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  1. Harbaugh?
  2. I think Wilkinson built that program by increasing the professionalism of the coaching, compared to peers, more than lawlessness. I have the game program from the ‘51 RRS. OU has ten assistant coaches. Texas had five. Now, Switzer cheated like an SOB. He had to- any time he tried inserting any coaching judgment, he fucked things up.
  3. Years ago, on the Barking Carnival, Scipio noted that the Sooners were ok recruiting a certain amount of thugs and punks, if they could play well. (They absolutely won’t tolerate that behavior from a meh player. Ask Justin Chaisson). A lot of Sooners commented in protest, that it wasn’t so, that Texas was no better. After Peterson, after Mixon, after Brooks, the Sooners can’t really protest the claim. All they can do is own it, and point to the wins. What do we want you to do? Just own it.
  4. My FIL took it as soon as he could, even though he kept working into his ‘70s. He’s passed (at 91) and his widow is getting by on widow benefits (about half). The 35 years of COLAs in no way kept up with the benefit adjustments to the formula for active workers and contributors. So- ground rule 1 is: don’t start SS while you are still working. My brother worked his whole life and died at 59, due mainly to a lifetime of bad choices (eating, drinking, smoking). He had no heirs and got zippo from SS. Ground rule 2: if your health is bad, start drawing it. I understand that there used to be tricks you could work with spousal SS timing (they get the greater of what they earned, or half of yours?), but I think they did away with those.
  5. Surely, ND knows beating the Ags really helps their playoff chances. The Irish don’t have a tough schedule, and if they finish 10-2 with a loss to an 8-4 TAMU, they won’t have much of an argument to make the CFP ahead of a 9-3 (certainly not a 10-2) SEC at large team. Conversely, 10-2 with a win over the Ags helps them in the comparison.
  6. Couldn’t find a better place to put this. Has a great graphic to show transfers. The transfer portal in college football hasn’t merely led to unprecedented player movement. It’s also created a de facto farm system for the biggest programs. https://www.wsj.com/sports/football/college-transfers-power-five-conferences-aee82375?st=b1eeu63ruqhl0c0&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
  7. I mean- the B1G and SEC are getting twice the media revenue, twice the ticket sales revenue (believe it or not, despite selling over twice the tickets as TCU, Texas also charges well over twice the amount), and getting the best media channels and times. And the B12 and ACC keep trucking along. We are already in the process of splitting off a super division.
  8. For #12, I’m going with Cale Gundy, the Fredo of the Gundy family. He was a RB coach in 1999 and he was a RB coach in 2021. He forgot who he was (or wasn’t) and got shitcanned.
  9. Absolutely. When Sankey and Kevin Warren are determining the shape college football will take, they’re absolutely going to make sure they get Brett Yormark’s and JJ Phillips’ approval. I mean- why wouldn’t they say 40 teams and 60k+ stadiums?
  10. I just want to say- aggie08 has been giving the best NBA takes, fair, even handed and insightful, for many years on this and the old board. I mean, I’m always right on my NBA takes, but sometimes I’m right because Aggie08 changed my mind. He is a hell of a poster.
  11. Damned autocorrect! Damned time limit on edits! thanks for the correction Much better pic than the one I found
  12. Although Caleb Williams is a great example of the type that gets out of Oklahoma when they can, I have another archetype- the Texan recruited to Oklahoma, mouths off about Texas, and discovers after spitting the bit against Texas that he is kind of stuck there. R.D. Kaspar was a kicker from Plano. He bragged about how OU would whip Texas, in the 1990 RRS, and is mainly remembered for missing the winning FG as time ran out (replayed about once per week for years on the LHN). He now lives in Edmond, Oklahoma.
  13. You will never make it as a 9.95er. Arnold will probably be good, but there is no telling how long it will take. If it’s four weeks, they’re golden. It will probably take more than four weeks.
  14. “Euros” is a euphemism for…?
  15. Was he doing that? It’s like the Sooners are incapable of seeing that we scheduled Michigan in non-conference. I know it’s too much for them to realize how easy their schedule was last year.
  16. There actually is a definition for anti-semitism, and it goes into a lot of detail. https://www.state.gov/defining-antisemitism/ It has some examples- holding Israel to a standard other nations aren’t held to, using the language of the Holocaust against Jews (such as “they’re acting like Nazis”), holding individual Jews accountable for the actions of Israel. Those are all anti-Semitic actions, per the definition. Maybe you disagree with the definition. If so, it would be helpful if you clarified, perhaps using financial lingo, “When I say this, you have to understand that I only mind ‘strong form anti-semitism’, not weak form”
  17. I wonder if Elko surveyed the scene, and thought, “If I get fired, that fucking Liucci and the other 9.95ers are going to be the ones beating the drum for it. Well, until that happens, they’re going to be my bitch; I’m not going to be theirs”
  18. My dad started the process of giving the time share back. He had to pay the back maintenance fees. Hopefully, we will be in the clear. I want to thank all for their advice, and suggest that if your aging parents have timeshares, you might want to start thinking about how they will be dispositioned
  19. Great callback. This used to be more of a noticeable thing, ten to 20 years ago. In Mack’s teams, once a player had been passed on the depth chart by a younger recruit, he was stuck there. Mack really wasn’t into coaching different paces of development. Gaskamp, and many of his successors, got their senior playing time due to: -necessity: usually an injury, or recruiting failure, and -with no transfer portal, lack of other candidates Now, we have a transfer portal, but we also have a staff that keeps coaching guys even after they have been passed up. Will be fun to follow.
  20. Beautiful. Frankly, in Ford Stadium, there is room for all who want to see this game. Occasionally, I skim the SMU ON3 board. It’s fun, because 29 years after their last game with Texas, they still go on about how Texas brought them down, how Texas wants to keep them down. In poll and preseason discussions, they throw out comments about how “Texas is overrated again”. It’s fun. They have finally made it back to a major-ish conference. It’s now legal to build a team the way they built their last good ones. I was a student at UT during the height of the Pony Express. Texas had terrific teams and the Longhorn players were BMOC, almost gods among us. SMU had terrific teams and their players were like the hired help on campus. It’s fun to read their board and realize they don’t care about attendance or ratings. They’re fine if they only have 30k fans at a big game. They’re fine if they only have 15k fans. Just let them know who they need to write the check to to purchase a football team they can brag about.
  21. Slightly counter view- the state of Georgia has seen the number of NFL players originating there double over the past 30 years. Population growth? HS program improvement? Other stuff? Point is- that state is producing a lot of talent, less than Texas and Florida, but more than most southern states. In state, the only other P4 program is GT. Georgia was underperforming for a long time. They may regress to a mean, but that mean will be higher than it used to be.
  22. This was KD in his first FIBA action, in 2010. He led this team, too. This was Curry’s only prior FIBA ball, and he was a role player. https://www.basketball-reference.com/international/teams/united-states/2010.html KD should have been on the 2008 squad.
  23. I’m hopping on the thread on page 11; sorry for not reading the prior ten pages. I saw where Gordon Hayward retired. I see that Paul is signed with SA and Westbrook is signed with Denver. Are they supposed to stick, or is this just roster manipulation for salary cap room-making?
  24. I guess I’m not surprised that the Utah coach thinks the bar for the super league will be set so that his school is in.
  25. No. I was going to say KD, at 52% (Curry was 47%), but you made me recheck, and I see Booker was at 56%.
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