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UncleSonny

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  1. Well at least they have plenty of time to make their next 100 year decision.
  2. I'm the wrong guy to ask for any inside knowledge, but seems reasonable that the Athletic Director would be heavily involved in discussions about changing conferences, no?
  3. It's pretty funny that today while this board has been hammering CDC for not having the stomach to compete on an elite level in cfb the story breaks that he's (reportedly) been been operating in silence on a plan to move Texas to the SEC.
  4. Well he's right about one thing. If it happened it would be tipping point to trigger the inevitable 4 team super conference setup. The other conferences couldn't just stand pat and watch the SEC add Texas and OU without at least trying to counter. Of course he's wrong that we'd need the Armageddon to happen to join. We'd be causing it by our own choice.
  5. From the immediate reactions this may be exactly correct. The story says an announcement could happen in "a matter of weeks" so talks have been happening for a bit but no way they wanted the story out yet. This leak would only help to scuttle things.
  6. Um, holy fucking shit? Also, a story this huge and Zwerneman breaks it? Seems unlikely
  7. I really doubt Nahlin has any insider knowledge he's basing this on, but:
  8. This may have already been posted/discussed elsewhere, but I had no idea that Cat Osterman still played and was on the current Olympic team: https://theathletic.com/2715792/2021/07/20/2021-olympics-softball-cat-osterman/
  9. The DC hire is sort of what I go back to whenever I need another shot of Kool-Aid. It has the potential to be as good as the Watson hire was terrible. The internet reaction of Husky fans when it was announced was really something. Sark's first DC hire as a head coach, Nick Holt, wasn't great. He had his best Washington season once Holt was fired and he hired Wilcox who went to USC with him. It's sort of hard to take away anything from that short USC stint with everything else that was going on. Wilcox is solid but as a defensive coordinator and playcaller I don't feel like he's on the level of Coach K. If PK is as good as advertised (and Sark keeps his personal stuff in check) this shit is going to work. Goddammit, it's got to work right?
  10. Every slorch post makes me think of this for some reason:
  11. Coach speak is only a problem once you start losing and then the team’s message board starts meme-ing the hell out of it. Saban is constantly doing shit like lecturing the Alabama beat reporters for not taking the Citadel seriously enough as an opponent.
  12. I have no idea what you are talking about, your initial post didn’t contain any specifics except for some limp both sides talk and a Lebron reference for some reason. I didn’t even consider you were talking about one specific incident. I’m also going to guess Lebron didn’t tweet the officer’s address. That would have been a big deal and nobody would have excused it. Pretty baffled by what point you are trying to make in this thread really. It was about Babbitt being propped up as a martyr by the right but for some reason you felt that it needed to be said that some hypothetical person is a hypocrite about “street justice for police”?
  13. It's both sides bullshit because you are equating what this officer did to an officer shooting a kid playing with a toy gun at a playground or an innocent woman sleeping in her own bed. I have mixed feelings about his identity being withheld but of course you treat an officer who was put in a difficult situation and did his duty differently than you treat a reckless (at best) cop whose actions result in the loss of innocent life. But you know that.
  14. Clowning on Nahlin and Wells is always fun but Gerry is good and he needs a W before he's left with zero credibility this cycle. Sure would be nice if that win coincides with winning out for Anderson.
  15. https://www.avclub.com/pig-is-so-much-richer-and-stranger-than-the-nicolas-cag-1847281425 So it might actually be good.
  16. Chances the advocates in their respective households are the sources that led IT to be way too optimistic about Texas' chances with them in the first place?
  17. Nahlin still seems pretty shook from last week. You can kind of tell he wants to be a little more bullish on our chances in that Arch update but is hesitant to go out on a limb after the Cam, Banks & Brooks meltdown.
  18. We were straight up lucky to beat Tech as well. Needed a miracle onside kick, quick td, and an 2 point conversion just to get it to OT. In a 10 game schedule we played 6 games that were true toss-ups until basically the final gun.
  19. https://theathletic.com/2696515/2021/07/12/college-football-win-totals-could-clemson-miss-the-playoff-is-north-carolina-a-10-win-team-and-more/ Texas section of the Athletic win total column: Ari Wasserman went with a tepid "over" with the O/U set at 8. Andy Staples went "under" mainly because he refuses to get fooled again. Some talk about how good they think TCU will be in there as well. If we have a 7 win season that is an outright disaster, so fuck you Andy.
  20. Watched the first episode of White Lotus last night. It was fine, I like the cast and the setting. I usually enjoy the Hawaii/resort setting even when the tone is supposed to be bitter and focused on how miserable the rich people on those vacations actually are. It is pretty criminal that in a show that features this level of talent: The only nudity was a close-up of Steve Zahn's balls.
  21. Yeah, not exactly the parameters but interesting example, especially considering Sark's involvement. Admittedly what I'm talking about is going to have a pretty small sample size. By the way, how exactly did Washington play 14 games in 2014 without playing in a conference championship? They were allowed to schedule 4 OOC games in addition to their 9 game PAC schedule for some reason.
  22. I'm not talking about constantly dominating though, I'm talking about the people wondering how we are going to hit the over at 8.5 because we have a new qb and coaching staff. Saban didn't immediately turn them into the absolute machine that they became, but he didn't take a step back. 6 wins the year before, 7 in his first year. We won 7 games last season and had 3 games cancelled, two of which would have been easy wins. That was good enough to (rightfully) get Herman fired. No excuses for Sark to get less than 9 wins in his first season. Said another way, is there a recent example of a coach that took over a blue blood program, took a step back his first year but went on to have a successful tenure?
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