Chris Ortega

birds, BYU, being irrelevant

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@ceebeeparker @jaromjordan We look better even now than Miami looked last week. Hopefully the committee does their job and considers the entire season, but first BYU needs to figure some things out in the locker room.

[Chris Ortega @yeahyeahchris]

@terrordroma Tomorrow is really tough, too but I might have a brief window around this same time. Hopefully it has a pattern. Enjoy Idaho! I was just there on my (East) side two weeks ago

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@on_the_citywall @MidwesternSaint @parker_andorasu Then add the salaries of over 1000 faculty, overhead for all the buildings, construction costs of new buildings, grants and scholarships, etc., etc. I can't verify that $1B figure, but it certainly seems plausible without having anything to do with the things you mentioned.

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@on_the_citywall @MidwesternSaint @parker_andorasu I don't know where you got that figure, but it doesn't seem unreasonable. Roughly 70% of tuition is subsidized by tithing funds. This means the students paying only $3550 per semester are paying 30%. 70% of 2 semesters per year for 33,000 undergrad students comes to $515,900,000.

[Chris Ortega @yeahyeahchris]

@CougarStats Tier 4 out of 7. People say we spend top dollar, but we're definitively mid when it comes to roster cost.

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@SportyMcSports 6th most viewed game this season. The other 5 featured either the number 1 team in the country, Georgia-Bama, or Lane Kiffin's return to Mississippi in a top 8 matchup.

[Chris Ortega @yeahyeahchris]

@warrenpeace77 @CougarStats Good catch. I thought they didn't quite cover vs. Purdue, but the line had moved from 14.5 to 13.5 before kickoff.

[Chris Ortega @yeahyeahchris]

@CougarStats How hilarious would it be if the strength of conference metric the SEC worked so hard to get in ends up showing hem as the #2 conference by season's end?

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@Biblethumpingwi Imagine believing in a God who is the only being in the universe incapable of creating something like himself. Couldn't be me.

[Chris Ortega @yeahyeahchris]

4 and 2

#byucpl

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@guinnessguy2023 @RedditCFB As fun as it is to come back to these receipts, you guys have an incredible squad. Go take care of business the rest of the way, and let's play again this season on a neutral field.

[Chris Ortega @yeahyeahchris]

@evornithology I have a favorite bird that I picked very early, but Anatidae is my favorite bird family and I've given at least 5 answers for my favorite duck. Could probably make an argument for another 25.

[Chris Ortega @yeahyeahchris]

@guttenbirder22 The proposed scenario would result in the instantaneous end of all animal life on earth as the animals would have expanded to fill a space that would cover the surface of the earth literally millions of times 🤓

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@candiburke @baggins_bow Cabanis's Bunting, Cape Bunting, Cachar Bulbul, and Camiguin Bulbul are all missing from the ABA checklist, but are still options that could work for fun.

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@evornithology @nvolpewild 💀

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@terrordroma Just ignore the crested part. It's not even capitalized.

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@jaromjordan Taysom is the first name that comes to mind.

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@TopTierCougs @BYU @byumedschool That seems most likely, but it's at least possible they could only be talking about removing the two baseball fields between Freedom and 300 W.