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  1. Milko and his ag-tag band of farmers will have a rude awakening in 25. Easy schedule in 24 likely lets him hit 8 wins. Assuming SEC goes to 9 games and takes the $, their '25 card may include opportunities to run out of time against ND (scheduled road OOC), UGA, Tenn, Ole Miss, OU (all 4 dodged in '24, as is Bama), LSU, and Texas (likely "rivals").
  2. Anything the university spends on men, it must spend on women. This is the world of Title IX. Several options: 1. Forget the idea of paying directly from the school. 2. Pay key men's sports and have a pool of equal $ curated to go to equal number of recipients for women, view it as fairness/ loss/ whatever. Cost of doing business. 3. Spend the money permitted to set up school support for fundraising but keep the money to athletes from ever being school dollars. Give equal resources to running an NIL collective for men and for women, but have the actual donations come from elsewhere. Cover as much of the cost (other than actual payments to athletes) as possible from entity A -- equal; cover the direct payments with the fruits of entity A's efforts, realized by entities B (football) and C (other/ women). The school does not contribute unequally, but can't help it if donors do. Paying directly from the school tips you out of technical amateurism, with all the attending legal consequences.
  3. Larry Gatlin was on the last team to score 100. If I remember correctly, he personally scored one of the last 2 TDs.
  4. Relax. 1. Seven win Steve has 12 so far this year 2. The dark times that started with the Bama game in 09 ended with the Bama game this year 3. We are in the CFP based on HTH over the SEC champs 4. Our QB just threw for 50 more yards while I was typing this 5. Our defense scored more on offense today than Louisville did total 6. We are that team no one wants in the first round 7. We are in the CFP based on HTH over the SEC champ. I said it twice. relax, sleep well, and check out the final seeding tomorrow at lunch.
  5. Yes, but they played Virginia close. Call that one a moral victory. Win total to 8.
  6. The saga of that class will make a humorous 30 for 30.
  7. It really boils down to Louisville. There are 5 power conferences and 4 seats at the table. Leaving one out is mandatory, but leaving two out would depend on a significant gap between the #2 from the "better" conference and the winner of the "worse." If Louisville wins, ACC is the odd man out. If we shit the bed against OSU (lose or win ugly), the committee has its excuse to take a second team from somewhere else, whether that be UGA after losing to Bama, UW after a close loss to UO, or tOSU. But an FSU loss and Texas taking care of business is a clear path.
  8. They actually doubled down on the notion that no coach is better than Jimbo.
  9. Like I said, post less. The gif had not come up since your previous post, but statistics had. You are embarrassing yourself. Take a break. FYI I will be adding you to my ignore list. Sorry to all who already have you there for the quote.
  10. What does a gif have to do with the statistics under discussion? If you are not trying to conflate the issues, you really ought to consider better defining your arguments and audiences. TLDR: post less for a while and then re-evaluate
  11. Stassneyhorn can explain it to you later. In short, you are emotional, and this is all in your head.
  12. Best coaching jobs in FBS: 1. Texum Tuscaloosa campus 1a. Texum Athens campus 1b. Texum College Station campus
  13. If you look past the score, Tech had a bad game versus UCF. If the team that beat UCF scares us, we should not be uttering the word "playoff."
  14. You forgot to mention the first SWC title
  15. Jū Shōri Sarki
  16. I know it would be nice to get a revenge game against OU in the CCG. After consideration, though, I think it is better that we do not. Beating OSU instead would give us perpetual scoreboard on the entire irate 8, it would still put a big finger in the league's eye, and it deprives OU of a championship game berth. I wanna see the Horns thrash Tech and then OSU.
  17. Hate it for Travis that he got hurt, but that injury may have punched or nearly punched our ticket to the CFP.
  18. People are trying augmentation, but there isn't very good evidence to show it helps yet. People are cautious about BMPs because of links to increased cancer risk in the skeletally immature population suggested by previous studies.
  19. Yes. Partial usually means no surgery. Tear and rupture are different words that essentially mean the same thing in this context. Repair (a la BEAR) is normally only for acute (recent) tears in the middle of the ligament, as opposed to avulsion (where it tears off of its attachment). There are some exceptions and nuance to all of this. The bottom line is that you need two things to advance out of the more "PT" phase of rehab and start working on sport-specific drills (allowing cutting and pivoting on the operative knee). You need good restoration of function, usually graded largely on quadriceps strength, and you need to be able to trust the weak link in the chain physically, generally the site of incorporation of the graft to the bones on either side of the knee. The graft incorporation is faster for bone and with native tissue. It is slower with purely tendinous grafts and with donor grafts.
  20. Repair is still a bit of a novelty. I've only done it once, and that knee was crying out for it. The fastest way back onto the field in my opinion is BTB. The BEAR repair protocol only begins graduated return to sports after 6 months.
  21. The graft choice is one of the biggest influences on how fast players can be released to full go. Bone-tendon-bone autograft means harvesting a bit of patella, a bit of tibia, and the patellar tendon connecting them to use as the new ACL. The literature supports trusting the maturation of the graft at 3 months with return to play occasionally as early as three months but with the average closer to 10 months. A lot of that average likely has to do with the fact that mid-season surgery for one-season-per-year athletes means most of a year until the next game. For the average human, quadriceps tendon autograft (your own stuff) or hamstring allograft (from the bone bank) often makes more sense, but those are slower to incorporate (to go from being a graft implanted in the knee to being an ACL). Even with the "slower" grafts, I've seen people back at the competitive level as early as 5 months. TLDR: It is optimistic, but not foolishly so, to look for Brooks to be 100% next season.
  22. Magus Ossis

    9-1

    Summing up: 1. This is our best team and season in years. 2. We are terrible. 3. Lose to ISU (sure to happen because reasons) or Tech, and we might as well blow our brains out. 4. Win out through the CCG, making us 12-1 and earning our first title since '09, and it's meh -- Sark can't coach. 5. We probably need help to get into the playoffs this year.
  23. cross posted here because money talk here: I am a little curious about the real meaning of the giant $160M check aggy flashed at the game. I suppose it is possible that donors, just within the last week, poured that much cash into the 12th man fund and that the fund is bragging by printing it on gargantuan cardstock. I think it is much more likely that the figure represents some combination either of cumulative gifts over the last ? months/years and/or pledges received, again over a significant time in the past and promised to pay out over a significant future interval. I'm from Missouri on their literally having that kind of cash sitting in the slush fund and ready to spend.
  24. I am a little curious about the real meaning of the giant $160M check aggy flashed at the game. I suppose it is possible that donors, just within the last week, poured that much cash into the 12th man fund and that the fund is bragging by printing it on gargantuan cardstock. I think it is much more likely that the figure represents some combination either of cumulative gifts over the last ? months/years and or pledges received, again over a significant time in the past and promised to pay out over a significant future interval. I'm from Missouri on their literally having that kind of cash sitting in the slush fund and ready to spend.
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