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The defense is down 17 starters!!! What do you expect!?!?!

A Les Miles coached team would have 140 yards rushing by now.

Not if the defense can’t stop running QB.

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I wonder if, had tv shows existed in say 1300, that the portrayals of women would be different than now?

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It's funny that you say that. I read Barbara Tuchman's book on the Middle Ages last summer ( A Distant Mirror) and it is pretty amazing how the same complaints about women today (nagging, attention seeking) were made in the 14th century.

I think that TV has been very forward thinking in its portrayals of sex and race over the years.

Doesn't the NCAA have the "power" (I realize they have very little) to say that athletic programs can't double as sports agents?

I'll drink a lot and eat my gameday nachos while watching a bunch of players whose names I've never heard before get beat by 4 touchdowns.

Geaux Tigers.

Okay, serious question...

Why does college football have to be a business?

Why can't the student athletes transfer at will (like every other college student on campus can), and the universities athletics dept. will just figure it out?

Also, why does an athletic dept. have to promise any sort of monetary guarantee too said student athlete? If said student athlete wishes to make money off of their own brand, the athletic director simply needs to say "That sounds great, you should do that."

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Give me an example of the distinction between “Everyone likes this movie except me” and “the movie people say this is a great movie, I think it stinks” if you think I'm off base.

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"everyone likes this movie but me"

People, as in normal movie fans, love these movies, for my own reasons, they didn't resonate with me

For me, that would be Chinatown, Apocalypse Now, and No Country for Old Men. I'll expect downvotes, etc. Those were movies I watched with high expectations after a lot of hype, and was very disappointed. Other examples (not mine) usually include A Christmas Story and The Big Lebowski.

“the movie people say this is a great movie, I think it stinks"

High on Rotten Tomatoes, the Academy loved it, etc.

For me, some recent examples would be Moonlight, where I legit fell asleep in the third act, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MO, where I was eye rolling at what a bitch Frances McDormand was, but glad Sam Rockwell won an Oscar, because he stole the movie. However, I am still flummoxed at this movie winning 7 Oscars.

It seems like you are more in the former than the latter. For the purposes of this thread, I will say The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard with Jeremy Piven. I watched it after much praise from this board. I may have lol'd once. I'm pretty sure it was when the gospel choir sings "it's not even motherfricking Fresno". Also, The Invention of Lying. Once again, I was let down by this board's recommendation. I could handle the blatant attack on Christianity (isn't it sooo odd that this same type of movie doesn't exist for any other religion). However, this movie just wasn't funny. Truth telling doesn't mean that everyone has to be shallow and unempathetic. This board let me down.

“Fix the business…preserve this game”

The current state of CFB in one quote.

Zion Williamson’s next professional goal.

Everyone here is culpable. These same posters upvoting you were bitching every year about the BCS. These MFers have been wanting a playoff since the 90s.

Now you all have it.