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TomRollTideRitter
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re: OT: How about a 16- or a 24-team playoff?
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 1/12/26 at 7:55 pm to InkStainedWretch
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The stalemate is that the Big 10 is pushing to go to 24 pretty quickly after that and Sankey is balking at committing to that right now.
It makes sense for the B1G to push for 24 because no one watches their regular season anyways.
If it goes to 24, I will probably watch much less during the regular season.
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re: Average age of the Green Bay Packers is only one year more than Indiana
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 1/10/26 at 9:11 am to Tigertown in ATL
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So many males don’t develop until early 20s.
This is true, but is it really true of elite athletes? We pretty often see teenage Olympians and NBA all stars.
Indiana isn’t top 25 for average height or weight of its offensive line, so this whole men amongst boys narrative doesn’t track for me. They have smaller players than the teams they are beating.
re: Why is medical billing the way that it is?
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 1/9/26 at 3:30 pm to Roscoe14
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A medical bill is a made up number, with no relation to what the procedure costs or, more importantly, what the doctor is willing to take to do the procedure. The insurance company never pays the list bill because the provider, in order to be "in network," agrees to take the "UCR" (usual, reasonable, and customary) price, which is a lot less. In your case, the doctor knows there is no chance you would be willing to pay the list price. In my experience, they (except for anesthesiologists) are almost always willing to heavily discount the list price for a cash payment.
Yes, this. If your insurer ever denies coverage, you should always at least ask the provider if they offer a self pay discount.
Insurers have contractual agreements with providers to be in network. These contracts result in them paying far less than the gross charge.
Many of the healthcare businesses I’ve worked with 80+% of charges are written off immediately because of contractual adjustments.
I think a legitimate, pretty straightforward regulation that would help a lot of people is requiring healthcare providers to quote all US citizens a self pay price that is the equivalent of applying the median contractual adjustment between the provider and its insurers.
We usually fully reserve against self pay patients (i.e., assume they aren’t going to pay anything) unless that patient is from a wealthy foreign country, usually Arabs, so this would not materially hurt hospitals financially.
re: The Big 10 officiating crew ejects Xavier Lucas, the player Wisconsin sued Miami over
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 1/9/26 at 3:12 pm to Eighteen
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But it’s not a “launch” in the sense of malicious intent. Trying to officiate tackling, which in itself is high speed violent collisions, is just so absurd. Running full speed and trying to take a guy to the ground is always going to be forcible contact… he went low to get leverage to take a receiver down, his feet leave the ground because he’s running full speed and then has to pull up and dive to make a tackle. But because the receiver falls down low it’s “targeting” and that’s a “launch” … but if the receiver is just upright catching the ball that same “launch” is just a tackle.
I agree with all this, but the rule is what it is. Blame the rule makers, not the officials.
re: The Big 10 officiating crew ejects Xavier Lucas, the player Wisconsin sued Miami over
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 1/9/26 at 6:43 am to beauchristopher
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I can't believe the ejected him over his tackle, but not the Ole Miss player.
I think targeting is a very stupid rule. It also changes constantly, so even Lemonier on the ESPN broadcast forgot the current rule during the Ole Miss review.
Now, there has to be an indicator which is a launch or lowering the head to spear. The Ole Miss DB clearly did neither. He just ran into the guy with his head up. Lucas clearly left his feet which is a launch.
By the current rule, they got both calls right.
re: Only reason a smu and Louisville loser not acc champion team got in
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 1/8/26 at 10:59 pm to JamalMurry27
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Miami will play at home for the national championship like lsu playing in Death Valley for the title.
If Indiana beats Oregon, it wouldn’t surprise me if Indiana has more fans at Hard Rock than Miami
re: Miami 31 @ Ole Miss 27 Final
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 1/8/26 at 10:31 pm to Gings5
Any other point in the game that’s called PI 100 out of 100 times
re: FCS title game
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 1/5/26 at 10:24 pm to Partha
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Has the portal had such an affect on them that has led to none of them making it to the finals this year?
North Dakota State was still the best team in FCS this year. They just were upset by Illinois State in the playoffs.
South Dakota State did have a lot of guys leave with their coach to go to Washington State and went from a semifinalist in 2024 to just 9-5 this year.
re: FCS title game
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 1/5/26 at 10:01 pm to c on z
Unbelievable game
re: FCS title game
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 1/5/26 at 9:55 pm to NawlinsTiger9
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Kind of a loophole in the personal foul rule there You can just rip someone’s face off and get away with it
Yeah only in overtime though. It would be ridiculous to give Montana State the ball at the 10, so I don’t know what the fix for that is.
re: FCS title game
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 1/5/26 at 9:53 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
Both these teams have unreal sub 6’ receivers
re: FCS title game
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 1/5/26 at 9:44 pm to CSinLC
Mind blowing that Montana State will not or cannot go to silent count
re: FCS title game
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 1/5/26 at 9:35 pm to SoDakHawk
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Valley is stacked every year. The FCS playoffs boil down to the Valley vs Big Sky every year.
Unfortunately most of the good east coast and southern teams have left for FBS - Delaware, Ga Southern, App, James Madison, Sam Houston, Marshall, even UMass
The Big Sky, despite lots of good teams, hasn’t won it all in a while though.
re: FCS title game
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 1/5/26 at 9:30 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
Montana State has lost the game mentally. They’ve had an unreal number of false starts.
re: FCS title game
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 1/5/26 at 8:50 pm to TexasTiger33
14 for Montana State is elite.
re: FCS title game
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 1/5/26 at 6:55 pm to GeauxTigers123
Vanderbilt sits about 40K.
I haven’t seen a full crowd shot yet, but it looks like just the upper corners are empty so I’d say it’s 80 to 90% full.
I haven’t seen a full crowd shot yet, but it looks like just the upper corners are empty so I’d say it’s 80 to 90% full.
re: FCS title game
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 1/5/26 at 6:48 pm to GeauxTigers123
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The game is in Nashville this year because the Frisco soccer stadium is being remodeled.
It should just be here permanently. Saw tons of fans of both teams walking around the city today.
The ones I talked to said this was a much better setup than Frisco.
re: Josh with College Football Nerds just made a statement about Alabamas OL/DL
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 1/5/26 at 3:30 pm to labamafan
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KD OL Kayden Proctor, Jaeden Roberts, no Center, Wilkin Formby DT Tim Keenan, LT Overton,
Are we sure these guys wouldn’t have been similar players to the Shula guys if they had been developed better?
DeBoer’s rosters have been first and second in 247 team talent in his two seasons. Maybe the lack of development of those guys started in the late Saban era, but let’s not pretend the cupboard was bare.
re: The 12 team playoff is a solid setup and there’s no need for expansion
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 1/2/26 at 12:13 am to SuperSaint
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Three lose bama teams should never ever be in the discussion to be anywhere near the playoffs again
Expand the playoffs more and you get a 9-3 Bama team making it last year with losses to two 6-6 teams.
Anyone upset about Bama making it this year should be arguing hard against any expansion.
re: The 12 team playoff is a solid setup and there’s no need for expansion
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 1/2/26 at 12:12 am to Pedro
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The gap is a huge problem that needs fixed. I’d argue telling the bowls to frick off and doing all home games until the final too. But they probably won’t do that
Yeah, I’d prefer this too, but like getting rid of conference championship games, I just don’t see it happening from a business perspective.
The 12 team playoff is a solid setup and there’s no need for expansion
Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 1/1/26 at 11:26 pm
While the regular season has been somewhat diminished in terms of the absolute biggest games, you still basically have to get to double digit wins so the regular season still is high stakes. You lose that going to 16 or more teams.
I don’t think the bye is an issue that needs expansion to solve. The issue is the month between games.
I’d like to give this setup with a fixed calendar a few more years before expanding.
December 13 round 1, December 20 quarterfinals, New Year semis, first week of January national title
I don’t think the bye is an issue that needs expansion to solve. The issue is the month between games.
I’d like to give this setup with a fixed calendar a few more years before expanding.
December 13 round 1, December 20 quarterfinals, New Year semis, first week of January national title
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