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  1. Yeah that guy is my second favorite in-state candidate. I really think the tried and true "best practices" in hiring college football coaches are really nothing more than a crapshoot with very, very rare exceptions. Like maybe only one -- Saban, who has put together than juggernaut without disgracing the programs he's coached or generally being the weirdo Urban is. For every ironclad rule of coaching hires, there are a hundred exceptions. There's the "culture" thing, where people seem to think Southern or Texan coaches should get first dibs on jobs in SEC country and here, and likewise for West Coast dudes and Midwesterners, and then you've got Saban winning at two of the most Southern schools on the planet, Johnny Majors winning at Pitt (going way way back), Holtz winning at Notre Dame, and millions of retread yokel coaches getting chances to flop repeatedly in the SEC. There's the idea that "NFL guys" flop in the NCAA and then there's Pete Carroll. "We just need a proven winner, a guy who's done it all before." See Steve Spurrier at South Carolina. Ex-Miami coaches wherever they've gone. Jimbo. Mack. Les. "Rising star G5 guys are your best bet." We know the story here all too well. For every Urban there are scores of mediocrities and disasters. "While we would prefer a proven winner, failing that, we will only consider a guy with head coaching experience." See Oklahoma's last two hires, Dabo, and the Purple Wizard, who spent his first 13 years out of college as a HC coach and had no I-A HC experience when K-State hired him. "Poach a dude from a lesser/equal P5" Did not work with McWilliams.....I guess you could say it did with Saban but again, that's Saban. APyongnd it's worked for Bama before when they lured the Bear out of Pyongyang-on-the-Brazos, but basically between Bear and Saban, Alabama has illustrated every single one of these fallacies at one point or another. I just don't understand why we think any of these rules of thumb should not be challenged routinely. Give more consideration to championship coaches at lower levels of NCAA competition like Carthel. Stop demanding that HS legends need ten or 15 years experience in college before they can dare to dream of a headset at a bigtime program. So much of it smacks of insecurity and timidity and short-sightedness, like "Oh no what would my aggy co-workers say if we'd hired Traylor when they hired Jimbo." Who cares? He who laughs last laughs longest and loudest. And the laughter would have started the second Traylor started snatching all their recruits.
  2. Congrats -- you would have been on the committee to not hire Darrell Royal.
  3. MLB app audio only is a cool $2.99/month.
  4. . I feared some team would try that and I am glad it failed for the Jays. If you can record both broadcasts it's a snap -- you might get lucky and they will be in sync, but most likely not. Find the one that's running ahead and pause it for the few seconds it takes for the other to catch up and you should be set for the rest of the game.
  5. The food is fine if you like $30 cheese enchiladas and a salsa sommelier.
  6. Atlanta, beneficiaries of a decade of ridiculously biased home plate umpiring, will never be America's team to anyone who remembers those years. More than anyone else, the Braves are responsible for grading umpires and all these new angles of the strike zone. Smoltz, Maddux and most egregiously Glavine were routinely given four inches off the plate.
  7. Nah, the Confederates never really held St. Louis. For most of the war, they were building Union gunboats there, ironically enough, with slave labor. The Rebels didn't really have control of much of Missouri at all -- it was more like roving bands of guerillas wrecking shit. The war was very, very ugly there, and it started there, and in Kansas, years before Fort Sumter. And some historians contend it continued long after Appomattox -- Jesse James only robbed banks, trains, and people he thought to be Unionists during the war. I guess that is where some of his Robin Hood image comes from; though he certainly did not give much of his loot to the poor, he did claim to only rob people perceived to be aligned with powerful interests. As with the Unionist partisans, the war fast became far less ideological than one based on vengeance and personal hatred, as each side committed atrocities before and during the war. In the beginning, yes, it was fiercely tied to the question of slavery in the states of Kansas and Missouri, but by the end it had descended to a blood feud.
  8. I've always seen it as more about plain old cocaine paranoia. A friend of mine who has experienced several acute cases of that malady says it's the best song ever written on the subject.
  9. Sadly there are people who seek it out. A junky's jones knows no limits. Old school junkies who've kicked don't understand today's version because it just knocks you on your ass, whereas you can function on heroin. In fact, pure heroin, at non-toxic levels, is not damaging to your body at all, unlike cocaine, alcohol, nicotine, and a host of other drugs. Junkies end up all ratched and diseased from dirty needles, not the drug itself. But yeah in the early phases of heroin use a whole lot of amazing music has been made....Not so with Fentanyl. It only brings oblivion and death, apparently.
  10. Rusty Hardin puttin' in work if we are at this stage already. This whole thing still seems weird, like I was saying long ago.
  11. Only choice. Halfway through year two of Charlie it was not "we need a new coach," it was this moronic jihad for "how soon can we fire Charlie and how this genius Tom Herman?" And that St. Bernard level drooling for Herman continued even as red flag after red flag snapped in the breezes, not all of them on the field. He lost to UConn, Navy, and Chad Morris's almighty SMU, after snapping his yap at them. He continually lost battles with a Houston sports media that only wanted to blow him for bringing the wraooarr back to Cougar High, and meanwhile we only focused on him harder and harder, not even entertaining thoughts of hirees that same cycle like Fickell, Rhule, or Brohm or, you know, the field, like maybe taking the fucking bold move of elevating Traylor to HC. Yes, people would have questioned that hire, but also yes, we are FUCKING TEXAS, and we do things how we please here. Or maybe not -- certainly not in that case. We were persuaded to follow in the footsteps of Baylor and aggy and hire a timorous dweeb from UH because he rode a G5 VY and a manchild of a DT whose recruitment was a fluke to a couple of big wins. The groupthink was strong with that one.
  12. I didn't know Reggie was half Puerto Rican until a few years ago. I had long wondered why his middle name was Martinez, though. @Cajun posted this in the CWS thread and it's one of those quotes that will stick with you awhile:
  13. What a single with one out to go? Man up, dude.
  14. Scaling back my expectations to three runs.
  15. We are going to rip off 5 in the top of the next inning so Boston better get their licks in now.
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