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Wtf are yβall even talking about? Lose Worthy and being okay with it? Get the fuck outta here with that shit.22 points
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Concussions and Head Injuries The skull protects the brain against penetrating trauma, but does not absorb all the impact of a violent force. The brain is cushioned inside the skull by the surrounding cerebrospinal fluid. Despite this, an abrupt blow to the head, or even a rapid deceleration, can cause the brain to contact the inner side of the skull. ~~~ See...it's the flu.18 points
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aggy I work with shelled out $700 on a hotel in CS back in July for today's game. Hope he enjoyed it.17 points
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Finally the FS1 undercard is over. Donβt change that dial. Bruins @ Devils. Big boy football.16 points
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On a live stream from clubhouse a player said keep national media out and they can fuck off Sent from my SM-G990U using Tapatalk14 points
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We win (a ranked away game!), aggy and OU lose. My sanity is restored.14 points
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Mdmost and I are watching the game in my backyard. My wife admonished us for being too loud there at the end. This was my reply.14 points
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to me, this one's for JR Richard. Astros 1980 would have beaten the Phils in the NLCS and eventually the WS had he not had his summer cardiac stroke. To beat Philly today is redemption.13 points
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I suppose it has to be mentioned that Jimbo is used to those close to him being drilled by gators. I mean, historically.13 points
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LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL "got sick during last weeks game." Holy fucking shit they're barely hiding it at this point.12 points
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Let's be very clear about something. Dodds was never ever ever interested in erecting a firewall/barrier between BMDs and football coaching hires. He wanted to make sure a very wealthy somebody - and better if several very wealthy somebodies - was always on the hook for football hirings and firings. That was the case with Akers/McWilliams/Mackovic and it was certainly the case with Brown. Dodds' job security was from pooling all the sports in the athletic department - which previously had each been responsible for their own fundraising, with most of the capital costs coming from the PUF and state legislature - into one fundraising mechanism. The Longhorn Foundation. From there, his success was measured based on how much money he brought in and how much it increased year over year. Which was staggering. It became the modus operandi for the entire athletic department. I used to say the athletic department didn't raise money so the football team could win games. They wanted the football team to win games so they could raise more money. It's a huge distinction, and it permeated the culture. There's still vestiges of it now. To be honest, it was a much needed move and heralded UT's entry into the super rich of the college sports hierarchy. But there was never a time when Dodds' position was threatened by the moribund football program, and he made sure it stayed that way. In any case, Hicks and Evans were always going to be the chief decision makers regarding Mackovic's replacement. Other people had their say so, but those two made their massive campaign donations (Tom HIcks to Ann Richards, Don Evans to George Bush) to get on the BoR in the first place in large part because football was becoming an indifferent product to the administration and the powers that ran the university. For years BoR appointments had been made of people who didn't really care about football's success. With Bill Clements, orchestrator of the SMU slush fund serving two terms, Mark White, Baylor grad, and Ann Richards, Baylor grad (Tom Hicks being the exception) the BoR was filled with many political appointees who were less interested in the health of UT or its athletic programs (although there were good ones interested in the academic side, to be fair) than having the prestigious position in the first place. I know Tom Hicks was there for both interviews, Barnett and Brown. Everyone involved flew on his plane. Darrell Royal was there for the Mack Brown interview. It's my strongest opinion that if Barnett had given the more compelling interview, or if Baddour had matched UT's offer, Gary Barnett would have been the next football coach. But it had very little to do with competing BMDs. There wasn't any real competition for who would be the deciding factor in that hiring. Hicks was Dodds' cover for that one. Just as Jim Bob Moffett had been the cover for the Mackovic hire. This idea of competing BMDs is simply untrue. Hicks was running that show with Evans on his side the whole way through. I am extraordinarily thankful for both of them, because at the time I was getting scared that football simply wasn't going to be that important any more at the University of Texas. It seems silly now, but it sure didn't feel that way in the 80s and 90s with all the enemies in the athletic department (emboldened by the Title IX settlement many of whom absolutely loathed football as anything other than a cash cow and resented the resources invested in it), on the academic side, and in the UT administration itself. And the tone is always ultimately set at the BoR level. Really, the folks who felt like Texas couldn't be a world class university if it was perceived as a football factory won some very important battles from the 70s to the 90s. It was only after Mack Brown's success galvanized the campus and demonstrated without question how empowering a successful football program could be for the institution (a narrative which is not believed by everyone, mind you, but by enough these days) that football gained its former supremacy, which in my mind hasn't left since Mack Brown was hired, even if it's still been a clusterfuck. The bigger threat for hiring Saban was after 2013. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/sec/2013/12/13/coach-nick-saban-agrees-to-new-contract-alabama-football/4018359/ Nick Saban signs new extension on December 13. This is after the extension sat on his desk for 8 days: https://www.thebiglead.com/posts/nick-saban-has-had-a-contract-extension-on-his-desk-for-six-days-now-paul-finebaum-reports-update-01dmfjg2n418 I was told Saban was ready to say yes before he even received the contract extension from Alabama. Whatever Bama fans like to say, I know Bama boosters were genuinely concerned. Steve Patterson had already been named the athletic director and was announced at a press conference on November 7. Two days after Saban finally signs the extension, Mack Brown announces his resignation. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/10141946/mack-brown-says-resigned-texas-longhorns-meeting-own-standard Mack Brown purposefully cock blocked Saban from getting the job. That's the truth of it. Nick Saban has always looked at the turmoil associated with Texas during that two years with disgust. All the leaks. All the different players having different objectives, with it not being clear who had the power to actually do anything. He warned Sarkisian about taking the job, although he supported him in his decision. BTW, it was university president Bill Powers who put the impetus on Steve Patterson to hire both an African American football coach as well as an African American basketball coach when that opportunity came up a couple of years later. All three of the athletic directors - Deloss Dodds, Steve Patterson, and Chris Del Conte - have tried to put a buffer between the athletic director position and the hiring of a new football coach. All three of them wanted the measure of the success of their performance to be divorced in as many ways possible from the performance on the football field. Patterson was hired specifically to cut the bloat out of the athletic department and to run it like a business. Which he did. And then he was fired for it. Thankfully. Del Conte has been a fundraiser, customer service rep, and a lubricating factor between competing interests, both inside and outside the athletic department. But you'll notice when it comes to Sarkisian, he constantly ropes in Hartzell and especially Eltife's name into the conversation. That's a political move, and a smart one at that. But that's also part of the issue. There's never one person who is held accountable for a poor hiring in football. It's always this broad morass, a shifting sands of responsibility. It means that whoever is hired, if they fail, even if they fail badly, no one is going to suffer the consequence of losing their job. That's just the way it is.12 points
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Mattress Mack placed $10M in bets on the Astros to win the World Series β at blended +750 odds across multiple sportsbooks. He just won $75 million β the largest legal payout in sports betting history π°11 points
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Yβall are some really stupid motherfuckers. Youβre really advocating letting a dude that we fucking KNOW can perform at a high fucking level but is also frustrating at times walk for guys who you THINK can or should be able to perform? Fucking go back to the fucking football board with the other mouth breathing idiots holy fucking fuck. Fuck.11 points
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Unbelievable that a season can fall apart like this after a national title-level Fall camp.11 points
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