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LOTOTiger
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re: Wednesday SEC Basketball
Posted by LOTOTiger on 1/8/26 at 4:14 pm to notsince98
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The replays seem to show that the Auburn shot was good but they overturned it?
yes, initially ruled good - then they overturned it, and it did not count. I'm not saying it was or was not still on the fingertips when the lamps lit up. I'm not saying the clock was/was not at all zeros (visible in one camera angle) - but I am sayin I didn't see anything 100% conclusive either way, so why did they overturn it? Do they have better, more enhanced images or different camera angles we have not seen? If so - why not show us?
I do have to admit - I kind of like it though. Not that I'm an Auburn hater, nor am I an Aggie fan - but this little bit of chaos is a nice departure from talking about Lane.
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a whole bunch of 3- and 4-stars who never played will count against a team when they shouldn't
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.
re: Shooty Hoops is 13-4, 3-1 Conference (last game W vs Auburn’s Whiny Bitches)
Posted by LOTOTiger on 1/8/26 at 9:34 am to the808bass
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Beat the refs and a completely inept Wildcat team.
The officiating was terrible for about the first 10-12 minutes of the second half! Coincidentally that is when UK was having most of their success... so I could be a little biased.
Seriously - officiating wasn't that bad. We did pick up 4 fouls in the first 2.5 minutes of the second half and it seemed like nothing was getting called on UK there for a bit, and I think things settled back down and they let the teams play to see who won. In the end they had one less PF than we did and shot like 6 more free throws. I think that is pretty normal for the home team to have a slight edge. Had we made a few more front ends we would have had several more FT attempts. Of course the foul and FT gap did narrow as they fouled several times at the end.
I think realistically, and this is bad news for both UK and MU, we are essentially the same team (overall the stats were pretty close). UK looked lost and out of sync and really couldn't handle defensive pressure and didn't shoot well (sound familiar?). Hopefully the difference is we seem to be trending up with the return of some key pieces, Kentucky seems to be floundering and rudderless.
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don’t sneeze at any road
Truth! - they are not easy to come by, even for elite teams. Really difficult for good teams. Rare for mediocre and bad teams. We need to take them when we can (should have had another at ND).
Great having Stone and Pearce - I think these guys are still shaking off some rust. Another big positive that may not be as obvious was Phillips picked up foul 4 (at least one of those fouls was questionable) with over 9 to play, but he was able to play under control and was on the floor and a factor for most of the last 5 minutes without picking up number 5. Gates managed that well, and Phillips showing some growth playing under control. He also seems to be getting more confident in that jump hook.
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Alabama’s campus was modeled after the University of Virginia
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.
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*more fun
I rarely play grammar police, but "funner" has always been a trigger for me!
re: Texas Tech off to a slow start after the bye
Posted by LOTOTiger on 1/1/26 at 12:44 pm to MizzouTrue
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.
re: Gates is done
Posted by LOTOTiger on 12/25/25 at 5:40 pm to AmishSamurai
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Crews can shoot.
Fair, but as you say that can cause him to try to much. When he is on a streak look out.
re: Mizzou’s Damon Wilson takes Georgia to court
Posted by LOTOTiger on 12/25/25 at 12:18 pm to junkyarddawg3
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I won’t pretend to know.
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.
re: Gates is done
Posted by LOTOTiger on 12/23/25 at 1:53 pm to AmishSamurai
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all of them can shoot
I'm not sure anyone on this team can shoot. So instead, hold the ball - let the shot clock run down, drive, flail and fling.
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The Rams were greatly supported in STL
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
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.
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2) A coach who can develop quarterbacks.
I was going to say even a slight semblance of a passing game... I guess that's the same thing.
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Well done SEC.
Gymnastics is basically the SEC, UCLA, Utah and Michigan State. That last one is a bit surprising given what took place there.
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ALL conference champions who finish in the top 16 get an automatic bid.
If you have to have auto qualifiers, I don't hate adding the ranking requirement. I'd still do away with auto qualifiers altogether.
re: Women's gymnastics preseason poll released
Posted by LOTOTiger on 12/18/25 at 2:51 pm to blackinthesaddle
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Florida got robbed
How were they robbed? I know they were one of the top teams in the country - but they really fell apart on vault in the semi-finals and did not even make the final 4 (like, I think it was their worst vault rotation in years - certainly their lowest score of the season). Saying they got robbed is like saying a basketball team got robbed because they missed all their free throws down the stretch. It was an unfortuante time to have a really bad rotation, but they did it to themselves.
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and his throwing on the run was not good.
by the end of the season, once he started moving, he was tucking it and running, he didn't even keep his eyes downfield to look for someone coming open.
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a total of 128 teams make the postseason in Conference 6A.
Just curious how that works in Texas... So, the teams that win/lose the state championship - how many total games do they end up playing? My math says that would be 7 rounds of playoffs... how many regular season games are there?
In Missouri - I think, altho its been a bit since my kid played so it may have changed, we have fewer schools, so classes are smaller (up to 64 teams per class, 8 districts per class, 6-8 teams per district). They play 9 game regular season - and everyone makes the playoffs (so guaranteed 10 games) - that means the championship game is potentially game number 15 for the 2 teams playing.
re: Tulane and JMU do not belong in the CFP
Posted by LOTOTiger on 12/18/25 at 10:18 am to BuckeyeGoon
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The top 10 teams in the sec would have all gone undefeated with james madison's schedule.
Exactly. The P4 used to need to keep G5 conferences happy so they'd be willing to fill in the non-conference slate. Because of super conferences and more conference game/cross conference requirements - that need is going away.
With that, the G5 schedules are only going to get even worse. I know this feeds into their argument that they are systemically being shut out, but come on - look at the regular season records for G5 vs P4. Aren't they really a separate tier already? (and forget the bowl records - we all know bowls are meaningless.)
Ultimately - I say get rid of the auto qualifiers completely. If you are a top 12 team, you are in. Doesn't matter if you are in a P4, G5 or in no conference - you should be in if you are top 12 (or 16 or 24 or whatever the number is). If the SEC, ACC, B1G, or Big XII don't have a team in the top 12 - they should sit it out. Honestly, they should be embarrassed that they are in that situation in the first place.
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Auburn is ranked higher than Missouri academically.
I'm not doubting you found a source that ranks AU over Mizzou - just curious what your source is. There are lots of college rankings, and most are even more suspect than the rankings used for college football. Most are not fully based on academics. For example, US News uses 6 primary categories - only 2 of which are purely academic, and those two are weighted such that they make up only about 25 -30% of their formula. US News ranking tends to skew toward value and "outcomes" like graduation rates, acceptance rates, debt/cost, and "social mobility". While those are are very important considerations for applicants (especially to someone like me who has 2 full time college students) they aren't necessarily an indicator of academic stature.
btw, I used US News as my example as Mizzou and AU are actually tied in that ranking at 49th (public schools) and 102 (national).
re: Marquis Johnson to the portal
Posted by LOTOTiger on 12/18/25 at 8:03 am to AmishSamurai
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1. Outside zone (short side only), 34 dive, some run variations
2. Bubble screen
3. Tunnel screen
4. QB draw
5. Thirty yard out to boundary
6. Roll out and 1 yard pass to TE
Come to think of it... Was he calling plays all year this year?
Coaches behaving badly....
Posted by LOTOTiger on 12/17/25 at 1:25 pm
"Ohio fires coach Brian Smith over 'serious' misconduct". I saw he was suspended a few weeks ago, now it's permanent...
What is it with these college coaches that makes them risk their careers, families, and sizable paychecks? I know Ohio is not a super high paying job - but several million over 5 years is nothing to sneeze at.
Is it stress? Competitive nature? Ego?
What is it with these college coaches that makes them risk their careers, families, and sizable paychecks? I know Ohio is not a super high paying job - but several million over 5 years is nothing to sneeze at.
Is it stress? Competitive nature? Ego?
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