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  1. No do not find OSU to be relevant right now. I say exactly what I think. I always have. OSU football is now on one of the bottom rungs. Again I find that people do not like what they are emotionally invested in to hear someone say something they do not like. I have just never cared about things like this. We’re good right now and five years from now we might not have Dillingham and we might get to go back to being everyone’s homecoming opponent like you are at the moment. You have a deeper emotional and likely monetary investment than I do on this stuff. You look at the current landscape and see it differently than me and that’s okay.
  2. Okie State is now just a team on the schedule. Just how it goes. You had your turn at being good. It doesn’t last forever. ASU will be well-positioned for a good while, but not forever. I have found people do not like when you say things as straightforward as that about something they are emotionally invested in, but it is what it is.
  3. I loved watching him. I wish he had a better line in front of him. I know this era is dominated by QB’s and WR’s, but a good back doing their thing is still cool to witness no matter who they suit up for.
  4. Playing six of the top nine in a conference where basketball is the thing does not really matter. They had two games against an elite team. They put up 14 points combined in two games. They are not good at football. They’re a school that will surprise you sometimes, but not all the time. The conference is just not good overall at football and that’s something ASU can take advantage of. Maybe not to Tech’s extent, but being below 3rd would be a disappointing season. I’d put that label on this season, but I’ll qualify that getting 8 wins from a team with no one playing QB for half the year made 8 or possibly 9 wins fine this year.
  5. Past performance is no longer indicative of what should be expected. If past performance or reputation played a role in whether you SHOULD be good or not the we should be down there with Coach Prime in the gutter. Pre-NIL is what it is. ASU was a non-factor. ASU has benefitted most from Dillingham being an alum, but, and this is important, there is no UT or OU standing there to beat you up. It’s now just Tech. I hope they spend a ton of money and one day win the whole thing. I think in an era where money is out in the open that ASU should never be below 2nd or 3rd. If we were in the SEC we’re toast, but we’re not. This is a conference we can and should be good in football-wise. It’d be nice if basketball could be good, but not so much with Hurley and also because this is a basketball-driven league and there are schools who put their money on that sport instead which is fine. I’m all for handing as much money to the players as possible at every school.
  6. I wouldn’t want that mess, but I’m not a football coach. I enjoy having a normal life. You take that job then you better be ready to deal with craziness every single day.
  7. I’d also posit that if he stays long-term that the road to a playoff berth is significantly easier in the BIG XII. Tech will be good every year and we’re good for one school having a weak schedule and winning more than they should(BYU this year and aggy in the SEC are examples of this). ASU should never be below 2nd or 3rd so long as there is competent play at QB. This is like being in the WCC in basketball all those years where it was just Gonzaga or St. Mary’s winning the conference. The rest of the schools were just kinda there for the most part. The Big XII, in football at least, is close to that. It’d be great if Cougar High or TCU could consistently get it together. It’s still a basketball conference first and that’s okay. I guess for now I’m good with it being Tech, ASU and some jags on the football side of things until other schools take the sport seriously.
  8. This part is something I am not certain really matters anymore and I’m not really saying this in regards to Dillingham. There is a sea change with NIL and more schools can compete right now if they spend money or at least spend it wisely. Do I think he has gotten what his agent asked the administration for? Sure. He probably got more than he asked for when it comes to assistant pay and facilities being modernized. It’s all a process though and were I him right now I’d just be surveying the landscape and taking bits and pieces from how similar schools with very little in the way of football success are conducting themselves. I’d guess he’s already doing that. Rome wasn’t built in a day, but yes being in Phoenix is a big help. The school having a reputation of being fun as far as the student experience helps. I’m content to just watch him do his thing. He keeps winning? Awesome. He doesn’t? That’s okay too. At least he’ll have tried if he stays long-term and makes ASU into a playoff team annually, especially as the bracket gets bigger and easier to make. And that players name? You guessed it. Frank Stallone
  9. My best retort to folks thinking a mid-term election matters in a fascist form of government would be to go and look at history and use it as a guide. A single election isn’t ending this. You have e to fight and claw your way through fascism until the eventual collapsing upon itself happens. That’s when you need to be prepared to step in and retake the government and start anew with a democracy. There is no magic cure here. You just resist and do your small part to reverse things. Once enough folks are doing that actively, meaning not just in opposing it mentally, then you can reclaim sanity and get out of this. Until then you just get up each day and do your best.
  10. I think the last number I read was a little under 6 million. It seems he’s good with that along with better assistant pay and facilities upgrades. I guess that’s alright and his family live in his neighborhood. If that is what brings him happiness good on Dillingham. I obviously would like him to stick around and make ASU into a top 15 team each year. That seems doable if there is money to be spent on, oh I don’t know, GOOD OFFENSIVE LINEMEN. Not sure how Raleek Brown did as well as he did this past season with that line in front of him.
  11. Just pay the man. He cares about the school and spending on the football program could get the school closer to being financially solvent with the athletic program. Breaking even overall would be an accomplishment and keeping Dillingham should be the top priority for the administration on the athletic side of things.
  12. The best part of getting older is you’re still here experiencing life. I have a friend who is a comedian that made a joke about that once during a show that was basically “I’m 20 years older than you, but if I died today I got to experience so much more life than you.” It was a lot more to it than that, but basically getting older is cool. It sucks that Rob and his wife had their lives cut short, but what a 78 years he had on this planet. He impacted millions of people in a good way and he left behind a fantastic legacy of who he was as a person, not to even mention what he accomplished in his professional life.
  13. Well yeah I learned that from The Waterboy!
  14. The conference this year was Tech and 15 randos. No one else in the conference did anything that mattered, including ASU. The runner-up in the conference had two shots at Tech this year. They totaled 14 points in 8 quarters. They had a grand total of 455 yards IN EIGHT QUARTERS of play. I will never not find this funny when it comes to BYU supposedly being good at football now. They are not and will not be. However, Tech can’t help any of that. Their money guys threw obscene amounts of it at the team and it worked out. Money won’t win it every year, especially when the head coach is a middling buffoon that would have been fired and looking for a job right now if not for getting that cash infusion. McGuire is who he is and he’ll hold Tech back until Tech realizes it needs an elite head coach to go along with the players. Tech’s defense should be good enough to keep them in the game no matter who they play in the playoffs. Offensively I am not convinced because they don’t really have an extra gear there. Defensively though I like them and @Iceman deserves something good from the football program after having to watch those clowns toss Leach out in favor of the James Family. I’ll also pull for Tech because one of my best friends had a daughter who played soccer for Tech and was really good before she graduated and went overseas to play professionally. I also always enjoyed the teams coached by the Pirate so Guns Up! Wreck ‘em Tech! Bring some tortillas to toss in the playoffs.
  15. It was a beautiful movie start to finish. I loved it. The friendship he forges with the retired actor was pretty emotional to watch. Japanese culture is different, but in a good way and this is part of what makes it good.
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