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Richard Kimball

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  1. Rhule's an above average coach. His specialty is finding guys with the right measurables and developing them by coaching fundamentals. He looks for length, speed, and absence of arrests. He likes the three star guys that are happy just to get an offer, cause he knows they will put forth maximum effort to prove something. He wins the games he should win. You never had those "what the fuck?" games like I got so frustrated with the Longhorns about ever since Mack retired while on the job, where they'd have a team they should slaughter, and then go out looking like they've got a Pepsi bottle stuck between their butt cheeks. His quarterback management, both at Baylor and Carolina, is goofy. IMHO, QB management killed him at Carolina. At Baylor, he lucked out with Charlie Brewer, but ran off Zach Smith, a four star out of Grandview, for transfer Anu Solomon, who was also a four star, but tore up his shoulder in Arizona, and didn't have enough arm strength left to pop a balloon with a dart. His recruiting is pretty bad, in terms of getting the top rated guys, and he's stuck in the JoePa mythos. Not the Jerry Sandusky stuff, but the plain uniforms, lunch bucket, blue collar attitude. Not sure how he'll fare in the NIL era, but his recruiting classes would be in the 30-40 ranking if he was at Ohio State or Bowling Green. TL;DR Good coach, not elite, can take you to a top 20, probably not to the promised land.
  2. Like you wouldn't, anyway.
  3. Keep us posted on how things are going. Do you have all your family in a safe location? Stuff like this reminds us of what's important. Quite a few years ago, I had a fire and then wrecked my car. Realized if I lost my keys it wouldn't make any difference. Family was still there, so it was all good. But, Hook 'em, and stay safe.
  4. Wow. Kick goes into one rear and out the other.
  5. Already got a lawyer for her and her friend.
  6. Big 12 to Dana Holgorsen:
  7. I've been almost exactly where you were. Not cancer, but different condition with one of my daughters. She's okay now, and I get asked to do counseling sometimes for people going through similar situations. One of the questions I got asked some was, "how were you so strong?" I wasn't strong. I asked God to kill me and heal her. I laid on the floor and cried, begging him to kill me and make her healthy. There wasn't a door that said, "give up." What? Kill myself? The rest of my family needed me, too. The ONLY option I had was to move on and keep praying, even without hope, and help my family the best I could. Praying for you, and seriously, remember, your wife and the rest of your family also need you.
  8. Jerry was trying to get the new stadium built, but was having trouble with the finances because the team had three straight 5-11 seasons. He brought in Parcells and let him run things until the team got back up enough to complete stadium financing. I believe he signed Owens over Parcells' objections a few days after the financing was secured. It was a way to say, "daddy's home," and let Parcells know he wasn't in charge, anymore. Owens was good on the field, but he was also the precursor to the Cowboys becoming the Kardashians of pro football. They used to capture eyeballs because they were good. Then, they captured eyeballs because they were bizarre. The act is old, now. It's like Lindsay Lohan. She used to be a hot girl doing crazy things. She's not hot, anymore, and nobody cares about "Lindsay Lohan did something crazy" headlines.
  9. She must hate Arizona State.
  10. They gave up Cooper and got this guy?
  11. Don't plunge the knife in too deep, there. Gonna confess, I feel a little bad for Frost. He won Nebraska's last national championship as a QB, and 25 years later, the student section, none of whom were even born in his glory days, were chanting to fire him. BTW, I may be looking for a new reporting job. My publisher is an Alabama Crimson Tide and Minnesota Vikings fan. He told me the hit on Ewers was a clean hit. I told him Pearson didn't push off. We'll see what happens.
  12. A State, plz
  13. IIRC y'all won the PAC last year.
  14. @Trojan Man has personal animosity towards Oregon, and ... Oregon had no real history that anyone cared about until Phil Knight got involved. Over the last thirty years, he's dumped around a billion dollars into the school. Not all of it was football, but that's a lot of money. Knight's 84 now. He may make some kind of trust for Oregon, but as he moves out of the picture, it's hard to imagine someone else with his competence in marketing giving enough of a damn about Oregon to keep pushing them. Oregon is a case study of the limitations of money and astroturfing support for a college program. That billion dollars got Oregon a higher profile, but IMHO, Oregon has reached a peak, and that was with a verified marketing genius doing everything he could to make them one of the college elite. It is most likely downhill from here.
  15. That was probably a Dicker thing. He did the same thing against Baylor last year on 4th &11, down by less than one score. You could hear the Baylor players shouting "fake!" before the snap. Most coaches give a punter the option of going for it if they see the opportunity (one side underloaded, obvious return on or whatever.) Two coaches, same bad decision.
  16. People who sell the fundraising stuff for their kids. Girl Scout cookies, "World's Finest" chocolate, which is really Ex Lax, coupon books full of stuff like an extra small fry with every thirty dollar purchase at Burger Dump or $5 off a Mercedes-Benz. The worst are the fund raisers with a catalog and you get a choice between ordering a $30 can of flavored stale popcorn or a $25 plastic key chain with a led flashlight. The easiest to deal with is the World's Finest chocolate. I just give them the two bucks and tell them to throw the candy bar in the trash, cause all of it was manufactured during the Carter administration, and they're still trying to sell the left over stock.
  17. All I've seen is the trailer, but if she ended up being my blind date, I'd slit one of my wrists with a steak knife just to end it early. I quit reading comics about the time I went to college, although I've picked up a few, like Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen since then. She Hulk was after I quit reading them. When Warner Brothers made Super Girl, I watched an episode and determined I wasn't the target audience. It was for tween girls. There's nothing wrong with that, tween girls need entertainment, but I wasn't going to watch it because it wasn't for me. The first Avengers series was pretty cool, revisited some of the characters I loved when I was a little kid, and they nailed Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow, etc., well. Thor was always a little too much "Johnny Bravo" for me. By the Avengers, I felt like they'd done pretty much everything they could do with the genre in that style. Still watched through End Game. I'm not the target audience for She Hulk. According to the writers and show runners, it's supposed to be some kind of Ally McBeal, courtroom dramedy. Sorry, but I wasn't into the Gilmore Girls, either. It may be a great show for a female wine mom audience, or people into gr-gr-gr-gr-girl power.
  18. First, I miss your old avatar. It was a classic. You're right on the shows after Barney left. I would occasionally tune in cause I had a thing for Arlene Golonka. However, they didn't even show knees in Mayberry, so I gave that up. If Barney had stayed, could the show have continued to be good, or do you think they'd already done everything they could do with the characters? There's only so many ways Barney can screw up and then have Andy save him without letting him know he's been saved. The other part of me thinks that Griffith and Knotts had such great chemistry they could have put them in new situations and it still would have been great. Switching to color was a mistake, IMHO. Bringing in Jack Burns to play Warren, the deputy, was one of the worst casting decision possible.
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