Greenrex

I'm worried about this being a trap game. Ugh!

I thought it was a reference to players being single, not married.

Well then SMU, AMF.

Wow! I think maybe a child wrote that article.

With Seth it would be a big wad of tobacco and he would be spitting on the floor.

Yes.

Preferred Walk Away? Always enjoyed your contribution.

I agree. I knew John Savage and once saw him at the airport in Philadelphia PA (i971 I believe. He was traveling to Canada to play for a pro team. We chatted about the good old days and that's the last I ever heard anything about him.

Welcome to the board, MGAnCap. Consider some unsolicited advice from an old fool: Give some thought to word efficiency.

Me too but, it's not like we have to drink it or anything.

Double dribble is pretty much no longer an infraction.

This old Green heart of mine...

Idea for a flying banner?

On Thursday, Microsoft researchers announced a new text-to-speech AI model called VALL-E that can closely simulate a person's voice when given a three-second audio sample. Once it learns a specific voice, VALL-E can synthesize audio of that person saying anything—and do it in a way that attempts to preserve the speaker's emotional tone. Its creators speculate that VALL-E could be used for high-quality text-to-speech applications, speech editing where a recording of a person could be edited and changed from a text transcript (making them say something they originally didn't), and audio content creation when combined with other generative AI models like GPT-3. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/microsofts-new-ai-can-simulate-anyones-voice-with-3-seconds-of-audio/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

NOS

When TCU pulled off its 51-45 upset of Michigan in the Fiesta Bowl Saturday night, perhaps the biggest Horned Frogs fans in the state of Texas were two families watching from a house in Westlake who didn’t attend, work for or have money on TCU. They had rooted against TCU often over the previous 25 years, but there they were, screaming for the Frogs like never before. As TCU built a 21-3 lead late in the first half, the kids in the room, a pair each of 12-year-old boys and 9-year-old girls, were going nuts. So were their parents, two couples who have known each other for 20-plus years and were flying together to Disney World the next day. One of the dads on the couch, former North Texas head coach Seth Littrell, couldn’t believe what he was watching as the upstart Horned Frogs beat back every Michigan rally in a frenetic second half. He and his pal Bill Bedenbaugh, Oklahoma’s run game coordinator, found themselves cracking up. Their buddy Sonny Dykes, the first-year head coach of TCU, with whom they’d spend years coaching alongside at Texas Tech and then at Arizona as their careers were just getting off the ground, had earned a spot on college football’s biggest stage. “Are you friggin’ kidding me?” Littrell howled in equal parts excitement and disbelief. “Sonny just made it to the national title game!” TCU, a 200-to-1 preseason long shot to win the national title, became the biggest underdog to ever make the four-team Playoff and now stands one game away from winning the whole thing. Never mind what old recruiting rankings say about the roster’s talent level, or the program’s record over the previous four years, or the number of times the 2022 Frogs almost lost in the regular season. For the extensive Air Raid coaching family, the fact that Dykes became the first head coach from their tree to lead a team this far sets up a surreal finish to the collective emotional roller coaster they have been on over the past year. “It’s giving me chills just thinking about it right now,” Littrell told The Athletic Tuesday night. “To know and see all of the adversity that Sonny’s had to go through and watching him achieve his dreams, this is incredible.” (Wish I could share the entire article! Such excellent excellent writing!) https://theathletic.com/4060436/2023/01/05/sonny-dykes-air-raid-coaching-tree/?source=freedailyemail&campaign=601983

Thanks for the reminder. I needed that.

Absolutely agree. Getting ahead, pulling up, playing keep away, playing not to lose, watch out!...seems to be a theme.

Article citation? Just curious.

I find some topics to be simply too fundamentally inconsequential to comment on and I just want you to notice that I have restrained from doing so in this case.

All three phases

48-46 them 56 secs

Crap refs.

I agree but, this is only a small part of the article and it's the only part of the article that references a conference mate's coach.