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Rimbo

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  1. GO FOR IT YOU WUSSIES
  2. AND YET -- here we are.
  3. Remember OU? Great defense, completely shitty offense? Your defense and offense are better than theirs, and they BEAT Alabama. (WHOA WHATTA CATCH as the DB tries to take his head off)
  4. I'm on DrawPlayDave's Discord. It's amazing. Definitely NFL-centric (not a lot of college fans there) but tons of fun.
  5. You think they actually backed off? I think their offense was always this bad. Otherwise the score would be much, much worse.
  6. Ayup. No flag. No review. AND IT'S A FUMMBLLLLLLLLLE (again) but this time the big guy for the Tide gets it.
  7. I mean... you saw them against us, right?
  8. You know, if you're an Alabama fan, you have a lot to be thankful for in that first quarter. First, you haven't punted once in 5 possessions! That's a win. Second, you held Michigan to under 20 yards on all four of their possessions! Great job, guys! Let's focus on those positives, here, and build from there.
  9. That's not iced coffee; that's cold brew. For iced coffee... I just put ice in a mug and brew espresso over it. Top-notch every time. need pics of farm girls to confirm
  10. i should probably put that in the nil thread rather than here, but the book is fresh on my mind and I'm here and NIL has come up so fuck it
  11. Yes. The trouble is that the entire existing structure is the other way around, from the universities, to the coaches, to the agents, to the NCAA itself. Just finished reading the fantastic book Hot Dog Money about Marty Blazer, the FBI's insider who helped take down Pitino (and would've taken down SO MANY more if the FBI agent in charge hadn't gone crazy with $13500 in government funds one weekend in Vegas). Blazer really believed that NIL was going to make things worse for the kids, not better, in no small part because NIL was the NCAA's idea to begin with.
  12. Wife and I are similar but different in car buying sense. I tend to buy the best buy I can, new, then drive it until it is cheaper to buy a new car than to keep the old one, and maintain it to a T. She tends to buy used cars, never do any maintenance, and either drive them into the ground, or sell them before any maintenance or repairs are due. I think both work, it's just a matter of preference. I can't stand the idea of not taking care of a piece of machinery.
  13. Tell me you've never seen 'em live with DLR without telling me you've never seen 'em live with DLR. Even on the reunion tour with Wolf on bass, it was an entirely different show. But yeah, with Sammy? The FUCK tour was OK, I guess. It got bad from there.
  14. What's sad is my wife pointing out how whiny he was at the time, only for me to try to defend him, because -- as someone who started being a Longhorn fan in earnest in 1989 -- I'd never had it so good.
  15. I carried so much water on behalf of Greg Davis at the time I'm still hunched over and the basement's still flooded.* I realize that decrying him now may look like over-correcting. But the only thing Davis did was steal the very simple zone read scheme Missouri was running and hand it to Vince. All the jokes about the "Greg Davis 3rd and 5" are true. No one in coaching circles goes around trying to copy what Greg Davis was doing; Davis was the copycat, but with no knowledge of when a good idea is a good idea and when it isn't. Folks pointed out this flaw with his play calling, but it's also true to how you create an offense to begin with. Davis got big numbers because he had an overwhelming talent advantage. When he didn't have that, he couldn't move the ball or score. *I do not have a basement. It's a figure of speech, kay?
  16. The knee-jerk response to this is typically "Because Vince," and while Vince's heroics were a critical piece of it, there's more. warning: detailed longcat commences; grab yer adderall and try to stay awake The still oversimplified but much longer story is that he got lucky with some changes to his staff. (To be fair, he had some hires of his own that were good. Akina was a great hire; Tolleson was fantastic his entire tenure here. And... well. That's the lot.) Hiring Dick Tomey. I've been beating this drum ever since it happened, and honestly it basically happened on accident. Tomey changed the way Mack had done things for decades, including having starters go against starters in practice. And revamping his defensive staff in general was needed, because his initial hire was a gadget coach who made his name by stopping Spurrier's Florida teams. Mack had called Tomey up to see who he should hire to coach DE's, and Tomey told him "Hire me." He, SB-winning coach Greg Robinson, and (already on staff) Duane Akina then helped build some championship-winning defenses. Tomey was the only person who could tell Mack to do things differently. McWhorter coaching Nunez's recruits. When Mack started, he hired Tim Nunez as OL coach, who was a top-notch talent identifier/acquirer who couldn't develop that talent once they arrived; McWhorter could develop that talent once on the team, but was lazy and awful at identifying and acquiring said talent. The 2005 season featured a starting OL with Nunez's recruits and McWhorter's development. They were awesome and it was never as good before or since. These things were more or less Mack catching lightning in a bottle, things that broke him out of his normal tendencies and finally got him that gold ring. But he himself didn't recognize how critical they were, and after Tomey left, he eventually went back to the ways he had done things before, as if to prove that he could do it his own way. And that might have worked in 2008 and 2009 if one thing had been different: If the OL recruiting had been as good under McWhorter as it had been under Nunez (again, with McWhorter's development). Without a good enough OL, poor Colt McCoy was destroyed in the Big XII title game (where we barely eked out a win) and completely ruined in Pasadena (which by itself probably led to the loss). I mean... the fact that Mack thinks he should've given Garrett Gilbert more snaps, instead of, you know, maybe getting some badass bruisers on OL in the preceding years over Good Kids Who Graduate, just shows that he still has no idea how he did it in '05.
  17. I heard Mack's little bitchy whiny voice for three whole seconds and noped the fuck out of it. I'd rather hear Herman blab about winning being hard* in one hand while Strong talks about cakes being baked on repeat for thirty-five minutes straight than hear that voice for another three seconds. *hehehehehehhee "hard' ehehehehehe
  18. are you new here or something?
  19. btw, y'all need to be giving sushi ALL the rep for doing this shit
  20. Yeah, THAT guy. Amazing performer. He did NOT care that the audience didn't care to see them on stage; he was going to rock the house regardless, and the band was with him. And from what little I've seen of him in interviews, smart as fuck, too. Now while Bach didn't have to carry his band, and Bach to the theme of this thread (autocorrect made that pun and I'm not fixing it): Cristina Scabbia. The reason she's so short is because she's been squashed down from carrying Lacuna Coil. Saw them on some tour sponsored by a shitty flavored alcoholic something here in SD. They were only given a 30 minute set, and it took them 3 songs to get warm. And even once they were warm, like I said, Scabbia carried that band. At least with a performance that bland, I knew they were actually playing their instruments, I guess?
  21. He drove a car. Duh. A Honda, in fact. But he didn't talk about it. John 12:49 -- "For I do not speak of my own Accord, ..."
  22. Well... the AI generator that created all that's version of it, of course. I didn't type any of that shit out.
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