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Nicole44

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  1. Bunch of lawyers who secretly want to be English teachers. Maybe that will change the world. All these Surlies so concerned with grammar give up their useless lawyering and become school teachers. Teaching grammar. The online community will make them Gods for doing this. šŸ˜‚
  2. This. I’m not advocating Sark be fired. I was providing historical evidence that all HCs who are also the primary OC eventually end up being fired. And that will happen to sark if the offensive woes continue and I see no reason to believe the woes will cease. Arch or no Arch. Sark will eventually be forced to hire an OC or he will be gone at some point. And I hope he unstubborns his own ass and gets into the fucking booth so that doesn’t happen or relinquishes most OC stuff to a good designated OC. History tells the tale of where this is headed. Sark should know. He’s already failed twice at HC out west and the same problems are here again also. It wasn’t solely to do with his sobriety. im not advocating he be fired but he needs to learn from his previous mistakes and see what’s happening and make changes so the Big Money Donors don’t get antsy in the next two years and take the decision out of sarks hands. Which almost none of us want to have happen. I want him to stay but he needs to pull his head out of his ass. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is insanity and he absolutely should know this. He’s been given the ability to go and get any player he wants cuz we don’t have a cash problem. He’s never had that true ability as a HC at his previous HC stints bc there wasn’t NIL. He has every resource to make this the most feared offense in CFB so why isn’t it then?
  3. I made the critical error yesterday of saying something similar about Sark. I shouldn’t have posted it. I don’t think unless we have real evidence of something affecting someone’s ability to do their job or to perform their role as a player should be talked about. My apologies for insinuating the same of Sark. Those things are hurtful. I think Arch is just trying to be a young man like everyone else, like his brother, and he has the weight of the world on his shoulders. I just wish those insiders who clearly spoke to a ā€œbad week of practice that spilled onto the football fieldā€ for the game yesterday would provide more details. what I posted was wrong in the game thread and it was reposted a bunch even tho I did delete my post. I put out something that is just a rumor without proof and I deserved my licks for that. I can do better. it’s also not as if other players didn’t or don’t also party if that is indeed the case. I’ve never heard anything other about Arch other than he takes all of this very seriously. If that turns out not to be the case so be it. but that was my big knock on Ewers that when he came in he wasn’t ā€œinto the playbookā€ and most everyone absolutely flaming Arch now didn’t seem to have a problem with Ewers possibly not taking it all seriously when he first came here. In fact the exact opposite was said like ā€œyou can’t blame the guyā€ for not being into the playbook bc he’s a big stud on campus. Can’t have it both ways I guess. The truth is if his play was better no one would give a shit if Arch partied or not. I think he’s just trying to grow into those very very big shoes that have been telegraphed on him for his whole life. Jmo.
  4. You’re a very good friend. I struggle with the DP all the time, it’s hard for me to accept that putting someone to death is the answer. But I think the DP is a good bargaining chip to get people to plead guilty. Most people like Kohberger and this assassin don’t want to actually die, they are fucking cowards and would shit their pants. I’ve said that the DP was tailor made for someone like Bryan Kohberger. If he doesn’t deserve to die with pain and fear and terror than damn…because he does but I guess I’m softening as I grow older. I just don’t think putting people to death fixes anything other than an eye for eye sort of justice type thing. So while I respect in particular the rights of the victims families —I personally have changed my mind as it applies to most murder cases. Except I do think it is warranted when a convicted murderer continues to be a threat behind bars. I personally would prefer to use the considerable amount of money that goes into death penalty cases and appeals and apply those resources towards stopping the next killer and trying to prevent the rise of more like him. But that’s just me.
  5. Two is most definitely true. I think the jury is sadly still out on your first point bc of his play yesterday in particular. We don’t know what happened in fucking practice this past week and I sure wish those making statements about it would add some more clarity to what happened. Sark’s defensiveness about an ā€œinjuryā€ to Arch makes people think Three still is in play. Does it happen that everyone is wrong about a particular player? Yeah. But I truly from the bottom of my heart do not believe that people are wrong about arch. I look at what happened to Ewers and how he was broken down and he wasn’t truly built back up and that is in sark. So I think your second point is the answer at least since we now have five years to look at and I’ll be damned if his stints at USC and Washington aren’t omens for where we are now. My two cents, good post above.
  6. Can we also add a question for the board about whether or not Sark either needs to be in the booth if he stubbornly refuses to give up play calling? Or a question about whether or not he needs to hire a real OC and focus on being the HC? I just never see him giving this up and doing the same thing and expecting different results but I think it would be interesting from a POLL perspective where the surly collective is. Bc even if Arch is replaced I don’t see our offensive woes improving, sorry I do not. Maybe we get better play if Arch ain’t the guy but at the end of the day we have had the same offensive coordinator for 5 years in Sark and the offensive is his thing and it looks bad. And it’s not just this year, the defense on the other hand looks great. Does sark truly not see this?
  7. I like Derka. But I think the main topic here outside of talking about Charlie Kirk’s killer and how we can possibly stop future assassinations is the topic of: is it ok to celebrate Charlie Kirk’s murder? And I can’t believe the answer isn’t basically a resounding no save a few fringe lunatics. That’s my whole deal. I don’t know what his family or most particularly his widow will feel about whether or not the state of Utah seeks the death penalty but the governor said he would absolutely take in the family’s input. In other words if she doesn’t want the DP pursued they won’t do it. I’d like to think after listening to a couple of Kirk’s videos of his events that she would not want to take a kid from his parents. No matter how deplorable he may be. I won’t judge her if she wants the DP but I’d like to think that she won’t want it pursued. Kirk’s biggest thing was the family. And how important a family was. In particular how important fathers were. And the assassin took a father away from his family. The main thing Kirk said he cared about most of all outside of his faith. So if after the dust settles and all the investigation stuff is done into the assassin and his ā€œmotiveā€ maybe she will decide that just because this asshole took her husband cruelly from her family that she cannot take him from his parents. Particularly a parent who did the RIGHT thing by turning his son in and he was faced with an impossible choice. But he still did the right thing. Knowing the DP would absolutely be in play when he turned his son in. Despite as reports have suggested his son said he would kill himself if his father did that. A very scary choice and he made the right one. I don’t think she will want the DP but I won’t judge her if she does.
  8. I’m just merely pointing out that a majority of people whether they identify as conservative or liberal see things very differently when it comes to online speech. For the most part I’m agnostic politically. I see flaws in both parties. I see flaws. So I don’t take my marching orders from anyone. I seek to better understand. I make mistakes all the time but I pride myself on trying to get to the heart of why people say what they do or think what they think. I often misinterpret what others say. So I try very hard to make sure that I understand where they are coming from. I don’t know if you put much stock in Pew Research. My understanding was that they are non partisan. But I found their research into how people on both sides of the political spectrum view online comments and how they should be dealt with far differently. screenshots are comments from a project Pew did about a decade ago and it seems just as relevant today. Those are from their site. I am also linking the article. People see things way differently. And it explains a lot about where we are today imo. My opinions constantly evolve. But the idea I have to endorse a particular idea or opinion or ā€œpopular groupthinkā€ or I’m a bad person with bad intentions is where I wholeheartedly disagree. I seek to understand and I absolutely try to the best of my abilities to be mindful that many of my privately held opinions are not shared and I do try very hard to not be offensive. Aggravating sure, but I do try very hard to be respectful with most everyone I encounter online and in person. Even if I 100% think they are wrong. Most people aren’t bad people. But the idea we can only think one way or have opinions one way is what is wrong and bad. My opinions constantly evolve. Constantly. history tells the tale. We could have been all wrong about something that has happened in the last 25 years and later learn we were 100 wrong and destroyed others because of being wrong. Happens all the time,
  9. Very well said. What is the tipping point? Because no one of us wants to live in some Minority Report type thing where a kid is just pissed off fires off something in a chat or whatever and has FBi crawling up their asses. These kids legit idolize what the other ones of them have done and try to improve on it. Maybe flagging searchers for other shooters and combining it with other internet activity MIGHT be helpful and just monitoring it. But even then it’s not full proof just like how FBI profiles can be wrong as fuck (my friend murdered by the Baton Rouge serial killer everyone thought was a white male bc of the profile and completely ignored the massive red flags and observations of other local parish LE about Derrick Todd Lee, a black serial killer bc he didn’t fit the white male orofile)
  10. I may steal apples to assholes. So are you saying no one was fired for speech during the Biden or Obama administrations for their beliefs or if they were it was deserved bc all of those fired were in the wrong? All those cancelled were in the wrong? I don’t want to misinterpret what you said. And I type in stream of consciousness that aggravates everyone. And often times bc of that I’m misunderstood but that’s a me thing. Not the reader’s fault.
  11. Yeah that kid has zero empathy nor sympathy. Sociopath is correct. I just wonder if they are all sociopaths bc the evidence seems to be somewhat overwhelming that they are. He’s a hate filled asshole. But like was he born without empathy or sympathy? Or did he just gradually become that way? Was the kid smiling (kinda) in that nicely furnished dorm room already feeling homicidal? Or is it that he could never assimilate? Once high school was over just wanted to sleep late and be online 24/7. He was absolutely giddy thinking he got away with this and also checking to see what people thought. Must have been a real surreal moment for him when his father confronted his ass. And saw behind the mask of who his son was pretending to be?
  12. This I think is what I’m profoundly interested in. The shooters no matter their home life are almost the exact same person, despite politics or religion or whatever else. They are the same person over and over again. And how do we stop that shit. The thing is too many soft targets for those fucks to go after on both sides of the aisle and I want to know how they become so angry that they do this shit. And if there is some kind of tipping point where we can intervene before it leads to someone else being callously murdered. Or I’m just an idealist here.
  13. That shit has been happening as far back as the early 2000’s. Bill Maher was kicked off ABC for saying the 9/11 terrorists weren’t cowards. Even though he left an empty seat for a regular conservative contributor who died on one of the planes that day, it’s been going on for a long time. People being fired and disciplined or put on leave for making statements that don’t match the narrative of the current party/administration in power. That’s a both sides kind of ā€œthing.ā€ I should also mention his roommate is a hero who helped LE as well. And this is not being said. I’m still kinda fascinated with the furry thing. Also his roomie appears to either be a furry or a mascot. People were saying that the assassin dropped out of school after only one semester. I don’t know if that’s true but it tracks with these shooters. They don’t want to work in the real world or can’t bc of whatever reason. Just to hang out online and collect grievances and get angrier and angrier. This kid had a fairly decent sized friend group he was regularly in contact with. But what’s he been up to since high school? No idea but a lot of these young male shooters are similar in that regard. Not much since high school. No real effort to integrate into life. Picture of furry/mascot roommate. That culture of furries fascinates me.
  14. Also the thing is: OCs that are good usually get poached by either the NFL or to be a HC of a college team. So most of the good teams don’t have the same OC consistency year over year. We are in year five of sark and the offense looks like he just got promoted from WR coach to OC and is on a learning curve. Our team hasn’t had to learn a new system. Or a ton of new shit like other teams. Arch’s play has not helped at all but the evidence has been staring is overwhelmingly in the face for the last couple of years that Sark cannot do both. He thinks he can. This year might be a watershed moment for him. Because if Arch cannot bail him out the focus will be on him like a laser as well.
  15. The fact Sark wants to continue to Call plays and be the head coach shall be his undoing. if he wants to continue to do that despite the fact that every other fucking coach who has done this winds up getting forced to hire a fucking OC right before they get fired, he needs to get in the fucking booth. Move some of the staff around. Particularly Milwee. Sark is not super human. He can’t overcome the overwhelming evidence that coaches cannot do both. I love our coaching staff. I think though some changes need to be made. Shuffling around. But it’s like moving the deck chairs around on the Titanic. Eventually being both the HC and OC catches up with you. Because in year 4-5 you should be showing on the offensive side of the ball what PK is showing on his side. our red zone shit the last three years put us in like the bottom 15 % of the FBS. The basement. The last three years. Yes QB play and dudes making plays contributes. But Sark is the one constant and the red zone woes are mostly in him. Vanilla play calling that looks like he ain’t seeing what the defense is doing. Don’t believe me…look at the stats. The last three years of red zone woes and offensive metrics sho that the defense and PK are bailing our team out a TON. see the stats below. https://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/stat/giveaways-per-game
  16. TCU sold out…their purple hotdog!
  17. I need an official review on this ā€œdogā€ and how many they sold in section 109 today. This offering is a š—žš—¼š—æš—²š—®š—» š—–š—¼š—æš—» š——š—¼š—“ A hot dog + mozzarella cheese combo dipped in ube batter, fried in panko, dusted with ube powder, and drizzled with a sweet and spicy honey. It looks like a purple turd but seems like it might taste amazing. Maybe our offense just appears like it’s a turd. I just know on every metric that matters our defense is in the top 30 of every category and our offense is not and offense and play calling and QB whispering is supposed to be sarks super power. The usual suspects that we want to beat are in the top 30 in all the metrics that matter on both sides of the ball, this is a good site to refer to thru out the year. It really helps me understand why some teams have a trajectory that’s playoff bound and some don’t and can’t even get lucky, https://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/stat/giveaways-per-game it makes sense why some teams just don’t make it over the hump. Penalties. Not converting on 3rd and 4th down. Red zone woes which have dogged sark the last couple of years. Even though we made the playoffs two years running and yes beat Saban’s Bama a coach Sark knew how to scheme against and spent several months planning to beat him. We were not in the top 20 in many categories on offense the last three years and elite talent and defense has made the difference imo. PK needs to be recognized.
  18. I really think he’s in his own head. Not unlike someone with Asperger’s or something. Very bright but stuck on the mistakes and wants to be perfect but the speed of the game is still way too fast for him. I don’t see him mentally crumbling. I think it will all come together, like the karate kid. This guy has worked on this shit his whole life in the best of ways, he takes it seriously. I think he’s gotta roll past the mistakes and find his stride and he will, I can’t understand the bad throws unless he just feels so rushed. And because he feels rushed his mechanics are way off and his throws are as well. Otherwise he’s hurt and they won’t say. But this is someone who is 1000x harder on himself than a crowd of 100,000 could ever be. We gotta fix the fucking penalties though, we have z ro margin for error after next week.
  19. So the speed of the game is a factor for him? It’s just hard because in so many ways when he came in relief of a hurt Ewers last year, Arch looked a lot better in those games? Is that because the games were more scripted out for him last year? It’s just odd because what he flashed last year I saw a little bit last week and that was almost entirely missing today against a fired up UTEP coach who seems to give his team a ton of energy.
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    A&M at ND

    Let’s shoot to be the most penalized team in FBS. Just kidding, It’s not surprising to me that teams like Utah or Minnesota Army and Air Force are some least penalized teams. The scary one to me is Oregon. We haven’t seen them play yet a team that is a contender but so far they have proven that They can score lightening fast, show no mercy and don’t make many mistakes. Very few. We can’t afford to make mistakes. That penalty we had on our defense (god bless them bc they are elite and warriors) vs Ohio State gifted them a TD. We gotta fucking fix this shit. Lol.
  21. Nicole44

    A&M at ND

    They will still rank them. They lose again and they should be out of the rankings and out of the conversation entirely. But it’s early yet. Some teams are playing better than expected and others are still wait and see if they should drop down or move up. And some are seriously playing themselves out of the playoffs by the end of this next weekend. Bottom line is that a 2 loss ND shouldn’t get in over a school that has no losses or one loss. That would be bullshit that we are all tired of seeing, I enjoyed the transparency of the ACC showing us and letting us listen in to how refs make their call. The committee needs the same transparency especially if they put in ND with two loses since the rest of their schedule ain’t exactly badass from here on out,
  22. Nicole44

    A&M at ND

    https://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/stat/penalties-per-game this is worrisome as we are like 120 of 136. I see most of the top teams we worry about beating in the top 30. We have to fix this shit.
  23. Nicole44

    A&M at ND

    And 11 last week I think? Same as us. Florida had 12 last week. They do need to clean them up. But posts like ā€œso excited we won. Let’s clean up the penalties thoughā€ are not being well received. And they are getting their head bitten off for saying it. People can say well that’s aggy but the same shit happens here too,
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