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Penn State has two MNCs (1982 and 1986). Penn State has never had a season of note without Jerry Sandusky grinning in the team photo.
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Official Bitch about your Family Thread 2024: Holiday Edition
statsman replied to usmc0331horn's topic in Lulz
My understanding is that the original grave had Oswald’s full name and dates of birth and death, but was replaced by a simpler marker after defacing of the original -
Official Bitch about your Family Thread 2024: Holiday Edition
statsman replied to usmc0331horn's topic in Lulz
Day after Xmas, found myself having to entertain niece and her fiancé for an afternoon. I had heard that Lee Harvey Oswald was buried nearby. Googled, and sure enough, his grave was about ten minutes away. The kids were up for it, so we went. (I did not bring the flowers). A little surprised by the flags- I knew he was a vet, but would have thought his discharge (after defecting to Russia) would have been less than honorable. Maybe a relative brought them? After, we went out for hamburgers and beer. So, not really bitching, just sharing a little bit of crazy. -
I didn’t include Note 2, because Note 2 defines a defenseless player- who is and isn’t one- and I freely admit that theASU WR was defenseless while catching the ball. It was not forcible to the head, no matter how much you want it to be. The officials on the field did not believe it to be forcible to the head. The officials in the review booth did not believe it to be so. You want, for some reason, to believe that Texas was allowed to break a rule, unpunished, even after review. How in the hell do you think that works? Why?
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Yes, he was defenseless. That doesn’t mean he can’t be tackled or blocked. He can. He can’t be “targeted”, which has a definition. Their helmets contacted. It was not a forcible hit to his head. It was a forcible hit to his body, instead, which is legal. If any helmet contact was targeting, there would be a couple dozen per game.
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This might be tough for you, but I’m going to ask you to use your reading and reasoning skills and not just an “appeal to authority”. I will grant you that the receiver was a defenseless player. I will grant you that the fronts of both players’ helmets contacted. It was incidental contact, not “forcible contact”. None of the facets in the quoted note are applicable. That is why the officials didn’t call it on the field. That is why the review booth declined to call it.
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I live 3.7 miles from the stadium. I will be there. Even if I have to walk.
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I would love to know the inner details of how the B1G decided to invite them to join. USC and UCLA are obvious takes: Major football blue blood, Major basketball blue blood, and lock down southern California recruiting. Win-win, all the way around for the whole conference. Oregon? As you say, there aren’t enough players for one national contender in that region, and Phil Knight intends for Oregon to contend nationally. Which means, taking Oregon into the B1G gives them that sweet media revenue and exposure, while enabling them to recruit against B1G schools, and (not incidentally) not adding viewers at a greater amount than any other school that buys itself into relevance. Surely, some B1G ADs wanted to let them wither on the vine.
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Coming from you, I will choose to take that as a compliment
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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I feel stupid for not realizing this sooner. I knew the Ags suffered tragedy with every big Texas win. I failed to realize how much fun a four tier college football playoff could be, with them dying horrible emotional deaths every ten days. -
Sub-Educated Cretins: The SEC screenshot mega-thread
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I know they talked about factoring team quality from recent history. Texas got better and OU got worse. Life gets harder when you suck; nobody knows better than UT. Best approach is to get better, and not whine. OU seems to feel that the SEC should have given them an easier schedule, to help support the OU brand. Sorry, the SEC is not the Big XII. There was another factor not mentioned by the SEC- UT’s rivals. The RRS is one of the great annual games, and must be played. ESPN and the college football world expect Texas to play TAMU (even if UT and TAMU can take it or leave it). Third, even though Texas is fine ignoring Arkansas, an Arkansas - Texas game is Arkansas’ greatest desire. There is 3/8 of Texas’ schedule, locked in. -
The punt block was a great call. ASU’s narrow path to victory required running the ball, running clock, and opportunistic passes and QB scrambles. If Texas could have gotten an early three score lead, that plan goes out the window (or they run their gadgets early while the defense is fresh). The Texas defense is good at a lot of things. It is great at rushing the passer.
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Love it. Like many here, I took Strategy classes in MBA school. My big takeaway about Strategy? You ought to have one. Texas’ is straightforward- use the large SEC media money to make sure the football program is staffed as well and as fully as any program in the country. Leverage a large, successful alumni booster base and a location in a talent rich state (as flagship university) to have one of the nation’s most talented teams. OU, lacking some key attributes that Texas has, is fumbling for a strategy that might work. They keep trotting out variations of “get exceptional coaches that want to be in OK because of…tradition” or “hard nosed players that are just tougher and love the game”. You can tell how bad they are struggling by their boards’ repeated calls for salary caps. (The best is their cries “something has to be done e to fix this”, because, evidently, the world cannot tolerate a non-elite OU)
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
statsman replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
Agree with posts above- late in the game, defense gassed, no run game, momentum in ASU’s favor, there was one path to victory: Ewers balling out. And then, Ewers balled out. -
Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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The Texas A&M fanbase really seems upset about not having targeting called. -
Kevin Mar was canned by the PAC for incompetence, and reacted, not by getting better, but by leaning into the role of “provide the league office the result they want”. Post season games just give him the opportunity to display his incompetence
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Which officiating crew let that happen?
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This is a cut n paste of a concert experience I wrote in August 2011, on another board: So, my wife is a big fan of The Kings of Leon. We had seen them twice before, and I thought they were “OK”, but nothing too special. Honestly, I’ve always been annoyed by their lead singer (and main songwriter) Caleb Followill, who I refer to as the Least Engaging Front Man in Rock Music. His stage persona is that of a serious musician seeking an audience worthy of him, and never quite finding it. My wife says that’s his schtick. I think he’s just a jerk. Also, in the two prior shows we saw, the gigs lasted 50 – 55 minutes, with only one encore of two songs each. It’s like they’re union workers and not getting paid overtime. The concert Friday was in the Starplex bandshell in Fair Park. It was as hot as hell, still near 100 degrees as the band took the stage after 9:00. I was not too excited about going, but even less excited about sending my one, true love, the mother of my child, into Fair Park late at night on her own. Knowing I needed to be a responsible driver, I limited myself to just the one 24 oz. beer, leaving me with more clarity than I desired for the show. Two songs into the show, the lead singer (TLEFMIRM) announces (when you read this, sprinkle in a bunch of f-bombs to get the real flavor) that his throat is shot, and he needs the audience to sing along. That’s fine, I thought, the crowd was standing up and into it. Two songs later, he complained that the audience wasn’t singing loudly enough. “Asshole”, I thought. 30 minutes into the show, he changes up. He starts talking about how great the audience is, how we’re the best audience ever. I turned to my wife and said, “This doesn’t bode well” (yes, I do use words like “bode”). Sure enough, one song later, Followill announces he’s going backstage to throw up and drink a beer, following which he will return to sing three more songs (presumably the band’s two biggest hits, “Use Somebody” and “Sex on Fire”, would be included, as they have not yet been sung that night). He then left the stage, followed by his bandmates. The crowd waited patiently. After 20 minutes, half of the “Go Home” lights came on, and “Go Home” music came over the speakers. The audience sat. A few minutes later, two of the band members came out and apologized for the show ending, saying the lead singer couldn’t go on, alluding to the heat. Some fans were upset, but most seemed fairly placid about it. Walking to the car, my wife, knowing my feelings about them, said, “You’re enjoying this, aren’t you?” I smirked. Oddly, this was not our first unexpectedly curtailed concert there. 20 years ago, while dating, we saw a Morrissey concert at the same venue (Morrissey was the lead singer for the band “The Smiths”, known mainly for their hit “How Soon is Now?”). That show ended an hour in, when overenthusiastic fans stormed the stage, and swarmed Morrissey. Nobody could really fault him for ending that one early. The next day, word came out that the main reason for Followill leaving the stage was that he was too drunk to continue (the heat probably contributed). Supporting an exhaustion fiction, the Houston show scheduled for Saturday was postponed. Yesterday, word was released that there would be a makeup show in Dallas, and we could re-use our tickets. My wife is excited, because she is convinced they will really try to a great show this time (I’m expecting them to do their greatest “Don’t give a crap” performance ever, myself). I would just as soon stay home, but…love of my life, mother of my child, late night, etc.
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Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
statsman replied to Machinator's topic in Football
I was pondering that the other day- with no portal, what would Texas have done for a QB if VY hadn’t been signed (with skills and talents that forced change on the offensive scheme)? We had Chance Mock and Matt Nordgren. Would we have signed McNeal or McGee instead of the Ags? Someone else? I can’t see that team, built for a NC at every other position, doing better than 10-1 (sure as shit weren’t beating the Buckeyes) in the RS and 11-2 overall (if they made the BCS NCG, which would be iffy). In other words- a typical peak Mack Brown team. Well, we did sign VY, the 2004 attempt to move him to WR didn’t work, and we did get the NC. To hell with hypotheticals. -
On the above podcast, they describe Curtis Lofton’s job as OU GM- a player wants more money, so they go to him for help. Lofton then sits down and reviews the player’s aid, and the player’s expenses, and gives him advice on better budgeting.
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/oklahoma-sooners-unofficial-40/id1114209557?i=1000682173444 This is great. The podcasters are openly wishing Venables would resign, naming assistants they want gone…openly comparing Venables to Charlie Strong… It’s hilarious, because at this point in the season cycle, all the negativity does is turn up the heat on Venables, and make it harder to recruit and hire.
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I will say, since the theme of the post is that Sooners shouldn’t contribute to their collective until big program changes are made, and they missed the chance to make such changes for another ten months, I support the message. (Also, it sure isn’t a shock to hear about Switzer involved in a grift)
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https://www.on3.com/boards/threads/1chokelahoma-collective.1696940/ I don’t know enough to comment, but this is from a Sooner post:
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Brent Venables is actually executing the Bob Stoops Program Plan, and not doing horrible at it, but the framework of college football has changed. OU always recruited players with potential and then put them in a crucible to turn them into elite players. That worked when there were high barriers to player movement. Now, there aren’t barriers to movement, plus there are now large overt enticements to change teams. The Stoops Method doesn’t work. As Dan Lanning said, your most important recruits each year are your current roster. It’s too late for Venables to adjust. The OU AD screwed up in giving him a real extension last year (instead of the fake extension where the term is lengthened but the buyout doesn’t go up), after sufficient evidence was already in that Venables couldn’t retain his roster.
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Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
statsman replied to Machinator's topic in Football
I don’t know that Royal would hate the game now. Royal was all about his players taking advantage of their opportunities to succeed in later life, therefore his emphasis on academic support and disdain for players selling themselves to shitty schools for short term payouts. He might like this era where a player can start to leverage his abilities into a real start in life, to go with an education.
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