Richard Kimball

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This is either the greatest or stupidest post in the history of surly.

Belichick is a great X & O coach who also happens to be a horse's ass. He needed Brady, cause aside from being an excellent QB that understood the first rule of winning is "don't lose the game with stupid ass hero ball (Bret Favre)," he kept the team together and soothed ruffled feathers. Belichick ran off competent players cause he's a jerk. Deion surprised me because great players hardly ever become great coaches. Most of the guys who become great coaches were average to above average players, and they had to know the game intimately to make up for their physical shortcomings. Great players often depend upon their athletic ability, so if Deion got out of position, he had the speed to cover his mistake. I'm not saying he's a great coach, but he's outperformed what I thought he would. What I have trouble seeing is Belichick being able to deal with a college environment, where players can walk. If he can convince enough 4 & 5 star players that he can get them ready for the NFL, he's got a chance, but we're living in a world where a lot of these guys will make more money in college than they ever will in the NFL.

@Al_4_ISU vs @Upgrayedd as the game approached halftime:

Understand what you're saying, but now that we're SECSECSEC, we get the benefit of the doubt, so no complaints. The SEC will get multiple teams in because they've got a ton of clout and the 12 team playoff is a short term contract. If they don't get multiple teams in, they'll throw a wrench into the playoffs on the contract renegotiation. Last year, the only reason Texas got in was because Alabama beat Georgia in the SEC championship. If Georgia had won, it would have been Michigan, Georgia, Washington and Florida State. When Alabama won, Sankey had a presser, and basically said, "There better not be a playoff without an SEC team." The committee couldn't put Alabama in over Texas cause Texas beat them at home by double digits. So, they had to get Texas in so they could get Alabama in. If the SEC and the B1G don't get their way, they'll poach the best of the remaining teams from the other conferences, and have their own playoffs, with blackjack and hookers.

Funniest thing is that all four power conferences could be won by a first year member.

They don't sell Jenga blocks at College Station.

I know y'all hate Baylor, but this is awesome:

Just sent this to my nephew, an aggy;

Troof! What would be cool is if every P4 championship was won by a first year member, and there's a good possibility of it. Course, if Texas wins, anything else that happens is gravy.

Well, this was the trophy, so...

A sandwich walks into a bar and says, "I'd like a coke." The bartender says, "I'm sorry, we don't serve food here."

HEY! Don't pick on Patrick! Did you see how hard he reached for that ball?

Dittos. I dove for a pass once. Once. My forearm and lower leg looked like they'd been painted red. It was great back then, though, with the running track around the field and all the kids taking an evening jog, and the football and frisbee playing on the field. Sometimes the band would be out there practicing, and you could see the touch football games get a lot more animated when they were playing "Texas Fight!" Oh, well. You know the saying, "How many Austinites does it take to change a light bulb?" Seven. One to change the light bulb, and six to talk about how great things were in the sixties.

Understatement of the year. Well done. What's confusing about Jones is that I would love to have his ability to make money. He's personally responsible for the money fountain the NFL has become. Jersey sales go back to Jerry Jones. He convinced the other owners to split up the games into packages and put them out for bid. In that arena he's the best NFL owner, and there's not a second place. AT&T Stadium is a money machine. Why, then, does he blow his entire reputation by trying to prove he's a football guy?

Narrator: Three plays later...

Going 5-11 three straight years with Campo didn't get to him. He only hired Parcells cause he couldn't get financing for the new stadium with him calling the shots and the team rolling out 5-11 records every year. He left Parcells alone until the stadium financing was complete, then he started dicking with the roster again. Remember, Jerry was the genius who thought Quincy Carter would take us to the promised land.

Bears repeating. FWIW, Matt Rhule thought he had Joey McGuire lined up to be the next Baylor head coach when he left. Mack Rhoades, the Baylor athletic director, didn't think McGuire prepared enough for his interview, and selected Dave Aranda. McGuire was still on staff during the 2021 season when Baylor won the Sugar bowl, the only major bowl win in their history. McGuire left for Texas Tech the next season. When announcing McGuire leaving, Rhoades said he told him to get his stuff and get out. He's the enemy now. Aranda got a big extension and raise after the Sugar Bowl win. The only reason he's still there is because after last season, the BMDs were not willing to buy out the contract. I quit covering Baylor, and lost access to their 9.95 site year before last (I could not handle another Dave Aranda interview,) but at that time, fans were already asking why Rhoades went with Aranda. McGuire isn't all that and a bag of chips, but he is a competent coach. Aranda doesn't run the program. The program runs around him. I know nobody here gives two shits about Baylor or Tech, so dropping this in this thread. Baylor has dropped back to Kevin Steel and Guy Morriss levels of incompetence, and it will take them years to recover, if they do.

Is this topic locked?

You're right. If everyone is a blue blood... Then no one is. The thing is, you need some Larry Krogers (need the dues) without a bunch of Flounders and new rule, if you're not a blue blood, your cheerleaders MUST be hot.

They say the plastic straws strangle sea turtles. Now I have to go out and choke them one at a time.

I started to write more about this proposal, but this sums it up.