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Noozak

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  1. 1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

    What's the move? Fly into Jacksonville, go to the beach and shit and then drive to the game?

    I would fly to Jacksonville and stay at the Inn and Club in Ponte Vedra rather than some shithole in Jax beach. Just drive down and back for the game. The swamp is pretty cool - it's definitely as loud as advertised. Gainesville sucks ass, but so does 95% of Jacksonville.

  2. Thanks! It's been baby steps so far and hard to keep my eyes on the big picture but progress is progress. Next year I'm doing Chattanooga 70.3, Augusta 70.3 and maybe a third one late fall. I would love to do a west coast race at some point but the idea of flying with my bike sounds anxiety inducing lol. Thankfully there are a good number of east coast races within driving distance

  3. Just found this thread! I've been on an 11 month journey (so far) to go from nothing to outright qualifier for 70.3 worlds. The plan was to race Augusta 70.3 in September and keep building into next season but the hurricane made sure that wouldn't happen. Thankfully, Ironman is really good about the options so I was able to bump it to Ironman 70.3 Florida in December. I've run a bunch of half marathons and swam when I was younger so the only thing I am starting fresh on to say is the bike. My current projected finish time is around 4:45 an outright qualifying slots (not a rolldown) tends to be around 4:10 in my age group (35-39). I have a long ways to go. Right now my biggest gains are going to come from the run. To be fair I don't even know if it's in my genetics to run a 1:18 half marathon lol. Currently I'm training about 15-18 hours a week and I'm doing this as a personal challenge/for fun so we'll see what happens. Maybe by the end of next year I'll be close enough to compete.

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  4. Just now, Derka said:

    yeah, ive never been the one here who is mad. i’m just the guy firmly planted in a reality that many of you don’t want to hear, which in turn makes *you* mad, and causes you to lash out. maybe take your own advice and come back later when you’re feeling better.

    "I'm not mad....you are!" Listen man I'm not going to argue with you. If you can't understand that you were wrong then, but right today that's your problem. Say all you want but it was a bad take last year. This year? Sure. It's unacceptable that someone with Quinn's experience puts this shit on the field.

  5. 52 minutes ago, Derka said:

     

     

     

    imagine being this wrong, this belligerent, this insulting, and then living every day going, “man that derka is an unstable pos who snaps at people just because they have a differing opinion.” projection like a mf’er.

    super mature responses to a post that was a)dead on, and b)still true today. QE is better now than he was two years ago, but he still has all of the same problems he’s always had, and there’s nothing there that says he’s going suddenly become the guy who everyone wanted him to be.

    Someone is still mad. I guess you didn't take my advice and go outside?

  6. Thanks for posting! I am skeptical immediately that Kelvin Banks isn't listed as an all american candidate.

     

     

    Edit: after reading I think he's not far off from the truth. His skepticism of our WR talent seems normal to someone who doesn't follow the team as closely as we do. I know he was trying to only focus on using the CSU game as his definition of our offense - this seems weird to me. Our scheme doesn't change much year-to-year. Will there be added wrinkles and tweaks? Sure. Otherwise, the article is about what I would expect. I won't rehash the conversation that's been happening here the last two days but put me in the camp that calling this Michigan defense better than 2022 or 2023 Alabama as a stretch. Also, he completely misses me when trying to lump in the Ohio State defense this year as elite.

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  7. 15 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    I'm sorry, there is no universe where you can watch the receivers we had on Saturday and think "separation is going to be a problem." That is just a lazy take looking purely at what we lost in the draft. We are very clearly are faster overall this year at receiver even losing the fastest guy in football. Guys were easily getting separation both with speed and with good route running. Now, whether we have guys that are going to be making contested catches or winning jump balls is something you can legitimately question to some extent.   

    Yeah, I'm not really impressed with this guy's commentary. He looked at roster departures and just decided Texas lost talent last year and there is no way the group as a whole is as talented right?? It's not hard to see the group has a major speed upgrade as a whole but less of a jump ball presence. I've yet to see a big 10 linebacker that can operate well in space. I've also really not seen a Big 10 team outside of last year's Michigan defense that was capable of defending a sophisticated passing attack. No one in the old Big 10 runs a sophisticated passing offense because good luck throwing the ball when it's snowing and windy in November and December. It's clear the defense this year is not the same as last year.

     

    If Michigan wants to blitz Quinn that's a good place to start, but it seems like the obvious gameplan choice for Michigan. Sark should be prepared for it. Texas made a lot of money last year with running back swing passes and WR screens. If we're smart enough to ditch the slow-developing plays then we should be able to move the ball consistently.

  8. 3 hours ago, Hozz said:

    I looked into it but was deterred by two things a) amount of books.  Seems like there are 50+ or so. b) price of the books.  WH40K books never seem to be discounted beyond a certain price point depending on the type of book it is.  I think all the Horus Heresy books are $10 each.

    I had someone give me 55 or so books of the Heresy series for free. Happy to send over to anyone interested (mobi files). Warhammer does some stuff really well but the quality issues from writer to writer are drastic. It's truly grimdark though so it can be challenging at times to deal with how shitty everyone and everything is.

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