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  1. Money quote from the Yahoo article above: 

    "...the ramifications of the new CFP deal are deep, as two conferences distance themselves from the rest with uneven revenue distribution.  Schwarz, the economist, sees it a different way. “The new revenue model is not causing the separation, it’s a reflection of the separation,” he said."

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  2. Was at the O&W game, some observations, probably made by anyone with eyes:

    Player Observations

    • Wingo and Cook are studs.  Hard to believe Wingo is an EE Fr, he's built like a Sr.  Speed, hands, wiggle, the whole package.  Cook has great elusiveness and another gear after the catch.
    • Bond looked great too, but we expected that.  Had a few catchable balls he missed.
    • I'll be disappointed if we lose Red, even with his weight gain he looked pretty good!  Soft hands catching screens and had some nice jukes and also ran over a few people.  I guess we saw a lot of him due to his spot on the depth chart but if he's willing to accept a reduced role I think he could contribute.
    • Owens looked mature, it's been awhile since we've had this depth in QB.  We're set up for the next few years and when we land Lacey we could have an Alabama-like run of QB play of 3-4 starter level NFL QBs in a row.
    • With Hill moving to the middle I didn't notice him as much, maybe he won't make as many flash plays there but probably will contribute more.
    • It was good to see the OLine get a push in a goal to go situation
    • It's really hard to assess defense in the spring game because they're playing with a hand tied behind their back and have to dial down the aggression and not hurt anyone.

    Formation/Philosophy

    • We ran a lot of 4 WR sets, way more than the last few years.
    • We hardly ran any 2 RB sets/pony package
    • We ran a lot of screens, not just the TE screen but traditional RB screens as well.  Some worked and some the D-line sniffed out.  Showed off the RBs soft hands and working with blockers.
    • There were a lot more slants and passes across the middle as a % of throws that I was used to seeing, thank god
    • There were a lot fewer horizontal throws to the sideline (WR screen)
    • We ran a lot of man coverage
    • We blitzed over 1/3rd of the plays

    How much of this is just Sark experimenting, how much of this translates to the season...?

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  3. From the link above RE: Super League:

    NIL

    The deck proposes a national broadcast NIL (BNIL) construct whereby players receive pro rata shares of a collectively bargained “FB Player Pool,” which would come from the Super League’s TV money. That money would be distributed as follows: 5% to all rostered freshmen, 15% to all rostered sophomores, 30% for all rostered juniors and 50% for all rostered seniors and graduate students. 

    As another means of maintaining competitive equity, the pitch deck proposes a cap that would constrain how much a program’s athletes could cumulatively earn via NIL. The suggested “NIL Roster Cap” would mandate that individual NIL payments for football players at a single school not exceed those earned via group licensing and broadcast NIL (BNIL) deals.

    If a school exceeds the cap for a season, then it would be punished by losing transfer slots, and possibly scholarship slots. If, on the other hand, a school were to fall below 80% of a pre-established “NIL Roster Floor” for two consecutive seasons, it would be relegated to the Under League until it could sustain a full season above the floor.

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    So lemme get this straight...after YEARS of Texas competing with one arm tied behind our back watching Bama, Auburn, and the rest of the SEC and other big programs drop bags and pay players under the table, we are now supposed to accept a "NIL cap" just when we're ramping up what should be our biggest (now fully legal) advantage?  I don't think so...besides this will just re-introduce the illegal bag game and circumvent the rules again so the cheaters prosper.  No thanks, status quo is actually in our favor for once.

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  4. 4 minutes ago, immamac said:

    in content reads are never going to get cut out, those go for such crazy money that it's not really economically feasible to even sell premium and drop those. That's the lifeblood of the revenue for this style of content. 

    Are we saying the same thing?  I'm not suggesting dropping those in the free version, only the paid version.  I don't know OTF's model but assume that ad reads are paid based on impressions like most ads?  They get thousands of streams on YT and probably several thousand +++ pod streams too, would moving the reads out of the premium version impact those impressions much?  Guessing my 9.95 is worth more than my ad impressions for reads...?  My frame of reference here is a crime pod my wife subs to, they snip everything in the premium version and make it work.

    But, maybe the future is not "pay to get no ads" it's "pay to get fewer ads" ...sigh...Amazon just did that with Prime. :( Kinda feels shitty, like "we're going to enshitten the free product enough to get you to pay, but still keep some shit in the paid version too."

  5. 36 minutes ago, Teryor said:

    There's no way I'm the first to make this suggestion but I'd make it similar to Patreon where Premium members get access to a private RSS feed and access to cleaner unlisted/demonetized YT videos? 

    Agree and not trying to get pedantic but the ad free supported version should really be ad free, not just injected ads but snipped of reads for manscaped or whatever realtor.  Heckuva double-dip to pay AND have to still ad skip.

  6. 1 hour ago, Hermanator said:

    How is the YT mobile App not good for driving or workouts? It's far easier to use than apple podcasts. On full screen you only have to double tap anywhere on the right side of the screen to fast forward. Don't even need to look at the screen to do it. On Apple you have to find that exact 30 second skip wheel. And for YT, provided you are smart and use Android, there's an easy to set up app to give YT premium for free. 

    Some of you are too damn lazy to search for solutions. 

    YT mobile CarPlay app is terrible.  And unlike you I'm not a dangerous driver fumbling with my phone as I drive.

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  7. I listen on Apple podcasts, and also noticed about 5 days ago the ratio of ads went up significantly.  Even if these are "auto injected" ads, I doubt very much that Spotify and Apple both turned the dial on more ads simultaneously.  This was an OTF decision and they went too far, it's definitely enshitification. Before I'm accused of not supporting OTF, etc, I'm totally willing to pay for an ad-free version that shows up in my podcast feed (I don't use YT stream and their mobile player isn't good for my use cases: car, workouts).  In fact, I'd sign up for OTF just for that.  I figure anything useful on the OTF website typically shows up here within a few minutes so I don't need that, but the ad-free pod would be a value I'm for which I'm willing-to-pay.

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  8. I had to get a shoulder MRI in January. The place at Cedar Park medical center had an older MRI machine and I didn’t fit. Like sausage in the casing. I’m a broad shouldered guy 240 lbs and they wanted my shoulder dead center in the machine - they even had a jig to hold my shoulder in place. Problem is that only leaves half the normal space for try rest of your body. It just wouldn’t work. I told the guy to pull me out and he said it’s common, they sent me across town where they had a newer machine with a bigger opening that could fit my gigantic girth.

  9. It was good: war really sucks, especially when it's us on us regardless of the politics.  Bad people (Plimpton) tend to pop up during war doing bad stuff.  War is innocence lost.  Mostly I found it as a love poem to war reporters.

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  10. 10 minutes ago, hornfan785 said:

    I'm at the game and have no idea what the refs just called towards the end of the 3rd that gave Denver a technical free throw. What did they call?

    Flop on the Spurs, don't remember who.  It was earlier in the play and they let the play end and then assessed the foul

  11. 14 hours ago, BigHorn'13 said:

    Watching that Michael Jordan documentary on Netflix lead me down a rabbit hole on Air Jordans. They apparently released a city series on the 10's, but none were Texas cities.

    So I started searching "Air Jordan Houston" and saw they had an assortment of Oiler editions that looked nice. But then I mistakenly searched "Air Jordan Texas Longhorns" and came across this monstrosity 

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    I mean... It's gotta be a joke, right? Right?

    Season 18 Omg GIF by America's Got Talent Stand Up What GIF by 800 Pound Gorilla Media What The Fuck Wtf GIF

  12. Good article on why Wemby/Sochan probably won't work: https://www.poundingtherock.com/2024/3/28/24110793/victor-wembanyama-jeremy-sochan-spurs-spacing-starting-lineup?fbclid=IwAR3y1GQ0R3B0yV8I3oTycdgRCyDGJc9MwWGKahMMxoEMFqxvfee92jq8g0g

    TL;DR - Sochan can't shoot.  Even though he's (slightly) improved, he's so bad of a shooter that the defense hides their center on him and sags help off to cut off passing lanes and provide help defense on Wemby.

  13. 25 minutes ago, allrightallrightallright said:

    I just realized that when I renewed my Season tix over the phone because their website was shit, that they didn't ask me about OU Tix.  I called in just now and they said that OU Tix won't be happening for another couple of months and I will get an email.  This is the first time I can remember that I didn't have a chance to opt in when I renewed.  Did they screw me over by not offering it when I renewed?  For those of you who were able to renew online were you able to opt into TxOU?

    It's been separate for at least the past few years.

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  14. This is a ratings vs. nostalgia fight.  Neither #15 Princeton or #9 OU has any shot of winning the bracket, and only the slimmest of shots making the FF.  So the question becomes what's more interesting (nostalgia) vs. what will people actually watch (ratings).  For me the mid-major/small team is more interesting than the 9th team in the Big12 or 7th team in the SEC making it in, even though the ratings disagree because those brands pull along their viewership.

    Case in point, I actually flipped over to the Oakland vs. NCState game in multi-view and during halftime of the Texas game because I was interested...but to @TKthunder2 point it was in the final 5 minutes and OT.

    I'd argue the "magic" March Madness is the broad inclusiveness and the feeling of "everyone has a shot" (even if they really don't).  Start dialing down the small teams for the 8th place SEC team, etc and you lose that magic at the alter of the dollar.  It will happen, because money, and people like me will complain, because nostalgia.  But railing against it is railing against inevitibilitiy.

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  15. On 3/23/2024 at 7:52 PM, TKthunder2 said:

    Again, sportswriters and common fans like to romanticize underdog upsets but the cold hard fact are that no one watches those games outside the final minute or two.

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    They see the final shot/miss on sportscenter or YouTube/tictok or twitter/fb but none of that brings in any money to the NCAA or P4+BigEast. The data doesn’t lie.

    I don't doubt this but you're citing this stat about the final minute - what is the source on that?  Asking honestly, not as a gotcha.  Yes, I did google first, and most of what I found was ratings in the aggregate, not minute-by-minute.

  16. Hunter was BAD last night.  Really really bad.  Yeah he got some buckets at the end but we never would have needed that if he hadn't put us behind the 8-ball over and over and over again.  You can't have 5+ turnovers including 3 on inbounds, especially as a mature player.  At his very best he is streaky AF, at his worst he's a team killer.  Love his energy, hate the streakiness and low IQ play.  If he wants to come back as a bench player and demonstrate that energy and higher IQ, great.  If not, good luck in Europe.

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