When he asked you where you wanted to go, were you thrilled or maybe a little scared since it was unexpected?

Same. Best non-vacation week of the year for me.

SEC Shorts conspicuously missing its Herbstreit endorsement this week.

Bo Nix announced he will play in the Fiesta Bowl.

Scoot Henderson has a career winning record of 5-4 and has won five of his last six games. Without Scoot, Blazers are 1-8.

I don't think the committee could reward a team with a playoff spot for losing a H2H and then not playing in a conference title game the following week if the team that beat them lost said title game and was left out. That would be a terrible precident to set. Any scenario where Ohio State qualifies should also require Michigan to qualify.

I think FSU, Texas, and Alabama would have to lose, and maybe even Oregon to be safe, depending on how you rate a one-loss Washington against OSU.

And then the transfer portal will follow and deplete them further. Oregon State football is pretty much toast. I've had a lot of feelings about the Pac-12 saga, but now with 108 seasons of Pac-12 football as we knew it over with forever, and with what's to come for the Beavs and WSU, I'm sick to my stomach.

Yeah, the Pac have created their own mini circle of suck among the one-loss teams, so head-to-head "transitive wins/losses" no longer apply:

Oregon State > Utah > UCLA > WSU > Oregon State

Just using Oregon's schedule, we're playing every team in the conference within the first two years except Nebraska. Wisconsin and Washington twice, with Washington a protected rivalry, and then finally Nebraska the next two years. It'll be weird not playing almost all the same teams every year.

In 2024:

• Michigan vs Texas, Oregon, USC, OSU, Washington.
• USC vs LSU, Notre Dame, Michigan, Washington, Penn State.

The Blazers welcomed Brogdon on Twitter (they didn't welcome Jrue), so they might keep him for now. It seemed he was unhappy when the Celtics announced that Derrick White was going to start over him after Smart was traded, so I don't know why he'd want to backup Scoot. Unless he's not going to backup Scoot, then I'd have to ask what the hell the Blazers are doing. But if he turns out to be okay with it, I'd be more than happy to keep him.

(Edit): They just announced that he's wearing 92, so it looks like he's staying for now.

Portland needs a back up point guard to replace him and some forward depth. Right now they've got seven other rotation players not including him, not yet knowing what they have in Kris Murray or second year Jabari Walker:

• Scoot
• Sharpe
• Simons
• Thybulle
• Grant
• Time Lord
• Ayton

Everyone else is super raw except for Knox, who probably won't get much better than he is. But perhaps they're more concerned with developing that raw talent than with depth right now, since expectations aren't necessarily going to be measured in wins this year. I guess we'll know once they trade him.

Jrue Holiday for Time Lord, Brogdon, a GSW '24 1st Rd Pick (top 4 protected), and a Celtics unprotected '29 1st Rd Pick.

Outside of all the media rumors and social media back-and-forth, who knows what that Riley-Cronin relationship is really like. Maybe it's fine and all the rumor bluster is just way overblown. Either way, I think it's going to be a lot easier for us to trade Jrue than Dame.

As a Blazer fan I wish him the best, no hard feelings. I hope he gets that championship. I'm looking forward to the new-look Blazers:

• Scoot Henderson
• Anfernee Simons
• Shaedon Sharpe
• Jerami Grant
• Deandre Ayton

Looks like we're going to move Jrue.

The effects of gravity spread at the speed of light. If the sun suddenly blinked out of existence, it would take eight minutes to both see it disappear from Earth and notice a change in our planet's motion. In other words, the planet would continue to orbit that empty space in the middle because the sun's gravity, much like it's light, would still be extending out to us.

The universe is expanding in every part of space all at once. Some places are so far apart that the collective expansion between them is growing at greater distances in a given amount of time than light can travel. And the same can be said for the effects of gravity, but the motion of objects caused by gravity at great distances is far, far slower than the speed of light.

Our galaxy is moving in a direction that is caused partly by something called "The Great Attractor." But even though it's causing us to move, we will never reach it, and it's influence on us will gradually weaken. And it's not even that far away compared to most of what we know is out there.

That being said, this news is interesting.

Can someone update the right column to show "Portland Trail Blazers" (the official spelling) rather than "Portland Trailblazers"?

1. First downs don't stop the clock except the last two minutes of the 2nd and 4th Q.
2. Can't call consecutive timeouts.
3. 1st and 3rd Q can end on penalties, they are applied at the start of the next quarter.

I think the first one is really only going to make a big difference, but they want to reduce the number of plays in a game.

The last restaurant I went to with this "feature" had no reception inside.

They're making a Netflix animated series coming this November featuring the entire original cast and based more on the graphic novels than the film was. I can't think of too many reboots with the original cast, but I hope it's awesome. I liked the film quite a bit, so if for some reason it's not I can always fall back on that.

I used to be an /r/CFB Poll member, but I deleted my Reddit account toward the end of the 2017 season. They've started ramping up again this week, and I was waffling about whether or not I was going to do the work to keep track of my own poll throughout this season, but if you're going to do one here maybe it'll give me an excuse. Give me a few hours and I'll put a vote in there.