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Richard Kimball

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  1. Aranda's a nice guy. Here's the problem: The problem on this is that Aranda has been demonstrating he's incapable of managing even the routine aspects of running a program. Spring games are a pain in the ass for coaches, but they're advertising for the program. But to announce a spring game and then cancel it the week the game's supposed to happen is not good. There are dozens of examples of simple stuff falling through the cracks. (True story) After the 2023 spring game, Aranda said they'd decided on the starting QB, but wanted to talk to them before releasing the name. I asked him how he'd let the press know. He looked at THREE marcom people, turned around and said, "I don't know." That's about as simple as it gets. Send a press release. Announce it on twitter. Whatever. As far as middle aged guys getting an eighteen year old to sign their hat, pretty sure there are some okie lites that regret not getting Barry Sanders autograph after a spring game. From the spring games I've covered, most of the people getting autographs are fifteen and under. Don't know about Bama and who's getting autographs there.
  2. Not that anyone cares, but Baylor isn't having an actual spring game. Aranda announced they will be having a regular practice with no scrimmage, but people can still come and watch. No 11 on 11, just drills. This season is going to be brutal if they aren't even organized enough to have a spring game. I worked with Drake (in the video) some. He's a Baylor alum and is getting really pissed.
  3. Elton's great on piano, but he sucks on the organ.
  4. AI is good, but NYT put their thumb on the scales for this one. In the original post #'s 8 and 9 are listed as real, but I'm pretty sure they've been run through an AI image enhancer that smoothed the skin. #3 is all kindsa fucked up, and it's supposed to be real. The eyes are shifted to the right. Check how much further the eye on the right sticks out over the mouth than the eye on the left. The nose and mouth appear to be from a straight on "mug shot" type photo, but the head and jawline look almost 3/4 "portrait" style. This is not to rag on the capabilities of AI, but if you run a photo through a program like Topaz AI, you are dealing with something that doesn't neatly fall into the category of real or AI. It's a little bit of both.
  5. They did make one change. Put a hole in the top of the cap cause dumbasses kept sucking on the cap and getting down their windpipe.
  6. Apparently, you were right and I was wrong. I didn't think he'd be able to pass up the bucks.
  7. Drew has to take the Kentucky job. It's more pressure, but the NIL money and network contracts with the conferences are too much of an advantage to pass up. He'll probably double his salary, also. Even if Baylor offered to match salary,(doubtful, since the only reason Aranda is still there is because the BMDs didn't want to pay his buyout) the admin sat on their hands and got years behind on NIL. Drew was always a good recruiter, but recruiting is now more transactional than persuasive, he's going to get better players at Kentucky. There are two drawbacks for him. His family has been raised in Waco, and the pressure is intense at Kentucky. He stays at Baylor, he gets a statue when he retires. He'd have to miss the tournament several years straight to look at getting fired. At Kentucky, his last two years of going out in the second game of the tournament would have rumblings going on about him being fired.
  8. That hits a little too close to home. Deep, seriously deep.
  9. Nobody knows for sure, except the people that were in the room. Story I got was that she wanted the new arena on campus between the Ferrell Center and the baseball/softball fields, and I know she made several public statements on that. There was serious money (the Foster Pavilion was over $200 million) from City of Waco & Investment groups to put it on the other side of I-35 for part of downtown renovation. Supposedly, she pissed off some of the money people at the meetings with her antics, & Rhoades figured with Drew winning a national title they could afford to part ways with Mulkey. I never heard that Rhoades was deferring to Drew, but I had heard that Mulkey did stuff like demanding the women's team get first pick at practice times, etc. I could see where that would seem strange to Rhoades, coming from another college. As far as the stuff about her bitchiness goes, yeah, she doesn't get any nicer away from the microphone.
  10. For some reason, your post reminded me of the old sportscaster, Vic "the Brick" Jacobs, who was on KTVV (now KXAN.) You had to have been in Austin quite a few years ago to remember Vic throwing foam rubber bricks at the camera. Anyway, on to something vaguely related to the thread. Baylor folks are still pissed that Rhoades ran Mulkey off. When LSU won the national title, somebody put a billboard up next to campus with her picture, LSU, and "National Champions" on it. Only things I heard on her at Baylor was she was a stone cold bitch, constantly ran over budget, and regularly threw tantrums during meetings.
  11. True story: I went to a McDonald's and bought a meal that was $5.37. Gave the girl a ten and reached into my pocket and pulled out .37 cents. She'd already entered $10 into the register. She looked at me blankly. I said, "Just give me two fives and a ten." She started getting it out of the register. I had to stop her, and explain it was a joke, and to just give me a five.
  12. You sure? They were never the same after what Dino did to them.
  13. The quote was cut off when I replied. The original comment was: I never wear a cowboy hat indoors. Baseball hat indoors, depends.
  14. Formerly, he was named Sneed.
  15. Riding in the back of the pickup. That's the big one.
  16. Here's my perspective from a guy who quit covering the program last July, so info may be out of date. Baylor didn't want to pay Aranda's buyout. That's why he's still there. Not sure this is Aranda's decision, or if he even makes any decisions. Impression I got in 2022 was that he didn't run the program, but the program ran around him. Patterson has a hard on for the Frogs, so he may just want to go to a team they utterly hate and try to screw them over. If Baylor beats TCU and Patterson goes to SMU, he'll be going for the trifecta. No clue if he's going to run the program like Barzini ran the mob, but there's an insane leadership void on that team right now, and if Patterson is there every day, he'll get sucked into having to be a leader, whether he wants to or not.
  17. Yeah, and the NFL paid Taylor Swift a lot of money to fake that romance and go to the games. They're not going to let that investment go down the drain. https://themessenger.com/sports/taylor-swift-generated-331-5-million-chiefs-nfl
  18. Funniest thing to me about the playoffs is that there are people who think Taylor Swift and whoever that fucker with the Chiefs is are really dating, and money hasn't changed hands to get Swift to show up at the games.
  19. Sports Illustrated, like daily newspapers, was going to die anyway. Replacing all the editors with chicks that don't care about sports accelerated the speed of the death, but the reason for the magazine ceased to exist several years ago. There were three things that made Sports Illustrated popular: great photographs, the swimsuit issue, and some talented writers. While I wasn't a huge fan of Peter King, George Plimpton, or Paul Zimmerman, they each had a style. You didn't need to read the byline to recognize their writing. Plimpton could make a story out of nothing, like when he worked out with the Detroit Lions, ran three plays in a preseason game, and got multiple stories and a book out of it(Paper Lion.) In an era where everyone with a webcam has their own sports channel, nobody's going to stand out that much. It's like nobody will ever be another Johnny Carson, cause if Carson was still around, he wouldn't be Johnny Carson, dominating the airwaves. He lived in an era where there were three channels, and maybe one other late night host at a time. I think it was close to ten years ago that SI fired all their photographers and started using freelancers. After that, their photos started looking just like everyone else's photos. Going to the trannies and fatties in the swimsuit issue alienated their core audience. Looking back on the last forty years, it's crazy how many models became famous from being on the cover of that issue. Christie Brinkley, Cheryl Tiegs, Elle McPherson, Kathy Ireland. Even leaving out the fatties and trannies, in 2022, Kim Kardashian was a swimsuit model. Guys who spend their lives avoiding seeing Kim Kardashian don't want to open up the swimsuit issue and see her botoxed plastic surgery face and fake boobs. The biggest thing, though, is that up until the internet, there was a limited supply of information and illustration about specific teams and sports. Like what happened to sportscenter, nobody has to wait to see highlights anymore, and they don't have to wait a week to see photos of big sporting events. IF they had people who cared about sports running it, they may have been able to hang around by doing commemorative editions for NFL, NBA, and college championships, the swimsuit issue, etc. Hell, they could probably sell 100,000 copies of a Michigan football issue, cause every Wolverine fan would keep that forever. I still have my 2005 Longhorn issue.
  20. From Hell's heart, I stab at thee
  21. The Cowboys have had the same coach since Jimmy left the building. I've posted this before, but the last Cowboys game I watched was when Jason Garrett iced his own kicker. Was working on a project and had the ESPN gamecast and this thread up. Not gonna throw bombs at guys who still support the Cowboys. Hell, I started watching when Meredith was QB, Don Perkins was fullback. It just got painful watching this zombie corpse wearing Cowboys gear stagger around.
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