OKBoomerSooner

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Ryan Clark can’t wait to talk about what that fan called him, systemic racism, blah blah blah.

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“I just want to ask, and I feel like this is an underexposed angle here so I’ve got to ask. What exactly. was it. that the FAN. Said. Or did. That preceded this behavior by DK. It seems really unlikely that DK just DID IT without any provocation. You have to know. If you’re a fan. Especially of the opposing team. That there are certain things, and we don’t need to go into what those things ARE. I think we all know what those things are. But. There are certain things. That you just can’t do. So my question, did the fan do one of those things? That’s all I’m saying, I’m not accusing anyone, just asking questions.”

—probably Ryan Clark

Now imagine if they'd just taken the top 8 and started with this :lol:

Granted, it wouldn't be the exact same matchups. OU and A&M would be in and Bama/Miami would be out. But same principle.

6 or 8 was the move

:lol: :bow:

I thought for sure they said at one point during the leadup to conference championship weekend that they explicitly were not going to avoid rematches and just seed by overall resume.

Kinda wish they hadn't lol...

It's really disappointing to keep seeing DEI invites go to undeserving programs like Alabama* that just get blown out in the first round every single year.



*edit: replace "Alabama" with "Oklahoma"

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Irrational fear from people who have completed the process to legally be in this country dont'cha think?

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What if, heaven forbid, the government makes a mistake and gets the wrong person?

Trump’s admin already ignores courts on immigration when it feels doing so is correct. The overwhelming sentiment from the right is that due process shouldn’t be extended to immigration proceedings. Seems entirely reasonable for someone here lawfully to be worried that they might be mistaken for someone else, and then not be able to get the issue corrected before they’re wrongly deported.

I don’t know that I’d be hiding out at home if that were me… seems like that would defeat the purpose of moving here. But I hardly think it irrational to be worried that the government would mess up and then not timely fix its mistake.

Klatt’s wrong here, but there’s some nuance to the reasoning. Basically, football and basketball are just different sports, and you shouldn’t make the same assumptions about what makes for a good playoff.

The difference comes down to injury risk and sample size.

Players get injured in football much more often than in basketball. This limits the number of games the teams can play. In turn, you don’t get a great sample size relative to the number of teams in the league. Compare to the NFL, which now has 32 teams playing 17 games, instead of 136 teams playing 12–13 games. Record is still a useful metric, but not useful enough to go on by itself.

Additionally, the games themselves are different in ways that limit building good sample sizes. Football scoring uses weird numbers, and the number of scoring opportunities is a lot lower. Basketball scoring is much more granular: the numbers are smaller, and you get a lot more scoring opportunities, so games have a smoother distribution of outcomes. This makes it easier to know who’s actually good and who’s not. If a basketball team is nuking everyone from orbit, you don’t find yourself asking “but have they played anybody?” the way you might with some football teams.

All of this adds up to different postseasons. In college basketball, you can spare a six-round tournament without worrying if all the contenders will suffer a meaningful injury from wear and tear. Great teams will also get plenty of chances, even in a single game, to shake off cold shooting streaks and assert their will on bad teams. In football, a six round tournament would get everybody killed lol. And if you have a few bad possessions, you might be cooked no matter how good the team is supposed to be. So the same formula that makes March Madness a success may just not fit football.

I’ll end by pointing out that people clearly care about more than just crowning the best team. People love a Cinderella story. Maybe football can’t spare indulgence of that desire like basketball can, but it’s worth pointing out that we don’t just want to crown the best team. That’s the most important thing but not the only thing.

I’m with you king. Joe and Ja’Marr could restructure and take one dollar a year for nineteen years then get the rest of the money in year 20. Think about how OP that team would be, on god, no cap

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Failure to graduate in the four years loses the last year of eligibility.

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Doesn’t that defeat the point of them being student athletes though? Trust me, I know that’s a quaint and funny consideration, but this seems like the type of compromise that helps no one.

Plus, I remember a lot of athletes expressly leveraging the redshirt year to take lighter class schedules (in terms of hours anyway), so they could better balance class and athletics.

I know the idea of them having to balance class and athletics now is a joke at the upper levels, but for a lot of guys their ceiling really is leveraging college athletics for a (relatively) mild payday and a degree. I think any solution should still enable that.

To me the issue was bending the rules too much with what qualified as a redshirt year (plus the transfer portal but we all know about that). Yea it sucks for the redshirt to get burned in one game, but stuff like Matt Sluka at UNLV basically quitting on the team to save the redshirt year and get paid somewhere else is bullshite and the real problem here IMO.

Honestly, I’m pretty shaken up about this one.

My girlfriend’s son Kaylyn (they/them) has followed football since they was little. Chiefs run started their first year. They has never known a playoff without the Chiefs.

They is inconsolable. I don’t know what I’m going to tell them. They thinks Taylor Swift might not release an album in 2026 because of this and it’s breaking their heart. Honestly? Mine too.

Ok that handoff was baller tho