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Topic: Who gets left out of a 64-school P5 breakaway?

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Re: Who gets left out of a 64-school P5 breakaway?
« Reply #70 on: April 25, 2021, 04:53:29 PM »
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Re: Who gets left out of a 64-school P5 breakaway?
« Reply #71 on: April 25, 2021, 07:26:55 PM »


What are a couple of examples of issues with which you genuinely disagree with your fellow androgynous White liberal SJW stereotypes?
i'd have to know what you consider their ideologies are, and that list would inevitably be a caricature of the truth, so I'm no sure what to even share.
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Re: Who gets left out of a 64-school P5 breakaway?
« Reply #72 on: April 25, 2021, 07:40:11 PM »
If you are truly a "centrist" as you claim, then by definition you lean left on approximately 50% of the issues, and you lean right on the other 50% of the issues. Now perhaps you are a left-leaning "centrist" in which case it is more of a 60/40 divide, I don't know. Either way, you should easily be able to rattle off a dozen or so issues where you take the stance opposite the one that is aggressively promoted by the likes of MSNBC or CNN. I only asked for two or three examples though, because I already knew that you would be hard pressed to come up with so much as a singular example, due to the fact that you are obviously the most stereotypical White liberal SJW imaginable who couldn't form your own opinion on anything if your life depended on it. 
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Re: Who gets left out of a 64-school P5 breakaway?
« Reply #73 on: April 25, 2021, 07:47:17 PM »
Fro really trashes this place up.

Derails his own thread with politics, invokes Godwin's Law on the first response, then crowns himself king of the debate when no one takes his troll bait.

I wish that he would simply post links to CNN and MSNBC, so that we could read "his" (lol) thoughts written out in a clear and legible manner for a change.
While I do wish OAM would not bring certain topics to the forefront, he gets plenty of help making it a thing. He's kind of the embodiment of that arguing with an engineer vs wrestling a pig trope, and more than a few of us seem most ready to step into that particular ring/pen. 

(What I'm saying is, if you feel like he's baiting, you are taking it by getting political and snappy)

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Re: Who gets left out of a 64-school P5 breakaway?
« Reply #74 on: April 25, 2021, 07:58:03 PM »
While I do wish OAM would not bring certain topics to the forefront, he gets plenty of help making it a thing. He's kind of the embodiment of that arguing with an engineer vs wrestling a pig trope, and more than a few of us seem most ready to step into that particular ring/pen.

(What I'm saying is, if you feel like he's baiting, you are taking it by getting political and snappy)


I agree. I usually don't take his troll bait, but sometimes I get bored.

I do find it funny that no one ever says anything about him interjecting politics, ever, until someone finally takes the bait, at which point that person is treated as though they and fro are equally responsible for making the thread political. That's always cute.
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Re: Who gets left out of a 64-school P5 breakaway?
« Reply #75 on: April 25, 2021, 08:14:07 PM »

I agree. I usually don't take his troll bait, but sometimes I get bored.

I do find it funny that no one ever says anything about him interjecting politics, ever, until someone finally takes the bait, at which point that person is treated as though they and fro are equally responsible for making the thread political. That's always cute.
I'd prefer he not do it. But I know I'm going to argue through someone who locks in strong with every damn thing and it's just going to spiral out. So I hope other people resist the urge to help it spiral out in a big way. I can't count on the man being mature, so I just hope other people try to be. Sometimes that leaves me disappointed, sometimes not. 

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Re: Who gets left out of a 64-school P5 breakaway?
« Reply #76 on: April 25, 2021, 08:37:40 PM »
And the posts echo.....echo......echo.....
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Re: Who gets left out of a 64-school P5 breakaway?
« Reply #77 on: April 25, 2021, 09:26:58 PM »
If you are truly a "centrist" as you claim, then by definition you lean left on approximately 50% of the issues, and you lean right on the other 50% of the issues. Now perhaps you are a left-leaning "centrist" in which case it is more of a 60/40 divide, I don't know. Either way, you should easily be able to rattle off a dozen or so issues where you take the stance opposite the one that is aggressively promoted by the likes of MSNBC or CNN. 
What are you dozen issues?  
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Re: Who gets left out of a 64-school P5 breakaway?
« Reply #78 on: April 25, 2021, 09:45:32 PM »
And the posts echo.....echo......echo.....
I’m sorry you don’t like that other people don’t enjoy you stirring up nonsense without much real point. Being a jerk, and not a particularly original jerk, doesn’t pierce an “echo chamber.” It convinces no one of anything, but only serves to create more noise and harden convictions.

If we’re arguing over G5 teams or QB quality or chili, that’s at least fun. This garbage is just toxic on all sides. We can do without it in most of the threads (and frankly, the one thread where it should go it’s considerably better when it is not on that topic).

More to the point, what’s the argument for any team but Rutgers? I guess Vandy could be in there,  it at least Vandy has had a traditional place in P5. Rutgers has been bad, dis interesting and not even had that.

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Re: Who gets left out of a 64-school P5 breakaway?
« Reply #79 on: April 25, 2021, 09:49:12 PM »
The argument against ghosting Rutgers is their acceptance into the 2nd-most prestigious football conference.  It was a head-scratcher, but it happened.
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Re: Who gets left out of a 64-school P5 breakaway?
« Reply #80 on: April 25, 2021, 09:58:46 PM »
The argument against ghosting Rutgers is their acceptance into the 2nd-most prestigious football conference.  It was a head-scratcher, but it happened.
This is a magnificent argument for throwing them out.

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Re: Who gets left out of a 64-school P5 breakaway?
« Reply #81 on: April 25, 2021, 10:04:36 PM »
This is very true.  So I ask myself which side is trying to benefit the most people.  And that's an obvious answer. 
I don't find it obvious
I doubt either side is trying to benefit anyone but themselves
what do you mean by the "most people"??
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Re: Who gets left out of a 64-school P5 breakaway?
« Reply #82 on: April 25, 2021, 11:02:09 PM »
The argument against ghosting Rutgers is their acceptance into the 2nd-most prestigious football conference.  It was a head-scratcher, but it happened.
To back up a step, there was a reason that Rutgers got into the B1G. A lot of us here feel that it was not a good enough reason, but there was a reason.  That reason was fanbase size/local population. 

Rutgers is the State University of New Jersey. Their enrollment nearly 70k with almost 50k undergrads and nearly 20k grad students.  New Jersey is the 11th most populous state with nearly 9M people and Rutgers is located in the fourth most populous metro area in the world (first in the US). 

I'm not necessarily arguing here that this was a good enough reason, just pointing out that this was the main reason and it is a reasonable consideration. 

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Re: Who gets left out of a 64-school P5 breakaway?
« Reply #83 on: April 26, 2021, 09:25:18 AM »
From Omaha Herald Writer 
Sam McKewon

The Big Ten was the best men’s basketball conference in the country and didn’t get a team in the Final Four. It had, by all accounts, the top volleyball conference in the country — six seeds in the top 13 — and didn’t have a team win the national title.

The Big Ten had the Nos. 3 and 4 seeds in the NCAA men’s hockey tournament, and Wisconsin and Minnesota lost to Bemidji State and Minnesota State, respectively, before the Frozen Four. Despite Ohio State’s surge to the title game, Big Ten football was a prolonged series of frustrations, and the women’s Final Four in basketball didn’t include any Big Ten teams.

We’ll see in baseball and softball, but if teams in neither sport make their respective College World Series, it will have been one of the rougher years in recent league history. And it will be hard not to argue that some of the struggles were self-imposed.
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