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Went to Saints game today in Jax

Was really happy to see Jaboo do well. That offense really suits him. Nice running game and strong defense so not a lot of pressure on him to force it and win games on his own. He made some great throws but did not try to force many like old Jameis in Tampa. Saw a lot of Drew Brees jerseys at the game. Not many Jameis jerseys at all. Not yet. I guess they will wait and see. If he keeps it up, you will see a lot more. If he has a great season, he is going to command a very large contract next year and it might not even be the Saints unless he is then willing to take less to stay with them. Wasn't a big crowd. Actually seemed like more Packers fans. But the Saints fans seem to really have a good time at it.

Reality, not reactivity. Seriously, what would you do?

Since our ass-whipping by JSU last night, I've been reading all of these posts...."Fire Norvell!", Fire Fuller!", "Fire Coburn!","Fire Everybody!" Most of that is emotional reactivity and not reality-based. Believe me, I had some of those thoughts last night and I'm a Norvell supporter. We all know thinking and feeling don't mix. The stupidest stuff we do in our lives is usually emotion-based or reactive. Firing Norvell after last night might FEEL like the right thing to do, but it's not realistic (and probably a bad idea overall). So, BEING REALISTIC, what do you do if you're in charge of the situation?
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Miracles - Big 12 Expansion

The Big 12 will vote to expand by 4 members later this week. It is a defensive move to get the ball rolling sooner than later because it is becoming increasingly clear that Texas and Oklahoma will be leaving sooner than expected to join the SEC.

You will likely hear the exact opposite this week that the Big 12 intends for Texas and OU to stay until the end of their TV contract. Here's the rest of the story you won't hear from the Big 12 right now.

ESPN has the TV rights to all 4 teams the Big 12 will be adding - BYU, UCF, Cincinnati, and Houston. This is not a coincidence. ESPN is not passively waiting for this to happen. They are dictating it.

As a negotiating move, ESPN has told the Big 12 it will cut its TV payout to the Big 12 by more than half, more than the combined exit fees, and more than the Big 12 will get trying to keep Texas and OU's media rights. ESPN and the SEC are prepared for Texas and OU to temporarily get zero media rights shares in the SEC for now to get what they want. That will likely not be necessary but the threat is real to make life miserable for the Big 12 if it doesn't play ball. Remember ESPN already very smartly factored in the SEC rights increase into its new CBS replacement deal before Texas and OU were announced to be moving to the SEC. This was planned in advance to partially compensate the SEC for the Texas and OU future additions.

Also, ESPN has the 4 new teams locked up within their own deals with ESPN. And guess what they require, exit fees paid back to the AAC (and indirectly ESPN in BYU's case). So ESPN has the Big 12 checkmated at every level, and any way you slice it, the math shows the Big 12 payouts will be going down substantially unless the Big 12 does what ESPN wants and releases Texas and OU next year.

ESPN is playing hardball and this will end up getting Texas and OU released from their GOR sooner than later. One GOR down, one ACC GOR to go.

“TV has made it obvious they’re only paying for the big brands moving forward."

8 million viewers on Sunday was a preview of what ESPN wants for FSU several times a year in the biggest matchups. Be ready FSU. A time for choosing is coming.

Arrogant play calling and stupidity.

Lining up in the wildcat was gaining NOTHING yet we continued to do it. We were getting MANHANDLED. Going for it in 4th down when we could have gone up 13 cost us the game. We wouldn’t have lost by 1. We lost because we were trying to prevent a field goal attempt and passively prevent a bomb. If we kick the FG we would have actually been in prevent defense.
Don’t get me wrong we are an awful football team where massive errors are normalized, but strategically the coaching was atrocious on both sides of the ball.

the test-ND, jax st and Wake

I posted this before the game .. I will post this again now

we did not know who we were after ND and we will not after jax state .. but we will have good idea after wake and most likely know for sure after wake and louisville

wake is a good team, it is one the road, they are well coached and do not make mistakes .. this is our test we beat wake and louisville are still on tract-can we play like we did against ND .. no idea but I sure hope so

we have more talent and we have been implementing our system since January .. wake has less talent and has been doing what they do for years

I know why we lost the game!

Analytics!- just my opinion but had we kicked a field goal rather than going for it on 4th and goal from the three and failing we would have gone up by 13 and JSU wouldn’t have driven for a 97 yard TD. I think they might have felt they couldn’t come back but the stop was a momentum boom for them and a killer for us. I’m not a coach or anything, just a long term fan. If a coach is going to live by analytics the team needs to be able to perform up to the analytical standard that says the play will work otherwise we’ll die by analytics.
I’ll always be a supporter I just hope it gets better in a hurry.
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