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Gravy Train

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  1. Easy sell to recruits but NFL coaching experience isn't above and better the faster-evolving college game, especially player development and offense creativity. If the NFL had that figured out, Sean McfuckingVay and coach Bro wouldn't be in the league. Kellen Moore wouldn't be interviewing for the Eagles nor hang his hat on the late-season production of Andy Dalton.
  2. "Make 'em Kwait defense" "Killed on the River Kwait defense"
  3. They're a paper tiger now, compared to what once was. The game has escalated to some pretty dramatic levels over the last decade.
  4. Makes me think if the bags started doing work for Sark in Austin, it would be aggy to either call us out on it or ratchet-up their game, long before OUsux would register a complaint
  5. The SEC hush-code: It just means more. I was nearly certain the fallout from Hugh Freeze at Ole Miss would have garnered attention to other *ahem* programs in the SEC-W, but nothing came of it.
  6. Bagmen. So easy, a Hugh Freeze can do it. Mark Emmert looking around the SEC like:
  7. The DSG in the R8 is solid. Do you plan to use launch control for AWD clutch dump madness as the odometer clicks over 100K? The mechatronics unit limits the number of LC activations to a count of 200 to save the clutches for you.
  8. No one has been able to get away with their own shrewd systems of recruiting or bothered to reinvent modern scholarship football the way Saban has either. Sure, other programs got theirs, but not sustainably. I'll credit Saban for his ability to keep it all together and rolling, through staff changes, brief successes of in-conference rivals and to closely regulate access to his program, better than the rest.
  9. Bagmen are being re-assigned this week, right? When's the first 'croot shipment? Once that pipleline is started, we gotta get the NFL involved, then it'll self-replicate.
  10. He's not wrong and I can't celebrate the things that make College Football enjoyable, knowing parity is lost and a coach heralded for this sort of dynasty is completely abnormal, not to mention, fueled by such a shady start, it can't be replicated. The Hugh Freeze out front shoulda told you.
  11. Maybe we're now witness to the reverse Mack, er, reverse Saban
  12. It's been a banner year for Coach Bro/sprinting midget and Baker Mayfield while Sean McVay is holding himself together with Goff. Too easy to look back into the college ranks and expect to pull out another hat.
  13. Current-era of football looks derpy and soft compared to the '05 and '09 teams.
  14. I'm still late to the party, but wondering how Muschamp was polled for his interest at DC *before* making the decision to keep Ash. One sorta implies the other, unless Sark's focus is entirely directed to the quick poaches he needs to make on offense first, then to evaluate the defense, starting with the Ash relationship.
  15. Beating OU with a Sooner Legacy at starting QB (Casey Thompson) would be sweet, icing on the cake would be to hold OUsux to a season-low offense production with their retread DC.
  16. Is this hire fucking with Nicky in any sense? That's the only redeeming sense of satisfaction I can garner from this today. Sark should be missing in Miami and Mac Jones throws four picks sort of freakout would at least make me feel a little better.
  17. Wonder which buddies he's going to call to fill the roster? Shouldn't take much to convince Tosh to leave Atlanta, come lock down this state and fuck with the rest of the SEC in 'croots while you're at it.
  18. I beat the everloving fuck out of my hands today, wrenching on the Audi. Hyperextended a joint in my thumb, blood blister on one hand and cuticles cut up, but maybe it was worth it. The weather and open afternoon put me to task on direct-wiring a CANbus-based exhaust flap controller, which reads engine load, RPM or the "Drive Select" preset in my car to set the valves open on the Akrapovic exhaust. Had to re-pin a CANbus connector and run a harness below the floorpan to intercept the stock exhaust controller wiring. Onto the engine bay, to resume the RS7 goods, this time with the OEM RS7 airbox and turbo inlets. With the cooler weather, that's enough headroom to flash to the Stage 2 file for a few more pounds of boost on 93 pump. Ethanol sensor and larger fuel lines to the high pressure pumps will follow, so I can give it all the ignition advance on E85 blends. Got to the turbos, compressors are super clean and no shaft play. A friend who casually wrenches on trucks said my engine bay looks like 100 pounds of shit in a 1-pound box.
  19. I recommend Wheel Repair Solutions in Carrollton, near I35 and Frankford. They do great work, can take care of the mount/balance job on the tire and it'll probably run a flat fee of $150. https://wheelrepairsolutions.com/ OEM wheel repair is their specialty but they can do some fun things to refinish stock wheels. I had a set where they powdercoated the inner spokes ("windows" and inside barrel gloss black, then machined on the outer face, and covered that in a tinted clearcoat. It gives the wheels a different dimension, kind of a graphite or bronze burst in sunlight, but the black windows go with the trim of the car. They did all that overnight for $550 on a set of forged 20x9" wheels, which I found a bargain.
  20. What's your location and what does the finish look like on the wheel? I've had some fair luck, but mostly bad luck with OEM wheel repair quality. There are plenty of shops around DFW but few who seem to truly understand how to powdercoat or paint to match the OE wheel or have a CNC lathe to re-machine the lip. If your wheel isn't bent and salvageable, I've seen shops weld extra material to the wheel face and re-machine it to get the surface level close to original.
  21. Watching Campbell chew the officials out in the B12 CCG over the weekend made me realize how much a truly influential coach is needed, one already in good graces with the national media, even a figurehead for sports. At minimum, the candidate should have experience coaching in the NFL or one of the few not-crackerjack-conferences to crack some skulls over the implicit bias and candy-assed agenda the B12 office has led with over the last decade. Someone here made a comment last week about the "bend over and take it" bitch-assedness Turtle Tom has taken toward the defense, where a LB or DB can't blow up a bullshit Lincoln-Riley bubble screen without a 15 yard flag. That shit has to end, no team will be competitive in this conference (on a national stage) until the B12 itself is called out.
  22. Well damn, I was somewhat looking forward to a handful of _iaz sloppy seconds thirds.
  23. Yes, it's fantastic. There's a whole Facebook group going on with guys comparing their setups. It supports all sorts of upgrades in varied stages. Without touching the turbos, you can go one half-step further after Stage I by swapping the turbo inlets and airbox with RS7 equivalents and keep a completely OEM look. E85 and ethanol fuel mixes are supported too, clutch in the hotter months.
  24. I'm not sure i would want more than a stage 1 from APR. That puts the car around 600 hp. Not sure i need more because reliability seems to go south above that level. That DynoSpectrum module costs about the same as the APR Stage 1 tune and you can flash it at home. Just choose the Stage 1 file and realize you can flash it back to stock whenever you feel like it. That's a perfectly fine, no-fuss upgrade worth visiting and stopping at. The tiny cast compressor wheels of the turbos and oil feed are the only flaws that hold the motor back on long-term reliability. You'd need to upgrade the low pressure fuel lines, improve charge cooling and swap into RS7 turbos to get a reliable 700HP from the engine, then the transmission tune will start hating life beyond 700 ft-# to the tire. Just tune the trans and add more clutch clamp pressure, and forget first gear exists because you'll be able to rip all four on the street.
  25. There's a Brit who started https://www.dynospectrum.com/ and developed a DIY-approach, tune-at-home dongle for our cars. The flexibility with this tune is immense, supporting all kinds of hardware and fueling. He's since moved on to make big power on the RS3, McLarens and is currently expanding the platform for the newest Audi/Porsche 4.0T in the Urus, RS6, RS7, RSQ8, etc. APR found themselves EPA gun shy about their Stage-2 tune that complied with aftermarket downpipes (catalytic or not) and stopped its sale across the board.
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