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The plan at LB is: -Tillman looks great and might end up starting this year (is he the most unheralded signee? at least the most unheralded early enrollee, but critical if he really is developing in such a manner this early) -Gbenda takes a similar jump on the learning curve as he settles in (he was expected to be the early contributor but wasn’t an EE) -Floyd gets medically cleared (I don’t see it) -One of the JUCO signees makes an appearance as a player -stay on Chris Thompson and see what happens if Auburn falls apart (does the payment to the parents keep him locked in with a new regime? is this guy an EE?) -one of Hullaby and JQJ becomes an LB -if Overshown isn’t made of glass, does he eventually see LB-esque action with a DB label this season and does that work for him and the defense? -Owens might fit that bill eventually if Overshown doesn’t -they have a target that they do not want to be public right now (they’re hoping he stays hidden, a la Gary Johnson in 2017, or he’s committed elsewhere and they feel really good about a flip) -they will scour the transfer/GT landscape all the way up to next summer So yeah, none of us feel like LB is sorted, but Orlando has a lot of optionality, which he craves.16 points
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I said for years they needed to make that change....glad to see it finally happened16 points
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I guess it's impossible to feel like Jimbo is talking down to them.14 points
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LSU plays in a conference full of primitive offenses that make an opposing D look good. Things look a lot different when they run into competent, modern offenses. Georgia was averaging 18.5 PPG before the bowl. Texas put 28 on them even trying to run the clock out for most of the 2nd half. Bama gave up 14.8 PPG. OU scored 34 and Clemson 44 against them. Mizzou's D averaged 24.4 PPG. Okie Lite barely qualified for a bowl game. The Cowboys had a 3-6 record in the Big XII and scored 38 points. Vandy surrendered 25.1 PPG. Like OSU, Baylor barely qualified and had a losing record in the Big XII. The Bears put up 45 in the bowl. Objectively, Big XII offenses were much better than those of the SEC in the 4 inter-conference bowl games. Texas outscored UGa's average by 9.5 points. OU went 19.2 points over Alabama's average. OSU was a lower tier Big XII team and exceeded Missouri's average by 13.6 points. Baylor another lower tier team from the Big XII beat Vandy's average defensive effort by 19.9 points. On the flip side of the coin, Texas averaged 31.1 points scored with 28 vs Georgia. IOW, the 2nd rated defense in the SEC was 3 points tougher than the average defense in the Big XII. Alabama did manage to keep OU 15 points under their average but that average was so high that Bama looked merely above average, not utterly dominant as they did against the SEC's crap offenses. OSU was right on their average so Mizzou performed like an average Big XII defense. Finally Baylor was scoring 28.3 PPG coming into the bowl. Vandy's D was 17 points worse than the average D in the Big XII. When you look at actual outcomes, it's clear that any claim of tough defense in the SEC is the result of how bad the offenses are in that league. The same defenses look MUCH worse when pitted against modern, well-coached offenses - even those with significantly less talent. Put SEC teams through a Big XII schedule and I guarantee you that most of them would give up north of 30 PPG. The proof is in the pudding even if it is a bitter pill for the SEC homers to swallow.12 points
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This is gonna be long, but I'm bored and avoiding work. It's usually a mostly steady uptick as they beat up on cream puffs and roll out to a 5-1 or 4-2 first half before the wheels fall off and the gnashing of tooth begins. I think this year there will be a lot more zig-zags: They'll pound Texas St. "It's finally our year, praise Jimbo and White Jesus!" They'll get pounded by Clemson. "I'm not worried. It was a road loss against an NFL caliber team and there's a lot to learn from that game that'll help us beat Bama at Kyle." They'll pound Lamar. "See, Cletus, I told y'all it was our year. I can't believe we're only #21. We might be the best 2-1 team ever." They'll lose a heartbreaker at home to Auburn. "God dammit. Nobody beats us at Kyle. Auburn must be way better than people thought. But we can still win out and make the playoff." They'll beat Arkansas by something like 28-24. "Not pretty, but a road win in the SEC is something only four or five teams in the whole country are capable of. I can't believe we're 16-point underdogs to Bama. Nobody beats us at Kyle!" Bama beats them at Kyle by 31. "Well, shit, Cletus. What are ya gonna do? But we're still looking like a 9-3 team headed to a New Year's Six bowl." Aggy rolls up wins against Ole Miss, Miss St, and UTSA. They're 6-3 and ranked again. "Gig 'em, bitches! Farmers Fight! This team has come such a long way - I'm telling ya, Cletus, if we could start the season over with these fine young men playing this well, we'd be 9-0." South Carolina upsets aggy at Kyle. "Fucking refs, god dammit!" Aggy loses by 28 at Georgia. "Hold me, Cletus." Aggy loses by 28 at LSU to finish 6-6. "I fucking TOLD you Jimbo wasn't the guy, Cletus! Like 80% of our roster will start in the NFL and we're going to the god damned Liberty Bowl. If we don't win at least 12 next season, it's time to call Belichick." I hate aggy, a lot. But I also love those delusional little weirdos. It's gonna be a fun year. (And fuck you, texags)10 points
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For the first time in Hamm’s short life, he said something funny.10 points
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We tend to think of Trump backers as a homogenous group, but they aren't. I think its important to distinguish between the plutocrats, the true racists/white nationalists and the exploited working class that are supporting the GOP right now. The current generation of working adults grew up in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. America's Camelot. But the middle class that thrived in those decades has been sacrificed for the luxury of the 2% at the top. Its harder to give your kids the same childhood and opportunities that your parents were able to give you. When my oldest child is 18, four years at a state school like UT is projected to cost $160,000. I have 3 kids. If you are like me, and I think most are, you try like hell to do it, and wind up sacrificing your own health and well being in the process. And I and my children are far better off than most. We have it good enough that I have the luxury of moral outrage. But many have it worse, and when you are in that state, you are ripe for exploitation. You are tired, stressed, depressed, pissed. You are doing your best but falling further behind. A little bit at a time, every day. Then you tune into MSNBC and see someone bitching about your male, white privilege. WTF? Fuck you, asshole. So you switch to Fox News, and hear the talk of an invasion of immigrants taking jobs and leeching our tax dollars for free healthcare. And there's Trump, talking about protecting American workers and putting up a wall to protect us from the invasion. And voila, just like that, you support our President even if you don't agree with everything he says and does. That group of people are not outright racists. They also happen to be the majority of Americans. They have a very real plight as we move further into post-industrialism and their plight is the context in which a Donald Trump can arise. If we want to see Trump defeated, we need to quit calling them deplorables, listen to their problems and offer them a viable alternative.10 points
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This would really only be a story of any significance if there were, in fact, any Auburn alumni who could read.10 points
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It’s shit like this clown and the dickface quack from InfoWars that has me convinced we’re entering a new Dark Age. So many people believe utter horseshit over science. And at the risk of ranting, one of the craziest ironies of this phenomenon is that some of the worst quackery is only accepted because it was originally packaged up as legit science. Take the anti-vaxxer nonsense, for example. That shit never would have gained any traction if a paper espousing the theory hadn’t been published in a respected medical journal (The Lancet). But once it took hold, those who bought it because it was published in a mainstream scientific journal refuse to believe any of the refutations solely because they are published by mainstream journals (which are part of a vast conspiracy or some shit). It’s just fundamentally unsound thinking, and so many Americans have brains that just don’t fucking work properly. They’re easily confused, immune to logic, and unable to adjust to new information. It’s frustrating as shit and makes me think an asteroid strike might be the best thing to happen to this planet. Humans are immensely overrated.9 points
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So Duvernay was clocked at 22.5 MPH. Big deal. I know a guy who can hit 31.9 points
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Or we could just sit back and enjoy the ride. Nah, let’s see if we can fuck this up!8 points
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Trump cult: The left calls everyone a racist, it's total bullshit, there are hardly any examples of real racism, and it's morally wrong to throw around the term like that! Also Trump cult: Hollywood is racist. The Squad is racist. Elijah Cummings is racist. The Democrat Party is racist. The Left is racist.8 points
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Yeah but you forgot all the stories of drunk, belligerent tsips cursing pregnant aggy ladies and giving them the double bird, spilling their beers on poor aggy children who were in crutches from MS, and pushing aggy grandmas in their wheelchairs down flights of stairs at DKR. All of which came to a halt when a strapping, brave aggy dropped the tsips with one punch, knocking all of their tsipping teeth out in the process. All of their tsip friends cowered away in fear of the brave young former student. Whoop!7 points
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In oh no's defense, he's right that the 3-3-6 defense doesn't help NFL scouts. You know, mostly because the plays never count what with 12 men on the field.7 points
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Just when you start to forget about the little bastard, he tweets something stupid.6 points
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I think it's because so many people are never taught how to be wrong. Those of us with engineering and science backgrounds are used to Mother Nature saying "nope, you got that one all wrong, try again, idiot". It's not even shameful. It's just part of the daily process. "Hey, what if . . . oh shit, that was dumb." I'm not saying everyone needs to study STEM in college, or philosophy, or even go to college in the first place. I am saying that we are seeing the byproduct of incomplete primary and secondary education, and now that the internet has made it possible to connect with millions of other ill-equipped thinkers, we suddenly have entire digital communities of self-reinforcing asshattery.6 points
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"they're just jealous because we got 27 world series titles." - 27 year old from Del Rio, Texas.6 points
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I, for one, have always appreciated the stories here/TOS...all the nitty gritty horrible details. I feel like I’m slowly coming out of a rough patch, spurred by the birth of my daughter in 2016 (second and final kid)...she had horrible acid reflux and didn’t sleep for almost two months, my first had just turned terrible 3’s + had to deal with his place at the center of the universe being overridden, the added stress ramped up arguing with my wife and that’s how my codependency / ‘keep her happy at all costs’ started to really show itself as detrimental to everyone. Having another kid really cemented the transition from ‘no longer a couple with one cute kid, playing zone offense to take turns being a parent’ to ‘real life’. Resentment, anger, stress, anxiety, boredom lead me to drinking more. I got called out for occasionally neglecting kid duties (basic stuff like forgetting to put a dirty diaper in the genie, nothing serious) and decided to start hiding it. I was successful a lot, but constantly being hungover had me working from home to nurse hangovers, dreading the kids coming home / scrutiny from my wife, so I’d repeat that process almost daily in a shitty cycle. And god help me when I got caught, or lied about it. Started seeing a therapist, who himself was a recovered codependent, and helped me lay a foundation of not tying my mood to my wife’s. I didn’t fully break that cycle until my wife was off for the summer and I couldn’t lay around all day recovering, didn’t get bored to tears by dinner time, and thus started stringing together sober days, realizing everything is better when I don’t drink, especially solo at home (which is the only place I have this problem...when we go out I can easily nurse beers without the need to keep pushing it). Your stories are helpful in that I see plainly how everyone with a problem used the same ‘tricks’ to hide it, needed a real reason/bottom to break that cycle, alcohol wasn’t treating the root issues and only made them worse...basically let me peer down others abysses and make the decision not to drink that day (or, for me at least, not doing it at home hiding it). Currently I’ve felt a sea change in my outlook, and while parenting two young kids while both of us work full time is not always a picnic, I’m no longer feeling that dread/anxiety/fear of having to be fully present when my family is around. Now I just gotta earn that trust back from my wife and keep taking it a day at a time. Thank you all for spilling your guts of your rough times, it’s a huge motivation for me as a ‘not quite normy but probably not alcoholic’ type.6 points
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Probably... a year, maybe 18 months or something before I got sober (so, during the basically 2 years that I somehow managed to exist as a drunken ghost) I visited my sister in NYC. I wouldn't have gone, other family was going, I went. Plane ride was a little rough - I was that kind of drunk at that point. The last full day I was there, probably similar to the other days I was there... actually definitely similar to the other days I was there, I was drinking basically between everything. I mean, there was drinking in the stuff we did as well - I probably had a couple of glasses of wine during... I think I saw the Book of Mormon while we were there, or when we went out for brunch or whatever, but was also having cocktails at the hotel bar and spending time "walking around", which was finding bars and drinking. At any rate, the last day I was definitely drinking all day and had a fairly normal/"manageable" level of drunk on. Went to the Pat Green concert (whatever his annual Texas concert is) with my sister and brother in law at the end, went to a bar afterwards with some people we ran into, and at some point got black out drunk. I didn't make a scene with them or anything, but decided to walk "home" (not sure if I told them or not), which I guess I was confident I'd be able to do because.... grid? I don't know. But I definitely got lost. I have fuzzy recollections of trying to work my way back, kept getting turned around, went to the wrong hotel and was either trying to convince the guy that I was staying there or get him to help me figure out where to go but was telling me I was drunk and he was going to call the police if I didn't leave. I think maybe I was in a building at one point. The sun was coming up, then the sun was up, I remember a fairly homeless looking dude asking if I was OK (I think I was carrying my boots at that point). Stopped in for some water at a bodega, I'm sure I looked like a mess. Then I remembered that cabs existed, hailed one, and managed to come up with the intersection (57th and Lex), and he dropped me off, thank GOD. Staggered upstairs, passed out on the bed, and then at some point the hotel was knocking on the door telling me I needed to check out. FUCK, MY FLIGHT. Threw everything into my bag (forgot a couple of nice shirts), took a cab, definitely had already missed my flight. Old guy at the airline desk (US Air... why the fuck was I flying US, but it worked out that time) took pity on me and worked together a way for me to get home with a stop off in.... Charlotte. Had a couple of beers in JFK or whichever airport, got on my plane (man, whoever was sitting next to me, I'm sorry). Found whatever sports bar in the Charlotte airport and drank some more. Used my iPad to respond to my sister's email checking that I was OK because I had disappeared and wasn't picking up my phone. I had lost my phone the night before. I think I connected again through Houston or something and remember having some more drinks near the gate. Some girl was doing the same thing and we ended up talking, she had an interest in WWI history and was going to go to Ypres soon, and I have a history degree and had taken the WWI class at UT. How the fuck do I end up chatting up some girl who maybe was cute or at least wasn't fat in that state of being, but of course by that point everything was right in the world again. I guess I made it home. I don't know how I managed to emerge from that 48 hours just OK. Out the cost of a new phone. My boots were pretty fucked up. I'm embarrassed and was embarrassing but mostly to my sister (who found out the whole scoop eventually) and people I'll never see again. That's probably my biggest wtf drunken episode (outside of my stay in the hospital, which wasn't "drunk"), which is not to say that there weren't others, and is fairly incredible considering that I drank for another year after that. Ugh. Charles' post reminded me of that night, I feel like we've all been there to some extent or another. Never again.6 points
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The thought of Duv, Smith, Whittington matched up on their slug foot secondary is borderline erotic.5 points
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As for aggy and their stupid "great attendance" myth: https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/college-sports/collegesports/2018/11/13/many-fans-actually-show-texas-ams-football-games-kyle-field5 points
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Of course it would matter in an election against Trump. You think just because Trump is clearly deteriorating too that they will just magically cancel each other out? No, Trump and the GOP would ruthlessly attack Biden's senility while pretending Trump isn't even more deficient and the media will help them sell it with their faux-objective coverage. Hell, they made Hillary's health a negative because she kept campaigning when she had fucking pneumonia. Biden needs to drop out. The sooner the better.5 points
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LSU doesn’t need to practice as much as Texas. Their practices just mean more.5 points
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There’s only two things I cant stand in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures...and the Dutch5 points
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So which is the new version? I can see the difference, but I don’t detect an improvement.5 points
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And apparently we're tough because we're cruel to the most vulnerable among us. They aren't celebrating cruelty to, say, gun runners or drug kingpins, or even MS-13 to the extent any of those things are possibly real. We're cruel to poor migrants who came here to escape poverty and crime, trying to make better lives for their families. People without the means to defend themselves. Children. People toiling at jobs so tough and for such little money that Americans won't work them. This is who we're cruel to. And 40% of the country thinks that makes us patriotic, or real tough guys. It's sickening. It's not remotely about me. But my father, who volunteered teaching ESL to recent immigrants, died just before the kiddy concentration camps came to light. Working with immigrants was his passion, on his retirement. This was a man who ran for office as a Republican, but left the GOP around Dubya's time due to their getting in bed with the religious right. I'm hesitant to say I'm glad he didn't live to see what we've become, but I can't imagine if he'd lived to see this cruelty.5 points
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