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Nigel Tufnel

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  1. Never underestimate the power of opportunity.
  2. I get this, but the problem with that binary thinking is you miss all the portal players from lower levels that are ready. Kinda what scouting and spring ball is helpful for.
  3. We are in the middle of a very fun and educational few years.
  4. Here is what I will say about my experience with Cal. My godson played for them. Bear Insider is controlled by a big Silicon Valley attorney or somesuch. He controls the narrative to the point that it’s whatever he wants it to be. When Nando (Mendoza) was there, they initially weren’t paying him (while paying two QBs ahead of him, even though he won the job). Then, they were vastly underpaying him. All the while, the narrative on Bear Insider was that he was being properly paid amounts that were nowhere near reality. When a teammate posted on the board that what the board was hearing was blatantly false, he was summarily shouted down and dismissed. Bear Insider (like others, I’m sure) says what it wants and hears what it wants. What I just wrote is straight from Nando and teammates and I have little doubt that if I brought this up to some Cal boosters, it would be dismissed. Weird stuff. Fanboys know no economic boundaries. But ultimately with the wealthy booster, it’s about control.
  5. I posted this somewhere else but I will put it here as well. Template is already there in FCS. 24 team bracket starting week after the regular season, with no CCGs (11 conference champs and 13 at large). TV for CCGs and Bowl game influence get in the way in FBS.
  6. FWIW, Lil’ Nigel and Durham competed against each other only once, two years ago in the 100m. Into a -.1 wind (almost none) they tied with 10.55. Tory Blalock ran 10.57, if I recall. Durham is built like a tank and that speed is not matched by most defenders.
  7. Graduation was part of the story, not the reality. The only reality may have been the two scenes, beginning and end, where they are playing D&D.
  8. I am cool with the end being ambiguous. One of the other things I went back and checked was in the last scene, Mike’s mom called them up for dinner. I wondered why that shot of her was included there, so I went back to see it. It is a little too blurry, but I wanted to see if she had the scars. She did not have visible scars on her body, I thought I saw the throat scar, but it was not clear on my screen.
  9. We liked the finale. I thought it was a good soft landing that left it open to interpretation. Spoiler Was it real or just their D&D game? The first and last scenes in the series were the kids playing D&D. Were those the only two “real life” scenes? The way they wrapped up every character arc, they did everything separately from the core kid group, as if they are characters. The credits at the end: the drawings of the characters were together with their D&D profiles. I think it was a good way to leave it open to interpretation without pissing off an entire group of fans by saying that everything we just watched was their D&D game. Anyway, there is more but I liked that it was open-ended so to speak.
  10. Template is already there in FCS. 24 team bracket starting week after the regular season, with no CCGs (11 conference champs and 13 at large). TV for CCGs and Bowl game influence get in the way in FBS.
  11. It’s not binary. A lot of people (including Saban) think that PK’s D and Sark’s O were not the best fit. Doesn’t mean that they both haven’t been good over the past 5 years. But the soft, bend don’t break D and finesse O were in trouble vs UGA and OSU teams. Those together have given UT a finesse identity.
  12. Posted this on the other board. For many of us, PK never felt like a good fit for Sark’s O or the SEC. Saban said as much in the playoffs last season. He said that at some point UT would have to play some man on D and be aggressive. PK was a “bend don’t break” DC. That doesn’t fit well with Sark’s finesse O. Sark’s O did better with Saban style D. That seems to be what he wants.
  13. Saban said as much in the playoffs last season. He said that at some point UT would have to play some man on D and be aggressive. PK was a “bend don’t break” DC. That doesn’t fit well with Sark’s finesse O. Sark’s O did better with Saban style D. That seems to be what he wants.
  14. This. PK’s style of D was not a good fit for the league or to pair with Sark’s O. This seems like a better overall fit.
  15. I think they alluded to it in the screenplay they wrote together, in that this seems like severe mental illness with drug addition as a symptom. I think he said something along the lines of “taking drugs to silence the noise, but it only amplified it.”
  16. Quite the opposite, sir. And while that may be the overall sentiment, I find most don't realize (or care) that they have built their entire framework of following recruiting, who should play, coaches developing or not developing players, etc., around these guys that are really, at most, only organizing a small percentage of names for people to follow.
  17. FIFY After Lil’ Nigel finishes his eligibility, I may go into more detail on our experience with the 9.95 recruiting guys. It’s just a matter wanting to deal with the pushback I would get for messing with people’s paradigms.
  18. So, Kirby Smart, Bob Stoops, Ryan Day, Dabo Swinney, Dan Lanning, Marcus Freeman? We could go on here. I get that he may not have been qualified, but it’s got to be more than never being a head coach as others have already pointed out. None of those I just listed were ever a head coach, even in HS. But now we open the UT vs OU hiring history for the past 55 years (UT always hires someone with HC experience, OU does not (except for Schnellenberger). OU has more conference titles and National Championships in that time. There is a lot that goes into it.
  19. I accompanied Lil' Nigel on an unofficial during the season 3 years ago now. This was the prime of Sark wanting size over anything else to make over the roster. Both Stroh and Kirkland were there with us. They were the two largest 17 year olds I will probably ever see. Stroh was the larger of the two, an absolute giant. While the OL certainly go larger, those two obviously did not work out and I can't see how this wasn't apparent in all those practices.
  20. Lil’ Nigel’s 2nd grade teacher would put this song on when they returned from recess all amped up. They would quiet down and start humming along a lock into a more quiet class time. It was a great use of music.
  21. And I disagree, as do the coaches in that conference.
  22. I don’t see this. He did well as OC at UNLV. He took over a sub-.500 team from the past two seasons. He got them to the cusp of the playoffs in a conference with Montana, Montana State, and UC Davis (predicted 6th, finished 4th). He is very intriguing with good (if not great) results. Now, the head scratcher is why he gambles moving from HC to OC. The main answer we have seen first hand with Jeff Choate leaving a great FCS gig at Montana State to be LB coach at UT while more than doubling his pay.
  23. This is a huge pet peeve of mine. Lil’ Nigel plays and they have several players with untucked undershirts (because it looks cool). EVERY single game this year I saw a player brought down at some point in the game by their undershirt. There is practice film of Saban making a big deal of all jerseys needing to be tucked in. He got it.
  24. This correct. They also do this on the Monday of the prior week (10-11 days before) with all four possible teams and matchups.
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