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softlynow

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Bama’s worst loss margin that year was 7 points, 4 times.
  5. 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?
  6. I don’t think so either, which you’d know if you understood English.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Y’all need to stop over thinking things. Programs that win have good coaches. We hire mediocre and bad head coaches. No, the biggest concern is head coach. Until we get a good one, the rest is irrelevant.
  13. If we’re 2-3 heading to Dallas will anyone care? I’m most of the way to apathy already.
  14. That seems very optimistic. 6-7 looks like the ceiling.
  15. The Dems response to this is pretty much par for the course. Strongly worded tweets and a few high profile people preaching to the choir on little-watched 24-hr news station segments. This is a major development on the issue that is a shibboleth for party membership. You don't let "college football started this weekend" get in the way of blasting your message into every corner of American public life. Pubs simply play this part of the game better. If the shoe was on the other foot every news org would be forced to run headlines for a week about the GOP response. It would dominate multiple news cycles. Dems remain the disorganized, disparate collection of interests that barely get along, and even when they agree 100% on something have very little agreement on how or even whether to get that message out.
  16. It doesn’t offend me in the least that people decide not to use the right words to express themselves. I know what you’re saying, even though you’re saying it poorly.
  17. I didn’t say swing voter, I said moderate. Y’all are confusing terms. It may offend your sensibilities that they’re not gettable votes, but that’s just the way it goes.
  18. I’ve seen the programs Homeland Security uses to monitor child porn searches and downloads. This sounds like Apple is using similar software (quite a bit better than “not hot dog”). I think TwiceHorn is right that Apple is heading off legislation in this area. Child porn trafficking on the dark web and is now constantly monitored, and LE adapts when traffickers move on to each new file sharing service. This must be the biggest blind spot LE is complaining about, and Apple thinks there’s a big risk that Congress will act, and hopes to head that off.
  19. I know a number of moderates. Some have told me they’d support things like M4A, comprehensive immigration reform, police demilitarization (don’t call it defunding, though, idiots), some gun control reform and even dramatic climate change policies. They also know what BS the CRT panic is really about. But they’re simply team Red. They tell Pelosi, Beto and AOC jokes, and say they could never vote Biden, though I’ve headed them call bullshit on those saying he’s mishandling the economy. They’re my friends and I don’t care to get beyond policy to partisan prejudice. I suspect tax policy is a major factor, but I also think the team mentality is ingrained there. They’re Pubs because their friends and family are as well, and the ones that aren’t are curiosities. Most of those I’m talking about are moderate-information voters. Cable news and niche politics websites aren’t in their regular entertainment rotation, but they’re aware of big events and trends. I think that and identity are the main factors.
  20. The main takeaways from this is how ignorant we are as a nation, and how xenophobic. The latter is more important for a political discussion. It’s why Fox’s drumbeat about the border works. It’s why immigration issues always have great potential to trip up the center and the left at the polls. As for our widespread ignorance in basic areas of knowledge, I blame the complete breakdown of class structure as a system of control and shaming. We celebrate being common, we revel unruliness. That led to the empowerment of stupid people in the realm of knowledge and expertise. It’s cultural decline, and isn’t something easily addressed by government.
  21. We all thought it was heroic when Batman stopped Ra’s al Ghul and then Bane, when the Avengers reversed the Blip, when the Kingsmen foiled Velentine’s plan, and so on, but we just didn’t recognize tragedy when we saw it. Forests sometimes need a cleansing fire to renew healthy growth, so it goes for humanity. We can’t have nice things without a semi-regular bloodletting. Usually it’s resource scarcity that compels us to destruction. This time it’s just boredom. That’s why it’s so maddening.
  22. No agenda item on requiring daycare staff and librarians to carry two types of semi-automatic firearm and a clip point Bowie knife while on duty. This is pussy RINO shit.
  23. This is nonsensical bullshit. Her name and story would’ve faded to mere footnote if not for the martyr treatment by the refuse that live among us. The folks here deriding that treatment and her evil acts are also in favor of stringing up the ringleaders. We aren’t lacking piano wire. What we lack is the political will to put treasonous fellow-travelers in their place.
  24. This bullshit reminds me, what happened to sushihorn?
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