brodybuck21 said:

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MLBTR said something about Jake Meyers.

The more time that elapses between Saturday night and now, the more I view it was a necessary setback.

Would they be their absolute best if they squeaked out a 16-13 win? Maybe, but sometimes playing bad and winning can be worse than playing bad, losing and learning.

This coaching staff has shown that it has the steadfastness to drive home lessons even in victory, so maybe it wasn't as necessary as, say, 2024 TCUN was, BUT that was the players and the coaches both realizing things needed to change. Sometimes that takes a setback to get both sides to come together.

I still think they'll be ok going forward. It took everything Indiana had to beat them by 3 in literally their worst performance of the year.

colobuck79 said:

Portnoy steps in it. WTF. Its hard to imagine being this stupid.

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There's no cure for being a cunt.

Hopefully this cooks Portnoy's goose with Fox and we never have to see him again.

Portnoy steps in it. WTF. Its hard to imagine being this stupid.

I call it "three and out, one way or another".

Jaxbuck said:

Gee,


$30MM a year for 5 years to a 32 year old DH

It's dumb spending first and foremost but also another example of how out of whack the spending limits are for teams. It's an extra year and 50MM more than the Pirates offered him. It's a number the Reds just can't possibly match.

He's the exact kind of player the Reds need and they were never for one minute going to be able to afford him.

They are going to have to do a hard core lock out in '27. This shit has to get fixed.

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exactly. burn it down

agreed

By that point in the game they had Sayin gun shy and that window of open closed quick, like it did all night.

IU played great.

Tanner said:

I don't know if I'm more mad or less mad after a few days. You can't even say oh well we just played a random bad game b/c what happened was the things we do poorly cost us the game

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Look at it this way; every team does something poorly or at least less well than they do other things.

There is always a non zero chance that you have a game where those things get exploited/cost you a win.

It's impossible to avoid if you play enough games.

The ideal should be getting to the point where you don't even need a committee. Unfortunately, transparency isn't exactly the goal.

Until you get uniform scheduling across the board and split away from the G6, the structure of college football gives them an excuse to "account" for various discrepancies. AKA an excuse to cook the books and rig the chess board to their liking.

There are viable fixes to all this, it just should have been addressed years ago, and the people who can fix it, don't care to.

BuckeyeNation27 said:

He's also seemingly a good dude, in spite of his formal education.

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I too hate it when I can't hate someone.

I don't know if I'm more mad or less mad after a few days. You can't even say oh well we just played a random bad game b/c what happened was the things we do poorly cost us the game

The first two years of the new CFP agreement needed all conferences to vote on things. After this year it's just the B1G and the SEC.

The days of Tulane/JMU taking up spots are fast approaching extinction.

Jaxbuck said:

Yeah, to be fair people said the same stuff about Barry Sanders back in the day.

He would "dance around" and take losses then bust one for 80. It's just different than the way we were/still are used to seeing a dominant running back affect the game.

He's a home run threat every time he touches the ball.

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He's also seemingly a good dude, in spite of his formal education.

At this point, get rid of the committee and go to a BCS type selection system. Top 12 teams get in, and fuck the mid-majors. They can go and start a G5 playoff. If they try and sue, tell them their payday games are over and they can watch their athletic departments implode.

BuckeyeNation27 said:

Yeah he made me look like a real asshole last year. I always argued with my friends that he wasn't reliable because he's always trying to hit an 80 yarder when the situation only calls for like 5. The problem was he would hit those 80 yard runs almost weekly. I guess this is the football version of "live by the 3, die by the 3".

He's still a fucking stud, though. My initial analysis might have been slightly clouded by where he went to school just a little bit.

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Yeah, to be fair people said the same stuff about Barry Sanders back in the day.

He would "dance around" and take losses then bust one for 80. It's just different than the way we were/still are used to seeing a dominant running back affect the game.

He's a home run threat every time he touches the ball.

Captain Buckeye said:

shouldn’t have JMU or Tulane either.

Ridiculous they’re in and Texas isn’t for example.

Force equity and this is what you’ll get. You’ll have teams that are superior on the sideline at the benefit of some half rate teams: Would Ole Miss prefer Tulane or Texas? Yeah we know that answer

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Once JMU got in, it should have voided the Tulane entry.

CMic said:

For sure, they’re tied by $. But if it was purely a $ decision, Miami gets left out.
Personally, I was very surprised by the decision.

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Not really. Once you assume that bama is in (and BYU lost their CCG) it comes down to ND or Miami. At that point the head-to-head is the primary deciding factor. Whether Miami or ND got left out was of little consequence to espn. All that mattered was bama getting in.

DubCoffman62 said:

When I was a kid in the 10970's my father worked as a contractor fixing up homes for realtors. The San Fernando valley was always a trip. His brother lived in Tarzana which was actually nice but the further inland you go it gets really seedy. There were sections of Ventura Blvd just over the hill from Hollywood that were nothing but porn theaters, peep shows and porn shops. To this day I can't believe that that existed. It was also when punk rock first hit the scene and you'd see the Mohawks and face piercing people. Strange days.

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I know right?

@Thump mom has told me some stories....wow.

RuGettinIt said:

In my book he’s always been the 10 carries at 2 yds per and then a couple big gainers.

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Yeah he made me look like a real asshole last year. I always argued with my friends that he wasn't reliable because he's always trying to hit an 80 yarder when the situation only calls for like 5. The problem was he would hit those 80 yard runs almost weekly. I guess this is the football version of "live by the 3, die by the 3".

He's still a fucking stud, though. My initial analysis might have been slightly clouded by where he went to school just a little bit.