Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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jave36 said:
They are where they are because their conference is super top heavy, so one or two good games against decent teams usually means you beat two playoff teams. The committee doesn't care. Penn state and Indiana are playoff teams whether or not we agree they should be.
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Yeah, I don’t get the arguing if Indiana deserves to be in the playoffs or not . Any Big 10 or SEC team finishes the season with only 1 loss will be in the playoffs
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
For a long time in college football any regular season loss eliminated you from competing for a national title so I don't think the environments this December will be that much better than regular season environments like say when we played Bama. We'll face as intense an environment at Ohio State as we did at Georgia this year. We just need to sustain the effort we played with in the first quarter that game for 4 quarters.

I'm not scared to go on the road with this team. I think they're championship caliber. And championship teams win on the road in tough conditions.
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Neyland is legit a 5-7 point advantage. I want that.
 
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jave36 said:
They are where they are because their conference is super top heavy, so one or two good games against decent teams usually means you beat two playoff teams. The committee doesn't care. Penn state and Indiana are playoff teams whether or not we agree they should be.
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FTR, I said we beat Bama and Ohio beat Penn State. I didn’t discount the latter. And Ohio lost to a 6-6 team at home, and we did on the road.

Where are all the articles about Bama and Ohio just not having playoff offenses. 3 points against Okie? 7 points against Michigan? C’mon! They deserve the handwringing and “concern” we had to endure.
 
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engineerVOL said:
Gotta re-seed after Round 1.
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For sure. Hopefully they do it next season but I doubt it. I love the expanded playoffs thought it should have happened sooner, but 12 didn’t make much sense to me.

I even agree that conference champs should be auto-bids but in what world does a 3 loss ACC team that’s best wins were NCstate, VT and Pitt deserve a first round bye? And on top of that could end up playing the 12 seed in the semi’s
 
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Checker_the_Shire said:
I got into it with some family and close friends, even made myself look like an ass with a comment I made to a very close friend of mine. So I did some soul searching and decided to take a lot of time off from anything political. Which has honestly been a very positive experience. I even took a further step, not because of politics but more so to see if I can better myself further, and deleted all social media. That was an even better, more positive experience. I’m glad to see you’ve taken some steps towards finding that peace as well and I hope it works out.

Also, just for laughs, now anytime someone sends me something political, I send them this gem and explain that this is my current thought process:
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Good approach. In my case, this wasn’t the result of any discussion. My family joined me at my house to celebrate my birthday in October. Two scant weeks before Election Day. Having a good time enjoying my cigars, fajitas and Gentleman’s Jack. Early voting came up and it was revealed that I was the only one at the table who had exercised my freedom to vote for the WRONG CANDIDATE. Daughter was visually disappointed. Flash forward to the morning after Election Day and I haven’t discussed the previous night…experience from 2016. Wife isn’t happy and emphasized that I shouldn’t call my daughter because she’s very upset…”can’t stop crying.” I asked “Over this?” and she says “Yes…you don’t understand what this means for women.” In a matter of days, she changes the beneficiary of her insurance from me to my stepdaughter’s son and switches her bank accounts (which she had resisted doing even after I urged it for years). Both moves seemed designed for punitive effect. That night ended with her telling me she loved me even tho I’m racist. I didn’t raise her to be a robot and I reminded her of that factoid. But respect for other views didn’t translate in her rearing apparently and now we’re at this ridiculous crossroads. I started this post hours ago and just completed it due to a spirited debate with my spouse that had obviously built up. Ended it with an honest question. “We’ve known each other 10 years…do you seriously believe I would do anything to harm women.” Her response…”Not knowingly.” Nice ending point.
 
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headhunter15 said:
Wow…were defenses that good or have offenses been figured out?
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In our case...nobody has "figured us out"...what they have done is do what they can to aggravate, and then hope we screw it up, which we have done at an extremely high rate. We could easily be scoring 40+ a game with better execution.

But...defenses across the league have gotten better as a whole, and a better defense obviously allows less points.

We have had extremely bad growing pains...our ppg will go up as we work our way through those.

We are always going to score less points when facing a very talented and well coached defense, especially on the road when crowd noise adds to the defensive pressure...but the plays are literally always there, they are just at a premium in those situations.

The better our QB gets...the more of those nuggets will be dug out.
 
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butchna said:
Good approach. In my case, this wasn’t the result of any discussion. My family joined me at my house to celebrate my birthday in October. Two scant weeks before Election Day. Having a good time enjoying my cigars, fajitas and Gentleman’s Jack. Early voting came up and it was revealed that I was the only one at the table who had exercised my freedom to vote for the WRONG CANDIDATE. Daughter was visually disappointed. Flash forward to the morning after Election Day and I haven’t discussed the previous night…experience from 2016. Wife isn’t happy and emphasized that I shouldn’t call my daughter because she’s very upset…”can’t stop crying.” I asked “Over this?” and she says “Yes…you don’t understand what this means for women.” In a matter of days, she changes the beneficiary of her insurance from me to my stepdaughter’s son and switches her bank accounts (which she had resisted doing even after I urged it for years). Both moves seemed designed for punitive effect. That night ended with her telling me she loved me even tho I’m racist. I didn’t raise her to be a robot and I reminded her of that factoid. But respect for other views didn’t translate in her rearing apparently and now we’re at this ridiculous crossroads. I started this post hours ago and just completed it due to a spirited debate with my spouse that had obviously built up. Ended it with an honest question. “We’ve known each other 10 years…do you seriously believe I would do anything to harm women.” Her response…”Not knowingly.” Nice ending point.
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What they have done to us is pure evil.
 
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Lowkey though, when Pittman retires I hope we hire him as an analyst to help Elarbee, especially with recruiting. That’s basically what Jerry Kill did, retired from nmsu and went to vandy as an analyst
 
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butchna said:
Good approach. In my case, this wasn’t the result of any discussion. My family joined me at my house to celebrate my birthday in October. Two scant weeks before Election Day. Having a good time enjoying my cigars, fajitas and Gentleman’s Jack. Early voting came up and it was revealed that I was the only one at the table who had exercised my freedom to vote for the WRONG CANDIDATE. Daughter was visually disappointed. Flash forward to the morning after Election Day and I haven’t discussed the previous night…experience from 2016. Wife isn’t happy and emphasized that I shouldn’t call my daughter because she’s very upset…”can’t stop crying.” I asked “Over this?” and she says “Yes…you don’t understand what this means for women.” In a matter of days, she changes the beneficiary of her insurance from me to my stepdaughter’s son and switches her bank accounts (which she had resisted doing even after I urged it for years). Both moves seemed designed for punitive effect. That night ended with her telling me she loved me even tho I’m racist. I didn’t raise her to be a robot and I reminded her of that factoid. But respect for other views didn’t translate in her rearing apparently and now we’re at this ridiculous crossroads. I started this post hours ago and just completed it due to a spirited debate with my spouse that had obviously built up. Ended it with an honest question. “We’ve known each other 10 years…do you seriously believe I would do anything to harm women.” Her response…”Not knowingly.” Nice ending point.
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Sorry, you're going through this.

Similar thing happened with my brother. It's amazing how intolerant some can be. I was told the same thing. What's amazing to me, and I expressed this, is neither candidate had a moral high ground and to place one over the other was laughable. His response, "you've been watching too much fox news." I do blame the media here. When they portray someone for 12 years one way, it does have an effect.

Hopefully, in time, when things really never change, things will return to normal.
 
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butchna said:
Good approach. In my case, this wasn’t the result of any discussion. My family joined me at my house to celebrate my birthday in October. Two scant weeks before Election Day. Having a good time enjoying my cigars, fajitas and Gentleman’s Jack. Early voting came up and it was revealed that I was the only one at the table who had exercised my freedom to vote for the WRONG CANDIDATE. Daughter was visually disappointed. Flash forward to the morning after Election Day and I haven’t discussed the previous night…experience from 2016. Wife isn’t happy and emphasized that I shouldn’t call my daughter because she’s very upset…”can’t stop crying.” I asked “Over this?” and she says “Yes…you don’t understand what this means for women.” In a matter of days, she changes the beneficiary of her insurance from me to my stepdaughter’s son and switches her bank accounts (which she had resisted doing even after I urged it for years). Both moves seemed designed for punitive effect. That night ended with her telling me she loved me even tho I’m racist. I didn’t raise her to be a robot and I reminded her of that factoid. But respect for other views didn’t translate in her rearing apparently and now we’re at this ridiculous crossroads. I started this post hours ago and just completed it due to a spirited debate with my spouse that had obviously built up. Ended it with an honest question. “We’ve known each other 10 years…do you seriously believe I would do anything to harm women.” Her response…”Not knowingly.” Nice ending point.
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I can empathize Butchna, to some degree. My wife and her friends are all conservative. While I agree with your daughter's sentiment about women's rights. That's clearly not what this is about.

Cant imagine how that must feel to have petty reactions done over something that really is quite unimportant, in the grand scheme.

Here's a question I pose to everyone, including liberals. Why, did Dems lose to a person with those other perceived qualities?

My sister basically fosters three hispanic teenagers. Their Mom died early on.

Ill just say this. If Dems want to place blame, they should look in mirror. People had a choice. If they chose THIS over THAT? And by THEY I mean Americans, everyone. Hispanic, Black, White, young, old. They chose. That's a fact.

That should give her an indication that despite alll the things, people care more about other things, and, here we are.

Laud you for raising her to think independently. I'm trying to do the same. Just want my kids to have their moral boundaries, and arrive to their own conclusion.

Hopefully she will come around brother. Stay strong. Go enjoy your sippin' whiskey.
 
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