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Everything posted by oSuJeff97
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Breaking in new starting tackles against our edge rushers is not a recipe for success.
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God I hope not. Here's my CSB about him.... So after we "lost" to them in 2016, my buddies and I are back in Tulsa at one of the bars downtown. There are a group of CMU fans there, so I go over and start chatting them up... they are very cool and so we are boozing and having a good time. One of the fans is wearing a Cooper Rush jersey and I make a comment about how impressed I was with him, etc., and the guy says, "Thanks, that's my son!" (I immediately am relieved that I wasn't talking shit about him, lol) Another person with them was the starting Center who had graduated from the previous year's team who is also Cooper Rush's best friend. They couldn't have all been any nicer, especially considering the circumstances. I always kind of rooted for them after that. It wasn't their fault the refs in that game didn't know their ass from a hole in the ground.
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This is our concern, Dude....
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If our defense gives up 30 to them, we are in deep shit this year. We only gave up 30+ points twice last year - to #10 Oklahoma and #5 Notre Dame. I guess it's fine if our offense goes nuts, plays super fast, they get like 15 possessions and we win like 65-30. Otherwise, it will be a very bad sign if we give them that many points at home in game 1. If we do win by roughly a two-TD margin, I'd feel better about a 28-14 type game.
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Playing a MAC team on a Thursday night at home? Nothing could possibly go wrong. Will be standing by with a large bottle of bourbon.
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In the parlance of our time...
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Call Your Shot - 2022 College Football Playoff Teams
oSuJeff97 replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Ha well to be clear, I'm actually pretty damn happy with the state of the football program, all things considered. I was at OSU in the mid-1990s, which was probably the low point of OSU football, which is saying something. We didn't win a *conference game* until my junior year, which was Bob Simmons' first year. He was really the start of the OSU football turnaround. He had a competitive team in his second year and then made a bowl game in his 3rd year (1997) which was OSU's first bowl game since Barry Sanders' last year. He kind of plateaued from there, but he left a lot of talent for Les Miles, who really took the program to the next level and then obviously Gundy took over from there. So going from where we were when I was in school to being a team that wins 10+ games on the reg and is at least in the mix for conference titles and the CFP is fucking gravy to me. The Big Country team that made the Final Four was the 1994-95 season. That was a few years before Gottlieb. His best team was the 1999-2000 team with him, Desmond Mason, etc. They made the Elite Eight, losing to Billy Donavan's Florida team. Then we went back to the Final Four in 2004 with John Lucas, Joey Graham, Tony Allen, etc. That team brought everyone back in 2005 (except Tony Allen) but lost in the Sweet Sixteen. -
Call Your Shot - 2022 College Football Playoff Teams
oSuJeff97 replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
It's not even so much of a "Gundy trap" as it is an "Oklahoma State trap." I'm convinced we will never, ever, ever have really nice things in my lifetime. We often get tantalizingly close to the promised land, only to suffer some kind of a gut-punch loss that derails the whole thing... see football in 2011 and 2021... basketball in 1995, 2004, 2005... baseball in the CWS every year in the 80s... and on and on and on. -
I'm actually amazed how many otherwise sharp people pay no attention to lyrics. Maybe it's a bias of mine because I've *always* been captivated with song lyrics and obsessed about them listening to music growing up... listening very closely to them and obsessively reading them when they were included in liner notes... I even remember several albums (in cassette or CD form) back in the day where you would have to *write a letter* (LOL) to request lyric sheets... which I did.
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Yes we certainly did see that early in his career, but lots of young QBs struggle with turning the ball over in high-leverage situations. Is Sanders prone to doing some head-scratching stuff every once in a while? For sure. He's definitely got that "gun slinger" mentality but overall his decision-making has improved substantially year-over-year and I expect further improvement this year. Also I think the season he had last year gets overlooked because of the 4 INTs in the Big 12 title game. It fit the preconceived notion of what he is for most people and so they just assume that's what he did all year, when he most certainly did not. Just about the entire first half of the season, and certainly the first 4 games or so, he was having to run the offense with his arms tied behind his back because we basically had 1 or 2 healthy scholarship receivers that whole time. Hell, by the end of the Boise game, we had ZERO. We could have very easily lost 3 of our first 4 games had he not helped grit out those wins throwing to true freshmen and walk-ons. And re: CMU/ASU, I think what you stated is just about right. Early season games can always be dicey, but having an experienced QB and playing both at home certainly takes some of the scare out of it. I also think playing CMU in game 1 helps. If it was, say, the 3rd preseason game I think you would be more apt for some kind of a "let down", but with it being game 1 and at home I expect the team to come out fired up and play relatively well...(the normal game 1 rust for both teams notwithstanding). And to be clear, I don't know if I'm painting a "rosy" picture, per se. The *pieces* are there for this team to be better than last year's team because I think the defense can be *almost* as good while I think the offense (on the whole) can be *much* better. Recall that OSU only broke 30 points 5 times in 13 non-Kansas games last year. I expect that number to be much higher this year. But we'll have to see if Mason is as good at in-game adjustments as Knowles was. There were *many* games last year where teams had some decent success against the defense in the first half of games only to get absolutely stonewalled in the second half. That was HUGE in OSU's overall success last year. So even if the offense is much better, the defense *may* be much worse, even though the personnel is there, depending on how Mason does.
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Re: the defense only returning 4 starters - yes Collin Oliver makes 5 but also remember Trace Ford is back this year. He was Collin Oliver before Collin Oliver showed up. And all of the returning production is up-front, which is really what you want. Will the defense be as good as last year's unit? Not likely. Will it be good enough to win games? Yes I believe so. The front with Oliver, Ford, Tyler Lacy, Brandon Evers, Sione Asi, and Brock Martin are going to cause a lot of problems for a lot of people. Re: Sanders. I don't know that it's fair to call him a "turnover machine" any more. He basically had a Baylor problem last year. He threw 6 INTs in 69 passing attempts in two games against Baylor... and another 6 INTs in 323 passing in 11 other games... the splits on that are pretty crazy: One INT every 11.5 attempts against Baylor One INT every 53.8 attempts against everyone else I think what we're going to see from Sanders this year is much closer to what he did in the Fiesta Bowl against ND. With a full healthy group of receivers, you're going to see us running a lot more 4-receiver sets with tempo with Sanders getting the ball to Presley and John Paul Richardson in space. We also have Braydon Johnson back at WR. He missed all of last year with an injury and was *expected* to be the next really good WR before Tay Martin emerged. RB is the biggest mystery spot, and something I'll be paying very close attention to. Right now Dominic Richardson is listed as the starter, but that's because Gundy almost always goes with the most experienced starter at the beginning of the season. We also have Texas A&M transfer Deondre Jackson, RS-Fr Jaden Nixon and Fr Ollie Gordon. Gordon almost definitely has the most pure talent, but he's a true freshman. I think it's somewhat likely one of those latter three is the starter before conference play starts.
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I grew up in the 80s, so I most certainly did not get shit movies. In fact, one could argue that the early-to-mid 1980s was the best time in the history of cinema to be a kid. I saw all of these in the theater in between the ages of about 6 and 12: Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back Return of the Jedi E.T. Raiders of the Lost Ark Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Gremlins The Goonies Back to the Future Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan Ghostbusters The Karate Kid Superman Superman II Pee-Wee's Big Adventure I'm sure there are more that I missed... these are just off the top of my head... there was seriously never a better time to be a kid than the early/mid 80s. We also had MTV in its pure form playing music videos all day long.
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WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story (Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al)
oSuJeff97 replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Movies and TV
Was thinking the same thing. 100% perfect casting. -
These are the same people who think "Born in the U.S.A." is a rousing, patriotic anthem.
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1. Play "Columbia" 2. Turn volume up to 11 3. Add whores and cocaine 4. ???? 5. Profit
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Yeah Office Space is the classic example. They basically had no idea how to sell that movie in a way that captured the vibe of the film so they tried to sell it as a "sitcom-y" "Work sucks!" kind of a thing with not a hint of the actual satire in the film, and thus nobody saw it in the theater and it only got popular via word of mouth once it hit video.
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Yeah but that's a little bit different in that Vacation didn't really have any source material like the Fletch books. They were purely made as a Chevy Chase vehicle. The Fletch movies were also that, in that they (apparently) more or less disregarded the source material other than the name and a very rough outline. That's why I was kind of intrigued by the Jon Hamm version... was curious if it would be something different... more akin to like an Elmore Leonard vibe or something. I don't get that vibe from the trailer at all though... like we've said they are basically selling it like the original Fletch but with Jon Hamm instead of Chevy.
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Can't believe it's game week already. LFG.
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1. Freeport comes back online early. 2. Polar vortex hits in January 3. ??? 4. $15 HH
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Yes exactly. And if so, that's a terrible, awful, horrible idea.
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I know that the knee-jerk reaction is to not like "re-makes" but has anyone read the Fletch books? I haven't; and, from what I understand the original films were *very* loosely based on the books, because the books were really more straight-forward detective stories instead of the more farcical versions that the movies where because it was mostly just Chevy Chase being Chevy Chase... which is fine... I celebrate 1980s Chevy Chase as much as anyone... But I do think it's not a terrible idea if they want to do something more faithful to the books, which is what I understand they are trying to do... but yeah the trailer seems like they are just trying to re-create the originals or at least sell the film that way, which is probably a very bad idea if it's a different animal than the originals.
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Indeed. Good times were had by all.
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My favorite story about this -- So I had this friend in college who smoked like a chimney. God only knows how many packs this dude fired down every day. Our junior year, he decided that he really needed to quit and so he did. A few months after he quit, we're driving down the road going wherever in Stillwater and "Don't Speak" comes on the radio. We're just sitting there listening to it and about halfway through the song - he just says (very seriously and with a total straight face), "You know... when I hear the lyrics to this song, I feel like it's my cigarettes singing to me..." I was fucking dying. You and me We used to be together, everyday together Always, I really feel that I'm losin' my best friend I can't believe this could be the end It's so hilariously perfect and dead-on... I think about that every time I hear that song to this day.
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Tom Petty Wildflowers (already posted) is the first that comes to mind. The other one that jumps to mind - mainly because it was my personal divorce album - is True Sadness by The Avett Brothers. It was released in May 2016, the same year my first wife and I divorced. I wouldn't call the whole thing a divorce album, per se, but it's definitely for all of the Seth Avett songs, as he had just gone through it. I pretty much listened to it non-stop that year. There is, of course, "The Divorce Separation Blues", which is obviously pretty on the money, but this song, in particular, gave me all of the feels at the time:
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