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Showing content with the highest reputation on 08/22/22 in Posts

  1. You continue to present hot take after hot take, and you have the certitude of someone who has been rewarded for it elsewhere historically. I’m getting a distinctly CR behavior pattern here. Is that where you typically hang out? Because just posting over and over an incorrect take as declaratively and condescendingly as you can will not make you right, it won’t wear anyone out, and you’re about to start getting negged for the bandwidth drain. Gerry walked from his job working as as personality at ESPN and paid work helping run programs for Under Armour to take a stake in On3 and build another network. If you really don’t understand how any of this works, what you’re really telling us repeatedly is that you don’t understand the college football landscape or its revenue streams, and you have a blind spot when it comes to this whole capitalism thing where people don’t always make a market rate salary in order to make a shit ton of money as an owner when their business model works. Now shut the fuck up with your uninformed, weak rhetorical trash slinging and slink back off to the shithole from whence you came. You’ve fooled no one here, you’ve simply made a fool of yourself as the dumbest motherfucker on the football board, which is saying something.
    34 points
  2. Just removing BJ Foster from the field is probably good for two extra wins.
    28 points
  3. Finally realized who his smug face reminds me of...
    23 points
  4. Hard to believe he's the best Brockermeyer
    21 points
  5. there's also this idea they have that they can constantly do whatever they want and get away with it. a harsh lesson we've taught them by constantly letting them do whatever they want and get away with it.
    16 points
  6. True fact. During the battle of the bulge my dad and his Sherman tank defended the town of St. Vith, Belgium starting December 16. After holding off the German army for a week they were finally allowed to withdraw. My dad’s unit was selected as rear guard, partly because Shermans had issues with mud (Kraut tanks had wider tracks) and they did not want tanks stuck and blocking the narrow roads. That night a cold front came through, froze the ground, and instead of being rear guard and likely destroyed, the 9th Armored led the withdrawal to friendly lines and a safe Christmas. Even today mud can hamper modern mechanized armor. I worry about winter.
    15 points
  7. I literally hate every one of you people who capitalize every letter in edge and hope you are afflicted with the world's worst ever foot cramp the next time you're sleeping. Why didn't you capitalize SAFETIES?
    15 points
  8. The continued insistence that the D is going to suck is getting to be a real beating. A big part of the suckage last year was a lack of effort and missed assignments. A lot of these guys should benefit from another year in the pk system, and you'd figure whatever GP is doing behind the scenes can't hurt. Having guys out there that are actually hungry and bought in makes a huge difference. I'm not going to be shocked if we wind up sucking again - but I certainly don't expect to and figure we will be pretty average if not a little better than that. Even last year - the only teams that scored 35 or more were Tech, OU and Kansas. It's not like everyone was hanging 40+ on our ass.
    15 points
  9. How the fuck is it that we're 6 days from legitimate college football and not one of you miscreants has posted a thread on the matter? Christ. For those who are oblivious, and from reading other sites, admittedly dumber than this one, this needs to be said, Week Zero is the first week of CFB and usually features nothing but a bunch of sad also-ran teams rubbing bellies against one another. Well, sad news, this year is no different. There are 11 games on Saturday. 7 of them involve match-ups between FBS teams. Anyway, fuck it, here are my thoughts: Austin Peay @ Western Kentucky: I legitimately cannot feign knowing a gosh damned thing about either one of these teams outside of the fact that the younger Helton brother is the HC at WKU and he replaced his shit-hot OC that is now at Tech with a descendant of Fatty Arbuckle. So, yeah, give me WKU over AP, 41-7. Nebraska v. Northwestern in Dublin, IRE: Game of the week, right here. First of all, the game is in Ireland. I've seen people scratch their heads to this or show outright disdain for it. I think it is awesome. I've been to Ireland 5 times and I have never not had a great fucking time there. The concept of alcoholism has yet to make it to their shoreline, and the stereotypes exist for a reason, which the fucking Irish don't seem to give a damn about anyway. They love America and Americans, in my experience, and they think American Football is akin to one of the sports endemic to their country, I forget the name of it, so it's not a bad mash-up. I'd love it if Texas opened against Notre Dame there one year. As to the game, Scott Frost showed up to Week Zero last year, pulled his pants down at the 50 yard line, and mooned a national audience by not even being competitive with Illinois and the Fat Fucking Retard (ht to one of the old school Shaggy posters for one of my favorite threat titles ever, whichever one of you it was). Remember when Nebraska was getting top 10 odds for winning the CFP heading into the season a few years ago because ... Scott Frost. Yeah. I'll tell you what, the seat couldn't get any hotter for this guy if Lawrence Phillips were warming it with his own lava from the depths of hell. Northwestern is a Jeckyl and Hyde program, and last year was whatever the bad version of those 2 personality sides is. I expect Fitzgerald to have his team ready and to play Nebraska tight. I will be openly rooting against Casey Thompson and Marcus Washington in this one. Give me NW over UNL, 23-21. Idaho State @ UNLV: This shit is worse than WKU/Austin Peay. Without googling it, can anyone here name the Head Coach of UNLV? I'll give you a hint, he's 2-16 and has no Texas ties in his coaching history whatsoever. The HC at Idaho State was a rodeo clown before taking the part time role of HC'ing the Idaho State ... (checks notes) ... Bengals. UNLV over IDU, 28-2. Connecticut @ Utah State: Sadly, this qualifies are one of the weekend's FBS vs FBS battles. Connecticut lost to Holy Cross and UMass last year while going on to a 1-11 record. I'll be honest, I didn't realize that Geno Auriemma had crossed over as a late career experiment and was coaching their FB team this season. They might actually win this one. Not really. Utah State is a good program and they have a good coach, Blake Anderson. The story about him and his kids losing their wife/mom to cancer while he was at Arky State stays with me. Anyway, this game is worth watching if you've got the time, as Utah State goes to Bama the following week, and then Bama comes to Austin. Utah State had a strong season last year, so maybe they force Bama to show us something. Give me Utah State over UConn, 48-13. Wyoming @ Illinois: Wyoming was a weird team last year. They had some dominating wins against good to decent teams, and then they shit themselves against teams like New Mexico and Hawaii. Wyoming returns 10 starters total, and no one important on offense. They're staring down the barrel of an ugly season. That ugly season kicks off against the Fat Fucking Retard himself, Bret Bielema. Illinois also only returns 10 starters, but they had an influx of transfers, including Tommy Devito (Syracuse) at QB. FFR will have a good OL in place. I expect Illinois to win this battle of mehs, 27-17. Duquesne @ Florida State: Duquesne is no Jacksonville State. I don't know shit about them, but they play in a conference that includes Central Connecticut and Quinnipiac. They cannot be capable of winning against an FBS team, right? Anyway, every Seven Loss Steve apologist's favorite punching bag as a fail safe comparison, Mike Norvell and FSU, will continue to be improved as a program this year. And yes, they improved as the season went on last year, closing the season out 5-3 with their losses coming in close games with Clemson, NCSU, and rival UF. They should have beaten UF and choked it. But Norvell is a good coach and Jimbo Fisher and Willie Taggart did the guy no favors. FSU returns 7 offensive starters, including a solid Jordan Travis at QB, and landed transfer Mycah Pittman at WR. The defense landed Jared Verse and returns 6 other starters. I expect FSU to go 8-5/9-4 this season, comfortably. It won't shock me if they beat LSU in Week One in NOLA. FSU rolls here, 56-7. North Texas @ UTEP: Seth Littrell is a shit head okie and an easy guy to root against. I wish him and the Mean Green much failure while he's there. Disturbingly, he seems like a decent coach and he's taken them bowling 5 out of 6 seasons, losing all 5, and doing so TWICE! when they had losing records going into the bowl game. UNT returns a solid QB and plenty of other starters. Dana Dimel is neither dead nor is he Canadian, which surprised me. And he apparently took UTEP bowling last year. I wonder if this guy is still fucking coeds on pool tables in the on-campus bar? Not a bad gig if you can get it, I guess. This should be one of the better games of the week with UTEP also returning plenty and playing at home. Gimme UTEP 21, UNT 17. Nevada @ NMSU: Mike Norvell turned Nevada into a respectable program and then split for an upgrade to ... Colorado State? Okay. The good news is that the Wolfpack is now coached by one of the easiest shitbags in CFB to despise, Kevin Wilson. Fittingly, Nevada returns only 7 players, one of whom is the kicker. Kevin Wilson immediately declared them a "championship calibre" team following the spring, pulling a page directly out of mentor Bob Stoops' playbook for media management. New Mexico State hired a guy to be HC who is guaranteed to become incapacitated for no less than 3 games this season in Jerry Kill. I don't know what in the fuck that program is doing existing and I've seen them picked to finish last out of 131 teams in FBS this season by multiple prognosticators. I'm actually surprised ATM failed to get them on the schedule. Nevada goes nuts on the road by beating up a special needs person, 45-0. Vanderbilt @ Hawaii: Nice end to the first day of CFB here. Vanderbilt has regressed to their historical mean under the square-jawed Clark Lea. Vanderbilt opened last year with a blowout loss to fierce rival East or West Tennessee State. Their two wins came against Colorado State and a hapless UConn. SEC SEC SEC. Todd Graham did what he does at Hawaii and made them semi-respectable again while also being a hateable piece of shit who ended up pulling the bookshelf on top of himself to end his tenure there. They had a state senate hearing to discuss this guy at one point, meanwhile his son transferred away from his program while he ran it - Jesus. Tommy Chang has taken over and he's going to need time. Hawaii lost a bunch to transfers and will not be good this year. I still assume Hawaii has enough with the travel and general shittiness of Vandy though, so Hawaii 24, Vandy 10. Okay, that was a lot. I got bored waiting on some stuff, and dug in. TL;DR? GFY. Beyond that, all thoughts are welcome.
    14 points
  10. Shame he deleted this response lol
    13 points
  11. 13 points
  12. Step 1: End the “war on drugs” and defund the DEA. Use all the money earmarked for the war on drugs for education, treatment and immigration.
    13 points
  13. Burke looks like a Thujone creation in every pic I’ve seen
    12 points
  14. Nah. even when we’re trash, we own Nebraska
    12 points
  15. We should be letting in anyone who is under 40 years old and is willing to get documented. We need the workers. It’s not desperate yet, but it will be. From Brownsville to San Diego, there should be well staffed, well funded immigration offices processing people to quickly safely get them documented and set up with work and housing. But also, and this will be less popular in this forum, the border patrol should be fully empowered to enforce the law. Anyone caught trying to cross the border illegally should be punished harshly. But of course that would only be justified if we made it much much easier to come over legally. I also think we need to try to work a deal to get Mexico to enforce their own southern border.
    12 points
  16. Ukraine Memes for NATO Teens pissed off a bunch of people, and maybe gave us a new motto as well: “I can go lower”
    12 points
  17. I mean, goddamn. How many times do I have to say it…
    11 points
  18. Does anyone know if a starting KICKER (short for placekicker) has been announced or if they've officially announced Banks at TACKLE (short for offensive tackle)?
    11 points
  19. Gerry Hamilton - Quinn Ewers: From the perspective of Riley Dodge
    11 points
  20. Total! Over 14,000 of you donated over 24,000,000 crowns ($1 million) for arms for Ukraine. Most of the donations were for 1,968. We also registered donations of 68, 968, and 19,680 crowns. The Czech Ministry of Defense will use it all to purchase arms for Ukraine. Thanks so much! Poland is rightfully getting hyped, but don’t sleep on 10 million Czechs crowd sourcing a million bucks over two days.
    11 points
  21. a part of that thread says that trump basically figured out (or likely was told) that like many other norms or guidelines that govern "presidential behavior", there really isn't any penalty for breaking them, whether intentionally or otherwise. he knew there was no fine or prison time attached to it, so he didn't care about the "presidential records act" or "emoluments clause" or "not releasing tax returns" or any of the other fucking zillion things he did because he knew he could and get away with it. we need to turn these precedents and norms into actual laws with actual penalties. 250 years ago everyone assumed everyone else would bring some sort of dignity to the office, but there were shitbags then and they had to know there'd be shitbags now. it only takes one to ruin the fun for everyone, and we finally got him out of office. so i'll get on my soapbox for the 10th time - do this shit now, while biden is president. pass a sweeping set of laws with penalties attached to them, restricting presidents the way people already think they're restricted - with actual stern language, not "well, it's really kinda frowned upon so hey please don't do this, ok?" bullshit. a law is not a law unless it has a penalty attached if it's broken, right? right??
    10 points
  22. We need a palette cleanser… Ok defense, just follow this young lady’s advice and we will be fine…
    10 points
  23. I'm a Cowboys fan, but after the last 26 years, it's hard to argue...
    10 points
  24. 10 points
  25. Wordle 429 2/6* ⬛🟩⬛🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    10 points
  26. Dropped my kid off this weekend to start his freshman year at UT! I could tell he was nervous was hell. It’s a big step up going from a high school of 58 total kids to Texas. He’s in Architectural Engineering.
    9 points
  27. Jimbo Fisher, the quarterback whisperer
    9 points
  28. Wordle 429 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    9 points
  29. I think I’ve put 5 people in adjustable rate mortgages in my entire career, all this year, while rates can no longer be considered whether doggedly lowest means in your mind. I do know this- if you think you can’t succeed you are bound to be correct. I’d like to think the staff is planning up ways for the defense to be adequate and hope they figure that out. the wailing and gnashing of teeth and rubbing of pussy on here is overblown. We played 7 games last year that could have gone either way and we went 1-6. Just better luck could have led us to 7-5. Since then we’ve upgraded at QB, WR, RB & TE. Probably on the offensive line as well. We shod have some addition by subtraction as well as addition by addition in the back 7. The idea that we have to cross our fingers and hope to go 6-6 this year will have to be pounded into my thick skull by reality. Might it happen? Sure. But if the talent is better which seems reasonably likely and any strides have been made in the culture this is going to be a lot better year than most on here think. If not then the entire Sark era is doomed. Which could certainly be the case.
    9 points
  30. Salmon club with extra aged cheddar, sun dried tomato aioli and avocado:
    9 points
  31. Someone took something Sarkisian said in the press at face value and it is trending towards becoming mantra. I don't, not for a second, believe that Davis isn't coordinating what he's doing with the DL with the rest of the defense. Zero percent chance.
    8 points
  32. "I'm going to leave you with one final thought before I go. I really hope it's not chicken."
    8 points
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