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I'm late to the party but here's my $.02: I didn't see a giant leap forward out there - which is disappointing - but I did see improvement. You can tell the S&C program is having an effect. Our guys are big, strong, fast, and don't tire. That won us games last year and it will again this year. That's Herman's biggest impact so far and even if it can't be easily measured doesn't mean it should be discounted. The OL gets a pass but they were kind of meh. So was the run game. Be funny if Yoder gets carries next year. Young must've had a big 4/20. QBs look the same. Ehlinger made some good throws. Freshmen too. Our defense is gonna wreck shit again this year. I was happy with Rowland. Hope those made field goals don't go St. Elmo's fire on gameday. Overall my expectations are tempered for 2018. Until the koolaid kicks in late August sometime. But we're seeing improvement and the talent keeps coming.

God. This is honestly the best QB group we've had in a decade.

I just read Annihilation by Vandermeer. I was very, very surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I can't think of a book to compare, but it reminds me of the movies the Sphere and Event Horizon. Several parts make more sense after rereading, because he plants things that aren't explained until later in the book. Later you remember a detail that seemed unimportant that makes sense. I ordered the next two in the series before I put Annihilation down. I read it in two days, lol. I haven't seen the movie but the synopsis doesn't sound like they followed the book very closely.

The 2012 season was both a surprise and a letdown for Louisville. They mowed through the first part of their schedule going 9-0 and almost breaking the top 10 for the first time since the 1st Petrino era, but then lost back-to-back games to very pedestrian Syracuse and UConn teams. They won their last game to win the Big East, which got them a bid to the Sugar Bowl. Coming off a 7-6 year, Florida started the season in the top 25 and worked into the top 5 before a big loss to Georgia - their only loss of the year. They received an At-Large bid to Sugar Bowl. Florida had a great defense that year and a punishing rushing offense, but a very weak passing offense led by Jeff Driskel at QB. One thing I noticed while watching this game was that Bridgewater was going to be a star. He didn't remind me of VY so much as Russell Wilson. Maybe RG3 because sometimes he was more lucky than good. Repeatedly the pocket would collapse, receivers were covered, and he would make things happen. The other thing was that Louisville did what it needed to do early to win. The opening pick-6 put Florida in a hole and Muschamp kept trying to pass his way out of it. Florida couldn't stop Bridgewater, and he couldn't use his one real weapon - Mike Gillislee. Louisville put Florida in a hole and even though the 2nd half was really all Florida, the game was over. A big upset that promised big things for Louisville and Bridgewater, but the 2013 season would be disappointing as their only loss cost them the Big East championship and they were relegated to the Russell Athletic Bowl.

Exactly what I was thinking.

Hell of a win! 7-6 over OU after a 9th inning rally

Baez is one of the most exciting players in baseball, imo. When he's on he's something to see.

I went to the Titan Missile Museum today. Everything I saw made me think of this movie.

William Atherton in everything he was in. Real Genius. Die Hard. Ghostbusters. You always wanted to punch him in the face.

One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach. All the damn vampires.

Ha! Watched this with my kid a few months ago. The thing that struck me was how the dad - the main antagonist of the whole movie - was surprisingly sympathetic. He was a guy trying to do a good thing but didnt realize he had gone too far, and in the end recognized his mistake and changed. Those nuances are missing from modern movies where antagonists must be destroyed rather than reasoned with. Kind of cool

Good game by Lester tonight. 8-0.

You aren't the only one. Secret War and the Civil War storylines are among the best in history, imo. The Skrull story lost me though.

The most advanced society in the world picks its ruler through hereditary bloodlines and ritual combat. And uses mortars and pestles for a lot of things.

Butterface

I just saw this in the theater last night, and before I get blasted on social media for my obvious racism, I'll bother you dicks with my thoughts and questions. - I don't understand how BP beat EK in the last battle. He lost the first time in a fair fight. Then he won the second and final fight. But there was no *training montage* or anything else to show how BP grew or learned a new move. Did he just get gud? What did I miss? - That last fight was crap, btw. Two CG dudes going at it. I can stay home and play Tekken with my kid for that. - Killmonger was essentially Baron Zemo. They killed my family, now I'm gonna burn the world down. Except Baron Zemo was specific in his plans (destroy Avengers) and also successful (broke up Iron Man and Captain America). Between the two, I think Zemo is more frightening. - Killmonger was also supposed to be a genius. Naval Academy grad (at 19...okay) and MIT grad. That never came through. He was more like a brute. It was one of those movie things where they just give credentials to people to make them sound cool, I guess. - BP didn't grow as a character. The mountain guy did. The guy from Get Out did. Those were the only dynamic characters. Blah. - My one piece of social commentary: Wakanda is almost like an alien world. A homogeneous, extremely advanced civilization existing outside the bounds of the world, with only limited interaction in our world. For now. - FInal analysis: it wasn't that great from a character development angle, and the plot was pretty boilerplate. Some of the action scenes were good. Some were groaners. I put it in the middle of the pack of the Marvel films. I don't think I need to watch it again.

He'll get one more. Probably several more. Even if he sucks next year the buyout is still 13 million.

Fly the W!

Fortunately he doesn't need to be great, and we picked up some quality pitchers in the offseason. I think he'll be okay, with serviceable being the floor.

Should've specified upperclassmen. If Roach comes back and Jones is healthy we have a pretty talented, thin roster that hasn't gotten as much as you would like from the last several recruiting classes.

So we have Jones, Roach, and Osetkowski returning next year so far. This is fine. It's fine.

I feel like this is the most 'normal' recruiting year we're going to have had in a long time. Aside from being thin at LB and DL, our roster is pretty balanced without any positions of glaring need. This year we need talent instead of warm bodies to plug holes in the depth chart. It's a nice feeling.

Watching the trailer doesn't look awful. While I've lost faith in Disney's ability to make a good Star Wars movie, it can't be worse than Last Jedi. Which means I want to watch it in spite of myself

Will you have to get YouTube Red to watch this? I think it's worth it but just wondering. It looks like it.