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As in other sports, playing regional/substate finals at home locations instead of neutral sites has also lessened the potential for upsets. The flip side is that the State Tournaments are more compelling.
Ok. I’ll take the other side. If you fail (which they did) Green Bay can’t exhaust the clock and kick a game winner. You get the ball back needing 3 to tie, or 6 to win, but you have plenty of time and control the clock. If you convert, you’re now tied and control the clock.
Two things can be true.
1) ND’s schedule this year leaves even diehard fans wanting for more.
2) Even in a down year with opponents in a down cycle (Wisconsin, Michigan State, Purdue, Stanford…) , you can’t dismiss that ND plays AP ranked #1 and #2 as if October 24…
With the 24-team playoff, Notre Dame has won the war to keep its independence.
In return, the Irish need to use it wisely and compile a much better schedule than the slop they managed this year.
Column for @yahoosports
sports.yahoo.com/college-foo…
Not deterred.
Phil Mickelson once lost $143,500 in a single day on 43 baseball bets - and for him, that barely counted as a bad one. Over three decades he ran more than a billion dollars through the books and lost around $100 million
Here’s what makes it worse than bad luck: Mickelson was no mark. Six majors, a man who hits 1,500 practice balls a month just to know his 9-iron flies 145, who factors in temperature, altitude, the grain of the grass, a degree of loft worth exactly three yards. Precise to the yard. He read edges better than almost anyone who ever placed a bet - his partner, pro gambler Billy Walters, said it flat: “Phil had accounts as large as anyone I’d seen.” He understood the math cold. It took $100 million from him anyway
Because the book never had to beat his judgment. It beats you on the count, not the call. Look at his actual bet: $110,000 to win $100,000. That spread alone means he had to be right 52.4% of the time just to break even - not to win, just to stand still. Almost nobody beats a coin flip by that margin for long, and Mickelson made that exact bet eleven hundred times in five years. His precision wasn’t the defense. It was the trap. The surer a man is of his read, the more he plays - and the more he plays, the more certain that 52.4% hardens into a wall. The house doesn’t need you to be wrong. It needs you to keep going
In 2012 he called Walters to put $400,000 on the US team to win the Ryder Cup - a team he was playing on that week. Walters’ answer: “Have you lost your f-ing mind.” Europe won. Justin Rose beat Mickelson himself. Years later he admitted the gambling had turned “reckless” and “embarrassing” - then, in the same breath: “It isn’t a threat to me or my financial security.” A hundred million down, still sure he had it handled
And this was never about golf, or baseball, or a single bet. The house doesn’t beat the reckless - they bust early and go home. It beats the disciplined, the ones certain their edge will carry them, because they’re the ones who never stand up. That certainty feels like an advantage. It’s the leash. Mickelson carried it sharper than you ever will, and it cost him a fortune one “I’ve got this” at a time
So the only question that matters, and the house already knows your answer: if a man who calculated every shot to the yard, who read the edges better than almost anyone alive, couldn’t stop himself a hundred million in the hole - what makes you so sure you could?
Tristan Wirfs is a national treasure.
Alex Highsmith was really impressing Tristan Wirfs with his spin move 😮💨
@insidetheNFL Week 6 Mic'd Up on X
Steven Craig retweeted
Thank you, Pearl Jam, for 36 years of music, art, joy, meaning and friendship!
Eddie Vedder's initial shyness is noticeable in his physical demeanor, but his vocals were bold from Pearl Jam's very first song. #tfh
"Release" (debut), Oct. 22, 1990: youtu.be/ksv5Jb8jDKs?t=317&i…
Great guy. Go get #1, Coach.
With tonight’s win, Valley Tiger head coach Gary Swenson picks up career win #423, moving past Curt Bladt into sole possession of 3rd in the all-time wins list 😳
Dick Tighe (432) and Jerry Pezzetti (462) are the only coaches in Iowa history with more career wins
#IAfootball X #iahsfb
That was one of the main stories of the game. Surprising inability to win the defensive line of scrimmage.
@PeteSampson_ @Matt_Fortuna Freeman good at preserving 2nd half timeouts. But then using them is key to being an elite clock manager. He waited to use his timeouts until after the two minute timeout. Huge mistake. On the final drive, two timeouts used not needed to save clock.
2nd down, which takes nine seconds. So 2:36 left for third down, which they were either going to score or throw incomplete. They ended up scoring in five seconds.
Hahahaha. So great. They eliminate the one girl they all agree they can’t stand, but instead of coalescing to become likeable, they do the opposite.
WNBA sparks widespread fury as players leave the court for the national anthem ahead of Finals Game 1: 'No respect' trib.al/8IKNg6D
Steven Craig retweeted
Here it was. He doesn’t think the game, offer forward looking macro strategy, or add any color or juice. He just talks your ears into submission.
Hahahaha. Reposting a column that suggests the SEC could have just left the CFP and made their own tournament. What an argument!
Strong column from SEC writer Seth Emerson.
nytimes.com/athletic/7698449…
Ahhhhhhh, ok. 3-3 all time? ND is at .500 with only 4 schools that have played more CFP games all time.
Can’t keep up—we hate the expansion because Team 22 has no shot to win the natty, yet Team 22 is going to play “five extra games?”
Asinine. The biggest winners are college football fans. Did you see the horrid slate of games in Weeks 0-3?! The regular season just added 3+ weeks of incredible days on the couch. But if you think Purdue and Vanderbilt are the big winners, you do you.
Congrats to the biggest winner of the 24-team playoff: Administrators at also-ran Big Ten and SEC schools who can keep the Ponzi scheme going
Why CFP expansion is such a slap in the face:
cbssports.com/college-footba…
Steven Craig retweeted
Congrats to the biggest winner of the 24-team playoff: Administrators at also-ran Big Ten and SEC schools who can keep the Ponzi scheme going
Why CFP expansion is such a slap in the face:
cbssports.com/college-footba…