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re: OU/Ole Miss - Let me get this straight
Posted by ouflak on 11/14/26 at 10:23 am to armtackledawg
What's ironic is that we've lost our last two home games (in front of our typical sold out crowds). If I was Ole Miss, I would done everything I can to keep that pattern going.
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Literally goes against everything Tolkien wrote about them.
Not to defend RoP which has gone beyond off-the-rails in so many ways that it shouldn't be considered in any serious conversation about the Tolkien universe. But Tolkien did mention that there were orc spies that worked with/for both elves and men to leak all sorts of key information. Presumably this was reliable intel and consistently available. And there are passages where orcs are openly showing their disdain for Sauron, not even bothering to hide it, even right there in the presence of the Eye. Before Sauron made his return, they had their own kingdoms and even fought wars against each other. They weren't opposed to making alliances with dwarves.
Now I think the idea of a 'defecting' orc is absurd. But I could see an orc spy who had firmly long-term established relations with elves and men, and despised Sauron, for whatever reasons some orcs apparently did despise Sauron, being a plausible character. I cannot see an orc 'defecting' though. That idea demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of the Tolkien universe.
Even when we have good games that we win, we still manage to find ways to *NOT* score. I've never seen anything like this kind of a season full of that trait by any team at any time in my life.
This happens a lot in the Star Trek franchise. I never minded it. Some of the range of these actors is impressive.
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Everyone has to know that Henry and Jimmy were involved in killing Billy right if they somehow knew Tommy did it?
Yes the mafia knew.
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Why didn't Henry and Jimmy get taken out as well?
Jimmy made the mafia family a lot of money. That's one very good reason for them to keep him around. Henry was small potatos in comparison, wasn't himself made, and was only kind of just hanging around the event - not directly participating the killing - so he didn't really fall under that particular rule.
re: Should the SEC get Okie St?
Posted by ouflak on 10/27/26 at 1:11 pm to Tigers Win Again
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...SMU or TCU since they would be in a recruiting hotbed and still reach the media markets of Oklahoma.
Nobody in Oklahoma knows or cares anything about SMU or TCU unless they happen to be alumni who also, rarely, happen to be diehard fans and active boosters. You could live your whole life living and searching throughout the state before you happened upon any of those few.
OU out recruits those schools in their backyards. Easily.
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Downvote for no
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We need to pad the low end of the conference…
No we don't. But even if we wanted to, there are several programs right smack in the SEC footprint that bring a hell of a lot more.
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With the 24 team playoff conference (championship?)s are gone anyway….
This is not an explicitly done deal as of this post, as far as I'm aware. Even so, Oklahoma State makes no difference to that equation. Somebody from the SEC is going to make the playoffs, and probably several somebodies from the SEC are in it, no matter what their record, pretty much every year. You already know why.
If they understand that if they can get this to become a real thing, that many many others around the nation - of all sorts of political persuasions - will be doing the same thing in their local and regional courts, then I guess they can give it a shot. But they may not be too happy with that brave new world they've instigated. Not everybody thinks like they do, or will ever be made to so.
I wonder what strain this would put on the Supreme Court to have so many diametrically opposed rulings flooding onto their dockets.
I wonder what strain this would put on the Supreme Court to have so many diametrically opposed rulings flooding onto their dockets.
re: Name The best character whose profession is actor/actress In the Movies.
Posted by ouflak on 10/24/26 at 4:02 pm to CU_Tigers4life
Galaxy Quest - pretty much all of them from the main in-film cast were great. But Weaver, Allen and Rickman really stood out.
re: Name The best character whose profession is actor/actress In the Movies.
Posted by ouflak on 10/23/26 at 12:26 pm to CU_Tigers4life
I guess I have to mention Postcards From the Edge based on the book by Carrie Fisher. I liked both the book and the movie, and Merryl Streep was surprisingly (to me) excellent in the role.
re: The Batman 2 was supposed to release today 10/02/26
Posted by ouflak on 10/3/26 at 4:54 am to saintsfan92612
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We really gonna have a Supergirl movie, 2 Superman movies, a Lantern show, a Clayface movie, a Creature Commandos show, a Deathstroke and Bane movie, a Peacemaker show, (and Blue Beetle is apparently canon) all before a Batman movie in this universe?
Is it safe to assume that Penguin was *not* canon?
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I'm not buying the UK Government releasing five terrorists on bond 24 hours after being caught in the middle of a terrorist attack.
We have literally stripped a native-born citizen of their citizenship and refused to let them re-enter the country. And that was just for joining a terrorist group, not actually being proven to have done anything. If this lot had been caught in the middle of an actual terrorist attack, from the moment they were in custody they wouldn't feel a drop of typical English rain on their faces ever again.
re: when did you become a fan?
Posted by ouflak on 9/25/26 at 1:49 am to thelargestfan
I was literally born on campus (University Hospital, OKC). Both my parents were big fans. One of my earliest memories is attending a game.
re: Is Auburn a fun road trip?
Posted by ouflak on 9/12/26 at 7:44 am to Go Go Gata
I have good memories, yes.
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...every member institution should be just as alarmed about this as we are. This entire conference will continue to play second fiddle to the B1G as long as Sankey is at the helm.
Yep, we all know where the problem is. The solution should have been implemented years ago.
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Did Sankey negotiate ours?
Yes (but it was also approved by the then member Presidents/regents as well, so he's not totally alone in blame).
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Given what was at stake for the Tigers, the result should not come as a surprise. According to the school's filing with the NCAA, of its athletic department's $223.5 million in total revenue for fiscal year 2025, nearly a third was tied to its membership in the SEC, including $53.1 million from media rights and $16.4 million in conference distributions. The $69.5 million total topped the $65.7 million the athletic department received in donations and its $53.6 million in ticket sales. No other revenue stream exceeded $11 million
And that is less than what Rutgers brought in from their 2025 B1G distributions.
That fact alone tells you who should Really be expelled.
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Do the math.
The math is very clearly not in the SEC's favor, and will not be for years to come. I do blame Sankey for a lot on that, and justifiably so. But didn't the University Presidents/Regents have to approve that nonsense media contract? As soon as he presented that to them, their very next action should have been a vote-of-no-confidence. It should never have gone farther than that.
All we can hope now is that Sankey gets the boot and the lesson is learned.
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If there is no vote tomorrow, Sankey is gone.
Wonderful news if true. And long overdue. But I suspect life just isn't going to work out so conveniently as that.
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There's a common opinion here that because the SEC is a "voluntary" association, they can make and enforce any rule as they see fit without pushback from the courts.
Can you imagine the mayhem if that were actually true? Corporations around the country would immediately form and join their own 'volunteer' associations overnight, and then make whatever rules they like regardless of anti-trust laws, labor laws, interstate commerce, any state laws, etc.... If ever challenged, they would just cite the 1st Amendment 'Right of Association' as reason to just print money and get away with literally any behavior imaginable without any restraint.
Sorry Sankey, the SEC is not sovereign from the United States. If the NCAA and the Universities have to follow the laws of the land, the SEC does too.
re: tOfficial Fire Greg Sankey thread
Posted by ouflak on 9/9/26 at 6:43 am to STATEofMIND
I'm thinking a Goodfellas mobster style ending for Sankey. He idiotically tries to expel a school for embarrassing himself badly in front of the entire CFB nation with that lousy media contract, bumbling court appearance hypocrisy, and suggesting voting out a member of the conference. But he ends up being the one voted out.
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