thunderbird1100

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Ole Miss and Texas better be careful

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Kamario isnt likely to play, if he does, he wont be effective. He barely was getting around before being benched this past weekend.

The "no good player exists outside the SEC" crowd is one that needs to be studied

Ty Benefield wasn't any good when he was at Boise, but he is now that he's at LSU

Same for Jackson Harris at Hawaii, obv not a player, but is now that he's here!

We have a loonnnnnggggg way to go to stay at only 2 losses

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Option A:
12 game schedules that are formatted like this
9 SEC games
1 B1G
1 Big 12
1 ACC

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As a fan, this would be awesome.

As a realist, I dont think you can leave it to a human committee to choose the playoff spots solely. Would really like to see a computer element come back in.

SEC SOS is already higher, but being 9-3 vs. 10-2 in other conferences doesnt give you any credence for playing a tougher schedule and possibly performing better against it. I just dont like how many tend to view all the 4 conferences the same while schedules are still so imbalanced one to the next.

This doesnt mean I always think a 9-3 SEC team should go over a 10-2 ACC/B12(or even B10) teamn, but I dont think it should automatically go the other way as well. Needs to be a true deep dive into resumes. A 10-2 team from one of the other conferences could have legitimately only played only 2 maybe 3 good teams. No SEC team is getting around playing less than 4 good teams in a season and many play 5 or 6.

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At that point, why do we need conferences and championship games?

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There are no more conference championship games next year with the 24 team playoff, they got rid of them

The bigger travesty is 3 B10 teams that are still in playoff contention didnt even play a single team with a pulse OOC because the B10 doesnt require a P4 OOC team on anyone's schedule

On top of that, the bottom part of the Big Ten is just god awful compared to the SEC overall. Imagine being a B10 team and getting Illinois, Minnesota, Purdue, Michigan St, Maryland & Rutgers on your schedule this season and not even playing anyone OOC. With it being an 18 team league, theres an even higher chance you avoid the few top teams they actually have, especially if you are one of those top teams.

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this is based on having seen zero minutes from the other walk-ons.

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I mean are you seriously under the impression Wade is intentionally playing a worse walk on over others in games where we've been playing 6-7 guys total?

Bender had a rough first go being -9 over 10 minutes in game 1, the same game Pearson played 3 minutes and was -7 by comparison (ouch that is BAD). Bender was +5 in 10 minutes against UCF, which was actually BETTER than Ugochukwu or Dioubate.

I mean, you have to be off some sort of rocker to think Wade isn't playing his best walk on in games where he has 5 scholarship level players available to play :lol:

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n the mcneese game bender looked confused like it was all too fast.

in the UCF game he still looked slow but made some shots. his motion is very very weird he moves his arm and rolls the ball off his palm or something its hard to describe.

my theory is that bender is truly abysmal and on the team because his dad is a friend of wade and/or stansbury from recruiting help and connections.

I could be wrong he could be normal walk on level. but I think he is worse.

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Just a weird post all around.

Bender played more minutes than any of our walk ons over the first 2 games. In fact, 2 of the walks played 0 minutes in either game. Only 1 other walk on played, and for 3 minutes total in game 1.

He is clearly a step above of them (although again, he isnt on the level of the other guys beyond them).

FCS has been at 24 for a while and worked really well there

I dont see expansion in the near future beyond that unless they start to re-org the divisions as a whole

I've said for years now Division I should really be 3 subdivisions, not 2.

Most mid-majors and top FCS teams need to be able to play for their own national title, pretending Wyoming should be on the same playing field as UGA or Ohio St is just silly over long term in terms of competition. There are also top FCS teams that just ransack over most of the FCS competition (like an NDSU that just moved up to FBS).

Let the power conference teams have their own playoff (maybe even drag up a few of the top mid majors, kind of like a few of the "power conferences" already have). Let the FBs mid-majors and top FCS teams play their own playoff and let the remaining FCS teams have their playoff.

Something for every team to really play for.

There's some upset folks out there moving to 24 in FBS and not having all 10 conferences have an auto bid is a travesty - in FCS all conferences hav an auto bid to their 24 team playoff. But do we really want 8-4 Akron champion of the MAC taking a spot of 9-3 maybe even 10-2 power conference team? Yeah, I dunno about that.

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Main bench rotation:
Abdi Bashir Jr.
Michael Ruzic
Divine Ugochukwu
Austin Nunez

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It's really just the first 3 guys, Nunez and Levy are better than the walk ons for sure but are clear CLEAR steps down from the rest of the Top 8 guys. They to me are "break glass in case of injury/foul trouble" to the guards or bigs happen basically. I dont expect to see much of them outside of that or blowouts.

Also it seems like Nunez might not even be able to play for a while this year being in a boot the exhibition games.

I know there's some confusion around Bender being a walk on or scholarship guy, regardless of the designation understand he averaged 8 and 8 in high school last season and didnt have a recruiting profile anywhere - long story short, also dont expect him to play much any outside of blowouts. They like him better than the 3 other walk ons for later potential but he's just a practice body really for now.