Recent content by Pointman02

As for the South defeating contemporary European armies, it would all come down to home field advantage, The South could not successfully project power north of Virginia, with their two forays into Union territory ending at Antietam and Gettysburg. They had virtually no naval power, so I don’t...

“The Americans have never once, in their entire history, fought a major power peer adversary at the zenith of its strength in a high-intensity war” There are just so many requirements in this statement for it to be almost meaningless. The Revolutionary War was fought against perhaps the...

Winning all their games Winning a conference, so they get an autobid Beating Miami (assuming they actually do win a Natty and don’t fall 1 game short just like we did last year In all seriousness, there’s not really anything ND is “not doing” that held us back the last two years. Our schedule...

I’ve struggled to really decide, but I think you’re right.

Good thing the committee used 4/7 at large spots on that conference.

If the announcers weren’t so busy talking about why ND should be left out of the playoff at the end of the Stanford game, they could’ve said something then without a jinx.

I’m going to watch JMU out of familial obligation - my sister is a JMU alum and is a big time ND fan mostly because of me to the point that she’s flown from VA to attend the IU playoff game, A&M, and Syracuse just in the past year. But other than that, this is the most disinterested in CFB I...

Yeah, I think the four SEC games would be hugely helpful. We go 5-1 against the ACC and get no credit. All we do is knock the teams we beat out of the top 25, make Miami appear better than us, but give the conference as a whole look week. We got unlucky this year with Arkansas losing a bunch of...

On the topic of exhibition games, did anyone watch Georgia show off their athleticism last week against the Alabama Washington Generals?

Army-Navy is a game that matters in and of itself and as part of winning the Commander in Chief Trophy, not as a step toward a playoff or national championship. That’s absolutely not an exhibition game. Rather it is what those players and their fellow students, alumni, and fans most care about...

I just had A bartender tell me she drives there from the west suburbs of Chicago because she saves $100 on her weed. So, yeah, they’re probably killing it by being the first dispensary across the border.

This is why I don’t really take issue with the auto bids. It’s really the only limit on the espn/sec/other big conferences power to rig the thing. The issue is that there are 7 at large bids, and they left out the 2nd best non conference champion. I’ll happily give A&M and Miami their spots over...

I think we need a tie in or regular 3-4 game schedule against the SEC. It’s the only conference that the worldwide leader will not devalue after we go 13-3 against them over 4 years. We need to take advantage of the “beat SEC team, you’re amazing; lose to SEC team, it’s just tough competition”...

I actually think the long gap between OSU and ILL games mostly resulted from a setup where CCGs make sense. 2 divisions, each of which play every division opponent plus a small number of opponents from the other division. Even if your small out of division sample is unfairly strong so you take...

Exiting a service academy is actually fairly easy during the first two years. You only incur a service obligation after starting the 3rd academic year.