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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. No. SL Express is the furthest thing from Tahoe
  2. How the fuck did Rice pass it under the basket when he literally had Bishop right in front of him on the baseline?
  3. What happened with the tribal conflict that existed between white Americans and the Irish, Italians, Eastern Euros, et al? At some point a collective decision was made to grant entrance to all those ethnic white groups into greater white America. For some reason there's been a refusal to do the same for black Americans. Part of it is because of our fictitious adherence to racial categories and visible skin differences. Most black Americans have anywhere from 15% to 60% European ancestry. This tribe you keep referring to is wholly created through the American project. For the most part, as human beings we're dumb in how we ascribe skin color as a function of the majority of genetic differences. Black American have more genetic similarities to white Americans than they do with an African from Zimbabwe, despite the similarities in skin color. The "otherizing" of black Americans in this country in everything from what we learn as school children and the manner in which we learn, to the segregation and exclusion from various aspects of American life goes a long way towards creating what you see as tribal differences. It's a tribe only in the socially constructed American sense of the word, not due to any 1000 year differences that we couldn't possibly overcome.
  4. I'm of two minds with @SL Xpress 's comments above. On one hand, I recognize the dichotomy between say, the MLK approach and the Malcolm X approach, and the apparent effectiveness of the "kids gloves approach" of the former compared to the latter. But then on the other hand I wonder if anything less than a full throated catharsis in approaching these issues will ever resolve the matter fully. For most of my life I've sided with some of the reasoning SLX appeals to above, but to what end? How effective is it really other than just cloaking the ugliness beneath? I don't know, maybe reaching my mid 40s and the past 15 years of American political life has just made me more reluctant to continue soft shooing these issues, but I'm tired of pretending that everything is cool with how things are. And I disagree with the notion that our genetic makeup resulted in the racial dichotomy that we have here today. Any surface level reading of history, be it the era of reconstruction, or even the remedial study of poverty stricken, multiracial neighborhoods of 1960s Chicago will show that there were numerous instances throughout American history where people were able to overcome their "genetic predisposition" for racial conflict and work together for the greater good. The powerful used race as a wedge issue back then just as readily as they use it today. Had they used some other issue to wedge up disagreement among the masses we'd be divided using different categories today rather than race.
  5. The quote without the video alongside it removes the context and obvious levity of the comment.
  6. Just watched some highlights. Haven't seen final scores like that since the late 80s Doug Moe Nuggets.
  7. Yeah the students being down on the lower level opposite the TV cameras was a foregone conclusion before Beard ever arrived. Beard's contribution was marketing the absolute fuck out of it and ingratiating himself with the student body to the extent that it became a thing that students actually want to do and show up for.
  8. He's from Houston and didn't play basketball until his sophomores year. Starting bball your Sophomore year is a little late in the game to be a high major recruit. Plus I doubt he played for an AAU program that led to a lot of eyes on him.
  9. Probably the same thing that makes Josh McDaniels a hot commodity every year he's ever becen an assistant. I mean he took a promising Broncos job and quickly traded away their 2 best players to draft Tim Tebow. Then he backed up that genius decision making to take a Raiders team coming off of a playoff year and promptly started them off 2-7 after trading for one of the best two or three WRs in the game.
  10. Again none of Andy Reid's other OCs have ever had playcalling duties yet the issue literally never came up when they were interviewing for jobs. This shit really isn't that hard guys.
  11. Staples is ok but the next time he goes 30 seconds without force feeding an SEC anecdote will be a first for him.
  12. For some reason we dropped what looked like a certain commit from him and started chasing after Cason Wallace late in the process when we literally had no chance of getting him. If we were going to prioritize anyone late in the process other than George it should've been Anthony Black. I'm not quite sure why we seemingly never went after him aggressively. Before he blew up in basketball and looked to be 4 star WR he was a Texas lean.
  13. Just because you still love Buzz Williams despite his incredible level of suck doesn't mean the rest of us do.
  14. To me the game that epitomizes Shaka's tenure at UT more than any is the P80 tournament vs Duke. Everything from being up on Duke by damn near 20 with 10 minutes to go to not only squandering the lead away, but ending the game in OT with Eric Davis attempting to guard Marvin Bagley while future all conference performers James Banks and Royce Hamm looked on from the bench.
  15. Matt Nagy, Doug Pederson, Brad Childress, and Marty Morhinweg were all OCs under Andy Reid and none had play calling duties yet they all became HCs with nary a mention of their lack of play calling duties under Reid.
  16. I'm pretty sure Tucker missed the spring of his sophomore season (spring 2005). He played all of fall 2004. It was the same spring that LaMarcus Aldridge missed due to his hip issue. Aldridge's hips are the reason he came back for his sophomore season and ultimately what allowed us to go to the elite during the 2005-2006 season.
  17. That was a chickenshit shot attempt right there. He might as well have shit in his pants on that shot.
  18. When was the last time this country was in such a dark place culturally? Not sure if serious. When have we not? Ever hear of the lynching of Willie James Howard. He was a 15 year old kid who was lynched in the 40s for making the unforgivable mistake of giving Christmas cards to all his co-workers. One of whom happened to be a white girl. She told her father about it who happened to be a state senator. He rounded up the boys picked up Willie and his father by gun point. They tied up Willie by his hands and feet took him to the foot of the Suwanee River and had his father watch as they gave him the choice of dying by a bullet to the head or jumping in the river. His father watched on helplessly as his son jumped into the river and drowned. When was the last time this country was in such a dark place culturally you ask.
  19. Courtney Ramey is really blossoming playing alongside a crew of high IQ players. He's already hit three 3s and made 2 outstanding assists in the first 8 minutes of the game.
  20. I'm not sharing this to big up the Schottenheimer hire. I'm sharing it to highlight how uninventful the Garrett/Linehan/Moore lineage was. Color me shocked there were 3 teams that ran more curls/ hitches than us.
  21. He was given the title of Associate head coach. He's the interim coach for a reason.
  22. Judging by how OU performed against Bama perhaps it would be smart to hold on to Moser until they begin SEC play.
  23. Completely uninspiring hire.
  24. Allen cant shoot beyond `18 feet and Carr can't get by anyone, however each of them knows where their spot is on their floor and works to get shots from their designated areas (more so true of Allen, Carr still veers towards hero ball too much for my liking but he's admittedly hit those tough shots more frequently this year). Make no mistake, they're good college basketball players, but when people say a team is talented and laud players for their talent you expect one or two exceptional traits that make it easy for them. No player on this team makes it look easy. They have to work really hard or have things set up for them to get to their spots.
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