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Magus Ossis

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  1. A salary cap is not particularly relevant. The idea of NIL is that players are free to be compensated by third parties (not for pay per play per se) past what the university already offers for being not the team. As in any professional sport, there will be more opportunities for third party money for some players than for others. The money Mahomes makes for insurance commercials does not count towards the salary cap in the NFL. A team that has more friends in the third party space who are willing to spend more money can not by restricted by a salary cap.
  2. Those who find reality puzzling might not understand reality very well. Those who are not puzzled but choose to characterize it as puzzling have a different and arguably worse problem.
  3. Carlin was a brilliant comedic wordsmith. People who call out others for their imperfect diction (or other perceived intellectual failing) frequently by so doing reveal their own deficiency. A very common usage of "average" is the arithmetic mean. "Average" is also frequently, and has been for centuries, used to refer to any measure of central tendency, including the median. To recap: when someone is famous for his way with words, think twice before presuming to place yourself above him. A little learning is indeed a dangerous thing. Also, some members of the corps are in the service. There are standard ROTC scholarships which technically require that the recipients enlist and accept an obligation for commissioned service at graduation. There are also "local" scholarships for being in the corps which have nothing to do with the actual armed forces.
  4. I love the unintentional evidence of Texas as clean under DKR. At about 7:40, Earl discusses working a construction job the summer before his Heisman season and hearing about the supposed benefits Dorsett received because of the award. I think it was Marcus Allen, but one of the other guys there acts surprised and doubtful about actually working. Earl proceeds calmly to describe the hard work he did for his summer money.
  5. I don't know whether it would be any trouble to code, but it seems to me it shouldn't be: have a separate total attached to each userid that is _cloakrep_. Any rep activity in the CR affects this separate from other rep. Add modest popups in the CR only. Let the CR crowd rep each other to the moon and help pay the freight for everyone else to post in peace on the rest of the site.

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      The display for each poster would not need to be crowded to show _cloakrep_ and normal rep. Merely display the rep appropriate to the forum visited.

  6. Just quick thoughts Mason Graham (duh) and maybe Kenneth Grant (big but less amazing 0/1 tech type)
  7. I'm guessing we will have a chance to top the 11 Alabama had this year if we go deep in the post-season next year. Texas and UGA are both likely to have all their conference games well watched and to be contenders to play in the CCG and CFP. Even the teams with a bye have a chance to play as many as 3 CFP games starting in '24. Our game against Michigan is likely going to be a top draw. If our conference, Michigan, and post-season games get favorable TV slots, and if we make a run no further (play in CCG, lose in "final four") than we did this year, that would be 12+ "big" games.
  8. We don’t play against 2013 players anymore. I didn’t look farther back, but Vandy is 0 for the last two drafts. The SEC overall is very talented, but the players are not distributed evenly. I don’t think your claim that the SEC has more NFL talent than the 12 will get much opposition. I think the argument lies more in the teams not at the top and the other guys on the rosters. Huck has given data that remain undisputed and unanswered.
  9. That NFL talent is not getting drafted in droves from Vandy. The league is top heavy. Huck has shown the stats. That's like saying teams in towns starting with T & A are great top to bottom and citing UGA, UT, and Bama as evidence. The top is not the same as top to bottom.
  10. FSU isn’t alleging the refs threw the game to UGA, that Georgia stole their signs or played ringers. FSU isn’t alleging that the headsets only functioned on one sideline or that anyone poisoned their Powerade. They fully admit they were terrible. They think losing because they were far and away the worse team needs some nuance and context. Everything they say comes across as, “We lost in epic fashion because we stunk in epic fashion, but…” No one cares why they think they were so bad or why it should matter. If you don’t want to eat the worst bowl loss ever, don’t play such awful football.
  11. Come play at FSU where we only lose because the system hates us, and our excuses are really good reasons. Heck of a sales pitch.
  12. A settlement will be reached. They are valuable to B1G and costly to SEC if in B1G and will therefore end up in one of those two leagues. What we don't know: how long to reach a deal, final cost of deal, B1G versus SEC, year starting in new league.
  13. They aren't backups. They were backups earlier in aggy's process of implosion, but they were starters last night and will be starters next year if they don't portal out. They are the starters. The guys that left via the portal will not return. The guys coming in via the portal (or from HS) are not a significant upgrade. If aggy needs a word that reflects the pathos of their starters, it should not be backups but rather residue, remnants, or Aggies.
  14. After they get killed despite having not 11, not 12, but 55 men, they can start a new tradition: the 56th man. Everyone makes cult noises and waves either a telescope (underclassmen) or a wallet about. It symbolizes their need to search and ability to pay for a bigger, better team.
  15. Maybe have a safe thread or safe forum for snowflakes, newbs, etc. Those of us willing to hang out with well-adjusted humans and/or the ignorant masses could drop in and post nuggets from the nuclear emotional wasteland that is the surl.
  16. Texas played Alabama this year and is set to play Alabama or Michigan if we beat Washington. We have games against Michigan, OSU, and Alabama in the coming years. I listed out our record against the top cluster of schools in the "weeks top 5 versus weeks in poll" graph. Some will want to add another blue blood or drop Nebraska, but I simply followed the numbers. I grouped those with over 700 weeks in the AP poll (and over 250 in top 5) as blue bloods and those with over 350 as helmet schools. Some will obviously balk at my including aggy as a helmet school, but they meet the criterion. The cutoff as set provides a historical top 25. 8 Blue blood (>700 weeks in AP) Texas Alabama 8-2-1 (.773) Michigan 1-0-0 (1.000) OU 63-51-5 (.550) OSU 2-1-0 (.667) Neb 10-4-0 (.714) ND 3-9-0 (.250) USC 2-5-0 (.286) TOTAL 89-72-6 (.551) non-OU 26-21-1 (.552) (I wanted to see how much OU biases our average, but they fall very close to the mean for other teams) 17 Helmet schools (>350 weeks in AP) Arkansas 56-23-0 (.709) Auburn 5-3-0 (.625) Clemson 0-0-0 (n/a) Florida 2-0-1 (.833) FSU 0-0-0 (n/a) Georgia 4-1-0 (.800) Iowa 1-1-0 (.500) LSU 9-8-1 (.528) Miami 2-2-0 (.500) Michigan St 0-0-0 (n/a) Oregon 4-2-0 (.667) PSU 2-3-0 (.400) Tennessee 2-1-0 (.667) Tx A&M 76-37-5 (.665) Washington 3-2-0 (.600) Wisconsin 1-0-0 (1.000) UCLA 3-4-0 (.429) TOTAL 170-87-7 (.657) GRAND TOTAL 259-159-13 (.616) Perhaps someone with more internet and spreadsheet ability and will may assemble a more complete comparison. Bottom line, though: Texas has a long history of winning football games against the best and against the best of the best.
  17. Texas beats Bama, cornering the CFP committee into leaving undefeated ACC champion FSU on the sideline. The dissatisfaction of FSU mandates that they sue to leave the ACC. Ergo ACC is yet another conference Texas has destroyed, in two of which (ACC and PAC — by virtue of spoiling a potential merger by keeping the LHN), we were never members. People not only need to avoid being our conference-mates, they should give up playing sports in which we compete.
  18. I am having trouble finding a link to the Barstool convo in which Kayce self-owns re being like OSU and OU. Any help is appreciated.
  19. Have not read the whole thread -- usual caveats and apologies. We caught a lot of flack for not putting people away. Washington hasn't beaten anyone by over 10 points since Cal in September.
  20. Have not read the whole thread so sorry if I'm not the first. I was struck by how odd it would have seemed back in the day to be told that Ohio State would play Mizzou in Arlington in December, and it would be called the Cotton Bowl.
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