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I come to bury the playoffs, not to praise them

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Born Boiler said:
Oregon should be sitting home right now with the national championship trophy after going 13-0 while all the other alleged contenders were taking on losses.

That trophy was true through a good many of our lifetimes, before colleges went pro. The best team with the best record got the national title. Pretenders had to shut up because they hadn’t put up, even when given one last bowl showdown.

No way do 12 college football teams deserve a shot at the national championship after playing 12-game seasons plus conference final exams. That plain sucks. It’s more watered-down than the Titanic. Or the players’ academic transcripts.

What do you tell a team with two black eyes? Nothing. They’ve already been told twice. Anyone with more than one loss deserves no more than bowling in their wife-beater shirts. Three? Slink on to sweet home, Alabama. Pay back your NIL.

Oregon won every time out while Ohio State was gagging twice, including its big league showdown with the Ducks and a massive choke against a five-time loser, yet one rematch win by the Buckeyes over the understandably flat Ducks erased all that. Should an unbeaten team have to face an already conquered victim, a two-loss conference opponent, in the quarterfinal round of some damned playoffs? Hell no.

Want playoffs? Give the unbeaten Big Ten champion a mulligan to make amends for a single loss, fluke or not. Consolation bracket, anyone? Just like the playoffs are now, that would be only fair. And just fair.
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And should we baseball fans return to 1968 and just have a world series? No playoffs? No NCAA tournament? No high school state tournaments? Oregon has their trophy. The one they deserve.
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Harris botches the Pledge of Allegiance!

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bonefish1 said:
No. Just a lack of basic intelligence. But now that you mention it. She did fit the criteria Joe laid out for his VP candidate before he even started vetting anyone. So, yeh, definitely a DEI hire, by definition.
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It's funny that you mention basic intelligence. There was once a vice president that could not spell potato in front of children on the national media stage. He was corrected by an elementary school student on national TV.
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IU did not deserve to be in CFP. Great article by USA Today

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Poprudy said:
Yeah, he played well vs. most of the lower tier teams on their schedule. I wouldn't give the ACL tear an excuse when losing to better teams/programs.

I didn't find anything confirming when the actual tear took place or how long he's had it.

Oregon proves the point that good teams can win against top teams but also get manhandled vs those same teams. IU not so much......
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He has torn it 3 times, most recently in august. In 2017 sindelar played a substantial part of the season on a torn acl and played some of his best football. Broc Thompson played on a shredded knee only to be bowl game mvp and then retired.

All are remarkable feats but indiana is making this out to be like they were handicapped. They still had a stellar performance from him and no one would have even known he was hurt. His coaches didn’t even know he kept it from them.
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IU did not deserve to be in CFP. Great article by USA Today

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POTFHBTFU said:
He played the whole season with a torn all and was second team all big ten. Don’t pretend like he was handicapped in their game.
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Yeah, he played well vs. most of the lower tier teams on their schedule. I wouldn't give the ACL tear an excuse when losing to better teams/programs.

I didn't find anything confirming when the actual tear took place or how long he's had it.

Oregon proves the point that good teams can win against top teams but also get manhandled vs those same teams. IU not so much......
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Potential assassination attempt on Trump and 35 other government officials

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Riveting said:
Maybe they hired him as an informant to report on Catholic traditionalists, thinking he could blend in?
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you know there has been so much going on that has been dropped...this is probably another unless John Kennedy has more info that has not been release. We know there were questions about the election that were dropped. We know there was NEVER any data to suggest the shot would stop transmission of the Chinese released Covid....and the "gain of function" denied by Fauci. We know the deaths of the Kennedy's has been sealed. We never did hear more on the 2017 Las Vegas music concert shooting. We know there were a lot of unusual circumstances in Epstein's death and still have not seen the full release of visitors. Did we learn why the ineptitude in the first Trump assassination attempt and has anyone been held accountable? Naturally there have been some quick answers that may not suffice on some of these things, but the overall picture is there is a LOT we don't know for a variety of reasons. Where is the money ending up that is sent to Ukraine? How do so many politicians get so rich well above their salary? Why was Hunter's laptop info not made public? What "severe" punishment happened as a result of the deliberate lies to the public from media and those on government payroll?

Catholic traditionist are just one of many made up of certain demographics denigrated lately. ;)
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Lost members

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purduedavie said:
I thought 57-58, you still live in the region?
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Yep unfortunately still here. Currently trying to settle my wife’s mother’s estate. She had a trust for whatever reason as her assets were very small. We are getting our stuff organized so our kids don’t have to go through what my wife is doing now. Unless you have over 7 million in assets don’t get a trust. They are not worth the money these attorneys charge for them.
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Lost members

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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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