CincyInterloper said:

You’re not wrong, but top tier college football is a professional sport now. So the only metric that matters for the playoff team selection process is maximizing television revenue. The playoffs are going to expand to at least 16. We’ll be lucky if it doesn’t expand beyond that. If you think it’s bad now, wait until private equity gets involved.

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College sports used to be my passion but the money has just ruined it. Makes me sad.

Jagdaddy said:

I may be misreading some of your prior posts, but there also seems to be an unstated assumption that luck plays a bigger role when you're on defense than when you're on offense, and I don't understand why that's the case if it is what's being assumed.

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It goes back to the simple truth of every out come being skill + luck = outcome.

Look at the odds of giving up points. Greater when on defense than on offense, right? The luck element of the outcome is higher than when on offense.

Choosing a path that creates more opportunity for the opponent (defense) is a flawed strategy. It can work out and people think it’s ok, but it was the wrong approach no matter the outcome.

To use the casino analogy a different way; Offense in football is like playing poker. If you have a skill advantage you want to play as many hands as possible. Your skill will win out. BUT in football you have to play defense and that is like having to stop playing poker and go over to play roulette. You can even be the house and get better odds if you have an elite defense but sooner or later, some stupid fucking tourist is going to hit on red 27 and you are going to have to pay.

You want to stay at the poker table as much as you can and stay away from the roulette table in the process.

Jaxbuck said:

Massive fuckery afoot in Pitt/Det game.

Wow

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Haven’t watched much today. What happened?

WHAT A BLAST!
Sat in the second row, right in front of Jesse's parents. Jesse's dad led OH-IO several times.

Fungo Squiggly said:

So all the cheating, the federal privacy crimes by a coach, Bo ignoring sexual assaults, the Fab Five, the hockey program’s shenanigans, and the myriad of additional off-field issues were all totally fine. But THIS is the last straw? You have no moral compass, you ignorants sluts, so stop pretending like you do. Your university is a fucking joke, same as it ever was. Nothing has changed.

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This is the way.

Jaxbuck said:

This is the exact "logic" a bad gambler falls into and starts making more bets when he's losing. "I just need more opportunities to overcome bad luck"

There is no way to equivocate on this, if you are having execution problems, doing it on volume is not a good idea.

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I think that the unaccounted for variable here is that both the offense and the defense have to execute. If you go uptempo, you may increase the odds of defensive execution errors (e.g. flat out coverage busts), that let you score with fewer plays, and thereby fewer opportunities for poor offensive execution. If you think that your offense has more execution issues than your defense, then trying to score with fewer plays by forcing defensive execution errors and trusting your defense to execute even when the opposing offense gets more opportunities may be the way to go. I may be misreading some of your prior posts, but there also seems to be an unstated assumption that luck plays a bigger role when you're on defense than when you're on offense, and I don't understand why that's the case if it is what's being assumed.

While ultimately execution is more important than tempo, against a team like Indiana that's heady and versatile but likely doesn't have great depth of talent, going faster to eliminate creative substitutions and try to force defensive execution errors, which may also become more likely with fatigue, may have been a solid value proposition.

MGMT said:

Love y’all psychopaths. Best to you and your families. If you’re going through something hard keep fighting and win.

This forum is a lifeline for me and I appreciate all of you very much. Getting into mid-30s has taught me to make sure you tell people what they mean to you no matter the degree of involvement or impact.

I fucking love talking about this program, team, the games and everything else with you.

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This is awesome. Thank you for saying it

Cypher and his hair are recruiting hard for the Bucks.

BuckyKatt said:

*ichigan alums are finally embarrassed. No longer repping the *…

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So all the cheating, the federal privacy crimes by a coach, Bo ignoring sexual assaults, the Fab Five, the hockey program’s shenanigans, and the myriad of additional off-field issues were all totally fine. But THIS is the last straw? You have no moral compass, you ignorants sluts, so stop pretending like you do. Your university is a fucking joke, same as it ever was. Nothing has changed.

No lies detected. Fraudulent ass program

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OregonBuckeye said:

Gonna need a more credible source than "Slap the Sign"

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Massive fuckery afoot in Pitt/Det game.

Wow

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Well when she puts it like that…I hope she lives forever

*ichigan alums are finally embarrassed. No longer repping the *…

I know this injury way too well. They are sooo much better fixing it today but I would not expect him to have the same quickness or speed

ORD_Buckeye said:

It's not like California, New York or Boston arrogance. They don't give a single fuck what you think of them or where they live. Texas arrogance is profoundly rooted in insecurity. They need...demand...that you acknowledge and validate their puffed chest vision of themselves and Texas.

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I don’t know all the Texans. But I know a few. And upon meeting you, they take it as an insult if you aren’t a cowboys fan. Or a longhorns fan. Or acknowledge that Texas is better than everywhere else. Or a rangers fan. Or worship dubya. Or wish you were in Texas right now. Or fall asleep thinking of all the words TEXAS can spell. Or wonder why TEXAS is never the Wordle answer. Or wonder why Texas hasn’t seceded and gone to war with the rest of the world.

He fits the Saints so well, glad to see him staying.

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System_id said:

I'm thinking something closer to 24-10 but you might be right. Famous last words but I'm having a hard time seeing how UM scores more than 10 that aren't the result of turnovers.

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27-6

Big time makeup for Ransom. Last week he had an unnecessary roughness penalty late in the 4th that cost the Panthers a win and nearly cost them a playoff spot.

This week he grabs the game winning INT. Redemption in its finest.

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