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  1. 4 minutes ago, cmontexas said:

    Personally I loved the beauty contest aspect and it worked for what it was. The 12 team playoff is going to remove a lot of what made CFB special and unique. OSU-MICH would have been basically worthless this year.

    The beauty contest is and was trash, the bowl system is the biggest joke in the world.  Multiple teams claiming MNCs?  Never settling it on the field?  Yuck.

    OSU/UM will still have a lot of meaning.  Getting the conference championship for one, getting over on your rival, and getting a top 4 seed bye.  That bye is huge, it's one fewer game to win to win it all.

  2. 1 hour ago, troph said:

    So why wouldn’t we get super physical in the first 5 yards giving the DL an extra second and throw off routes? 

    I love press coverage and disrupting the slant with inside leverage but 1) they are really good at beating it with large, fast, physical receivers, 2) we haven't demonstrated outside of TTech and oSu that we can really do it (plus UW aint TTech-level receivers), 4) our safeties aren't built for it (yet, we don't have the speed or skill there), and 5) missing in zone means you give a 10-20 yard gain and hopefully keep shit in front of you and limit YAC but missing in man press means you give up 75 yard TD's, but maaaaybe get a few INTs.  High risk, high reward.  UW is built to annihilate that.

    I loathe soft zone, but I won't be mad if we do it here, mix in zone blitzes and get to Penix while taking away the run game.  He can execute all the way down the field but better to make him complete a dozen passes per drive than 1 slant that breaks for 60+.

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  3. 1 minute ago, oh_snap said:

    Hold on, that needs more context.  Let’s not forget the alliance was formed because the SEC was negotiating with Texas and OU in the dark while also setting up the 12-team playoff. Some would consider that was done in bad faith.
     

    I watched FSU play against UL and UF, so I can see why the committee dropped them. And it’s fine to think fsu simply got screwed, that’s fair too.

    But it’s disingenuous to blame the alliance (much less a member institution for the conferences action) for not having a 12-team playoff this year.  

    Fair enough, but the negotiation for TX/OU to move to the SEC and the 12-team CFP are totally different issues.  Regardless of whether it was bad faith or not, the expanded CFP would have significantly helped the ACC.  By getting into their emotions over TX/OU and putting the breaks on the 12-team, the alliance and by extension the ACC fucked themselves.

    It's also hilarious to laugh at the so-called "Alliance," when the B1G immediately turned around and fucked a fellow alliance member by raiding them.  "We looked each other in the eyes..." LOL

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  4. 1 minute ago, Michael Knight said:

    Are you people dense, am I taking crazy pills? Oregon losing makes them a 2 loss non championship team, they would be eliminated from playoff convention. Oregon winning means they go to the playoffs and a 1 loss Washington team has an argument that they should go to.

    It's nowhere near as clear cut as you think:

    • UW winning as undefeated PAC champion is in.  UO losing is 2-loss and out, but UW in that CFP spot is unmovable.
    • UO wins they are 99% in as PAC champion and the committee love they've gotten.  UW with 1-loss is definitely out unless there is chaos elsewhere as non-conference champ.

    That 1% on UO winning only becomes relevant if Alabama and Texas also win.

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  5. 7 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

    In a sense, we are still, to some degree, at the whims of a beauty contest. I totally agree we need to expand the playoffs, but short of giving the  P5 conference champs auto bids and then some sort of ranked wild card system (which still creates a beauty contest issue), I don’t know how you don’t end up with somebody complaining that “We did x, y, and z, and it’s total bullshit that this other team is in and we aren’t”

    The gravity of the beauty contest argument means a lot less when it's two teams arguing over who should be #12 or 13.  The bowl system was the ultimate beauty contest, pining for those days is putting the car into reverse and mashing down on the gas.

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  6. 2 hours ago, Bateshorn said:

    Rage all you want, I didn’t design the system.  I’d have left it the way it was 25 years ago and just let the writers pick after all the dust of the New Years Bowl’s settled. 

    This is a joke, right?  Right?

    You'd prefer a system where WRITERS who 1) admit they don't watch many of the games, 2) are homers, and 3) include people like Kirk Bohls unilaterally declare a MNC based on teams that DIDN'T settle it on the field?  A system that dis-incentivizes marquee OOC games so you can retain a perfect record by loading up on creampuffs, where multiple teams end the season undefeated and all stake a claim to the MNC, and where the very best teams rarely if ever play each other at the culmination of the season?  A system where fat cats in cheesy colored ill-fitting blazers travel around on boondoggles to see the top teams as part of their pseudo money laundering bowl setup? That's the system you'd prefer?

    The 4 team CFP isn't perfect but it's a million times better than the BCS, which was a billion times better than the bowl system.  The 12-team CFP will be nirvana for people who actually enjoy seeing, you know, the best teams actually play against each other and settle it on the field.

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  7. 1 hour ago, Blotto said:

    As he's pretty much the consensus #1 pick, If I'm the GM holding that pick, I'm praying I'm not in the market for a QB. I also agree he's a bit of a head case, which isnt really what you look for in a franchise QB.

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    And he's already signaling that he and his Dad want to be de-facto GM and part-owner of whatever team they deem worthy of drafting him, from a list of their 7 preselected cities they'd like to be in to maximize his endorsement deals.  This guy has amazing talent for sure but he ain't some God, he ain't Tom Brady.  He's been bred for one thing and one thing only: making money, from as soon as someone realized he could.

  8. Wins count the same if they're by 1 or 100, pretty or ugly.  Happy to be 8-1 even when we are playing closer to our floor than ceiling.

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  9. Two tickets in section 5, around the 45-50 yard line, under the overhang.  Should have shade by the end of the 1st Q, although it will be beautiful tomorrow.  My wife and I caught COVID so take 'em off our hands.  I'm going to list them online later today.  

    On SeatGeek tickets around them are $150-190/ea, will sell to surly for $100/ea.

    Picture from the BYU pre-game.  No HDMI ports.

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  10. 19 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

    It’s becoming my mantra and I hate harping on this point but it’s the truth. Eventually we will get to a point where most every UT fan will be on the same page on this. If most HCs could also be heavily involved in play calling and as an OC the list would be long and “distinguished” of those HCs that have won conference championships and also MNC or CFPs. The list is very short and Sark isn’t elite enough to do that. Even if later on Arch runs his offense to perfection something will always get missed and fear we will always be dropping 2-3 WTF games a season. Of course now with QE possibly out for a month or maybe more there is a built in excuse. We simply aren’t as good as I wanted to believe we are. I guess. Fuck it. I hope we run the table. But honestly our chances of getting  an OU rematch…not great. But I hope we do and curb stomp them. 

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    You can wish for it to happen but it won't.  The decision makers who hired Sark got everything that comes along with that, and you don't bring Sark without bringing him as OC.  He sees it as his biggest strength and he's not wrong, even if it does create other weaknesses.  And no OC of note is going to come work under Sark anyway knowing that he'd be the de-facto OC anyway.  So we'd get a junior OC who is basically a meat shield for Sark to sacrifice if something goes sideways, kinda like Jimbo is doing.

    A better approach is to Sark to hire someone like an ex-HC who he trusts to be in his headset during the game on the "other stuff."  But he isn't giving up OC duties.

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