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  1. I feel like you're an astute enough follower of recruiting that you knew the answer to this question before you asked it. You should have known, at least. The real answer for Wright, specifically, is "who knows?" That considered, let's think about the criteria for pinpointing a dirty recruitment and see if Wright's recruitment checks any boxes: 1) Does the recruit suddenly commit somewhere that wasn't even considered a favorite? 2) If the recruit committed somewhere unexpectedly and suddenly, was there a momentous event involved? Or was it just "they're on campus, and this is the offseason"? 3) Was the concept perpetually brought up by the player or a family member of "trying to get down there" to wherever, but they never actually make it due "needing a ride" or "car problems"? 4) Even if the recruit makes it in for an unofficial somewhere, is the "needed a ride" problem frequent? 5) Does the recruit work with a "trainer"? Is that "trainer" affiliated with a shoe company? 6) When a recruit leaves a visit, unofficial or official, did they shut everything down with other schools and/or $9.95ers covering other schools? Was this dramatic and unexpected? 7) Is the school in which this type of shit is happening with recruits historically dirty? Is the school in the SEC or the ACC (south of the Mason-Dixon ACC)? 8 ) Is the school named Texas A&M, LSU, Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, Oregon, Miami, Auburn, or Florida State? 9) Does Tosh Lupoi, Urban Meyer, Clint Hurtt, Bobby Petrino, Jimbo Fisher, Nick Saban, Damieyune Craig, Bradley-Dale Peveto, Travaris Robinson, Greg Pruitt, Kirby Smart, Chip Kelly, Josh Lee, John Blake, Todd McNair, Hugh Freeze, Kendal Briles, Austin Thomas, Bo Davis, Chris Vaughn, or any other coach who's worked for more than a season under Nick Saban work for the school in question? 10) Is EJ Holland shilling hard for a recruit that Texas is only showing passive or zero interest in? For Wright, he checks off 1, 2 (not a momentous event when he visited), 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. I need to make one of those decision-tree infographics on this shit.
    30 points
  2. In 2016 I was a moderate. Socially liberal, fiscally conservative, but not quite a libertarian. I would have considered voting for Kasich had he won the nomination. Now? I will probably never be able to vote for a Republican in my life. I find the lot of you disgusting in ways I can't even describe. It bothers me that you even exist. I wonder how many of me there are...
    21 points
  3. Just glad a reporter from Niger didn’t ask a question.
    20 points
  4. And there’s the brushing off and reaction of a person who’s never been in a situation of being a victim of sexual assault. I’ll tell you why - having to tell your parents - especially your father - that you were attacked or raped can be just as traumatic as the assault. Fuck you for your “why didn’t she” questions.
    16 points
  5. my brother ricky had a scholarship offer from USC pending a 700 on his sats. on the day after he took the test we went to the store through the back alley when a red car pulled up on us they rolled down their window & shot ricky twice the first shot hit him in the leg while the second shot went through his chest. later that night my brothers' scores came in he scored a 710 he would've been accepted into college
    14 points
  6. "Mr Casanova, How many double gin and tonics did you have between Charlotte and Baltimore?" "All of them, Ms. Mitchell" "All of them?" "You heard me."
    14 points
  7. I love the cognitive dissonance on display by some on here. Calling someone creepy for defending a porn star, but praising a married man with a 4 month old son who fucked one.
    11 points
  8. Having to go to marital counseling over a house remodel is the most believable thing anyone has ever said in human history.
    10 points
  9. "You say you don't like airplanes, but you've... BEEN ON AN AIRPLANE!" *triumphal music plays* *kavanaugh rides in on an armored elephant* *libz destroyed*
    10 points
  10. You know, it's really fucking easy to be a hindsight life coach. If you are actually interested in learning some of the many reasons women did not report their assaults or waited a while to report them, I encourage you to go on Twitter and search for #WhyIWaited and #WhyIDidntReport. If you are actually interested in helping women and/or getting a better understanding of why we might wait or not report, begin by not starting sentences with "Why didn't you...". When you start sentences like this, you immediately, if not consciously, suggest that she did something wrong. (BTW, that's a reason why someone might wait or not report.) There are very few black-and-white issues in my world. One of them - and I will beat this drum till the day I die - is that someone gets raped for the SOLE REASON that someone else decided to rape them. I don't expect everyone to believe this and I don't expect people who haven't been in that situation (or any situation where you're receiving unwanted advances) to understand. And honestly, it took me a long time to believe it myself, and it's because this conversation ALWAYS comes back to "Why didn't you do/not do X." I think most of us grew up hearing this, and it's hard to tamp it down. The fact of the matter is, however, that while you can't know that fear and terror if you haven't lived it, you can still show empathy. You can at least show an ounce of compassion by acknowledging that while you don't exactly know it from experience, you respect that someone else has lived it. This is what I saw none of today from the GOP. Sure, they may have tossed out a token "I'm sure it was hard for you" before launching into a tirade about what a disgrace it is that someone had the audacity to accuse a SCOTUS nominee of assault and slow the hearing process by forcing everyone to endure listening to her account of what happened. All I saw today from the GOP was anger toward Dr. Ford, the other accusers, and the Democrats. After #MeToo, after Bill Cosby, after "grab her by the pussy" we are still here. It is really fucking exhausting.
    9 points
  11. I watched the two people most likely to have a memory of that night. One was completely credible. The other obfuscated, dissembled, avoided, and lied. Yeah--I'm very comfortable saying that it's more likely than not that he assaulted Ford. Oh, and by the way--before today I was in the camp of "he was too drunk to remember and probably thinks he didn't do it." After his repeated lies, however, I think he totally remembers.
    9 points
  12. Ford is so eager to please. She's so nice and there is fucking ZERO guile to anything she says or does. It's amazing to watch. She is in there with fucking snakes and she's like this really nice, well-educated aunt you have that would make you brownies and be genuinely interested in how your school classes are going.
    9 points
  13. Hours later, but Kavanaugh’s extreme partisanship, unstable temperament, and willingness to distort the facts about the testimonies in the case are sticking with me far more than any of the assault talk. I, obviously, believe Dr. Ford. But I do understand where the “there’s no corroborating evidence” people are coming from. I do NOT understand the people who think that performance today was worthy of the highest court in the land. That might as well have been Hannity up there. We all know each justice leans a certain way, but to be openly hostile towards an entire party is unprecedented and troubling. His nonchalance with lying about minuscule things (who gives a fuck if you watched her hearing?!) would have disqualified pretty much anyone else in a different era. But “fuck the libs” is all that matters, so on we go. What a shitty day for the country.
    8 points
  14. I was offered no scholarship. I was in the bottom half of my high school graduating class. went to UT and earned a liberal arts degree in a shade under 9 years. #winning
    8 points
  15. And now look at yourself. Posting on Surly regarding the whims of teenagers with the rest of us
    8 points
  16. Looks like you picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
    8 points
  17. I wish my son was old enough to talk to him about what a fucking badass Dr. Ford has been today. There are life lessons on display.
    8 points
  18. Dr. Ford, is it true that alligators are so ornery because they got all those teeth and no toothbrush?
    8 points
  19. Because she's not alone. So many of us have been there. I have friends who cannot watch because it bring up their own memory.
    8 points
  20. 8 points
  21. We're all in. We've got a campaign worker staying at our house this week while she attends training sessions. We're hosting a pop-up office at our home during most of October. M12 is taking the week of the election off to work full time on the campaign. I'm volunteering to drive people to the polls. We've maxed out our contributions to the campaign. We can fucking do this.
    8 points
  22. I haven’t seen anyone talking about this, so I wanted to mention something that I noticed during the game on Saturday and that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed on the rewatch. Also, given the flack our offensive staff gets (and the “credit” Orlando gets for scheming), I thought it was only fair to give credit where credit is due. Against TCU, Herman showed a great package that our offense has never shown before, and it resulted in a lot of positive yardage, helping to jump start our offense in several critical moments of the game. Here’s the scenario: Texas has a TD on the previous possession, taking our first lead over TCU since 2013. TCU has just punted (a crappy punt), downed by TCU at their own 47 yard line. Texas has a short field to march. On first and ten, Watson gets 6 yards on inside zone with an insert lead block from Beck. Now, it’s 2nd and 4. Here’s the scheme itself: Play #1: We show 11 personnel (1 TE/1 RB), with trips one side. But the look is actually unbalanced—two of the trips receivers are on the line of scrimmage, meaning only two of the trips receivers are eligible receivers. Beck is playing TE off the line of scrimmage, and the RB is shaded to the TE side. Here’s a screen cap of the initial formation: In this formation, Beck (TE), Josh Moore (who is playing slot WR), Duvernay (farthest outside WR), and Tre Watson (RB) are eligible receivers. Collin Johnson is not. After showing that relatively simple set, the QB then sends the RB in motion to the field side (away from the trips receivers), leaving himself in an empty backfield. Here’s the post-motion set: TCU still has, effectively, seven men in the box at this point. One of their overhand defenders is lined up, at linebacker depth, just outside the shoulder of Calvin Anderson, giving him the ability to defend a pass to Josh Moore or stop the run. In addition to that defender, TCU still has their traditional 4-2 front in the box, as well. After the ball is snapped, Sam fakes the bubble screen to Josh Moore. Now, the overhang defender who was playing both run and pass is screaming towards Moore, thinking he needs to shut down the bubble screen. Duvernay and Johnson are both stalking the men over them, showing bubble screen looks as well. But that defender has guessed wrong—the play is actually a QB power. Back at the line of scrimmage, it’s just carnage. Anderson has escorted his pass rusher up the field, walling him off completely from the play (and further selling pass to the edge defender). Cosmi and Kerstetter have delivered a crushing double team on the playside defensive tackle, allowing Cosmi to break off and block the backside linebacker. Rodriguez mauls the nose guard, and Beck effectively shadowboxes Banogu. Vahe pulls, his target is Wallow (LB #30). Wallow actually takes himself out of the play, jumping outside Vahe’s block. Vahe actually turns upfield, looking to take on another man, because Wallow has appeared to totally take himself out of the play. But insanely, Wallow still able to get an arm inside on Sam’s hip, tripping him up. If Wallow misses that tackle, Sam might have scored because there is no safety help over the middle of the field. Sam ends up with a seven yard gain. Here’s the full clip of the play (starts at the 40:45 mark on the full length YouTube video): Play #2: The very next play, we come out in an identical formation—with two minor differences. First, Ingram has replaced Watson at RB. Second, Ingram’s initial shade is to the opposite side of the QB (i.e., on the trips side instead of the TE side). The motion action and eligible receivers all remain the same as in the first play. Looking at the defense though, you’ll see TCU has already adjusted. Instead of heaving three men accounting for the trips receivers (along with an overhang defender), TCU now has three defenders isolated on that, with a safety over the top of the box for the play. They’re no longer asking the overhang defender to play both run and pass. The final pre-snap defense looks like this: Texas runs the exact same play. But this time, the nose guard shoots the A gap (crossing Rodriguez’s face) before he can be blocked. Vahe does a tremendous job of recognizing the stunt and picking up the nose guard during Vahe’s pull. In the meantime, Rodriguez has recovered, and he is able to lay a hat on Wallow, who is playing backside linebacker this time. Because the nose guard has stunted, it has opened up a huge hole on the backside of the play, taking Banogu and the other backer out of the play completely. Sam is able to get through the second level before he is brought down by the free safety (the additional defender who TCU brought into the box). Sam ends up with a gain of eleven. Here’s the full clip of the play: Play #3: Texas has now gained 18 yards on the same play, run twice in a row. They hustle to the line, showing the same formation a third consecutive time. In response, TCU devotes even more defenders to take away the run. They’ve brought the overhang defender back in from his coverage of Moore, now requiring him to play both run and pass responsibilities. And they’ve kept the safety over the top of the formation (on a pass play, it looks like he would have man coverage responsibility for Beck). Here’s the post-motion look shown by the 😧 On the snap, the players show the same look they have previously (other than Beck, who takes off the down the field on a vertical route). Vahe’s pull is deeper, so that he can account for the DE who Beck is leaving unblocked. This time, though, Sam does not fake the bubble screen, but he throws it to Moore. But the two previous run plays have done their job: Watch the hesitation shown by the overhang defender. He doesn’t know if he should be playing run or pass. He drifts closer to the line of scrimmage without actually committing to defend either play (compare this with the very first video, when the overhang defender screams toward Moore’s bubble screen). As a result, the defender’s feet have almost completely stopped when he is locked up by Collin Johnson, who then rides him about seven yards upfield. Jerrod Heard (who has replaced Duvernay as the outside eligible receiver) does almost nothing on this play other than shadow the cornerback from about five yards away. If Jerrod Heard attacks that block, Moore has a lot to work with (and is basically one on one against the safety). Instead, Moore has to take the route outside Heard and only gains five or six yards. Here’s the full play: New Scenario: It’s the first play of the next offensive series for Texas. Caden Sterns has just picked off the double-pass, giving Texas the ball back at Texas’s 38 yard line. Play #4: TCU has adjusted again. After motioning out Watson, TCU still has seven men in the box itself—a four man line and two LBs and a strong safety who is playing over the top of Beck at linebacker depth (the strong safety likely has man coverage responsibilities for Beck). But Texas has modified the look. Now, instead of the trips receivers lining up to the boundary, they’re on the field side (wide side) of the formation. TCU can no longer devote an edge player to having both run/pass responsibilities. And when Watson motions out wide, he’s only about five yards split out from Calvin Anderson. The cornerback covering Watson is playing off coverage at about 7 yards. Here’s the post-motion defensive look: After the snap, the offense shows a similar look. But TCU has had enough of sitting around and letting Texas take the fight to them. They’ve adjusted by bringing Banogu and the other DE hard off the edge. They’ve also adjusted by having their LBs step up into the B gaps once the ball is snapped. They guess wrong again. And Herman has banked on an aggressive response from Patterson. Sam fakes the bubble screen to LJH, pulling the LBs toward the trips side of the field. He then comes back and rifles the ball to Watson, who has run a stop route just behind the line of scrimmage. Calvin Anderson ignores the playside DE and flies out to try to put a hat on the cornerback. Beck is flying upfield, looking to block the free safety, who will be coming across the formation to tackle Watson (as a side note, although the strong safety over the top of Beck almost certainly has responsibility for him in the pass game, he totally lets Beck run by. If the play had been a jump or pop pass to Beck, he would’ve had a 20+ yard gain. Keep your eyes peeled, because that wrinkle is definitely coming in the future.). Rodriguez’s block is a thing of beauty. He makes it across the playside linebackers face, hooking up with him on the hash about two yards past the line of scrimmage. He then rides him all the way to the numbers at the first down marker. Kerstetter gets a decent piece of Wallow, but Wallow is able to wriggle free. Unfortunately, much like Vahe’s near miss on Play #1, above, Anderson can’t quite seal the deal on the cornerback who dives outside the block, but is able to get a hand on Watson’s ankle. If he doesn’t make that tackle, Watson would probably have gotten the first down (assuming Wallow would’ve been able to get to him). Watson ends up with a gain of about six. Here’s the full gif of the play: Takeaway: All in all, we ran this set three times in a row in the second quarter and gained 23+ yards, getting us into the red zone (ultimately resulting in Dicker’s one made FG). We ran it again the next series and got another six yards. These are solid if not very good results against a fundamentally sound TCU defense. Against a defense less in “control” of their keys, one or more of these plays could’ve broken the D wide open. Even so, they resulted in huge gains that were basically "free yards" resulting solely from scheme and decent execution of the scheme. The plays' success are also almost entirely set up by the fact that we were able to run block effectively on the first two plays out of the package, requiring TCU to respect the run possibility each subsequent time we showed the formation. If my memory serves, we ran the same set once or twice more in the second half, gaining positive yardage but showed no different wrinkles than those above. This set is something very similar to a scheme that OU liked to run with Baker Mayfield and that they’ve continued with Kyler Murray. Empty out the box and run RPOs or RPO “looks” that spread the defense out and force it to defend three things: Space, the run, and the pass. The defense has to guess the play correctly to beat you. Even with TCU’s great pattern-matching scheme and technical soundness, they couldn’t stop it from being effective on Saturday. Credit to Herman and Co. for unleashing this very effective wrinkle against TCU. Because of the pressure it puts on the defense on all sides of the field, this package should continue to pay dividends down the road.
    7 points
  23. http://media.giphy.com/media/ddd0HBTakik00/200.gif
    7 points
  24. I'll put up a pic of Anita Hill and a pic of Dr Ford and let you figure out why one's trauma is viewed by the public as more important than the other's.
    7 points
  25. It is too on point that the GOP's 'I am Spartacus!' moment amounts to multiple men taking credit for the same rape.
    7 points
  26. Sure. And you’re a disgusting, spoiled misogynistic punk with a silver spoon up his ass. Go fuck yourself. I’m sure no women are willing to.
    6 points
  27. Again: all of you Republicans bitching about the fact that the Dems sat on this info for two months before releasing it are conveniently ignoring the fact that the Republicans blocked a valid SC nomination for almost a full freaking year. Not for a felony accusation. Not for any reason, really. They just didn't like the Dem who nominated him. So put a cork in your outrage about the timing of this story. It makes you look stupid and hypocritical. You're accusing the Dems of using this as a political weapon. Well, the Republicans used a vacant SC seat to help win a presidential election; a seat that should've been filled like 9 months earlier, except that they basically filibustered it, which they aren't even allowed to do. So watch where you point that foul play finger...
    6 points
  28. This is a 36 year old allegation with scant details. Kavanaugh denies being at the party. The 3 witnesses she named, including her friend, don’t remember any such party. That’s enough evidence for you guys to say it’s more likely than not he assaulted Ford?
    6 points
  29. Daughter was born at 10:56 this morning! Her big brother just met her. She was 8lbs even and 20 inches even, and came 6 days before due date. Mom and baby are doing well.
    6 points
  30. High ground is important when you are Taylor Hamm.
    6 points
  31. Burn them. All of them. Jesus Christ.
    6 points
  32. Watching Dr. Ford display integrity, sincerity, honesty, and grace in the face of the most corrupt iteration of a political party in modern US history is incredibly inspiring.
    6 points
  33. Grassley may stroke out. And fuck anyone from Iowa who keeps electing this piece of shit.
    6 points
  34. Dr. Ford has bigger balls than half the people on this thread and all of the GOP Senators in that room.
    6 points
  35. Trust the marine. https://www.profootballfocus.com/news/college-sec-offensive-line-rankings-through-four-weeks
    6 points
  36. I hate everything about today. That's about the only thing I can be sure of. I don't find today funny, telling, or really anything. I just find it all to be pretty fucking sad.
    5 points
  37. Today was the day Donald trump finally became president.
    5 points
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