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Magus Ossis

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  1. Like most years, there really are only about 7 true top 10 teams by this stage in the season.
  2. My understanding is that there are two warnings given to a home team for throwing items onto the field before the 15-yard assessments begin. Tech has decided to keep one warning as cushion and willingly take one warning on the opening kick.
  3. Texas often has a talent advantage and often doesn't win. How many major-conference teams get excited about knocking off Houston or OSU week-to-week? It is a game of emotion in which better teams or those with bigger names often inspire greater emotion. Texas has still managed to eke out, I think, 14 outright conference championships over the last 60 years. And a few national championships. Remind me how many Tech has by comparison. My recollection is zero of both, but I could be counting wrong.
  4. I think there were a lot of people that tuned in for some Horn misery but stuck around to watch OU exposed as Schadenfrauds.
  5. You are right sorry 12 more. I was leaving those off.
  6. I put this on the Gibson recruiting thread, but I'll cross-post. Gibson has a 5/105 career fumble to carry ratio. If Wis fumbled his next 14 carries, his would still be more favorable. Gibson is too great a fumble risk IMO. EDIT I WAS WRONG it is 12 more. Thanks Satya.
  7. By way of comparison, Wisner has 0 fumbles on 284 carries. EDIT if he dropped the ball the next 14 times he touched it, that would still leave him a better average. EDIT I WAS WRONG ON NUMBERS it is 12 more times. Thanks Satya.
  8. Gibson had 5 fumbles on 105 career carries. I wish him well, but he did not need to be trusted any more with the ball.
  9. Took my youngest son for his first OU game. Won't write a novel, but (1) he had the time of his life, and (2) we saw a crazy man lead TEXAS FIGHT standing on the table in the food court a couple of tables down. Good times.
  10. 1. HOOK'EM -- that win felt -- and feels -- fantastic! 2. Props to Mateer for refusing to blame his thumb. My understanding is that he was literally bleeding from his surgical site before the half. How much was he affected or set back-- I don't know, but I doubt the medical guy who cleared him to play less than 3 weeks after thumb fracture surgery went to bed proud last night. 3. Our defense was great in many ways. Just a performance for the ages. 4. Sark has not always impressed me as a Q3 coach. We won the second half 20-0. He had this team mentally tough enough to be ready to play that second half, and he was himself ready to make the right in-game calls. 5. I have hope.
  11. I thought she was now campus trapped in a box under 6 feet of aggy dirt, facing the doggie scoreboard.
  12. I don't understand why undefeated D2 and D3 teams aren't ranked above the 1-loss teams in this system. They have perfect records, after all.
  13. Sorry didn't log in for a spell. Preliminary de rigueur never happy about injury to a person but haha to OU. Will OU try to play Mateer in a month? Maybe. Is he stupid enough to play then? Unlikely. Will his fracture be healed? No. It will not. I am unsure exactly the nature of his fracture, but if the rumors that it is a thumb fracture requiring surgery are true, I have a hard time imagining myself letting him throw within the first six weeks. Sorry about your kid, CTJ. Average non-ortho, even ER, docs are bad at reducing all but the easiest chip-shot fractures. Kids with open growth plates heal about twice as fast as healthy young adults as a general rule. If the kid has a mid-forearm fracture, it won't be full strength until at least 6 months, but it should heal decently on the schedule you mentioned. Fractures closer to the wrist are solid once healed.
  14. I am not a QB expert. Should I be concerned that in the highlight video above, I did not seem to see much of Arch's helmet pointing in one direction and then the completed throw in another direction? Was it there and I missed it? He definitely looked better this week, but I am not certain that I saw evidence this week that he can go through reads and make a good throw to the second or third.
  15. Iceman isn't a total idiot, but he is like the guy "correcting" the orbital calculations the guy next to him completed accounting for relativistic effects because his buddy "erred" by not quite getting what Sir Isaac would have. I guess the Pierian Spring's waters don't taste good enough for some to drink deeply before posting.
  16. I thought we quit having to pretend the B12 administration was neutral toward Texas when the commissioner was recorded publicly cheering against us. For Tech, btw. I am sure our Tech visitor can provide plenty of other examples of other conference officials expressing a desire in favor of one of their member schools losing a game prior to officials in his employ officiating said game. B12 refs were and are bad, maybe not the worst. Their calls are marked by incompetence, unconscious bias, and deliberate favoritism, depending on the ones at issue. And often their calls are correct. Blind squirrels and nuts.
  17. Aerohorn nailed it. If all wins were created equal, beating a D3 team would matter as much as beating Ohio State. But they are not, and it does not. The Texas team that is ranked, e.g., above Oklahoma has a significant continuity with the Texas team that beat OU and Michigan last year. Polls are imperfect, and there would be future upsets of higher-ranked teams by lower even if there were a perfect way to rank teams today. Nevertheless, the idea that people should not hold or express the opinion (polls being the collected opinions of groups) that some teams with lower win percentages as of game 2 are better than some with better is fatuous. Maybe Kent State could play middle school teams during the summer and be the rightful #1 for being 7-0 before the season starts for anyone else. Then you could have a win over #1!
  18. Agricolae Stulti ab Hivernicis Pugnacibus delendi sunt
  19. I don't know what he was thinking, but this seemed possibly to figure into it.
  20. Apparently, the form they submitted, entitled "Documentation SACSCOC" did not impress the accreditation review team.
  21. When the surly nurse mafia starts laying money down, the line will move for real.
  22. Using "beg the question" to mean "assume the truth of the conclusion" is both the result of a poor translation and the generally recognized meaning of the expression. Aristotle's phrasing τὸ ἐν ἀρχῇ αἰτεῖσθαι was (fairly well) rendered in Latin as petitio principii. The intended (not quite literal) meaning was "assuming the truth of the conclusion." The Latin was artlessly translated into English as "begging the question," when a better wording would have been "question at the beginning." The other meaning of the English version is in widespread enough use now that, while grammar/usage Nazis loathe it, the expression has clearly developed a second widely accepted sense.
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