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1. Brady Cook, Missouri

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Undrafted, just FYI

Saw it. As others have indicated, Robert Pattinson was fantastic, but I feel like there’s a more focused version of this story lying on the cutting room floor. That potential story may have been a better sci-fi movie by definition, but frankly I’ve seen plenty of children’s tv shows that explore the “uh oh, I’ve made too many multiples of myself and they’re getting out-of-hand” plotline and don’t think it would have been very interesting here. What you end up with was somewhat scattered in tone and felt a lot like “hitchhikers guide to the galaxy” (or at least my annoying memory of that movie). All that said, I think each of the individual concepts were pretty well-executed with the limited timeframe they ended up having. Mickey 18, love triangle, the aliens, the caricature president, the former friend and the loan shark, even “sauce” (?) were each pretty entertaining concepts in their own right, even if they were picked up and dropped frenetically. Won’t be re-watching at home but worth the trip to the theatre. B+.

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He's obviously not the greatest coach but can anyone right now say there's a coach out there that LSU could just go get who would be a couple of levels better?

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This is the answer. Panicking over 9-10 win seasons and sacrificing all program stability because you want 11-12 win seasons is how you become Nebraska.

Texas certainly had a comparatively easy SEC schedule. Please provide a single instance out of the thousands of times this has mentioned, where a Texas fan has disagreed with this concept. More importantly, can anyone provide a coherent explanation as to why Sankey or the other powers-that-be would do this intentionally?

Note that intentionally giving Texas an easy schedule would logically affect every single other teams’ schedule, thereby making them more difficult, including teams like UGA and Bama which are traditionally associated with such conspiracy theories. In any case, there is no logical brand enhancement for the SEC afforded by Texas coming in and getting a walk-through. While I would postulate that it doesn’t matter, if anything it hurts the SEC simply by way of more deviation from the traditional results than need be.

I would argue that, in reality, this is due to the “band-aid” schedule while we await divisions/pods in 2026. For these two years without divisions, the SEC was focused on maintaining rivalry games and marquee matchups amongst traditional SEC teams in order to optimize brand stability during these bridge years. Texas and Oklahoma generally got the games left over - and in a result that should surprise no one, the teams left available after the scheduling of such rivalry games and marquee matchups did indeed include the likes of Kentucky, Mississippi State, Vanderbilt, etc. Objectively, that is probably what happened. In fact, take a look at the teams’ schedules - you won’t find a single common opponent, which strongly suggests they were the final two teams to have their schedules determined and were receiving the leftovers.

From there, why was Texas’ schedule easier than oklahomas? Well look at the schedules and you’ll find that on paper they were actually somewhat similar. OK played bama; Texas played Georgia. OK played ole Miss; Texas played A&M. Texas played 2 teams that were within a game of .500 last year (UF, UK), and OK played two similarly situated teams in terms of 2023 records (SC, Auburn). After their matchup against eachother, that really just leaves Oklahoma having a more difficult schedule in having to play Tennessee and Mizzou while Texas played Vanderbilt and MSU. At this point we’re talking about two games and frankly that’s just probably how the scheduling worked best.

No one disagrees with the notion of the easy schedule, and it takes substantial mental gymnastics to come to the conclusion that it was out of favoritism.

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It’s cajunbama, he made an 11 on his ACT and couldn’t get into LSU so he went to a vo-tech in Tangipahoa Parish. He now lives in a shitty single wide with his methed out mom

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Ya know in this economy I’m still gonna mark that off as a successful man, maybe room to grow ya feel

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Its to help Texas. Sankey handed Texas a SEC Title Berth with last years schedule and decided to do the same this year.

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No dispute over Texas having an easy schedule in 2024, that’s not even the point here. Point is that next year will be boring, if not for sec fans then for the casual viewer

Biggest thing no bama fan wants to admit is the lack of the “eye test.” For the past decade almost, it really hasn’t mattered who bama lost to cuz “I just feel like bama is one of the best X teams.” They hired a terrible coach and the “eye test” is already over. People are arguing about all these macro-CFB concepts when literally that’s all that’s changed.

And it’s not changing back

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Perfect record so far

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Heh

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How about a link to an X post?

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There was never an X post for OP to link. In any case, throughout all of these “leaks” that bama was in, they’re still +560 on FanDuel to make it in, while SMU is -1000. Sorry.

(Double post)