It’s a pretty weird piece. “Here, read this article. Then come back and read my article, which is just quoting the one I just linked to and provides absolutely zero additional insight. Enjoy!”

Like I said above, tanking definitely happens. And when it does, the GM/Owner level stuff is what drives it, absolutely. But there’s always a ton of articles in the last 30 games or so of the season where bloggers start screaming about tanking because the teams that 2nd or 3rd from the bottom start losing a lot of…

I wasn’t saying that I thought we should get rid of this thing- I was saying your standard for when we can make that argument is bizarre and incorrect. The original commenter said “ban it”. You said “that’s absurd because it doesn’t meet this standard.” I said “that’s an odd standard. Is that really the standard we…

Uh huh. I did. Great copy and paste job. What’s your point?

Lol, you do realize that I never said we should ban Punisher, right? I don’t know how many times I have to say “I’m calling out your claim that we should only consider things harmful if they are the sole cause of harm” before you’ll actually address my comments.

Did you miss, like, most of what I said? Yes, there are some instances of actual tanking. But for the most part, the claims are lobbed at teams that just plain stink, and the evidence of tanking is that they stink. I’m not persuaded by the argument that a team that wins 20 games in a season losing 13 of 15 to close…

Your strawman attack of what I actually said is also a progressive position on numerous actions as well. I’m not sure what world you’re living in where people on all sides of the aisle haven’t been trying to balance societal harms and benefits since time began. Do you really think that if Fox started airing a show…

Is that really the bar for whether or not we should support something that is promotes negative societal outcomes? It has to be the sole creator and cause of a terrible outcome for us to say “maybe we should get rid of this thing”?

I’ve never understood the majority of the tanking claims. They seem to rely on the argument that “see? This team lost 8 of 10 games, so they’re just giving up!”, but the only teams that could even be considered to be tanking are the ones that are already terrible. A terrible team losing 8 out of 10 is not some…

In the time it took you to write out that comment you could have done a google search that would have shown you how woefully uninformed you are on this subject. Maybe do that next time instead of getting on your soapbox.

I’m equally skeptical of the suicide’s validity. It just seems like too much of a coincidence that a youtube celebrity would go to a suicide forest with a camera crew in tow and find a suicide victim right away. I don’t think it lessens how disgusting he is in any way if there is no real dead body- it just changes…

I’m not sure why you’re so hung up on the fact that he only mentioned RJ and JR. It was a conversation, not an official press release. He seemed to be clearly using them as examples of how the team as a whole would benefit from Kyrie pushing the tempo a bit. I don’t think Ty Lue is a great coach or anything, but I…

That requires assuming that the system you propose will operate in a way no system in college football rankings has ever operated. Sure, increasing the number of teams increases the probability of any team making it. Penn State would certainly have had a better chance of making it this year if there were 8 teams…

I feel like playing .500 ball in Cincy is actually a sign of a pretty good coaching job.

I don’t see any reason to have faith that the rankings wouldn’t play out exactly as they already do. The same arguments for justifying why 9 teams are better than UCF right now would be trotted out to justify why those same 9 teams are still better than UCF if the playoffs were 8 teams. Unless you think the people…

Holy hell, that sounds like a lot of useless work. One of the great things about a hotel is being able to come in and NOT care about any of that stuff.

Seems odd to give credit to a team’s defense when it gave up 48 points and 531 yards of offense while it’s offense scored 54. Sure, they played better in the second half, but Georgia’s offense won this game.

What is your point? He’s saying that teams making it into the CFP without winning their conference is stupid, and you’re calling him a moron because other teams have done that? Just because Ohio State did it last year doesn’t mean it makes sense for Alabama to do it this year. Neither team should have made it.

It’s an especially ludicrous argument given that Barry is advocating expansion so that UCF could have made it into the playoff. UCF is ranked TENTH as of today, so they would STILL have been on the outside looking in, and we could therefore STILL be outraged that the 8 team playoff picture didn’t include them. His…

Very true. Shottie started out 0-5, finished 8-3 after the team finally bought into his style, and was still fired. God, this team fucking blows.