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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
956 Worldwide replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
There’s no such thing as “it.” Oregon can win an NC and would have already in 2010 if not for perhaps the second best player to step on a CFB field in the past 25 years. They are recruiting and portaling at a NC caliber level and if they keep doing that they will have a good chance to win it all. Doesn’t mean they will, but there’s no magic “it” stopping them. -
Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
956 Worldwide replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
Always has been. I struggle to think of schools who upgrade after booting coaches that regularly turn in 8-10 win seasons. I’ve posted elsewhere that it’s easier to turn 10-2 into six wins than 12 wins. I think Nebraska tossing Solích kicked this off. But you’re locked in this spiral even more now with NIL because you are beholden to irrational fans to fund the roster. You can’t wait them out a couple years if they get pissed. And look— unlike pro sports, the NIL donors are not making any money. They are literally paying to win now. There’s not a case to tell them to wait. To me it has all the markings of a bubble that’s gonna burst bigly if the market cools for an extended period. No one except the coaches and players are really making money here. Most ADs are on a razor edge. -
Wonder if they’ll do a Michigan-Harbaugh play and tell him to reduce the buyout or walk.
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Coaches poll is out. As with last week— I think GT’s and BYU’s records are a bit over indexed. But, I’m not bothered by keeping them there till they lose. I’m ok with A&M in the top 5 although I was skeptical last week. The beatdown in Baton Rouge is how a top 5 team should play. Ok with Bama not getting punished— this stretch they survived is the hardest five games anyone will play this year. ND is a better team than GT, BYU, and probably Vandy. But, the losses are what they are. They have a chance to jump GT, the ACC should not get two teams, but a playoff berth still in question. It is likely good for Ole Miss that they will likely not make the CCG without weirdness, as that lack of a loss could put them in the field of 12. Tennessee can play with anyone but their stumbles leave them out of the CFP barring some weirdness. With their top two QBs out Mizzou is most primed for a late season slump, and OU might fall out as well. Texas has a roster to win 2/3 vs Vandy, UGA, A&M— but I’m not sure they will. Navy and UH? Ok, sure. I don’t have better options.
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This one is also freaking hilarious from Barzgate.
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
956 Worldwide replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
Someone needs to explain to me better why Freeman is considered a real candidate for any of these jobs. He’s getting paid 9 million a year. He is sitting on a top 5 recruiting class. He has coached ND to the championship game and has a very good shot at the playoff this year. He is coaching a team that’s on national TV all the time and is college football royalty. Their alum base and boosters are, frankly, a higher class of people and easier to deal with than most other schools. Brian Kelly went off to the bad, bad SEC and a school with all the “advantages” and is running off the road. Maybe—maybe— OSU, Texas are objectively “better” places to win big. They’re also more likely to get impatient with you faster. I cannot at all see what State College or Gainesville offers. -
I’m not going to overreact to Alabama’s close-run game against USC. They just came out unscathed against the most grueling stretch of games anyone in the nation will play. They need a bye week. That said, DeBoer has a weird knack for seemingly getting his team to play exactly at the level of their opponent whether said opponent is really good or just mediocre. I am convinced the SEC could easily deserve four, maybe five CFP berths, although the two top Big Ten teams look like the two elite nationwide. Beyond that though— I have a hard time seeing anyone beyond maybe Miami, Oregon and ND really playing with the big group of Bama, UGA, A&M, Ole Miss, Vandy, and even Tennessee. The conference may not have the top team, but it’s clearly the deepest and better by far than the ACC and Big XII.
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LSU does not look like LSU anymore. Let’s be real, since Saban left they haven’t been what anyone could call a “well coached team.” They just had stupidly athletic aggressive playmakers and beat you up, an actual link of boudin could have been wearing the headset and under Ogre— basically was. Combine that with the nightmare of Tiger Stadium, where the BAC is higher than the average GPA and it was hopeless unless a Bama or UGA team with similar athletes but real coaching came to play. The stadium was even out of it. You saw flashes in the 2nd quarter, but it was obvious that LSU was not as good athletically or schematically and the only hope was for A&M to beat itself. Maybe booting SC coach Moffitt WAS that big of a mistake.
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Based on roster, results, past history under Freeman I think ND is a top ten team or close. I think they’d smoke GT (a very good team but if you want to talk about REALLY playing no one…) and would easily beat BYU. We already know they are competitive with A&M and Miami. They’re competitive if not better than Vandy. They’d be competitive with Ole Miss. Behind them? Tennessee is a team that can play with anyone. Other than that, who? OU, Tech? A top ten has to to have ten teams in it. ND lost to two very good teams early in the top ten and beyond that has played every bit like a top ten team outclassing opponents.
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Eh, you can basically pencil in Alabama and Georgia as top tier every season so ducking them is huge. More seasons than not, LSU at home and Florida is going to be a tougher draw than Ole Miss and OU (most thought it would be this year). And we still have UT at DKR which is going to be a brutal game to play. We ended up getting a favorable draw this year, absolutely. There was far from a guarantee that it would actually work out that way.
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The dude is doing a bit. He has another one where he claims thet A&M regularly only gets 40k to the stadium and that we are less valuable than Arky or UK when it comes to football tv ratings (A&M was a top ten most most watched team in 2024). https://medium.com/run-it-back-with-zach/which-college-football-programs-were-most-watched-in-2024-6596e696ebaf
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I can’t see LSU ditching Kelly unless some sort of social contagion takes over. This is gonna be a sellers market for NCAA HCs, you dont fire a coach at this point unless you have to.
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Well, they gave up a touchdown on the opening 2nd half drive, 3-out and a punt return TD, then had another short drive and gave up a TD. Not a big surprise they didn’t lean on the run.
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He’s playing hurt. You can tell he’s in quite a bit of pain and limited rotation ability. He’s also behind a line that’s not really good and is missing starters. The Heisman hype for him was never real, but he’s not this bad of a QB.
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Trumps War on drugs, Venezuela and Colombia
956 Worldwide replied to Wally Fairway's topic in Cloak Room
They’ve built semi-submersibles that will do transatlantic and even South America to Solomon Islands. -
Trumps War on drugs, Venezuela and Colombia
956 Worldwide replied to Wally Fairway's topic in Cloak Room
Also can be dropped at sea with a beacon and then picked up by a commercial vessel or yacht. Which then might try to go into port or try to get into territorial waters and the then drop again so small vessels that won’t go through customs can do a quick run to pick up. It’s a dynamic, it’s cheaper logistically to do one large shipment but less chance of interdiction to diversify routes. Don’t get the situation wrong, these strikes are illegal and morally wrong but the boats (and for sure the semi-submersible that had survivors) are carrying drugs. -
Kind of proving my point with Giuliani. He didn’t spring fully formed into City Hall; his election was a reaction. Colvin’s paper bag is the exact opposite of “zero tolerance.” Low level things like peddling counterfeit shit, prostitution, small-time drug dealing, etc are tolerable when kept discreet and it’s not in people’s faces. You’ve got to leave a direction where people can turn their heads and look the other way. When they don’t have that, you get a Giuliani or worse.
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It’s honestly a political masterclass. At any time in the past decades there could have been a quiet move to disrupt them while they were setting up and then proceed to removal. And a quick press release: “Federal law enforcement disrupted a counterfeit goods market and detained X individuals. In the process, X number of unauthorized immigrants with unrelated warrants and criminal convictions were detained and are in removal proceedings.” No one would have given a shit. Easy, done. On the whole, better for everyone. These raids are performative. Trump’s getting people to play their role: the progressive who says that having illegal markets staffed by people with criminal convictions is fine. Better, actually, than not having them there. That’s the choice Trump and MAGA want people to make. Even Bernie recently made this point.
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The Canal Street stuff is such a microcosm for where we are and how we got here. The DHS thread and these raids are performative cruelty and degrading. However: it is undeniable that there was a bustling illegal counterfeit market run by unauthorized immigrants that just existed in the open in the middle of town. It’s absolutely implausible to argue that its existence benefited anyone save counterfeit bag manufacturers and unauthorized immigrants and aside from the public annoyance likely incurred other costs as well beyond just the occupation of a common public space for illegal activities. I’m reminded here of Bunny Colvin in The Wire giving his brown paper bag speech. About how critical the nod to the social contract. And what I can say is that jn a lot of areas— immigration enforcement, urban disorder, petty crime, etc.— we went through a stretch where no one was using a paper bag and nodding at the social contract. If you’re on the left it’s time to acknowledge that most people are in favor of securing borders, most people don’t want to see open illegal activity on city streets, most people are aggravated by petty criminality and shit like fare jumping, most people just want to adhere to the social contract. It’s super politically dangerous when the authorities or institutions claim that these things can’t be managed (because they plainly can do so) and even more politically dangerous to imply that trying to manage them is inhumane. Because then you surrender the issue to people who are willing to solve the problems by being inhumane. And you’re gonna lose that one: force people to either vote like a good person or vote for street cleanup and border enforcement. This is how these problems metastasize— it’s trying to push a rock uphill against human nature and it all kind of exploded in with the added stress of COVID.
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Based on the last week, Jigsaw has earned her own thread
956 Worldwide replied to C-Man's topic in Cloak Room
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I think that it’s pretty important as a culture to offer some sort of framework for people who held bad and even abhorrent views to change their minds and rejoin what used to be called “polite society.” At the same time, I think there’s a push and pull and you have to work within the framework and engage honestly. I kind of reject the idea that asking hard questions about his SS tattoo is some sort of betrayal. He’s running for office and first you have to win a primary. His opponents are supposed to ask about things like Nazi tattoos and they are supposed to criticize him. I’m getting flashback to the Bernie bros who had this weirdly righteous anger at the D candidates who had the audacity to run against him and get more votes. “I can maybe overlook the giant Nazi tattoo but it’s hard for me to get past that he’s a GWOT vet” is a wild and frankly jarring take. A stark reminder that there remains a yawning gulf between the leftist flank and the normal people you need to win elections.
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At first I thought this was another boring grumpy animal in a sailor hat. But in a snow hat—- you son of a bitch! I’m back in!
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My best guess is there’s a shortfall in some multiyear account that they are raiding and crafted this as a fig lead for congressional GOP and to make him look beneficent to the enlisted ranks.
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https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-says-private-donor-gave-215523828.html
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