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wood

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  1. Yep, and it goes the other way, too. His OC duties are detracting from his HC big-picture duties. IOW, he's sucking at both jobs because he's not focused on either of them.
  2. ... which is nice.
  3. It's just a "Reading Comprehension Knighthood". Kinda like a participation ribbon. NBD.
  4. It's a question as old as sports, and it's how I evaluate coaches in any sport: Does the coach try to force players into the coach's system or does the coach adapt to the strengths and weaknesses of the players on the team at a given time. Adaptability to the talent on hand is far and away the most important attribute of a good coach imho. The ability to adapt gameplans, to find ways to highlight the players' strengths while diminishing their weaknesses is the surest sign of coaching prowess imho, and it is rare indeed.
  5. I mean, I fucked in that facility too, once upon a time back in the day ... but I wasn't the HFC.
  6. I've watched enough really fucking bad NFL coaching & bad coaches getting retreaded over and over and over to know that there's absolutely someone or probably multiple someones in the league that would love to have Sark. Stupidity is just as rampant in the NFL as anywhere else.
  7. Sturgill don't do any country pop bullshit.
  8. Nope ...
  9. I heard they have trash can punch over there ....
  10. night shift, yo ... you dig?
  11. There are still CFS joints in Austin? When they bringing Hill's Cafe back?
  12. Not discounting the rest of this post by any stretch, but got damn, the more I watch Ms. Stafford, the more I enjoy it, and I don't mean just from a pure physical performance pov either. When shit gets real, she gets intense af. Not sure I've seen intensity like what she brings to a volleyball match outside of one Mr. Kiraly. When we get behind, just look at her face. There's a fire raging there. And even when she makes a kill in those situations, most of the time her look doesn't change a bit. Not a smile or a laugh. Just a look that says "Aight. Now gimme the got damn ball again". I cannot express how much I love to see that in an athlete. You can't parent it. You can't teach it or coach it. It's just there, or it isn't. Suffice it to say ... yeah, I'm a fan.
  13. Yeah a couple of years ago when my boy was on AJV's 18U team, Glen Lietzke (Mick's assistant when he was at UT) hired Mick as an advisor to help evaluate the coaches. He would just walk around or sit out of the way where most people didn't notice, watching practices or tournaments and sizing 'em up. One day my kid came home from practice telling me about this guy who pulled him over during practice and said he'd been watching him, and offered him some great middle tips. He went on and on about how cool & friendly he was, how much he knew, how well he explained things in a way that was easy to understand, and how quickly he corrected some things that my son's coach never even seemed to notice. I knew he was talking about Mick and told him to google 'Mick Haley'. He got all excited and said "Yeah, that's the guy". I told him to keep reading and look at Mick's resume. He was flabbergasted. Mick interacted with my kid a few more times that season, and to this day he still talks about Mick and how lucky he was to even have been coached by him just a little bit. His evaluation of my son's coach (we'll call him Coach K)? Mick pulled him aside one day and told him he owed the boys & their parents an apology. Said that with the collection of talent on that team, winning only the one Baton Rouge Block Party tournament was a massive underachievement, and that he should have had them competing for the 18U national title as a top seed vs scraping our way in, and gave him some tips to help improve for the rest of the season. Coach K blew him off. Yeah ... fucking nobody Coach K blew off Mick fucking Haley's advice, followed by another predictably mediocre finish in Vegas. AJV jettisoned him following that season (my kid's final season), and suddenly started invbesting a lot more effort and resources into their boys program on all levels. Little consolation for us, though, and pretty frustrating, actually. Beware Coach K, all ye with kids in the clubs. He's still in Austin, at a new club that's just a couple of years old. /csb tl:dr: Mick is 100% certified BMF.
  14. Wut? LOL how'd I get dragged into this?
  15. Wow. Mad respek to Ms. Jones. I never thought I'd ever say that about anyone in that family, but based on how she handled that question, I think she made me a fan. Maybe she's the one who should be running that team.
  16. I mean ... when was the last time you ever heard of anyone asking for something to be named after them?
  17. ... and because the NFL denied his attempt to buy the Bills (because they knew he didn't actually have enough money). 99% of everything he does is motivated by retribution over some perceived slight. Poor little victim.
  18. Rocker was always such a little bitch. Some things never change. What an attention whore.
  19. By getting unnecessarily cute on the 2nd & 4 playcall. That's how. Fucking stupid. So sick of that shit.
  20. Fuck you Sark. Why ya gotta get cute on 2nd & 4?
  21. Just keep throwing it to Mosley.
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