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posted by friendfromlowry

This is an unpopular take and I’m not even sure I believe it because there’s good reason onside kickers are so hard to recover. But they’re so hard to recover that it’s pointless. “Oh we’re down 10 we need to score quickly so we can try that kick that has a 3% chance of working. I can’t wait to watch.”

Like I said, I don’t necessarily think it needs changed. But let’s talk it out. 

The NFLs new onside kick rules are much worse than college.

The odds of recovering one already weren't good and the new rules made it even more unlikely.

posted by sportchampps

It should be hard

posted by Ironman92

 smaller than I imagined but nice

They should just put the top 8 teams on the same field and let them fight to the death to determine the champion. Last man standing also wins heisman

posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

That’s the fun of CFB - arguing about things that can never be settled.  It’s always been that way - long before the playoff.

Indiana was a fraud…looks like SMU is too.

YOU'RE A FRAUD

Sick decision by Franklin to go for it on 4th and 1 on your own 20. Jackass. I hope they lose.

SMU's QB literally throwing the game away.

posted by Ironman92

ass

please take it to the donkey thread.

guys, you're off topic. keep it to animals you've murdered with your vehicles.

please make a donkey/coyote thread if you want to discuss that instead. thanks.

murderer

bump

posted by Automatik

Where is everyone going?

nunya

69420 by christmas

posted by Al Bundy

Chubb broke his foot.

that'll really hurt their playoff chances

posted by Automatik

For example, current apartment is $2500/month. It's an amazing deal for the location/space. If I were to buy with a manageable down payment and pre-approved rate as of 2 months ago....it's ~4800/month. Also factors in a $400/month HOA. Painful.

are those denver prices? when I lived out there (2017) i managed to get a 1BR apartment for $1234 which was a steal for broomfield. when my renewal came up they were looking for $1500-1600. 

fortunately (?) for me, i had decided for several reasons that it didn't make sense to stay there so I moved back to OH. one of those reasons were the astronomical housing prices. at the time, the median house price in broomfield was ~500k. my colleagues were happily buying them, but i have absolutely no idea how they could realistically afford them.

there has to be a disturbing amount of people living out there that are house poor.

posted by Automatik

I've been hopping around with temp leases since ~2021. I'm over it and I REALLY want to buy something to basically "get in the game", potential investment property, build equity, blah blah.  By late-spring 2025, I should be able to make a move or at least get more serious about it.

went through a similar arc several years ago. i was ready to buy in 2019 and told myself that i should save up some more money. covid happened shortly afterward, and then suddenly the same homes i was looking at in 2019 were 250% more expensive and well outside of my price range. i assumed the market would eventually cool and i'd take the plunge then.

well it didnt. as time wore on, housing prices (and rates) were skyrocketing and showing no sign of slowing down. i grew more and more concerned that owning a home would never be feasible. last summer i re-entered the market and found myself competing for houses that were merely fine. i wound up with one that is absolutely nothing like the home i was originally targeting in 2019. i ultimately sacrificed on all fronts: size, location, everything, and then paid $10k over ask for the privilege of downgrades across the board.

i'm a year into it and i've been paying hundreds extra every month just to get some equity into the place. if rates fall a few percent, i'll likely sell and try and get something closer to what i wanted in 2019.

knowing what i know now about the mortgage process, i should've and could've bought back then. one of the biggest regrets of my life, but nobody could've predicted the covid bs.

also, to switch gears, being a homeowner is a catch-22. there's still plenty of times when i hope i come home and the place is burned to the ground and i could go back to renter life. but i do continue to tell myself that every investment in the home (whether it's a mortgage payment or me fixing random shit around the house) is just me shifting money around instead of directly handing it to someone else, as i would with rent.

basically what i'm saying is cocks/balls

hope this helps

posted by justincredible

It’s fully in their court. I’m either a remote employee or I’m not an employee. 

this may be exactly what they're expecting. maybe they wanted to trim back some of the workforce and realized this would be a way to shed some people without laying off anybody.

i have to report to the office once a week (about a 70 mile commute, one way). i could probably choke down two or three times a week, but any more than that and i'd leave.

https://ohiochatter.com/forum/serious-business/choosing-the-best-baby-shampoo-for-hair-in-pakistan

Ohio State is just soft mentally.  All that talent and can't beat the worse non-covid Michigan team since Hoke.

I said it the last two weeks.. if Michigan could just keep it close, the mental part would get too big for OSU, and that's exactly what happened.

posted by justincredible

Day gets fired, right?

I defended him last year when he lost to the cheaters, but there was no excuse for the product on the field today.

The offensive play calling was the worst I've seen in recent memory. It was beyond frustrating watching them continue to run the ball when it wasn't working. Just wasting downs on every play.

I thought for sure they'd just give up on the idea when they discovered the forward pass at the end of the half. They walked right down the field and scored, but nope, they went right back to running the ball for nothing after half.

They'll probably can him but I'm not sure who they get. They run the risk of turning into a program like Nebraska if they hire the wrong person.

Part of me wonders if Urban would return.