Gunga Din

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when was the last time you recall a player having academic eligibility issues? Been a long time right? You used to read stories all the time of someone not making grades or needing to do work in the spring/summer sessions to be eligible in the fall. I can't tell you the last time I recall a player on any team I follow having academic issues. Not sure what to make of it, but it's definitely noticeable, and I don't think college athletes just all the sudden became better students once they started making a lot of NIL money,

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Several reasons...

First of all, the academic support stuff is ridiculous. People walk you to class. Note takers take notes for you in class. Tutors. Study Halls. Special testing conditions if requested.

And most of all bs majors that are not challenging.

At OU all the players are in Human Relations or Multidisciplinary Studies. Multidisciplinary Studies allows athletes to design a program of stuff that are the easiest classes on campus. Ironically, the other type of Multidisciplinary students are the brightest kids on campus who choose to sample the most rigorous stuff on campus in order to get into Med school.

At Texas, about 50% of Men's football and basketball players major in "Physical Culture and Sports" which is a hollowed out PE program combined with some social studies. Most of the rest of them are in some kind of Communications program.

All schools do something like this. Even Stanford has a program for their ball players. While many Stanford players are in legit majors. Their football/basketball major is called Science, Tech and Society.

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The defense is good enough to win a weird game.

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OUs most important defensive player is out right now...

New Mexico had guys running wide open in the secondary and they kept dropping passes or getting over thrown. They struggled containing a fast QB on some of the plays like when they gave up a 3rd and 21 scramble.

We are trying to convince ourselves that we have an "elite" defense because that is the only hopium we have left.... but I think personnel wise they are maybe just a little bit above average for the SEC... they only look elite when Brent guesses right with his calls.

I hope I'm wrong... but I'm afraid Georgia offense is going to be able to get the best of them...and of course OU's offense won't be able to help the defense much... which will compound the issue.

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The reason Arch had time was because Patricia was only rushing 3...pitiful. the name is fitting for him...the ultimate pussy.

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I'm still convinced that the heat got to Ohio State's defense and when they didn't get off the field on that first 4th and 9... they just finally wilted.

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I gotta say, running for governor of a Deep South state on a platform of, "frick everything else, the top priority of my administration will be to ensure we have a winning college football team," is so obvious that I can't believe no one else has ever tried it before.

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Huey P Long basically tried to coach the team at LSU...

I kind of like the tradition behind all this for Louisiana Governors...

Hopefully Tater and his staff are coming up with a clever response if Ole Miss wins.

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The Lobos of New America are a team to reckon with.

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They only use English in New America...

They are the Wolves now...

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I don't understand why these fanbases are so stressed thinking they have no chance to make the playoff now. All Oklahoma and Oregon have to do is go 8 - 1 in SEC/Big 10 conference play to make the playoff. Unlike the old days that early loss isn't a death sentence. The committee won't punish an SEC or Big 10 team for getting a 3rd loss in their championship game

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We (OU) are at the Offense store shopping for an offense as we speak.

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I knew the history because I’m a history buff.

I think the hype video was kind of cool in a way because this rivalry is rooted in real blood. American on American blood. I can’t think of another college football rivalry rooted in real hatred.

As a history guy maybe that hype video elevated the rivalry for those who didn’t know the history behind it.

But you put a video like that out you’d better deliver and Kansas didn’t.

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I totally agree. Drink should embrace the history mainly because on the Mizzou end. They got both sides covered. The Missouri Bushwackers who burned Lawrence... Confederate... The Missouri Tigers Home Guard were Union. Mizzou's library was used as a prison for confederates. Boone county outside of Columbia. A hotbed for the confederacy.

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I have good memories, yes.

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I've not been to a game at Auburn...

But it was really weird how much the town and campus reminded me of Stillwater, OK in terms of look and vibe.

Auburn did have a few more upscale places to eat than Stillwater though. Most people in Stillwater will go ahead and drive to Tulsa or OKC for fancy dinners so Stilly mostly caters to college kids only.

I always give points to college towns who still have options for adults. And Auburn is strong there IMO.

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Kind of with you. I didn't think much of it or that it was really meant to be taken seriously.

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Whatever it was... I freakin' loved it. The history behind Bleeding Kansas and Missouri is what makes that rivalry unique. And it is the one thing that is fascinating about it. Missouri should embrace it.

I said this in another thread but the irony of it all is that Columbia and the University of Missouri were a Union stronghold in the middle of one of the most pro southern areas of the entire state of Missouri (Little Dixie)...

The freakin' library at Mizzou was used to house confederate prisoners.

The University of Kansas literally was built out of the ashes of the Quantrill raid.

It is history. And it is the most incredible backstory of any college football rivalry there is. Nothing else is even close. And without that backstory... this rivalry doesn't get any traction outside of Kansas and Missouri.

Drink should realize that Missouri was the good guys as well as the bad guys back then. No matter which side you were on.

And for all you Confederates out there... The Lecompton government in Kansas was on your side. They gave it a good try for your cause to bring in Kansas as a slave state.

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Missouri tried to straddle the frickin fence.

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Columbia and the University of Missouri were definitely Yankees. They even housed confederate prisoners in the University Library....

But Missouri's T-shirters of that era were for sure rebels.

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We tried to tell you.

Hell, Josey Wales tried to tell y'all.

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The Missouri Tiger Home Guard was all Yankees too though...



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