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Horn of Gabriel

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  1. Yep. I think they just brought the floor up from S.A.
  2. Fun to see Wemby in person last night. He looked kinda dejected at times thou, some bad body language. Probably because his team completely missed him wide open several times in a row in the 4th. Part of his growth needs to learn more aggression - he's very streaky with being aggressive. There were several times where he absolutely setup in the paint with a much smaller defender - that's when you just jump and go for it, but he was looking for kick outs, cutters, and cross court passes that would get tipped and stolen. Abuse the smaller defender when you're that deep, damn! Joker abused his lack of physicality several times backing him down: dribble, bump, dribble, bump, layup. He doesn't have the size to absorb that shoulder bump. Still you can see a vision of what he can be once he puts on some strength and armor. My question is his body and game going to evolve like Giannis (more physical) or KD (I wanna shoot fadeaway jumpers a lot and I'm really good at it). He's already a great instinctual defender with regard to his spacing and his length but hopefully Pop can coach him out of one really bad habit: he bites on fakes and jumps. He does not need to jump hardly ever due to his size. Especially not when someone is driving the lane and he rotates as a help defender. So many times Denver faked and Murry/Joker just threw themselves into his chest when he was in the air and got a foul.
  3. Got the same errors using Safari. Switched to Chrome and it worked.
  4. I'll be canon fodder for somebody. My Runny McRunsalot RB typically runs the ball 85 times a game and gets about 6000 yards/season.
  5. Herman really was a great example of how we view coaches' results through the lens of how we view them as people. Sark, while imperfect, bought himself some more time to get to better results this past year by showing humility, growth, and listening. Herman cut his time short prematurely by acting a fool, being thin skinned, and not listening.
  6. I'm sure the Groza and such thought that their name is worth $1M+/yr to be in the game...but guess what, nobody cares. "Best Defensive Player" "Best Defensive Lineman" "Best QB" etc is fine.
  7. It's coming. The only real question is how many micro transactions/pay to win are they going to attempt to stuff in there on top of the $75 price of the game. I'm guessing a lot and they'll push you to sign up for some kind of recurring $14.99/month fee for online play or something too.
  8. You can have a playoff without the Big12. You can't have one without the SEC or B1G. That's the leverage.
  9. Just got back. It's good, very well executed. It's a lot of plot ground to cover and while it drags a little in the first half the 2nd half makes up for it. Harkonen planet felt Frank Miller-ish in how they shot it, which was fun/interesting. Both battles for Arrakeen in part 1 and part 2 felt truncated, coulda done more here. Austin Butler was great. They managed to contain Christopher Walken's...Walkenness enough that it wasn't super distracting. Florence Pugh is hot.
  10. I was right: https://theathletic.com/5306903/2024/02/28/college-football-playoff-expansion-big-ten-sec/ A person aware of the discussions told The Athletic a 3-3-2-2-1 model would feature three automatic spots each for the Big Ten and SEC (with those leagues’ champions earning the two first-round byes, according to another source briefed on the model), two each for the Big 12 and ACC and one for the Group of 5, along with three at-large spots. Yahoo Sports first reported the specific model being discussed among administrators.
  11. Tapa creates...strong feelings for and against. For - it's fast, definitely faster than loading the web/mobile version in safari on your iPhone. Especially moving back and forth between threads. If you read multiple forums beyond Surly, it can consolidate them all into a single app. Against - it's a pain for the board to keep up with their updates, their app is notorious for bad support/crashing, tapa really wants to monetize you and serve you ads of their own or sell you their ad-free version (not sure how it impacts Surly's ad views). Disclosure, I use tapa on my phone and have forever. Love it. Don't subscribe to it and the ads don't bug me. I've tried other solutions at the urging of various admins here and at Shaggy, mainly the web/mobile version and concluded that they all suck - they're too slow, the load time blows, there is latency/lag issues from when you click to an action occurring that doesn't exist in the app, basically everything else I've seen is a downgrade. But to be fair, everyone says that their HTML5 app is as good as a bespoke iOS/Android app...until they launch their iOS app.
  12. I don't disagree and don't favor that model either, just predicting what I think they'll go after. It may be cowardly but it also gets them paid, and that is what matters. We're stuck w/ 5+7 for the next 2 years and we can see how it works, then all bets are off. But the 5 AQs is problematic. In down years we're going to get more Liberty-type G5 entrants, or in a weak Big12/ACC when they beat up either other, their champ could be a lower ranked AQ. I get that they want to keep some kind of stakes in winning the conference, which is why they're doing it, but we have a P2 now, not a P5. If we want AQ make it 3, the B1G/SEC/G5 (no anti-trust!) and 9 top ranked after.
  13. The only way the CCG ever gets dropped is if the playoff $ is > the CCG $. And the CCG generates a LOT of money directly into the pocket of the conference vs. getting a cut from the playoff.
  14. We'll never have a system with the same or fewer at large bids than we have now (4), Sankey has been crystal clear on this point. In your model the ACC and Big12 get a much easier AQ path than the B1G and SEC. The only way it would work would be to codify 2 bids each for B1G and SEC. But then you're back to the limited at large spots which screws both the SEC and potentially Big12 if they have a good year.
  15. I predict the SEC/B1G push for a 3+3+3+3 model. 3 auto bids each for the top 3 B1G and SEC teams. 3 auto bids for the next 3 top rated conf champions, typically Big12, ACC, and a G5. And then 3 at-large bids for the next 3 highest ranked that don't fit one of those first 3 (could be another SEC/B1G, ND, Big12, ACC, G5 whoever). That model gives a floor of at least 3 spots to the P2 conferences, with upside to get 4 or even 5 in the playoff in a hot year. It retains access for the Big12, ACC and G5 to get at least 1 and possibly more, and ND can still enter if they're top 12. They'll also do a rev split model like the NCAA MBB tournament where the most money goes to the most bids and who goes the furthest into the playoff. Bottom line, most years the B1G and SEC will walk away with 70% of the revenue from the playoff. Does anyone know on the NCAA MBB tournament how the rev split works today exactly? If Texas makes the final 4 they make more than if they get to the sweet 16 but do they keep all of it or is there a % to the conference? I assume the conference takes some and the school takes some?
  16. See 1 post above mine where @nbmishoid was asking if we can use that money to reduce student cost of attendance. Apparently we don't all know that.
  17. Certainly our "endowment" at UT is more than just the Permanent University Fund (PUF) but the PUF is always going to be a massive part of it. And the PUF money can't be spent on just anything, constitutionally it is bound to: https://www.utsystem.edu/offices/chancellor/blog/understanding-puf-what-permanent-university-fund-2016-08-22#:~:text=PUF bonds may be issued,an MRI%2C for example).
  18. I aint complaining because 1) it's worlds better than the Big12 slate we've been getting and 2) we're set up nicely to contend for the SEC championship with our first schedule. I really hope that we don't give up on scheduling the marquee OOC game. Bobby was talking about how when we go to the 9 game SEC schedule we should only schedule creampuffs OOC. Meh, I really like have the opportunity to play another helmet school home and home and go check out some new venues. I think the first few years of the 12 team CFP will be informative. If a P2 team can lose 2 in conference and 1 marquee OOC and still get in as 9-3 with credit for SOS, we'll get the good OOC matchups. If that team is left out for the first two or three years for a Big12 or ACC non-champ, I think we'll see ADs schedule creampuffs to eternity.
  19. LOL I'm in my 40's, so I guess I am an old now. I don't care about the age of the people on CGD, I care about how stupid they are, and McAfee is 100% an idiot. Don't care if it's an act or genuine stupidity, or if ESPN has decided that turning on dumb-mode is how to attract a majority dumb audience. Not for me, or many others. But I guess the WWE crowd enjoys it.
  20. LOL why Plymouth? 1970 Cuda is commie now?
  21. Imagine how SICK our blocking schemes will be with a player who can turn his head all the way around backwards...amazing job Sark/Flood!
  22. Pretty sure our program apex was roughly 1 year after we beat Michigan in the rose bowl in '04, and we haven't surpassed it yet.
  23. Same, and I love Corso. It's hard to watch and it's been hard to watch for several years. On one hand I want the best for him and empathize, because my lived experience with my father is that once someone stop working and "loses their purpose," they can degrade very, very rapidly. It's probably healthy for him mentally and physically to put on the suit and do all the prep even if he can't express himself verbally as he once did. I'm kinda surprised that they haven't transitioned him into a Tom Rinaldi type and do packaged pre-recorded video hits of him; live shots play to his weakness. But OTOH his strength is his chemistry with the team. Aging sucks.
  24. I think Saban will actually be a plus addition and will be able to be more loose and funny now that he's not wearing the coach hat. Can he please replace MClownAfee?
  25. Agree we are heading to the P2. Disagree w/ the 2nd part about the only path for former P5 is to join the P2, because at some point soon the P2 economics on expansion won't make sense to grow larger. I think it's more likely that after FSU, North Carolina, Clemson and Virginia are sorted out that we're done. Then the shift will be the SEC/B1G will change the playoff to reserve 9-10 spots for themselves, leaving 2-3 for "everyone else" to maintain the facade of access and avoid anti-trust. The final step will be the SEC and B1G syncing and then jointly negotiating their media deals, which is where the real money shows up.
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