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re: Damn racist traffic accidents!

Posted by Bayou445 on 8/23/22 at 10:23 am
I get the impression that blacks not only commit more crimes than whites, but also are less smart about how to get away with crimes.

I grew up in a white, upper middle class area right next door to a huge drug dealer. He didn’t get away with drug dealing because he hid his activities. (Everybody in the neighborhood knew what he did.) He got away with drug dealing because at least half of his clientele were policemen.

I doubt that there are too many black criminals like him who actually think to befriend the police.
Are aTm’s officers the guys who would always hide in the closet until Don’t Ask Don’t Tell got repealed?
Has anybody except for Arkansas ever fired a coach one game into the season?
Special assistant to the head coach?

I have trouble understanding what half of these new assistant positions that have been added over the last decade are actually supposed to do.

Scheduling in 16 team SEC

Posted by Bayou445 on 8/19/22 at 9:47 pm
Seems pretty certain that they’re going to 9 conference games. But otherwise, I’ve seen remarkably little talk about this. Are they going to do the rotating pods that the 16 team WAC did? Are they going to abolish divisions altogether now that that’s allowed?

Dear God, I hope they don’t go to a system where you play one game every seven years against everybody in the other division other than the cross divisional rival. That’s actually even less often than opposite division teams play in the current system. (Albeit by only one less game every 42 years.)
The Big Ten also added Maryland and Rutgers.


I’m not really sure what the point of that expansion was, other than having as many members of the SEC. And, if Barry Alvarez is to be believed, to prevent PSU from looking toward the ACC.
In football, UNC has an all time 68-37-5 record vs NC State. Even for football, UNC would be a better add than NC State. And, frankly, nobody is proposing UNC as an SEC add for football reasons.

NCSU has been downright bad in basketball ever since Jim Valvano retired, they’ve never been good in football, and they don’t even bring good academics. Their stadium only seats 56,000, which would probably be one of the smallest in the SEC, and even if they claim to usually sell out, I’ve learned to not trust these official attendance numbers. It would be a downright embarrassing add.

Yeah, I was trying to figure out who the third least valuable team in the SEC is.

I think it might be USCe. The second favorite team in a pretty small state.
NC State? Jesus Christ, I have no idea why people suggest them as an SEC add. They’re the third most popular athletics program in a state that’s really not that huge. NCSU is also probably the ACC’s worst academic institution.

If we’re going to make lame adds from “new TV markets”, why not go with UVA? At least they’re good in basketball, and have excellent academics.

re: Long term SEC prediction

Posted by Bayou445 on 8/19/22 at 6:22 pm
The departing members would create a new conference under a new name. The left behind teams would actually keep the SEC name. It’s like when 8 WAC members left to form the MWC.


But if the Big 8 (Florida, Georgia Tennessee, LSU, Alabama, Auburn, Texas and Oklahoma) broke off, their new conference would certainly be considered more prestigious than the conference of the left behinds. Even though the left behinds would technically keep the SEC name.

re: Long term SEC prediction

Posted by Bayou445 on 8/19/22 at 6:14 pm
The Southern Conference was something like 25 teams before the SEC broke off.


I think that the Big 8 (the current Big 6+ Texas and OU) should break off from the rest of the SEC. We’ll see how much the Little 8 of the SEC is actually worth.


And, even better, we’ll probably see Tennessee going 0-7 in conference every year, with the closest loss being by about 17 points.

re: 2022 officially year of the Vols

Posted by Bayou445 on 8/19/22 at 6:11 pm
My prediction: Tennessee will go 5-7.


Heupel will be on the hot seat heading into 2023. The Tennessee athletic director will spend the whole offseason thinking about what equally awful coach to replace him with.
Let’s face it: there are teams in the Big 10, ACC and Big 12 that are more profitable than current SEC and Big 10 members. If the SEC and Big 10 want to make as profitable of a 20-24 team conference as possible, they’d kick out some current members.


I think the Big 10 would kick out Northwestern and Rutgers. I’m sure that the Big 10 realizes by now that Rutgers doesn’t even bring the NJ market (let alone the NYC marker), and is embarrassed that they seriously invited Rutgers.


The SEC will drop Vanderbilt and Mississippi State.
It is rather telling that the ACC picked up 5 of the Big East’s original 8 members, but never had the slightest amount of interest in Rutgirls.

Heck, WVU got into the Big 12 before Rutgers got into the Big 10, too. And I don’t remember Rutgers ever being mentioned as a Big 12 expansion candidate before the Big 10 invited them.
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re: Sam Pittman Weight Loss

Posted by Bayou445 on 8/18/22 at 10:21 pm
Did Bielma ever threaten to eat the opposing coach?

re: Sam Pittman Weight Loss

Posted by Bayou445 on 8/18/22 at 9:51 pm
We should go back to making fun of Bielma’s weight.