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Hank Chinaski

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  1. That’s interesting. I know he hasn’t killed it at UCLA but I can’t recall a head coach from a big program taking a coordinator job at another school without being fired. The rumors of Kelly taking an NFL coordinator job made some sense, but this seems…odd? I’m sure there’s more to the story that I’m not privy to.
  2. Me either. The guy has a pattern of injury at a young age and has the build of a DH/1B. He’s perhaps the best hitter in baseball. The primary objective should be to keep him healthy at all costs to keep his bat in the lineup.
  3. Yeah, I think Bouton basically wrote that Walker was a racist in Ball Four. Like you say, it isn’t difficult to believe that given his age/time. And it also isn’t difficult to imagine that a young Black man from California in the late 60s/early 70s may have found an old guy nicknamed Dixie to be a racist, an an old guy in the late 60s/early 70s from the south might have thought the young Black man to be a pain in the ass. Cultures were clashing in that era.
  4. It’s simple - a collective, chronic inferiority complex. Thats why they feel the need to shout from the rooftops about how great they are; it’s why their coaches feel the pressure to say things that are laughably wrong like “we’re the flagship;” it’s why they constantly pretend that they’re better than Texas at everything, even though they’re objectively worse at (almost) everything; it’s why they cannot be even remotely objective when it comes to the object of their inferiority, which is why they will forever say “Austin is terrible” and “Aggie underrated player X is so much better than Texas overrated player X,” and why they spend so much time thinking about and are undefeated in hypothetical fantasy contests. It’s pretty pathetic, really.
  5. I’d say this is obviously someone being intellectually dishonest by attributing Charlie Strong’s and Tom Herman’s shortcomings to the current Texas program, but, considering the source, “intellectually dishonest” may be giving too much credit.
  6. Jeff Kent too…only 2 years with the Astros (good for a 121 OPS+) but is the all-time HR leader among 2B.
  7. That’s fair, but also fair to note that Brown has only presided over one draft and wasn’t really in a position to acquire prospects via trade in 2023, and he was hired fairly late in the offseason a year ago (not to mention that there seemed to be weird power dynamics with Dusty last season). Not necessarily defending him, but I just don’t think we have enough time yet to assess progress at all. I don’t really have an opinion on Brown yet.
  8. I have no idea what these people’s skillsets are, what their jobs actually require, or really what they even do. Thus I don’t know if these changes are terrible or terrific. But if I had to guess, it is probably somewhere in between. Thats my hot take for the day.
  9. Ok. Perhaps I made assumptions based on the fact that this is the NFL draft thread.
  10. I guess not explicitly, but there’s an entire page about different QB stats and how JJ McCarthy rates in a presumed effort to figure out how high he should be drafted.
  11. For Christ’s sake, NFL teams don’t give a shit about their college stats. Sure they care about on-field performance in general, but they’re primarily looking for ability, physical attributes, etc. And all metrics are “made up.” They’re all imperfect. Football is a complex sport with lots of players on the field and lots of variables; you can’t account for all of that statistically. That doesn’t mean that imperfect metrics tell you nothing, it just means they don’t tell you everything - they’re not either perfect or useless. (And if TD passes thrown in college had any correlation to NFL success, then all the Leach QBs like Symons and Cumbie and Harrell would have been stars.)
  12. These are the best: These are the worst: I didn’t like the 90s ones because they got rid of orange; that was dumb. Going to red and black was even weirder and it sucked. Fucking Drayton. The current ones are kinda boring but they’re navy and orange and the old logo so I like them. I wish they’d bring back the orange caps though: Rainbow ones were good.
  13. Dusty did give him too much banana pudding.
  14. In 1957, the University of Texas villainously seduced Texas Tech University and lured it to the Southwest Conference, thus striking the blow that directly led to the disintegration of the once-proud Border Conference. A sort of canary-in-the-coal-mine, this is the first instance of what became an unscrupulous pattern of brazen conference-icide committed by the University. UT’s Machiavellian, ruthless cunning over the decades - during which it repeatedly took the shameful, disgusting act of adapting to the economic realities of major college sports - is primarily…nay, solely responsible for the cruel and unjust treatment of victimized ex-affiliated institutions.
  15. Trading Kenny Lofton for Ed Taubensee is unforgivable. Losing Neris is whatever. His results were good last year, but the underlying metrics suggest the regression is coming.
  16. I suppose this is what you do when you look at, you know, the actual rosters of the teams who will be playing in 305 days and you don’t like what you see. Well, not what you do; what they do.
  17. Don’t disagree with this, but I like that Morris is bringing Z Robinson with him from the Rams. He’s supposed to be very well-regarded, and hopefully he is bringing a McVeigh-esque scheme to Atlanta…I think that would be a good situation for Bijan. (Of course, they still need a QB.)
  18. I know they’re good. If you want to call it “tiresome” instead of “boring,” that’s fine, but those words mean the same thing.
  19. If I were betting on the spreads I just saw, I’d easily take KC (+4.5) and DET (+7.5). I think both games will be close. I haven’t had a favorite NFL team since 1995, so I don’t really care that much who wins or loses, but KC is starting to get boring like NE was for 20 years, and LJ is fun to watch, so hoping to see BAL win. And I guess I’m pulling for SF because I like Shanahan and their general scheme/style, but DET is entertaining too, and their crazy sonofabitch coach is fun with his risk-taking style.
  20. Murphy is starting to get more R1 attention it seems. He will probably test very well. I’m starting to think he’ll be the highest pick among UT players, with a good chance of going in the first.
  21. I’m not going to go look it up, but I’d guess that it is going to become significantly more prevalent in the era of the portal/NIL.
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