Zach Barnett
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College football writer for @FootballScoop , co-host of the College Football Tailgate on @dfwticket . Award-winning essayist. Fueled by Dr Pepper Zero.
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None of the moms at my daughter’s cheer party seem interested in my, “So, did you hear David Bailiff got the A&M-Commerce job?” icebreaker.
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Mike Leach's .596 winning % leaves him just below (literally, three wins) the CFB Hall's .600 threshold for coaches.
I understand why the standard exists, but an exception must be made for him.
You can't tell the story of CFB without Mike Leach.
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My advice for UCF on Monday night: Show up. Alabama runs out of one tunnel, Georgia out another and then UCF descends through the stands, in full uniform.
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North Texas punt returner acts like he’s making a fair catch, Arkansas stops, punt returner takes off for a 90-yard touchdown. Incredible.
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NCAA: No-show classes are fine, but your punter better not have a YouTube account
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So, the Big 12 and SEC played four bowl games against each other.
The Big 12 won three of them.
Every Big 12 team exceeded their opponent's season averages for total yards and points.
In all, Big 12 teams averaged 499 yards and 36.3 points against
#SECdefenses
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This is the arena of the team that just knocked Kentucky out of the NCAA Tournament.
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Nick Saban: "I've always been an advocate of playing in-state schools."
Alabama has not played a single in-state school in non-conference play in Saban's 15 seasons on the job.
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Texas A&M athletics right now:
Men's BB: Sweet 16
Women's BB: Sweet 16
Baseball: No. 12 ranking
Softball: No. 11
Men's Golf: No. 2
Men's T&F: No. 6
Women's T&F: No. 10
Men's Tennis: No. 6
Football: Jimbo
Things are cooking in College Station right now.
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Ole Miss had its entire football staff Mental Health First Aid certified, believed to be the first in D1 football.
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Texas A&M is in its seventh season in the SEC, but Texas will play Georgia before the Aggies do.
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Chris Petersen, knowing in his head the Apple Cup would be his last regular season game, says Mike Leach asked him pre-game, "Hey, how much Ionger are you going to do this?"
"I'm thinking, Oh my God, this guy's a mind reader, too."
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ESPN aired a game Sunday where one of the participants was a possibly fraudulent school that apparently only exists for sports, and the other was IMG Academy.
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Halfway through the season, four teams rank in the top 15 in yards per play offense and defense:
🐶 Georgia
🐘Alabama
🥜Ohio State
🐂Texas
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Never in their scariest nightmares did Texas A&M fans imagine they'd still be losing recruits to Mack Brown in the year of our Lord 2020.
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Clay Helton says the first thing he looks for on a recruit's transcript is not grades, but tardies and absences.
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Nov. 14, 1981: The last time Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and Baylor all lost, and Texas won.
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Michigan and Ohio State's official Twitter accounts have officially come out in protest of the decision their presidents are apparently making. Wild times.
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Five schools appeared in the final AP Top 25 in football and men's basketball:
Michigan
Kentucky
LSU
Cincinnati
Utah State
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USC and Miami getting serious about football again has the potential to be a very positive outcome for the overall health of college football.
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ESPN’s Louis Riddick: “The offensive line coach is the most important coach on the entire staff. Development. It’s as simple as that.”
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Kansas State fans *hate* the Chris Klieman hire. It’s easy to see where they’re coming from with the, uh, six games he’s lost in five seasons at North Dakota State.
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So, the Cleveland Browns, the Cincinnati Bengals, the Cincinnati Bearcats and all Ohio high schools will play this fall, but Ohio State will not.
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Iowa was the first state nationwide to resume high school sports, way back on June 1.
Today the state announced it will play its high school football season as scheduled.
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The NFL's highest-paid RB would be the 160th highest-paid player in MLB and the 132nd highest-paid player in the NBA.
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How does the same school produce Darren Sproles, Deuce Vaughn and Markquis Nowell?
K-State is Short King U.
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Reminder: New Orleans could potentially host a Saints divisional playoff game and an LSU national title game within 48 hours of each other next month.
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Paul Finebaum: "I think the idea of Texas coming and Texas winning really affected people at Texas A&M."
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Apparently the raging debate on Inside Texas right now is whether Urban Meyer taped a Fox hit at Horseshoe Bay, a resort near Austin.
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Texas just lost a game where it:
-- punted twice
-- gained 448 yards of offense/6.89 a play
-- led for 58.5 minutes
-- had the ball with the lead in the late 3Q/4Q three times
-- pushed the ball to ISU territory 8 times in 10 possessions
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Via
@UT_Bianco
:
Texas offers 19 sports. Baseball is still playing.
Of the other 18, four won NCAA titles and five finished runner-up.
That's insane.
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Five star commitments from the state of Texas, 2017-present:
Ohio State 5
Texas 4
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Gus Malzahn says his coaching dream was to get a Texas HS coaching job. He applied at Plano East in 2003, didn't get it. "It's harder to get a Texas high school job than Auburn."
#txhsfb
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BREAKING: Aaiden Diggs, the 6-year-old son of Cowboys CB Trevon Diggs, announces on
@dfwticket
he is a Texas A&M lean.
When asked to explain why he sees himself in College Station, the class of 2035 5-star says, “I don’t know, I just want to.”
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Dana Holgorsen: “I’ve been to Alabama, I’ve been to a lot of NFL places. What they’re doing right now at Georgia is on a whole other level.”
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Outgoing Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby: "You look at the people that have left the Big 12 in the past, you could argue that none of them are doing better now than they were doing before, with the perhaps exception of A&M."
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Other champs the last time the Cubs won the
#WorldSeries
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NFL: Didn't exist
NBA: Didn't exist
NHL: Didn't exist
CFB: Penn
CBB: Didn't exist
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The 2017-18 coaching cycles was full of bold hires: Chip Kelly, Jimbo Fisher, Dan Mullen, Willie Taggart, Jeremy Pruitt, Chad Morris, Kevin Sumlin and Scott Frost.
That group is a combined 0-10 against FBS competition.
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Nov. 30, 2014: Nebraska fires Bo Pelini two days after beating Iowa to finish 9-3.
AD Shawn Eichorst: "I had to evaluate where Iowa was."
Nebraska since: 34-48, 0-7 vs. Iowa
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Oklahoma now has future home-and-homes scheduled with
Tennessee (2020, '24)
Nebraska (2021-22, 2029-30)
Georgia (2023, '31)*
Michigan (2025-26)
LSU (2027-28)
Alabama (2032-33)
Clemson (2035-36)
* - unconfirmed
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Five most-watched CFB games of 2018 through Week 4 (via
@paulsen_smw
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1. TCU-Ohio State
2. Michigan-Notre Dame
3. Miami-LSU
4. LSU-Auburn
5. Texas A&M-Alabama
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Former Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby estimated the league's TV value would cut in half without Texas and OU.
Instead, ESPN and Fox are giving the Big 12 a raise.
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The University of Texas at San Antonio is ranked and the University of Texas at Austin is not.
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Remember when Cam Newton got ripped for not diving after a fumble in the Super Bowl?
Aaron Rodgers has stood there and watched, twice, after he's been stripped tonight and you won't hear diddly about it.
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Plenty of coaches that take TV gigs are just there to collect a check in between jobs. Urban Meyer is more than that. His unmatched credibility and clear delivery have quickly made him must-watch TV and given FOX an asset ESPN can't match.
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The best possible thing anyone can do for this country right now is Nick Saban, Ed Orgeron, Kirby Smart, et al, going on Finebaum to talk up the vaccine.
Adults with at least one vaccine dose via CDC:
Top 10:
NH 73%
MA 69%
CT 67%
VT 67%
ME 66%
HI 66%
NJ 65%
NM 65%
RI 64%
PA 62%
Bottom 10:
SC 46%
AR 46%
ID 45%
GA 45%
WV 44%
WY 44%
TN 44%
LA 42%
AL 41%
MS 40%
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Texas A&M-Commerce head coach Colby Carthel: "Don't be a hypocrite in your job. If you're going to pray after practice, you better live like a Christian. Live for Him. It's not what you say, it's what you do."
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Gus Malzahn: "This SEC Network was supposed to be really cool when it started three or four years ago. Now it's all about trying to get the coach fired."
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Gary Patterson is mulling a return to Texas, according to multiple reports out of Austin.
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Today was obviously bad, but Lincoln Riley got the absolute most out of this Oklahoma team.
This was a 9-3 team that somehow found itself back in the Playoff.
Obviously a long way to go, but a new QB, Year 2 under Grinch and improved recruiting are all signs for optimism.
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Many acknowledge it, but few are brave enough to say it. David Cutcliffe breaks the silence: Offensive linemen are "the greatest humans in football."
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Jimbo Effect: A year ago, Texas A&M was 86th in time of possession.
This year, 3rd.
Last year's Aggie defense defended 72.5 plays per game. This year's, 54.4
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People love to tell themselves Notre Dame is irrelevant, but the Irish got Alabama-LSU pushed to daytime for the first time since 2010 so CBS can show ND in primetime.
CBS Press Express | CBS SPORTS SELECTS NOTRE DAME AT GEORGIA FOR PRIMETIME ON SATURDAY, SEPT. 21
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Exciting to see Kyle Rittenhouse continue the time honored tradition of attending Blinn while trying to play it off like he really goes to A&M, perfected by half the people from my high school.
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Nick Saban has beaten all his former assistants, but he saved his cruelest win for his closest assistant. This man is an emotional assassin.
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Mark Richt's first three years at Georgia: 32-8, one SEC championship, two SEC East titles, one AP top 5 finish, two AP top 10 finishes
Kirby Smart's first three years at Georgia: 32-10, one SEC championship, two SEC East titles, one AP top 5 finish, two AP top 10 finishes
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UTSA and UTEP had players drafted before the University of Texas at Austin.
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Texas and Oklahoma will leave the Big 12 with no money out of pocket.
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Army is currently 1-1 in the Independence Bowl, losing to Auburn in 1996 and defeating Great Britain in 1783.
Army will play in the Independence Bowl in next bowl cycle in 2020, 2022 & 2024 seasons, if bowl eligible
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Steve Sarkisian is expected to bring Duane Akina back to Texas as a senior analyst, sources tell
@FootballScoop
's
@JohnDBrice1
and myself.
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Breaking: Teams engaged in legal behavior.
Ex-college football staffer shared docs with Michigan, showing a Big Ten team had Wolverines' signs
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Iowa State's win over Kansas State means West Virginia, who was playing for 1st place last night, finishes 4th in the Big 12.
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Tom Herman has beaten Bob Stoops, Jimbo Fisher, Lincoln Riley, Gary Patterson, Bobby Petrino and Bill Snyder in his first four seasons as a head coach.
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Mary Hardin-Baylor's last three seasons.
2016: 15-0, semifinal win over Mount Union, Stagg Bowl win
2017: 14-1, Stagg Bowl loss to Mount Union
2018: 15-0, Stagg Bowl win over Mount Union
UMHB is now the best program in Division III
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Brent Venables dropping some tea at his Oklahoma press conference, saying he passed on the Auburn job because he didn't like their alignment.
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Pac-12 North champion: Washington
Pac-12 South champion: USC
Pac-12 champion: Oregon
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We as a nation are not talking enough about the 100 mph heater Baylor is on right now.
This year, Baylor pulled off something equaled only four times over the last 4+ decades.
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The only two SEC programs to win their most recent games at Bryant-Denny are... Texas and Oklahoma.
OU 20 Alabama 13 (Sept. 6, 2003)
Texas 34 Alabama 24 (Sept. 9, 2023)
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I'll never understand why the Big Ten allowed teams to practice and released a schedule if they were going to cancel so quickly.
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Barring an upset, A&M will have one win over a ranked opponent -- 8-3 Florida.
Their other seven wins will be vs. opponents that today are a combined 20-46.
That is not a Playoff resume.
Texas A&M may be the biggest winner in the SEC this weekend.
Aggies avoid a hot Ole Miss team, Florida losing steam and the loss to Alabama looks more forgiving each weekend.
Win next weekend and Texas A&M likely going to the Playoff, I bet.
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A&M and ND both got blown out. OU has two losses.
If I was on the committee, I would go absolutely nuts for Cincinnati.
Stand on the table, throw water bottles all over the room, take my pants off. Just make it real uncomfortable for everyone.
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Imagine booing a guy all night just to watch him hit a grand slam in the 9th.
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The nation's top HS quarterback could be on the verge of flipping from Georgia to Nebraska.
For the overall health of college football, I hope it happens.
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A Miami booster has committed north of $500K in endorsements to the entire Hurricanes roster, and that's just the beginning of his plans to use NIL to bring back The U.
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Big 12 refs ruled this an illegal snap, and I'm not sure what's illegal about it?
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How does Steve Sarkisian lose Evan Stewart to A&M? DeVonta Smith won the Heisman in his offense and Xavier Worthy will be a freshman All-American. Meanwhile, Demond Demas caught 15 passes all season.
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We as a country are not making enough of the absolute white-hot heater Baylor athletics is on right now.
If Texas A&M ever experiences this level of big-boy sport success, none of us will ever hear the end of it.
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Shared this on Facebook. Sharing it here now. Good night, and may God bless the United States of America.
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Netflix has announced a second season for "Last Chance U."
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Baylor lost to Texas State, TCU lost to Colorado and Wyoming just tied Texas Tech.
Not a great start for three schools that all have eyes on being the bully of the new Big 12.
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List of Texas schools to win an NCAA football championship in the past three decades:
Texas, 2005
Mary Hardin-Baylor, 2016
End of list.
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Today I learned the dancer from My Chemical Romance's "Helena" music video is Wade Phillips's daughter.
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Florida has got to be the least impressive top-10 team in CFB history.
Three losses by 11, 19 and 21 points, two of them at home.
In non-conference, beat two FCS teams and two FBS teams that went a combined 8-16.
But hey, they beat LSU and Mississippi State.
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Mike Leach vs. Nick Saban
Mike Leach vs. Ed Orgeron
Mike Leach vs. Gus Malzahn
Mike Leach vs. Lane Kiffin
Mike Leach vs. Jimbo Fisher
All of that is going to happen.
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BYU has the best uniforms in college football, full stop. Go ahead and @ me, I'm right.
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Mike Leach's first game at Mississippi State: Ends LSU's 16-game winning streak.
Mike Leach's second game at Mississippi State: Ends Arkansas' 20-game SEC losing streak.
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After a record-breaking season,
@OU_Football
's
@OU_CoachB
is the
@FootballScoop
2017 OL Coach of the Year presented by
@AstroTurfUSA
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Most-watched CFB games of 2019 through November (via
@paulsen_smw
):
1. LSU-Alabama
2. Ohio State-Michigan
3. Iron Bowl
4. Penn State-Ohio State
5. Notre Dame-Georgia
ABC/ESPN nowhere to be seen in the top five.
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Herman: “I can tell you this: if he’s a skill guy, I better see track numbers. If they’re a big guy, I want to see them throw the shot, throw the disc... Who knows who’s timing them at these Nike SPARQ deals.”
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Don Brown: "If you're not running to the ball, you're a traitor. Might as well play for the other team."
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No one over-promises and under-delivers like Texas A&M.
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According to reports from the scene, football coach Aaron Feis is one of the heroes of the
#ParklandSchoolShooting
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Kalen DeBoer is 103-11 as a head coach with, now, three different winning streaks of at least 20 games. The man might be magic.
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We all had Oklahoma and Texas Tech with defensive players going off the board before Alabama, right?
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Breaking: With Matt Patricia leaving for Detroit, Greg Schiano is expected to become the New England Patriots' defensive coordinator
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If you really think about it, the NFL draft is the ultimate meeting that could have been an email.
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