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Posts posted by TwiceHorn
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5 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:
Very good for a QB starting for his first season. And he's getting better.
He's gone from pretty, pretty bad to pretty. pretty good.
Wish it had been a smoother transition for him, I was really worried that he was a complete bust for a while there. And worried for him personally.
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3 hours ago, John Coctostan said:
Ancient history.
And irrelevant according to the current brain trust.
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Just now, Rimbo said:
If you truly find it hard to believe that our head coach, a notorious recovering alcoholic, might have fallen back into a bottle given what we've seen on the field and heard rumored about off of it (and I can tell you that at least one of those really nasty things is NOT merely a rumor), then man... you're the kind of mark con men dream of coming across.
Well out with it then. What is that really nasty thing that's not merely a rumor?
Although it can happen, a guy like Sark that falls off the wagon usually creates a lot bigger and more obvious problems than those of his football team. I haven't seen anything objective that indicates that Sark is drinking. Pretty sure we'd know.
Second, given his history, if he'd fallen off the wagon in the off-season, I would expect him to be terminated with cause, success notwithstanding. Mid-season might be a different story.
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13 minutes ago, WinningIsHard said:
No it’s a culmination of things, that was just the last straw. He speaks constantly about paying attention to details. I don’t think he’s capable of beating good coaches year in and year out. NIL gives a few programs a chance to be good every year even with a bad coach. Talent evaluation is another big one I think he just flat misses on, if it’s his assistants letting him down then that’s still his fault. The portal has been embarrassing. The penalties is pretty stupid too. Take it all together and we have a 50/50 shot to be great or shitty basically every game lol. Just my opinion.
The flip side of going for it is an INT in the short game or turning over the ball on downs with 30 seconds left, to an offense that had been running through us pretty well to that point.
Also, curiously, we had relatively few penalties yesterday from any of the usual suspects.
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1 minute ago, Rimbo said:
But seriously, what you missed is:
We hired a recovering alcoholic to be our head football coach, hoping that he would meet his potential if he stayed sober, and knowing the absolute shitshow that would happen if he didn't.
Sometime before this calendar year, he fell off the wagon, and we have yet to hear the entirety of the shitshow that has followed.
The only reason we have 8 wins and not fewer this year (so far) is because we have high end talent, a pretty great staff of assistant coaches, and a great support staff and athletic department that have tried to keep boat afloat. We have won this year in spite of our talented head coach, not because of him.
Nah, what he missed was people repeating the same bullshit over and over and over again.
And a few memes.
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16 minutes ago, Red Five said:
Drives me crazy. You google where to watch it, and the answer is Prime. "Cool, I've got that." Then you go to fire it up and it's "Sure, that'll be $19.99."
Use justwatch.com. IMDB's where to watch also lets you know whether it's a ppv, or rental or what.
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1 hour ago, PittsburghTiger said:
Pretty crazy how we jumped on Tech. After last week nobody saw that happening. Nobody. I think one of the big keys was our LB group. When healthy I think they are the best in the nation. They’ve been banged up but everyone was playing yesterday.
When Mason has time to throw he is very good. And our backfield is talented. It was a huge win for us, one I did not see coming. The Lovelace INT for a TD saved Duzz’s dumbass. It was a great read by him, pretty much the same thing James Harrison did against the Cardinals in the Super Bowl.
I think both teams are in a good spot. We both have missed opportunities that will bother us all winter and into the summer.
Been meaning to ask, but Pitt + Auburn seems to be a rather incongruous, if not bizarre combo. Unless you're an engineer.
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47 minutes ago, Js1 said:
Our fans are legitimately insane
He's been one of the saner ones, which is why I commented.
Sure, it was disappointing. Arch took that deep shot, which I think was on him more than the play call and could have been DPI, it was close. We ran Tre twice for 9 yards. I suppose maybe we should have tried a short/intermediate route, but you don't want to turn it over there, or put it to one side or the other if you have to kick.
Maybe go for it, but not a lot of time to score.
Getting the ball back after the half, I was ok with taking the FG.
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20 minutes ago, WinningIsHard said:
I like sark, I defended him for a while. The end of the 2nd quarter against a terrible arky defense with an explosive offense in year 5 is the last straw. Their punter gave you a TD. Young football team, some struggles with a chance to emphatically slam the mother fucking door and give yourself some breathing room. Sark took the FG. That’s why he will never beat day, smart, lanning etc. You have to practice those moments against shitty teams so you can execute them against good teams. He needs to move on. The undisciplined nature of his teams, the inability to evaluate talent (recruiting and portal misses) and the lack of game day awareness is too much to overcome. Lanning or freeman, Texas needs one of those guys.
Seems a strange thing to abandon Sark over.
Did you want more deep shots? Go for it?
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6 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:
I feel like this isn’t just an AI thing.The amount of jackwagons that now comment on everything and think they know shit has skyrocketed, regardless of the validity of their thoughts or answers.
AI is only reflecting our cultural AI is only reflecting our cultural Dunning-Kruger.
Well, yeah. They're training it on material mostly crawled from the internet, which includes a lot of dogshit.
It has authority because it's the "computer" without human intervention.
But it returns what it's "cued" with, so if you prompt it with conspiratorial dogshit, you're gonna get something consonant with conspiratorial dogshit.
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1 minute ago, Vanilla Strange Gato said:
Time in program?
The complaint here is Sark doesn’t develop players.
Which is it?
We've had WR improve. Like Worthy. Wingo seems to be improving before our eyes.
I'm not one of those that claims no development.
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So, haven't seen much discussion about the benching of Taylen Green.
Seems he's kind of the engine that makes their offense go, even if a bit of a turnover machine.
The frosh did ok I guess, but I wonder if Green might have made it closer, or less close.
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6 minutes ago, Captainant said:
The thing is, if you ask neutral questions it gives reasonably useful and measured answers. If you have a coocoo for cocoa puffs framing and question, it leans into that and reflects it back to you. It's like a dog barking at a mirror, and it's driving the qanon crowd even more insane by validating and repeating their nonsense back to them
Seems like it goes to the fundamental neural-network nature of AI in pattern-matching.
And the perhaps even more fundamental nature of numerical computing: GIGO.
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Gonna do a patent applied for surly thread jack.
I'm so disappointed bout Dwight. Didn't know he had a rep as a dickhead. Now I see that Mary Chapin Carpenter song.
In interviews, he always seemed like a level-headed, thoughtful type. Never seen anything political from him, now see some 25-year-old references to being a Libertarian.
Twenty-five years ago was prime time for a lot of us disenchanted with American politics to claim libertarianism, and also to either come to our senses or fucking double down in the intervening time period.
Fucking hell.
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2 minutes ago, kevwun said:
I wouldn't call Baxter a flop, but he's not the same player since the knee injury. He was looking like a good back before it.
Well, it remains to be seen, but it seems we had a lot of eggs in the Baxter gon be back with a vengeance basket as a complement to Tre. That is a bigger back that could maybe make his own holes.
And he hasn't been very effective this year.
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15 hours ago, wood said:
If the OL hadn't been a complete floating dumpster fire from day 1, he'd have improved a lot quicker, too.
I think the WR, too.
RB still suffers at the hands of the OL.
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Just now, Hard Times said:
We don't need DB's. We need a DB coach who knows what the fuck he's doing.
My sense of it as well.
Need to shore up the OL. WR and RB dysfunction I think mostly a product of OL. But we could stand a bigger RB with Baxter seeming to flop. Maybe a WR. Probably a TE. Time in program plus youngsters might take care of that.
Sarkco just needs to have an "opposite day" this off-season. Whatever he did in Spring 2025, do the opposite thing.
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Michael Clayton.
Not the longest list of stars, or the biggest stars, but a very well-thought-out application of their talents.
And none of them really typecast.
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9 hours ago, SizzleChest said:
His contract is no different than Beard's.
Real talk on the contract. It would seem really incumbent on the University/System to have some sort of clause that permits termination on resumption of substance abuse or something similar.
If for no other reason than to waive ADA application/accommodations, if that can be waived.
Although kind of embarrassing for both sides, a person actually in recovery would understand and welcome it.
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9 hours ago, bluto said:
I chuckled when I read “leaflet drop” and just knowing without any doubt the leaflets would have numerous critical grammatical and spelling errors. In addition to just the lunacy of such an antiquated tactic
La elección fue robbada.
ROBBADA!
Gracias por su atención en este asunto.
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I think it's relatively simple. Sark's had a lot of success here, and with the high-ranked classes, two CFP appearances/final four, Arch in the wings, an able assist from some less than ideal coaches, and maybe some personal distraction, Sark thought he had it knocked. The machine was rolling.
Obviously, he did not. And I think he was every bit as shocked as all of us who swallowed all the 995 bs.
That says something not great about Sark, I guess, a bit of arrogance, some inexperience playing and winning at the highest levels in the current environment, etc.
It's really all in how he recovers from this.
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It probably literally fit either definition, maybe not crown of helmet.
The rules are intended to objectively define an element of intent to make "forcible contact that goes beyond making a legal tackle or a legal block or playing the ball." But intent doesn't strictly come into it.
Still, I think some sort of discretion should exist to rule that the hit didn't exhibit that type of forcible contact and thus did not constitute targeting.
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Targeting and Making Forcible Contact With the Crown of the Helmet ARTICLE 3. No player shall target and make forcible contact against an opponent with the crown of their helmet. The crown of the helmet is the top segment of the helmet; namely, the circular area defined by a 6-inch radius from the apex (top) of the helmet. This foul requires that there be at least one indicator of targeting (See Note 1 below). When in question, it is a foul. (Rule 9-6) (A.R. 9-1-3-I)
Targeting and Making Forcible Contact to Head or Neck Area of a Defenseless Player ARTICLE 4. No player shall target and make forcible contact to the head or neck area of a defenseless opponent (See Note 2 below) with the helmet, forearm, hand, fist, elbow or shoulder. This foul requires that there be at least one indicator of targeting (See Note 1 below). When in question, it is a foul (Rules 2-27-14 and 9-6). (A.R. 9-1-4-I-VI)
Note 1: “Targeting” means that a player takes aim at an opponent for purposes of attacking with forcible contact that goes beyond making a legal tackle or a legal block or playing the ball. Some indicators of targeting include but are not limited to:
• Launch. A player leaving their feet to attack an opponent by an upward and forward thrust of the body to make forcible contact in the head or neck area.
• A crouch followed by an upward and forward thrust to attack with forcible contact at the head or neck area, even though one or both feet are still on the ground.
• Leading with helmet, shoulder, forearm, fist, hand or elbow to attack with forcible contact at the head or neck area. • Lowering the head before attacking by initiating forcible contact with the crown of the helmet.
Note 2: Defenseless player (Rule 2-27-14). When in question, a player is defenseless. Examples of defenseless players include but are not limited to:
• A player in the act of or just after throwing a pass. This includes an offensive player in a passing posture with focus downfield.
• A receiver attempting to catch a forward pass or in position to receive a backward pass, or one who has completed a catch and has not had time to protect themselves or has not clearly become a ball carrier.
• A kicker in the act of or just after kicking a ball, or during the kick or the return.
• A kick returner attempting to catch or recover a kick, or one who has completed a catch or recovery and has not ha

This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
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I did no such thing.
But, as a former alcoholic, I know what falling off the wagon looks like for a guy who was fired for publicly being drunk on the job.
The nature of the disease is such that once control is lost, it's never regained, by long abstinence or human intervention. If he had fallen off the wagon in a way that interfered substantially with his coaching duties, it wouldn't be the subject of rumors, and as mentioned previously, his football woes would be the least of them.
There are plenty of explanations for Sark's shortcomings that do not involve that.