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« Reply #3276 on: December 11, 2024, 02:55:08 PM »
Not my favorite artist, but my list of greatest album of all time starts and ends with Billy Joel's the Stranger.

It had 4 top 40 hits (Only the Good Die Young, She's Always a Woman, Movin' Out, Just the Way You Are), and that doesn't include three of the best songs on the record, Vienna, Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, and its title track, the Stranger, all of which are in the pantheon of songs loved by Billy Joel's fans (not the gospel truth, but example 1, example 2, example 3, example 4). It has two forgettable songs (Get it Right the First Time, and Everybody Has a Dream). So seven of nine tracks are winners, and arguably more than half are in the top 15 fan favorites of songs he ever wrote. I can't think of another record that has that hit rate.

Throw some at me...
Probably my favorite album of all time... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_(Pearl_Jam_album)

Obviously there are some major hits on there, with Once, Even Flow, Alive, and Jeremy. Most of which are still getting played on contemporary rock/alternative radio today (Jeremy probably the only one commonly avoided due to subject matter), despite the album being over 30 years old. 

But it's one of those albums you can just pop in and press play, listen start to finish, and there's not a miss anywhere on it. 

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« Reply #3277 on: December 11, 2024, 05:14:43 PM »
Eat a Peach for me.

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« Reply #3278 on: December 11, 2024, 05:58:43 PM »
utee says Texas doesn't come close to Oregon
Not exactly.  More like, when it comes to direct competition over a recruit that Oregon wants, nobody can outspend them.  Doesn't always mean they'll get their guy, not every recruit is solely swayed by NIL, but if it's strictly an NIL-based recruitment, then nobody's going to beat them.

Regardless, Oregon is clearly missing from that list, for whatever reason.




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« Reply #3279 on: December 12, 2024, 06:10:09 AM »
I idly wonder for the 5 stars out there how much of the equation is NIL.  90%?  60%?  20%?  

It's not the whole deal of course, though if one offer is $2 mil and the other is half a mil, it becomes 99%.  

Imagine say UNLV comes up big from a massive donor and can offer $2 mil to 5 stars, would many of the bite?

But let's say the offers are from the Big Boys and the NIL monies are close but not the same, is that the final factor?  I know it depends.

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« Reply #3280 on: December 12, 2024, 06:31:36 AM »
Georgia football LB Jalon Walker is the 2024 Butkus Award winner

I guess "they" vote on such things, like the Heisman?  I'm not sure I would know how to vote, I wonder how much effort the voters really attach to their decision for individual awards.

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« Reply #3281 on: December 12, 2024, 10:38:08 AM »

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« Reply #3282 on: December 12, 2024, 10:53:08 AM »
couple ACC names on the list and ND

that's it

and a shit ton of folks watched Texas lose twice
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

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« Reply #3283 on: December 12, 2024, 11:49:58 AM »

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« Reply #3284 on: December 12, 2024, 11:51:40 AM »
couple ACC names on the list and ND

that's it

and a shit ton of folks watched Texas lose twice
Lots of people watched Georgia lose twice, too.

And just about nobody watched Nebraska lose 6 times.

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« Reply #3285 on: December 12, 2024, 12:02:00 PM »
And even *I* didn't watch Purdue lose 11 times.

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« Reply #3286 on: December 12, 2024, 12:21:02 PM »
[img width=399.991 height=500]https://i.imgur.com/bNhOJDe.png[/img]
collective funding = NIL??
or conference revenue?
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« Reply #3287 on: December 12, 2024, 12:48:53 PM »
collective funding = NIL??
or conference revenue?
Those are estimates of the NIL collectives for each school and how much they funded players.

Might be one reason Oregon isn't showing at the top, the total of Phil Knight's contributions don't necessarily fall into a "collective."

Collectives also wouldn't include one-off deals a player might have, like Quinn Ewers' deal with Dr. Pepper, etc.

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« Reply #3288 on: December 12, 2024, 01:18:09 PM »
OK, a bit surprised Iowa is on the list
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« Reply #3289 on: December 13, 2024, 12:15:17 PM »

 

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