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Good story. My dad was an Oilers fan, even during the terrible years. He's been stationed in Houston in the early sixties, and got to know some of the players. When Adams fired Bum, my dad said it was over, and he never watched another Oilers game.
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"Fat man in a little coat..." "Who said that? Who's the twinkle-toed cocksucker that just signed his own death warrant?" "Why, Johnny Ringo. You look like somebody just walked over your grave." "Atta boy, Luther!" "Today, I settled all the family business." "Now go home and get your fucking shine box." "Ah, but the strawberries...that's where I had them!" "Nothing's too good for the man that shot Liberty Valance."
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They might dump him over the Miles hiring, but Self has been with Kansas since 2003 and Long just got there in 2018. Any basketball shenanigans started way before Long got there. Also, Long might be Self's supervisor in title, but I doubt he can tell him much.
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Briles got something like $15 million on his payout. He did some wrong shit, but like with LSU, a lot of it was also on the admin. Baylor tried to use him as a Judas goat, gave him "shut up" money, and hoped the scandals would leave with him.
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I've gotten to interview a lot of B12 coaches at the summer media days, and the only two that had me sitting there after the interview going "what the ever loving fuck?" were Les Miles and Tom Herman. Non-sequitur answers and totally off the wall comments that made little sense. Not that anyone cares, but my general impression from interviews with other B12 coaches: Gary Patterson -- perpetually butt hurt, acts like someone tried to take the last long john out of the donut box just to spite him. Charlie Strong -- Damn that dude is short. In over his head. Had a few canned responses, but got in trouble answering specific questions. Lincoln Riley -- Good stage presence, has media figured out. Knows how to give a good quote line that won't come back and bite him in the ass. Matt Campbell -- hard ass. Let's get this media shit over so I can get back to coaching. OK interview, but doesn't want to be there. Bill Snyder -- Was elder statesman, got handled with kid gloves by press, and knew how to take advantage of it. Anyway, no doubt there were other issues with Miles.
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Re: Self promotion Chad Johnson legally changed his name to Chad Ocho Cinco, cause the NFL would only sell jerseys with the players real name on them, and players get a cut when one of their jerseys sells. There was some grousing about it, and he laid it out pretty well. The NFL will pick out a few players and sell them as the face of pro football. If you're not one of the chosen ones and you want the press, promotions and the money that goes with it, you'd better figure out a way to sell yourself. There's J. J. Watts the person, J. J. Watts the player, and J. J. Watts, the media creation. Going by J. J. instead of his real name, Justin, makes him more memorable. In the ice bath picture, he's doing the "put your hands under your biceps to make them look bigger" thing. He's done some nice charity work, but you can be damned sure he has publicity people that write up the stories and send them to lazy journalists who simple print the press release cause it saves them from writing a column. This is nothing against Watts, he's just playing the game. He's been a really good player on a mostly lousy team his entire career. His ability to self promote, though, has made him millions.
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Thanks! Catching Illinois State and UNI now. Don't know who either team is, but it's football.
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Obviously, I have no inside information, but I'd say, not just no, but Hell, no. First, the organization shit a collective brick when Josh McDaniels drafted him in the first round. Second, I was watching a Monday Night Football game, Broncos against the Jets. Tebow engineered a comeback in the final minutes. When the Broncos scored the winning touchdown, they did a camera shot of John Elway in the luxury suite. He wasn't celebrating. He looked like the Kingpin after Daredevil foiled one of his plots. Elway was pissed that Tebow had that six game winning streak, cause he wanted someone else at QB. John Fox had replaced McDaniels, and figured he'd throw Tebow in there over Kyle Orton when the team was sitting at 1-4. Neither Fox or Elway expected the winning streak, especially when most of them were nail biting come from behind wins.
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When Vince was at UT, Mack and the coaching staff originally tried to get him to work within the system. Vince kept doing it his way. They finally "let Vince be Vince" and that's when he became one of the best college QBs ever, maybe the best. That's one thing that everyone who hollers "Fuck Mack Brown" needs to remember. Brown saw Young's unique talents, and instead of forcing Young into a system, he was man enough to subdue his ego and let Young perform. There are a lot of college coaches that would have benched Young when he went off script. Then he gets drafted by the Titans and has the walking anus known as Jeff Fisher for a coach. Jeff Fisher was by GOD going to force Young into his system. When Young did it his way, Fisher didn't bench him, he stabbed him in the back, time after time. We're talking about Fisher, the guy who locked his Super Bowl quarterback out of the team facilities, so making up some bullshit story and calling the cops saying he was worried Young was suicidal was just another tactic. Young was like Michael Vick and several other qbs, in that they were not going to be successful as traditional quarterbacks. The system had to be flexible enough to accommodate their unique skill sets. Young did try to work with several other teams, but his ego had been shattered, his conditioning wasn't as good, and he was trying to fit into systems as a backup. If Young had originally had a head coach in the pros that would have worked with him, he would have had a successful pro career. It wouldn't have been a long one, because his playing style makes him take more hits than the average QB, but his ceiling was a lot higher than what he showed. And yeah, that championship game may have been the best game ever played by a QB.
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Yeah, without the bucks those two guys couldn't get a girl into a chair, much less a bed.
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Yeah, and LSU hasn't cleaned up their act either. When they let go of OC Matt Canada in 2019, both sides signed a non-disclosure agreement. There's more to that than Orgeron and him didn't get along.
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Let me open up this one by asking, "When was the last time Kansas made a GOOD decision in hiring a football coach?" Right now, KU is probably one of the least desirable P5 coaching positions. Here's where desperate people do desperate things, and college revenue sports, specifically men's football and basketball, are some of the dirtiest institutions around. If someone can generate wins on the field or the court, schools will do back flips to maintain plausible deniability about misconduct. I'd put the over/under at about 30% of P5 colleges that have run prostitution rings out of the athletic department for recruiting purposes. Prior to Kansas, Miles had coached 16 years, been to 15 bowl games, and had won a national championship. He should have been gold when he left LSU, but he didn't coach for two years, and took less than the contract required on his buyout from LSU. Absolutely agree there were rumors out there about him or somebody would have jumped on him immediately. So LSU attempted to avoid a scandal by separating from Miles in as low profile a method as possible, which meant instead of firing for cause, they pretended a 2-2 start to a season was enough to let him go. Kansas thought they could grab a national championship coach on the cheap, and there probably wouldn't be any blowback, cause the LSU stuff hadn't hit the press, and it had been two years.
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You and a few other posters have raised some legit points. Working for a college, I can tell you that if I let one of my subordinates go, and another company calls to ask about that subordinate, I'm very limited in what I can say. If I give a bad reference, I open the college up to the possibility of a lawsuit if that bad reference results in the former subordinate not getting the job. High profile jobs like coaching may be different, but the only time I can talk about a former employee or student is if they put me down as a personal reference. Anything else gets referred to human resources for employees, and all they'll do is give dates of hire and separation, job description, and they can reveal if someone was fired for cause. If they weren't fired for cause, you open up a helluva can of worms if you start saying, "well, there were rumors he was hitting on female students."
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Also, the British think food is a form of punishment. Spotted dick? Blood pudding? I used to own an MG. Every part that fell off of that car was of the finest British craftsmanship.
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Dallas Cowboys 2021 Offseason Thread: Fuck It All
Richard Kimball replied to Vic Mackey's topic in Football
With everything except players, Jones is a brilliant negotiator. A guy who can't negotiate couldn't have gotten ATT Stadium built and moved that many marquee college games into it. Guy was able to swing having the Rose Bowl and the Cotton Bowl in his stadium in the same bowl season. The problem with player negotiations is he's got no clue as to player value. I always thought that was why he and Jimmy Johnson were successful together, but neither was (as far as team performance) on their own. Johnson knew who they needed to get. Jones could close the deal. When Johnson went to Miami, he knew who he wanted, but couldn't close the deal. On actual player negotiations, yeah, they do some really goofy stuff. -
I always thought he signed Manning's corpse because Tebow was popular with a lot of the fan base and he couldn't cut him without bringing in a big name.
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Wait a minute. When did this go from worst casting to 70s female stars that get you hot? NTTAWWT. Heather Thomas.
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Guy I worked with played golf at UT. He took a part time job at one of the major country clubs for something like $7 an hour cause employees got to play the course. I used to check my watch when we'd start talking to see how long it took him to start talking about golf. Never more than a minute, and I don't play golf or care about it, so it wasn't like there was an opening for him to start talking about it. Used to have to interrupt him, cause he'd relive every stroke on a round if you didn't stop him. I asked him why he didn't go pro, cause you gotta be pretty good to play for UT. He said, "I don't like golf that much." I said, "What the hell are you talking about. You're obsessed with golf." He said to be good enough to turn pro he'd have to ignore his family, holidays, and everything else in life. As obsessed as he was, he said he couldn't ignore everything else in life to chase the pro tour.
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Don't have a story that good, but when I was with Austin Fire, made a wreck on I-35. Saw three people in the front seat of something like a Toyota Celica, and three in the back. I asked if everyone was okay, not knowing none of them spoke English. They all nodded okay. Turned out none of them understood me, some of them were hurt, and there were people behind the people in the back seat. Ten people in that car. Fortunately, nobody had life threatening injuries, but I felt like one of those magicians pulling scarves out of his sleeve. EMS was pissed. They kept having to bring more units.
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That's great! Stents are no joke.
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66. Spent ten days in the hospital last month with COVID. Usually in pretty good shape, but that whipped me. Still getting over it.
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Dallas Cowboys 2021 Offseason Thread: Fuck It All
Richard Kimball replied to Vic Mackey's topic in Football
Even if interest in pro sports has flattened, the networks are in a bind, as sports is the only thing left that people will tune in to watch live, and the NFL has the highest ratings of any live sports programming. -
Would This Be the Best Camera Angle for Football?
Richard Kimball replied to Vic Mackey's topic in Football
Don't have ESPN anymore, but they had an option where you could just watch the sky cam. I watched any game where they offered it. You didn't get replay, but on most games you could hear the stadium announcer and didn't have to listen to the commentators. That was another plus. -
Dallas Cowboys 2021 Offseason Thread: Fuck It All
Richard Kimball replied to Vic Mackey's topic in Football
Not sure, but I don't think Tom Brady has ever been higher than 12th or so in QB salary. However, both of Brady's teams were smart enough to use that money to fill out the roster with good quality players. If Dak took 25 million like Brady did, I have trouble seeing the Cowboys use the extra 15 million or so wisely. -
Crazy how much things have changed. When I was a student at UT, there were several faculty members going out with students. Never heard of an instructor harassing a student, but there were definitely faculty/student hookups.
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