YoungSteele830

Gotta be real close to a landfall

Although the track has shifted north since yesterday. Looks like it may be in St. Bernard Parish instead of Plaquemines Parish. Shell Beach would be the closest community accessible by road

Stephen A keeps getting massive contract extensions, and ESPN keeps having to do massive layoffs to be able to afford him.

What value does he bring to their brand? Nobody actually watches First Take, it’s just background noise at sports bars and gyms and doctors offices. I understand that the value isn’t in the show itself, it’s the social media clips generated out of the show that give them the best reach. But I seriously struggle to see how clip-farming alone is worth that much money.

If ESPN laid off Stephen A today, who would pick him up, how quickly, and what would his role be?

I just fricking hate how unbalanced this bracket has turned out to be.

In the top left corner we have the 9, 13, 14, and 15, in terms of ranking the remaining teams.

While the bottom left corner has both the 2nd and 3rd highest ranked team.

And the bottom right corner has the 1, 4, 6, and 7.

West Virginia has an absolute cakewalk while better teams have to run fricking gauntlets to get to the championship. Hell at this point just don’t even bother playing the other games on the left side, the winner of Auburn vs North Carolina next Friday night in Omaha is a lock to reach the finals. None of the teams in the top left are serious contenders. UCLA and Florida could’ve been but shite their pants last week.

The current system awards regional hosts based on who the best teams were during the season. But it doesn’t always do the same for Supers, as we see this year with 3 seed Troy hosting a Super while regional hosts Oregon and Miss State hit the road.

We’re guaranteed to have either 4 seed Little Rock or 3 seed Troy in Omaha just because of the dumb luck of how the bracket fell. Why not award Super hosts to Oregon and Miss State for being high seeds instead of Troy because of pure luck? Could get better teams in Omaha and thus better games.

SR matchups if we re-seeded, using selection Monday RPI to break ties between 2/3/4 seeds:

St. John’s at 3 Georgia
Little Rock at 4 Auburn
Cal Poly at 5 North Carolina
Troy at 6 Texas
Oklahoma at 7 Alabama
Ole Miss at 11 Oregon
USC at 14 Miss State
16 West Virginia at 15 Kansas

Looks like big arse raindrops on the broadcast

If the school is just now finding out about this, that’s late as hell to be trying to find a new coach. I realize he probably teaches too and had to stay for the rest of the academic year, but man, we’re closer to the start of next season than we are the end of the last one. Don’t even get to do spring ball with the new coach.

Kiffin is absolutely spot-on. Real LSU fans know that next year is a rebuilding year. Might have the toughest schedule in all of college football. FIVE SEC road games. 9-3 is acceptable and even 8-4 wouldn’t be that bad. Unfortunately the national media has KIFFIN DERANGEMENT SYNDROME and are setting him up to fail by saddling him with crazy high expectations. They want to believe that we have more money than the Dodgers and should win every game easily.

The Ole Miss game in particular is like a preseason game for us. New coach. New team. Just trying to get things figured out. Ole Miss has a massive advantage in the game just because they have an established coaching staff and QB who isn’t trying to gel with a new team. September always favors veteran experience over the flashy new toys like we have. See Arch Manning stumbling out the gate last year, meanwhile veteran Carson Beck won the September Heisman last year. This game should have been put in November.

Been up basically all season, and this isn’t even in BR, this is all the way up in Monroe. Clearly Todd Graves also expected a .300 AVG, 20+ HR season out of Yorke. I member in February when the biggest issue with Yorke was arguing over his nickname

Has absolutely nothing to do with the participation trophies.

It’s just the nature of capitalism…there always has to be MOAR. Money is the driver of everything, and people with money are like gods to be worshipped. MOAR ad revenue from Capital One and Coca-Cola and Draft Kings. MOAR March Madness games for the gamblers to lose money on.

I thought this board was heavy conservative leaning politically and loved capitalism…but lots of hate on capitalism in this thread.

Am I not allowed to question this? I and a vast majority of 2024 Trump voters voted for Trump for our wallets, because he said he would lower prices and stop Biden’s inflation. And yet prices have only gotten worse.

I don’t like Democrats at all, and it seems like Trump’s failure to lower prices is just handing them the midterms.

Was at that game…what a fun one. Marathon. Hot. What a payoff the Milam bomb was.

Also just noticing in that pic, the dugouts in Hoover are deep af.