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  1. 4 minutes ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

    great breakdown.   Alamo looks very likely and I'm guessing we get UCLA which would be a high level shootout since they have a mediocre defense, unless Ewers misses passes and the WRs drop everything - and of course Bijan won't be there so let's give J. Brooks the rock!

    Probably would make sense for Bijan to sit out but that makes me sad - he's so good and it's hard to believe we only get 1 more game (maybe 2) with him.

  2. 2 hours ago, BigHornedLurker said:

    only new thing i want out of realignment is for the Big 10 to be appropriately attributed with killing those rose bowl 

    The ultimate disrespect will be when eventually the B1G fully takes over the PAC remnants and turns the Rose Bowl into the site of the B1G championship game.

  3. 22 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

    Apparently the hangup on a tv deal is Kliavkoff clinging to the pipe dream that he can get the UC Regents to overrule UCLA's move to the B1G, which isn't happening.  But that piece needs resolution prior to signing.

    How likely is it that UCLA is forced to hand over some of that sweet sweet B1G revenue to Cal?

  4. 3 hours ago, hobbes2702 said:

    They didn’t lure Saban anywhere. He was floundering with the Dolphins and was on the verge of being fired.

    This whole bit is stupid. Blue blood programs have always recycled coaches. Always.

    Since Bear, Bama has had two coaches make it 3 years or more. Stallings and Saban. That’s since 1982.

    Since McKay in 75 USC has had Carroll only make it more than 5 years. 

    LSU had 4 coaches in the 80s and 3 in the 90s before Saban and Miles.

    Since Holtz in 96 only Kelly with more than 4 at Notre Dame.

    The list goes on and on

    Wait...blue bloods fire coaches?  No way!  No one is arguing against that.

    The question is: have you seen enough from Sark now to pull the plug at year 1.5, or is that counter productive?  What is the correct amount of time vs. progress (in W/L, in recruiting, in team building, etc)?  Personally, I don't think 1.5 years is enough to make that call, yet.  My eyes see progress in recruiting, production on offense, etc.  Sark's .500 W/L record is also unacceptable, and both can be true...for now.  I think a year from now you look to see the other stuff manifesting in the record more.  But everyone seems to admit that our hiring process is random at best and broken at worst, it seems to be very luck driven.  We want to spin that wheel again?  We could end up with Charlie 2.0 taking us into the SEC.

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  5. Whenever time travel is involved my brain gets fucked up.  In this world, the future can reach back into the past and find multiple "stubs" where the past branched out differently?  Like climbing down tree and going up a different branch?  I guess we'll find out the point of doing that during the season somehow?  And rich klept homie is killing off his great grand family in these stubs because...why?  Are we going to find out later that the actions within a stub can also alter this future timeline? 

  6. 16 minutes ago, hook me said:

    This used to be a dumb comment, but in a world with NIL this is a completely idiotic comment. You answered your own question - not once, not twice, but three times & forgot a new reason that goes right at the top.  

    Yeah, you're wrong.  Otherwise high profile coaches would be falling over themselves to take Texas and we wouldn't be resorting to flash in the pan G5 coaches and head coaches recycled as coordinators.  We'd be talking about Coach Saban's 8th title at Texas by now.  Our fanbase consistently overestimates the attractiveness of the Texas HFC job.  It's probably top 5-10 - but if you're talking pulling about a proven coach who has won titles already, there's only a handful of those and they already have attractive jobs, have great recruiting, have a NIL program setup, and most importantly have their boosters and administration working with them not against them.  Oh and they won't be on the hot seat after some poor results like they would at Texas and probably already have better talent in place than Texas with their system already implemented.

    This is the root cause of why statements like "money whip" in regard to hiring coaches is so dumb.  First, we don't do that.  Second, even if we did, any truly great coach is going to look at Texas and our dysfunction and ask themselves what's more attractive: running their existing system and job for 10% less money but having ultimate job security for as long as they want in, or making slightly more at Texas while having to rebuild all the systems that made them great to begin with and risk getting fired in year 3 if any of the 100 variables you don't control don't work out in your favor.  You don't have to be a genius to figure it out.

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  7. 6 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

    The version of "lost" that occurred to me is "disoriented". My main concern regarding that is that might have been a result of pain meds, for the clavicle problem and/or the mysterious fingernail lift. Could be a slight o'd effect, maybe interaction between meds for the one and meds for the other.

    Regardless, the complete lack of any adjustment in-game is troubling. I am troubled.

    Agree w/ the post above that in-game adjustment WAS attempted in many factors: route trees, layers, protection, etc.  It didn't work.  If the gripe here is about not pulling QE for Card that's different.  I disagree that Card would have made things better, that's 50/50 at best considering the in-the-face pressure QE was seeing, Card has a history of bad decision making there.  Worse than QE was Saturday?  We'll never know.

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  8. Being a coach in the NIL era must suck.  Take Xavier Worthy, he has an effort issue.  Under the old "rules" pre-NIL, you bench his ass and get his attention.  Nowadays, "LOL sure whatever coach, I get paaaaaiiiid either way, and BTW I'm transferring somewhere where the coach promises me more exposure and is easier on me/more fun/etc next year, k thx bye."  NIL has institutionalized coddling, along with the free transfer.  Imagine NFL-level prima donna, who also had unlimited free agency and fully guaranteed contracts.  Yikes.

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  9. 57 minutes ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

    I’m more mad at myself for clicking the play button. I knew it would make me more angrier but I did it anyways. Watching those is like the times I drunk banged the fatties on the forty acres because I was horny af. In the moment it’s all wet so it’s cool, afterwards it’s just disgust.

    There is literally nothing a Texas coach can say in a post-game press conference after a loss that would make a fan feel better.  If you want to watch it as a reason to scream or because you're a masochist go for it.

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  10. Here's what I don't get: what is the downside of publicly calling this behavior out?  Phil Jackson would always get in front of a microphone when he was coaching the Bulls and talk about the foul discrepancy and magically, the next game it would even up.  We're already getting blasted in the media for sucking, so it's not like being silent and taking the high road is about avoiding any of that.  Sark or more likely CDC should show up to a presser with stats like above and just rationally show the difference in calls, and not just procedural false starts, even if you take those out we are way ahead on the judgement penalties as well.  It doesn't matter if it's unconscious bias or a conscious screw job just calling it out would 1) illustrate to the Texas team and fans that they are aware of the issue and they care, and 2) put the conference on notice that we're not going to take it lying down either, fuckery will be called out.

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  11. Really interesting technology at play here, with tools like DALL-E and Midjourney.  Some of the images they spit out are incredible, and some are trash - much like human artists.  But aside from the interesting tech and the threat (?) of AI-artistry to human-artists, the article raises another big implication: are AI-generated images copyrightable?  Currently it looks like the US Copyright Office says no:

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    A spokesperson for the US Copyright Office told Insider that works generated only by artificial intelligence lacked the human authorship necessary to support a copyright claim.

    But what about the human input to the AI?  These tools could be considered like a paintbrush - they don't do anything on their own, it takes a human hand to give the right prompt to create the image.  And while the prompt could be really basic like: "Elon Musk holding a Twitter bird," some are also very specific and detailed, like: "Close-up of [pick your favorite person] in Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, emerging from black mud, long hair with dreads, war blue paint, paint fading, angry expression, dirty face, finely detailed eyes, moody, viking clothes, epic scene, epic composition, Photography, Cinematic Lighting, Volumetric Lighting, ethereal light, intricate details, extremely detailed volumetric rays"

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    Some other examples in a variety of styles:

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    If you want to go down the rabbit hole: https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/

  12. 31 minutes ago, Pancho said:

    Sankey on a podcast with Dave Pasch

    - Mentions possibly a “single division format” when Texas/ou join the conference as there have been complaints about matchups not being played more frequently (cites Missouri going to Auburn for the first time this year, and how Georgia has never been to aggy).  The question is will there be 8 or 9 games, but regardless, it would allow for cycling of 4 years for every team. Wants to see all teams rotating through every campus frequently.

    - Mentioned Texas/ou as a rivalry that will continue, and people have focused on Texas/aggy and Texas/Arkansas.  (And ou/Missouri rivalry in wrestling)

     

    8 games would be retardo-maximo and only serves two purposes: 1) for aggy to avoid us like the pussies they are, and 2) for lower-tier teams to schedule pad with cupcakes to get to bowl eligibility, which is hyper-dumb with the 12-team CFP and further dilution of bowl games anyway.

    Hopefully the adults in the room win out and get to 9 conference games w/ the 3 locked-in + 6 rotating.

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  13. 1 hour ago, Hanrahan said:

    What the fuck do you think their intentions are?  Maybe kidnap you and put you in a dungeon?  Ooooh, sounds scary.  Bunch of people on the field.  Intentions unknown.  Could be anything.  Threat level midnight.

    racist comedy central GIF

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  14. It seems like PK's philosophy is to deploy a soft zone shell and keep everything in front of the D, no over the top plays.  He's content giving up chunks of 7+ yards a pop and forcing an offense to consistently execute over and over and figure we'll bend but not break.  It's really not pretty football to watch.  OTOH we did get two turnovers but we also got really lucky with a drop on a wiiiide open deep ball and a few others by ISU.

    If we had any kind of push in the front we'd be twice as effective in our zone because it would force the QB to make a faster decision.  Unfortunately we don't.

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