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  1. 6 minutes ago, Llogg said:

    You can't define a great motivator based on qualities of their audience. It's like saying Greg Davis was a great OC for QBs named Vince and Colt but the only marginally superior talents couldn't implement his genius.

    The ability to generate buy-in is the literal defining characteristic of a motivator.

    Yeah you can.  Some people just aren’t gonna listen, and 19 year old kids who’ve been whispered they’re great all their lives, and who are just biding time to move on don’t always listen no matter who’s talking.

     

    Part of the reason coach k, and other long time coaches are leaving the game is for that very reason.

  2. 18 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

    He is not a great motivator. He sounds like a great motivator. There’s a difference. Someone can be charismatic and still not be a good leader. 

    Oh yes he is for the kids that want to listen. The 4 and 5 star recruits they don't wanna listen to anybody typically.  I watched what he did with the kids at VCU. They bought into his style.

  3. On 2/12/2022 at 8:33 PM, SL Xpress said:

     

    I don't think it's that much of a mystery, frankly. It was very apparent from the moment he got to Texas. 

    For one, he's charismatic. He's also not ignorant about basketball. Now, what he should do is replicate what he did at VCU. Recruit a team full of athletic guys who may not have pure basketball skills but have a chip on their shoulder. Full court press teams and just send waves of guys off the bench. Count on effort and transition baskets for wins. It's a limited formula, but there's an inherent amount of success available if done right.

    But he's not going to do that, because that's not his identity. He wants to coach NBA players. Probably wants to coach in the NBA. He's enamored with getting the most talented guys he can, not in getting the guys who fit his system, or create an identity around a program and recruit to that. Kids want to have freedom on the court. Shaka is going to give them that.

    He doesn't know how to build a coaching staff, or a support staff. He doesn't know how to raise the expectations for the people around him. He doesn't know how to create a sense of urgency. He doesn't know how to change his mind on something, and then get buy in on that change in direction. He doesn't know how to manage upwards, through administrations and donors. He has no idea how to manage laterally, through peers within the program or with people outside the program. He only knows how to be charismatic, and he thinks that should be enough. He doesn't have any kind of feel for how to create a legitimate two way relationship with folks.

    He doesn't know how to create measurements for success. He doesn't know how to build relationships where he can call people accountable, and they'll respond in a positive manner. 

    What this all means is that he'll never create a consistent product. When things go well, it will snowball. Confidence will soar. Players will feed off of one another. When there are struggles, there's no resiliency. People point fingers. They play hero ball. 

    Shaka's counter at Texas is opposite of Beard's this year. Shaka would do his best against athletic teams when his team had success, because that success snowballed. Shaka had his most difficulty against disciplined teams that ran systems, especially on defense. Beard on the other hand, is going to have his biggest issues against athletic teams, because his guys don't match up. If I see a team like Kentucky or Auburn in our bracket, it means trouble. But Beard is going to be great against the Abilene Christians of the world, because this team is going to out Abilene Christian them. 

    Beard's approach is going to produce a lot more consistency. And if he can get the athletes, too, like he did at Tech, he can make some deep runs. Shaka is always going to have issues, both through the course of a season, and then in the tournament, because he'll never be able to produce a consistent product. 

    His success was he had assistant coaches who knew X's, and O's very well. Both of his top assistant coaches are doing well with theIr own teams, Will Wade at LSU, and Mike Rhoades at VCU.  Those are the two guys who made HAVOC run correctly. 

    He also had some talented non blue chip kids with a chip on their shoulder who wanted to prove themselves.  He is a great motivator, but a poor, one trick pony, sideline coach.  He probably does not connect with 4, and 5 star kids who view college as a 1 and done scenario.

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  4. 44 minutes ago, FartingMonk said:

    The intelligence part of it by going full invasion may have been his smartest move.  He basically probed the west all the way to the point of launch.  Now he knows what we do.  Who is the spy and which units will carry out the orders.

    Well, not sure I'd agree. We didn't do much more than send some additional troops to the region. We didn't mobilize our forces in an attempt to gear up for a response. I'd also say the military knows they're watching what we do so they didn't do much to tip our hand about what we'd do in a serious situation where we intended to counter their invasion.

    I can't speak much to the behind the scene spy thing, but those assets are always hiding what they do regardless of how things are going I bet.

  5. 3 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

    I've got a newfie.  I live in San Diego.   Big fucking dork spends all summer in air conditioning.  

    And I didn't intend to have a newfie.  He's a rescue.  They don't belong here, and I discourage anybody I speak to from getting one here. 

    The son always said he wanted a Husky.  I'd say kid you live I Va. why do you wanna make an animal suffer like that ?

  6. 10 minutes ago, mooseoutfront said:

    I was looking through my phone looking for interesting things to post.  Here is a vid of a small sow with triplet cubs that I came across nosing around a beaver lodge when I was out taking water samples.  The cubs were almost as big as she was.  She probably ran them off to start a new family within a month of the video.

    I hope the video works.

    Damn, those are some majestic critters.

  7. 1 hour ago, RomaVicta said:

    Fucking criminal pervert. I hope he was tormented by the hook everytime he fought against it. 

    How much did he pay to make the least humiliating public statement possible? The cost to his name and standing has been substantial. Still, it's not enough. He should be in jail. No person with any sense will not recognize the pathetic figleaf of this public statement.

    He can't deny he molested/raped her. He can only lie about the intent of his vicious attacks on her character since his misdeeds have become public. 

    This is not a man. This thing should not have any title or rank no matter how illusory its real importance.

    Fuck this guy.

    Well.......... yeah...........

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  8. 1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

    am i wrong to liken gun manufacturers to opioid drug manufacturers? 

    Not sure it's an apples to apples comparison. The drug companies knew before they even marketed their product what the issues were.  They knew the depenceny rate would be substantial, and hid that info.  

    Not sure you can say the gun companies thought people would go on killing sprees with their weapons, but they for damn sure had to know that in the wrong hands they'd be trouble.

  9. 7 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Afghanistan helped take down the Soviet Union.  It embarrassed the leadership and the military, it created divisions within the Red Army and cracked the image that the Red Army couldn't be defeated.  It divided the Soviet people into those who didn't see a need for the war and those who did (which helped break up the Soviet Union), and it got a lot of civilians protesting, etc., causing problems (and helping the breakup).

    If Putin drives their already-shitty economy into the ground and puts people out of work/in the streets, creates large-scale military losses/deaths, and the people now have social media to coalesce around,  how does that work out for him?  If Afghanistan is not a good analogy, how about the 1910s when Russia was economically harmed by the Ottomans  cutting off trade routes while the military was taking heavy losses.  Only the monarchy wasn't dealing with social media helping organize the peasants.

    Yeah all good points.

    The internet is the game changer at least as far as getting info out there.  I think it's what would make the difference in a consolidated stance. I've just always been of the opinion they don't have it in them to buck the system much.  Putins goons are a ruthless bunch and they all know they're tied together with him.  They aren't gonna side with the peasants ........errrrr citizens.

     

     

  10. Just now, bolverk said:

    They were able to fend off the August Coup in 1991 when the Commies tried to take back over, so I'd give them partial credit there.

    Bunch of friends and I were out fishing in the Gulf near Port A while that was going on. We kept looking back to Corpus to make sure we weren't going to see a giant mushroom cloud.

    Yep, forgot about that.  Those were the Boris Yeltsin days right ?

  11. 6 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    How much are the Russian people willing to tolerate?

    And I'm sure the Soviet Union thought they were not going to have any problems when they invaded Afghanistan, a nation with 13 million in 1980, and not the easiest to supply by Western nations.

    This time around, Ukraine is very easy to supply by Western nations, and has a shitload more people.

    The Russian people have been tolerating autocratic, dictators since the formation of Rus. It's literally in their DNA I think.  The only successful uprising in their history was pretty much the Bolshevik revolution.

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  12. 34 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    There's so many ways this can go badly for Putin, that I'm surprised he's doing this.  This could end up with him losing power if enough Russian kids get sent home in bodybags - at what point do the Russian people start asking why purpose is served by killing lots of Ukrainian and losing lots of Russian boys?

    There's only so many billionaires that Putin can round up and imprison.

    I think Putin being ousted from power is about as likely as me getting laid by at least 1 if not 2 super models this weekend.  I can fantasize about both, but neither will happen, and one isn't nearly as fun as the other.

  13. 1 hour ago, midtown said:

    So my cheap Festina broke and now I need an everyday watch.   My friend owns a jewelry store here in SA and she says stay clear of Rolex because they are currently inflated like the car market.    I once owned a Breitling that I really liked but damn the Breitlings are $7k.   I'd like to spend $3k at the most.   Any suggestions?

    Sinn, Hamilton, Omega, Ball, Seiko.

    Sinn (pronounced Zinn) would be my first choice. Great quality, lots of different designs.

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  14. Just now, davidg said:

    I don't think the dude that sucker punches the kid is the 67yo, I believe its a student from the other team.  The 67yo is probably the guy in black with the hat that comes at the player in the first couple of seconds.  A comment from the video said the old guys wife was trash talking the bench the whole game and when the player said something the old guy came at him.

    People suck uh-lot.

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  15. 30 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Doesn't matter regardless and is off topic. In addition, in making his BTW post, he neglects to mention that the in state/out of state tuition costs for both VMI and W&L are somewhat comparable and both are majority white with VMI obviously skewing overwhelmingly male as well. What a surprise. I have no quarrel with the schools if that is the experience a student desires, but it doesn't really belong in this thread.

    W&L is like $65k or more in state based on what I’ve heard from folks.  As it’s private I don’t know what out of state tuition would be.

    VMI is about $25k + or - in state I guess, and out of state would be around $45k probably.  All Va. state schools are about the same tuition rates. 

    W&L is gonna be a good bit more regardless of in or out of state tuition rates.

     

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