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BOOM MOTHER FUCKER - Will Muschamp's Triumphant Return
Anyone have any idea why he moved back to analyst from DC?
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Yeah anyone blaming the setters in the loss to Wisconsin was apparently watching something different from what I saw.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
I like to think it comes from more actual coaching of serving than I ever saw at the club level, but based on what we saw this year at Texas, I'm not optimistic. I was consistently blown away (at the club level) by how little effort was put into coaching such a massive component of volleyball success. During warmups for practice, they'd serve for x number of minutes, and I rarely saw a coach give any meaningful form tips or impart any knowledge about how or why we serve this way or that way etc. It all boiled down to a few minutes of relatively unsupervised serving at each practice, and then at tourneys, coach telling everyone "We gotta serve tougher". OK, that's cool Corch. Now how about you actually teach them how to do that effectively and give them some more specific instruction and direction than "serve tougher, but keep it in". It's like serving was just taken for granted by the coaches and the kids were just expected to know the ins and outs of being a good server. Which is idiotic, because it's just not a simple thing to be good at. It takes some work and some knowledge, which most of the kids lack. Basically, the kids were left to teach themselves how to serve., when most of them don't even know what they don't know about serving. I hope that bullshit doesn't carry over into many college programs, especially ours, but it might. Watching our serving this year, it just seemed utterly static & predictable. Nothing seemed to change within a set, from set to set, or from match to match. Each server always seemed to serve their same serve over and over, too. Maybe I'm expecting too much, but imho our serving game is in desperate need of more variation. I thought it was quite telling in the Wisconsin match when Sheffield was interiewed mid-match and, oozing confidence, said something along the lines of "We got this. We've seen every serve they have, and we can pass 'em all". That's, uh, not good. And we just continued doing the same shit over and over with the same results. IIRC the only one who seemed to be able to put any consistent pressure on them was Nya, who kept putting it deep in the corner with some pace.
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BOOM MOTHER FUCKER - Will Muschamp's Triumphant Return
I hope you're right and PK just left of his own accord, but when someone at that level leaves on their own, they usually make an announcement and the public doesn't find out from the university that they were just 'not retained'. Who knows ...
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BOOM MOTHER FUCKER - Will Muschamp's Triumphant Return
That's cool and I hope you're right. It just doesn't inspire a lot of confidence when we fire a coach that doesn't need firing.
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BOOM MOTHER FUCKER - Will Muschamp's Triumphant Return
OK, I'm pissed, so maybe that was an exaggeration, but he literally just let go the best coach on a staff with multiple guys that have underperformed and need to go.
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BOOM MOTHER FUCKER - Will Muschamp's Triumphant Return
Banks is still here, right? I guess our special teams are amazing.
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BOOM MOTHER FUCKER - Will Muschamp's Triumphant Return
Seriously. Let's address everything possible other than the single biggest, most obvious fucking problem on this team.
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BOOM MOTHER FUCKER - Will Muschamp's Triumphant Return
Yeah what he does to us probably won't feel very good.
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BOOM MOTHER FUCKER - Will Muschamp's Triumphant Return
Wow. So we're firing our best coaches now? Cool, cool, cool. I get that some of y'all liked Muschamp's tough guy talk bullshit, but got damn. Fuck you, Sark. At what point did the programmers of the simulation hit the "bizarro world" button?
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Jeffrey Epstein needs his own thread
LOL, yeah. I saw that dude and wondered who he was. Well, well, well.
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2025 Nascar Thread
https://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/nascar-legend-greg-biffle-and-family-killed-in-plane-crash/10785565/?utm_source=daily.motorsport.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=nascar-legend-killed-in-plane-crash&_bhlid=85a7c4b7eb14bf8a4cee4ad2ee2c73bd718d6504
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Jeffrey Epstein needs his own thread
House Democrats release more photos from Epstein’s estate https://apnews.com/article/epstein-files-photos-congress-ed6b4809565502c0adea7dd4fec68fb3 Ranking Member Robert Garcia Statement After Oversight Democrats Release Additional New Photos Received from Epstein Estate https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/ranking-member-robert-garcia-statement-after-oversight-democrats-release The newly released photos can be accessed here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/cl62lochkdzdalbzzqgq8/ADJIDEfLD1oQZrKmNeae2So?rlkey=y7529bx9tl7db6zf279jp3cyu&e=1&st=8o7kizhr&dl=0
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CoTA sounds like it sucks
Welp ... that didn't take long. 2 people rescued after getting trapped on COTA roller coaster https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/2-people-stuck-on-cota-roller-coaster-circuit-breaker-travis-county/269-8f89a0f7-fd5b-4dd9-a625-70d5b7742bf0 ETA: According to the reddit thread, they were stuck there for 4.5 hours.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
That's awesome. I bet it's cool for her to see that & also cool for Mom & Dad to have her see it. Our kids hear us talk about the glory days, but I think it's hard for them to really imagine that we were actually pretty athletic and skilled back in the day. Mrs. Wood (no pics) & I were nowhere near the Fuerbys' level, but both our boys play & we were talking the other day about how cool it would be for them to be able to see video of us playing before age broke us down. But we weren't all walking around with hand-sized video cameras all day every day 22 years ago.
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Formula 1 2025
Wait list? Like, for a specific section or tier of seating/hospitality?
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Diego Pavia - The Chihuahua that thinks he's a Mastiff
I've only known one, and he acted almost exactly like that. We worked at the same delivery service, and everyone called him "Little Man", which is the one aspect of being short that he actually didn't seem to mind that much. Came in to work one day complaining about the accident he'd just had. But it wasn't his fault. You see, the sun was in his eyes as he ran the yield sign under IH35 exiting the turnaround from the northbound to southbound feeder at 290. Accident happened at noon, but yeah, ok.
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Diego Pavia - The Chihuahua that thinks he's a Mastiff
Dude, I didn't catch mine at CB, but if yours is anything like the Flu B that I just got over ... well, I wish you luck. Fucking brutal.
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The Real DBU
Saw this one in person. Seems like yesterday, but it's the only play I remember from that great game. Happy Birthday, Jerry Gray, you BMF!
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Formula 1 2026
Rumors that Honda is going with solid state batteries.
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Diego Pavia - The Chihuahua that thinks he's a Mastiff
Cool. Thanks, y'all.
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Diego Pavia - The Chihuahua that thinks he's a Mastiff
Austin to Granby & Winter Park, via Amarillo.
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Diego Pavia - The Chihuahua that thinks he's a Mastiff
A little help here. We're driving up to CO this weekend. What's bad about it? Should I take the eastern route that's a little longer?
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Trump’s America
It's all pencils these days. Didn't you hear? Teach your kid some pencil-usage discipline and your budget will be balanced in a jiffy! It should only take a couple of beatings if you do it right.
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Trump’s America
*Staff, but yeah, that was my first thought as well.