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irishtexan

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  1. Penn State wanting to get those Cignetti negotiations started ASAP
  2. So we were home team yesterday. I haven’t read a single article about recruits that were at the game, reactions, etc. In fact, there have been almost zero news/articles/reactions coming out of any of the home games this year. Were there no visitors at any of our recent home games? Seems strange.
  3. I fucking hope they don’t!
  4. That was ten yards short
  5. Why do we keep going backwards?
  6. This team will be lucky to win 6 games with this OL
  7. "easy to get to the airport" and "affordable" are the wild cards here. If you're cool taking the train to the airport, get a hotel near the orange line, which runs through the loop downtown. It goes right to Midway, and then it's about a quarter mile walk from the train to security. If you're gonna take a taxi or a ride share, it doesn't matter where you stay (from a convenience perspective), but just know the neighborhoods get rougher as you go further south and west. As far as the neighborhoods to stay at look into river north, the loop, magnificent mile, west loop, streeterville, or a little further out would be old town and gold coast. You could do south loop too, but I wouldn't go south or west of south loop/west loop. Anything north or west of that you're into neighborhoods, which could also check most of your boxes, but obviously not gonna have easy access to the downtown shit.
  8. Haven't been to a Portillo's outside of Chicago, but the ones up there make a serviceable italian beef, better than average hot dog, and had a damn good burger. My co workers raved about their chopped salad and their chocolate cake. I was gonna hit it up next time I'm in Dallas to see how it checked out. I don't eat at steak houses so I can't speak to Beck's Prime.
  9. Betty Gilpin has huge tits.
  10. That looks pretty terrible. Based on what billfromlaketravis said above, looks like they took a story meant for young adults and tried to repurpose it for a broader audience. Kinda like how they fucked up the Hobbit movies. If those are the "jokes" they're putting in the trailer, how bad are the ones they not promoting?
  11. OK. I'll contribute. You're right in that Mr. Brightside is in the conversation for the biggest hit of the early 2000s. It really might be the biggest hit of the decade. It's hard to understate how big that song is. While it's definitely not even close to the "BEST" song from that era, it might be the biggest. It's the highest selling single of all time to never top the chards. It's the most streamed song from the 2000s on Spotify. It's fucking massive. Crowds of a hundred thousand will sing every word to the song at English soccer matches. A song about a creep watching his girlfriend getting banged out by some other dude has somehow become a jock jam. For years I thought the Killers were a britpop band. They're an American band aping the sound of late 90s/early aughts britpop in a similar way to the early british invasion bands playing the music made by black blues musicians. The Foos aren't an apt comparison. Their roots are in the "hard rock" music that Dave Grohl played in Nirvana and Pat Smear played in the Germs, albeit a version that is extremely sanitized to appeal to a broad audience. They put out multiple albums with top-10 singles and have nearly unparalleled longevity in being in the conversation as the biggest band in the world. But the only thing they have in common is that they both play "rock" music and are popular bands. So my opinion is comparing the two makes no sense. It's like comparing Wings to the Police.
  12. Responding to differing opinions and offhand sarcastic remarks with wildly over the top personal attacks? EXACTLY like both of those threads! Let's keep it going!
  13. Killers thread : ztejas as Shane Gillis thread : Derka as What happened to Demi thread: Spystud
  14. My wife got a pair of NIN tickets. I haven't seen them since 95 on the Downward Spiral tour. I went to Levitation Fest a few weeks ago. I'm a huge Pavement fan, as they hit their peak right when I was in high school/college. I've seen them like 5 times before and they had always been great. Anyway, they sucked balls at Levitation. Stephen Malkmus was playing every song cute and weird and it was fucking annoying. He forgot the words to one of the songs. I don't know. It was pretty disappointing. On a related note, they should have a lot more shows at the Palmer Events Center.
  15. I didn't see anyone say they were shocked by it. I, and others, said it was creepy. Because it was creepy. Because it was supposed to be creepy. Which is a thing that audiences tend to appreciate in horror films.
  16. Fucking hell. Are you dipshits really having a semantics argument about what the words "top tier" mean to you personally?
  17. I knew nothing about Bring Her Back when I started it last night. Great fucking movie. Super creepy. SUPER CREEPY. Fucking Ollie. Anyway, watch it on HBO.
  18. Challenge with Flood is going to be reconciling his reputation as a developer of talent, and his success relative to that in the draft vs. some of the seemingly inexplainable recruiting and personnel decisions he makes - like recruiting, and then playing, Connor Stroh. On the one hand, Texas is regularly putting Offensive Lineman in the draft for the first time in a quarter century - most of them were 3* guys coming out of high school. On the other hand, the offensive linemen currently playing for UT suck balls. Issue with Arch is a similar one. Sark's reputation and history of unconditionally supporting his QB1 is part of what makes him attractive to elite QB recruits. He stuck with Ewers through thick and thin, even if some people thought he should have been replaced by Arch Manning toward the end of the season (ha!). I wonder how long he'll stick with a guy that's got the yips? At what point does Arch need a hard reset if he ever hopes to fulfill his promise. Because he's getting Garret Gilbert'd right now.
  19. A players-only meeting would need to be called for and led by the most visible player. The richest player. The player that has received the most hype in, potentially, the history of college football. That player can't hit the broad side of a barn, much less lead a players-only meeting. At this point, I'm curious how many losses Arch gets. It's not in Sark's DNA to change QBs mid-season. I wonder if and when he will pull the trigger...
  20. By who? As I posted earlier, Dallas Wilson was a composite high four-star. He wasn't a five-star on either on3 or 247. He was a great prospect. He was in no way the next Jeremiah Smith. He was like the 8th rated WR in his class.
  21. If Connor Stroh plays football for your football team, you've fucked up something somewhere along the way.
  22. That's true for Jeremiah Smith, partially true for Ryan Williams, and not close to being true for Dallas Wilson. Dallas Wilson was ranked #50 overall by 247 and #41 by on3, so he wasn't even a 5-star on either of the legitimate services, much less a "6-star". Ryan Williams was potentially going to be the top guy in his class, but he reclassified at the last minute and ended up 5th in 247 and 8th in on3. Obviously very well regarded, but he was still ranked below Cam Coleman on both sites. Was Cam Coleman also a 6-star? Smith? Yeah, he's a 6-star.
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