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I mean one needn’t be “outside the tech community” to know it. All it requires is the execution of a technique known as “not sticking your head up your ass.”

I always called him Tommy Tubofshit

I appreciate the fact that you admit to clearly not reading what I said because if you had, you would have noticed that I alluded to that. Fact.

I should have said the following, since this issue never fails to get me in a “torch the motherfucker down” mood whenever it comes up: You and I actually had an exchange on SB about this nearly four years ago and I went into semi-intimate detail about the matter, which I’m sure is in far better order than the degenerate version of revisionist history buttfumble has to say about it. Here’s what I said: “Oh they were. The "go fuck yourself" line? Complete bullshit; and here's how you know it. It's very simple to test: 1) Steve Pincock said he told James not to go into the electrical closet. James (both Craig and Adam) says he was locked in there. Hance said he was locked in there. 2) Charlotte Bingham says Adam James told her that he was in there for 5 minutes. Craig James says it was an hour. I can't remember offhand what Hance said under oath as I can no longer find the full version of his deposition (more on that later), but he did say in that ESPN phone interview that it was for 2-3 hours. So he exaggerated Craig’s exaggerated version of Adam’s lie. 3) Hance said that on December 22nd (or so), he told (basically ordered) Leach to sign a generic statement adhering to how to and how not to act towards a player as a coach. Again, according to Hance, Leach's response was "go fuck yourself." Leach says that profanity was used by neither participant. Neither participant has listed any witnesses to this interaction So every claim that the Jameses/Hance made regarding the electrical closet was refuted, and Adam ultimately admitted that he went into that room under no one’s orders and that the door was never locked. The Jameses and Hance clearly lied in their depositions. There's no doubt about that. Then this business about "go fuck yourself" comes up. Ok, fine. One problem: Leach was never caught lying about anything in his deposition. Hance was. Leach says no profanity was used by either person, Hance did. Even if I completely ignore that the mere idea that "go fuck yourself" is a for-cause termination offense is an abject disgrace at humanity, why should anyone believe that it even happened to begin with? The established liar says it happened, the guy whose assertions were corroborated by disinterested 3rd parties to this matter says it didn't. Who are we suppose to fucking believe on that one? And if one is still inclined to believe Kent Hance, answer this: If Leach was fired because he told the chancellor of the university to "go fuck” himself, why does his termination letter read: Dear Coach Leach, This letter shall serve as formal notice to you that, pursuant to Article V of your Employment Contract, you are terminated with cause effective immediately, for breach of the provisions of Article IV of that Contract." Article V, Subsection D states: BY UNIVERSITY WITHOUT CAUSE: In addition to the provision set forth above, there is also reserved to the University the right to terminate this agreement without cause at any time and for any reason. The parties agree that in the event this right to terminate is exercised, the University will pay to Coach liquidated damages in an amount equal to $400.000 for each year remaining in the Term, pro rated as of the date of termination. It is agreed that University shall also pay any Supplemental Compensation set forth in Article III.C.4 above earned prior to such termination. In such event, the University shall not be liable to Coach for any other University benefits, perquisites or any collateral business opportunities, outside income revenues or guarantees or other benefits associated with Coach's position as Head Football Coach. Article IV states: PERFORMANCE In the performance of his duties, Coach shall be directly responsible to and under the supervision of the Director of Intercollegiate Athletics. Without limitation of the foregoing, Coach, in the performance of his duties, shall conduct himself at all times in a manner consistent with his position as an instructor of students. The parties agree that, although this agreement is sports related, the primary purpose of the University and this agreement is educative. Thus, the educative purposes of the University shall have priority in the various provisions of this Agreement. Coach will follow all applicable University policies and procedures. Coach shall not, either directly or indirectly, breach or countenance to the breach by any player or coach subject to his control or supervision of any of the rules and standards of the Big 12 Conference, the NCAA, youth, collegiate, and master's amateur athletics as well as other associations or agencies to which the University adheres. In this connection, Coach agrees to devote his entire time, labor, effort and attention, in good faith, to conduct and perform the duties commensurate with the position as Head Football Coach, bearing in mind that University recognizes and accepts that Coach has the ability to engage in reasonable Outside Income producing activities as defined in Article III.C.3. Coach shall assure the fair and responsible treatment of student-athletes in relation to their health, welfare and discipline. Breach of such rules and standards, whether willful or through negligence, may be subject to disciplinary action and penalties ranging from termination, public or private reprimand to monetary fines or adjustments in compensation or adjustments in the term of this contract as determined by the President following consultation and review with the Director of Intercollegiate Athletics. The provision of this Article IV shall be without prejudice to any right the University may have under Article V of this Agreement. Unless notice of termination of employment has been given to Coach in accordance with Articles V.A. or V.D. below, Coach shall not engage in discussions or negotiate, either directly or indirectly, concerning Coach's prospective employment by any other employer without first providing prior written notice to the Director of Intercollegiate Athletics of such discussions or negotiations. Failure to provide such notice may be considered a material breach of this Agreement.” There's no mention of profanity. There's not even a mention of the chancellor. So why does his termination letter infer wrongdoing towards one of his players (the bold section), but nothing about cussing out the chancellor? Or “suing your boss?” Is it because...it didn't happen and was conjured up later on by Kent Hance? Kent Hance's deposition took place in early March 2010, which was the first time this story of "go fuck yourself" was ever uttered by anyone, including Kent Hance. He had 3 full months to come up with the fairy tale, which is what he used the time for. You'll notice in his ESPN phone interview, Hance doesn't even mention profanity. He did manage to slip in a reference to "insubordination" at the very end, but he only linked that to "suing your boss." By the way, in that same interview, he says that he supported Leach throughout the contract negotiation, which was a lie, but the point is he never implied that was a factor. As Leach's attorney noted in Kent Hance’s deposition: ”Q: Okay. And it's fair to say that by filing suit that didn't assist Coach Leach in terms of whether or not Tech was going to terminate him, right? A: Didn't help him Q: Okay. And you know that under Texas Tech policies Coach Leach had the absolute right to appeal the suspension by filing a lawsuit without fear of retaliatory action, don't you? A: Right, but the decision to fire him was made before the lawsuit” Come again? They suspend him on the evening of December 28th because he refused to sign that preposterous letter that had a guilty admission in between every fucking line, Leach files the injunction on December 29th, then they fire him on the 30th? Ok, so what was the point of the suspension if "the decision to fire him was made before the lawsuit?" Was this all just a dog and pony show that was ultimately meant to route to a predetermined outcome? And by the way, none of what I just said made any mention of those emails that were released by the DMN around the time of his firing, which make the issue clear: Tech dragged their ass on paying Leach what he was rightfully owed, they begrudgingly gave him a competitive contract but were already talking about firing him before the season began. Craig James just made it easier for them to pull the trigger because he threatened litigation against Tech if they chose not to terminate. ”Oh Craig! Please don’t twist our arms on this! We don’t want to fire the guy we wanted to fire before extending his contract! Please don’t make us do the thing we already said we were gonna do a year ago!” Craig James killed 5 hookers…and two college football programs. Since Tech fucked Leach on his pay and they then fucked him out of his day in court with that effeminate loser “sovereign immunity” bullshit, I sincerely hope Mississippi State beats the living shit out of them.

It reads like a drunken Alex Jones rant. Not a good look

Oh horseshit. Kent Hance was saying that Leach locked James in that electrical closet in that piss ant excuse for an interview with Rece Davis and he even repeated the claim in the deposition. You absolutely just made all that shit up.

By itself, yes, but I think what puts a lot of people off about it is that he’s a self-loathing friend of Dorothy, and that’s not okay.

See you’re assuming his audience has the intellectual capacity to complete a syllogism.

I’ve also read it expressed as “HIPPA” and “HEPA.” It’s like dude, how wrong are you trying to be about this?

Can’t ask that question. That violates his HIPAA.

Gotta love how little Tucker continues to yammer about masculinity/femininity as if he had clue fucking one about either of those things.

“The democrats don’t like me because I’m rich.” Just another useless trust fund mutant who couldn’t be bothered to learn the difference between hot and cold.

Rob Parker grows a cyst on his ass every time TB does shit like that.

I’ll spell it out: In 1998, Baldwin made an appearance on Conan. https://grabien.com/story.php?id=321377 Of course the right wingers, being the intellectually stunted lot that they are, took this literally (does anyone seriously think a late night talk show host really keeps a fucking miniature oxygen mask under his desk?) and they’ve had a hard on for Alec Baldwin ever since.

Yeah with a team that offers no athletic scholarships…in his first year

Objection: assumes facts not in evidence. Number of first-time national titles awarded since 1978: FCS-23 1. Sam Houston 2. North Dakota state 3. James Madison 4. Eastern Washington 5. Villanova 6. Richmond 7. Appalachian State 8. Delaware 9. Western Kentucky 10. Montana 11. Montana state 12. Delaware 13. Georgia southern 14. UMass 15. Youngstown State 16. Marshall 17. Furman 18. Louisiana Monroe 19. Southern Illinois 20. Eastern Kentucky 21. Idaho state 22. Boise State 23. Florida A&M FBS-20 (most of these schools had captured MNC’s already, but I’m doing you a courtesy by using 1978 as a starting point). 1. Alabama 2. USC 3. Georgia 4. Clemson 5. Penn state 6. Miami 7. Notre dame 8. Colorado* 9. Georgia tech* 10. Washington* 11. Florida state 12. Nebraska 13. Florida 14. Michigan* 15. Tennessee 16. Oklahoma 17. Ohio state 18. LSU 19. Texas 20. Auburn Bearing in mind two other things to consider: 1. Division 2 and 3 aren’t far behind (19 and 18) 2. FBS’ number is inflated due to some only making it there once in those mentally substandard “split title” years (the asterisk teams). 1990 was especially stupid because that was a split title year in which both “champions” were first time winners. Oh great, you get 2 new champions in one year! To put it another way, if we only go by the AP poll, that number goes from 20 to 17, which would make FBS even more “dynasty centric” than Mount-Union’s-Prison-Bitch Division 3. I mean yeah obviously I have to give you NDSU, but that whole thing was a historic anomaly. And it’s not a very good look for you to arbitrarily point that out when you have shit like, oh I don’t know, Alabama winning 9 titles since 1978 (6 of which have come in the last 12 years). It isn’t, unless you’re drawing on some arbitrary beginning. D2 doesn’t have any mega-dynasties like NDSU or Mount Union, but they do have a bunch of medium-to-small ones. Northwest Missouri State has 6, North Dakota State had 5, Valdosta has 4, GVSU has 4, Northern Alabama has 3.

I’d be sympathetic to this IF FBS would formally split in two distinct leagues. What I hate about this current arrangement is that the G5 is just…there. I mean yeah it’s awesome that Cincinnati punched their ticket yesterday but this is year 8 of the CFP and this is the first time a G5 team cracked in. They’re just…there. If the consensus is to split them up and let G5 have their own championship, fine, but don’t fucking keep them in a league that leaves them with next to zero promise that they’ll even ever get a shot.

You made the charge that it’s “too many.” The burden is on you to explain your position. By what standard is a 12-team playoff “too many?” Look, you’re not expressing anything new that hasn’t been showcased in this shitshow of a “debate” that’s been going on for decades. Every logical fallacy that can be used to argue against an expanded playoff has been used, and every argument that has been used against an expanded playoff is fallacious. So you say it’s “too many games.” That’s based on your own bias. That’s not based on logic. That’s feelings and emotions. In the real world, it’s looked at in this way: here’s how many games championship round teams have to play. Current FBS: 14-15 FCS: 14-15 DII: 14-15 DIII: 16 High school: 16 NFL: 20-21 A twelve team playoff, assuming no changes to scheduling formats would take place, would be 12 regular season plus CCG (if applicable) plus 3-4 playoff games. That’s 15-17. Ok so FCS and DII almost does that, high school does that, DIII does that and the NFL goes well beyond that. But sure, it’s too many because….things and stuff. Oh and we’re not done either because I just read some of the rest of your whines and pitiful takes about this. There are over a dozen or so NCAA sports whose regular seasons run into or right around final exam periods in the spring or fall semesters. Not playoffs; regular seasons. What that means is that far more students are engaged in competition during final examination weeks in non-football sports than football players would be in this hypothetical. In this hypothetical, we’re talking about 8 schools being “affected” at best. It’s beyond disingenuous to argue this, and you knew that. If you didn’t know that, you have no foundation to argue this. You’re either knocking in the 8-ball before you’ve cleared your own stripes/solids on the table, sinking the 8-ball into a pocket you didn’t call, or sinking the 8-ball as well as scratching the cue ball. It’s a losing argument any which way. Here’s just one example of what I’m talking about: college baseball. We’ll call this Exhibit A The University of Texas lists its 2022 final exam period of the spring semester being the week of May 11th to May 17th. https://registrar.utexas.edu/calendars/21-22. That same University of Texas has a baseball game on May 17th against Sam Houston State. That game is on a date where some of those players are taking a class that has a scheduled final. But you’ll also notice something else: that’s the only game that Texas plays that week. So what that means is that their Athletic Director had enough brain cells to construct a schedule where it only ran into one day of final exams. If you bothered to look at baseball schedules, you’ll notice the same thing. There are 299 division 1 college baseball teams. There are up to 35 players on each roster. That’s up to 10,000 players that are similarly affected. With football, it’d be 8 teams, which would be well short of 1/10th that number. And it’s not at all clear that all those teams would be similarly affected. More on that later. Exhibit B: Football would be (and is) run the exact same way. Just look at the bowl schedule. There’s a bowl game in the Bahamas on the 17th (which is a Friday). That date just happens to be the last final examination date on one of the participant team’s (Toledo’s) academic calendar. https://www.utoledo.edu/offices/provost/calendar/ The game kicks off at 11:00 am CST and it’s beyond ridiculous to think that they’re gonna fly from fucking Toledo, OH after those exams are over to play that game that day. And we don’t have to speculate: we already know what their plans are because they’ve played in that game before…recently. https://news.utoledo.edu/index.php/12_18_2018/rockets-arrive-in-bahamas-begin-week-of-preparation-for-bowl-battle-dec-21 “The Toledo Rockets arrived at the world-famous Atlantis resort Monday, the first day of their trip at the Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl in Nassau. Toledo (7-5) will face Florida International University (8-4) at Robinson Stadium Friday.” So assuming that they follow the same schedule, and we have every reason to believe they will because that’s how bowl games function in terms of practice schedules, mandatory events, staying in mandated hotels, etc, they will not even be in the continental United States the entire week of final exams. Let me repeat that: the Toledo Rockets football players won’t be in any classrooms that entire week; the week of their final exams. That’s not a playoff game. That’s for a meaningless bowl game that hardly anyone will watch. There’s been no protest made about this, people like you have said nothing about it, so you’re absolutely full of shit when you express disdain for an expanded playoff on grounds of “final exams!!!” Exhibit C Oh and the team Toledo is playing? Middle Tennessee? Yeah, their exam week is December 3-9. They play in Conference USA, who held their championship game yesterday (the 4th). Middle Tennessee didn’t qualify for the game, but if they had, their game preparation would have ran right through the beginning of that week. That’s not a playoff game. That’s not even a bowl game. That’s a fucking CCG. In summation, this is what the calendar would look like even if you took the following into consideration: Still going with 12 game regular seasons Still going with CCG’s 12 team national playoff Nationally, we cannot call any week “Exam week” because they vary from school to school. Best you can do on that front is to allow for a bye week and encourage the participating schools to adjust schedules accordingly (this is not a new practice, this is already done). December 4th CCG’s (the exact date of the CCG’s in the current arrangement) December 11th Bye week (this is the week most schools use for exams) December 18th Wild Card December 24th/26th Round of 8* December 31st Round of 4 (the exact date of the round of 4 in the current arrangement) January 7th Bye week January 14th Final (the CFP final is on the 10th) So I managed to give the players a week off for exam prep, another week off between the semis and finals, and I only stretched the FBS season by 4 days. *=I already know some dishonest asshole is going to bitch and whine about these 4 games running into Christmas. That’s also disingenuous because the current bowl system has at least 8 games where the players will be prepping for it (ie the games played up until the 29th) and that doesn’t even count the TaxAct Camelia Bowl which is literally played on the 25th, not to mention the Hawaii Bowl which is played on the 24th. Those Memphis players ain’t goin home in time for the 25th, so a preemptive fuck off to anyone who tries that one.

Except it wouldn’t

I mean that statement, free of context, isn’t moronic at all. The further you drift away from the center, the further to the “other side” shit’s gonna look. However, the drift that’s occurred in this country over the past 40-odd years has been to the right and 99.99% of the time, when a right winger makes an accusation of someone or some idea (especially in America) being “far left,” what they’re really saying is that those things are to the left of Atila the Hun. So Bravo is simply projecting here by inverting reality. He’s saying that everyone to the left of him has drifted so far to the left that “moderates” like him now look like Reed Irvine. That’s just typical conceit that people like him have. It’s easy to call yourself a “moderate,” but that’s something that actually has to be examined. “I’m a moderate” isn’t the same thing as “I’m a fan of Texas Longhorn football.”

Negged for channeling Carlos Mencia

If you’re trying to convince me that you’re as bad at predicting my next post as you are at defining ideological terms, you’ve convinced me.

You say that as if you had the first clue what either one of those things are.

MLK is just another figure that religious conservatives reinvented overnight postmortem. They did it to Darwin, did it to Hitler, did it to Gandhi and yeah they did it to MLK. It’s just a shameless game of pure fucking make believe and pretend.

Seriously, he doesn’t have a “differing view.” He parrots shit that he hears on Fox/Newsmax/OAN/Infowars et al. That’s not a view. Those platforms aren’t mouthpieces for a “party.” They’re mouthpieces for what Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann years ago (ie when the GQP was less insane) “an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition. When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges.”