Richard Kimball

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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.

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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.

To really hate a commercial, it can't be just a bad commercial. It has to be a commercial that was horrible the first time, and gets repeated every ten minutes. I was watching Washington-Washington State. Great game, close, last quarter. Then for the 500 billionth time, the same two crappy commercials came on one after the other. Commercial #1. That Capital One commercial parody of the "League of Their Own," with the girl crying. Every Capital One commercial sucks, but that one sucks in particular, because of the whining girl. That was bad enough, but it followed with that fucking AT&T commercial where the morbidly obese bald headed fat fuck with the mustache is sitting on a horse in the dentist's office where his tween daughter with the "look at me, I'm an edgy tween with a semi-bondage choker" is in the chair, and the whole stupid commercial is a pun based off of "being on his high horse" because he got a Samsung Galaxy. That's like being on your high horse because you shopped at Dollar General.

Troof on what thunderlounge said, but also, Cavett's ratings weren't ever that great when he was hosting his talk show opposite Carson, and my guess is a lot of the tv brass thought he was a little too much of an intellectual who wouldn't have broad audience appeal. Letterman's success had the talk shows veering back to more absurdist humor and fewer serious interviews, so a comedy background was going to be more highly valued than good interviewing skills.

I finally beat minesweeper on expert level.

Nobody else is celebrating Jeff Fisher day? 7/9 is almost over.

Dan Marino should die of gonorrhea and rot in hell. Would you like a cookie, son?

Well, that's it. Oregon State to the B12 and this is their new helmet logo.

Maybe relevant or not, but after I lived in New Orleans a couple of years (100% humidity all the time) I started having a horrible time with foot odor. Showered twice a day, changed socks twice a day, scrubbed my feet, every foot powder known to man, threw out my old shoes, bought new ones. Nothing helped. Ten minutes out of the shower and drying my feet, they stunk again, even if I hadn't put on shoes. Buddy of mine, who was in the Viet Nam war, told me same thing happened over there. They used to piss on their feet in the shower to get rid of it, but you could just pour vinegar on your feet and dry them. Worked. Turns out it was a yeast infection from the humidity. No problems with foot odor since then.

True story about Dolly Parton: I think it was 1975, and she had just gone solo as an artist after being with Porter Wagoner. She had a concert scheduled for the Heart O' Texas Colosseum in Waco. It seated several thousand people, but only about sixteen people, including me, showed up. We were all gathered around the stage, and I heard her talking to her road manager. He was telling her to just refund the ticket money and they could pack up and go to the next town. She told him these people paid for a concert, to give the band the night off, leave one guy for security, and she'd take care of it. She got a bar stool and her acoustic guitar, gathered us around in a circle, and did a 1 1/2 hour concert (no microphone, she was close enough we could all hear her perfectly,) then signed autographs for all of us. It was the best concert I ever attended. Couple of notes: in person, she sounded just like on the records. She can REALLY sing and she can REALLY play guitar.

I called the tinnitus hotline, but it just kept ringing.

I know a better word you could have used.

Aranda's a nice guy. Here's the problem: The problem on this is that Aranda has been demonstrating he's incapable of managing even the routine aspects of running a program. Spring games are a pain in the ass for coaches, but they're advertising for the program. But to announce a spring game and then cancel it the week the game's supposed to happen is not good. There are dozens of examples of simple stuff falling through the cracks. (True story) After the 2023 spring game, Aranda said they'd decided on the starting QB, but wanted to talk to them before releasing the name. I asked him how he'd let the press know. He looked at THREE marcom people, turned around and said, "I don't know." That's about as simple as it gets. Send a press release. Announce it on twitter. Whatever. As far as middle aged guys getting an eighteen year old to sign their hat, pretty sure there are some okie lites that regret not getting Barry Sanders autograph after a spring game. From the spring games I've covered, most of the people getting autographs are fifteen and under. Don't know about Bama and who's getting autographs there.

Not that anyone cares, but Baylor isn't having an actual spring game. Aranda announced they will be having a regular practice with no scrimmage, but people can still come and watch. No 11 on 11, just drills. This season is going to be brutal if they aren't even organized enough to have a spring game. I worked with Drake (in the video) some. He's a Baylor alum and is getting really pissed.

Elton's great on piano, but he sucks on the organ.

AI is good, but NYT put their thumb on the scales for this one. In the original post #'s 8 and 9 are listed as real, but I'm pretty sure they've been run through an AI image enhancer that smoothed the skin. #3 is all kindsa fucked up, and it's supposed to be real. The eyes are shifted to the right. Check how much further the eye on the right sticks out over the mouth than the eye on the left. The nose and mouth appear to be from a straight on "mug shot" type photo, but the head and jawline look almost 3/4 "portrait" style. This is not to rag on the capabilities of AI, but if you run a photo through a program like Topaz AI, you are dealing with something that doesn't neatly fall into the category of real or AI. It's a little bit of both.