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oSuJeff97

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  1. I would be legit concerned about this if I were a USC fan. I know they are all excited about Riley because of his success at OU, but I wonder how many of them realize that Stoops basically handed him the keys to a Ferrari with the engine running? Riley is obviously a great OC, but he’s never had to build a program. That doesn’t mean that he can’t… he just never has. Will be interesting to see how things unfold down there, especially if they have a rough few years before all of this 5-star talent can take hold.
  2. Finished Part 2 last night. My new favorite part of the documentary is when Billy Preston comes in to play keyboards. The look of joy on his face when John was like, “you’ll be on the record”… and then when he was playing was just so fun to watch. Gonna settle in tonight for Part 3. BartScott.gif
  3. Agreed. The most devastating loss in the Mike Gundy era is, without question, 2013 Bedlam. We were the far better team, playing at home and a win would have give us our second Big 12 title in three years. Instead we let Baylor get the back door title after we pushed their shit in the week before. I’m not sure a loss on Saturday would be that level of devastating, but it would be close. I think if we keep our shit together and play a clean game, we should win handily. If we go out, fuck around with a bunch of penalties, special teams blunders or hand them the ball 3 times like we did earlier in the year, it’ll be very close and my butthole will be tighter than a snare drum.
  4. I'm very likely stupidly overconfident about this game. We easily beat them earlier in the year with -3 turnover margin. Our defense is going to murder their souls whether they play hobbled QB1 or freshman QB2. And Sanders won't hand them the ball 3 times. We roll.
  5. Yeah them reading and laughing at the tabloids was great.
  6. The Jordan analogy is pretty apt. Jordan had all of the natural ability in the world, but what set him apart was the fact that in a league full of ultra-competitive people, he was the most competitive by a factor of 100. Paul obviously is an amazing natural musician, but he was also always driven just to do more, more, more and push boundaries, evolve... or, as he put it, "accomplish something every day." On a different note, one of the most enjoyable things in the documentary is just watching Paul and John goof around together. I feel like so much of the "narrative" of this point in the Beatles career is that they were was all of this animosity going in different directions... and there was obviously some of that... but these guys were also lifelong friends and I think so much of that was overblown. You can really see it when the two of them are just playing music together, fucking around, laughing at each other's cheesy jokes, etc. So fun to see that.
  7. I've been both places. There's an exception for urban/rural divide. Obviously there is hotter trim in Toronto or Vancouver than fucking Little Rock, Arkansas. But I will stand by my original statement that, as a rule, there is hotter trim in warmer climates.
  8. The other thing that was interesting was that you could really see how Paul was just DRIVEN. Some people may not like it... calling it over-ambitious or something, but it just seems to me like Paul really approached The Beatles like it was his job and he wanted to do the best possible job. I think he said something to John along the lines of, "We need to accomplish something every day," and John was like, "Um that's a tall order" (or something like that). Paul's commitment to the work really reminded me in the Eagle documentary when Glenn Frey was talking about how he learned the making music is about "doing the work" when he heard Jackson Browne just working on "Doctor my Eyes" all day long.
  9. Slowly making my way through this thing in between taking care of my 9-month-old and I'm loving every minute of it. I think I'm about half way through Episode 2. The George leaving stuff was absolutely fascinating. The bit when Peter Sellers showed up and John was clearly high AF on something (heroin?) was interesting. I loved how visibly uncomfortable Paul was as John was talking about getting high and he finally cuts him off with, "Do we want to be talking about that in public, Mr. Lennon?" LOL
  10. I said this earlier in the thread, but how is Greg any more of a "leech" than Ken, Roman or Shiv? It's not like he's an "outsider." He's a direct relative. He's Logan's nephew. What's the difference? They are ALL using their position as a member of Logan's direct family to their advantage. Would ANY of them have the positions they have if not for Logan? Fuck no. I'm not sure I'd call Tom a "loser." He is obviously very insecure, but I think what the show has revealed about Tom is that he always THOUGHT he was the type of person who could succeed given access to the Roy family; but what he's discovering is that, unlike pretty much everyone in the Roy family, he actually has a moral compass that is creating massive cognitive dissonance as he tries to navigate life/work in the family.
  11. Oh shit yeah I forgot about Colorado. They were bad at Folsom for sure. Mizzou fans in Columbia were also surprisingly bad.
  12. Same. I mean, I’m glad we beat Texas, but I don’t really care that much about the “implosion.” (I’d honestly prefer Texas NOT imploded this year so that our win in Austin was more valuable given where we are sitting right now.) The OU meltdown directly coinciding with us playing for the Big 12 title and having a shot at the CFP, however? Inject that shit directly into my veins.
  13. Upper Midwest, baby. The warmer the climate, the hotter the trim, and vice versa.
  14. I mean... I was actually taken aback how shitty they were. I've had awesome times with fans from SECSECSEC, the PAC, ACC... pretty much all over the country. I think my first clue that things may not go well was we had set up our tailgate outside the Alamo Dome pretty early that day... we had our music going and booze flowing... we tried to wave over the first group of Ohio State fans we saw walking nearby and they promptly flipped us off and kept walking. We were all like, WTF?!?!?!?!
  15. If you haven't watched yet, I'd highly recommend watching Gundy's press conference from Monday. He talks at length about his vision for the program and also his relationship with the new president and AD, being VERY positive on the latter. I've never heard him talk this candidly on either of the topics in the past. It's pretty interesting. I mean, anything is possible these days, but this is as relaxed and content as I've ever seen Gundy. He wasn't even like this in 2011.
  16. I've been to many bowl games and interacted with fans from all over the country. The worst experience I've had BY FAR was the 2004 Alamo Bowl when we played Ohio State. They were the biggest bunch of fucking pricks I've ever interacted with. I mean, I get OU fans being fucking douchenozzles because we are their rival non-rival, but typically bowl game experiences with other fans are really fun because it's teams/fan bases you don't typically interact with and everyone is there to have a good time. However, those fucksticks were just straight-up ass. Just the worst.
  17. Wait. Are you telling me the Craig James killed 5 hookers at SMU?
  18. Meh. That’s hindsight analysis. The close games were due to OU defense being shit for most of the season and uneven OL/QB play. On the latter point, you had Rattler regressing some from last year to this year, especially considering the OU OL was not near as good as its been. Rattler couldn’t just sit back there for like 5 seconds waiting for OU’s stable of talented receivers to get open, no matter the coverage. So Riley inserts Caleb Williams, who has the athleticism to avoid the rush given OU’s OL problems. And he starts lighting everyone up over his next 3 starts. So much so that the same fucking idiots who are talking now about Riley “tanking” the season were talking about Williams as a fucking Heisman candidate in the middle of October. The KU game was close, yes, but it was really a first half problem more than anything. OU scored 35 points in the second half of that game, which is what you would expect. The following week, it seemed OU was doing just fine and everything seemed great after they destroyed TTU 52-21. But then came the 3-game gauntlet of Baylor, Iowa State and Oklahoma State, which were/are the three best defenses in the Big 12 by far… and the first quality defenses that Williams would face. And oh - guess what - turns out a true freshman QB, no matter how talented, will struggle when they face really good defenses who are set up to stop them. I don’t doubt that Riley’s people were in communication w USC since September, but the above is the best explanation for what happened on the field…. Not Riley “tanking” or “not being prepared” or some other bullshit like that.
  19. Yeah... I mean it would be maybe a little more sketchy if the recruits he flipped weren't literally from SoCal. I mean, these guys initially committed to Riley when he was at Oklahoma, and now he's coaching at another traditional power right in their back yard? Why would they NOT flip? But agreed the Simmons stuff is super shitty if true.
  20. This. And all of this uproar is being generated by the feedback loop of the OU media/sports talk radio ecosystem in Oklahoma and social media. You should hear the stuff being said about Riley on The Sports Animal this week. It's comical. They are all acting like jilted lovers.
  21. It's goddamn ridiculous but it's definitely a sentiment amongst the more psychotic fans to be sure. I've seen it repeated many times on twitter over the past week. As I said earlier in the thread, if going 10-2 and being literally one play away from being in the Big 12 championship game is "tanking", then Lincoln Riley is really shitty at tanking.
  22. 1000000000% agree. Kind of bummed we didn't wear a version of these this year. I really thought a black version of these may be in play for Bedlam. That would have been amazing. The road version we wore against WVU in 2020 was also shit hot:
  23. Yes. George. Come in. The word around the office is that you’re a communist.
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