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softlynow

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  1. We went from Shining City on a Hill to banana republic in about 40 years.
  2. Certainly keeps them in the game despite how terrible they are at traditional warfare.
  3. Yep. "God wants us to end abortion tourism" is the next line, as if crossing state lines for medical care of an emotional nature and which is possibly necessary to save a woman's life was a fun vacation.
  4. You're asking about the rules that apply to the mega rich?
  5. He only sees the good in people, which is why he knows nothing about Portnoy and Rogan.
  6. He will emerge from this as the front-runner for the Republican nominee for President, and y'all know it. He knows silence now is a positive for him with his base.
  7. Or he just doesn’t believe in the no win scenario.
  8. 1. Decrease the number of constituents for each member of the House of Representatives to 30,000. 2. Require upfront pricing from all medical service providers, meaning all prices published on the internet and in a book/binder in the patient lobby. 3. Term limits - 6 for house reps, 2 for Senators.
  9. Same roster that built a huge lead against the league’s clear leader, and a sizable one against the next 2 couldn’t go 8-4 under better management? Sure. Moronic take.
  10. This roster is good enough to have gone 8-4. This debate will end on 9/17/22. When UTSA beats us one week after Bama throttles us by 50, the only question will be when we pull plug.
  11. Copy Editor's notes: 1. If you really want this to run, consider the edits made above. 2. You should really reconsider running this.
  12. Context you ignore - when Casey came in against Colorado, the offense produced at a demonstrably higher rate. You really suck at this. We’re surprised at the obviously dismal coaching failure. Personnel issues are, again and again, admitted by the non-Pollyanna crowd, but y’all conveniently keep harping on them like it’s a point of contention. 2021’s Game one results have been shown to be no more impressive than 2020’s. We’ve moved beyond that data point. Your argument continues to be that all is not lost because some tiny percentage of the time first year failures don’t portend overall tenure failure. You’ve added nothing to that since you started this nonsense.
  13. The failure of every Rutgers coach other than Greg Schiano and every Kansas coach other than Mangino is proof enough your first statement is wrong.
  14. The perspective is backed up by any competent analysis of this game. It was a total coaching failure. Your rejoinders are “hey look, this successful guy had bad games too!” So what? Your examples lack context. When presented with it you discount it, while claiming only we are ignoring inconvenient facts. Do you actually mean to be persuasive when you come at us with like “it fits your narrative” and “3-8 doesn’t matter” in the same post? Do you not see what you did there? Sark may ultimately succeed here. Stranger shit has happened in sports. We should be comforted by the early travails of the arguably the greatest cfb coach of all time when his trajectory is 1. not at all similar to Sark’s and 2. obviously an outlier among coaches whose first years are mediocre to bad? Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit.
  15. LSU was 3-8 in 1999. Growing pains aside, 8-4 in 2000 was an immediate sign that LSU had something going with Saban. Yes, Saban's Bama lost to ULM in 2007. In that year, though, Bama's worst loss was by 7 points (4 times). Sark inherited a 7-3 team that has won 4 straight bowl games. I'm not going to discount the many deficiencies in the program that Sark inherited, but comparisons to Saban's results are ridiculous. Saban improved the situation in his first years at both SEC stops. Sark has us taking a giant step back two games in. We'll see if he can recover, but any opinion that the early returns are anything but massively disappointing is worthless.
  16. This is another reminder of how awful Dems are at politics. Encouraging the anti-vaxxers should be seen as the greatest domestic threat of our time. Dem messaging should be laser-focused on making the anti-vaxxers as ostracized as “reds” were in the ‘50s. Dems continually bring pillows to gunfights and wonder why they can’t win elections.
  17. Bama’s worst loss margin that year was 7 points, 4 times.
  18. So it comes down to “we’re Texas?” We all thought this was a great coaching staff. But here we are wondering how they arrived at both their offensive and defensive game plans, and whether their efforts at multiple positions are actually any good. Casey in at QB is probably enough of a change to, by itself make 5 or even 6 wins a worst case scenario. But if he misses significant time?
  19. I don’t think so either, which you’d know if you understood English.
  20. Piggy was 3-7 last year and tied with Rice through three quarters week one and at no point did we look like we belonged on that field with them. Stop shrugging off how bad that was. Losing all the winnable games is unlikely, but y’all honestly think we’re so much better than any non-rice/Kansas team on our schedule that we can’t lose? Like I said, I see 5-7 as most likely.
  21. 4-1? The chances of that are only a tiny bit better than being 5-0. TCU is a loss and Tech is a pick ‘em. Casey is an upgrade over Card, but those fixes don’t exist at OL. If it’s not knowing assignments well enough, maybe they get better in the second half of the season. If it’s anything else, buckle up. 5 wins is the o/u and 3-9 is very much in play. I’m not sure how anyone saw last night’s game and thinks anything but disaster lies ahead.
  22. TCU is a loss. Arkie is no better than the 6th best team on our schedule and they cornholed us. The only penciled in wins are Rice and Kansas.
  23. Know for sure? True. Not til at least game 2-3 next year, and maybe longer. Know from history that a guy with his track record has the look of a failure here? Absolutely. If there’s a bet to be made here, say o/u 3.5 years the percentages say take the under on Sark’s time here.
  24. He gets 3 years. Doesn’t mean he’s going to turn it around. I hope I’m wrong, but good coaching almost always shows up immediately. Maybe not by winning most games year one, but in manufacturing close losses and a few wins when outmatched in personnel. There was zero evidence of that last night, and plenty of evidence of a lack of ability.
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