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  1. 1 hour ago, hpslugga said:

    Bruno Sammartino passes away at 82

    My father used to lift weights with him over at the North Side YMCA in Pittsburgh. Dad always said he was a good guy. My father rode his Harley to medical school and Bruno went off and wrestled. A few years, or so, later Bruno came back driving a big Lincoln and dad still had his Harley.

  2. Liked him a lot as a player but Klinsmann, and everyone else associated with the shit show that became the U.S. Men's National Team, should shut up.

  3. Interesting story below that one ^^ at the link.

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    Police suspected Florida State quarterback Deondre Francois of possessing marijuana with intent to distribute, according to an affidavit obtained by the Tampa Bay Times.

    An anonymous tipster notified the Tallahassee Police Department that Francois possessed in his home a grocery bag with an estimated two pounds of marijuana inside. That led to a search warrant, where police discovered marijuana three times in four searches of his garbage. They classified their discovery as being “consistent with activity” of people looking to distribute.

    Francois agreed to a pre-trial diversion program on misdemeanor charges of possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

    He remains with the team, rehabbing from an injury suffered in the 2017 opening night loss to Alabama. “He understands his responsibility as a student athlete here,” ‘Noles head coach Willie Taggart told the paper on Saturday. “He understands my expectation of what I’m looking for, especially when it comes to our quarterback. He’s got to be smart about who he’s around and what he’s around, and make good decisions.”

  4. 32 minutes ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

     

     

    Meaning - They have kept playing pretty good football. Doesn't matter who is coaching them.

    You saying it was fools gold is actually wrong. They have kept on winning, at a decent pace, and they have had some seasons where they scored a ton of points.

    That does not mean I said Charlie and Watson are the reason they kept winning, or scoring points.

    I don't get how you can't understand that.

    I'm done with your obsession with disparaging Louisville Football.

  5. 2 hours ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

    Sure you did. You made it a point to say the performance was valid because UL has had good offenses for a long time now. On multiple occasions. During years in which Strong et al had been long departed  

    Hey, I once tuned in to watch them play in the TB years and within a quarter wondered what was this hot dog shit they were passing off as an offense, and why was everyone so high on it. Then the commentators mentioned who the OC was and it all made sense. 

    No, I didn't. 

    I don't know how you read things that are not there.

  6. 6 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:
    18 hours ago, PittsburghTiger said:
    It's been about a decade since they have had an average offense so I don't think it can be marked down as an oddity.

    It baffles me how a team like Florida can be so bad at offense. With how much talent is in Florida high schools. This isn't some rinky dink school in Florida. They used to be great on offense. And ever since 2009, they've been crap.

    Coaching. Coaching. Coaching. I guess.

    Sometimes though I bet a good number of these great high school players get ranked by the number of top teams who offer them. Too often they are misses. A kid is middling along in his recruiting as a three star and then he gets interest from a bigger program and the local newspaper guy, who hasn't really seen him play, bumps him up to a four star.

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  7. 6 hours ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

    Crediting the offense of L'ville post Strong to a departed staff is silly.  That game was fool's gold.  If you watched it you saw a L'ville team that had one drive and hit on some miracle receptions.  And that's about it.  Only the ineptitude of the Florida offense made it an upset.  I don't care what either team has done since then.  It's irrelevant as both have changed staffs a few times.  What is important is realizing that that performance was overrated.

    I hate neither Strong or Watson.  I don't know either of them.  I think Watson is a particularly shitty OC, but you're reaching to make points I haven't even hinted at other than the fact that I had to walk back the adulation of that game by many posters hoping that Shawn Watson was something other than a particularly shitty OC.  And therefore I have a pretty good grasp of the talking points of those arguments.

    I don't think I credited the departed staff for Louisville's improvement on offense. You keep reading things that I have not said. Don't look too deeply into this, it was just a post about an interesting football game with an interesting cast of characters.

  8. 3 hours ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

    The point that keeps clearing your head by an AU or two is that even an average offensive showing by UF would have been enough to win a game that was hallmark victory for UL under Strong. It means that the offensive performance of UL and TB was vastly overrated as anyone watching the game instead of the box score could attest.  

    Florida’s offensive history has nothing to do with it. Zip. Zilch. Someone who just witnessed the last season of UT football might be able to attest to how overrated some teams were after beating UT given our particular brand of offensive retardation.

    Louisville won.  Yay for them.  Everyone will take the W. But it was fools gold.  Simple as that.

     

    No, what keeps clearing my head is what you are arguing about. Is it just hatred of Charlie Strong and Watson? We all know that teams are rated incorrectly and given too much credit for certain victories.

    Nobody said that a competent offense from Florida couldn't have won that game. But, Florida didn't have one. Their offensive, history now, performance at the time is extremely relevant.

    I said Louisville was fun on offense that season, and they were a lot of the time. I did not say they were a great offensive team that goes down in history as one of the best, but Teddy Bridgewater was pretty good. And, they continued to be relevant after Charlie left. 

    Since that game Louisville has gone - 12-1, 9-4, 8-5, 9-4 & 8-5 (46/19) in four of those seasons Louisville has scored at least 405 points. So it wasn't really fools gold for Louisville as they moved forward. 

    Since that game Florida has gone - 4-8, 7-5, 10-4, 9-4,  & 4-7 (34/30) in two of those seasons they scored under 250 points.

    Perhaps I have to state why I posted that about the game being on is because there were some interesting coaching names involved, not just Strong, but Muschamp, Watson and Quinn. And, this is the football board. That's it. It wasn't to extoll the virtues of Charlie Strong.

  9. 3 hours ago, UT Lawnghorn said:

    Don’t forget the joke of a schedule they played that year.

    A lot of teams play shit schedules and knock out big scores against shit teams.

    2 hours ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

    That has nothing to do with be fact that if they’d have fielded an average offense they’d probably have beaten UL convincingly that night. 

    I don't think anyone is saying that they had a competent offense like they did under Spurrier. But that's THE offense they had that night, and that's what matters. Nothing else.

    Every team can say something to the effect of, "if we just had _________, our season would have been different, or we could have beaten ______ "

    Florida has had shit offenses for a while so it's not like just in that game their offense disappeared.

  10. 2 hours ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

    Louisville’s offense had one drive that amounted to anything if I recall right. UF’s defense kicked their ass up and down the field and Bridgewater hit not a few miracle heaves to keep the chains moving at times. 

    Florida wins the game handily if they had even an average offense.  

    It's been about a decade since they have had an average offense so I don't think it can be marked down as an oddity.

  11. 1 hour ago, UT Lawnghorn said:

    Yeah, that Sean Watson guy could really coordinate an offense.  Anyone know whatever happened to him after that?

    Well, they did score 30+ points seven times that year and finished with 11 wins and two losses. I'd take that, and so would you.

    I'd say it was more Teddy than Shawn, and yes, I know what has become of him since.

  12. #21 Louisville v #3 Florida

    Interesting game on ESPNClassic right now.

    Charlie Strong is at Louisville with Teddy Bridgewater at QB. Will Muschamp at Florida with Dan Quinn his DC. Louisville's offense was really fun that season. Florida's defense trying to punch them in the mouth and intimidate them, but Louisville is having none of it. Florida a 13.5 point favorite.

  13. On Sunday, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch released a statement slamming former FBI Director James Comey just hours before a blockbuster interview of him with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos is set to air.

    In a 330-plus word statement, Lynch highlighted what she claims are her career accomplishments before turning her attention to Comey’s upcoming interview. Addressing the issue of the criminal investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, Lynch wrote:

    Over almost two decades as a federal prosecutor I have aggressively prosecuted drug dealers, violent gangs, mobsters, and money launderers, upheld the civil rights of all Americans, and fought corruption of all types –– whether by elected officials from both sides of the aisle or within organizations like FIFA. Through it all I have never hesitated to make the hard decisions, guided by the Department of Justice’s core principles or integrity, independence and above all, always doing the right thing.

    The Justice Department’s handling of the Clinton email investigation under my leadership was no exception. It was led by a team of non-partisan career prosecutors whose integrity cannot be overstated and whom I trusted to assess the facts and make a recommendation – one that I ultimately accepted because I thought the evidence and law warranted it.

    Everyone who works for the Department of Justice has an obligation to protect the confidentiality and integrity of the work of the department. That is why, at the critical early stages of this case, I followed the departments long-standing policy of neither confirming nor denying the fact of an ongoing investigation. This policy both pre-dates my tenure in the Department and will live on long after the current debate is over. It neither misleads nor misinforms, but instead both protects investigations and guarantees equal treatment of those under scrutiny, whether well-known or unknown. Any suggestion that I invoked this bed rock policy for any other reason is simply false.

    Throughout the process I did what I always do: rise above politics and uphold the law. At no time did I ever discuss any aspect of the investigation with anyone from the Clinton campaign or the DNC.

    I have known James Comey almost 30 years. Throughout his time as Director we spoke regularly about some of the most sensitive issues in law enforcement and national security. If he had any concerns regarding the email investigation, classified or not, he had ample opportunities to raise them with me both privately and in meetings. He never did.

     

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/29459/breaking-loretta-lynch-releases-statement-slamming-ryan-saavedra

     

     

     

     

     

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