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The challenge for Ewers is that the Heisman is as much about accumulating statistics as it is winning big games and being a Quarterback. Milroe has played every game, accounted for 18 touchdowns in four games, passed for 964 yards with only 1 interception, ran for 273. And on the biggest stage of the season so far, he passed for 374 and two touchdowns and ran for 117 and two touchdowns to lead his team to the number one ranking. Another thing hurting Quinn is that when he went down, his backup QB statistically outperformed him. So some voters may ask "Is Quinn good, or is it Sark and the system?" He'll have an opportunity to get back in the race if he shines against OU, Georgia, and in the SEC Championship game.

And he sucks ass...

This is why. Not a terrible opinion.

Best practice is to shoot the bad guy reaching for his gun before they're actively killing people instead of after they've started killing people.

Saw that yesterday and initially thought the same thing. But the second tweet says dude who got shot had a 9mm handgun he was trying to pull from his waistband when he was approached by the cop. It's tough to tell from the video though. Cops suck. But if you're driving a stolen vehicle, and then you pull a gun on a cop, you're gonna get shot.

"I don't mind Oklahoma people..."

Hudson doesn't fit the profile of who they're looking for out of a portal WR - 1) Speed - he ain't fast. 2) Proven production - he ain't done shit.

A "Hi" is for a silent commit. Since silent commits are bullshit and meaningless, so are "Hi"s. That'll be $9.95 please.

Dan's is like a block away.

Harkness is River's father. River, the doppleganger, the (other) French assassin that presumably killed Bad Sam, and the bomber are all half-brothers. When River was talking to his doppleganger's mother, she talked about how Harkness had a harem of women at Les Abres - greek, polish, russian, english, etc. Harkness would impregnate the women, steal the baby boys from their mothers, and train them to be his team of assassins. Basically, you can assume that any of the bad guys working for Harkness are his sons. The secret opp that Bad Sam did for David Cartwright was to get David's daughter/River's mother out of Les Abres. Still don't know what happened to mom, or how David Cartwright ended up with River...

Well, I'm crashing the party. I've worked for an occupational health and safety company for 13 years with a specialty in pre-employment post-offer physical abilities testing. Basically, I was the commercial SME and sales lead for our testing division. We test workers to ensure that they're physically safe to do the job that they're being placed into. The owners of the company sold to a large private-equity backed corporation almost two years ago. That corporation primarily owns physical therapy clinics throughout the US, but has also acquired a handful of commercial entities selling injury-prevention services (onsite early intervention, ergonomics, safety services, occupational medical testing, etc). We were enveloped under one of those entities, and their CEO and COO basically took over our company. There has been constant reorganization of the commercial team over the last 18 months. We hired a team of new salespeople who were supposed to focus on selling all services offered by both companies, as they're somewhat complimentary. But basically the four new salespeople focused on services offered by "their" company and I ended up managing new business development of the testing side of things. My colleague who has been with our company for 27 years was put over customer experience/expansion of our existing clients. Two weeks ago they eliminated my position, as well as my colleague's, despite both of us outperforming our contemporaries at the "other" company. They didn't even bother to tell our COO before it happened. The sale of our company was contentious. Previous owners sold operating interest (51%) of the company, and expected (naively) to be allowed to continue to run the company as they saw fit. Shortly after the sale, the previous owners were unceremoniously told their services would no longer be required or appreciated and they were shown the door. It seems pretty clear to me that they want to cut off any ties to the old owners and get their own people in who will do whatever new leadership says without questioning the commercial strategy (which is pretty non-existent). Get the "yes men" in place regardless of performance. This is exceptionally frustrating because we are one of a very small handful of companies that offer employment testing services at a national scale. Most of the time it's done by local physical or occupational therapy clinics, and is a small component of the suite of services they offer local employer clients. Basically, there is almost no opportunity to go to a competitor and continue to apply my expertise. So here I am. My last day is October 18th and they've offered a paltry six-weeks severance, which my attorney is trying to renegotiate on my behalf. I can also cash out a month of PTO. Between myself and my colleague they're offering 12 weeks of severance for 40 years of work between the two of us. I've got two small kids and we don't have a ton of savings where I can afford to be on unemployment for a long period of time. Reading about @Macanudo's experience is somewhat disheartening, and very concerning. If you're still with me, I guess I'm just venting at this point. So anyway, if any of y'all know of anything, shoot me a DM. I've got experience in sales, account management, onboarding and implementation, occupational health and safety, and injury-prevention services. But open to pretty much anything at this point.

This was my favorite exchange. Reality-based aggy makes objective and accurate observation on struggling position groups supported by facts. First response is "this is just wrong" with zero supporting data.

Makes total sense. I guess the point I'm making is that I don't know how much recruiting success of Jackson/Orogbo/Hilson (fingers crossed) can be attributed to Baker. I'm happy things have turned around on DT recruiting, but the jury's still out on Baker as a recruiter and a coach. However, the data points are trending in a positive direction, which is welcome and reassuring after an objectively shaky start.

Recently diagnosed type 2 diabetic and insulin injector chiming in. The needles used to inject insulin are tiny because you inject subcutaneously rather than intravenously. Probably about 1/4 of an inch long and like a millimeter in width. I barely feel anything when injecting each morning. I'm not saying your fear of needles is irrational; only that not all medicinal needle injections are the same.

I thought Baker exclusively coached/recruited DTs and was not over DEs/EDGE. Thought that was Kwiatkowski. Am I mistaken?

I'm not sure what's more embarrassing - thinking Alabama was going to fall off a cliff in recruiting, or arguing with that person who is both wrong and dumb.

I don't know shit about fuck, but I do know this. Mermaids are definitely white. Are there mermaids in this book and/or miniseries and/or movie?

Uhhhhhh.......... No. The answer is no.

Didn't On3 drop him from a 5-star top-30 player in the nation down to the 90s in their final update last year? Lookin' real smart, fellas.

This is a talking point repeated by the talking heads covering college football at the national level, but it's absolute bullshit. Who do they have that's elite? Sure they have a bunch of kids that were 5-stars coming out of high school. But who is "good"? The answer is no one. It's very similar to our time wandering the desert where we were signing a bunch of 5-star players but very few of them lived up to their potential while at UT. Malik Jefferson, Caden Sterns, Jalen Green, BJ Foster, Tyler Owens, etc. The only 5-star player we signed between 2015 and 2020 that KIND OF lived up to potential was Overshown, and the lights only came on after Sark got here. They're in a similar situation - lots of big name duds, which schools will effective use to recruit against them in the same way our competition recruited against us.

I feel bad for the very few posters over there that actually get it. Some of them are accurately pointing out they haven't developed a WR since Mike Evans, had multiple highly-ranked WRs flame out (Demas), and hired an OC that prefers to run the ball (especially with the QB), but then have to put up with a bunch of fucking head-in-the-sand morons complaining about NIL, Holmon Wiggins, and believing that WRs from the portal are somehow going to be more inclined to sign with them than high school WRs. Hey dummies - it's also a pretty shitty strategy when it comes to attracting QBs... Is the Longstreet kid from CA a dual-threat QB? He's 6'1" and almost 200 according to On3. It'll be interesting to see if they hold on to him when their offense sucks shit through a straw this year and Wiggy gets hurt again.

With reclassification being a relatively new trend in football recruiting, it'll be interesting to track the success/hit ratio of players that do reclassify and go to college at the age of 17. Seems like for every Quinn Ewers and Ryan Williams, there's multiple JT Daniels, Tony Grimes, Donnell Harris, Dezz Ricks or LT Overtons who were highly rated and never amounted to shit. But that's just going off my memory. Would love to see some data on that.

Who fell off a cliff faster - Russell Wilson or Deshaun Watson? Those dudes went from incredible to absolute ass in the blink of an eye.