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SIBoiler2 said:
My wife's baby brother is 60. He's a contractor working in the aviation industry abd has lived in Taiwan for ten years. He married a girl in her mid-30s. While battling cancer he became a father for the first time. He is in remission and his son just turned one. He owns a house in Pensacola and one at Tecumseh Bend. The intent is to be living back her by summer.
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That’s awesome, hope he recovers well!
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I come to bury the playoffs, not to praise them

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nick614 said:
With that said, Oregon did get screwed with the seeding because Ohio State, Oregon and Texas are the 3 best teams in the country after UGA lost their QB.

Oregon should have had Penn St's easy draw of playing Boise St in their first game.
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Yes, the seeding is what the issue is. Now I am fine with giving conference champs a bye, nothing wrong with making a conference championship mean something. But I would adjust the seeding so the seeding doesn't mean the ones with the bye are the top 4 seeds. Yeah, that may mean some of your top seeds play the first round, but then you get to the second round and it all makes sense and you may have Oregon then playing a Boise State, both with a first round bye. Nothing says you can't have two teams with first round byes play each other in their first game.

Or maybe just not lock in the second round match ups until the first round is done and then basically reseed after the first round. There are definitely plenty of options.
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Purdue79fan said:
We have arguably more talent than the 2018-19 elite 8 team which won a share of the Big Ten title.
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Overall collection of talent I could agree with that. We don’t haven’t a carsen type on our team but we do have a good system in place with solid players. I may be underestimating us but the blowout losses have me wondering how big ten play will go.
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Oregon was lucky to beat OSU the first time. OSU lost their starting TE and LT in the game, had 2 turnovers and had a terrible OPI called on Smith on the last drive and still almost won the game.

The second game played out with a more normal game script with no injuries and OSU cruised to the win. OSU was always the better team.

With that said, Oregon did get screwed with the seeding because Ohio State, Oregon and Texas are the 3 best teams in the country after UGA lost their QB.

Oregon should have had Penn St's easy draw of playing Boise St in their first game.
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Gene Keady was underpaid

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Smokestack91 said:
Purdue Salaries (1987) - found this from the Exponent in 1987 while I was looking for something else. A decent salary back then, but basketball coaches have come a long way since. To think that Gene made less than Fred Akers and significantly less than Steven Beering! I imagine that ratio for basketball coaches:college presidents has now flipped (and then some) for major conference schools. Also, love the ad to watch the Purdue-Louisville football game at Quincey's. That was my first football game as a student. We ended up tying the Howard Schnellenberger coached team.
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Nick Saban was highly underpaid tbh. The amount of kids who enrolled after Bamas success and the money that was brought in…he should have been paid a lot more!
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Fighter of the Nightman said:
That’s why it’s still into pick an arbitrary cutoff, you always need context. But I’ll say this … since Underwood got his two seasons to rebuild Groce’s mess and finally got his guys in there (2019-20), Purdue and Illinois have easily been the two best programs overall, and they both appear to be in very stable and healthy spots with the coaching staffs they have in place.

If you look at the top 2 spots in the regular season standings and the top 2 in the BTT since then, you see more Purdue and Illini than anyone else, and our programs very easily have the best overall records, too.

2020 RS: WISC, MSU, UMD (all tied)
2020 BTT: N/A

2021 RS: MICH, ILL
2021 BTT: ILL, OSU

2022 RS: ILL, WISC, PUR
2022 BTT: IOWA, PUR

2023 RS: PUR, IND, NU
2023 BTT: PUR, PSU

2024 RS: PUR, ILL
2024 BTT: ILL, WISC
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Yes for sure. Not debating that!

So far, looking like Illinois is better built this year (I hate admitting it 😂)
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