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SwanderedTalent

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  1. Yeah, I think I'm just arguing from personal greed. I would like to see that game played. I'll watch. Logically speaking, the ACC would be smart to spike it and dare the committee to leave Clemson out. Maybe ballsy more than smart. I guess if Notre Dame beats Clemson, we'll all get to enjoy not watching A&M's first playoff game.
  2. I don't know who's arguing in favor of a Big 12 title game, but the ACC should definitely play one. Clemson's best player didn't play in the first ND-Clemson game. I think you're trying too hard to hate on football
  3. I mean, probably, but they played Ohio State and lost. I feel like the science is pretty well settled there.
  4. in what way does Indiana belong in the Big Ten CG?
  5. Shaw 100% fits with how I envision Del Conte's brain working.
  6. I don't see how anyone could take Del Conte seriously after he retained Shaka Smart last spring. I have been in "show me, stop telling me" mode since then. You cannot talk about championship expectations and then bring a coach back who finished fourth his first year and then significantly worse than that every year after.
  7. without reading it, I bet that Urbano Meyer Twitter is just LOLOL HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!
  8. when you're driving cautiously in a parking lot, manage to surprise a pedestrian who's not paying attention, and they give you a dirty look like you're driving like a maniac and almost ran them over because that makes me WANT to run them over but at that point I feel like I've missed my best chance and now you're talking about driving through the front door at HEB to catch them from behind and that seems like too much effort
  9. if we can finish fourth this year, that will tie Sharka's first season for his highest finish in the Big 12!!!!! but we're probably going to finish fifth so better luck next year Shaka!!!! or the year after!!!!
  10. and then you really have to top it off with a dispiriting, third-choice type of hire I think the biggest mistake we made with Tom Herman was, we went after a hot commodity. That was really unbecoming and we're reaping what we sowed. How about Dino Babers, how's he grab you guys?
  11. All you are going to get are opinions, and they're all worth what you're paying for them. 1) It's not your responsibility to tell anyone anything. A simple "he is taking some time away from work for personal reasons" is all the explanation anyone is owed. If they press, you can defer them to him-- "he can tell you more if he wants to, when he returns". He can then choose to be as forthcoming as he wants, but what he'll learn over time is that he will intuitively know when it's the right time to broach the subject. He doesn't have to come out of rehab and yell "I'M AN ALCOHOLIC" like Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy. He should not feel obligated to "come clean" to anyone, until the appropriate time and place (making amends, helping someone by sharing his story). 2) Clearing out the beer was good. NA beer is not good. Stock it with Topo Chico or whatever. 3) Maybe and yes. Al-Anon is not really about helping recovering alcoholics. At least, not directly. It is about helping the Al-Anons break their codependence, which often times takes the form of enabling the addiction in the first place. Al-Anon teaches you (general you) how to accept that someone's alcoholism is not your fault, not your responsibility, and not something you can control, and how to detach lovingly. That indirectly helps the alcoholic by letting them experience consequences and understand that they and they alone are responsible for desiring and working towards sobriety. 4) That kind of depends. Right out of rehab, boozy get togethers probably aren't a good idea, but I don't know how revolted he'll be by the idea of relapse or of taking a drink. This is one thing you do need to address directly with him. If possible, he needs these to be optional until he's got some confidence in his sobriety and I do NOT mean the "I just finished 30 days of rehab and I'm free and I feel like a million bucks!!!!!!!" confidence, I mean he's worked the steps and has a real program in place.
  12. which is funny because they were plenty prominent under Dick Crum circa 1980-- I don't know if their ceiling was as high per se but I do know they didn't have any automatic Ls on their schedule back then the way Mack (and Greg Davis most especially) had Florida State in 1996 and 1997. Those UNC-FSU games were "close blowouts", where the final score wasn't astronomically embarrassing but the box scores were. I don't think UNC had 300 yards of total offense those two years combined, and they only managed three points total in the two games.
  13. As long as we have at least 3 conference titles and get in the playoffs those years and win more often than not, I'm cool with some light fallout half a decade from now What you're basically saying is, you're willing to have an FBS football program.
  14. Don't worry, he is. He's proposing that North Carolina will surpass Clemson and Notre Dame under a coach who's already 69 years old. Mack's time at UNC is going to be a huge success because at North Carolina, "stop us from losing 9 games a year and get us to a bowl game" is a huge success.
  15. Insanity. The Chronicle has been Ag-flavored for thirty years.
  16. This is Day's second year, and OU certainly seems to have had a drop off this year to me.
  17. I don't disagree that HC experience is somewhat overrated but let's keep some context around those citations. Ohio State elevated someone already on the staff of a program operating at its peak. OU did the same with Lincoln Riley. And Dabo Swinney was a battlefield promotion, initially-- good for them that they stuck with him long enough to build them into what they've become. Stoops is your best example but that was 22 years ago now. On top of that, who really knows? We would all have been just fine with Mack retiring in January 2010 and handing the reins to Will Muschamp. I think we're a significant rebuilding job, not in the sense of "we're 1-10 and have 1-10 talent" but in the sense of, recruiting is short-term fucked, the talent on the roster is Charmin soft and spoiled, and this program's culture is absolute shit. We've come full circle to 1997 (although regrettably there's no analog to Ricky Williams on the roster).
  18. to be fair, the Chronicle is about as impartial towards UT as Texags-- they're just playing to their audience
  19. would you really accept a food product from anyone on this site? the odds of receiving it in unadulterated form seem long "make a special wonton soup for you......"
  20. Jesus Fucking Christ. This is why we're Texas. Even if it's not true, just the idea that we have fans that think doing this would be some kind of uber 4D chess way of operating an athletic department. WIN. SOME. FUCKING. FOOTBALL. GAMES.
  21. it looked like someone set the difficulty level to Freshman on NCAA 2014
  22. Retaining Shaka Smart last spring put lie to the idea that we're serious about winning.
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