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Richard Kimball

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  1. Off topic, but Aunt Becky was hot.
  2. There are reasons some of us think that way. First, this board has aged by quite a few years, and there's an age where you don't live and die with your team like you did when you were a kid. The first BIG Texas game I remember watching was the Arkansas game after Freddy Steinmark got cancer. Every one of us has a game that's like our first love. Nothing matches up to it again. My Cowboys "first love" game was in the 72 playoffs, when Staubach brought the Cowboys back from a 28-13 deficit in the 4th quarter to take down the 49ers. My other favorite game was the one when the Cowboys put the Redskins out of the playoffs in 1979 and Harvey Martin threw a funeral wreath into their locker room. BTW, that's how the Cowboy's uni is supposed to look. Second, just about everyone on this board follows the Longhorns. A lot follow the Cowboys, and a few are Houston fans. None of those teams have lit it up lately. Dunno about y'all, but Bevo kicking Uga's ass and the Longhorns beating Georgia in the Sugar wasn't stale and boring to me. We get a few more seasons like that and we'll be back in the groove. I do think the sports networks damage some things in college sports with the commoditization, the commercial time outs, flipping of game times, etc. The biggest thing, IMHO, to improve sports is to have a real playoff. I don't care if you're the Wyoming Cowboys. Every team should have a path to the playoffs by winning, and the rules should be in place before the season starts.
  3. There was a lot of fanfic around Aranda last year. Three of the jobs he was supposedly "offered' were pure speculation on message boards and by "journalists." When these rumors started flying, he hadn't even completed one winning season as a head coach, and a lot of schools weren't sure how his whole "rain man" persona would play long term. Texas was one, but I don't remember it getting much traction. I wasn't thrilled with Sark's first year, but you don't do a huge buyout half way through a coach's first season, barring some kind of scandal bigger than pole assassin. That wasn't even a scandal. It was just funny. The Texas rumors, I think, weren't from people with grievances against Texas. I think they came from a fairly small contingent of Texas fans that want to fire every Texas coach the first time they lose a game, and want to hire every coach that wins three games in a row at another school. LSU was looking for a "NAME." Aranda may have been fifth or so on their list. Southern Cal had been negotiating with Riley for months, and I think they had an agreement in principle a month before they named him as coach. LSU rumors were obvious because he had coached there. He grew up in SoCal, so the rumors started flying about that school. The Oregon and Texas rumors, people just pulled those out of their asses. Aranda MIGHT move on in a couple of years, but he's very much a one foot in front of the other guy, and he's still figuring out being a head coach. He learns really fast, though.
  4. User name checks out.
  5. Mulkey got told "You'd better take that LSU job, cause we're not putting up with your shit, anymore." It all came down to the new basketball arena. Mulkey wanted it on campus, in between the Ferrell Center and the baseball and softball stadiums. Baylor was in negotiations with City of Waco and some private developers to put it on the bank of the Brazos, on the downtown side of I-35. The arena project will cost $185 million. Waco's chipping in $65 million, and it's going to anchor a $700 million downtown river development. They told Mulkey several times to STFU, they were going to put a statue of her up in front of the new arena, and make everything look smooth on the outside. She wouldn't shut up. Completing the negotiations required meet and greets with a lot of people with serious money, and Baylor was tired of Mulkey showing her ass at every possible moment, and they weren't going to let her go into negotiation meetings screaming about having the arena in an area that was too small and was going to remove about 50% of the parking from the three other facilities there. She'd been a pain in the ass for years, and you can usually get away with being an ass when you're winning, BUT when the money boys tell you to sit down and STFU, you either do it or go someplace else. Both sides have been quiet about it, but it wasn't Mulkey's choice. The only coach who's voluntarily left Baylor since I started covering them in around 2006* is Matt Rhule, and he was writing his number on NFL bathroom stalls before he got the Baylor job. *Disclaimer: I don't cover anything except football, basketball and women's basketball, and I cover as little women's basketball as I have to.
  6. Happy New Year to everyone!
  7. Agree. Yeah, there have been some dumbass plays, but it's fun to watch a game where guys are busting their asses and actually give a shit.
  8. User name checks out, but I could say that about 75% of your posts.
  9. Just once for me. Had to hold it open so a doctor could insert a tube. Cottage cheese. It was awful. No, and I'll pass on that one.
  10. Some of them never take their shoes off. The foot calluses sometimes literally grow into the socks. They hit an ER and take their shoes off for the first time in a month or two and you can smell it all the way down the hall.
  11. If you ever work in an emergency room, there are things you should know. Nobody ever accidentally sticks something up their ass, but you need to work on saying, "Damn, that's crazy!" If the object they "accidentally" got stuck in their ass is a cell phone, you don't have to ask. It was on vibrate. The only thing in the world that smells worse than an obese woman's vagina is a wino's feet. NOTHING in the world smells worse than a wino's feet, and that's coming from a guy who spent five years on a dive/recovery team. One shift in an ER and your back and feet will hurt worse than eight hours of ditch digging. ER break rooms have changed a LOT in the last forty years. In the 1980s, everyone ran on nicotine and caffeine. The break rooms had an ash tray the size of a sombrero, and looked like a camp fire had just gone out in it. There were at least six 44 ounce styrofoam Big Gulp cups filled with Circle K coffee.
  12. Arlene Golonka really caught my eye in Hang Em High. Especially after she spent all that time being sweet, innocent Millie on Mayberry RFD. But, back to Angie Dickinson
  13. I did not know that. I do know that after watching Then Came Bronson, it was upsetting that hot, crazy girls didn't show up at the beach, take off their clothes, then jump on the back of my motorcycle.
  14. Should have been more realistic, just a cowboy, astronaut millionaire.
  15. Yeah, but you're in real estate in California. You should be able to buy out Chip Kelley's AND Sarkisian's contract with the money in your couch cushions.
  16. She stayed hot for a long time. This was her in Then Came Bronson in 1969. Die Hard was 1988 and she was still smoke.
  17. When I was a kid I wanted to be an artist. Ended up being a firefighter and doing sports photography, writing and interviews on the side. Life's actually a lot better than I planned.
  18. Seemed like everybody that was in American Graffiti had a solid career, but Paul Le Mat, that played John Milner's career never took off. It's pretty crazy how many of the even fringe characters became stars. Harrison Ford, Richard Dreyfuss, Cindy Williams, Mackenzie Phillips, Kathleen Quinlan, Suzanne Summers, all went on to have solid careers. Le Mat was featured, and had solid on screen charisma, but never did much else.
  19. I was never a big Deion fan, but the guy impresses me. He doesn't just understand the game of football, he understands the game owners and GMs play with players. He figured out how to jump from a dogshit franchise to getting a Super Bowl win with the 49ers, then jumping and getting another with the Cowboys, got massive paychecks both times, and got out of the game without a major brain injury. He also understands all the leeches that take player money and leave them broke, like the hooker chicks, agents and investors. If a kid is a true generational talent, Deion can show them the ropes on how to maximize their potential and not end up in a mobile home with other people spending the money they made. Also, the guy really broke one of my long standing beliefs that great players never make great coaches. My theory was that great players operated largely on talent, and the great coaches were guys that were okay talents, but had to fully understand the game, cause they couldn't just out-physical everyone. Remains to be seen if he becomes a great coach, but his record so far is outstanding, and he's got people talking about a school that hardly anyone knew existed a couple of years ago.
  20. Dammit, I still want to see Ed Orgeron go to Oregon, just to watch the sports journalists try to get through a story.
  21. Picked up two starting offensive linemen in the portal. Nose tackle Siaki Ika portaled in from LSU. Drew Estrada, caught one of the TD passes, transfered in. Dillon Doyle, second year starting linebacker, came in last year from Iowa.
  22. You can't wait until next October to make a prediction.
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