buddha

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/47917988/big-ten-eyes-24-team-cfp-no-league-championship-games

why not just go to 64 teams?

2 hours ago, Deleterious said:

A 14 team tournament would require 4 rounds to complete.  Regular season ends on a Sunday and the first playoff game is the next Saturday.  So you would have to play 4 rounds in a 5-day window to complete the tournament before the playoffs start.  

There would be a big incentive to finish in the top half of the bracket, just to eliminate some travel.  The bottom 6 teams to win the tournament would most likely have to travel 4 times in a 5-day window.  That should keep the bottom teams from tanking in the regular season.

Where you will see some tanking still is the 8th/9th seed area.  

Let's say you have been in the lottery the last two seasons and your team is starting to get good.  You have a great shot at the 8th seed and making the playoffs.   Your reward?  Getting your teeth kicked in by the 1 seed.  So maybe you have one or two of your better players develop back spasms for a week or two so you lose enough games to drop to the #9 seed.  You are now the favorite to win the tournament, get one last high pick before moving onto the playoffs the next season.  That is where you will still have some tanking.

You will always have some tanking on a record based draft order.  The goal isn't to eliminate it, the goal is to minimize it the best we can.  

what's the ibcentive for the players to try hard?  the team gets a better draft pick and he comes in and takes my job or reduces my playing time?

$500k is a pretty significant fine.

so now the jazz will just make up a surgery for jjj and lauri.

1 hour ago, Betrayer said:

Unlike with Duren and Ivey where I was all for waiting until RFA, I'd consider trying to get Ausar at a decent extension price this summer if possible. If his offense comes around at all next year he's going to get paid big time. Might be best to treat it like Stew and lock him up at a reasonable amount while you can.

"if" is doing a lot of work there. 

but he's athletic enough to think that if - there's that word again - anyone could have the coordination to learn how to shoot a basketball, its him.

2 hours ago, Deleterious said:

Utah is shutting JJJ down for the rest of the season to get knee surgery. Something called Pigmented Villonodular Synovitis. 

is that aj dybantsa's nickname?  cause that's why jjj is getting shut down 

Duren's deal should be determined in part on how he does in the playoffs.  when teams play defense and things matter.  can he score without cade feeding him easy baskets?  can he get rebounds and put backs when the other team's bigs are trying for rebounds on every possession?  can he be a focal point when cade sits?  can he defend the paint?

if he cant - and they think he wont develop any further - then they'd be crazy to pay him.  they may have already backed themselves into a corner so it might not even matter.

what's the alternative?  could they even do a sign and trade?

6 hours ago, slothfacekilla said:

Crazy that this game is 2-2 right now.

 

buddha is going to hate this but I think Elias Petterson looks pretty good so far 😈

Should have had a goal in the first but the refs let a pretty egregious hook go imo

he's playing against the equivalent of a Q league team, he better look good.

i find it hilarious that people really thought scottie barnes was better than cade cunningham.

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

7 games for Stew and 2 for Duren.

 

he's lucky he only got 7.

5 minutes ago, chasfh said:

and tigers traded from the tigers are no longer tigers unless/until they return to the tigers.

tigers traded by the tigers dont make the choice to leave.

i dont know why youre arguing with me about how i feel about players who used to play for the teams i follow.  its not a logic problem, its who i have emotional ties to.  

Does verlander start opening day?  😉

3 hours ago, chasfh said:

will you root for michigan players who go through the transfer portal to ohio state?

that's no longer a michigan player.  you have forfeited your citizenship.

13 minutes ago, slothfacekilla said:

It blows my mind that snoop dogg of all people is everywhere now

or that ice cube became america's favorite dad in the movies for a bit.  or ice t has been on law and order AS A COP for like 20 years.

On 2/8/2026 at 10:19 AM, oblong said:

Verlander was a unique situation. In 2017 he was about a month removed from being traded. We watched him grow up and at least for me I had a feeling we were seeing a guy close out his career. I typically don’t give two ****s who wins a WS so in a situation like that I will root for him. I saw it kind of like a Ray Bourque to Colorado thing where Boston took as much pride in that.  Nobody will ever think of him as anything but a Bruin.  Looking back on JV obviously he elevated his game and sustained his greatness.  I didn’t see that happening at his age but he might be just as much an Astro as a Tiger  

 

Scherzer I don’t feel the same way. We didn’t draft him. He signed elsewhere and even then I knew his greatest years still in front of him so I saw his time here as a stepping stone. 

i'll always root for verlander.  i couldnt care less about scherzer.  

if skubal leaves i will still root for him.  like you said, homegrown.    i feel the same way about stafford although i get people dont feel the same way.

i always root for michigan players once they make the pros too.

20 minutes ago, Shinzaki said:

Been watching wings hilights from the 90's and 2000's to get my hockey fix.

 

That Federov kid could really skate...as could Klima.  Shame Klima had...issues,,,that forced him out of town

cocaine is a hell of a drug.

smart bulls fans were initially excited about ivey, but then they looked at the tape...and saw the contract...and were like "why didnt we just re-sign coby white?"

43 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Benched all those guys and still won.  

they should still get fined.

stew probably gets 8-10.  maybe 5 if he's lucky.  he left the bench, he's a repeat offender, and he's not famous on a glamour team like draymond.

bridges should be kicked out of the league because he beats more than jusy guys on a basketball floor.  he'll probably get a game.  duren will get 2 or 3.  diabete should get the same.

Just now, Deleterious said:

I legit cant tell if Sacramento is tanking or just being Sacramento.  

yes.

30 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Duren will get a game.  Stew could get 3, his repeat offender status will hurt him.  

3?  he'll be lucky to just get 3.

2 hours ago, Shinzaki said:

UM's frontcourt is awfully impressive...would love to see Lendeborg in Detroit

michigan pays pretty well.

12 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

They must have used the BAE

 

does that mean the pistons have a team option for NEXT year?

sam darnold is the only reason the pats are in this game.

ha!  good job, bad bunny.  rub it in his orange face.

waiting for collinsworth to tell me those horrible throws by darnold are actually good plays.