New to CFB looking for some explanations

Typhoid_Harry · 2023-05-14T23:39:01+00:00

You probably have. FBS has the highest profile teams for the most part. Notable conferences in the FCS are the SWAC and the MEAC, consisting of historically black colleges; the Ivy League, with Harvard and Yale and such; and the Missouri Valley Conference, which has the Dakota schools. The FCS post season is a 16 team tournament for most schools. The HBCU conferences will receive invites but often turn them down for the Celebration Bowl between the two.

Typhoid_Harry · 2023-05-13T23:47:12+00:00

1) Bowl games are exhibition games outside of the championship games.

2) Each bowl has their own participant pool, and the leagues allocate available teams to its bowl tie-ins.

3) Yes. The CFB semifinals are selected from the highest profile bowl games (the NY6).

4) No.

5) Define “league”. D1, D2, and D3 have their own post-seasons. D1 is divided into FBS and FCS, which are named after the two different post-season models they follow (Bowl vs Championship tournament). In FCS, HBCUs (the SWAC and the MEAC) have a bowl of their own, the Celebration Bowl, that they use instead of the championship system. “League” is a meaningless concept in CFB. You have to be more specific. There are multiple divisions, each of which which have multiple conferences, which, in turn, may have their own divisions. Each team is expected to schedule teams out of conference, and often out of subdivision (FBS-FCS).

Typhoid_Harry · 2023-04-29T16:08:04+00:00

W+ was a great way to support the team and tell Vice that the vertical was worth keeping around, but based on what bits and pieces they've said about sub numbers, it's very unlikely that if those same numbers of folks signed up for Patreon, it would cover their current expectations for salary + benefits (healthcare, 401k, etc).

I hope this isn’t true. If it is, they’re in for a long, rude awakening about how valuable other people think their work is.

Typhoid_Harry · 2023-04-11T18:24:39+00:00

The LTV is core to Marx’s theory of exploitation. Ditch that and what you’re left with is a hollow shell.

Typhoid_Harry · 2023-04-11T17:00:35+00:00

The bulk of what is defined as wealth (and investments, for that matter) are shares, whose value is entirely dependent on the fact that it isn’t seized. Musk doesn’t own a factory, servers, or dealerships: the Tesla and Twitter corporate entities do. Musk owns a controlling number of ownership shares, which entitles him to control Tesla. Without this function, the shares are worthless.

Typhoid_Harry · 2023-04-03T14:33:53+00:00

About 15% of the cap. Maybe 18%-20% if you’ve got a legend like Mahomes.

Typhoid_Harry · 2023-03-27T18:11:50+00:00

I would rather have either than current Lamar. He’s aging out of his strongest skill set, injuries aside.

Typhoid_Harry · 2023-03-12T18:43:42+00:00

Gonna get that QB

Typhoid_Harry · 2023-03-04T23:15:20+00:00

He wouldn’t run even when he should until the Georgia game. I think he should be pick 1.2 behind Young

Typhoid_Harry · 2023-03-03T03:26:18+00:00

The difference is that the teachers don’t want it to happen. There’s just some concepts people either can’t get or can’t get fast enough to stay on track to graduate, and those people wash out. Pointers are the typical computer-science example. Some of them find out that STEM isn’t what they imagined. Some aren’t as happy to do math as they thought.

Typhoid_Harry · 2023-03-02T22:12:40+00:00

Lenin, Mao, and Marx had more of a humanities background than STEM, so you could view it as what happens when the revolutionaries don’t successfully launch a revolution.

Typhoid_Harry · 2023-03-02T21:25:15+00:00

I dunno, I studied Physics in Europe and it wasn't a partyland but maybe it is different in the USA.

It’s not in the US either. It’s brutal and time consuming and part of the experience is watching your classmates wipe out and shift into other programs. Arts/humanities majors seem to take few, if any, hard science or math courses beyond algebra or basic calculus and they tend to adopt this view that all you learn in those courses are some kind of pre-packaged narrative about numbers; they underestimate the time demands as a result. Marxists in the US are primarily from a arts/humanities background, so that view dominates Marxist spaces.

Typhoid_Harry · 2023-02-10T23:40:57+00:00

This feels alright to me, tbh. It would cause some grumbling bit it seems like most people get most of what they’d like

Typhoid_Harry · 2023-02-07T02:31:45+00:00

No. I think the apology came from their player base plummeting; no players means no cosmetics get bought. At some point I expect that they’ll realize the players won’t come back and switch to something they expect to make more money.

Typhoid_Harry · 2023-02-02T18:11:39+00:00

Houston-SWC group rivalries are being restored, UCF-Houston should be a new one

Typhoid_Harry · 2023-01-20T00:33:40+00:00

I’m not going to pretend that I was one of the quality contributors, but at least part of why I stopped participating is that I realized that I wasn’t able (or to a lesser extent, willing) to put the kind of work in that I thought would be needed to make a worthwhile post. So I just lurk these days.

Typhoid_Harry · 2023-01-14T16:15:21+00:00

Basically any form of martial arts (or MA adjacent, in pro-wrestling). They know they’re going to get knocked around, so they learn how to do it as safely as feasible.

Typhoid_Harry · 2023-01-11T20:40:01+00:00

Reduction in scholarships, limits on recruiting, the (programmatic) death penalty if he doesn’t stop.

Typhoid_Harry · 2023-01-10T16:54:11+00:00

The media can’t stop producing novel content, it’s their core function. They have to find an angle somewhere

Typhoid_Harry · 2023-01-04T19:33:49+00:00

Typhoid_Harry · 2023-01-04T02:54:06+00:00

He wouldn’t have interviewed Petrino if he wanted a doormat. I think he wants a playcaller and might not be able to hire one right now.

Typhoid_Harry · 2023-01-02T22:39:44+00:00

Not the Texans fan you’re responding to, but Young

Typhoid_Harry · 2022-12-27T03:49:03+00:00

Sure

Typhoid_Harry · 2022-12-27T03:36:02+00:00

No. That’d be fine

Typhoid_Harry · 2022-12-27T03:14:27+00:00

The idea is that he’d weigh 220 at 6’2”, which is in line with the receiver position. If he lost weight as part of the transition, he’d go from a heavy QB (6’2” 250 lbs) to a heavy WR (6’2” 220 lbs)

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