bill dazzle
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RE: Who actually has had competitive success following realignment?
(07-27-2020 11:16 PM)JRsec Wrote: (07-25-2020 10:15 AM)quo vadis Wrote: (07-25-2020 07:35 AM)Thiefery Wrote: (07-24-2020 09:52 AM)quo vadis Wrote: (07-23-2020 09:38 PM)Mav Wrote: A&M has had Manziel and has been mediocre otherwise.
A&M has averaged 8.3 wins per season in the SEC, and their worst season has been 7 wins with a best of 11, and no losing seasons. They have gone to a bowl all eight seasons with a 5-3 bowl record.
In their last eight seasons in the Big 12, TAMU averaged 6.75 wins a year, a low of 4 wins and a high of 9, and three of the eight seasons were losing seasons, they went 1-5 in bowls during that time**.
So I think it's fair to say they have improved since joining the SEC.
** One thing that seems to have helped with bowl records is the change in conference. TAMU was 0-3 vs SEC teams in bowl games as a member of the Big 12, it is 3-1 in bowl games vs the Big 12 as a member of the SEC.
It helps when the SEC commish gets to hand pick the matchups for bowl season after the Sugar Bowl selection.
Well, the SEC is often at a disadvantage in the non-NY6 bowls, because it usually puts multiple teams in the NY6, which means weaker teams get bumped up to better non-NY6 bowls. For example, last year the Big 12 put two teams in the NY6, the SEC put four teams in. So that means down the bowl ladder, if a bowl is supposed to be "SEC #3 vs Big 12 #3", what happens is it ends up being SEC #5 vs Big 12 #3. That has happened a lot in the CFP and BCS era.
(07-27-2020 10:14 PM)bill dazzle Wrote: (07-27-2020 11:13 AM)JRsec Wrote: (07-25-2020 10:15 AM)quo vadis Wrote: (07-25-2020 07:35 AM)Thiefery Wrote: It helps when the SEC commish gets to hand pick the matchups for bowl season after the Sugar Bowl selection.
Well, the SEC is often at a disadvantage in the non-NY6 bowls, because it usually puts multiple teams in the NY6, which means weaker teams get bumped up to better non-NY6 bowls. For example, last year the Big 12 put two teams in the NY6, the SEC put four teams in. So that means down the bowl ladder, if a bowl is supposed to be "SEC #3 vs Big 12 #3", what happens is it ends up being SEC #5 vs Big 12 #3. That has happened a lot in the CFP and BCS era.
(07-27-2020 08:22 AM)bill dazzle Wrote: (07-26-2020 10:56 PM)JRsec Wrote: So you are saying my writing on contemporary culture advocates for a black radical dragon devouring situational humor while "I'm 41 and drinking in a honkey tonk just kicking Hippie's asses and raising hell!" What an eclectic creative dark bastard you must think I am!
Indeed. It's the most high of compliments I have given to a poster on this board.
And I find that odd since I don't edit for style, barely edit for grammar, and mostly edit because the program here can't keep up with keystrokes at 100 or so wpm and so frequently drops a letter, or letters, or just doesn't read the endings of contractions.
And here I thought the Judy Collins approach wasn't dark at all as I was just looking "at clouds from both sides now."
I'll tell you what's dark Bill. Americans are having to take a long hard look at what we have been becoming because right now the illusion of sport has been removed from our field of vision and as the hangover of a distracted mind lifts, as it does after the revelry of a drunken night with a strange woman, and we are seeing the faces next to us without makeup, with slobber on the pillowcase, and getting that first waft of morning breath, and asking that ubiquitous question, "What the hell happened here?" And then the disgust and self loathing sets in as to how we could have let ourselves go so badly as to arrive at this point.
The cold wet rag of our actual status in the world is about to slap our sleepy faces to jolt us completely to our senses and before our day is over we will turn again to that all knowing unseen entity most commonly called God, and ask in all humility, "Pleas help me get through this!"
And if that happens Bill, maybe we return to some form of tolerance if for no other reason than the commonality of our transgressions and the absolute and universal need of grace.
Under our nuclear umbrella we have had an orgy of self indulgence that denied the fragility of our way of life in a hungry and hostile world all the while believing that what was unthinkable to use could somehow save us. How deluded is that?
Football has been an image of our strength and it is now being trashed by circumstances beyond our control on the micro and macro levels. On the micro level it has become a medium for unwanted reminders of social issues, and on a macro level it has been shut down by a force we cannot see leaving us to ponder the intent. But in both cases it crashes the illusion of strength and vitality as few things could.
Realignment has been fascinating to watch sociologically. It contains multiple fan theories as to why their program is being promoted, demoted, or destroyed. And virtually none of these theories addresses the simple fact that corporations saw a great way to get their names in front of millions of Americans and since they took it over and realized its profit potential and its depth and breadth of reach they have been commercializing it so that it would become an added voice to the very things people wished to escape.
Cold wet rag meets sleepy hungover face.
And somewhere in the back of my mind I hear my father's voice when I was 10 years old on a Saturday morning when he literally would toss that cold wet rag onto my sleepy face and would say, "Off your butt and on your feet! Out of the shade and into the heat! Let's go! We have work to do!"
Your reference, JRsec, to the hypothetical night of revelry followed by a morning of unease reminds of the time I awoke with a woman I once dated many years ago — both of us grossly hungover. She remarked that my definition-lacking visage reminded her of that of a Sesame Street muppet; my neuroses, that of Woody Allen; my effete manner, that of late and legendary British actor John Williams (who offers a stellar performance in Alfred Hitchcock's classic Dial M for Murder); my fondness of the bottle, that of former Pogues front man Shane MacGowan. She then — in an almost disgusting manner — said bluntly, "I don't even know why I date you."
I paused, wryly smiled, and quipped, "Because I can off the top of my head, and with ease, quickly create and recite a limerick that references foot juggling, America's most handsome skycrapers and a vegetarian diet — and make it sound alternatingly poetic yet sexually disturbing?"
Then she paused herself and coyly smiled ... and within 30 seconds or so, my fair lady and I undertook a "conference realignment" of a different type.
(Nice job with the Judy Collins reference, too.)
Obviously you were resigned to a congress of loutish abandon. Let it be noted that a missionary man should never engage a woman with ugly feet.
But sincerely, kudos for making such a unique approach a cunning yet lingual success! Truly word power made easy!
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