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This sucks. Everything about LIV is cringy. The product is garbage. The forced team aspect is stupid. The fake party atmosphere is dumb. They just have enough money that they can throw any amount of money that it’ll take to buy stars. The players don’t care that no one watches them anymore, they have half a billion dollars and all they have to do is show up. Pat Perez said it best about how serious these guys take the competition in LIV: “I got paid, I don’t give a damn.”

Hell if Elijah Robinson would have waited a bit he might have been able to grab the DC spot at Penn state instead of Syracuse

There’s always money in the wreath fund.

I’ll try pointing that out next time to see if it helps.

My wife is the middle of 3 sisters. I met my wife by being friends with the older sister in high school and college. In the 20+ years that I have been close to and then part of the family I have seen one or two of the sisters screaming at, and several times need to be physically restrained from attacking the other one(s) at least in the double digits, usually at holiday gatherings. Any two of them together are perfectly fine and enjoyable company. But for whatever reason when all 3 are together things become incredibly unstable. 80% of the time it’s the oldest and youngest going at it with my wife and MIL trying to diffuse. My 89 year old half senile GMIL isn’t talking to my MIL as of this past summer over my MIL’s lack of patience with my GMIL’s noncompliance with her medication after a hospital stay for pneumonia which lead to some sort of big argument. GMIL has since been diagnosed with a grapefruit sized tumor in her abdomen that the oncologist has told her would be fairly straightforward to remove, is likely benign, and that she’s plenty fit for surgery and then proceed to outline all of the things she’ll likely experience if she doesn’t have it removed and let’s it grow unfettered. Well GMIL flipped a coin and “god determined” that she isn’t going to have surgery. The sisters and MIL are now convinced that this will be GMIL’s last Xmas alive. So older SIL decided we need to get the whole family together for the holiday. Since MIL isn’t welcome in GMIL’s house, SIL booked an air bnb a block away. Everything is setting up for me to come roaring into this thread. I’m posting thunderdome gifs and stirring the pot in the group chat. SIL’s husband and I are separately discussing if it’s a good idea for us to feign an altercation between us to let some steam out of the pot of things start to go south. And then last week in an unbelievable turn of events, MIL’s piece of shit, alcoholic, barely employed, money grubbing brother enters the ring. This guy apparently used to be extremely successful but because of his ego, alcoholism, and misogyny, he lost everything and burned all of his bridges. Now he’s a cashier at Kroger, and is just trying to coast to social security and some inheritance from GMIL. Apparently he and MIL got into an argument over him leaving their aunts remains at the crematorium for over a year unpaid for because he spent the last of her money and the money GMIL gave him to pay for it. In a drunken stupor he somehow misconstrues her comments into her telling the sisters about his most recent DUI (5th or 6th). She hadn’t said anything to them about it. So he fires off a drunken text rant to the sisters trying to pit them against their mother. He leads off with “I guess your mother is insistent on stirring up drama for the holidays”. it goes predictably with them siding with their mother which then turns into him saying all sorts of horrible shit about each of them. All of this serves to galvanize the sisters in defense of their mother, and lead to GMIL and MIL somewhat resolving their differences so that now everyone is excited to see each other and have a god damn holly jolly Christmas visit. (Un)fortunately, the uncle lives 700 miles away so he won’t be able to physically enter the ring, so to speak.

My wife is a classic example of intelligence not transferring from one domain to another. She does R&D chemistry. She’s published papers about quaternary diamond-like semiconductors. But the god damn reverse card in uno baffles her. Our 6 year old daughter has no problem keeping track of whose turn it is, but my wife gets confused by it regularly.

He was excellent at OSU, I was excited when PSU hired him, despite what most on this board thought of him. Has any OC at OSU under Gundy not looked excellent, tho? Part of the frustration with Yurcich this season was a failure to lean into the team’s strengths, namely RB, TE, OL, a complete lack of creativity in the passing game, and an extreme aversion to stretching the field vertically. Some of which stems from just not having the players at WR. a lot of the blame in the personnel problems at WR on Franklin. Some of the blame is on Cephas reportedly coming into the season out of shape and unable to learn the playbook. Part of the blame is on Allar for not being accurate enough on 10 yard passes to move the chains. The play calling seemed unimaginative and predictable, especially in big games. The problems on offense definitely stretch beyond Yurcich’s coordination but it just felt like he knew that in 10 of 12 games he had the talent to just lean on the other team with a vanilla playbook and his defense would get the ball back enough that the other teams would wear down. And then they approached OSU and UM the same way. It just felt like a very scared, risk-averse offense. And there’s a good chance that philosophy came the whole way from Franklin, but it clearly fed all the way down to how Allar looked and played all season until after he was fired. There were so many problems with the offense this season and he was only one of the problems, but Franklin’s not going to fire himself. I expect Yurcich could have had long term success at Penn state and I’m sure he will at his next stop. I think he was by a pretty wide margin.

Donovan - followed Franklin from MD to Vandy then Vandy to PSU, fired after 2 seasons Moorhead - left after 2 seasons to be HC Rahne - left after 2 seasons to be HC Ciarrocca - fired after the covid year so Franklin could hire Yurcich Yurcich - fired this year - we can poll the board to determine if he was a promising OC while he was at Texas Which promising OCs career did he ruin?

That wasn’t worthy of a review.

As hilarious as that would be, Iowa is just too bad on offense. PSU has a bad offense and the time of possession in that game was 46:00 - 14:00

It never fails. The second someone goes up more than 7 points someone has to call the game over. It's a scientific law.

I don’t think it matters. The winner is in, the loser is out. I don’t see any scenario where the loser gets in.

UM beats whoever they play in the 1st round and then loses to uga. Osu and psu both win their bowl games. Book it.

I don’t understand why anyone older than grade school needs a sticker for a good job.

Came here to predict that it will be a defensive game and the general consensus here will be that that both of these teams are dog shit because it’s not 45-40. And then both teams will put up 40 in their bowl game.

Penn state can’t break an explosive play all season, but man is Michigan state a remedy for that.

Oops, yes meant to type that. The Steelers hate firing people, but not that much.

That’s the first time the Steelers have fired a head coach or coordinator since 1941. That’s how historically bad Canada is.

So the board, which by design had no financial interest in the success of the company, was willing to blow up the company because of reasons they haven’t really disclosed in the interest of OpenAI’s mantra that AI “should be an extension of individual human wills and, in the spirit of liberty, as broadly and evenly distributed as possible.” Them firing Altman and Brockman likely ends up driving all of the talent to Microsoft ensuring that the developments they make, rather than being as evenly distributed as possible, end up entirely in the hands of 1 corporation. Brilliant.

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI co-founder, chief scientist, board member:

OpenAI corporate structure The most popular theory seems to be that Altman was pushing the nonprofit research tech into profit generating products faster than was desirable for the stated values of OpenAI the nonprofit and repeatedly deceptive to the board about it. Microsoft, owning 49% of the for profit segment of OpenAI was, unsurprisingly, upset about Altman being canned, was pushing hard for the interim CEO (previously head of the for profit group), to reinstate Altman. /wildinternetspeculation

So the board fired Altman and demoted Brockman from president, who then quit. The interim CEO was supposedly trying to bring Altman back so the board removed him and hired Emmit Shear, co-founder of twitch, as CEO. Microsoft immediately hires everyone leaving OpenAI.

I was holding out some hope that PSU could convince him to come be OC for a bit. Assume he’ll be an NFL OC somewhere next season.

There’s a difference between intelligently stretching the field vs just throwing it up blindly and hoping for the best. Under every OC Franklin had before Yurcich a significant part of the playbook involved stretching the field vertically, because of course it did. The passing attack has made absolutely no sense all season. The blame deserves to be spread around. This is the weakest WR group PSU has had in almost 2 decades. Most of that is on Franklin since he builds the team.Some of that is on Cephas, who was expect to be the WR1 or 2, not knowing the playbook for most of the season. Aller has been pretty bad at times in throwing accurately, a mix of inaccuracy and wrong wr routes. It’s just a whole load of shit from Franklin on down to the individual players. But when Klatt is regularly calling out the play calling as “pedestrian” and “unimaginative” over multiple games, gotta get rid of Yurcich. Franklin has had 5 OCs in 10 years at PSU, 2 have been hired away to be HCs but this is the 3rd he’s fired. If he misses on this one it will be his 3rd miss in a row.

Thank fucking god. The offensive game plan has been hot garbage all season. Guy has a QB whose biggest asset is his deep ball and I can think of exactly 2 throws over the course of 10 games that went more than 15-20 yards.