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33 minutes ago, teachercd said:

Trump got 74,223,369 votes in 2020

 

I bet you (a friendly wager) he gets 10% less if he ends up being the R nominee.  

I'll take the wager. Loser has to have an iowa avatar with a bunch of hearts for a month.

On 12/25/2023 at 8:02 PM, BigRedBuster said:

Horrible for the sport. 
 

 

I certainly don't like it, but at the end of the day, bowl games were originally created to be exhibitions and nothing more.

2 hours ago, teachercd said:

The idea that some states are getting "more red" doesn't add up if Trump is not getting new voters.

Have you considered the idea that blue people moving away can make an area more red and there's no need to ponder in terms of adding new voters.

On 12/24/2023 at 2:04 PM, Guy Chamberlin said:

Brady did take his legend to another level when he left Belichek and the Patriots for the Bucs, took them to the Super Bowl and schooled Mahomes in his prime.  and was allowed to tag along riding in the back of the bus as their elite defense carried them to a super bowl

fixed it

4 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

 

What universe does that guy live in?

4 hours ago, Nebfanatic said:

Big Ben vibes on tape this kids arm is miles above anything we have probably ever seen here at least in this century 

I'm still yet to see him throw a slant or swing route but f#&% it who cares, not like we've ever had a player perceived like this ever.

10 hours ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

There's a long list of five star players who turned out to be busts. You just never know till they play the game.

 

But the headline here is that after a disappointing season that had some fans already putting Rhule on the hot seat, along with our horrible offensive line and totally inept OC, the top--rated QB in the country is willing to bet his career on what's about to happen at Nebraska. And that sets the tone for everything else.

 

I'm totally down with feeling good about this. 

That's a long headline.

2 hours ago, Cornfed said:

please, sweet baby Jesus

I think this is a classic case of clout chasing, but I'm open to being proven wrong.

I've definitely experienced this plenty and lived it myself, and on the flip side of this experience I can't explain how liberating it feels to start living out a reality where you host and don't always have to do that. I spend a *lot* of time in and fostering community and am really fortunate to have a wide and rich network of people all over Atlanta that feel like an extended family of ~100 or so folks in the art community that are all relatively tight knit. Our house is one that people have come to expect as being one of the main big gathering places for parties, events, etc., and a year or two ago we started doing an open door, self hosting policy every Sunday. Essentially just telling people we'll be home, have no plan, and would love for people to drop in whenever they feel like and do whatever they want, whether that be hang with us or just read a book or paint or watch tv or whatever. We usually all end up hanging out together anyways, but we make very little effort towards putting a best foot forward and it feels so nice.

On 12/8/2023 at 2:43 PM, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

Yeah, Ganz with the 2009 defense would have been the game-changer. 

 

Zac Lee was groomed to be the next Ganz, an NFL arm running a more efficient college offense, rushing just enough when needed. He was reportedly great in practice, not so much at game time.

He looked good when he was healthy. Unfortunately, he tore his throwing elbow in week 3 (I think) and had to hobble through the rest of the season and did it quietly and with dignity and class.

1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

I'm a chiefs fan and Mahomes fan.  But, he is just wrong on this.  The dude lined up in the neutral zone and the ref was correct in throwing the flag.

 

 

It's the right call, no doubt.

And not in defense of Mahomes, but just as a general annoyance, that same call gets missed multiple times per game in every game on both offenses and defenses. 

3 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

We could if his school had lacross to choose from, which the poster said it didn’t  Maybe the poster is incorrect and you can let us know.  
 

You've never played in a club, intramural or recreational league before?

1 hour ago, Archy1221 said:

How so.  I mean the big guy thinks he’s a non truthful Forrest Gump at this point 

We could start with an easy one. Could be his parents told him he could only do one of the two for financial reasons - this was the case for me in middle school.

Or even not bothering to try and offer interpretations, but just refuting the 'proof' that it's a lie which is the delaware history of high school lacrosse... recreational and out-of-school club leagues for sports are a thing.

2 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

The poster is correct.   The things he  lies about are so bizarre sometimes 

 

 

There are all sorts of ways that you can interpret this that don't immediately jump to "he's lying". 

3 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

I love the Community Note on this morons post.   I’ll say it agin, community notes is the greatest change to X.

 

 

Saira Rao is one of the wildest twitter accounts. I follow her solely because she's deluded and insane enough that she almost reads like an actual parody account.

59 minutes ago, TGHusker said:

With the game on the line - Ganz    Not flashy but consistent.  As @knapplc said - wished he had more time wt the 1st Offense.  It could have been special.  He had good receivers.  He just had that old 'get it done anyway you can' gutsy play.   I always thought that Ganz with the Suh D of 2010 or TM wt the Suh D would have led to a NC. Instead the Suh D corresponded with Lee as QB and an offense that was very limited.  Kind of like this year - our D with an average QB would have won the West. 

 

 

Suh wasn't part of the 2010 team, but actually was the breakout leader on defense Ganz' senior year.

15 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

The "results on the field" are five teams winning their conference championships. Everything else is the subjective and unhappy process of squeezing them into four slots. 

 

But if I'm reading the room correctly, it's a matter of the Committee submitting to the will of the SEC and their propaganda lapdog, ESPN. 

 

 

That's part of it for some (I'm much less conspiratorial), but for me it's more that the committee operates in a closed room without any transparency or accountability to any actual metrics. 

The BCS was better than the current solution which is a room of people just chatting and making decisions based on their feelings and opinions. I don't know why we ever went to a committee in the first place - the only problem with the BCS was that there wasn't a playoff, but of course we overcorrected with adding a playoff and a committee and then overcorrected again by going to 12 next year instead of the 8 we should've been at all this time.

@Guy Chamberlin, sorry but I'm calling absolute bulls#!t on the committee's propaganda piece.

There are all sorts of ways to expose how inane this is, but here's a couple. One - if the argument is ranking the best teams off of nebulous 'belief', then FSU at #5 makes absolutely zero sense. Consistency there would put them below Georgia, Ohio State and Oregon, who would all be favored. Two - taking all their PR spin at face value this week exposes their inconsistency in their own logic the week prior when FSU was still #4 even though the same evaluation should have taken place according to the  "...section in the committee's protocol that specifically refers to the "unavailability of key players ... that may have affected a team's performance during the season or likely will affect its postseason performance."

Their ambiguous "make it up as we go" criteria for evaluating is unfathomably unjust. "Who we think is better" is no actual way to primarily rank teams, as evidenced by Oregon being a Vegas and a fan/media/coaches favorite over Washington both times they played. It also begs the question of how Alabama is suddenly viewed as one of the best 4 teams based off no actual metrics but just 'vibes', when they struggled against more than one terrible opponent, and their only big accomplishment is squeezing by Georgia who has looked vulnerable all year and was clearly only #1 due to the poll and reputational momentum of years' previous (similar to 2014 FSU).

22 hours ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

There are four playoff spots and five power 5 conferences. While it might have sounded fun to totally shut out the SEC, it's equally unimaginable that the winner of the SEC has to watch FSU go in their place. It's an ACC thing, and it's hard to get around FSU's 55th ranked strength of schedule no matter how we feel about them playing the big stage without their Heisman worthy QB. So maybe Texas and the Big 12 get the axe instead. Can't think of many teams I hate more than Texas and Alabama. But if it's my job to pick the four best teams for a four team playoff, knowing I'm going to be hated either way, I'm probably making the same call the committee did. 

The system should have worked perfectly this year

There were 5 power 5 champions. 3 were undefeated. The other two had the same record and a head to head matchup for a tiebreaker

This couldn't have been any simpler.

On 12/3/2023 at 7:28 PM, BigRedBuster said:

Off topic but there's a podcast with Sammy "The Bull" Gravano called "Our Thing", which is nothing more than him telling stories firsthand of being in the mafia, rising through the ranks, wacking people, etc. It's an absolutely riveting and fascinating listen that I highly recommend.

3 hours ago, gobiggergoredder said:

has this season normalized Riley a bit?  His body of work is still pretty small and seems to anchored to one QB.

What? 

Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murray, Jalen Hurts, Caleb Williams...

unreal

man i feel gross having to decide between wanting bama or texas to make it

On 11/30/2023 at 8:56 AM, GSG said:

More proof that SI is a joke

I haven't read any articles or anything, but people always confuse this as some type of achievement award when it really isn't. He is accurately the sportsperson of the year based on what the recognition actually means, which is just the biggest impact/storyline. Has nothing to do with being good, it's just the amount of attention paid.

On 11/28/2023 at 11:43 AM, Guy Chamberlin said:

Expectations have definitely shifted, and the next 9 win Husker coach will be greeted as a king. 

imo, only for a year or two