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  1. Per Ikard, he was hearing exactly that Saturday into Sunday.  Big team meeting, players are generally on board with a discussion and small leave of absence with an eye toward moving past it together.  Then by Sunday evening, something in there changed.  He doesn't know if it was Admin-driven, or if players spoke up that weren't comfortable doing it in a large session, or if Gundy and Venables had another discussion, but something changed.

  2. 4 hours ago, C-Man said:

    I have quite a few friends here in Dallas who went to OU. My experience with aggy and OU alums, not t-shirt fans, is that the OU folks are generally a cooler bunch to hang out with than aggy.

    I should fucking hope so.  I've got a buddy who's pretty advanced in the ag industry (KSU grad) and he says it's a cult all the way up. Apparently if you want to get in on the high level meetings, you'd better have someone on your team who can tap their idiotic ring on the table when the rest of them do it, or you're SOL.

  3. 1 minute ago, quigley said:

    So far, there's been surprisingly little evidence of this strict policy dissuading players (1 decommit, Cozart). Despite this policy and apparently limited NIL, the OU recruiting staff is doing remarkably well.

    It works until it doesn't.  He's selling nothing but potential right now, with no negatives other than the uncertainty that comes with any coaching change.  If he can keep it up and maintain that scarcity by demonstrating value, it's great.  If there's any decline in that value, it becomes a joke among those who actually matter in the process.

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  4. I think the Nova Scotia Crystal place on the Harbor in Halifax closed down, but if it has somehow magically reopened, visit there.  It was the only place in Canada doing actual hand-blown crystal work.  I had a great meal at the Bicycle Thief a little farther south along the water.  The views coming down the hill are incredible.

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  5. 5 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    A fun tidbit to come out of the Kirkland stuff is that Bedenbaugh is apparently not a hit with the non-whities in the trenches these days. I don't know if that's been a known thing for some guys like @golfclap or a few of the okie recruitniks that are on here and not completely worthless like @Pdawg88 and @kilroydos , but I hadn't heard it or read it before. And if the okies think it's bullshit, that would also be a good data point, even if it is less entertaining to consider. Either way, I heard it in passing while bullshitting with a buddy who would know, but I didn't ask for details or do any research.

    Miami has no room for Kirkland, but they don't think he's a bad take. He's developmental and has the raw materials that Flood and Cristobal crave - overall size and strength. Cristobal needs guys that can contribute immediately and Flood needs guys that can play after 2-3 years on campus. 

    Kirkland could legitimately commit to MSU tomorrow even if they don't expect that. Or he's committing to Texas in one of the most bizarre recruitments in my 30+ years of following recruiting religiously.

    I don't think it's ever been an expressed sentiment, but it's something that the data points have been building around.  I'd be interested if this was an actual anecdote or the result of the last three years of results painting a picture.  Every year, he's getting maybe one or two higher-profile transfers or commits that fit that description, when we would expect that to be in the 3-4 range, based on the targets that have been made public.

    Either way, I'm absolutely not plugged in enough to know the truth here, but it wouldn't shock me to have that confirmed.

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  6. I wasn't in the food service bit, but working in theaters during high school was like this when we ran midnight movies.  Even in a small town, you run The Wall at midnight for a 300 seat theater pre-internet, you're going to have a rough go.  No credit cards taken and I was the only one selling tickets.  By the time the movie started, the booth was a foot deep in bills I just threw on the floor because the drawer wouldn't hold them all.  I cleaned it up and counted, and walked into the lobby to see the concessions people laying on the floor trying to catch their breath, half covered in oil and popcorn.

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  7. 1 hour ago, Baboontyme said:

    I started this show a few days ago and I'm binging and I really like it.  But I have some beef with the overall premise. Need to read the entire thread tomorrow to see if I'm out to lunch on this. That's 2x points. 

    Actually I'll go ahead and post my terrible opinions and catch up tomorrow. I might be way out of touch but do we really have French Laundry type chefs taking over food stands in the Midwest and trying to pump out cakes and salads and braised short ribs and risotto? Are these joints really braising beef and whole chickens to make Italian beef and chicken Philly sandwiches? I will just say that I have been to my share of Chicago sandwich and hot dog places over the years and I'm not sure what the Spanish word for 'Chef' is but I don't think that's what they're calling each other in the back kitchen. 

    A place like the one depicted in the show I'm pretty sure is serving steak ums and the majority of their traffic is coming after 10 pm CST and the patrons are too drunk to know or care about how tender the beef is. Maybe the foodie scene has really caught fire but the past two times I've been to Chicago, it's still very much Chicago and not quite Bicycle Bar type hipster dominant. I mean I know there are some hipster elements in some neighborhood for sure. But I feel like they took a lot of very different elements of the city and tried to merge them and it's not very authentic. I've never lived in Chicago so curious what the local folks have to say. 

    But it's good and entertaining and that's all that matters. I am happy to ignore what I perceive to be unrealistic details if I am entertained, and I am entertained. 

    I think the point (aside from the character work, which is the actual point of the show) is that this is something that isn't really happening everywhere in Chicago.  It's a town that really cares about tradition and working class access.  That's what Richie represents, which is why so much of the conflict is between him and Carmy.  

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