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Portnoy is a caricature at this point.

Does it really matter who the establishment trots out in 2028 to take on Vance?

Prediction: the bankers will end up making money.

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Have some stones I went to Youngsville Middle.

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This ain’t 1992.

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But I’m practicing saying “would you like fries with that” once I retire.

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Seems like lots of us are in this boat.

Periodically I contemplate how much money we have paid and will pay for Catholic school and it seems insane. But then it still seems right.

God provides.

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The previous systems also made it possible for an undefeated team to not be the champion which made the entire season meaningless

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I think this is wrong. What the previous system did, by things like your example of undefeated teams not being the champion, is made the championship matter less, which let everything else matter more.

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Notre Dame had no shot against Dunham.

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Should also have had no shot against Calvary. Came within a yard and a half of beating them.

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Tje entire point of my posts is since the split the public schools have gotten worse They made themselves worse and schools like Catholic and karr better. Congrats

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How has the split made the publics worse?

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Absolutely, I've never understood why fellow college football fans were so determined to keep meaningful postseason participation so small when pretty much every other sport on every other level is larger.

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The bowls were meaningful. The players and coaches used to like playing football games, and the fans used to like watching them, and that’s all it took for a game to matter.

And some bowls carried their own additional meaning, which we have now thrown in the trash with the rest of things we sacrifice to mammon.

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Joachim Bourgeois is 165 lbs. but runs like a bull for Notre Dame.

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He has scored on the first offensive play of the game for ND six times this year.

The problem for Notre Dame is that most of their games against good opponents have been battles of attrition after that first play.

I haven’t watched Lewis Cook for very long, but this team is his best coaching performance that I’ve seen. Multiple games this year where his coaching was clearly (in my mind) the difference.

That doesn’t even get into how the team prepares from a physical standpoint or their buy-in/commitment compared to the teams they face. Just talking about how he manages the game and clock to get a win while facing obvious talent disparity.

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i've had some truly shitty experiences at fast food places... but never, in my entire 43 years on earth, have i ever felt so entitled to denigrate and insult the staff, no matter how bad the service was, if the order was wrong, etc... b/c at the end of the day, in the grand scheme of life, a messed up order at a fast food joint is so fricking insignificant, that it should never arise to the level of where you are acting out and berating and insulting other human beings over shitty food

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Gus McCrae pistol whipped a surly bartender just for not treating him with special respect.
I guess you’re saying you are better than Gus. I doubt that.

Just this weekend at Mass, our priest talked about how much he loves going deer hunting because he can settle in and take the best naps in the blind.