Cowboyfan89

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TIL the random fact that female reindeer are the only female deer to grow antlers

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Not only that, but the females are the only ones to retain their antlers through the winter.

So if Santa's sleigh pullers were just magical caribou, that would mean they are all female.

Let's stop and think for a minute about why these teams are "unworthy", because playoffs have worked for decades at every other level of college football (and college sports, for that matter).

The long-standing bowl system created the Haves and Have Nots. The BCS and then the College Football Playoff reinforced it, because if you weren't in a particular conference, you weren't "good enough".

What is FBS football going to look like in 10 years when the conference you're in doesn't automatically dictate your ceiling? Hell, we still had Have Nots even in the "marquee" conferences like the SEC and Big Ten, but who were the big stories this year?

Indiana and Vanderbilt, perennial cellar dwellers.

The playing field is being leveled. What we thought was the best system in the past was the result of what the people in charge wanted you to think. Now, I'll admit, I'd rather see a system like the BCS used to determine who makes the playoffs rather than these bullshite "eye tests" and the ever-changing criteria of a human committee.

We need to go back to a system where only a handful of teams have a postseason.

24 Team Playoff.

Miami missed the ACC title game on some stupid tiebreaker. These conferences need to go back to divisions (or something) to limit this nonsense--Miami didn't even play either team that made the ACC Championship.

Alabama got their asses stomped by a team they beat earlier this year. Alabama should be out--or traveling to Tulane if they are in...:lol:

Who let that pre-teen boy call a nationally-televised football game?! :rotflmao:

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Yes, the property is in SWLA (Calcasieu Parish).

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Nice!

I've delineated quite a few properties in that area. Very few that aren't heavily degraded by invasive species and drainage today. The ones that aren't are pretty cool places.

There's a big difference between how a regulation is written and how it gets implemented.

The Corps has been more or less implementing this proposed rule since April(-ish?), and as seems to be the case with any federal regulation, each district has their own take on things. We've seen instances recently where they seem to be implementing almost no differently than pre-Sackett. Some refuse to exclude ephemeral features without a request for an Approved Jurisdictional Determination.

The way the proposed regulation is written, there will still be alot of gray area as to how the jurisdictional areas are determined. It essentially boils down to what the area looks like in the wet season, but as anyone who's done wetland delineations knows, you aren't always out at that time of year, conditions are rarely "normal", and everyone interprets indicators differently. This new definition is much more similar to how NRCS does wetland delineations, which is quite different than the traditional CWA delineation (even though NRCS uses Corps methods). Most private practitioners aren't well versed in the procedures, which will be a problem. Most people want to just run out in the field, collect data, and make a delineation. This is going to make it much harder to do that if you want to "exclude" some areas from CWA jurisdiction, especially in forested landscapes.

And the reality is, groups will find liberal judges to bring cases before as soon as it goes final, and this thing likely won't see the light of day. The most recent version of the Clean Water Rule was never implemented in over half the country.

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Every small town south of 1-10 looks just as poor and run down as any poor rundown town in Red River Parish.

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Have to disagree here.

Nine of the Top 10 parishes by percent of population under the poverty line are north of Alexandria, and the 10th is Avoyelles. North Louisiana has always been poorer than south Louisiana.

I've always thought this argument was ridiculous. It's a much smaller set of people than you're even calling out, because anyone west of the Mermentau or east of Mississippi gets called out as not being "real cajun" of "south Louisiana" just as much as north.

The thing that always cracks me up are the ignorant people that draw the lines for "east Texas", "cajun country", "south Arkansas", etc., and always draw places like Ville Platte and Opelousas out of Cajun Country when there is more cajun heritage in the pinky toe of T-Bob Fontenot out in Mamou than 75% of the population in Lafayette.

Lafayette isn't any different from Lake Charles. It just gets a pass from everyone because they French up the street signs and fall right in the middle of Acadiana.

I will say that north Louisiana sucks for one reason though...too many damn pine trees.

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Louisiana Ecological Forestry Center. Does some good stuff, teachers education and handicapped hunts.

LEAF Center

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This.

Its going back in the right direction, but doubt it will ever be public again.

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It's BS that coaches are not allowed to argue a call. It's part of baseball.

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To what end? Like the ump is just going to say, "oh you're right, nevermind bros, that was a ball"?

At some point, enough is enough.

And why did Schnall decide the bottom of the 1st inning was the time to argue over THREE pitches?! All of you white knighting for this guy are insane.

The ump sucked, but Schnall acted like a clown and got what he deserved. And he proved it in the post game with his "Own It" followed by a "but this is everyone else's fault".

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I still think he should have been given a little more rope.

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Bad take.

Its the first inning--he shouldn't have been arguing balls and strikes in the 1st inning with a runner on 2nd.

What legitimate manager/coach, in that game, is arguing balls/strikes that early?

And let's not forget that it's the first base coach that started it. Maybe the ump didn't help things if Schnall asked for an explanation, but he most definitely didn't help things when he came out the dugout throwing up 3 fingers and cussing at him.

Curious how OP feels after the "I'm a man, I'm not going to be SHOOOED" presser.

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I don't know how anyone is seriously defending the way he and his first base coach acted. It was the first inning. Everyone wants to say the umps shouldn't have been so quick--well why were they so quick to argue balls and strikes?

I dont think I've ever seen a coach argue balls and strikes in the 1st inning before.