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  1. Isn't if funny how the leftist always compare conservative voices to those of Nazi's, considering that most leftist and democrats want to limit free speech--as long as you say what they want you to say. Seems to me that the leftist and democrats are more in line with the National Socialist Workers Party. Having big companies squeal free speech, a national media that only provides one side of the story and uses propaganda hourly, making sure that union bosses are taken care of financially, allowing human experimentation (even if I support abortion--I understand where it is going), and making sure those in power--stay in power. Couldn't be more descriptive of the Democratic party--but then again, if you tell a lie long enough it somehow becomes the truth. SMFH IF.
    4 points
  2. Yea I too have noticed that when A&M lost by 28 it was harped on and I think single handedly kept them from the playoffs. If they had lost by 17 they probably get in but 28 scared the committee. Then bama beats Ohio st by 28 and we get to talk about how great bama is where as the same 28 points were more of an indication of how A&M wasn't playoff caliber. Funny how that works.
    4 points
  3. Hopefully she is down at GITMO in a straight jacket inside a padded cell on suicide watch .... her Miranda rights pinned to her chest, waiting on her arraignment date/time ....
    3 points
  4. Texas has its first commit of the Sark era. 4* WR Armani Winfield
    3 points
  5. You get the best of both worlds. You won a bowl game and avoided getting blown out again, and you can claim you were slighted for the rest of time.
    3 points
  6. Joe Biden to have 10-15k ARMED troops guarding the Inauguration. So much for banning firearms... I was pretty sure he was going to call all of the social workers in to talk down the bad guys... Hypocrisy from Democrats the next 4 years is going to make the next 4 years a freaking mess... These people will do nothing to unite us. They will do more and more to make the conservative American feel insignificant... I hope there is some healing that happens, but I predict ugliness.
    2 points
  7. PLAYOFF EXPANSION COULD BALANCE OUT COLLEGE FOOTBALL Opinion Article written by MavGrad99 College football has become too predictable over the past 20 years. You can name 6 teams any given year and likely score on all 4 playoff teams. This has devalued college football at its highest level. The topic now becomes, how do you fix it? Should you fix it? What are the risks? Let's start with the "should we fix this?" or the "Why?" Since the start of the "true champion" BCS National Championships, we have seen a monumental shift in power. That power has favored the SEC, Big 10, and ACC. Let's dive into the BCS era. Nick Saban figured out the BCS formula and used it to establish his Alabama team as an essential lock in the playoffs, and a huge portion of the BCS championship games. Other schools were forced to catch up. If any regular season SEC team managed to beat Alabama, it basically boosted their BCS formula rating so high that they were a lock. However, during that period, Nick Saban was been able to recruit nationwide essentially hand picking any player he wants to create some of the greatest collection of talent we have ever seen in college football. College football acknowledged that the BCS system was flawed and they must fix it! Phase 2 of the real college championships arrive. Let's have some influential football people and athletic directors from schools across the nation rank and anoint the 4 "best teams" to compete in our college playoff system. This won't hold any bias, they are reputable people. Despite many efforts by undefeated teams, they have been able to penetrate the college football playoff. This has been an exclusive playoff for half of college football, leaving the other half looking out at the Cinderella Ball from their basement feel inadequate and unequal to the rest of their "peers." The exclusiveness of the Playoff has now shifted all of college football's power to about 10 school leaving the rest trying to spend to catch up. Case and point 3 of why we need to expand the playoffs is this: recruiting. Recruiting is the lifeblood of college football. It is what makes programs who and what they are. Great teams usually recruit the best players from the high school ranks. Kids who have always won. Kids who will always want to win. In today's system, only 4 teams win any given year. If you look back through our short playoff history only 11 teams have made the dance. That is only 11 teams over 7 years... 11 teams have taken up 28 spots over 7 years. Let me repeat that in another way, 39% of the spots taken in the playoffs are by the same 11 teams. I decided to dig a little further into this, out of the top 100 2020 recruits, at least 60% of them have chosen a school that has made the CFB playoff. Yes, I am telling you over 60% of the top athletes are choosing schools that have finished in the top 4. That doesn't leave a lot of great recruits for everyone else does it? Now how to fix it? It's easy. Expansion. The method doesn't matter too much to me. The "top 8 teams" with all Power 5s represented works. We would have had Cincinatti, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, and Oregon (illegitimate P12 champ, but that is their business.) That is great football! That would also be 8 more teams sitting at the table. 16 at Large? We would add Georgia, Iowa St, Northwestern, BYU, Indiana, FLorida, Coastal Carolina, Louisiana, and Iowa to the mix. Sure, Iowa getting crushed by Bama would be horrible to watch, but BYU vs Ohio State? Sounds like it has the potential to be great? Add these 16 to the recruiting playing field and all of a sudden Nick Saban actually has to work to be good again. Dabo doesn't just urinate greatness. It also adds enough teams where regionalized recruiting can become a thing again likely resulting in less transfers. Currently, we can see a DFW kid go as far as Ohio State and Michigan. If Texas A&M or Texas have solid shots at making the playoff yearly, I believe we see that kid stay home. Going bigger also removes a lot of the bias in the selection committee. I believe 2020 is the perfect storm that exposed the bias and money grab of the NCAA Selection Committee. Making exceptions and not setting standards to enter the playoff allowed the perfect storm for Ohio State to get that preferential exemption into the playoff. Texas A&M who withstood a fantastic 11 game season got left out in the cold. While many will argue that Texas A&M should have been in over Notre Dame, Notre Dame also showed exceptional football over an 11-12 game season. You can't ignore that in comparison to Ohio State's fluffy cupcake 7 game schedule. Now for my final point. What are the risks? The risks would be simple. First, you would risk offending your money-laden Blue Blood schools. That is Ohio St, Alabama, Clemson, etc. Your regular 4 and their conferences would stand the most to lose. Without a guarantee of massive increased revenue and sustained reputation, they would oppose this. Secondly, your schools that get that "shot," make a mockery of it and not use the boost in revenue and reputation to improve their facilities, schedules, and recruiting. If you are going to give them a seat, you want them to strive to make it as nice as the rest. Finally, the NCAA's risk is having to admit that they have been wrong about college football for my entire lifetime and many years before it. They simply refuse to admit that they are not good at managing and dictating big money football in a fair manner that pleases all of the schools they supposedly represent. This is my call for change. I am not sure that this article, rant, etc. ever leaves Smoaky.com, but if it does, I hope it lands in the right hands and is read with the right eyes. Fix college football.
    2 points
  8. Very excited about this one! I know this kid well. He's a heck of a talent, but has a great attitude as well.
    2 points
  9. I'm pulling for Crosby because they have never won a Championship. Aledo has enough for now. Plus I think Crosby has had the much tougher playoff road. To beat 4 unbeaten teams who were ranked higher than Crosby is a story in itself. Aledo is good but they are not the Aledo of the past few years talent wise, this will be a good game and I'm hoping Crosby can bring home their first Championship. I'm pulling for the underdog in this one. Aledo can make the record books another day.
    2 points
  10. Give me a team of mostly 99-rating players and I will crush y'all on Madden!
    2 points
  11. Obama went and was gracious in greeting him in the Oval Office. And he got treated like he wasn't a citizen for 8 years and was attacked viciously and without end every step of the way. He's still the boogeyman for 'conservatives'. Don't act like Trump is being noble. He's being his normal petulant, childish, narcissistic self.
    2 points
  12. There will be more military troops in DC for Biden's "virtual inauguration" than there are in Iraq and Afghanistan. Barry enter esting
    2 points
  13. Maybe we should see the video. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/12/oregon-capitol-riot-mike-nearman/ What I see in the video is a guy leaving the building, like anyone would at the end of the day. Doesn't look like he held the door open for anyone, but I believe people opened it and maybe held it for him, considering I do that many times a day. As a (I know I am not allowed to use this word in the liberal state) gentlemen, I think it is polite to hold doors open for people, it doesn't matter whether they are male or female. I see the police kick everyone out, and it looks like they are about to shut the door, and then they all just turn and leave, allowing for the democratic party to use this instance to promote their lawless agenda. So after looking at the video and reading the stories, I am going to rate this story TOTALLY and give Barry 5 for spreading lies and deception. LOL
    2 points
  14. Yes, but none of them even graduated High-School, but they did pass the 8th grade so that moved up the list, a lot.
    2 points
  15. Can staffers possibly tweet under Nancy's twitter account? Just strange not to show your face for two days after calling for 25th Amendment and Impeachment all weekend. Even going on 60 minutes. Then go MIA for two work days. Not normal....or did you know that?
    2 points
  16. Anybody still got a VHS player to watch the old Cowboys Superbowl games? ....
    2 points
  17. Our relations with our allies will be normalized and much, much better, and our relations with our rivals (Russia, North Korea, and China) will once again come from a place of strength, not mealy mouthed subservience, like Trump with Kim Jung Un and Putin or destructive to our farmers with Xi. We won't smooch up to Israel but be respected, and we won't consider Iran to be more than they are but stand firm with them. We won't make Cuba ultra villains to try and win Florida. We will be fully staffed around the world unlike Trump who gutted the State Department. We will resume our place as the leader we should be. Everything will be better under qualified grownups in the Biden administration.
    2 points
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  20. I'm telling you dude. He's had a rough day and is trying to take it out on you. It's absolutely hilarious... In a game thread about Ohio State and Bama, he's still looking for some gotcha moment regarding A&M. Can you imagine having a team/fanbase own that much space in your head, completely rent-free?
    1 point
  21. I do and I also have a reel2reel so we can turn the games volume down and listen to some Boyz2Men and Backstreet Boys! Diana Ross was actually the halftime act.
    1 point
  22. Wetsu does not want history to ever be mentioned and does not believe it should ever be considered when debating the current season’s best teams and I totally get that, but no matter what you may want it doesn’t mean that’s what you’ll get. In the situation with A&M missing the CFP you almost have to believe A&M’s lack of ever really winning much of anything historically had to play into the committee’s decision somewhat. We may never know for sure exactly how they came to their decision, but I would not be surprised if A&M’s lack of skins on the wall hurt their chances. These are still people making these decisions not a completely unbiased algorithm that doesn’t know Team A’s overall program accomplishments versus Team B’s. It’s just the way it is. History matters.
    1 point
  23. Still missing.....second day in a row? I guess nothing important is going on this week
    1 point
  24. How come when they burned Portland it was peaceful protestors? now these folks are rioters
    1 point
  25. 60% of Bama’s explosiveness would be an improvement - typed by a Horns fan.
    1 point
  26. You know where I fall in this. A&M was every bit as good as Notre Dame and I don’t think Ohio State should have qualified despite probably having a top 4 team in talent. Expand to 8 or 16 and make college football post season fun to watch again
    1 point
  27. IMO this is where history comes into play.
    1 point
  28. It's not too late for the B1G to change the rules to "lowest score wins".
    1 point
  29. I can see Sark using Whittington to “go in motion” a lot. Maybe even Dixon some, like Surratt did with him a lot in Carthage.
    1 point
  30. Aggies and Longhorns can finally come together again and celebrate.
    1 point
  31. There are talks all over socialist media about UFOs landing and bigfoot being sighted.....you honestly believe ANYTHING from any of them????
    1 point
  32. Being a stud at one level does not always translate being a stud at the next level. As you allude to here, there are many variables that lends itself to further success/non success.
    1 point
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