Everything posted by Horn of Gabriel
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Meanwhile in China
A deeeeeep 10-part series on distributed naval ops in the SCS area: https://cimsec.org/fighting-dmo-pt-1-defining-distributed-maritime-operations-and-the-future-of-naval-warfare/ Haven't read all of it yet but if you geek on this stuff it's interesting.
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Realignment talk not going away
The sovereign immunity thing as an out for GoR's is a joke/meme pointed to by smooth brain lawyers. If it could have been used, it would have been used at this point.
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College Football Facilities - The Arms Race
Y'all freaking out over this aren't seeing the long game that CDC is playing here. Every AD is concerned that money that used to exclusively come their way is now splitting between them and NIL. Did you see the announcement about United Texas Circle yesterday? In case you missed it: There's a reason why this all came out simultaneously. I agree that the rendering is...underwhelming. More likely they want to catch the eye of some BMDs so that the AD can go cry poor and get more money where they believe it rightly belongs...in the AD.
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2023 Spring Game Thread of Hype and Doom
QE somehow looks both better than last year but still nowhere near where he needs to be.
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2023 Spring Game Thread of Hype and Doom
That was the right decision in a spring game 😅
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2023 Spring Game Thread of Hype and Doom
Is Anthony Hill playing today?
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2023 Spring Game Thread of Hype and Doom
K. Woods is the best looking guy I haven't heard much about on the team, impressed w/ how he's moving.
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What new UT gear are you looking to buy this year?
Has anyone done the pre-spring game team fire sale? Do they have anything good or is just clearance rack shit?
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China and Taiwan. Not good.
Probably safer to assume that they both can't and won't try either. Let's call it the Maginot Line strategy.
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China and Taiwan. Not good.
Interesting article from Capt. Joshua Taylor on countering China's illegal activities in the SCS through a persistent low-end presence vs. the high end FONOPs we run today. Smart, less costly, and less escalatory. https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2022/august/campaign-plan-south-china-sea
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Realignment talk not going away
- Realignment talk not going away
Maybe marginally. 4-5* recruits care about 1 thing above all else: "what is going to put me in the best position for the NFL?" The SEC and B1G are both doing great in that regard and will continue to pull away from the pack. If FSU shows up looking for an OL and can give quick playing time and a demonstrated NFL-path whereas the SEC offers that recruit is getting don't, the sunshine vs. snow argument won't be a major factor. Still a bit but not as much. I think the "ease of recruiting FL factor" in realignment is being overblown. Good SEC teams are going to get talent no matter what. Money will be the main and most important driver for realignment, unless you're the braindead PAC in which case "academic snobbery" is also a factor apparently.- Realignment talk not going away
Sure, FSU is easier to recruit against when it's "not SEC" but you can't treat that question in a vacuum. Because the question going forward is not "will they be SEC or not?" it's "Will they be SEC or B1G?" I don't know how much easier FSU will be to recruit against if they were B1G...- Dylan Disu
This. Kobe and Jordan are the only ones (maybe Tiger in golf) who cared about nothing, NOTHING except beating everyone else and being the alpha, and combined the God-given talent with the work ethic and drive to back it up. Durant may have the first two but as long as he's jacking off on twitter he'll never get there. Jordan and Kobe would never have been on twitter in their primes. Too busy making up the next perceived slight to provide motivation to destroy.- Realignment talk not going away
The 12-team setup creates a situation where there's no enticement for ND to join a conference, ever. UNTIL the B1G and SEC start to become AFC/NFC and schedule each other nearly exclusively, then ND will find it hard to get enough top level games. That might do it, or a revenue difference compelling enough that they need to join to stay competitive for coaches or paying players from TV money, which make no mistake will happen in the next 20 years.- Vehicle Registration After Sitting 10 Years
I had to do this for a project car recently. There's no penalty fees, you do have to sign an affidavit that you didn't drive it, and that you haven't received any tickets for lack of registration. The major PITA is that you can't do it online (or at least couldn't do it online when I did it for WilCo), you had to go into the Tax Assessor/Collector office and do it in person, which means burning a few hours sitting on your ass. At least now mine does online appointments to cut down on the wait. You'll want to bring your title. They may not need it but good to have it.- Realignment talk not going away
OK but even assuming that's true and yes as noted above there is plenty of "creative" accounting in many AD's to show breakeven or a loss every year...promotion/relegation only works if everyone agrees to do it. It's pretty obvious why SMU, UTSA, or UH would sign up for that. What motivation does Georgia, Texas, Ohio State or Bama have to sign up for a system where they could get relegated? I can't think of any.- Realignment talk not going away
It's fun to think about but also completely unworkable for college football. Most athletic departments outside the top 20 are breakeven at best and many actually require subsidy from the university to be solvent. Texas is far outside the norm here with the revenue we throw out of the AD. Since football is the #1 revenue generator, if a more marginal school was relegated, their revenues would tank even further. Imagine being an Iowa State or an Arizona St., or Purdue or Ole Miss and you string together a few bad years and relegate down one or two levels. All of the sudden your conference schedule is what we know today as MAC, Sunbelt, and AAC teams at best. Your TV revenues tank, your gate tanks, and now your whole AD is insolvent. You have to cut a ton of headcount out of the AD and, probably, cut a bunch of other sports too. Especially women's sports, and now you have a Title IX issue. It's a death spiral. In european soccer a rich owner plugs that gap and invests to move up. In CFB, the "owens" are the donors, much more fickle. Also worth pointing out: in this system how far down would Texas have relegated from 2010-now? 2 levels? 3? Interesting to think about- Origin of Covid-19
WSJ: Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a?mod=hp_lead_pos1- Texas AD Chris Del Conte
Purple alternative Texas uniforms confirmed!!!!!- Realignment talk not going away
- Realignment talk not going away
We'll see if UW and UO sign any meaningful GOR. Doubtful.- Deion Sanders "Coach Prime" Now At Colorado
Now imagine Deion was a white coach saying that- Realignment talk not going away
Not really, as more and more good teams get pulled into the major 2 conferences, there's fewer reasons for non-conf games. Go to 10 noncon, 3-4 permanent and 6-7 rotating. Blah blah NFL-lite, etc- Realignment talk not going away
This is interesting; source on the Amazon 15-year GOR request? - Realignment talk not going away
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