RollTide1987

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The national champion is not the national champion but rather the tournament champion…

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I mean...that's been common rhetoric since before the days of Josh Pate, and it was aimed more toward the NFL than anything else. Does anyone truly believe that the 2007 New York Giants were the best team in the NFL that season?

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The fact that it struck at all is fricking incredible.

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It is if you ignore the fact that this wouldn't have been possible five years ago. With the transfer portal, NIL, and the super seniors from the COVID era, those things combined to create a perfect storm that Cignetti ingeniously took advantage of. People are fixated with the fact that this happened at Indiana, a lowly school that hadn't won anything of note up until now. But they are forgetting that College Football, as we know it, changed in 2021. The timeline has been completely reset because the standard rules that governed the game for the last 100 years or so no longer apply.

Just finished it. There were a few conveniences here and there but by and large I thought it was a solid limited series with a twist I really didn't see coming.



SPOILERS



I knew something was up by the way Lexi/Catherine reacted to Anna trying to kill her husband. Though she ended up being a piece of shite capable of murder in her own right, as we saw. When the final twist was revealed, I couldn't help but think those three women got what was coming to them. Anna made the right call, not only of not turning her mother in but also being proud of what she did.

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He has eligibility left.

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I never played a down of high school football. Does that mean if they cut me a $10,000 check to come play QB for them for some extra cash I have the right to just because I have four years of eligibility left?

This is reaching peak levels of ridiculousness and establishes the precedent for football players who flopped in the NFL to return to college for the financial incentives it offers.

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I wonder at what point did people start to realize Dubose wasn't the answer?

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The 2000 season was when it all fell apart. Most fans gave DuBose a pass in 1997 and 1998 due to NCAA sanctions starting to take effect. When those sanctions were lifted, he brought in a Top 10 recruiting class and immediately won the SEC in 1999. We were a national championship contender going into the 2000 season. That Southern Miss game, where we were shut out at home, is where I think most of us lost faith in his ability to lead.

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Shula wasn't the answer?

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He personally lost me when we lost in overtime to Arkansas in 2006. I can't speak for anyone else though.

Yeah, but all of those characters were peripheral at best. The filmmakers of this series clearly wanted a major character race swapped for representation.

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The level of shenanigans and paying within the SEC was at the institutional level, embraced by the member universities themselves.

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This is rich coming from a former member of the Southwest Conference, whose organization imploded in large part because the level of shenanigans was at the institutional AND state level.

The series is set to begin in the 1930s with Michael Fassbender playing Kennedy patriarch Joseph Kennedy Sr. It will follow his family's rise to prominence in American politics, highlighting the triumphs and tragedies they experience along the way.

Laura Donnelly, Nick Robinson, and Imogen Poots have also joined the cast alongside Fassbender.

Deadline

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Who were they in the books?

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Arab and Native American terrorists.

Fun fact: the producers of the film changed the antagonists because they thought the Arab terrorism angle was played out. After production had wrapped on the film, 19 Arab terrorists carried out the 9/11 attacks.

The book is far superior to the film.

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I was just starting to pay attention to college football.