Richard Kimball

After you set him on fire, you shoot him in the face with a fire hose.

What is it with Austin drivers and wanting to sit in your blind spot? Made a trip down to Austin today. Driving down MoPac, not too crowded, need to change lanes. Look back, guy in my blind spot. Speed up to create some space so I don't cut him off. He speeds up. Okay, asshole, you don't want me in front of you. Slow down to slide in behind him. He slows down and stays on my quarter panel. What the hell, dude? I've varied speed by 20 mph to get you off my quarter panel and you're still hanging on there like I'm your lead blocker on a sweep. Finally, floorboard and get enough space before he can react, and change lanes. Yes, I used the turn signal. MoPac has to have the goofiest drivers anywhere. So many people texting, eating something, and drinking coffee while they drive down the road.

Asked this exact same question yesterday. I have no clue. Saw a news crawl that said it broke the Spotify request for play with 10.8 million requests. Apparently, somebody not named me likes it.

Unless he'd been quietly recruiting those guys and keeping it under the table to snooker the competition, this strategy was going to fail, long term. I haven't seen any indication Strong was capable of quiet deception, and every kid with a twitter account loves to brag about his offers. Strong ignored recruiting, and counted on the Texas brand to turn some kids. That's a bold strategy, Cotton, until you're going into recruiting with three straight losing years, trying to convince kids that UT is a better deal than the Oklahoma Sooners, who have been winning conference championships and have had their coaching staff contact the kids ever since they were in the tenth grade. You might turn kids that were committed to Tulsa or UTEP, but against successful, power five schools, you get your ass handed to you.

Think of it like a guy who's been going out getting drunk, beating his wife, and losing his paycheck every week at a poker game for 20 years. One day, his wife kicks him out, changes the locks, and gets a restraining order. He's all like, "What? We've been together for 20 years. You gonna throw that all away?" Fisher had been doing that bullshit in the league for 22 years. He hadn't had a winning season in eight years, and had been getting his contracts renewed. Hell, when the Titans finally wised up, he landed with the Rams by the next season. He thought they'd let him continue at 7-9 until he was the purple wizard of pro football.

Yes, there wasn't a ton of talent on defense when Strong walked in. How many first year head coaches walk into a perfect situation? The reason there's an opening is because things have to be fixed.

Matt Rhule took over a Baylor team that had fired the head coach, gone without a head coach for a year with the entire coaching staff committing a mutiny against the administration, had a shit ton of bad character people to run off, and was being ripped apart by every media outlet every day for two years. The entire inner workings of the football program, from trainers to media staff got overturned. in his second year, he got more wins than Strong did in his second year at Texas. In 2016, Kansas won two games. Rhode Island and Texas. Matt Rhule hasn't lost to Kansas. I can't believe you're still trotting out that "empty cupboard" stuff. No, Strong didn't walk into a situation like Lincoln Riley did, but he sure didn't walk into a situation like the guys who took over at Baylor, Penn State, or Kansas. He walked into a situation where he had an 8-5 team that had just played for the conference championship, with no scandals to clean up, and one of the top five brands in college football and he drove it into a ditch. Now, just two years in at South Florida, poor old Charlie's still trying to clean up that 11-2 bowl winning mess Willie Taggart left him. When's the man going to catch a break? If I'm recruiting against Strong, the first thing I'll tell a recruit is, " When you go to the team. bus, look under it and see how many people Charlie's thrown there. Cause it is never going to be Charlie's fault. it's going to be the previous coaching staff and the bad character people on the team. As soon as he clears them out, things will turn around."

I wanted Strong to be successful because he was the Texas head coach. It was apparent he wasn't going to be successful because he was a guy that thought firing the players up and having them go out ready to run through a wall was enough. He wasn't detail oriented, and the team never played smart football. As the movie says, "You're a good dad? Go home and fuck your kid," or something like that. I really don't give a shit if he's a nice guy. Win some fuckin' football games.

Adding on, guys who make the throw the flag gesture after getting defensed on a pass, and guys who celebrate like they won the Super Bowl after a first down play. Oh, and Oklahoma and USC having their band play their fanfare after every frikkin play. Teams that ring a bell whenever the other team has a third down.

Sorry to hear that. I had one about five years ago. Completely recovered now, but it wasn't a picnic. Take care of yourself and prayers for a full recovery.

The entire theme song to the Jetsons is: Meet George Jetson His boy Elroy Daughter Judy Jane, his wife. Somewhere, someone is still getting residuals for that.

I like the showgirls in the background.

ASU QB had been holding onto the ball way too long. You pizza when you should french fry you're gonna have a bad time.

Have to disagree with this one for two reasons. First, it discourages tough OOC games. Second, it puts a "selection committee" back in play. I don't trust them not to put their thumb on the scale. Disagree for one of the same reasons: thumb on the scale. As long as some committee has a say in who gets in, we'll keep hearing about the "thirteenth data point," "quality of loss," etc. There are ~120 schools competing for the playoffs. If you make the conference championship game, at most, you have to be better than the six other teams in your division. If you don't make the game or lose there, then as far as I'm concerned, it's all there, black and white, clear as crystal. You stole fizzy lifting drinks, you bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and sterilized, so you get nothing! You LOSE! Good day, sir!

Just watched my favorite Christmas movie, Die Hard, and want to add just about the entire cast. Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber Hart Bochner as the coke sniffing sleazy salesman that gets blown away. James Shigeta as Joseph Takagi Reginald VelJohnson as Sgt Al Powell Paul Gleason as the totally incompetent and annoying police chief Bonnie Bedelia as the remarkably hot MILF, Holly McLane. You know how hard it is to be a memorable character as the wife in one of these shows? Every one of them totally owned their screen time, and got out of the way when it was another character's time to shine. Especially true for Willis, who had individual interactions with all of them. Honorable mention to Argyle and most of the terrorists.

You want to get away with this kind of shit, you'd better win a conference title.

Both these teams have made some good plays. Enjoyable game.

You made me think of the original movie. It always got me that the scientist thought he would impress the girl by killing the fish and turning them into skeletons. Why not just electrocute a cat?

At least he doesn't have to decide whether to sit out a bowl game.

Troof. Girl I dated for a while did her grad work at OU in that era. She said when she hit campus, the first thing she was told was NEVER go into the athletic dorm. EVER. Don't let anyone talk you into going in there for any reason. "You don't get out until you put out."

They're still talking about the Boise State hook and ladder play against Oklahoma. Nobody's talking about the Alabama-LSU rematch a few years ago, other than as an example of what is wrong with college football. That game was worse than Rocky II.

Just want to start off by saying good discussion. You and Ladiesman make some good points. In the NFL, back in the nineties, the Cowboys played the 49ers in the NFC championship several times. In each of those games, the winner went on to destroy the AFC opponent in the Super Bowl. Everyone knew they were the two best teams in pro football, but they met before the actual title game. I'm open to just about any system, as long as there is a clear path (and honestly, Rice ain't ever making the playoffs) but a path where IF Rice met a certain criteria, laid out BEFORE the first kickoff of the season, they would be included in the playoffs.

In terms of destroying his career, going after Mike Leach is what did it. A lot of people saw it for what it was, and he's now the equivalent of Booster.

Bet you thought love would keep us together.

That's a valid point. I guess the thing about the NFL is all the tiebreakers are known before the season starts. Also, the NFL doesn't allow teams to game the system by selecting their non-divisional opponents, although it would be hilarious to see Green Bay play the Edmonton Eskimos to get a tiebreaker over the Bears. The primary absurdity is that over half the college football teams have no chance of making the playoffs, no matter what they do, and the "chosen ones" get extra chances. A lot of systems could work, but the current system of deciding what the requirements are to make the playoffs are determined AFTER the games are played is inherently corrupt.