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  1. More on the fired ED Va national security prosecutor, Michael Ben'Ary. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/letter-left-fired-federal-prosecutors-office-door-warns-americans-are-rcna235566
  2. Injecting more recovery-speak/thought, which may be completely gratuitous. Trying to control people, places, and things is something those in recovery learn is impossible and only leads to frustration. The flip side of that is that sometimes people in recovery take too much responsibility for things that aren't theirs. Both aspects are hard to manage and get right, so the mantra "progress not perfection." I suspect his intervention with PK followed the pattern I described above. He may not have come to clarity on the offensive struggles, but hopefully he can. And maybe he's had an intervention with Flood but can now see it just isn't working out.
  3. It's a pretty young team and especially on offense, the young talent hadn't previously shown out much or had the opportunity to take/provide leadership. The defense has Taafe, Burke, a couple of others. Maybe no one in the trenches. Also, most of the youngsters have only known very limited disappointment in UW, UGa, and OSU. Whereas some of the older players we'd lost had truly suffered with relatively poor seasons.
  4. This is likely consistent with Sark's recovery mindset. He's not going to try to control his subordinates. He's going to tell them what should be done, likely on a consensus basis, and free them to do their jobs and expect them to do their jobs. The point about Bama above is likely on point. Sark was reliant upon good recruiting, evals, and the other coaches doing their jobs. He does his and results follow. But the presence of Saban made those assumptions and reliances valid and now they may not be so valid.
  5. It's over. He's gone. Even if you agree that Biden's immigration policy was too lax, you have to answer why it is that people who didn't immigrate under Biden, have legal, but revocable, status, are not criminals, and have been leading productive lives here for decades are being deported en masse? Not to mention all the indiscriminate sweeps detaining US citizens and those with legal and not revocable status. This is not correcting some theoretical wrong, it's just pure anti-immigrant performance. It's also ungodly expensive, highly intrusive, and an example of government overreach, which alleged conservatives are so opposed to.
  6. Answered here. https://www.aclu.org/cases/guevara-v-francis?document=Petition-for-Writ-of-Habeas-Corpus-and-Complaint#legal-documents
  7. Yeah, something in his head seems to tell him to take the longer route where he can see separation. When he's "forced" into a short route, it's basically LEEEEEROY JENKINS, like that throw over the middle to Mosely that blew right past him into the arms of a defender.
  8. I don't believe sark is "calling nothing but long pass plays." I'm gonna assume every play has short, intermediate, and long routes, even if designed for one of the short routes. And even if the play is designed for the short or intermediate route, I doubt Sark is going to order Arch to take only the short or intermediate. Arch seems to have a preference, conscious or otherwise, for longer routes, where hopefully he can see separation between the WR and defenders And, maybe rightfully so, because he's pretty scary on short and intermediate routes.
  9. Yeah, kinda surprised anyone would put any stock in x-rays on an injury like that. They don't show soft tissue injuries with any accuracy, afaik.
  10. Whoops, the administration caught in what appears to be a blatant lie, again.
  11. Hefe wasn't seriously arguing that point. It's your side, if not you specifically, that constantly argues that anything other than pure laissez-faire capitalism is socialism or communism.
  12. I don't disagree at all. Im just positing that most of the offensive struggles flow from the OL. When we had the talent, allegedly, we weren't as good as we needed to be and now that the talent is gone . . . fugeddaboutit.
  13. Agree. I think this is the central issue. Despite the improvement, we haven't gotten to championship level OL play and it infects everything else.
  14. The OL, despite the individual talent, just was not that great, ever. Not championship caliber and bitched by championship caliber D.
  15. Im beginning to think it's pretty much all about the OL. OL play took a step up from long-term abysmal with Flood and then plateaued at a level less than what the talent seemed to indicate. Better, much better, but not good enough. Then we lost that talent and it has become apparent that we were not in "next man up" phase like the defense has been (but also showing cracks this year). The OL is why the run game falters even with all world backs. It got our QB injured and in his head. It fucked the red zone. It's probably also why the offense cant execute in game situations the way it executes in practice, which I think may be Sark's major flaw.
  16. Yeah, that may be the pinnacle of D corporatism, but it had been brewing for quite some time. And persists to this day.
  17. I think really the main issue last year was OL. It wasn't as stark as this year, but they couldn't block a run game for shit and fell apart in pass protection just enough to get Quinn hurt and running for his life, at least in his mind. And that with the majority of the OL getting drafted.
  18. As said elsewhere, I think he sees these same players executing his machine in practice just like they did at Bama and assumes they will be able to do so in games and any failure there is more aberration than who the players are. And that may be the difference between year after year of stacking high five-stars with good evals and development (Bama, Georgia) and a couple of years of stacking mid-high five stars with maybe not so good evals or development. And I think he accounts for the slop between Texas today and Bama then with things like "godalmighty, Mac Jones could do this, why can't Quinn or Arch do this."
  19. True enough, but until this year, the O has been going against one of the best Ds in the country. But practice just isn't game time for a variety of reasons. I am guessing Sark developed this disorder at Bama, with their talent and execution, including a mediocrity like Mac Jones.
  20. I'm not ready to throw in the towel on him. A clearer-eyed view of this team, what they lost, and who was left and how well-proven they were should have indicated that this would be an off-year. Maybe not this off, but off nonetheless. This team seems to be exposing some of Sark's shortcomings, or maybe its completely hindsight bias and people fitting what they're seeing into preconceived patterns. This is his first real adversity and he deserves an opportunity to respond, to fix it, in my opinion. How and what he does will determine his fate, much more so than the outcome of this season.
  21. I assume that Gibson was off the table because of the wet conditions. That's defensible.
  22. I have this theory that Sark sees good execution in practice and from that assumes that players can execute the schemes and play calls. But once reality shows that they aren't capable, because of talent, or mentality or whatever, Sark refuses to change up the calls. Like he assumes the execution failure is more an aberration than who the players are and what are their limitations in a game scenario, despite evidence to the contrary.
  23. It just seems Arch is constitutionally incapable of doing that. I might think that any plays designed to be quick hitters still have intermediate and long reads, for decoy purposes if nothing else, and Arch may fixate on them despite instructions to go with the quick one. Or, whatever the hell was going on in his head on the play to Wisner in the end zone. The interception that was intended for Mosely across the middle seemed like kind of a quick hitter, but you saw how he handled that.
  24. Name rung a bell, but couldn't remember when he played. Because he didn't much. Class of 99, Parade All American. Transferred to Blinn, signed again. Started like seven games. An all-time bust. Alfio Randall-Veasey at the time. He might still know what he's talking about though.
  25. Close. A trademark becomes abandoned, by statute, after three years of non-use. So, for a lot of schools, there are a number of abandoned throwback logos and such that they can't/don't claim a trademark in and therefore can't/don't license. So a "throwback" seller may be able to get away without paying royalties or having a license for a while anyway. UT is pretty savvy and ruthless and made little efforts here and there to make sure even ancient, largely unused logos and marks did not go abandoned. So any attempt by a seller to go royalty free on an old logo would be met with a cease and desist from Pirkey Barber and be forced to sign up with CLC/Learfield, whoever they are now.
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