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Horn of Gabriel

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  1. They figured out that if they break out it's all on them. Much easier to keep a super weakened NCAA as the convenient punching bag and default excuse for anything that goes wrong. "But the NCAA!!!"
  2. I’d like to see correlative and causal factors applied here as well, specifically home vs neutral, temperature, and the rise/fall of the S&P 500 the week before these games air. Maybe pull together a machine learning model in Python real quick to do some predictive analysis? Thanks in advance
  3. I'll admit I haven't followed every game Saban has coached; I know he's really animated, fired up, etc when he thinks they got it wrong - there are multiple examples of Saban screaming at refs and the ref changing calls after the fact as a result?
  4. Because "you can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride." How often in the history of football does the coach go up and make a logical, rules-based argument to a ref (or better, yells at the ref how blind and stupid they are) and the ref then says "Oh you know what, you're right! We screwed that up, and we're going to reverse the call in your favor." Even when you're right that rarely happens. Just like a cop who has decided you're going to jail is going to take you there even on a trumped up bullshit charge that will get dropped later. The difference is we have this nice little balance of powers thing with cops/courts that we don't have with refs. And even with the courts it still takes weeks/months/years sometimes to get to the "right" result on a b.s. charge. I don't think this ref crew or the Big12 ref crews in general are sitting in a smoky room dreaming up scenarios to screw Texas. The table people keep posting is nice and probably speaks to un-conscious bias against Texas. The better explanation is that they are just bad at their jobs. Either way, more transparency into the grading of refs by the league (they do that, right? Right?) would be awesome. At least fucking recognize that it's an issue. Thankfully this Big12 problem won't be ours much longer and we can start bitching about SEC refs biases.
  5. https://bijanmustardson.com/products/official-bijan-tee
  6. It was good. * no flyover due to low cloud cover, I’ll allow it, we will get one this year * new Derrick Johnson hype video slaps * fewer ads than years past * new video boards in sez are an upgrade but agree rushing att/TDs is odd Improvement needed: * heat and humidity sucks, install some big ass fans * under the west side is like a prison, puddles, no TVs or signage. Easy fix, just money. * stop showing the hellraisers. Those fucks are an embarrassment
  7. For a player of the skill level of Bijan, getting him to return vs. jump would have to be an extraordinary number plus as you've mentioned desire to cement legendary status like Heisman. Because it's not just offsetting what he'd make in the rookie contract, there are downstream effects too like he's now behind a year on accruing seasons which could potentially hit 2nd or 3rd contracts, etc.
  8. Yeah they'll be dropping lots of Olympic sports soon.
  9. This is the thread for GIFs and images about how you're feeling about the team, the game, the season. End of 2021 season Offseason Going into ULM
  10. It's going to go slow, until it goes fast. I'm sure discussions are happening at the highest levels, but there are also pre-requisites that have to happen first, like the rights negotiations. Those timeframes are outside of UT/OU's control and also somewhat outside the Big12's control. Gotta have focus on those before they have enough clarity on what they need to let the contracts and GORs up early.
  11. I agree with the theory that an expanded playoff will widen the pool of teams who benefit from the feedback loop. I disagree that those teams are going to be ones listed or those like them; it will in fact be a wider collection of blue bloods and near blue bloods: Alabama, Clemson, OSU, Georgia will be joined by Florida, Texas, A&M, Oklahoma, Michigan, etc
  12. CSB! Now do the version where there's no salary cap, no CBA, unlimited free agency, and the wild card Giants are located in Waco.
  13. More like torture porn. What's insane is he made contact well behind the LOS. Evans is what, 5'5" 150 lbs? And Brock got pushed.
  14. I know you want to believe this. That doesn't make it all true. Let's stipulate things we can agree on, from above: The NFL is a better on-field product than college - mmm, sure. It's pro, it's the top 2% of college players doing it as their job. It's also antiseptic and vanilla. I'd argue if we expand the product definition to include tradition, emotional connection to your university, the pageantry of the full experience, etc that college is better but whatever, it's not germane to this discussion. That CFB fan interest will wane if their team is relegated out of a Power conference - again, maybe? We can cite counter-examples too, like TCU and UCF that have grown fan interest, or even SMU whose interest looks like a reverse bell curve with a big valley after SWC exit and death penalty and they've been building ever since into a pretty solid program with support. Their fans didn't suddenly disappear, in fact they grew. CFP access - I agree that there should be CFP access for non-P2 programs. I don't think anyone is suggesting a B1G/SEC-only playoff. Now how do you balance the access is the question. AQs for non P2 programs seems silly if the Big12 champion has 2 losses vs. a 2-loss 3rd place SEC or B1G team who is stronger, played a much harder schedule and is ranked higher. But I could see reserving a semi-AQ if the Big12, PAC-whatever or ACC champ is top-15 or top-20 or passes some additional bar. In a 12 team playoff, 2-4 of those AQs seems ok and the rest based in ranking. Now the stuff we might not agree on: There are only about 5-6 programs in any given year that have the ability to actually win the playoff. They aren't BYU, Baylor, Cincinnati, Ok State or even mid-tier B1G or SEC programs. It's currently Alabama, OSU, Clemson, Georgia and maybe 1-2 others. In the 4-team CFP a smaller program might have the "puncher's chance" but it's like 5%. Cincinnati was the best example of the past 15 years, and they wilted. So no, those programs currently don't have a chance to win the championship, nor should that be their measurement of success. Competing for a conference title, beating their rival, and upsetting a blue blood (and before you say it, YES I'm aware of the irony of this statement considering the relative success of teams like ISU, Baylor, and OkState vs. Texas in the past decade). It's the illusion of access to the playoff and the dream we're talking about preserving, not the reality. This gets even harder in the expanded CFP because now instead of having to beat 2 great teams to win, you a have to beat 4 of them. Teams outside the top tier of the new B1G and SEC aren't built for that. Good coaching can't overcome that. You need to stack top 5 recruiting classes, probably top 3 year over year over year AND have good coaching AND have good development AND the right facilities AND proper NIL support AND demonstrated success of putting athletes in the NFL. Only a handful of teams have all of that. In the coming years, the only ones who will have all of that are the top of the B1G and SEC which is basically true today with the possible exception of Clemson. IF what you're claiming about smaller fanbases losing interest due to lack of access to a "clear path to a national championship" (direct quote from above) were true...we'd already be seeing it for the past decades. Because those teams don't have a clear path to a national championship as things stand today. You might say viewership is down, but it's down overall for everything. Live sports and CFP pull big shares relative to everything else. Especially the marquee matchups between blue bloods. Those 4M+ viewership games are what is driving the realignment, going to 9 conference games in the SEC, etc - creating more of that inventory. The butthurt here seems driven more by programs seeing their market value highlighted and codification of the status quo vs. something new. There's still the Vanderbilt and Indiana issue but no system is perfect, we're not building it from a clean sheet. I feel for the ISUs of the world who will take a revenue haircut. But they probably shouldn't have had the higher revenues to begin with.
  15. In the Power 2 world, the national champion will have 2+ losses regularly. Sometimes 3 or more...it's the reality of playing more heavyweight matchups. Just like the NFL, people will still watch if the matchups are meaningful to the playoff.
  16. I see you've reached the bargaining stage, congrats! This is untrue, they'll watch. Even if they don't, the fan bases of the Power 2 programs are so massively large in comparison, and the matchups are going to be so much better that every week will be must-see TV when it's TX/Bama, TX/Georgia, TX/FL, TX/OU, TX/Auburn, etc, no one is going to miss that. And if some G8 fans don't watch, that's fine because it will MORE than be made up for by new fans watching awesome football at the highest college level.
  17. Forget promotion/relegation. It will NEVER happen in CFB, ever. Mandel is an idiot but he nailed it as to why: Wait, wut? You think that a Vandy is going to take a tens of millions of dollars cut to AD revenue, likely forcing them to sacrifice multiple non-rev sports for the privilege of playing in a lower league? In what world does that make sense? Stanford is not a representative case, they're the only university I know of (maybe Harvard) with such a massive endowment that they don't even care about the money side of sports, and even they were talking about cutting non-rev sports recently too.
  18. Yeah and it would be a blip on the radar compared to pulling more fan interest from the top programs
  19. If only we had a someone on the staff to pull together all of these different defensive coaches, get them aligned around one scheme and working together. I'm not sure what to call that role. Defensive Administrator? Defensive Adviser? Defensive Supervisor? ...man, this is TOUGH!
  20. You're alright, Al and have gotten plenty of undeserved shit from people here; if the situations were swapped I'd be pissed too. I'd be doubly pissed to have done all the "right" things as a program and still get left out as a circumstance of geography or not hooking up with the "correct" conference 100 years ago. WRT: ND and the Big10, what would be really interesting is if the Big10 took another 4 out of the west coast like Cal, UW, Oregon and...Stanford. Now the Big10 would hold 2 of ND's biggest and most important rivals. Kinda fait accompli at that point. "Hey ND those are some nice rivalry games you've got there. It would be a shame if something happened to them."
  21. The parody account should 100% quote tweet the real GK account on this one.
  22. I mean...the jokes are writing themselves at this point... That's the parody account right? Right?
  23. The "lost the fans" thing is such a hilariously stupid take by over reactionary Texas fans. It would be funny if it weren't so sad and on brand for us. Sark hired - "We've lost the fans, he's not Urban Meyer, I'm out!" Brings in X, puts together amazing O-line class, Top 5 2023 class so far - "Texas recruits itself! Our NIL deathstar is responsible!" True* Freshman who hasn't played actual football since Jr. year of high-school 2 years ago can't seem to put it together after 6 months on campus in our system - "I thought Sark was the QB God, what gives! OMG we're faced with starting the 4-star with more experience in the system for a few games! I can't believe we might SIT a guy who isn't ready...because....5*! This will crater NIL 2 years from now! I'm out! Lost the fans!" Some of y'all seem like you're more happy if we lose with Sark than if we win, so you can have your told-ya-so moment. Good on you I guess.
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