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Joey Freshwater posted:Yeah well Alabama lost to a team that lost to SC by 100 so they can’t be on there either Also fair. Clemson managed to play South Carolina tight but they can gently caress right off of that list too.
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Loving the Graham Mertz rehab going on with UF spring practice reporting lol This fall is going to be hilarious—either for the bad QB play or redemption arc if he lights it up (he won’t)
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Mar 8, 2023 15:45
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Mertz and DJ Uiagelelei are going to meet in the national championship game for a 5* QB duel for the ages.
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Mar 8, 2023 15:52
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Henchman of Santa posted:Mertz and DJ Uiagelelei are going to meet in the national championship game for a 5* QB duel for the ages. Going to be a great XFL version 4 rivalry.
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Henchman of Santa posted:True, but in a single elimination format with increased opportunities to gently caress up (or get injured) and less time to prep, strange things can happen. We will probably never get a G5 champ but a random 5 seed could certainly get the right breaks for one. Hells, doesn't even need to be a single elimination format. Look at Ole Miss baseball last year. They were the literal last team into the CWS field and then proceeded to only lose one game on the way to the championship.
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kayakyakr posted:Hells, doesn't even need to be a single elimination format. Look at Ole Miss baseball last year. They were the literal last team into the CWS field and then proceeded to only lose one game on the way to the championship. Baseball is the highest variance sport there is so it's not one I would look to for a comparison.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Baseball is the highest variance sport there is so it's not one I would look to for a comparison. I'd say the multi-game series dramatically decreases the variance, both in double elim and 3 game series formats.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Baseball is the highest variance sport there is so it's not one I would look to for a comparison. Love a sport where the best team wins about 60% of the time.
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PostNouveau posted:Love a sport where the best team wins about 60% of the time. Try softball, where the best team wins about 95% of the time 
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Today I learned that Purdue owns Brohm's West Lafayette house and is renting it to Ryan Walters.
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I think a seed in the 5-8 range winning the championship may not be an extraordinarily rare, but I think the majority of those will be preseason top 4 teams they have some tough luck/uninspired play on the way to a 3-loss regular season.
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General Dog posted:I think a seed in the 5-8 range winning the championship may not be an extraordinarily rare, but I think the majority of those will be preseason top 4 teams they have some tough luck/uninspired play on the way to a 3-loss regular season. Or a team that started rough but pulled together and peaked at the right time, like FSU or LSU last season.
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Spacemonkey57 posted:Also fair. Clemson managed to play South Carolina tight but they can gently caress right off of that list too. TCU played a lot of bad teams close. Big 12 wasn’t good. TCU only beat KState the first time because of a mid game QB injury. When they met again, KState took them down in DFW.
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General Dog posted:I think a seed in the 5-8 range winning the championship may not be an extraordinarily rare, but I think the majority of those will be preseason top 4 teams they have some tough luck/uninspired play on the way to a 3-loss regular season. 2021 Utah - the version that flushed us twice in short order and were an absolute road grader - would be the archetype, IMO. Wouldn’t make the 4-team playoff most years, are an obvious 5-6 seed and classic “team nobody wants to play” in an expanded field.
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I personally don’t think there’s any reality where they make it all the way through a 12 team playoff; I think the talent deficit has got to eventually catch up over the course of that 3-4 game gauntlet. A team like that could for sure make it as far as the title game, though.
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General Dog posted:I think a seed in the 5-8 range winning the championship may not be an extraordinarily rare, but I think the majority of those will be preseason top 4 teams they have some tough luck/uninspired play on the way to a 3-loss regular season. That's pretty much Bama last year. They could have taken out TCU and Michigan, and I guess gotten lucky against Georgia or Ohio state
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Spacemonkey57 posted:Also fair. Clemson managed to play South Carolina tight but they can gently caress right off of that list too.  they also lost to the team that lost to SC by 100, but one of their losses was to the team that beat Bama so it’s a tough call.
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LeeMajors posted:Loving the Graham Mertz rehab going on with UF spring practice reporting lol I am very amused that he left and now Wisconsin's QB room is the deepest it's been like... ever
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Rectal Placenta posted:I am very amused that he left and now Wisconsin's QB room is the deepest it's been like... ever I mean, with all the 4- and 5-star QBs we’ve had that did gently caress-all, maybe this will work out it wont
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Rectal Placenta posted:I am very amused that he left and now Wisconsin's QB room is the deepest it's been like... ever Look man I just want a QB who can complete a screen pass.
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LLCoolJD posted:Look man I just want a QB who can complete a screen pass. Sorry, all we have left is this lightly used handoff machine.
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LeeMajors posted:Sorry, all we have left is this lightly used handoff machine. My first two decades of being a Florida fan did not prepare me for this.
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PostNouveau posted:Love a sport where the best team wins about 60% of the time. Arkansas baseball has handed me the worst fan hurt since the Stoerner fumble but listening to Phil Els on the radio calling the Benentindi season while we were cleaning up after a tornado that wiped us out got us through it and I have late in life become a huge college baseball fan. *ting*
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Football adjacent but today someone posted the full rear end 9 hour marathon of James Spann covering the April 2011 tornado outbreak that nailed Tuscaloosa. https://youtu.be/5z9jAUIdeok I’ve never seen most of this as I was slightly preoccupied trying to not die on campus at the time but I’d be lying if my chest didn’t tighten up a hair watching that thing tear through town again.
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James Spann once came to my elementary school and gave a presentation. That's my story.
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Ah, that day. That poo poo sucked. My best friend was at his house off 15th Street and was absolutely certain he was going to bite it. He said when the second story was ripped from the house, it just sounded like a giant sheet of paper tearing in half. I had just moved to Birmingham at the time and watched it move northwest across Shades Mountain. It was also weird as hell walking outside and finding debris raining down from central Mississippi. LLCoolJD posted:James Spann once came to my elementary school and gave a presentation. That's my story. I hope you have never lost your respect for the polygon 
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E: dammit this isn't the basketball thread I'm sorry.
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roll tide btichLLCoolJD posted:James Spann once came to my elementary school and gave a presentation. That's my story. Legit jealous. I’ve met Sabes a few times but I’d turn them all in to meet Spann.
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Warbird posted:roll tide btich Nothing wrong with that. I wish I could've met Gary England myself. Without him I probably wouldn't be here today.
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Stanley Tucheetos posted:Nothing wrong with that. I wish I could've met Gary England myself. Without him I probably wouldn't be here today. I don’t know what the story here is and frankly I don’t want to know because it would ruin my own hypothesis that a TV meteorologist Marty McFlyed your parents to make sure they hosed and made you.
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YOLOsubmarine posted:I don’t know what the story here is and frankly I don’t want to know because it would ruin my own hypothesis that a TV meteorologist Marty McFlyed your parents to make sure they hosed and made you. Nah his early warnings of the 1999 outbreak caused my parents to take my siblings and I over to my grandmother's who had a cellar. Our house in Moore took a direct hit. We didn't have a reinforced room and the entire building was completely leveled to the foundation.
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It's hard explaining to out of staters just what an incredibly terrible combination of the worst possible things that Tuscaloosa tornado was. An extremely powerful (EF4), extremely wide (1.5 miles wide), extremely long-lived (over 80 miles of devastation) that started just outside a major city, swept through its heavily populated downtown, flattening shopping centers, apartment buildings, and subdivisions, and almost perfectly tracked the interstate to the even bigger city just down the road. The Tuscaloosa emergency management office was practically one of the first buildings demolished.
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Moving to NC has made me realize that there are parts of the country where the weather isn’t trying to kill you on the reg. It’s weird. Stanley Tucheetos posted:Nah his early warnings of the 1999 outbreak caused my parents to take my siblings and I over to my grandmother's who had a cellar. Our house in Moore took a direct hit. We didn't have a reinforced room and the entire building was completely leveled to the foundation. And he also made sure your parents boned down.
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LLCoolJD posted:James Spann once came to my elementary school and gave a presentation. That's my story. That's cool as poo poo. When I was like 7 or 8 I got to meet Neil Frank at the public library. Got to the end of his presentation on hurricanes, and I got to talk to him after and ask a question. I remember freezing up and stammering, "How does it rain?" dirty shrimp money fucked around with this message at 12:55 on Mar 16, 2023 |
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Football related - The Big 12 got themselves their own NFL Combine in the form of an all-schools pro day. The Big Ten and SEC will get one inevitably. https://twitter.com/Big12Conference/status/1636011887421800450
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Well how I’m the hell does it rain? Don’t you hold out on us.
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Warbird posted:roll tide btich We had a kid who thought he knew it all about TV news, and Spann dunked on him by showing the class that he didn't know what an isobar was.
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Stanley Tucheetos posted:Nah his early warnings of the 1999 outbreak caused my parents to take my siblings and I over to my grandmother's who had a cellar. Our house in Moore took a direct hit. We didn't have a reinforced room and the entire building was completely leveled to the foundation. I can't imagine living somewhere without a cellar at minimum. We had to run outside and open it like wizard of oz but it kept us safe. Except for one tornado at night which destroyed our barn and silo, missed the house by 50 feet and we were simply lucky Weatherpeople are cool because if they're right now and then they go from saving you time and effort (big snow coming, be ready) to straight up saving your life. And almost no one is gonna accuse them of crying wolf because the risks of big storms are so high
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