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  1. 2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Yes, we've had talent.  Lots of it.  We had the 3rd most players drafted in 2024, and 2nd in 2025.  Tops overall for those two years.  The point is, we're not the only team with elite talent.  Two of them knocked us out of the playoffs.  (We should also note that Brooks missed the final 4 games of his career.)

    I don't really understand why so many of you struggle with shades of grey.  It's quite astonishing. 

    Texas is in a different category of talent. 

  2. Just now, Dbeasy said:

    What amazes me is that a completely mentally incapacitated Joe Biden as President with a Democratic controlled Congress right now would be infinitely better for this country than what we have. It’s an amazing indictment on the bribery, incompetence, and lying that wafts thru the White House currently. 

    But it would still be broken and there would be a lot fucked up. Mainly because the Democrats who are actually in congress are all shithead empty suits, they just don't happen to suck super bad. Save for a few. 

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  3. 53 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

    Dude-

    Most people are thankful for Quinn because we remember what we had for the last decade or so(besides Sam). No one thinks Quinn did anything by himself, but we just ran the SEC with two 190lb, 3rd down backs, Juan Davis playing significant minutes, and one good wide receiver(Bond was hurt all year).Our roster isn't the monster you think it is. If you don't think so look at our roster vs Ohio State's. We ran back the same level of success after losing Worthy, Mitchell, Sanders, Brooks, Jones, Baxter, Whitt, Sweat, Murphy, Ford, and Williams.....AND transitioning to the SEC. Stability at quarterback has something to do with that.

    Nah dude. This ain't it. Fucking drafted 12. That's more than 50% of the starters. 

    Juan would have started nearly everywhere fucking else too, the fuck is this sideswipe about? 

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  4. 42 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    Right. I think the argument made was that by concealing it screwed actual D's with a chance (and Kamala specifically) and gave us the felon.

    From the article:

    I think we all agree that the first 100+ days has been an unmitigated series of disasters and that Biden's barely awake corpse would have done better, but it's more about how the actions-- and the stench of a coverup/hoodwinking-- was a massive political error.

    I think a lot of us knew there was more to the story and what met the eyes and it's interesting that now post-mortem analysis and reporting is coming out and the tea is gonna be spilled on some of this, potentially.

    I said this before the election and immediately following. All of the potential good that Joe Biden did is completely nullified by Donald Trump being reelected (both literally and figuratively) and the fact is that his refusal to serve as a one term president from the outset will perhaps make him the worst president in history, not because of policy, but because he basically gifted the white house to a tyrannical king dictator piece of shit instead of saving America from the brink of collapse and turning a new leaf and defeating the comoletely fucking stupid MAGA movement that has now become the ruling power. 

    It doesn't matter how beautiful your home and its furnishings are if you light it on fire and cancel your insurance right before. 

    Incredulity is a fucking idiot. 

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  5. 3 hours ago, Red Five said:


    I’m telling you, we don’t do mediocre well at QB. Take Jake Majors, or Jerrin Thompson, or Gbenda. Adequate college players. Drafted late or not at all. Could make an NFL roster, or maybe not. We don’t fight about them.

    But Ewers is a QB, and we put those into two categories: Legends, and absolute fucking garbage who we will piss on for eternity. The legends are easy (VY, Colt) as are the others (Gilbert, Swoopes).

    The ones in the middle are where the fights happen. Chris Simms, Sam Ehlinger, Quinn Ewers.

    I won't stand for the Sam Ehlinger blasphemy. Sam was universally loved except for some brain broken idiots who just hate him for no reason. He was an OU CCG game away from making the CFP in 2018 and there's a real chance they win the whole thing if they go. They absolutely fucking murdered Georgia. 

    50 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

    I agree with you but cannot abide this Sam Ehlinger erasure. 

    Although Sam's tenure more or less proves your point. As soon as we even got a decent QB like Sam, we started winning games again. Despite having a mental midget for a coach. 

    Sam actually played for a dogshit team with a dogshit coach and still came out with the "decent" reviews because he way overperformed and is still on a roster now (Denver). He doesn't suck and has outlasted a lot of other people who were drafted and are just not on rosters. 

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  6. 17 minutes ago, linux said:

    All of the woke issues were distractions, they are red meat to the rabid MAGA base but in terms of national elections they were running out the clock, these are losing issues in the long run, don't get me wrong the "Wokies" need to shut up because they are radioactive, their opinions burn your brain with how repellent they are and at the same time how weak they are (the closest example I can think of is insulting the majority X while begging, whining, and pleading for somebody else to do "something", histeria cubed)

    The "weird" strategy is stupid as well

     

    Woke issues are largely irrelevant to the vast majority of Americans. It's also a small part of policy from Dems. The Republican media machine is especially good at making things a much much much bigger deal than they are in reality even if they are negative. The Democrats largely make arguments based on merit and get distracted by  trying to address things that are largely irrelevant to governing etc. 

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  7. Just now, Brisketexan said:

    I know this is funny, and ironic, and all that stuff....but it's also spot-on.  Because in the end, that's all any laws, rules, etc. are.  Because at their foundation, they rely on one thing: good-faith.

    The strength of the Rules of Professional Conduct is not really the enforcement mechanisms behind them.  The strength of the Rules is 1) the expectation that most all lawyers will follow them, and 2) the good-faith belief in those rules and the effort attorneys make to actually follow them.  As a result, 99% or some similar percentage of lawyers act within those rules.  And we don't do so because we fear losing our license (I mean, we don't want to lose our license, for sure).  We follow the Rules because they are good, and when we all follow them, they make our profession, the justice system, and our society better.

    Our laws are no different.  I expect that most of y'all generally follow the law (let's leave out traffic laws and laws against smoking dope with your mistress and such).  Is the reason that you don't murder or steal because you are afraid of the enforcement mechanism of prison, or is it because you have a moral compass of some sort?  That is, you don't steal because you believe that stealing is wrong, or you at least believe that we have a better society when we all operate under a common code that stealing is wrong.

    That's good faith.  That's a reflection of the fact that ALL rules are, at their foundation, simply a "gentlemen's agreement."  Their strength is not in their enforcement mechanism (yes, having such a mechanism emphasizes that the rules are a real thing).  Because once it gets to enforcement, the rule has failed.  And importantly, if enough people (and the critical mass isn't a majority...it's much, much smaller....think 3%) decide that the rules aren't for them, and they are just going to disregard them, then the whole fucking system breaks down.  A society can't have an enforcement mechanism sufficient to handle more than 1-2% of people opting out of the law or rules.  

    This is back to what I've been warning about on this board, in my life, at Bar presentations, etc. for a decade now: the Rule of Law is just an agreement.  And if enough people opt out of that agreement, then it is dissolved.  Enforcement won't and can't fix it.  The fix is....don't opt out of the Rule of Law.

    That goes for society.  It goes for the legal profession.  It goes for everyone and everything.  So, Bozo can lament that lawyers don't do enough to enforce against bad lawyers.  In doing so, he sounds like a good "tough on crime" Republican, saying that we just need more prisons.  No.  The only thing that will really have any effect is....we need fewer bad lawyers.  We need fewer people who are good with committing crimes.  Sure, enforcement is a thing, it should exist, it should be used, and it can surely be reformed, made more robust, etc. in any number of contexts.  But the reason that we're seeing members of the legal profession behaving badly and against the Republic is because . . . a critical mass of society has chosen to do and support the same.

    We had a gentlemen's agreement to operate under objective rules.  A particular segment of society, our political class, our legal profession, etc., have chosen to opt out of that agreement.  They have simply decided that they are no longer going to follow it.  Once that happens....it's over.  No amount of rule-based enforcement will make a shit.  Because opting out of the Rule of Law is necessarily opting into Rule of the Boot and Gun.  Once that's done, then the only curative mechanism is opposing Boots and Guns.  It's a stupid, self-destructive path to follow.  But, it's the path that a critical mass has chosen, so that path is our destiny.  You can try to pretend the old order still exists, matters, and can solve things.  But you're just pretending.  

    Good-faith has no enforcement mechanism and is abused by those with weak character or bad intent. 

    The main issue plaguing us right now is avarice. I forget who, but someone put an excerpt from one of the founding fathers calling out the dangers of it. I honestly didn't know what it meant and looked it up and it clicked. 

    Definition of avarice: "The desire for wealth and possessions, sometimes to the point of hoarding or being miserly. It often involves a strong desire to accumulate and keep what one has, rather than sharing or using it." 

    Just my opinion this is why you see a breakdown in the fabric of society. Everyone is better off than they have ever been and somehow there is an insatiable need for more. 

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  8. 8 minutes ago, Derka said:

    we had 17 guys drafted in 1984, so i’m not sure why they’re claiming that 12 is a program record.

    Probably because there was 12 rounds. 

  9. 3 minutes ago, royiv said:

    You’re right, posting on Surly is an effective form of resistance. What starts here changes the world and all that. 

    This is what is frustrating for me as both a moderator and the owner. This place doesn't do shit except let a discussion happen. I would be fine if people used this place to organize legal activities to protest or otherwise resist, but just typing insane shit and wishing death etc is not only lame, but problematic 

  10. The shittiest part of the noon kickoff is tailgating is fucked. No one wants to go at 9-10AM to tailgate for an hour then walk into the stadium early. 

    We had a pretty good turnout for Michigan, but it would have been far better if it was a later game. 

    I still haven't decided what we are doing in Columbus yet... 

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  11. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/dnc-panel-recommends-redo-vote-david-hogg-malcolm-kenyatta-rcna206337

    This is some Bernie Sanders ass shit. 

    I swear these fuckers cannot get out of their own way, because they care more about their roles than they do actually governing or winning elections. 

    The Republican Party was having a civil war and a complete bloodbath and the dems are the ones who shot themselves in the head. It's insane. 

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