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I didn't really remember much about Adazzio so I looked him up. I don't see anything in his profile that might indicate he's an asshole. Seems like a helluva guy. Urban Meyer disciple going back to Urban's ND days and then was oline coach for him at Florida. Then OC after Mullen left. In fact Meyer got him the Colorado State job after burning bridges at Temple and flaming out at Boston College He allegedly got super aggressive and completed all the logistical work getting Aaron Hernandez to leave high school early to start training at Florida against the wishes of Hernandez's high school principal. At Temple he told NFL scouts that Bernard Pierce, arguably the best player in school history, was undraftable because Addazio was upset that he wasn’t coming back for his senior year and was being “selfish”. As head coach as BC, he once got former BC player and then Atlanta Falcon LB Josh Keyes blackballed from getting free BC tickets during his NFL off week because the player liked and commented on a post on Facebook critical of Addazio. Keyes went and bought tickets himself and then was denied entrance to the game. He finally got someone to let him in. Someone from BC then called Falcons coach Dan Quinn and told him that Keyes had talked shit about BC and their program, and that he would probably do the same about him, and he was a bad character guy and they should probably cut him. Allegedly went to a BC basketball fundraising event and convinced the donors to give to the football team instead. At Colorado State, he got ejected during the first half of the final game of the season against Nevada, by rule after receiving two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties; he is just the second coach to be ejected following the NCAA rule change implemented in 2016. On senior night. Allegedly tried to skirt covid protocols at CSU, "Multiple coaches, players and sports medicine staffers told ESPN and the Coloradoan that players had been instructed to mask symptoms of COVID-19 because they might lose playing time if they contracted the coronavirus, while staffers at the school said inconsistency, misinformation and negligence around COVID-19 protocols had compromised the safety of student-athletes." Got into altercation with custodian who was trying to clean the bathroom. “What did you say to me, boy?” at which point the custodian again said, “I guess my job doesn’t matter.” The custodian told the investigator that Addazio then followed him out of the restroom and said, “I don’t think you know who I am, boy. I run this building.” He said Addazio was yelling and the custodian tried to tell Addazio to move on with his day. As the incident continued, the custodian alleged that Addazio then made what he perceived as a threat on his job. “I don’t think you know who I am. I run this place. Let’s just see if you’re still here tomorrow," the custodian claimed Addazio said. Also lied about said confrontation with custodian, "The coach told the investigator he apologized multiple times and that it was the custodian who escalated the confrontation, leaving the coach feeling “abused and harassed.” Addazio said he left the restroom and was confronted by the custodian. However, the investigator said that a review of surveillance video from the building showed Addazio "escalated the situation, became frustrated, and refused to move on from the situation." Didn't limit berating and intimidation to custodians, "Jimmy Stewart, a mental health counselor who works with student-athletes at CSU, told the paper he witnessed Addazio berate and "humiliate" a football player over an academic issue. Stewart said he believed Addazio's attitude toward the unnamed athlete, who is Black, was steeped in a racist attitude. "In that encounter with the Black student-athlete, Coach Addazio had this attitude that he's bigger and more powerful than the student-athlete," Stewart told the Coloradoan. A staff member told the publication Addazio later bragged about the incident and called the football player a "f---ing douchebag."

A thread on Sark, on the Bama board. The responses warm the cockles of my cynical, jaded heart.

I've wasted an embarrassing amount of my day doing this, but I'm going re-post the Steve Addazio stuff with new additions from the original post in bold. Apologies for the multiple posts and thread shitting, but I think this needed to be done. I should have posted links to all this shit, but whatever. I can't believe Texas A&M hired this toxic motherfucker. Oh, wait a minute. Yes I can. The Steve Addazio file: An Urban Meyer disciple going back to Urban's ND days and then was oline coach for him at Florida. Then OC after Mullen left. In fact Meyer got him the Colorado State job after burning bridges at Temple and flaming out at Boston College. An embedded reporter at Florida who was there at the time alleged Urban didn’t want to recruit Aaron Hernandez but Addazio talked him into it. “This is what I learned about how Hernandez got to Florida. He was recruited by an assistant coach [Addazio] from Connecticut, who knew of his checkered past. Meyer balked at recruiting him. Partly because one of his assistant coaches [Addazio, again] was so passionate about signing Hernandez and partly because he became convinced “the mission” could change him, Meyer recapitulated.” During Hernandez’s recruitment, Addazio allegedly got super aggressive and completed all the logistical work getting him to leave high school early to start training at Florida against the wishes of Hernandez's high school principal who now regrets letting it happen. Also, he and Aaron Hernandez appeared to be part of the mutual admiration society. From an article when he was hired at BC and Hernandez was still playing for the Patriots, "I had a great relationship with him," Addazio said. "I had a great trust factor, obviously being from the state of Connecticut going into Connecticut [to recruit]. I thought [Florida] ended up being a terrific fit for him. And certainly so, so proud of all the things that he's accomplished. He's a great guy with a great work ethic and great talent." Hernandez was also full of praise for his former coach. "He's a great coach," he said. "He's a great person on and off the field. He can be a little intense at times, but I loved him and I loved having him as a coach." Pretty cool that Aaron Hernandez that he could be, "a little intense." Peter principled up to OC at Florida, where he was generally despised for both on and off the field behavior including putting out a terrible offense while having Tim Tebow. He tried rotating a three qb offense for crying out loud. “Often abrasive and truculent, he became notorious with demanding Gator fans this season inspiring a website firesteveaddazio.com. He juggled three quarterbacks with mixed results and insisted on running the ball more than UF backers liked in spite of modest success." Was almost hired by Mack Brown as OL coach at UT in 2010 before getting the Temple head coach job. Of all the fucked up shit on his resume which includes saying that he's "so, so proud" of a murdering sociopath who is a “great guy,” this might the most damning given Mack’s atrocious history of hiring OL coaches. At Temple he told NFL scouts that Bernard Pierce, arguably the best player in school history, was undraftable because Addazio was upset that he wasn’t coming back for his senior year and was being “selfish”. Also as part of his Urban nepotism, hired the indomitable Zach Smith while he was at Temple, even though he knew at least tangentially of Smith's domestic issues going back to when they were together back at Florida. Got called out for it years later while at BC. “While an assistant coach at Florida in 2009, I was aware that there was an issue in the personal life of Zach and Courtney Smith,” Addazio said via the Boston Globe. “I did not know specifics, and I knew the matter was in the hands of university personnel and that the couple was involved in counseling. As a husband, father and coach, I have zero tolerance for domestic abuse. There is no place in our program at Boston College for any member of our staff involved in domestic violence.” As head coach as BC, he once got former BC player and then Atlanta Falcon LB Josh Keyes blackballed from getting free BC tickets during his NFL off week because the player liked and commented on a post on Facebook critical of Addazio. Keyes went and bought tickets himself and then was denied entrance to the game. He finally got someone to let him in. Someone from BC then called Falcons coach Dan Quinn and told him that Keyes had talked shit about BC and their program, and that he would probably do the same about him, and he was a bad character guy and they should probably cut him. Allegedly went to a BC basketball fundraising event and convinced the donors to give to the football team instead. Shitcanned a staffer at CSU because he questioned Adazzio on his nepotism/sucking at the quid pro quo teat of Urban. “Anthoney Hill, the school's former player development coach and its starting quarterback in the early 1990s, said he was terminated following Addazio's hiring as head coach in December because he had expressed concerns about Addazio and the hiring of his son, Louie Addazio, and Urban Meyer's son-in-law, Corey Dennis. Meyer reportedly assisted CSU with its search, which led to the hiring of Addazio, who is Meyer's friend and one of his former assistants.” ***It should be noted that Corey Dennis got a full time assistant QB coach job with Ryan Day at Ohio State instead of going to CSU after our boy Tom Herman hired Mike Yurcich away from them to be OC here. Congrats to Corey on dodging that bullet. Refused to hire a special teams coordinator at CSU and took the responsibility for himself. Then, against Utah State, CSU lost on a chaotic final sequence when the field goal team was unnecessarily rushed on the field (they could have spiked the ball to stop the clock) and missed a go-ahead kick. Addazio placed the blame on players after the game. The next week, Addazio banned media from two days of practice availability as criticism mounted. At Colorado State, he got ejected during the first half of the final game of the season against Nevada, after receiving two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties; he is just the second coach to be ejected following the NCAA rule change implemented in 2016. On senior night. Allegedly tried to skirt covid protocols at CSU by threatening players, "Multiple coaches, players and sports medicine staffers told ESPN and the Coloradoan that players had been instructed to mask symptoms of COVID-19 because they might lose playing time if they contracted the coronavirus, while staffers at the school said inconsistency, misinformation and negligence around COVID-19 protocols had compromised the safety of student-athletes." Got into altercation with custodian who was trying to clean the bathroom. “What did you say to me, boy?” at which point the custodian again said, “I guess my job doesn’t matter.” The custodian told the investigator that Addazio then followed him out of the restroom and said, “I don’t think you know who I am, boy. I run this building.” He said Addazio was yelling and the custodian tried to tell Addazio to move on with his day. As the incident continued, the custodian alleged that Addazio then made what he perceived as a threat on his job. “I don’t think you know who I am. I run this place. Let’s just see if you’re still here tomorrow," the custodian claimed Addazio said. Also lied about said confrontation with custodian, "The coach told the investigator he apologized multiple times and that it was the custodian who escalated the confrontation, leaving the coach feeling “abused and harassed.” Addazio said he left the restroom and was confronted by the custodian. However, the investigator said that a review of surveillance video from the building showed Addazio "escalated the situation, became frustrated, and refused to move on from the situation." Didn't limit berating and intimidation to custodians, "Jimmy Stewart, a mental health counselor who works with student-athletes at CSU, told the paper he witnessed Addazio berate and "humiliate" a football player over an academic issue. Stewart said he believed Addazio's attitude toward the unnamed athlete, who is Black, was steeped in a racist attitude. "In that encounter with the Black student-athlete, Coach Addazio had this attitude that he's bigger and more powerful than the student-athlete," Stewart told the Coloradoan. A staff member told the publication Addazio later bragged about the incident and called the football player a "f---ing douchebag." He also allegedly set up a burner account to defend himself on social media. "CSU Rams Fan." This is pretty great, with sampling of tweets below. https://deadspin.com/amid-racism-abuse-claims-did-depressed-fan-sniff-out-1844659264 This is the final tweet from that account, four days after he got fired. Joe Parker is the AD And finally.... to continue the endless nepotism, in January ATM apparently hired his son Louie from Nevada where he was the OL coach, but in no official capacity. I can't find shit on him other than he has Texas A&M in his twitter bio.

satya: 6'6" 337 - Malik Agbo - from the PNW, probably smokes weed 6'3" 321 - DJ Campbell - too short 6'5" 303 - Cole Hutson - too white 6'7" 374 - Cam WIlliams - too big 6'4" 298 - Conner Robertson - see Cole Hutson 6'5" 314 - Neto Umeozulu - could be a solid career backup 6'5" 318 - Kelvin Banks Jr - is a 5 star just like Chris Simms

The way this board relives horrifying previous losses in forensic detail over 50 posts and mentions big wins with an "oh yeah, that was cool" is a real psychological tragedy.

How bout either the text messages show up, or future Secret Service pensions do not?

Yeah but it's not happening to us right now, so it's funny.

How do you know if someone is an investment banker? They'll tell you.

Cromartie's created more kids than aggy's DC has killed. Advantage aggy.

Never forget.

No sunshine. Love it

I don't really feel like it's my privilege or place to announce this, but since no one else has, MAC posted on FB for the first time in a few weeks yesterday. It seems he's out of the ICU.

"Until you’ve been in life and death situations you don’t know how you’ll handle it." "Until you’ve been in life and death situations you don’t know how you’ll handle it." "Until you’ve been in life and death situations you don’t know how you’ll handle it." "Until you’ve been in life and death situations you don’t know how you’ll handle it." "Until you’ve been in life and death situations you don’t know how you’ll handle it." "Until you’ve been in life and death situations you don’t know how you’ll handle it." "Until you’ve been in life and death situations you don’t know how you’ll handle it." "Until you’ve been in life and death situations you don’t know how you’ll handle it." "Until you’ve been in life and death situations you don’t know how you’ll handle it." "Until you’ve been in life and death situations you don’t know how you’ll handle it." "Until you’ve been in life and death situations you don’t know how you’ll handle it." "Until you’ve been in life and death situations you don’t know how you’ll handle it." "Until you’ve been in life and death situations you don’t know how you’ll handle it." "Until you’ve been in life and death situations you don’t know how you’ll handle it." "Until you’ve been in life and death situations you don’t know how you’ll handle it." "Until you’ve been in life and death situations you don’t know how you’ll handle it." "Until you’ve been in life and death situations you don’t know how you’ll handle it." * Repeated 17 times for the seventeen heavily armed police officers in that elementary school hallway. GTFO with this nonsense.

Wrong thread, but had to share. Texas updated the roster with all incoming freshmen and this is Cam Williams’s listing. Insane

A few quick thoughts after catching up on this thread: 1. It's clear who has their NIL game on point, just as CTJ outlined. Miami is a big player this recruiting season, and it's not just because of Cristobal. Damn it feels good to be a gangster. 2. Simms routinely beat the hell out of aggy and seriously destroyed LSU, so he's cool with me. 3. Love Shelby's middle finger to aggy. 4. Cromartie fits in well with those morons. A thousand kids and a classy tweet filled with f-bombs and thinly veiled criticism of a recruit. Perfect match. 5. Fuck ou.

Feel better after putting that out there? got damn you're a gaping vagina

He gone.

See, I think that the young lady with soft skin and pigment would be my #1, so it goes a little like… 1 , 2 , X , X , 3 , X (but 4 if I had to) These girl were made by a printer starting on the left and working right. By the time that the far right girl was being printed, the cartridge was clean out of toner.

Who the fuck are you?

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Future Investment Banker ?? Credit for tweet @Dennis Taylor

Fourth time at the festival, and I ran today and yesterday for my fourth and fifth runs. I'm in the light blue shirt and my BIL is over my left shoulder and behind me. Dropped my newspaper so I had to touch a bull with my bare hand today. The day before, I was able to catch 3 bulls with my newspaper. I rate today's run first (bare hand touch) and yesterday's third. Second place was my very first run, when I entered the arena between two groups of bulls when they'd split up earlier, and the crowd (Like 10k+? Think a gladiator looking arena) was going buckwild and I came out of the tunnel into the arena. I also got tripped up in a pile up ahead of my and have road rash on my face, arm, and knee. Today was my first injury in 5 runs over the 4 times I've been to the fiesta. I will be back if I'm in W. Europe in early July, like now, but wouldn't make a special trip for it BIL is a big Louisiana homer/Mardi Gras guy and says the fiesta surrounding everything is better than Mardi Gras. Really, the fiesta is great with fireworks and concerts every night, brass bands in the street, drunken revelry (but not threatening dbag drunkenness, per my wife), and tons of other surprises you just kinda wander into. Tag me if you ever want advice. 👍

It was a very nice funeral service for my grandson today.

He did the Fucking hand signal too

I'll bet aggy doesn't teach this at Fish Camp either. I assume that prior to 1949, they were colloquially known as the Farmers.

They despised Mond for his play and having the gall to have an opinion about the SUL Ross statue. They hate all their senior QBs except for Manziel and Limpin' Stephen McGee. We can be damn harsh, but it's usually fairer than they ever are. Simms is the only QB about whom I've been mortified about how he was treated by some fans. It was awful. Aggies are the bestest fans in the world. They're really loud!!!!!!

the webb telescope is really something to behold

He posts on surlyhorns. Of course he should see a therapist.

As a teacher, I've been doing lockdown drills for 15 years now. All of the procedures are designed to buy time until police arrive. Now all of those procedures have to be reevaluated. I've thought through countless scenarios with our building layout and my classroom and what options there are if something goes down. Now I have to add on the "well what do we do if the cops ignore us" to the equation. I can't count on the police. That's the reality now. If things go down, we are on our own. And before someone inevitably comes along and says "well statistically you never have to worry about it, blah blah," I can't afford to not think about it or be prepared. In 15 years teaching I've had 3 students I thought capable of a school shooting. 1 of them I'm convinced would have done it if he ever got hold of a weapon. That one eventually grew up, got denied from joining the marines, and ended up killing his grandma and going to prison.

Lmao I don’t think he read beyond the first sentence

Coworker had a story about his parents, apparently mom always burned the eggs, blamed the pan. Dad bought her a new pan one Christmas. First day after, she used it, he took a bite, and said "well, it's not the pan."

Now it’s a party!

A few things: -Regarding Jordan Hall, it's not a pipe dream, so that's one to watch. -Regarding the Safety from Georgia - pipe dream to ignore. -Hicks is going to watch a bunch of freshmen playing all over the DL to ATM this season before he announces at the UA all star game in January. He's also not the type to be excited about being the only standout in a class and he's very NIL educated. I have now gone from pipe dream to believing that Texas is the smart bet. -Gullette's top two are Texas and a distant second of Ohio State. I don't see the guy going to the ATM pool party, but maybe he does. If the recruit had the only say in things, he'd have shut everything down already. -When Greathouse picks Notre Dame, it will be interesting to see if Texas isn't willing to take both Hale and MHP. Seems like they will. -USC is a legitimate threat for Shelby but it's a good sign that he decided to avoid the aggie gathering. Getting pestered on social media to come to it from the likes of Taylor Hamm and his fanboys didn't help ATM's cause. -Shanahan got laughably overranked by Rivals early and his family bought it. If he had a committable offer from Bama, Georgia, or Clemson, he'd be taking it. Interest with Texas is largely one-sided. -Either Texas finds a difference maker at OT that they like or they pass from here on out. The guy from East St. Louis is a legit target with real interest. -Jamarious Brown would be a huge get, but Alabama probably wants him. Not sure the NIL-side will be a differentiator for anyone if Bama pushes. -Guys that I know people can feel good about: MM, Baxter, Hill, MHP, Gullette, Hale. Guys we are not fooling ourselves in following: Hicks, Shelby. Guys that would mean Texas has crushed it in recruiting and is winning on the field: Brown, Hall, East St. Louis, Robinson. Guys I forgot to ask anyone about: Vasek, Toviano, Matthews, Osborne, Akana, whoever else I didn't list. -Fully weaponized NIL initiatives: Texas, Oregon, Ohio State, Miami. NIL programs figuring things out or already fired up but incapable of creating a competitive advantage at the top level: SEC powers, Notre Dame, Louisville, PSU, Michigan, Houston, Ole Miss, Texas Tech, Tennessee. ND and Michigan eventually move into the first tier due to alumni power. NIL programs with their heads firmly up their own asses: Texas ATM, Pac 12, Baylor, TCU, Clemson, North Carolina, FSU. NIL Programs that qualify for the X-Files right now: USC, OU.

Or, and hear me out, they're simply cowards.

There is another type, but they don't get the media attention. There are a ton of medics and humanitarian volunteers. Lets add to that the countless hidden volunteers outside of ukraine working to make the refugee's transition easier. Not taking away anything from those fighting, but important to remember those as well. Even @Brisketexan's son for making tacos with hot european chicks.

Ah, the crossfitters of the professional world

He's listed as a GA on the A&M site ... his resume is pretty impressive (and lengthy), so spoilered it.