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Tex Long

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  1. 14 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

    Learned a new word today. What commie spy novels are you reading?

    Life experience. You wouldn't believe the trouble you can get in by removing the wooden micro-pallet from the bottom of the mini-fridge in your hotel room and leveling the damn thing so you can actually hear yourself think.

     

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  2. 5 minutes ago, UncleBuck said:

    No, like he said, y'all are both right. 

    You handle your business against the teams you're supposed to, you're in. True

    You don't go on the road the first game of the season against a top 2 team in the country that you understandably lose to, you're probably in.

    There's a whole sloppy thread about how to get into the Group of Twelve with three losses. Yes, it's possible, albeit with extremely low probability. 

    The point here is being ready to play after - let's see: 8 months, two weeks, and two weeks - of time to actually get ready. We weren't, all three times.

    The stories of personal problems, rehab(s), benders would seem to explain the lack of preparation. If true, it seems entirely reasonable to suppose that CDC has kompromat on Sarkisian sufficient to cover "for cause" firing, if it comes to that. 

    My thought is that Del Conte believes reasonably-sober Steve can helm a winning program, and that he believes Steve can manage his problems. I agree that it's possible, and I think CDC and Sark have had that come-to-Jesus talk, and that it led to a list of achievements required... what we're seeing right now, with Sark advocating tirelessly for that CFP slot, is the result of that meeting and those trquirements.

    Here's hoping it all works out for all concerned... including us.

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  3. 7 minutes ago, Ricky Butler said:

    You're the one that said "X" is the problem. It's not that simple, which is what we're all pointing out to you.

    It's exactly that simple. Getting into the show with three losses is only possible in extremely rare circumstances, which, as it happened, didn't occur. Not losing the third game, and especially to Florida is the way in. Substituting someone else for Florida is pointless, but you just keep on pointing.

     

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  4. Just now, elguapo said:

    You realize that both can be true right?

    Replace OSU with a cupcake OOC game that we win, we're a lock for the playoffs

    Don't shit the bed against Florida and we are a lock for the playoffs

    Both are true

    No.

    The tOSU game is not the problem.

    The UGa game is only part of the problem.

    The Florida game is the problem.

    Losing inexplicably to asswater is the problem, and the thread title spells it out for you: This is who Steve Sarkisian is.

     

     

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  5. Damn, it's embarrassing to have so many people going on and on and on about being penalized for playing - and losing - a big-time OOC game. If anything, we in fact get plus marks for playing tOSU closer than their other 11 games.

    No, get the fuck outta here with that "OOC big-game loss keeping us out of the champeenships" bullshit.

    What keeps us out is the other two losses. Most of all, Florida. That was pathetic... actually, it was asswater, am I right? Yes, I fucking am. How the fuck do you come off a bye, with a full extra week to prepare, and lose to Florida? What the fuck was the coaching staff, from the top down, doing for those two weeks? It damn sure wasn't preparing for Florida.  Fuck me.

    After Florida, we knew, absofuckinglutely knew, we had to win out... at least to the point of being in the CCG, with a pretty-much guaranteed CFP berth there, win or lose.

    Beating UGa was a requirement. Again, we came off a bye, and again we were unready, outplayed, and outcoached. Coffin, meet nail.

    One last time: losing to tOSU didn't put us out of the CFP. Losing to UGa didn't put us out of the CFP, even though it was the proverbial Last Straw. Nope. What put us out of the CFP was being humiliated by a team that was ready to - and did - fire their HC. 

    Asswater.

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  6. 5 hours ago, Nicole44 said:

    And you get what you pay for.

    This is not entirely true. It sounds good, but it's wrong. I - and I think most of us - have paid for things and not gotten them.

    Tex Long's First Rule of Finance is "You don't get what you don't pay for."

    Like the original version, it's not universally so, because sometimes you do get what you do or don't pay for... but the far greater occurrence is ... "Nah, you ain't gettin' it." 

    Thinking that you'll definitely get what you pay for... Bad Idea™.

    DM Jimbo

     

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  7. Watching Ioway and Nebarska in the blowing sleety snow. Good game for the first half, anyway.

    Seeing Holgorsen working with Neb QB, it occurs to me that Sark needs to go the same route, leave HC job and get back to purely offense. Kiffin could probably use some help at LSU...

     

  8. 47 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

    And Navy finished in the top 10 in '41, '43, '44 and '45.

    And '63, when Roger took them to #2.

    They almost certainly would have been #1, except they managed to lose to SMU, on the same field where we handeed them one of the worst physical beatings I ever witnessed.

  9. 23 minutes ago, BigHornedLurker said: 

    Best job is fired HFC , second best job is their legal teams 

    Nah. Best job is Coaches' Agent. Get paid by errybody, just set up a few interviews here and there and deposit those checks.

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  10. 27 minutes ago, oldalum said:

    If only Chris had done that. He'd have a pair of glasses and still be our coach 

    I suspect most of us, at some point in our lives, have had a female companion with an excessive need for attention, often exacerbated by slight over-indulgence in alcohol. What is needed is a place of her own, preferably with a lock on the outside. Failing that, we have to be able to restrain an occasional physical attack without undue force. Unfortunately for some of us, we may find ourselves in a likewise state of slight over-indulgence, and if our companion is a large, strong person, we may encounter an exchange of bruises, scrapes, and scratches. 

    Honestly, I believe his initial statement was probably pretty damned close to the truth, namely that he was reading something, she demanded attention, he failed to respond and kept reading, she snatched (so to speak) his reading glasses from his face and broke them, which pushed him over the edge, A few slaps were exchanged, she called 911 (often a Bad Idea absent a life-and-death situation). One of the responding officers told her they could arrest him if she was - oh, I dunno, being strangled? She went with that, the cops pretended to believe it, and here we are.

    I still feel  that Beard could have salvaged things by apologizing most sincerelyto Randi,  the fans, his players, the school... errybody. And then seeking and performing anger management training.

    But he didn't.

    And here we are.

  11. It's fun to wade hip-deep through the argumentation. No doubt about it. 

    The best part is that it'll never stop as long as the Beauty Contest System continues. 

    Two teams? You're fucked because you're third most beautiful, biggest cup size, least knobby knees... whatever.

    Four teams? Fucked at fifth. Twelve teams? Left out at thirteenth.

    Let errybody in, at 128 teams. That's seven weeks of playoffs and nobody gets left out.

     

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