He didn't win a title with this 2023 team. Or even the same coaching staff. The fact of the matter is this season has one single data point, and that data point for Clemson is looking completely inept against Duke.
I think that Clemson will end the season ranked, but anybody that thinks they should be ranked right now, is straight up negligent and ignorant and should not have voting privileges.
I mean, we have one data point for the season for Clem and it's losing by three scores. I don't really see how anyone can justify ranking them right now.
TCU will finish in the bottom half of the Big XII this year.
Speak for yourself, I don't know how anyone can cheer for Kendall Briles.
CUs offense is really impressive. If they go up by two scores right off the bat that could be huge.
You know, people say this, and I agree to an extent but if the major dystopias, I actually think it's the least relevant? Brave New World is probably #1 for me for relevance, with Handmaid's Tale sadly not far behind it.
I have. Been stuck on them for about a month with not a ton of progress on books.
Paved Paradise would be fairly interesting to someone that knows nothing about city planning and such. It will definitely make you notice just how much useless space is around you for parking, and probably make you mad about it. It also goes into some be interesting history about how the mobs controlled parking in cities like New York and Chicago.
It definitely makes you look at things differently, which is always a good thing.
My three favorite artists are Miles Davis, David Bowie, and Kanye West. Three artists that changed their sound every single album.
So no.
It is INSANE to me that Briles and Lebby aren't blacklisted from the sport. I don't know how anyone can cheer for TCU, OU, Ole Miss, Arkansas, Baylor etc in good conscience.
The Iron Heel, by Jack London
Basically one of the first major political dystopias written in the modern sense. It's super cool too, basically the book is an old manuscript about an attempted socialist revolution, before the world was taken over by oligarchic tyrannical capitalists. There's basically two stories being told, one in the socialist narrative itself occurring in the past, and one in the footnotes, showing glimmers of some of the capitalist horrors in the "present time". Super neat way to tell a story, and I'm really enjoying it so far. It's super heavy handed, and I would maybe call it similar to a socialist version of an Ayn Rand dystopia, like Anthem, but you know... Actually good. And thematically opposite to any coherent thought Ayn Rand tried to impart onto her readers.
I'm about halfway through and enjoying it quite a bit. It a LOT different than anything else by Jack London I've read (just his Yukon/Alaska stuff)
Paved Paradise, How Parking Explains the World, by Henry Grabar
A book about parking. The history of parking, parking policy, and how it has basically ruined American cities over the past 80 years. Sounds boring but I have really been getting into city planning books recently so I'm enjoying it.
The King of Elfland's Daughter, by Lord Dunsany
As a huge Tolkien fan, it has taken me far too long to read this one. Considering Lord Dunsany was a huge influence and inspiration for JRR Tolkien, I don't think it's that controversial to say this is one of the most influential works on the fantasy genre of all time. It's beautifully written, with very poetic prose. Story is fine so far, not much to write home about but plot doesn't really matter when the writing is this pretty.
Against. IMHO, Deion is an unusually terrible and nacissistic person
So you're going to cheer for a team that, checks notes, hired Kendall Briles? I'm sorry but that's gonna be a nope from me dawg. I think I'll be cheering for TCU to go 0-12 this year. Which really stinks because I used to really like TCU. They're dead to me now, disgusting.
I actually see the value in providing a safe space for oppressed or marginalized communities, such in the way that women's shelters don't allow men.
I don't know what the answer is be here, but it's not nearly as black and white (no pun intended) as commenters here seem to believe.