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Georgetown Georgetown Georgetown then Georgetown. Allegedly.
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Well, he is a serious candidate. It’s part of why he’s not a serious candidate for me. From a basketball perspective I enjoyed last year’s team way more, because I could see a vision for what Beard wanted from his team on both ends of the floor, even if it didn’t always look pretty. All I see from Terry is go out and play hard. Not the same attention to detail any more on the defensive end. Players consistently late in rotations. Terrible perimeter defense from a roster built from the ground up to negate the 3 point line. Mitchell and Morris are the same players they started the season as. On the offensive end the ball screening and off the ball screening continues to decline. Say what you will about last year’s team - and let’s face it, the offense was boring as all get out - but they consistently earned open looks. If Terry gets the job so be it, but he’s not going to last. He’s not going to be successful somewhere else. I’d prefer to roll the dice with this hire, but if I end up having to wait a few years so be it. I’d just like this season to help make it worth it in some way with a nice run. Oh, and Beard kept saying in the preseason that Hunter and Rice were the two players he valued most in the entire portal. Hunter hasn’t had the season I thought he would, but Rice has completely and utterly saved this team’s bacon. What an amazing pickup he turned out to be, especially with the kind of one on one offense this squad devolves into consistently.
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Except for Kevin Ollie.
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I absolutely do. I also have PTSD from Wetlich, the end of Penders' time, the end of Barnes' tenure, and now Beard. But still I remain hopeful it's all going to work out within my lifetime. In the meantime I just have to figure out how to deal with the basketball fan equivalent of the loud noises and flashing lights.
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You may be right, but it's not like we actually know that. He was in that guest bedroom in the first place for a reason, and the reason wasn't that he felt everything was hunky dory with his relationship. According to the affidavit, what started the whole thing is that he was trying to ignore her, she didn't like that one bit, and did/said things to make sure he wouldn't. Which is not to put the blame on her. But like Bill Burr says, while you should never hit a woman, the idea that a woman has never done anything to deserve to be hit is a different conceit altogether. The blame is Beard's in all kinds of ways. I just think a lot of people are assuming he's going to stay in this relationship until this explodes again, when that's not clear to me to be the case at all. Could be. But might not be. We just don't know.
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Carpetbagging weasel faced smarmy little bitch, Ted Cruz
SL Xpress replied to Grade of D as in David's topic in Cloak Room
Well, I'd argue the 2008 financial collapse was the unintended consequence of pushing for much higher ownership rates. I feel like a huge number of people contributed to the financial collapse, but that was the beginning of it. And yes, he was an asshole. -
Well, the first thing I should say is I appreciate the discussion. I don't agree with you, but that's okay. I don't think it's necessarily about physical security. I think it goes deeper than that. It's on a very instinctual level. The main thing is the difference in how we act as individuals versus how we act when we've identified with a tribe. Plenty of stories in the historical record of people who once considered themselves friends with one another became something other than that when important tribal identification required it. Then there's the whole gamut of personality collections embedded in our DNA. Not human DNA. Some kind of precursor that goes way back. The pleasers. The worker bees. The contrarians. The curious. They've found similar personality traits among a wide variety of animals, so it developed extremely far up the evolutionary ladder. And then you have the psychopaths, which we automatically think of in negative connotations, but has survived in our collective DNA for a reason. It's like the trial attorney you think is a complete asshole, but when he's representing you successfully in a hostile tort, he's your asshole, and you're glad to have him. If you have two tribes competing for limited resources, but your psychopath is more clever, resourceful, and ruthless than their psychopath, you're glad to be on his team. Which is part of why so many CEOs are psychopaths. Well, people who crave power and the extra freedom that comes with it and who are really good at obtaining it know instinctually in many cases how to exploit that identification with "the other" to grab power, maintain it, and extend it. That's why we're never getting rid of racism completely. It's part of the programming, and the programming has a new chance to be exposed with every new generation. It's also why it's so important to be aware of when the veneer of civilization is being broken down, from what quarter it's coming from. For decades I've had people tell me that children don't know anything about racism. It's taught to them by their parents. And while I wouldn't say that's completely wrong, if you're around children enough you know how good they are at identifying an other, or others. May not be along racial lines, but it will be something. Could be someone perceived to be a weak link in the herd. Could be a rival. Regardless, it happens ubiquitously. And the most successful way I've seen to combat it is when the people identified as others form their own tribe as basically a fuck you to the people who discriminated in the first place. But of course then you have inherent friction and conflict. And so it goes.
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They all look alike to me.
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Carpetbagging weasel faced smarmy little bitch, Ted Cruz
SL Xpress replied to Grade of D as in David's topic in Cloak Room
Does anyone other than YGIFS know people who support Ted Cruz? Because I know a shit ton. I remember how depressed I was that David Dewhurst lost to him in the 2012 primary on the backs of the Tea Party deal that Cruz opportunistically took advantage of. I mean, that's Cruz in a nutshell. A completely unlikable, uncharismatic shit heel who will throw anyone under the bus, and lick anyone's boot heel if he thinks he can take advantage of it. To think of how proud I've been of the senators who have served this state over the course of its history. I mean, John Cornyn isn't my favorite, but compared to Cruz he looks like Thomas Jefferson. Phil Gramm was a bit of an asshole, but I could stomach him. But Ted Cruz is unredeemable. I can't believe we're about to vote this guy to a third term barring some kind of miracle from the Democrats. -
One hit wonders. One of my favorite type of movies are comedies disguised as something else. I was laughing my ass off at the movie theater when this came out, but I was the only one. It's basically a screwball classic mistaken identity type comedy done with a film noir theme using horror film camera work. They have so many amazing movies, but I still think their first one is criminally underrated. There's one scene where the protagonist buries a body in the middle of a field, but he left his headlights on so he could see what he was doing. He goes to start his car and it won't turn over. I'm rolling in the aisle with laughter, and people are looking at me like I'm the sickest person on the planet. I mean, they're not wrong, but I knew at that moment I was "getting" the filmmakers and their intent in a way that no one else was, so fuck them.
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Well, I was sober (sort of) both times. First one we did a road trip with half an ounce of marijuana with four of us in the car. Shrooms, too. I drove. I didn't drink. Laredo was the standard Boys Town back then. It was dumb to take drugs across the border. The real stupid part was getting high in the car on the way back. Lo and behold, there's a border security check point 20 miles or so in. Didn't know about that. We rolled up looking like the van in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I ended up confessing the weed was mine (it wasn't) and tossed it all into the toilet in the guardhouse and flushed. I know they had bigger fish to fry, but I was extremely grateful that one didn't end up on anyone's record. It was simply a judgement call by the guys on duty. Second time was while I was in the Navy. Siouxsie and the Banshees were playing in Tijuana. No one else had a huge interest in alternative rock on my ship so I went down there by myself. Don't know Spanish. High and tight military haircut. Tijuana, so people knew I was a sailor on sight. Took the light train to the border, walked to the club. At one point found myself walking through an abandoned city block with rubble all around. Looked straight out of Bakhmut. Noticed there were people sleeping in alcoves all over the place, with a fire burning in the middle of it. Got the hell out of there. Went to the show. It was amazing. Walked back. It's like 1am in the morning. That city block was ablaze with an inferno with fire trucks all around it trying to put it out. I've vowed ever since then to report anything which looks like it might be dangerous, even if they probably have dozens of calls on it already. You never know. But the whole thing was idiotic on my part. The concert was fantastic, though. Guys used to hit the beaches at Rosarito just south of there without thinking a thing about it on the regular. But Tijuana was a different story even back then.
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Really? My peak gut punch was the morning I found out he was in the slammer and why. I can't say it's gotten any worse since then. It might if he wins multiple national championships somewhere else, but that morning was pretty rough. "Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away" became my Texas men's basketball theme song.
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Maybe so. I just see the woman's 8 year old daughter testing positive for a variety of drugs because social welfare required a test on a follicle of her hair - and shit had to get really bad to get to that point in the first place - and my level of sympathy went out the window, whether that's fair or not. The whole thing seemed weird from the get go. 4 people rent a mini van from North Carolina to drive across the border bringing over $5k in cash with them. Maybe it is a tummy tuck. But it's tough for me to give them the benefit of the doubt right now. Doesn't mean they deserve what happened to them, and it doesn't mean Mexican cartels are good guys just trying to protect their business interests. But the rap sheets on those four definitely represented a significant plot twist for me. It's easier for me to imagine they asked the wrong people the wrong kind of questions and got the wrong kind of attention because of it, than it is that this was a completely random hit in an effort to collect ransom money. But I'm not pretending I know anything. I had a couple of experiences going across the border in the 80s/early 90s. One in Laredo and one in Tijuana. I was a complete and utter idiot in both circumstances. Especially in Tijuana. Just no real cognizance of when I'm putting myself in terrible danger. Not adventure seeking. Not being terribly daring. Just a complete and utter blithely unaware idiot.
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Might as well assume a Belgium Flemish speaker is French. Some things are worth fighting for.
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Well, I don't actually know the answer to that. I just pretend like I do. Tony Bennett seems like a home run hire to me for sure. Does he have multiple national championships, though? I think it's just the one. Your point remains the same, though. I still think there might be some minor blowback. Another factor to consider is if the new coach keeps Terry on as a highly paid assistant. But yeah, any coach with a national championship on their resume would be tough for someone to say, "why didn't they give Terry a shot?" Fair point.
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Ohio State in football has been even more remarkable. There was nothing particularly special about the Ohio State football program prior to WWII. In 1951 they hired Woody Hayes who is considered one of the greatest college football coaches of all time. He stepped down in 1978 after punching Clemson noseguard Charlie Bauman. After that they had Earle Bruce, John Cooper, Jim Tressel, Urban Meyer, and now Ryan Day. There was Luke Fickell's one year as an interim coach where he went 6-7, so I guess if you count that they had a down year. But it's not like the guy has ended up being a bad head coach. It's like they sprinkle magic fairy dust in Columbus or something. I really do look forward to when they go into a dry spell because of hiring the wrong coach. Long overdue. But I consider KU in basketball and OSU in football to be fucking unicorns. The other one I always found remarkable was Miami's run with Schnellenberger, Jimmy Johnson, Dennis Erickson, and Butch Davis. But it's been tough sledding for them since then. Hiring coaches is tough. There's nearly always a chance things are going to go sideways. Even sure things a lot of times don't turn out to be sure things. Although sometimes they do. The best you can do is hire the best candidate available who will take the job for the amount of money you're willing to pay. My problem is when athletic departments don't do that for other reasons.
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So he takes heat? It won't be a firing offense. The buck stops with him if donations start drying up and the president's phone/email box is blowing up from pissed off donors, a la Steve Patterson. Deloss Dodds didn't even break a sweat over the disaster that was Bob Wetlich. You exaggerate the importance that winning in men's basketball holds for the university as an institution. I'm not saying it's unimportant, but it won't cost CDC his job. The spigot runs dry - or it's perceived as being endangered - then he'll have a serious problem. You post responses to me as if I care. Put me on ignore. I like you, but my life won't be altered if you don't read what I write any more. And yep, I write longer posts. I also enjoy reading other people's longer posts. This isn't revelatory. I didn't even think the above response was all that long.
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Kind of. It's more like it's a critical part of how we're hardwired from an evolutionary perspective. Being able to point out a person or a group of people who are different can be an extremely effective bonding mechanism for those who view things similarly. It's natural to us. We do it for a ridiculous array of topics. Of course we're going to do it for things like how a person speaks, how a person looks, and where they're from. The good news is our brains are remarkable things and we can consciously choose to override our hardwiring. But it's not easy and takes a lot of conscious effort. If someone doesn't put in that effort they're going to be prejudiced. No doubt about it. Also, depending on our tribal affiliations, many affiliations end up taking a priority for us over race. My favorite example of this is Dave Chappelle talking about seeing one white guy in a gang, and saying that's the guy you have to really worry about, because no telling what he's done to be a part of their group. Then on the other side you have people of color who adopt every talking point of a preponderantly white group, who are then at least ostensibly accepted as "one of us." I have a Costa Rican friend who looks down upon Mexican Americans in brutal ways. "They come here and make their neighborhoods look like Little Mexico. If they want to do that so bad, why don't they stay in Mexico?" Uh...okay?
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Giving a new coach a 2 year contract is basically knee capping him. It's not going to happen. He'll get 4 to 5 years to do his thing, unless the results are thoroughly mediocre. Even then he'll get 3 years. It's not that Texas doesn't do short term deals like that. I mean they don't, but it's more like NO ONE does 2 year deals in college sports. It would be a horrible signal and Texas would get raked over the coals for it. I am with you that I would prefer someone else, though. Won't be long now. I'm sure a final decision will be made pretty quickly after the tournament results are in.
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This is the world according to Js1, though. Not the world according to UT athletics. There is no one with the clout to get CDC fired to bring in a new athletic director, or to be a strong advocate for doing so amid the consortium of people with that kind of clout, for hiring the wrong men's basketball coach. Now, if he somehow fucks up and revenue dries up, sure. And that's certainly related to the coach of the men's basketball team. But not really. Keep selling suites to the football stadium, raising donations, bring in lots of new money with Moody, rake in more money with the SEC deal, successfully navigate NIL to give coaches the tools they need to win without getting the university in hot water. At the same time, if he gets the hire right, he's elevated his profile among all those same people, too. But this isn't even close to do or die time. You pretending it is doesn't make it so. I trust CDC as well, but hiring is a dice roll. I just want him to go out and get the best candidate possible, and we'll see how it works out. Terry isn't it, but I feel like if Terry makes it to the Elite Eight - possibly the Sweet Sixteen - he'll basically have to hire Terry. The optics would be miserable otherwise. Especially if he hires a white coach, which is all but guaranteed. But a first or second round faceplant and all bets are off. Which is not a reason to root for that result, but it could be a silver lining if it happens.
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Hence he was just fired. I never said he should be kept on. I assumed he was gone as soon as the report came out. Pretty much all of us did. I'm simply saying if someone wants to say he should know better, well...maybe. The way I would put it is that he was qualified to be a college basketball coach in a way neither you nor I are. He was not qualified to keep the job.
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They've looked at the F-35: https://theaviationgeekclub.com/f-35-could-detect-track-and-possibly-shoot-down-ballistic-missiles-by-2025-head-of-the-u-s-missile-defense-agency-says/
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Thanks for the clarification. My apologies @David Dennison. This round goes to you, sir.
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