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  1. Look for another job, work on a side-hustle, or (if you like the company your working for) tell someone of authority about the fact that you have some bandwidth and want a meaningful project.

    I'm sure it seems cool that your having nothing to do at work, and your immediate supervisors apparently dont give a shit, but you are vulnerable. Someone, somewhere is going to identify this inefficiency and could have your role eliminated.

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  2. Hey DeShon, next time you think about bashing a coaching staff that helped you more than double your production in one year, and helped move you from a fair-to-middling Safety to a 6th round draft pick, think of something else...

  3. 36 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    Brian Perroni: Jimbo on A&M national championship: 'Your timetable is now'

     

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    ATLANTA - Texas A&M made the biggest splash hire of the offseason. After Jimbo Fisher had turned down other numerous jobs in previous years, the Aggies were able to lure him away from Florida State.

    Fisher is one of only four active head coaches to have a national championship under his belt, winning one in the 2013 season with the Seminoles. Fisher was also the offensive coordinator for Nick Saban at LSU when the Tigers won the title in 2003. In 1993, he was the brand new quarterback coach at Auburn when the Tigers were the only team in the country to go undefeated. Though they were ineligible for postseason play that season, they are at least regarded as that year's best team, despite the fact they weren't awarded the championship.

    Because of his history with winning titles, the Aggies thought Fisher was worthy of giving the largest-ever contract in college football. Texas A&M gave him a 10-year, $75 million fully-guaranteed deal. With that price tag comes high expectations, though.


    Fisher was the first coach to speak at the 2018 SEC Media Days and he was asked about the timetable he has for winning a national title in Aggieland.

    "Your timetable is as quick as you can put things into place and everyone buys into what you're trying to do. Your timetable? Your timetable is now," Fisher said, curtly.

    Fisher knows there is a bit of an uphill battle with the depth and the schedule the next couple seasons. However, he does not want those to be excuses.

    "You want to win immediately and that's your place. Is that realistic? I don't know," he said. "Could it be? Yes. But could it not be? Yes."


    Fisher says the players have been putting in the work, though.

    "It's all about the process of putting things in place, because you want to build the program the right way up and get kids that understand and buy in," he said.

    "But I'll say this - our attitude of our players has been tremendous. I've been very proud of that. They've come in, there's been a lot of change. We do things differently - not that the other side was right, just a philosophical difference - and the way that they've handled it has been tremendous."

    Though the challenge seems daunting as the team has struggled mightily in the second half of the season each of the past four years, Fisher has seen success very early in some places with it taking a few years in others.

    "You never know," he said. "When we went to Auburn that year, 1993, and Alabama was the defending national champs in '92 and we come off a 5-6 team, we went undefeated, so it can happen quickly. At LSU, it took three or four years. At Florida State, it took us, I think, four years to do it."


    Fisher definitely does not like the idea of putting a specific date on when he hopes to win a title, but he is not shying away from expectations that the team will be a contender year in and year out, just as his Florida State teams were.

    "You don't ever put a timetable on things, because you can't judge people," he said. "You don't know how each guy is going to respond and what's going to happen and the chemistry unit, the camaraderie unit and your coaching staff. Hopefully we're going to do it as quickly as we possibly can

     

    The high expectations over in gomerville are glorious. No National Championship since before Hitler, No BCS Bowl wins ever, no Conference Championships in decades. Yet, Jimbo is EXPECTED to have aggy competing for National Championships right away. You can't make this shit up people. 

  4. On 6/10/2018 at 11:58 PM, GoPokes83 said:

    I use a floating mesh bag with about a six foot line attached to my wading belt.

    Um yeah, 6' is way too short IMHO. I had a shark crash on my stringer last summer out at Chandy. I was real happy to have a 15' rope attached to my stringer that morning. With that much extra length, there was enough slack so I didn't get knocked off my feet.

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  5. Rhapsody, which was acquired by Napster last year, is a really interesting story in failure. 

    I've used the service for almost 15 years. They were the first to launch streaming for a monthly subscription, they were the fist to allow downloading of songs for offline without having to purchase, their interface is great, it's super fast, etc. BUT nobody uses them. Pandora and Spotify kicked their ass even though Rhapsody was first to market by several years.

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