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RichUT

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  1. DP
  2. I bought my first truck last week. Ram 1500 Longhorn Laramie edition, fully loaded. It has the MFT, the Panoramic sunroof, 12” display, air suspension, etc. MSRP was $70.6k and I walked out with a $14k dealer discount and another $5k in rebates for finance through FCA for a net price of $51.6k before TTL. Loving the ride on this thing.
  3. Well the winter transfer ended with a thud. I get that it’s hard to pry quality players mid-season but I figured there would be a veteran or two worth adding that could have evened out the consistency of our performance. I remain wholly unimpressed with the effectiveness of our board.
  4. For the life of me, I’ll never understand the consternation over rankings. Feels like we used to ridicule aggy for this behavior during the Fran era. Sure, Rivals has an agenda and a sketchy approach to ranking kids. Why give them any attention about it at this point. In summary, get off my lawn.
  5. To anyone that feels the need to defend or spin the Valai hire, how many other candidates do you think we interviewed first? I’m guessing it was zero. Nothing on his resume suggests he’s worthy of being handed the job without taking a few swings at coaches with real skins on the wall. He was going to say yes, even if 7 other candidates passed first, but Herman and Ash couldn’t be bothered to make the effort. Herman runs his entire organization the way small minded businesses were managed in the 1950’s. Well run organizations set a hiring bar (e.g., candidate has to be better than 50% of the people in this job, etc.) and consistently hold out until they find candidates that exceed it. Tom seems fine gambling on the buddy system, which is going to fail at an exponentially higher rate. Is it possible that Valai is a rising star? Sure, but the odds are against him. Call it a 10% chance that he ends up being elite. Why not hold out for a coach that is a) already elite, or b) has enough experience to suggest that the odds of becoming elite are higher?
  6. Until you remember that Tom Herman is still a) an asshole, b) grossly overconfident in his own ability, and c) still our head coach. We’re putting lipstick on a pig. Fuck her if you want, but I’m gonna pass.
  7. I would rather not see Akina come back. He’s getting up there in age and I think it could be a super awkward dynamic coming back under a totally different regime. I have to think there are coaches that are equally as capable but will bring fresh energy and a recruiting boost to the program.
  8. Rule changes for kickoff return formations have effectively neutered the return game calculus. Explosive returns still happen occasionally, but are much less common. You even see a high number of pro teams fair catching kickoffs now. The stats don’t really support trying to return them, particularly from the end zone. The numbers likely look different for kicks that land in the field of play, but I can’t find any articles that summarize the data the way that this one does for kickoff returns from the end zone: https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2019/return-or-not-return It’s understandable to want to have a dynamic return game, but you need a singular talent and a bit of good fortune to make it happen. Once you weigh in the downside risk (e.g., fumbles and poor field position) there is a strong argument for just fair catching the ball. That is, of course, assuming you don’t drop said fair catch.
  9. That’s a fucking red card on Son. He went studs up right into Rudi’s ribs.
  10. By "this type of stuff", do you mean "being a head football coach"?
  11. We don't. If Kevin Johns is MENSA, he'll tell us.
  12. Awful.
  13. TH knows Ash is a shit hire and wants to soften the backlash with a splashy OC hire. Prove me wrong.
  14. https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/platform/amp/chelsea-fc-transfer-rumours-news/2019/12/6/20998408/cas-uphold-appeal-cut-transfer-ban-in-half-open-january-market-to-chelsea? Hell yeah. Let’s get down to business and bring in some help next month.
  15. Looks like we came crashing back to earth today. This fucking sucks.
  16. We should really think about beating K-State this weekend. Seems like a good idea.
  17. If we’re being precise, it was the back of his head.
  18. Hat trick bitches!!!!
  19. Make it two!!!
  20. Through that lens, you could justify talking about anything and everything related to the program in this thread and justify it by saying it impacts recruiting. Which....is exactly what is happening already and explains why this thread is such a shit show. Carry on.
  21. While we’re pretending, can we pretend that this thread is for discussing recruiting? Maybe we also pretend that there is an actual forum and thread where there are tons of people discussing our beleaguered DC and who might replace him if Herman had the stones to admit that he got something wrong. Talk about a fantasy.
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