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Clemson has been known to sleepwalk a bit much lately - GT in 2021 was given every opportunity to have a win like this - so I definitely think they aren't at national champion level, but I'm not gonna write them off or get on the Duke train too much just yet. Duke could be that good - they...

If we could rip off more wins than losses in a span of like 5 years of good games against either VT or FSU either of those would be just as intense feeling to me as Clemson. Whereas when they’re one-sided it’s kinda meh even from the GT side, IMO. So none of them really come close to the UGA...

The one other really interesting thing to me not covered in that (great!) article is the rise of Twitch and video game streaming and the like. I think Disney blacking out ESPN on spectrum runs a big risk with younger demographics of them finding something else to watch and some fraction of them...

Well there's also a third group: whatever percent of those who finished was willing to cheat. A school with a poor retention rate will reward the cheaters much more than it will reward either of the "tried, but wasn't capable" or "didn't know how to try, failed" camp. I think that's an...

I think the first-year grading at MIT is a good example of how it's not just a "are the teachers good" thing but also an institutional attitude. There's too many students for any given professor to help all the ones who don't have the tools yet, but at a school level you can do things. Don't...

I didn't like kicking the long FG attempt before half instead of taking a shot but I get it. Playing for 3 late in the game though after your D has gotten shredded and your run game is getting stuffed in the second half, though... settling for the FGA there was rough from a strategy standpoint...

Yeah, if you're measuring how good you have to be to get out, low retention can be a positive sign. "It takes a real genius to make it through this." But if you're measuring how good the school is at being a school, it's a negative. "Wow, unless you're already a genius, this place sucks at...

I left after three straight semesters of 3.5+ GPA. But I was young and pissed off and tired of fighting the school administration, so after proving to myself that I could get a bunch of A's after a rough start, I didn't care to stay. A good thing of GT? The material is very rigorous and there's...

I think I could count the ones who didn’t on one hand. I didn’t and still don’t think GT is a good place to learn, but it has a long-standing reputation for high standards and so it just feeds itself since employers go there to hire and so you gotta play the game if you’re looking for a good...

Probably a lower chance but a fair bit higher upside. Like, if the kick is <30%, I want to go for the knockout blow even if it’s in the 0-10% range.

I would love to know if Stewart has hit reliably from that distance in practice for the end-of-first-half FG attempt. I didn’t like letting off the gas at the time vs trying to really drive a stake in them especially not without a track record of long kicks. Would’ve loved to go vertical or...

That receiver yard distribution reminds me of the rush yard distribution some days under Johnson. Fun stuff. I'm trying really hard to find the positives compared to last year since we probably weren't winning any championships this year anyway, but ugh that 3rd quarter. I'm kinda shocked...

I wish schools would stop wanting to be Stanford. Give more people a great education, don't just give the richest people a 1% better "elite" education. Focus on students, not jockeying for research prestige. Stop spending on stupid **** and get your costs down (funny how this applies to...

The ceiling for the offense looks a LOT higher than last year. Only broke 30 against Western Carolina last year. Did it today despite a lot of obvious area for improvement and a new QB in a new system. Could be really impressive after that's cleaned up some. The floor for the defense doesn't...

When do we find out when GT will be making road trips to the new schools? Coming from SoCal this is gonna be the first time a road game is more convenient than just going to Atlanta for me in a long time. Can’t wait!

I’m surprised something so public happened this soon even as a negotiation tactic but there’s probably a LOT of cable customers with very little interest in ESPN and sports and eventually some cable co or streamer will pivot to focusing just on them. And ESPN is gonna be really screwed when...

ACC schools are really really bad at understanding the PR benefits of a united front and the long term strategy aspects of not infighting in public in the face of uncertainty. If UNC is certain that they’ll have a better option in 2036 they aren’t paying enough attention to what’s happening in...

I do really like the match between the metallic gold numbers on the white jerseys and the helmets now. I don’t remember any old white jerseys having such a nice metallic number. I think the materials for the gold ones just don’t do well in indoor lighting but as long as they look close enough...

Further than that even, right? Most programs don't change that drastically year over year. Coach stays the same, roster evolves, lose some production, gain some production. Those are all fairly "modeling friendly" events. Then there are the Deion's or the "wow maybe Geoff Collins really brought...

I think some things are timeless and “too hard a schedule can hurt you” is one of them. We could look at TAMU for a more recent example, for all the public bluster between them and UT about canceling that game, they probably internally had no complaints about not keeping a permanent hard OOC...