Everything posted by TwiceHorn
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
I'm 30 years sober. Former, recovered, recovering, whatever. It's true that you never a) completely get over it b) if you start up again you're gonna be right where you left off in a goddamn hurry.
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Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
No shit, let those larping weirdos have their penile colony somewhere. Fucking Elmo, Thiel, Andreesen, Yarvin, they're all made for each other.
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Gone posters
One thing odd about Sack. First off, he's an employment lawyer, of the plaintiff's variety, and seemed to handle employment discrimination cases with some regularity and presumably some degree of success. He was, accordingly, critical of the heavily anti-plaintiff burden of proof in those cases, which is not a very Trumpy attitude, using Trumpy loosely as pro-business, anti-minority. Also, he had done some pro bono criminal defense litigation of the type intended to change the law in a way beneficial to underrepresented types, ie poors and minorities. And, he often helped explain why tort reform was bullshit. So, before the politics became acute, he seemed a lot more reasonable than he became later on.
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Brian Kelly to L$U
There are no bright line rules. You can't just sit around and collect checks, you've got to seek other employment. You can't intentionally underemploy yourself to keep the checks big. Nor can you unreasonably decline a job because it's somehow "beneath you." You can't be expected to find a head coaching job that exceeds your current salary or is some arbitrary 75, 80% of it, either. You have four years from the time the contract is breached until you must file suit or lose the claim. Without contract language to the contrary (setting out a "buyout" or "liquidated damages") you'd be entitled to the monthly or periodic payments you'd have been entitled to if still employed, offset by the income of whatever employment you obtain. So, your obligation to mitigate or avoid damages extends as long as your contract might have, or resolution occurs, by lawsuit, settlement, whatever. In a trial, the coach is apt to argue that he couldn't get any better job than whatever he got, whatever it is, while the school is apt to argue that he should have sought/accepted some assistant/coordinator job at some large percentage of his salary. The jury gets to sort it out. Yes, it is a situation that begs for settlement/compromise.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
That doesn't fly either. Sark was publicly drunk and humiliating himself at UW and USC ten years ago. If he never stopped drinking, he'd couldn't hold a press conference today without puking. Or go three hours on Saturday without a twelve-pack or the equivalent. An alcoholic like that doesn't get control of his drinking for a $10M/year job or an unlimited NIL budget. It. Just. Gets. Worse.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
I did no such thing. But, as a former alcoholic, I know what falling off the wagon looks like for a guy who was fired for publicly being drunk on the job. The nature of the disease is such that once control is lost, it's never regained, by long abstinence or human intervention. If he had fallen off the wagon in a way that interfered substantially with his coaching duties, it wouldn't be the subject of rumors, and as mentioned previously, his football woes would be the least of them. There are plenty of explanations for Sark's shortcomings that do not involve that.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
He's gone from pretty, pretty bad to pretty. pretty good. Wish it had been a smoother transition for him, I was really worried that he was a complete bust for a while there. And worried for him personally.
- ATTN: SHEEPFUCKERS (Week 15 2025)
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Well out with it then. What is that really nasty thing that's not merely a rumor? Although it can happen, a guy like Sark that falls off the wagon usually creates a lot bigger and more obvious problems than those of his football team. I haven't seen anything objective that indicates that Sark is drinking. Pretty sure we'd know. Second, given his history, if he'd fallen off the wagon in the off-season, I would expect him to be terminated with cause, success notwithstanding. Mid-season might be a different story.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
The flip side of going for it is an INT in the short game or turning over the ball on downs with 30 seconds left, to an offense that had been running through us pretty well to that point. Also, curiously, we had relatively few penalties yesterday from any of the usual suspects.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Nah, what he missed was people repeating the same bullshit over and over and over again. And a few memes.
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The Age of Disclosure
Use justwatch.com. IMDB's where to watch also lets you know whether it's a ppv, or rental or what.
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2025 Random Games thread
Been meaning to ask, but Pitt + Auburn seems to be a rather incongruous, if not bizarre combo. Unless you're an engineer.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
He's been one of the saner ones, which is why I commented. Sure, it was disappointing. Arch took that deep shot, which I think was on him more than the play call and could have been DPI, it was close. We ran Tre twice for 9 yards. I suppose maybe we should have tried a short/intermediate route, but you don't want to turn it over there, or put it to one side or the other if you have to kick. Maybe go for it, but not a lot of time to score. Getting the ball back after the half, I was ok with taking the FG.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Seems a strange thing to abandon Sark over. Did you want more deep shots? Go for it?
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I for one welcome our new AI overlords
Well, yeah. They're training it on material mostly crawled from the internet, which includes a lot of dogshit. It has authority because it's the "computer" without human intervention. But it returns what it's "cued" with, so if you prompt it with conspiratorial dogshit, you're gonna get something consonant with conspiratorial dogshit.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
We've had WR improve. Like Worthy. Wingo seems to be improving before our eyes. I'm not one of those that claims no development.
- Texas vs. Arkansas - 2:30pm on ABC
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I for one welcome our new AI overlords
Seems like it goes to the fundamental neural-network nature of AI in pattern-matching. And the perhaps even more fundamental nature of numerical computing: GIGO.
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RFK Jr. off the chain and off his rocker
Gonna do a patent applied for surly thread jack. I'm so disappointed bout Dwight. Didn't know he had a rep as a dickhead. Now I see that Mary Chapin Carpenter song. In interviews, he always seemed like a level-headed, thoughtful type. Never seen anything political from him, now see some 25-year-old references to being a Libertarian. Twenty-five years ago was prime time for a lot of us disenchanted with American politics to claim libertarianism, and also to either come to our senses or fucking double down in the intervening time period. Fucking hell.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Well, it remains to be seen, but it seems we had a lot of eggs in the Baxter gon be back with a vengeance basket as a complement to Tre. That is a bigger back that could maybe make his own holes. And he hasn't been very effective this year.
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Arch Manning: Scores every way possible
I think the WR, too. RB still suffers at the hands of the OL.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
My sense of it as well. Need to shore up the OL. WR and RB dysfunction I think mostly a product of OL. But we could stand a bigger RB with Baxter seeming to flop. Maybe a WR. Probably a TE. Time in program plus youngsters might take care of that. Sarkco just needs to have an "opposite day" this off-season. Whatever he did in Spring 2025, do the opposite thing.
- ATTN: SHEEPFUCKERS (Week 15 2025)
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Best cast in any film all-time
Michael Clayton. Not the longest list of stars, or the biggest stars, but a very well-thought-out application of their talents. And none of them really typecast.