Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

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MoCo_Vol said:
If you got a kid going away to school, highly recommend picking up a rice cooker. I paid like $25 for a 6 cup Black & Decker one and it's awesome. Grits, Rice, Omelets...can cook about anything in this thing. Also have now mastered the classic Mexican rice from our local spot too.
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Y'all gotta quit talkin bout food.

Hour 39 and going strong, but carbs sound sooooo nice right now.
 
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DD4ME said:
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9/11/01 was obviously a day that altered politics, governance, security, religion, mankind’s view of itself, and the psychology of being a citizen of Earth, in both seen and unseen ways, here in the USA and around the world.

But a day not even a month after 9/11 shattered my own personal sports lens just as completely. October 6, 2001. Georgia 26 UT 24. The “Hobnail Boot Game.” I was 16, Tennessee had the most talented football team I had ever seen (I still think the 2001 UT team beats the National Championship team of 1998 head to head). That loss showed me that Neyland wasn’t impenetrable which is something I fully believed at that point. (I’m not gonna count the 2000 Florida “loss.” We all know Gaffney didn’t catch that ball). It was also the game where I began to mold the clay of thought that Fulmer (and Chavis to an extent) were not elite in game decision makers. That clay was hardened in the kiln that was the SEC Champ game loss to LSU later that year. It’s the game that made me hate prevent defense. It’s when I realized it might not just be UT and Florida in the SEC anymore. It took my childhood football fan innocence and began to turn me into the man that eventually developed chronic BVS.

I’m ready to get back to the point where we own Georgia for a decade, like we did in my formative years of the 90s. That is when I will know UT football is truly back. Soon may that day come.

Thank you for attending therapy with me today.
 
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Enki_Amenra said:
You'd be better off putting extra cheese on a pizza and getting it lava hot, then biting into it and drag the cheese off onto your chin. . . went to school with a girl who had a scar on her chin for about a year because of that, 👀
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Are we talking about food or something else...
 
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Brillovol said:
Y'all gotta quit talkin bout food.

Hour 39 and going strong, but carbs sound sooooo nice right now.
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I got you @Brillovol. Here is a feast that will not disrupt your fast...
Hook Imaginary Food on Make a GIF
 
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The Dog said:
Fulton Falcon ! But Jackie was all man on the football field, no need for a spirit stuffed animal. Plus, all that stuff came out years later, not while he was at UT, iIrc........and I don't, Walker was before I could remember UT football, that began at 8, when Jimmy Streater was QB.
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Exactly
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
If you got a kid going away to school, highly recommend picking up a rice cooker. I paid like $25 for a 6 cup Black & Decker one and it's awesome. Grits, Rice, Omelets...can cook about anything in this thing. Also have now mastered the classic Mexican rice from our local spot too.
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Curious what you use for the classic Mexican rice ingredients?
 
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For my fellow nerds...
Some guys posted to reddit a cool visualization of AP rank distributions...neat way to see what data gets merged into the end result & poll.

Our highest ranking was 10.
15 voters had Alabama unranked. (only 7 for us...some folks actually watch ball)

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HOW TO READ THIS TABLE

Teams are ranked in their order from the AP Poll for Week 1. The column to the right of the team name shows the number of points that team received using the AP Poll's Borda count rules. The following two columns show information about each team's previous and upcoming games. The following columns show how many votes for each ranking the team received. The 'U' column shows how many voters left the team unranked (off their ballots entirely). Gridlines are placed every 5 rows and columns for ease of reading. A thick line is placed below the 25th-ranked team to distinguish "ranked" teams above it to "receiving votes" teams below it.

Some cells are shaded to highlight points of interest. The green diagonal highlights how many voters ranked a team exactly where they ended up in the overall poll. For example, South Carolina is ranked 10th in this week's poll, and 12 voters placed the Gamecocks exactly in their 10th spot. Values for which a team received no votes at that rank are shaded in red, while placements chosen by only exactly one voter are highlighted in blue. Some unique votes are annotated with the name of the corresponding voter. The most common selection (the mode) for each team is shaded yellow unless it matches the team's rank. Finally, since there are very few votes that ever end up near the top-right or bottom-left of the chart, those cells are filled in with black diagonally as much as possible without covering up any nonzero values. This helps naturally guide the eye while viewing the chart and helps locate the most unusual votes. We lightheartedly call these the "Wilner" diagonals.

Finally, I note violations of the Condorcet Criterion on the bottom left corner of the black space. These occur when Team A is ranked above Team B in the poll, but Team B would win if you ignored the points system and just asked the voters "Which team do you have ranked higher?" I note every instance of this when it would affect the placement of a team in the Top 25, but not necessarily if it only flips teams' positions in the receiving-votes category.

This season, scores will be highlighted (lowlighted) in black to indicate a loss instead of using a W/L column. I did this at the end of the season last year, and it was well received, so it returns for this entire season. This way is easier to see at a glance and slightly reduces the clutter on the left side of the table.
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