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  1. Grateful for 929 days of sobriety and all of you fucks too
  2. I wonder if the B1G will change its mind on scheduling OOC if any of Ohio State's remaining opponents call in sick. BYU could conceivably get a call.
  3. yeah when I think "consistent winner", A&M definitely springs to mind
  4. 2009 was such a weird season. I still made it back for one game a season back then and we were at the season opener. 59-20 over ULM and yet even in that game, you could sense something was sort of "off" with that team. You'd think you'd look back on an unbeaten regular season and it would be filled with "that was awesome" moments, but it was just a joyless nailbiting slog.
  5. seems to me a skilled recruiter could make the case that growing up in Del Valle and attending college in Austin are pretty different but I'm not in MENSA
  6. all the fans walking into the stadium thought "we already won the UPI National Championship, let's kick Notre Dame's ass and keep the 30-game win streak alive".
  7. that's one way for Herman to protect his job
  8. I think in general that type of play can get flagged. Didn't Cleveland try something silly like that with Manziel in one of his first games, and it got flagged for something like unsportsmanlike conduct because of the chicanery aspect of it? I may not be remembering that right, it was (giggle) a long time ago that Manziel was taking NFL snaps. It wasn't a two-point conversion AND it failed, but I always liked the design of the play OU ran on fourth down against us in 1994, a sort of reverse action to James Allen out of the backfield. Stonie Clark made a great stop and he wasn't the only defender there, but they ran it from the four yard line and got down within inches of the goal-- it very nearly worked.
  9. It's really hard. He's symptomatic, but he had multiple negative tests during the week. I don't really know what a team is supposed to do in that situation-- I guess it would come down to "do you have any of the specific COVID symptoms" like impaired sense of taste or unusually impaired respiratory performance. Otherwise, it could just be seasonal allergies or something.
  10. but they also had the back judge on the take, so
  11. How dare you. It's important that we're exposed to people's political opinions all the time everyplace. In case you didn't notice, THERE'S AN ELECTION GOING ON
  12. that's one way to interpret the cost increase an extremely credulous one
  13. a journey of a million miles begins with a single step so when Michigan finally beats Ohio State again, in 2054, we'll look back on this game and say "that's where the first seeds were planted" not me, I'll be dead by then, but someone bookmark this
  14. yeah, I had the game on in the background and glanced up to see it was 21-0, and was struck (again) by what a silly nickname the series has it's not Bedlam when you expect one team to win 100% of the time and they come through 85% of the time. I loved 2001 and 2002 but those are the only real Bedlammy games I can think of as a disinterested outsider
  15. he can be an effective nickel in the pros, but he gets abused on the edge by anyone with NFL athletic ability. I mean he just gets rag-dolled any time the receiver wants to be physical. I guess Ohio State doesn't do enough contact in practice for him to get used to real-life games not being 7-on-7 two hand touch
  16. plus Shaun Wade getting thrown on his ass for a fifty-yard touchdown their secondary is soft, they are ripe for any team that can run Four Verticals. Not saying Indiana's not any good, just that they're not good enough to make a legitimate national title contender look this bad. Ohio State is a fraud this year.
  17. Ohio State would/will be lucky to stay within 20 of Alabama. Their secondary is just so ripe.
  18. That's fan talk. Biggest stadium, most wins = totally irrelevant as long as you have a big stadium and the coach can reasonably expect to win (e.g., no coach is going to look at the Michigan and Florida jobs and say "I pick Michigan because they have 900 wins all-time"). Michigan's fan support is definitely a plus but I don't think it gives them any advantage over most places national championship caliber coaches consider. I do think Michigan's culture, its insistence on doing things the right way and comparable lack of academic shortcuts is attractive to some coaches. If Florida State and Michigan both went after David Shaw, or Pat Fitzgerald, or a hypothetical non-alumnus Harbaugh, the culture would be a huge plus for UM. Top notch facilities are a requirement anywhere; I don't disagree Michigan has them but that's like having a bachelor's degree when you're applying for a job. The money cannon is the biggest thing Michigan has going for it. Michigan doesn't put nearly as many guys in the NFL as Alabama or Ohio State. It's not a place where you can sell a kid on national championships. It's no longer a place where you can sell him on Big Ten championships and Rose Bowls. The stuff you CAN sell Michigan on-- I guess I'm just surprised that Harbaugh couldn't translate that into better recruiting. He seems almost content with three-stars who really "get" Michigan, but I don't really think Michigan is such an anomaly that you can only take guys that "get" it. It's not West Point. I guess-- I don't disagree it's among the 20 best jobs out there. I just feel like CFB is stratifying in a big way and Michigan looks like it's getting left behind the current Big 3 and a select few bluebloods.
  19. boy that kind of sounds a little bit gay when you write it all out like that
  20. I was similar. The stuff that I told myself "well at least I don't/at least I didn't" when I first tried to get sober at 30 came and went in a flash. Well, at least I don't drink in the mornings turned into the entire point of my existence is to drink, there's no reason to put arbitrary limits on it like "daylight" or "morning" or "not knowing what time it even is". That reflexive drink on waking, the point where you could no longer keep your eyes closed to try sleeping, that's the closest I have come to hell. The movie Leaving Las Vegas came out when I was about twenty. At the time, I interpreted Nicolas Cage's portrayal of alcoholism as just over-the-top goofball acting, no different than his Southern accent in Con Air, because who in the fuck would or could drink like that? By 2017/2018, the behaviors that seemed so ridiculous and alien in 1996 looked a lot more familiar. But that realization wasn't enough to slow me down for even a second. The only thing that stopped me was thinking about what my daughter's life might be like if I succeeded in drinking myself to death before her third birthday. That made me willing enough to try a real inpatient rehab, and it kind of flowed downhill from there-- I was just barely willing enough at every stage of the process to say "this is probably bullshit, this probably won't work, but I'm going to try it for her". Miraculously, every inflection point where I shrugged and just tried the next right thing for my little girl's sake has worked out, and eventually I really did achieve the upward momentum to rely on the program and my Higher Power first and foremost anytime I was challenged-- I have grown to where I want to be a sane, happy, healthy, sober person for me and me alone first, and I am then able to enjoy the blessings of being that person for all the people around me. My ON and OFF switches were both broken. They're still broken. The grace of God is the only thing keeping them in the correct position.
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