Recruiting Football Talk VII

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DD4ME said:
The two teams are well suited for their arenas. If their park plays short we could torch them. If it plays long like I have observed before they could eek out a sweep. Make no bones, UK has outperformed us on some neutral sites. They swept Bama and we lost to Bama.
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Like every other athletic event in the history of sports, the transitive property does apply here.
 
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85SugarVol said:
I feel slighted being left off the @ list here :flex:

The data on the Yankees is inaccurate. Lou Gehrig is the greatest Yankee. Let it be written, let it be known.

Some of those are downright laughable.

Johnny Bench > Pete Rose
Ty Cobb >>> Miguel Cabrera (wtf)
Skinny Barry > Honus Wagner
Willie Mays > Fat Barry
Stan Musial > Albert Pujols
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Been waiting for this. Agree on all accounts.
 
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volbeast33 said:
it’s just a fun conversation….. you must be fun at parties.
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Probably depends what kind of parties, and who's being asked. I'd probably be a fish out of water at keggers for middle aged rednecks, or feminist rallies. But am appreciated in lots of other places.


Also, isn't that what we're doing? Just having a conversation?
 
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85SugarVol said:
For sure. And I certainly would consider golf a sport.
Absolutely one of the rarest things to do in sports.

Hitting a golf ball well, consistently, under pressure - that’s a very difficult thing to do.

Tee up a ball for average Joe and they’ll likely be able to strike it. Poorly, maybe, but strike it nonetheless.
Put average Joe in the batters box, and it’s a different story.
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I played baseball through the 10th grade. No way in hell I could stand in there with those 98 MPH heaters flying towards me.
 
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VolsDoc81TX said:
I think the AD should meet with the ncaa again and declare ....
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I have to add that the last time we asked to meet with the NCAA, the crooked NCAA President said, No. He and his cronies were allowed -- against the NCAA's own rules -- to comment on an ongoing investigation by means of deliberate leaks to biased journalists in his pocket.

But we were not allowed to meet. 😂
 
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Orange. said:
The NCAA also needs to be called out on Michigan's three additional major violations that the NCAA corruptly excluded from its announced decision.

(1) Illegal use of university computers in the football complex (which was serious enough to involve the FBI, but has been completely hushed up without explanation by the NCAA, Michigan, and the press). (2) Illegally stealing signals from their regular season opponents (over two years, iirc). (3) illegally stealing signals from teams they thought might be playoff opponents, which Michigan further did not prevent from being obtained an opponent of one of those teams.* That action by Michigan literally corrupted the composition and integrity of the playoffs causing irreparable damage to the teams affected and to the reputation of the sport.

It's painfully obvious that the NCAA corruptly stalled on the first two of these five violations (only acting this week), intentionally aiding and abetting Michigan's illicit playoff participation. And the NCAA postponed treating the latter 3 still-unpunished charges because the five together would appear to most everyone as lack of institutional control. (Consider also that the Michigan's university leadership, not only the football team, was involved in covering up the university computer use scandal.)

The result now is not only that those at Michigan most responsible for all five violations were enabled by the NCAA's corrupt stalling to flee safely and profitably to the NFL (as everyone in the world predicted based on the NCAA's well known practice of crookedly playing favorites). But Michigan is now on three-year probation (if with no scholarship reductions or other penalties). And this with three long-documented and well known allegations outstanding. The NCAA processing those three violations would result in three major probation violations ASAP.

Thus it reasonable to guess that the crooked NCAA in a private deal with its pet Michigan has promised under the table to exempt Michigan's three huge outstanding violations from the NCAA's own rules regarding probation. Not surprisingly, not a single "journalist" has wondered out loud about this, much less investigated it.

* (The ticket receipts at Neyland in the name of Michigan's operative and in Michigan's usual location with the best view of the signaling was reported during last season.) The wristbands were widely disseminated on the internet at that time.

Sorry for the long response.
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The current Michigan punishments don't involve the sign stealing. This was the 4 year old Covid burger scandal.

Cam Newton and Harbaugh have proven you are better off cheating and thumbing your nose. Short term. Long term Auburn is still lost and MI is about to take a dive.
 
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drvenner said:
Like every other athletic event in the history of sports, the transitive property does apply here.
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Sure. I just meant that stats aside they play a winning brand of baseball. Everyone had been posting how dominant our stats are. They play small ball and the stats are largely meh, but still a hard team to win against.
 
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Weezer said:
True, but if we're talking scarier, I'd say football is scarier than baseball just based on the risk of serious injury.
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I played football and baseball. I was never scared playing football. I was serious scared several times in baseball. I was in highschool and we were going to face one of our rivals the next day. They had this skinny kid who threw fire and had what my grandfather called a horsesh!t curveball. I remember lying awake that night dreading facing that kid. If we were to meet on the football field or on the street, I would have broken him in half, but when he was on that mound with a ball in his hand he was terrifying.
 
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