buddha

back from the dead!

i'd really like them to win this game. but even more important is that they come out of it healthy.

its better to be lucky than good.

josh reynolds? you can find josh reynolds on the waiver wire. donovan peoples jones could easily be his replacement. reynolds is a fine backup receiver who is valuable because he's an ok player and he's cheap. as soon as he becomes "not cheap" he will be out of a job and replaced by an equivalent. ragnow will be a bigger call because he's seemingly got a recurring injury. decker because he's getting old.

the broadcast companies are already making these plans. the schools will go along with whatever they want, just like the big ten did. if you think kevin warren was the mastermind behind usc to the big ten, youre crazy. if you think tony pettiti made the decision to get oregon and washington and not his tv overlords, youre smoking something.

are you in the big ten or sec? no? are you notre dame? no? you're out of luck. the sec wont need to "legitimize" anything. just like they dont now. the only thing that potentially scuttles it - but probably wont - is government intervention. some of the "left behinds" have powerful politicians in their states who may put up some roadblocks for state run institutions to break away and leave them. that's how baylor got into the big 12, iirc. that being said, it didnt do them any good when oklahoma and texas moved to the sec and cal got left behind by the big ten. so probably not.

decker is in his 8th season. i dont know how much longer he has left at a high level of play. one or two years?

because its still michigan versus ohio state. theyre not going to change the brand name. college football is already a mercenary game and the ratings are still very high. higher than anything other than the nfl. michigan-osu drew 17 million viewers. college football dominates the south, southwest, and midwest in the fall. its not going away because conferences change. if anything, the game will get better because you'll have better matchups on a weekly basis. less indiana-purdue and more michigan-washington. i hate to break it to you boomer, but your generation is not "keeping college football alive" college football will survive even if people now realize it was a fraud for a hundred years before the players got paid OVER the table. 🙂

4-50 since last year's trade deadline.

listening to another pistons pod today with them talking about how the pistons cut off access if you dont say nice things about them. which makes sense considering the tone of the beat reporters. langlois i understand because he works for the team. he's not going to badmouth them. jeiii is weaver's mouthpiece and must be getting info from him. the news and freep guys have actually been forced to be more critical the past week after a year of excuses.

you can get a quality center outside round 1. ragnow in round 1 is the exception, not the rule. left tackles you get in round 1. pass rushers, quarterbacks, left tackles, and (now) corner backs go in round 1.

probably the reason we lost. channeling my inner jeiii.

and just like that, it was over. 2-27. 26 straight losses. tying the record for most consecutive losses in one season. two more losses to catch the all time record (over two seasons) of the "process" sixers.

if it makes us feel any better utah just beat toronto. of course, markannen was back and put in 30. i cant wait until be give og anunoby a max deal this offseason and then watch him pour in 14 points a game for the next 5 years.

if you read that interview with gores, you'd know that no one is getting fired. maybe they make stefanski "officially" retire to give people some idea that this is his fault, but weaver and tellum and monty arent going anywhere for the time being.

down to 10!

oh no! syracuse and wake forest wont be invited to the new league! college football is dead! lol. i dont know what's coming next. part of me is sad because the game i grew up watching is changing. the lament of an old man who doesnt like change. otoh, the game i grew up watching was based on a lie (amateurism) that exploited college kids for huge money. the new way will be like the nfl, which will be good and bad. im happy i root for a team that will definitely be invited to the new party.

only down 9 at the half!

and down 11 after 1.

is tonight the night??? they didnt start the awful two-big lineup. baby steps to competent coaching.

tom gores' interview with the beat reporters is exactly as vapid and "corporate speak" as you can imagine. the pistons are "nimble". the idea that he'd sell the team is ridiculous because the team does so much for the community. the losses are on him (and troy). the players are tremendous. monty is great.

i listened to the locked on pistons podcast today to hear a two part episode for jeiii making excuses for troy weaver (what did they expect to get for bruce brown? joe harris was a great shooter! monte morris hits 40% from 3! the front office is committed to the process.) then the next day its "there's a lot of stuff behind the scenes i cant say." which means the "voice of troy weaver" told him that its arn tellum and ed stefanski's fault and that he never wanted monty in the first place. the blame game...it has begun.

at least they won.

ummm....5-1 after 1 and end up in ot?

cade is not the problem.