LOTOTiger

I know I'm late to this conversation... I have a cousin who was (retired now) a lineman for a rural electric company - his crews would get called to disaster areas for hurricanes, tornados, etc. He told me ice (the kind that shows up when water freezes, not the other kind that's in the news now) was a 1000 times worse than any tornado or hurricane he worked. Significant damage from hurricanes (mostly on the coastline) and tornados (direct path) are fairly localized, where the ice is really widespread. Not that hurricanes and tornadoes aren't devestating - they are - but the time to get everything back up and running is so much longer with the ice.

None from Mizzou, but one of the most famous plays in Super Bowl history came from Mizzou's Mike Jones making The Tackle.

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The road unis and helmets they wore in Norman this season were very nice looking.

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Well - tbh, I had to look away so often during that game I don't remember what we wore. I'm not superstitious, but just in case we should probably never wear them again!

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similarity with some other random Southerners

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Even though it is right in the very middle of the country, MO is in practice on a border - and the people are definitely influenced by the neighbors. The states all around are quite a bit different culturally from each other (Illinois to the East and KS/NE to the West are very different), same with Iowa to the North and Ark/OK/MS/TN in the south. So Missouri seems to be a mash-up of all of that. St. Louis seems to be more like an Eastern or upper Midwestern city - yet it had a large slave trade. KC feels much more Western. Rural areas and smaller cities in MO seem to be more similar to states they are closer to (I was raised on a farm in NE MO, and it is way more like Iowa and Illinois than Arkansas up there). Columbia and central MO is a jumble of all of it. During the civil war most of MO acted more like a confederate state but did not succeed. Today even the accent and language used by Missourians is blend of all those around us, and it changes regionally within the state.

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Hard Rock is Miami's home stadium, no?

Playing at random college stadiums would be weird.

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Not to mention - how would they know in advance just who is going to make it to the NC game so they can avoid having a "home" team? (for scheduling and planning purposes they lock in the sites years in advance) Some (remember Notre Dame) didn't think Miami should have even been in the playoff. I guess they could play it safe and schedule it somewhere like Indiana (oh, wait).

Someone needs to get some lens cleaner for that camera

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a whole bunch of 3- and 4-stars who never played will count against a team when they shouldn't

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What are the * ratings they use? Are those their original rating out of high school? If so - not sure I'd pay attention to that so much. I guess if they weren't playing that's all you have to go on... except for the fact that they weren't playing! Do any rankings use any type of actual production numbers or stats?

One thing in On3 rankings I find interesting is the NIL value impact. If I understand this correctly - teams like Auburn/Bama/Tenn/Mizzou have a lot of NIL freed up by those exiting, and have yet to spend that on signing new players. I guess those teams still have the resources to put to what they need.

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Alabama’s campus was modeled after the University of Virginia

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Interesting regarding the connection to UVA. Thomas Jefferson was the "father" of UVA and a champion of public education and higher learning. He was very involved in surveying and designing UVAs campus. I think a lot of schools have taken from that design in some way or another. Mizzou has a strong connection to Jefferson - being the first public University west of the Mississippi in what was part of the Louisiana territory. Mizzou's quad, where the columns are, was heavily influenced by UVAs campus. TJ's heirs gifted his original grave marker and epitaph to Mizzou. The grave marker is next to a statue of him on the quad, and the epitaph was stuck in the attic of Jesse Hall for many years, but has now been restored and is on public display.

Tech very lucky it's only 6-0. Neither offense looks to be on their game, or maybe both Defenses are really on their game.

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I won’t pretend to know.

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I don't think anyone knows. They changed the rules without really establishing new ones, so the schools and players are going to be testing this stuff for a while. Lot of lawsuits coming - letting the courts sort it out instead of thinking it through. Lawyers will get rich, schools will spend money on things they shouldn't, players will get caught between the agents and the schools and may/may not come out ahead.

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The Rams were greatly supported in STL

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This is truth, but "Fan support" is not really a factor in these things. Most Billionaires get rich by being opportunists and taking advantage of others... it's what they do, it's who they are. Kroenke took the opportunity to marry into the Walton family, and built his fortune developing retail shopping centers (often funded by tax incentives) anchored by Wal-Marts - then building new shopping centers anchored by a new Wal-Mart down the road every 10 years or so leaving communities and their tax payers with empty, cheaply built eye-sores.

Ultimately, the Rams left St. Louis for one reason and one reason only - the value of the franchise tripled overnight when they did. That was a business decision. It was the way they did it that pisses me off. The BS that Enos Kroenke spewed about our ability to support a team and allowing STL to spend hundreds of millions on plans for a stadium that had no chance of getting built is unconscionable. Ironically, Kroenke only had an ownership stake in the team because the NFL required some "local" ownership as a condition of the Rams moving to StL in the mid 90s (he is from Columbia, MO and his realty company originated in St. Louis). Wealth obviously can't buy class or integrity, but of course the uber wealthy have no need for either. The StL region did get close to $1B in settlement from him - but of course the leadership in STL (city) is a shitshow and will blow through their share of that windfall.

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Some owners did not want that to happen

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Interestingly enough, fellow Billionaire and Chief's owner Clark Hunt did. He was one of the deciding votes that helped push the Rams over the line to LA (vs the Raiders/Chargers option). Hunt probably thought that would make MO desperate and we would give him whatever he wanted in KC. Turns out he will be in a shiny new building built on a landfill in KS.

Be nice to see MODOT do a lot of road construction on KC area interstates and the bridges over the KS and MO rivers starting in 2031. To not interrupt too much traffic, they should only work on Sundays - should only take 20 or so years to complete that.