look. For example: Quoting those numbers means that you believe having a 100-yard rusher has a significant impact on Dak's performance. Fair enough, let's take a look at 2023 then, shall we? Hmm. The Cowboys had a 100-yard rusher once last season ... and they lost that game. So Dak and the team were 12-4 in games in which Dallas didn't have a 100-yard rusher last season. Ergo, the data indicates that Dallas' running game doesn't have the direct correlation on Dak's performance that you seem to think it does.
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