Papa Weeds

Working to walk closer with the Lord day by day… Galatians 6:7

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

An Aussie discovers Texas Road House for the first time. Epic!

The World Cup needs to be permanently held in the US. It offers the most for the teams and the fans. 🤣🇺🇸🇦🇺

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.”

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

I’d love to keep the filibuster and make filibustering senators speak

That’s how the filibuster is supposed to work—protecting robust debate in the Senate

It no longer does that; it now forestalls debate

Enforce the filibuster

Or nuke it

The status quo empowers Democrats

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

In a world full of Megan Rapinoes, be a Jack Hughes

[Indiana Pacers @Pacers]

Women who play are women who lead 💙

Today we celebrate all the women of PS&E who have brought teamwork and vision into every room they lead since day one.

[Edward Koton 🇵🇪 @EdwardKoton15]

Indiana vs. Miami National Championship Extended Highlights.

[PFT Commenter @PFTCommenter]

If youre a Hoosiers Bears fan you probably are about 50% genuinely concerned that youre dead and none of this is real

[SEC Numbers Guy @secnumbersguy]

The SEC was only dominate because we illegally paid players. Now that the playing field is even, it's evident the B1G is the best football conference in the country.

Ratio me into oblivion I don’t even care anymore.

[Papa Weeds @PapaWeedy]

@PaulieTakes lol - you the Ducks +20 brainiac from earlier this season?

[Papa Weeds @PapaWeedy]

I love some Crean on color but to tell us how Marquette is ‘figuring it out’ while #iubb is moving from a 10 to 20 point lead made me laugh… #HoosierWknd

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Rest in Peace Chuck Mangione. The master of the flugel horn.

"Feels So Good" was everywhere.

Raise your hand if this banger was played in your home growing up. 🎶🎶🎶🎶

[Beyond the Cosmic Veil @ClassicalAegis]

"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."

- Johann Sebastian Bach

[WHAC @WHACAthletics]

Congratulations to Indiana Tech Men's Basketball on claiming the 2024-25 WHAC Regular season title! This marks the fourth time in the last six seasons the Warriors have won the regular season. They will be the top seed in next week's WHAC Tournament.

[Assembly Call (⚪,🔴) @AssemblyCall]

Back when I was playing around with AI music on @SunoMusic, I used the transcript of the famous Bob Knight Locker Room Rant to create an old school soul song.

Never posted it. Figured today is a good day to toss it out there.

NSFW ... obviously.

[Connor Stalions @cpstalions]

Now that the Big Ten is 4-1 vs the SEC in bowl games, I think it’s time we have a serious discussion. Strength of Schedule is a completely flawed metric that begins and ends with a biased opinion and should be taken with a grain of salt.

It begins with a biased pre-season ranking, which influences an initial strength of schedule, then is effected by minimal cross-conference games, and compares conferences that don’t even have the same amount of conference games being played, as well as teams who have drastically different schedules within those conferences.

Biased pre-season rankings.
There is no logical reason why pre-season rankings exist, other than orchestrated drama to increase TV ratings. The CFP system got this right by not ranking teams until November. HOWEVER, the CFP does take into account Strength of Schedule, which traces back to the biased pre-season rankings. If it weren’t, then who’s to argue that the MAC isn’t the best conference (e.g. NIU beating Notre Dame) that faced a few upsets (e.g. Ohio State upsetting Akron) and not the other way around? Obviously we all think it’s the other way around, and that’s an extreme, but the point is it traces back to a human opinion from pre-season expectations.

Minimal cross-conference games.
They’re all games between an unknown placed team from one conference vs another (e.g. future SEC’s 4th place Alabama defeating B1G’s future 15th place Wisconsin, or the future B1G’s 9th place USC defeating SEC’s future 7th place LSU) early in the season to set a preconceived notion that one conference is better than the other without truly knowing anything about each conference yet — not to mention teams evolve throughout the season.

The ACC and SEC only have 8 conference games… by choice.
Half the SEC plays a P4 opponent rival (e.g. UGA-GT, SC-Clemson, etc.) to fool you into thinking they schedule tough Out-of-Conference opponents. But let’s not forget, that’s just the equivalent of a Big Ten’s 9th conference opponent. And the other half schedules an FCS opponent before their rival.

Half of the SEC schedules are only 67% P4 and include an FCS opponent. The other half is 75% P4 and also includes an FCS opponent. While half of the B1G schedules are 83% P4 with no FCS opponent. And the other half is 75% P4 with no FCS opponent. Both types of B1G schedules are objectively more difficult than either type of SEC schedule. Don’t let UGA-GT “out of conference” games fool you. That’s just the equivalent of a 9th Big Ten (or Big 12) conference game.

Some teams have easier schedules than others… by draw. Within their own conference that is. For example, 7 of Michigan’s 9 conference opponents were bowl eligible, while only 5 of Penn State’s 9 conference opponents were bowl eligible. And then all 8 of LSU’s conference opponents were bowl eligible, while only 5 of Georgia’s conference opponents were eligible. Am I arguing LSU would beat Georgia and Michigan would beat Penn State? Well… maybe yes to the later. But the point is, we’ll never know… and that’s even within a conference.

Example Comparisons
Let’s look at Michigan & Bama’s four Out-of -Conference games (well… Michigan’s 3 OOC games and then their first conference game), for example.
🐘: USF, WKU, Mercer and Wisconsin. (Only 2 bowl opponents and an FCS opponent).
〽️: Fresno, Texas, Ark St, and USC (All 4 bowl opponents).

Now let’s compare some key SEC & B1G schedules broken down by # of opponents.

# of Bowl Eligible Reg. Szn Opponents:
Michigan: 10
Texas: 9
Ohio State: 8
Alabama: 8
Penn State: 7
Georgia: 7
Tennessee: 7

# of Playoff-Bound Reg. Szn Opponents:
Michigan: 4
Ohio State: 3
Georgia: 3
Alabama: 2
Texas: 1
Penn State: 1
Tennessee: 1

[greg @gandalf_thegreg]

the big bad SEC is no match for the US military. navy wins. america wins.

[Tony Dungy @TonyDungy]

Merry Christmas everyone. But more than that I hope you have a Blessed Christmas. And if you want to know what that means there’s probably not a better source than Linus. He explained it to Charlie Brown almost 60 years ago in a Christmas Special that has become an American favorite.
In 1965 it was extremely daring to have Linus recite from the Bible on prime time television. It probably wouldn’t even happen today and the network executives did not want it as part of the show then. But Charles Schultz, the creator of Peanuts, was a strong Christian man and he wouldn’t back down.

Schultz’s conviction resulted not only in Charlie Brown learning the true meaning of Christmas but in Luke Chapter 2 being heard by millions of people every year at Christmas time.

[Tim Brando @TimBrando]

ESPN's CFP coverage makes for a miserable experience https://t.co/QPRsT97FOp

[Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 @alexbruesewitz]

Many politicians wrongly believe, "I'm smarter than my constituents, and they want me to make decisions for them." This attitude is fundamentally flawed. Your role as a representative is to represent the people who elected you, not to act unilaterally.

Moreover, constituents desire active engagement in the political process, but too often, politicians prefer to keep them uninformed.

These politicians particularly dislike @elonmusk’s X because it empowers constituents to engage more directly and effectively than any previous communication tool has allowed.

[Jack Norman @_jnorman_]

#NeverDaunted