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  1. Actually, no, outside of a dumbass on one site, most people online weren’t dumb enough to fall for the premise that Carrington was committing career suicide. I have a close relative that played HS ball for a while with Sterns and stayed in touch with him over the years via visits and texts. I had the benefit of reading some of those texts this past summer and fall. Fuck Caden Sterns for life and I hope he fucking fails at everything his bitchass attempts. He was poison to this program and did as much damage as any player, woke or otherwise, ever. Gary Shaw and Ron Weaver have nothing on Caden Sterns. Fuck him. What the fuck is wrong with some of you guys? Having issues with a program is a legitimate thing. Transfer out, suck it up, quit between seasons, go pro, whatever. But you don’t run the place down to others considering the school. These are fucking captains of the program we’re talking about here. There is no defense for the kind of behavior these shithead bitches and quitters exhibited this season at the end. All of the guys people attempt to defend regarding bad behavior because “meh, Tom Herman” like to ignore the fact that they fucking committed to the guy and his program. He was the same asshole in 2017 and 2018 as he was when he was shown the door 3 weeks ago. If you join up with an asshat like that, be a fucking man and own it by playing through it or transferring. This middling shit where they quit mid season and start running Texas down to recruits means they can go fuck themselves forever, Cosmi included. He fucking straight up quit on his QB’s blind side while the QB was leaving everything he had out there in the field.
    39 points
  2. So got an update on a few of things. 1) TFB is sourcing info from Mike fucking Stoops. Once it became clear he wasn't getting the gig, he threw some bones to his buddies about what he was hearing regarding Sark's staff. They've got good intel as a result, for a very little while longer with time lengthening between Stoops getting to hear much. The Marve stuff is probably pretty legit, so here's hoping that's the guy. 2) Regarding Joseph, Riley Dodge and Jeff Traylor both think highly of the guy and think he's an excellent coach. There simply a reason other major programs offered the guy or already had him on staff. 3) Regarding Coleman, I confirmed that Herman was all up in the WR corps' shit this year. Coleman wasn't in charge of his personnel selections and wouldn't have had Kai Money near the field. It wasn't Coleman directing Yancy McKnight to put 15 extra pounds on Jake Smith for this season. Herman basically decided that he'd rather just handle the WR spot via micromanagement than outsource it to someone outside of his network that he didn't trust, which he decided after interviewing a few guys that we'd have been happy to have. Herman didn't like having to defend the premise that he wasn't on the hot seat going into 2020 and would write guys off who pressed on the issue.
    32 points
  3. For fear of stating the obvious, even without our collective PTSD from Charlie’s and Tom’s initial staffs, every surly poster save trolls and and the Pope of Pessimism would have been happy with this slate of assistant hires if presented at the onset of the search as a hypothetical. It’s not perfect and there are a few that deserve scrutiny, and I don’t mind the scrutiny because that kind of discussion is kind of the life blood of CFB message boards. But I, like many others, have renewed optimism for success of the program given who has been assembled and Sark’s calculated actions only a couple weeks out of the gate - and that’s after being down on the hire when it first happened. Absent an abysmal hire with the last defensive hire, this is easily a Top 10 staff in college football and has the potential to be even higher. We beat UGA and had stretches of success and what at the time appeared to be positive trajectory with a JV coaching staff led by a psychiatrist’s dream heading the charge. If you trust Sark’s coaching and program-leading abilities, there is every reason to believe we have the pieces to move from mirage to actual sustained success and, if we do that, you’re looking at a Bama-lite situation (at least early on) where any “B-range” staffers will be much more easily upgraded. You need a new HC regime jump out the gate on a path to sustained success and stability to be in a position to do that, and we avoided a three-peat nightmare scenario where initial hires delivered the silent kill shot before a single game was played and a year or two later you’re taking late-night trips to Tulsa to beg a G5 coordinator to accept your money whip. Be happy and optimistic my friends, you surly fucks.
    30 points
  4. Even when great things happen we find shit to bitch about. Our fan base is completely insufferable.
    24 points
  5. FCB247 <spoiler> Steve Sarkisian has been on a lot of Zoom calls over the past week: with the media, lettermen, boosters and on Wednesday night with parents of current players, as Horns247 first reported prior to Wednesday's Zoom meeting. You tend to get the unfiltered version of things when a coach is talking to Mom or Dad or both, because no one is going to hold a coach accountable like a parent. You knew one of the parents was going to ask Sarkisian about his alcohol dependency issues that caused him to get fired at USC in 2015. Sarkisian didn’t blink. “He talked openly about it, about how he’s had to own it and can now provide life experience to his players about how not to make the same mistakes,” one source who observed the call told Horns247. “A lot of parents struggled to read Coach Herman and what he was really all about, because so much of what he said sounded programmed. But I thought Sarkisian was matter-of-fact while also being transparent. It was refreshing. “I’ll just say it: Sarkisian was way more direct and polished in his message to the parents than Herman, who just never really let you see his human side - only his ‘coach’ side.” By the way, we continue to hear Tom Herman plans to spend time with his family and is in no hurry to get back into coaching for the 2021 season. His $15 million buyout will be paid out monthly over the remaining three years left on his contract (and will be offset by income earned in any new job), according to Herman’s contract. We’ll get this out of the way right away - Sarkisian acknowledged he has one more on-field coaching position to fill (we’ve heard it will be a linebackers coach) - but Sarkisian didn’t give out any names. Sarkisian did list all of his other coaches, and it read just the like the list we’ve been giving you: Offensive coordinator/offensive line - Kyle Flood Quarterbacks - A.J. Milwee Tight ends/special teams coordinator - Jeff Banks Running backs - Stan Drayton Receivers - Andre Coleman Speaking of Coleman, Sarkisian said in his Zoom call Wednesday night he had twice before tried to hire Andre Coleman as a receivers coach with the Atlanta Falcons and at Alabama. But on both occasions, Sarkisian said, he was “blocked by the head coach.” “So it’s great happenstance that (Coleman) is already here at Texas,” Sarkisian said. When Sarkisian talked about the defensive staff, he listed Pete Kwiatkowski as defensive coordinator and Bo Davis as defensive line coach. But he listed Terry Joseph as “secondary coach” and Blake Gideon as “safeties coach,” so that caused a little head-scratching. Make sure you read our man Mike Roach’s breakdown of Pete Kwiatkowski’s defense posted Wednesday. Sarkisian told players’ parents the Texas defense, “to the naked eye, will look like last year’s defense.” The reason Sarkisian can say that is he hired a defensive coordinator in Kwiatkowski who basically runs a four-man front with two interior tackles as well as two, stand-up defensive ends and a nickel or dime package behind it. Kwiatkowski typically has two, sideline-to-sideline linebackers on the field along with two corners, two safeties and a nickel back. But Kwiatkowski has had packages in the past in which he put seven defensive backs behind his four-man line. Kwiatkowski’s defense stresses speed and athleticism across the board. He likes interchangeable tackles and ends, so he can more easily disguise tendencies and make it more difficult for the offense to make reads pre-snap. Kwiatkowski likes interchangeable, cross-trained players in his secondary, too, so the offense can’t easily isolate conflict defenders in their RPO plays. For two weeks, I’ve heard that Texas’ players on offense have been excited about Sarkisian while the defensive players have been on edge with uncertainty - largely because they didn’t know who would be their coordinator. Sarkisian saying the Texas defense will resemble last year’s defense “to the naked eye” is helping players feel better about the direction of things, sources said. “There’s been a lot of concern from the players on defense that they might be going back to a three-man front with a nose tackle and two ends in the 4i, and I can tell you, the portal probably would’ve filled up with defensive linemen, if that was the case,” one source close to the situation said. “But learning that the new DC (Kwiatkowski) uses two interior tackles and two stand-up defensive ends and allows that front four to get up field and get after the quarterback put a lot of angst to rest.” When it comes to strength and conditioning, Sarkisian said things will be done differently than in the past. Instead of focusing on how much weight players can lift/squat, the focus in strength training will be more about controlled weight and the speed of reps and how many reps. I reported in the Morning Brew Wednesday that players were somewhat stunned by the upbeat, enthusiastic tone of strength coach Torre Becton in the players’ first workouts this week. “In the past, everyone on the strength staff seemed to take on the personality of (Tom) Herman in workouts,” a source told Horns247. “And just like Herman could be cutting and always ready to call you out, so was the strength staff. Players liked and respected (strength coach) Yancy (McKnight), for the most part. But some of Yancy’s assistants seemed like they were trying to provoke you as much as push you. “What we’ve had this week - the workouts have actually been fun, at times. We’re not used to that, that’s for sure. I’m sure this is warm-up, and all the intense stuff is coming.” OK, one of the recurring themes of Sarkisian’s Zoom calls with UT’s lettermen as well as boosters is how Sarkisian is going to have to re-shape how many scholarships each position group is getting. For instance, Sarkisian can’t believe Texas has 15 scholarship receivers and seven scholarship tight ends. Sarkisian would prefer eight to 10 scholarship receivers and about five scholarship tight ends. That doesn’t mean Sark is about to run off players in each of those position groups. But he has been putting in overtime to determine where Texas needs help with February’s signing day fast approaching </spoiler>
    20 points
  6. I mean the man is a million dollar a year TE coach at the biggest brand in college sports, dating a stripper that has a pet monkey. Based off those facts alone, I’d hear a pitch from him on just about anything.
    19 points
  7. Yeah, before Q became my primary form of entertainment, I used to read as much as I could about the sov-cit movement. This is one of my all-time favorites. Guy fucks around and finds out:
    18 points
  8. So you like the DACA program because..... they can get mortgages, which benefits you financially? And not because it's the right thing to do for the country and these people and the contributions they make to our society, both financially and culturally? Well, I never. Because it's expensive. And time consuming. And takes forever. And the Trump admin implemented a lot of new requirements to show you won't require public benefits so that you basically have to hire an immigration lawyer to get it done correctly.
    18 points
  9. Can you sorry bastards just be happy that we haven't completely fucked a goat with this hire? Some of y'all need to put the keyboards down and go get laid or drunk. Whichever is easier.
    18 points
  10. Super K thinks Tosh Lupoi has an offer from Texas, and they're vetting Marve only as a backup if Lupoi goes elsewhere. Also believes Tennessee badass LB Henry To’o To’o comes to Texas if Lupoi does.
    16 points
  11. A few things here. 1.) While I generally agree with you, I think the recruiting business can be known for high turnover and lots of movement between spots. Now, is some of that the nature of the business, and some of that the nature of the kind of people who work in that business? Dunno. I'm sure some folks could chime in, and I know CTJ has some brilliant stories. 2.) I was really, really close to negging you for the first sentence in your post. If that motherfuckers resume came across your desk and you failed to do anything other than bring him in for an interview, film it, and troll that motherfucker for like 90-120 minutes with just absurd questions then you sir would have let this board down irredeemably. Get your fucking mind right.
    16 points
  12. That 75 million people watched the last 4 years unfold and decided they wanted more. That’s so incredibly depressing.
    15 points
  13. 15 points
  14. QBs: AJ Milwee (previously: analyst at Alabama, Akron OC/QB coach) - C He was pretty terrible at Akron. His highest FEI offensive rating was in the 80s and every other year is below 100. That's out of like 125 teams. In 2018, he was third from last. Maybe he's a decent QB coach without having to deal with the difficulties of being an OC. Maybe he just sucks. He is described as Sark's right hand which sound like code for comfort hire to me. Maybe he got better through osmosis and Sark thinks he learned well during his time as an analyst at Bama. Maybe the dude still sucks. Sark apparently plans to call plays and be heavily involved with day to day offensive duties, so it is possible he could mitigate this by virtue of being a great QB coach himself, but man, I really think we could have done better. RBs: Stan Drayton (retained from previous staff) - B+ Probably necessary to retain to keep Bijan away from transfer portal and maintain credibility with LJ. Guy is a pretty good coach, but seems to have a habit of getting too cute with rotations (see: Zeke @OSU and everything here). He is a decent recruiter. B+ because he got Bijan and keeping him keeps Bijan happy. Bijan is the truth. WRs: Andre Coleman (retained from previous staff) - B A lot of the players seem to love him, a lot of the analysts have great things to say about him, and a lot of coaches have great things to say about him, so I give him a B under the assumption my pessimism over him is just wrong instead of the C+/B- I may give otherwise. I didn't think our WRs were particularly great under him. No receiver got over 500 yards (aware season was shorter due to COVID (10 games vs 12-14), but that's still pretty shit. Putting up more than 60 yards a game for our WR1 should be a given. It's sad we couldn't do that. For comparison in 2018 when Collin Johnson was our WR2 he averaged over 75 yards a game. LJH averaged almost 85. TEs/STs: Jeff Banks (previously: TEs/STs coach at Alabama) - A+ Great fucking hire. Dude is an ace recruiter and if what the Athletic writes about the Kwiatkowski hire is true, Banksy already has his first elite recruit at Texas when he landed DC Pete from UW. Dude is a rainmaker and a good TE/ST coach that has performed admirably wherever his path has taken him. Don't need to say much else. Perfect hire. OL/OC: Kyle Flood (previously: OL coach at Alabama) - A+ Only possible better hire is the Arkansas OL coach, but that would be just splitting hairs. Kyle Flood is everything I could possibly ask for (and in fact did beg for). Great hire that should fix the biggest problem Texas has faced for the past 15 or so years. Perfect hire. DC: Pete Kwiatkowski (previously DC/OLBs at Washington) - A+ Somehow we got a better hire than some of the wild names thrown out on the forums. The idea that we could poach UW's stud DC was inconceivable to me before it happened. Over the moon about it. Dude takes some decent but not elite talent and churns out consistently elite defenses even when adjusted for the quality of Pac-12 competition. He performed admirably against Alabama in the playoffs back in the day (yes, not the same offense, but still did very well against elite talent) and beats the shit out of Mike Leach every single fucking year. If he can consistently handle Leach he is a good DC. DL: Bo Davis (previously: DL coach for the Detroit Lions) - A+ Another elite hire and a great sign that we're actually committing to playing the game as it is played today under SEC recruiting rules. Lights out recruiter, very good DL coach, intimately familiar with the region. What more can you ask for? LBs: - TBD CB/Defensive passing game coordinator: Terry Joseph (previously: defensive PGC at Notre Dame) - B- Better of the two ND DB coaches and has put some great guys in the NFL, but we probably had better options available for CB coach than Terry. C'est la vie. S/ST: Blake Gideon (previously: special teams coordinator at Ole Miss) - A- From what I've heard from a bunch of people, Blake Gideon is a great up-and-coming DB coach and what I know for a fact is that he's an elite ST coach. His STs at Houston led the nation in blocked kicks and blocked punts. They had a Ray Guy finalist. Ole Miss also had some very solid STs under him. He should be a great complement to Banks. Both of them should make us elite at ST again. Given how I see the other current hires, relative to them, it is easy to see why there is consternation towards Terry.
    15 points
  15. I don’t like posting personal details to the board, but yes, that is my son Laramie and I am so proud of him. You can see why he and Tunmise were best friends. I say were because they’ve had a falling out but, like Harvdog, I still want to remind all of you that Tunmise is the most amazing kid I have ever met in my entire life and I wish I had a daughter who could marry him.
    14 points
  16. 13 points
  17. This and Jack are the positions that will be the most interesting. Coach K prioritizes coverage ability and asks less of his nickel in the run game than previous UT staffs, so a guy like Adimora doesn't fit as well. I'm not sure if we have the right guy on the roster. I think Jamison is a really good candidate. He has the short area quickness and toughness to hold up at nickel. Jerrin Thompson is another option if he can hold up in coverage, and I'd label Kitan Crawford and Jahdae Barron as the darkhorses for it. I really hope we don't put Josh Thompson there. He's much better as an outside CB. Because he coached up his position and recruited very well. Not sure what else you want out of a position coach. And if the first thing you remember about him is his work with Juwan Mitchell, but not how Overshown went from never playing LB before to performing at an all-conference level by the end of the year, then may be you should sit this one out.
    13 points
  18. Easy. Watching 30-40% of the population actually not figure out that Trump is a complete moron, liar, and grifter when he constantly claimed election fraud and there was none. Stunned at the blind spots people create once they’ve invested themselves into someone.
    13 points
  19. josephcook In virtual fashion, new Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian is shaking the right hands and meeting the right people prior to the start of team activities under his purview. In those recent conversations held over Zoom with members of the alumni and fan base, Sarkisian explained the areas requiring immediate focus during his first spring as the Longhorns head coach. His first stated priority was learning more about the players he’s tasked with maximizing. “First of all, I want to learn the roster,” Sarkisian said in a Zoom on Tuesday. “I know them from afar. I know the names. I know what some of the game tape looks like. I really want to learn our team. I think that I talked about the relationship building, the culture building is another key component in this process.” Sarkisian met virtually with the players later that evening, but prior to the first official introduction he had a sense of the locker room’s mindset. He said he believed the team was “hungry,” and wanted to be great. “They’re trying to figure out how to get that done, and that’s our job to lead them,” Sarkisian said. Relationship building has been mentioned several times by Sarkisian in his short time as head coach. Authenticity is another oft-mentioned quality. A focus on those aspects is wise considering some of the self-inflicted relationship building problems that hamstrung the prior Texas coaching staff. Sarkisian hopes those qualities assist him in gaining buy-in from a team he believes can compete at a high level quickly. “I firmly believe it’s not going to take us as long as maybe some of the outsiders think,” Sarkisian said. “I think we’ve got a good, young roster to work with. I think we’re going to recruit really well. At the end of the day, we’ve got to find a way to win those close games in the end, which clearly has snake bitten this program here a little bit the last couple of years.” Sarkisian and his staff will seek to know not just the people they are coaching, but also their physical capabilities. On the call, Sarkisian said his strength and conditioning coach Torre Becton would have plenty of time for his off-season program to build a foundation prior to the beginning of spring practices on March 23. The two-month program includes what Sarkisian called a “little bit of a shift philosophically.” “This is a velocity-based training program that really measures not necessarily so much how much you can lift, but how fast you can move the weight from an explosiveness standpoint, then clearly from a speed standpoint on the field,” Sarkisian said. March 23 will begin a five-week spring football program with three practices per week. The non-practice days will be used for film study and install, something Texas and most other FBS programs lost last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The second stated immediate focus for Sarkisian was teaching football. He expressed the need for teaching the new schemes on offense, defense, and special teams, and emphasized putting players in a position to be successful. Putting players in a position to be successful is often construed as putting a “X” in the right spot against an opposing “O.” To Sarkisian, its more than just lines on the chalkboard. It involves making sure the right person for the task is that “X.” “I say that because one guy may be playing a safety position that might be a better fit in our system at linebacker, or a defensive tackle might be a better fit at defensive end, or we might have a tight end who hasn’t played a whole lot that fits really good to our system,” Sarkisian said. “To do that, we have to allow the players a chance to be successful and put them in a position to do that. We want to maximize our roster. We want to find a role for everybody on our roster to help us win and help us go accomplish what we want to accomplish.” The almost-complete coaching staff will help him in those roles. Sarkisian used a favorite phrase of football coaches, saying he assembled the “best coaching staff in America.” He described how every member of his staff needed to be able to recruit and develop. He mentioned he brought much of the Alabama offensive staff with him, including “an exceptional offensive line coach and great recruiter” in Texas offensive coordinator Kyle Flood. He looked outside of Tuscaloosa for his defensive staff, led by former Washington assistant Pete Kwiatkowski. Sarkisian said Kwiatkowski has been “a thorn in my side for probably about the last 10 years.” He also sang the praises of Blake Gideon, Bo Davis, Andre Coleman, Stan Drayton, Jeff Banks, Terry Joseph, and AJ Milwee, the rest of his on-field staff. He noted that in addition to recruiting and development ability, he hired assistants that had a good level of camaraderie. “I think a staff that works well together works well with its players,” Sarkisian said. The spring is important for every single program, but it is even more so for a coach entering his first season at a new school. There is plenty of work ahead of Sarkisian and his staff in the coming spring to accomplish these short-term goals. It is a spring he is ready to begin. “This is a great opportunity,” Sarkisian said. “It’s clearly a great challenge. There’s high expectations and high goals here, but that’s what you embrace. You have to go for it. You have to be willing to chase greatness. You have to put yourself in position to compete and win championships. That’s what we’ll do.”
    13 points
  20. Bad looker room guy meaning a player who was a captain who did not lead by example and dedicate himself to his craft and at the first sign of adversity opted out. 5 of 6 of the Texas captains quit on the team this year. Those are not leaders and I would classify those at bad locker room guys. And I don’t give a fuck about their politics.
    13 points
  21. In other news, it appears that someone from Surly was in charge of putting together Derrick Harris's Jr.'s senior HUDL: https://www.hudl.com/video/3/10178620/5fe0a6d5c119e916dc813533
    13 points
  22. Can you motherfuckers take that BDE/LDE horseshit back to the fucking football board? We’ve got enough stupid to deal with here already.
    12 points
  23. I guess here is my offering, completely ignoring the nonsensical restrictions of the OP Legalizing possession of marijuana for personal use (really, should be pretty much any and every drug in my opinion); Investing resources in renewable energy and battery technologies (direct investment and tax incentives); Reducing US incarceration rate by 90% (which would be comparable to most of Europe); Space! AKA, increase NASA budget and eliminate requirement for NASA to develop/use SLS;
    12 points
  24. Ya the guy who coached the secondary that held Alabama to its worst performance of the season must have just been in the right place cause he really sucked ass but keep talking about BDE I'm sure that'll help bring in Urban to replace him
    12 points
  25. I'd expect it from kids. Kids are all INT and zero WIS. But these people are mostly my age. They are OLD. They know what a half-dollar coin looks like, they could work a rotary dial phone. When they were teens they used code words to talk about buying a big bag of cheap pot with about as much THC as a bowl of Rice Crispies. They saw Nixon get busted for tapes. Even if not brilliant, they should at least possess the caginess they had when they were sneaking Hustler magazine into the house. But put a bloop-bloop screen in their hands, and their brains smooth out to goldfish level.
    11 points
  26. I am going to leave the attack on the Cap out for obvious reasons. 1) People I have known for decades willing to dump lifetime friendships over a 4 year Presidency of a man that not only doesn't give a shit about them, but clearly is one of the worst human beings on the planet. 2) Racism making a historic comeback. It's hip to be a racist again. 3) How many dumb people there are. I have had a lot of conversations over the last 8 months and walked away completely dumbfounded that people could actual have an opinion like that. Case in point a conversation I had with a Hispanic employee of mine about the wall and Trump policies towards immigration.
    11 points
  27. 10 points
  28. This is absolutely fucking stupid. Like flat out MarkStanco, 6th street level magical thinking stupidity. It's his fucking transition class. Do you know how I know that? Because it's the class that was mostly formed before he took the job at Texas, and the class immediately following it (2022 in case you can't tell) is a class with which he has a full year to recruit all of the members of his class. This is the dumbest thing you've said all day, and you've said a lot of stupid shit today. You should be fucking embarrassed and feel bad about yourself. Maybe you should consider going back to the football board full time.
    10 points
  29. He suggested that nuclear weapons would be an effective deterrent against hurricanes. He canceled a trip to Denmark because they refused to sell Greenland to the U.S. He colluded with Russian intelligence during the 2016 campaign, covered it up, successfully obstructed justice during the investigation, and installed an attorney general to misrepresent the findings of the investigation to the American people. And he didn’t even get impeached for it! Maybe I should’ve listed that last one first.
    10 points
  30. It has been approximately 12 months since COVID came to the national attention in the United States and work began on the vaccines. In the 12 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States and its allies (namely, the UK) lost to the Japanese the Philippines, Guam, the Aleutian Islands, Wake Island, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, Burma, most of New Guinea, and numerous other island chains in the Pacific. In the Atlantic, German U-Boats sunk more than 400 Merchant Ships totaling over 2 million tons. Shortly thereafter, the Afrika Corps routed American forces at the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia in the first major engagement between American and German forces in WW2. In that same 12 months following Pearl Harbor, the United States produced only about 8,000 Sherman Tanks (out of 50,000 built during the war). It wasn’t until the second full year of our participation in the war – 1943 – that production really took off, when about 21,000 Shermans were built. It took two full years from our entry into the war for the P-51 Mustang to be designed, developed, and manufactured in numbers sufficient to allow a long-range fighter escort for the 8th Air Force on its bombing missions deep into Germany. Up until then, our strategic bombers were being shot out of the sky by German fighters at a rate sometimes as high as 20 or 25% per mission. It wasn’t until early 1944 that, with the widespread introduction of the Mustang and improved fighter tactics, complete air supremacy was achieved over Western Europe. It took the US 2 years and 7 months from a declaration of war on Germany to develop the logistics, to assemble enough men, and to construct enough ships and aircraft to land in Normandy in June 1944. In 1942, the US produced fewer than 25,000 combat aircraft. In 1943, it was more than 50,000. In 1944, it was 75,000. The backbone of the US Navy during the later half of the war – the Essex Class Carrier – was not produced in large numbers until late 1943 and early 1944, more than 2 years after Pearl Harbor. The Apollo Program – NASA’s human spaceflight program – took about 8 years from conception to putting Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon. Massive, unprecedented logistical undertakings do not happen quickly. Not in WW2. Not at NASA. Not with this. I’d say what private industry, with support from governments, has been able to accomplish – creating, testing, manufacturing, and administering tens of millions of doses of highly effective, revolutionary vaccines to combat a novel coronavirus, in about 12 months - is pretty damn outstanding and holds up well to historical comparison.
    10 points
  31. 10 points
  32. Disagree on Smalls, this is productivity we've rarely ever seen in the history of the sport
    10 points
  33. ATM is not fucking around and they're going to land a top 5 class this year, barring an on-field collapse. Texas hiring Sarkisian and this staff has only amp'ed it up. They're going to lock up Dewberry, Perkins, and perhaps another before the weekend is up unless something crazy throws that shit off. Texas and ATM have never been able to sustain being top 10 teams at the same time for any duration. It's going to be interesting to watch. ATM has a terrific staff, they're about to be churning out high draft picks, they're dropping bags, and LSU and Auburn are down. Anyone laughing at them or taking them lightly here, particularly in recruiting, has their head planted firmly up their ass.
    10 points
  34. because it financially benefits him directly. the same reason he spent the last two decades railing on the fiscal irresponsibility of the government but celebrating his covid stimulus check. it is a solid glimpse into what i call the country club republican. their ideals and imposed virtues of political and economic policy are a simple dichotomy...does it financially benefit me or not.
    10 points
  35. We should pass a law that all bills going forward in the House and Senate have no pork and anything in that bill has to pertain to the subject of the bill. For example if we have a healthcare bill we can't have sections of that bill that give money to MI for car rebates or NC for tobacco funding etc... When we pass laws they are filled with so much crap that has nothing to do with the subject of the particular bill it's criminal in my opinion.
    10 points
  36. A lot of these people just need something better to do with their lives. Get off the internet. Go for a hike. There's a whole world out there. Yes, I have a lot of posts on this site, fuck off.
    10 points
  37. It’s trapped on the Island of Tired Memes and Overused Shitty Dad Jokes. You and Yukon Cornelius should go there and try to save it. Send smoke signals back to us in order to keep us informed. Okay, guys. Raymond allegedly didn’t make the trip because there’s compliance shit out there on him. Either what’s coming down the pipe at LSU is nasty and on him in part, or that could be the case and it isn’t worth it. If we can move on from that one and maybe see him down the line, great. I talked to a guy that works nationally and he’s confused by the consternation over the hire. He mocked the concept that Joseph can’t recruit. Both ATM and ND tenures had hamstrings around maximizing performance. If Joseph flounders under Kwiatkowski, I’m guessing Sarkisian will fire him as soon as the 2021 season is over. He doesn’t seem to be fucking around. There’s far more hair on the Coleman re-hire than Joseph, to me.
    10 points
  38. She’s a racist enabling cunt who hates Christmas. Fuck that gold digging hooker.
    10 points
  39. This, we act like many of these coaches are warmed over dog shit because they have had stops that weren't as successful. Bo Davis was not really viewed as a plus anything his first go round at Texas toward the end of Mack's tenure, but goes to Alabama and Nick Saban calls him one of the best DL coaches he has ever seen, now we are happy to have him back Jeff Banks was on Sumlin's staff, therefore he sucked, but ends up at Bama and kicks our ass in recruiting and now we are doing backflips to have him Sark washed out at USC and Saban himself even took criticism for hiring the guy as an analyst when he was radioactive to the extent that he had to hold a press conference, but a few years later he is the hottest coach in football Let's give these hires time to play out, some of the early recruiting talk on Joseph is that he is being well received on the trail and is well respected among coaches. Gideon, while not immediately obvious that he was going to coach safeties, may well be a rising star and comes highly recommended by some of the top guys we were targeting at DC. Milwee has worked closely with Sarkisian over the last few years and he trusts him at the most critical position on the field. Personally I am fine with all of these hires.
    9 points
  40. It's nice when Plan B or C turns out to be better than Plan A
    9 points
  41. Damn some people can never be satisfied....Sark has done an excellent job of bringing in Tier one coaching talent and y’all just have to find a flaw huh?! im pretty sure Sark knew what he was doing when he hired Joseph, I mean look at who he’s been around and the coaches he has already brought in. With the money he was giving if it was someone else I’m pretty sure Sark could have gotten him, but to say we really didn’t hear a lot of names for DB coach shows he was probably at the top of the list... Let’s let the man show us what he has before we scrutinize the hire and show him the door..
    9 points
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