Week 6 college football thread: Calgorithm is Gonna Get You

[Alma]

I think play cards are pretty much done now that they have helmet communications.

On offense. Defense, you'll still see them.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

A rumination that ended in a mild lament and, unsurprisingly, found no opposition to his thesis. A sports essay written for people who don't actually like sports, in other words, an apt summary of many takes from national sportswriters, whose first goal typically revolves around being a progressive-thinking person, followed by some interest in the sports task at hand.

John Branch thinks he's better than the topic he just covered. His previous work indicates he thinks football should probably stop existing, and that's absolutely his prerogative, but it colors whatever he'd do on the subject.

And if the big time NYT reporter wanted to talk to the AD, you find the guy on the sideline before the game and you ask your question. Like college beat reporters sometimes have to do. It's possible Branch forgot how to do that, though.

Leave it to you to A) shoot the messenger rather than the message, B) inject politics into it and C) do it all very hackishly.

 

[Alma]

Leave it to you to A) shoot the messenger rather than the message, B) inject politics into it and C) do it all very hackishly.

Oh, I think addressed the message just fine. The message is, IMO, the writer. (After all, it is an essay.)

But I may well be a hack!

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Oh, I think addressed the message just fine. The message is, IMO, the writer. (After all, it is an essay.)

But I may well be a hack!

OFFS, this new era of NIL and conference realignment is just another jumping off point to continue a century old debate.



But, yeah, he's just writing for people who already hate sports and The Cools.

 

[swingline]

I was cool once. Until I wasn't.

 

[DanOregon]

But that's just the QBs, weren't all players supposed to stand up and look at the sign before the snaps? I remember how disjointed it was.

 

[dixiehack]

On offense. Defense, you'll still see them.

Maybe, but the middle linebacker now has the "green dot" helmet as well.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

But that's just the QBs, weren't all players supposed to stand up and look at the sign before the snaps? I remember how disjointed it was.

Not a fan of meerkats?

 

[dixiehack]

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[dixiehack]

Not to put too fine a point on it, but Kennesaw State has the most Christ-awful defense I've seen from an alleged FBS team.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Not to put too fine a point on it, but Kennesaw State has the most Christ-awful defense I've seen from an alleged FBS team.

Yet another example of a school that has no business playing football taking the leap.

 

[micropolitan guy]

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I was wondering why you were posted a picture of the Toledo Mud hens' home stadium.