Old Freak Nasty

Bernie didn't benefit from Warren's cratering tonight. There's no way he's going to be the nominee. He's got a hard cap of support. Is there a betting platform where you can short his candidacy?

I've been Amy for America long before her actual announcement. Hop on board, fellas!

As a Klobuchar supporter, I think I need to caucus with another candidate now. If she can't clean up on the northern border, she's toast. Not only in Iowa, but nationally. She needed to surprise and her pathway to doing so was to kill it in the counties near Minnesota. I honestly thought it was going to happen the way she was trending the last couple days.

Never paid attention to caucuses until today. Boy is this shit stupid but riveting TV.

Can the Board of Regents impeach Major if he returns?

Finally solved the riddle of why Mack was so likable until the end when he started killing himself.

Tom has to “prolong” the DC search for optics before Ash is announced. The coaching carousel is probably responsible for timeline of the OC hire.

He was always destined to end up either here or Arizona St. TMZ Sports is going to have a field day.

Give Bill Snyder $3mm to DC. He’s not as dead as Tomey.

Why isn’t Herman looking in the NFL? Is Joe Brady really the only innovative mind who could jumpstart a college offense? Herman isn’t canvassing wide enough.

If Herman believes his offensive scheme is more suited to holistic success than the air raid derivatives, why wouldn’t he just take over at OC? He knows his ass is on the line so why doesn’t he try to save himself? As much of a failure Herman is in terms of his soft skills, I do believe in his offensive philosophies more than the Leach tree. Get a DC and ST coach you can hand off to completely and fix/optimize the offense yourself.

I think Meyer is a POS human and under normal circumstances would never want him as coach here either, but we are already employing a JV version of him who can't win. By tolerating Herman, the admin doesn't stand on an ethical platform that allows them to eliminate Meyer from consideration. That's my reasoning for being okay with a Meyer hire. That said, I'd much prefer a likable, empathetic, mediocre HC like Strong who's cheating isn't all that bad. Win 8-9 games most years, throw in an occasional 10-11 win season, beat OU every three years and I'll sleep better than winning championships with Meyer and rapists. Herman gives you the worst of Strong and Meyer.

I've had YoutubeTV for a long time now and my credentials don't work in the ESPN app for LHN. I only can watch the networks YTTV has, which is every ESPN network other than LHN. There is hope on the horizon though. A new streaming provider looks like it's going to have LHN at launch. Vidgo. https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/vidgo-a-new-live-tv-service-for-cord-cutters-is-coming-soon-here-are-our-first-impressions-after-testing-it-out/ They only have a limited plan at $15 right now without sports channels but the full launch should be arriving prior to Playstation Vue's sunset. The screenshots at the link above show LHN in the guide.

Easy choice for me. I'd go with Matta.

My wife did undergrad at UofI. I know exactly how much of a shithole that town is. That said, there's really no equivalency or much similarity between Champaign and whatever Macomb looks like. But you can tell from a map and proximity to other cities.

John Groce pulled a Mack Brown on that program. The record looked okay to outsiders but he left that thing rotten from the core. That said, it's easier to do a quick turnaround in basketball and he better show results next year otherwise he'll be on the hot seat. I'm shocked by that. He doesn't appear to have any ties to the area personally or career wise. He spent a decade as an assistant at Western Illinois but that might as well have been another world compared to Chicago and it ended 25 years ago. I'd guess Kansas would be his dream job seeing that he's from there (although with no ties to the school).

Just throwing another name out there. Brad Underwood. He was a rising star at SFA and OSU, then made a stupefying career decision to take over one of the worst "high" D1 programs around at Illinois. He should have made a home at OSU. I think he's a good coach who made a really bad choice and as such is probably undervalued. If he made some tangible progress at Illinois next season I'd consider him. He's also older than I thought he was. 55. We should be able to do better but putting his name in the blender. I think the takeaway is that Shaka's tenure has really knocked the stature and allure of this program. The difference in the kind of coaches being floated during the post-Barnes cycle and this theoretical one is stark. There's no way a coach with the shine of 2015 Shaka even looks at us today. 2015 Shaka had a better resume over every single rumored guy this year and it's not even close in some instances. Gregg Marshall reported wanted our job in 2015. The only reason he'd be in the mix this go around is he hasn't been so good lately. If he were performing at the same level he was back then he'd laugh at us calling today.

I think your stance is clear in your original reply, but in your opinion IF he is 100% and the health problems are fully in the rear view mirror, does he have the fire to put together a roster and OSU type run in the next 6-8 years? I've also read about him that he tried and succeeded in running about as clean a program as you can in today's CBB environment (which I find attractive personally) and that may also play a part with his apparent disinterest in recruiting. Is that accurate? As to his age, there are many coaches at his age and older that aren't past their expiry date and tolerate recruiting enough to put together good rosters. Honestly, the more I read up on him the more I want him. But I admit I may be falling in love with the idea of Thad Matta than actual Matta.

None really. A bad year to be in the market for a coach. Look at all the shitty candidates rumored for the UCLA job (they aren't getting Tony Bennett), which for all it's thankless nature and bad pay IS a blue blood job. I'd keep Shaka for another year, wait and see what some promising mid-major guys and lower level P5 guys do (Mike Hopkins, Kevin Keatts, Chris Beard, among others), and see what attractive candidates might surprisingly shake out in the mid to upper P5.

Agree with all of this. Thought of him because I'm underwhelmed by all of the rumored candidates. I don't like any of them and think that all of them have a similar band of outcomes here as Shaka continuing does (around 18-21 wins/year, 3rd-7th in conference). Certainly not worth dumping $15-20mil into for. I was thinking of Matta after another year of Smart, hoping to get clarity on whether the health problems are persistent or if they are in the past. Most, if not all, of the decline in performance *could* be explained by health. Of course it could also be because he's lost his edge as you suggest. That's what CDC get paid for. Figure out which it is. Coaches at his age and track record aren't available to anyone but the blue bloods if there aren't some concerns. I would say it's worth probing if still available next year but too risky now.

There's really no good attainable coach that's worth Shaka's buyout + getting locked into for 4 years hell or high water. I don't think Beard, Williams or any of the other guys give me enough reason to think we'll be in any different of a position 3 years from now to pull the trigger. Sucks that we will be subject to this atrocity of a program for 12 more months but such is life. Is Thad Matta looking for a job yet? If healthy he's a sure thing and only 51. I think he turned down Georgia last year because he said he wasn't quite ready to get back in the grind.

Trump's playing the long game. He's going to need a Dem president to declare a climate change national emergency to save that fucking property one day.

So we have the 8th best offense in the conference. I’ll take what I can get with this squad. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I don't watch much CFB. Maryland is good, right?

Charlie's undefeated with the most underwhelming 7-0 record I've seen in a long time.