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Skipper

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  1. As it comes to retaining current players, I wonder if some of this is an overcorrection or trying to reset expectations. Reading between lines it seemed like we spent a ton of money on both retention and HS recruiting the past 2 years to the detriment of portal recruiting. So if we overpaid on retention and recruiting previously, I'm guessing a lot of these guys leaving we didn't necessarily want to leave had expectations based on past performance. Agreed with sentiment that overall it looks like a complete mess right now in desperate need of professional roster management.
  2. I think it's beyond clear there has to be an expectation of binding multi-year contracts in this sport moving forward. Constant 1 year deals is an absolute shitshow. We absolutely need a real professional GM (and I've been saying so for years) but I can't fathom how anyone can effectively budget/plan in this chaos.
  3. Not quite 'there will be zero drop off with Malik Murphy' bad but pretty damn close. Sheesh.
  4. This kind of shit from our fanbase wears me out. Sark took over a lost program and since we've been to 2 semis and should have been in the playoffs this year but for a committee that doesn't understand math or probability (outside of counting losses). There aren't 5 programs in the country that have had a better 3 year run and probably just OSU and UGA (and I fully expect one of them to win it again). I don't know if Sark will take the next step or not (it's a really hard step to take) but cry me a fucking river acting like it's been so god awful with "Sark running the show". Amazing how many people have forgotten what 14 years of garbage looked like.
  5. Same. I have elementary school kids and it's regularly a madhouse with neighborhood friends. Couldn't pay me to work from home during the summer with all that chaos.
  6. Agreed. And we are in same line of work. Juniors that don't regularly come in are falling behind their peers who do IMO.
  7. Maybe I'm now just an old but anyone that chooses WFH in this scenario isn't going to ever get promoted beyond that 120K. Which I'm sure is fine for those that would make the choice. Fair or not, I absolutely think electing to work from home is seen by senior mgmt as lack of commitment and/or ambition. If you combine that with someone turning down a raise, then yeah, that person isn't moving up in their role.
  8. My wife went to HS in Knoxville and hasn't been back since as her parents moved back to Texas while she was in college, so we are going and taking the kids. She keeps up with a handful of friends that are big TN fans so should be fun.
  9. This. There are convenience hires of all races. See Pete Golding. No way Ole Miss hires him as HC in a normal coaching cycle.
  10. I swear someone posted this was going to happen like a week or 2 ago here or on twitter or somewhere and assumed some idiot making things up. Or like Crabtree I just dreamed it in my head.
  11. Came to see if any updates, and nope, Cloak Room Retards gonna Cloak Room Retard.
  12. I don't see how ND, Miami, BYU, Bama, Texas. OU, Vandy etc. aren't comparable teams despite the fact that I agree with you the committee will claim that they weren't in order to justify ranking. At the end of the day, the committee reverted to head to head with OU-Bama and Texas-Vandy order and then with Miami and Notre Dame. But I think where they slotted ND/Miami/BYU within that grouping (which had to be Miami ahead of Notre Dame) was just the committee ignoring the rest of what was supposed to matter for comparable teams and doing what they wanted.
  13. I'll agree with you that the committee has done and will continue to whatever the fuck they want. Whether or not that has historically followed computers or "BCS proxy" I don't know and don't care. The below is what they were supposed to follow per their own guidelines. If they actually followed the below correctly, ND would have been behind not only Bama and Miami but also Texas, BYU and Vandy. PRINCIPLES The committee will select the teams using a process that distinguishes among otherwise comparable teams by considering: Strength of schedule, Head-to-head competition, Comparative outcomes of common opponents (without incenting margin of victory), and, Other relevant factors such as unavailability of key players and coaches that may have affected a team’s performance during the season or likely will affect its postseason performance.
  14. Sorry, I must have missed the section in the 'playoff committee principals' where they look at "Massey Ratings" or a "simulated BCS" that takes into account the morons that vote in the worthless AP and Coaches polls.
  15. Strictly by the numbers that are supposed to matter (SOS, SOR) Texas, BYU and Vandy all have better claims than ND and Miami.
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