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  1. 3 minutes ago, Drew said:

    Yeah not enough is made of this...I dont' even remember the last lower division school Texas has played...if ever.  They should count those games as .5 wins.

    I maintain that anything under FBS should always be counted a loss. That solves a lot of problems. It encourages playing better opponents. It punishes playing scheduling completely bullshit cupcake games. There are plenty of full division 1 teams to pick up from.

    • A&M has 2 losses (Samford)
    • Alabama has 3 losses (E Illinois)
    • Indiana has 1 loss (Indiana St)
    • Georgia has 2 losses (Austin Peay)
    • Texas Tech has 2 losses (AR-Pine Bluff)
    • Oregon has 2 losses (Montana State)
    • Miami has 3 losses (Bethune)
    • Ole Miss has 2 losses (the citadel)
    • Oklahoma has 3 losses (Illinois State)
    • BYU has 2 losses (Portland St)
    • Utah has 3 loses (Cal Poly)
    • Vanderbilt has 3 losses (Charleston Southern)

    And so on. Texas and Notre Dame are the only teams in the playoff picture that haven't sullied their record with that bullshit. The fact that everyone else has tells me my idea is the correct one. 

  2. 15 minutes ago, Uncle Nate said:

    It's not laughable.  I know for a fact Tech has tried to schedule upper end SEC teams and they won't take the call.

    So until I see A&M, UT, Alabama, Georgia, LSU, etc. on Tech's future OOC schedule, I'll continue to make my case.  UT and A&M will not even pick up the phone, which is fine.  But then don't turn around and tell us we don't play anybody when you are unwilling to play us.  You can't have it both ways.

    Other Big 12 teams, including ones that have already been to the playoffs, haven't had that problem. Maybe Tech is just an asshole. 

  3. 41 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    It’s not hard to figure out.  It’s teams that were top 25 when the game was played.  Can argue that doesn’t mean anything but that’s what that list is.  

    But it would be wrong that way too. OU didn't play 6 teams that were ranked at the time they were played. It only gets to 6 if you count Texas. But if you count Texas, there should be 2 losses. 

  4. 15 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

    I think we should be in. But it’s not a clear cut case.   We can cherry pick stats all we want.  If I were an ou fan I’d point to wins vs top 25IMG_4272.thumb.png.2e90308110242e1e3a1f101f83a67dd6.png

    Uh, what? That list is stupidly wrong. As an obvious one, OU has two loses to the top 25 unless we are saying either Texas or Ole Miss aren't top 25. That list is also considering Tennessee and Auburn as top 25 based on when they played as opposed to, you know, how the season turned out. A&M has only played 3 current top 25.  Miami has played Notre Dame and that is it. Apparently, this listing was counting 5-7 Florida State, 8-4 Pitt, and 9-3 South Florida as top 25 teams. None of these teams are currently ranked.  We are correctly listed as 3-2 against the top 25. But is actually 3-2 against the top 13. 

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  5. 2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    And yeah, I don't know if Texas is an outlier on employee/fiduciary duty or more getting in line with everyone else.  In any event, in Texas, you have a duty not to undermine your employer for your own purposes, even if that's not a "fiduciary duty."

    Unless the law has changed recently, it is a fiduciary duty. Or at the very least associates at a law firm have a fiduciary duty to the firm (as we know from disputes between some Houston lawyers).  I assume that applies more broadly, but maybe lawyers are special in that regard. 

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  6. 3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Well, let's see, making plans to hire/negotiating with those still under contract might be considered a breach of fiduciary duty, or the duty owed an employee to employer.

    And potentially also tortious interference with contract, once no longer employed.

    Maybe breach of fiduciary duty (good argument under Texas law, don't know about Mississippi). But I don't see tortious interference. Limitations on choosing employment are pretty tightly restricted at this point. Even a really good non-compete clause may not survive scrutiny here.  

    5 minutes ago, Nueces River Rat said:

    Does anyone here think Kiffin is going to be a spectacular disappointment at LSU?

    He'll be better than Kelly. 

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  7. 16 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

    Can we not do the SECSECSEC thing? Tennessee is fucking terrible and you know it. They got blown out by Alabama. I'm just saying Vandy is not playoff caliber, that's all.

    I didn't do the SECSECSEC thing. Tennessee isn't a great team. But it isn't terrible. I'm trying to understand the universe where getting crushed by Bama makes a team bad. Is that somehow worse than losing to Arizona State? And I honestly don't know what playoff caliber means in the current format. Vanderbilt is a better team than whoever will get in from the G5 and the ACC. It is a better team than BYU. Honestly, Vanderbilt's resume isn't that different from Tech's. It crushed a bunch of mediocre teams, including wins over a couple fringe top 25 teams (Missouri and Tenn).  The primary difference is that we haven't yet seen Tech match up against teams with the talent level of Alabama or Texas. And I'm not saying Tech doesn't deserve a playoff spot or isn't a good team. I'm saying your dismissal of Vandy of odd. The stats, adjusted or otherwise, have them as one of the best offenses in college football and the most efficient. And they have a legit Heisman contender at QB. 

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  8. 3 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Sark is making me like him more if he’s calling out the committee like that. Either you want these matchups or you don’t. And if you’re gonna punish us, we won’t play them. (Which I’d hate)

    I like calling them out and forcing them to think a little harder about Texas.  Make them squirm 

    If Florida had played a little closer to its talent level and had another win or two (and less getting blown out), I think we'd have a much better shot of getting in. It isn't necessarily the third loss that kills us. It is the third loss being to a team that played like garbage outside of a couple games. I still think Notre Dame should be out.

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  9. 17 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

    They're also one of those teams that have gotten washed by the only good teams they've played all year so it's hard to tell if they even belong in the top 20.

    I mean, they just crushed a decent Tennessee team. They played Alabama pretty well too before giving up that late TD. There aren't 20 teams better than Vanderbilt. That offense is legit brutally efficient, and Pavia's improv skills are deadly. 

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  10. 37 minutes ago, dieucla98 said:

    We're all rooting for people to change their minds about the importance of certain losses vs wins. I'm hoping an extra week of contemplation will do the trick. 

    Probably not enough, but like I said, it's what we got. 

    I think beating a 3rd top-10 team does give the committee some pretty good ammo to have us jump them and maybe re-evaluate whether we should have ever been behind Vanderbilt in the first place. I think we end up likely end up 11, but booted by Virginia and G5. 

  11. 4 minutes ago, dieucla98 said:

    No way TT loses to BYU.

    I think it's reasonable to assume to the CFP will at least rank Texas ahead of Utah, like the AP and coaches. We just need that one extra step of being ranked ahead of Miami or Vandy which isn't unreasonable. That puts us at #13. BYU gets trounced and hopefully Bama does as well. That then leaves the CFP deciding between a 3 loss recently trounced Bama, a 3 loss Texas, and Vandy which lost to Texas or Miami which didn't even qualify for the ACC title game. 

    I would assume Bama is in with that scenario but it's the best we got.

    Or maybe someone looks at Notre Dame's schedule and realizes it is getting eliminated in the first round. Notre Dame viewership money doesn't do anything if the team ain't playing past the first round. That's ultimately the correct answer to the puzzle. 

  12. 8 minutes ago, Vanilla Strange Gato said:

    Watered down Big 12?

    until two years ago all I heard here was how great it was and how the SECSECSEC was overrated.  
     

    Wilk you kneejerk reacting women make up your mind?

    You mean before it lost its best 2 programs by far? At any rate, no one was saying the big 12 was great 3 years ago. Over 15 years ago before alignment fucked with it, sure. 

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