Doc Daneeka

You inferred it. I inferred that Saban saw the human side of the guy he thought could help him win, not that Saban was doing it for charity or any other reason that he was getting a great offensive mind at a bargain price while others weren’t willing to take that chance.

And perseverance/willingness to be coached. There very much appears to be a crapton of buy-in for what Sarkisian and his guys are selling. If you can get elite athletes to give elite effort for elite coaches some really good things are going to happen.

Sarkisian never claimed that Saban did it altruistically. No one else was willing, at the time, to hire his great offensive mind.

I’m ready for him to serve up two more healing helpings this season, then get everyone behind him as he rides that success, NIL, the Texas brand, and all the rest into the SEC to Nebraska Alabama and Georgia.

I’m just hoping for an unrelenting curb stomping, regardless of any excuses that will be forthcoming.

I do way too much cardio. During said cardio, I listen to podcasts. A lot of podcasts. I can understand just about anything except idioms and slang, especially if I can throw in a “más despacio, por favor.” I put the idioms and slang in Anki, but I question how useful they’ll be to me in the long run. I’m sure I miss some subtleties in the subjunctive, with layered tenses in the same sentence, and whatever, but I think I can get by in the overwhelmingly majority of scenarios. I’m not yet satisfied with my level of understanding, but I’m content with my progress along the continuum. On the other hand, I speak Spanish like a toddler with blunt head trauma. No amount of listening is going to fix that, outside of set phrases and the like. I can reasonably manage direct statements and desires (mostly in the present tense), but a lot of the rest is still an exercise in forced recall rather than anything like fluency. Hello Talk has basically turned into multi-lingual Tinder. italki isn’t awful but it simply isn’t efficient enough. I can cobble together sentences in Duolingo and Rosetta Stone mostly because the lessons are circumscribed around a known set of concepts or words. I’ve just about resigned myself to the idea that I’m not going to become conversational short of immersion in another country (which I’m down for if I can get buy-in from the SO at some point). I know this is a very common stumbling block during the process, but it’s still annoying. In the meantime, I’m just working on some sentences that will serve me well in a lot of situations and practice saying those. “Puede que sea mi culpa, pero no me importa” is my current favorite, along with “Sí, sí, soy muy alto. Otra vez, solo necesito pagar mi factura.” If anyone has thoughts on how to make italki or something like that more useful in terms of time vs. effort/expense — or some other way to practice output rather than input — that would be awesome. I think my next step is probably something based on talking to ChatGPT or the like.

Yeah, he’s not going to move past Bowers, but he can still kick Washington and Michigan/Alabama in the junk just on general principles.

Then here’s hoping the next two games are showcases for him in which he absolutely wrecks shop.

Opinion appears to be divided.

Yeah. They do their last rise early in the morning so they’re ready when people show up. Good stuff.

JFC, the game threads are like an ice pick to the eyeball, even after the fact. Every call is bad, all the decisions are wrong, the entire program is steeped in incompetence, Texas won. Granted this isn’t limited to surly — I heard quite a few “we’re no better than last year” takes after the first half of the first game — but that’s part of why I don’t watch games around other people other than in stadium. I’m an old, so I still read. The thing is, though, the idiocy-to-insight level is so fucking high across Reddit or X or wherever, that I don’t really have the motivation to try to sort the wheat from the chaff in those places, even for Texas football (one of the very damned few things that I haven’t burned out on in my life), much less from a boundless cesspool like TikTok. Here, the pool is more manageable and it doesn’t take long to grasp who’s a dumbfuck and who’s worth reading, even if I’m not in lockstep with his views. I’m here for the recruiting and football, but some of the other boards — Help, Hobbies — are worth some time. CR would be interesting but I’d get negged into Bolivia because it very much appears that even honest disagreement on principles is largely unwelcome. Windy bullshit aside, I obviously don’t have any answers. I’m very hesitant to attach any personal information to places where I interact online, but I’ll probably get around to subscribing or whatever. Apart from that, maybe some way better to highlight useful/important/insightful posts that I might not otherwise come across and to drive eyes from the interwebs, in general, to such posts might not be bad. Off to get the cinnamon rolls on the road and the turkey out of the brine. Merry Christmas, y’all, and Hook ‘em.

I guess that just means Washington needs to join Alabama, Tech, TCU, and Oklahoma State as teams that will have to make do with memories of winning last season.

Yeah, the takes bounce between “they’re irrelevant” and “they’re only there because of the eyes they bring.” I think beating Washington might break them more than beating USC did.

Washington is going to have the game put away by halftime, unless they don’t, in which case Washington was just an overrated PAC team tessus was lucky to play instead of Alabama or Michigan.

¿Cómo?

Yeah, four games with a punt seems about right until the short yardage stuff gets sorted out.

That was what I inferred. It’s definitely what I was talking about. And I agree with the solution.

It works. Or it has so far.

A self-imposed death penalty with regard to any coach of (hoped for) competence would be the chef’s kiss here.

Looks like an NBA microphone flag, so there’s that.

It’s a smart line and a smart crowd will appreciate it. Unfortunately for you…

I’ve passed on higher paying gigs because the environment was obviously garbage. I don’t blame anyone for negotiating the best deal he can get, but I’d prefer someone engage for what Sarkisian is building rather than some extra cash, all else being equal.

Lendy Holmes, surprisingly, hasn’t.

Not really, if Sarkisian is to be believed. Maybe he’s straight up lying about it, but he’s said multiple times NIL can help close what he wants but he doesn’t want that to be the deciding factor.