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give me in game dunks.

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Then this for Top 5:

Carter
Jordan
Nique
Dr J

You can argue over #5

Well that's a reason to enter the draft the next day.

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remember how much our population has grown. That’s a big factor in comparing eras’ talent levels

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There's a NFHS graph of High School sports participation through the decades:

1973: Approximately - 1 million boys played HS football
2003: Approximately - 1 million boys played HS football
2018: Approximately - 1 million boys played HS football

1993 had the same participation level as 1970 , around 930,000.

LINK

Football has always weeded out the casual athletes... Either football do yes or football do no...as Miyagi would say. Kids have more options today...%s have actually gone down.

A Rawlings fastback with the holdstar, exactly like this one:



Still have mine, buried somewhere in storage.

Got it in the early 80s.

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Its more a matter of TT has no other choice

Their QB went down with a season ending injury, their roster is extremely pricey and pretty stacked, and they paid this dude 5 mill and have no other viable options

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Yep...they bought this high-end sports car to win big now (its why they overpaid for Sorsby and are all-in on him) and now find that the NCAA, Conference and (Country?) are saying you can't have a good driver.

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Strip away the headlines, and the real question is: Will Texas Tech have a starting quarterback for 2026?

Depth chart is a transfer from Tulsa and a green redshirt freshman.

Right now, the narrative is about managing risk, navigating uncertainty, and keeping the season from unraveling before it starts.

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Texas Tech right now is the poster child for the perils of how the sport has abandoned program building for the Meals Ready to Eat blueprint, transfer stacked roster, year to year, last minute plug in play,, NIL, win now, fast and ready model....a team can turn into a ghost in the shell overnight.

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Matt Ryan in the 28-3 Super Bowl?

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You're saying Matt Ryan crumbled and lost the Super Bowl in the 2nd Half?

Second Half (Q3 & OT)

Completions/Attempts: 10–11

Passing Yards: 179 yards

Touchdowns: 2 (both in the 3rd quarter)

35-yard pass to Taylor Gabriel

6-yard screen pass to Tevin Coleman Heavy.com

Interceptions: 0

Passer Rating: 144.1 (career Super Bowl rating)

Geez, people WAY over-mythologize that game instead of the obvious, Shanahan got greedy, Falcons lost momentum, didn't run clock and Pats woke up. Its football, its not like Ryan was out there by himself or playing D against BB and Brady.

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How many of those games started at 9pm ET on a Friday night in Summer though?

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Yeah...that's a tough timeslot to draw 18-35 year old singles on a Friday night 6 pm West Coast.

Impressive #s...

But I guess having Scary Movie as your competition helps.

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They were both starting pitchers in the same game(s) against each other

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Uh...not each other, one pitched against Texas, a way better team and,as you saw a Dynasty in bloom.

All I know is on my 3rd try I got Bill Walsh and Joe Montana...

Considering they weren't all that in College my team only went 11-4 even with Willie Gualt, Peter Warrick and BO JACKSON.

Hakeem Nicks as my other WR didn't help.

Game would be more interesting if it rewarded and mined your knowledge of CFB history by not assigning number values to each player... So that you only find out at the end result...otherwise like a draft, you end up just default taking the highest value...unless you just wanted to see how Walsh and Montana would pan out in this College game.

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315,000 children as young as 10 were married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2021,

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Is this the stat to prove how many Muslims and Hindus we have in this Country?