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  1. 14 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

    For sure they are going goon it up like that for night games. The block T has always been pretty cool, but I imagine it's going to be the best entrance in college football. Not that I know what the other competition is for that honor or really care. Clemson has their pet rock, and I always find it compelling to watch those dudes come down the hill in hopes of somebody eating it or blowing out a knee. Miami was cutting edge with its inflatable helmet and smoke machine but that is about equivalent to what most Texas high schools do these days. I guess that was cool in the 80s. What else is there? Michigan's stupid banner that the team jumps up to touch that they've had since when, the 1950s? Notre Dame's champion sign, which is hidden in some decrepit hallway? Colorado has Ralphie, which brings an element of danger and chaos to it that I appreciate.  Tech has the guy on the horse and FSU has the dude with the spear, but all of those are more mascot-centric than team centric. 

    Alabama and Georgia, to name two, now cut the house lights and do something with red LED lighting. it's.... non-traditional, but it's cool in its own way. I like it better than having 640 different uniform permutations or dumb shit like the Red Sox wearing light blue and gold. I will be surprised if we don't start doing something like this:

     

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  2. I want to dive in and respond to some of these great posts but just heard a great story on a podcast, which-- to my mild surprise-- I had not heard before called "The Vinegar Tasters". 

    So there's these three Chinese dudes, you have probably heard of them, Confucius and Buddha and Lao Tzu, and they're tasting vinegar. Confucius tastes it and says "Feh! Bitter! Spoiled wine." Buddha tastes it and screws up his face in distaste and then sighs and says, "Well there you go, that's my desire for something pleasant interfering with my ability to just experience the taste".

    Lao Tzu tastes it and says, "Yup, that's vinegar alright, doing what it does".

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  3. pretty much the most Sportsball Clown World 2021 image possible

    Gonzaga wasn't one of the fifty best college teams I'd ever seen even before last night. Baylor's not either. The style of play nowadays looks like intramural/pickup ball circa 1993, except that the dudes can dunk and hit more than 25% of their threes. Otherwise it's the same thing: scramble the ball around the perimeter until someone decides "time to try to score" and either jacks a three or dribbles into traffic. 

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  4. 4 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:

    Was anyone else sick of the Gonzaga love-fest last night by CBS? Then I wake up to even more Gonzaga love on ESPN. Come play in a real conference and we will see how they do. 

     

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    yesterday there was an article, probably memory-holed, that said "GONZAGA ALREADY HAS PROVEN THEY ARE AMONG THE ALL-TIME GREATS"

    before the championship game

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  5. 2 hours ago, Duane Moore said:

    Yeah, despite what they may have said publicly at the time, Guthridge getting the job was always meant to be both a “gold watch” for his years of service under Dean, and a way of keeping the seat warm for when Roy eventually came back home.  Roy dragged his feet leaving Kansas, and their plan B of Doherty was a failure. 

    Definitely. And the way John Feinstein tells it, Guthridge really didn't like the reaction he got from the fan base, which hastened his departure. Like he was surprised by the criticism he got in years two and three. Who knows, Feinstein's stories waver here and there. 

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  6. 33 minutes ago, Tex Pete said:

    I disagree. "The process" has fucked it up way more times here than not.

    Our BMDs are no more involved than any other blueblood's, and less so than most. 

    Disagree on both counts. By "the process", I mean the process of the athletic director leading the coaching search, and I don't know where you'd get the idea our BMDs are "less" involved than most. Certainly not Ohio State's. 

  7. 27 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

    Tom Herman --> Steve Sarkisian

    Honestly the way that whole thing went down, I'm not going to blame him if Sarkisian doesn't work out. It seems obvious that football head coach hiring is still the one area in which the BMDs are not willing to let go and trust the process. 

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  8. Just now, Js1 said:

    Beard's priorities:

    #1 - keep Jones and Ramey in the fold

    #2 - make love to the transfer portal 

    #3 - gauge the interest of Sims, GB3 and Coleman in coming back, as none of them have actually declared yet, unlike Kai Jones

    4) DM Tamar Bates and say "OK dude I am not black but I AM the head coach at Texas. Do you want to play here y/n? "

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  9. 7 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    I wonder where Frank Solich and Bo Pelini rank among Nebraska's winningest football coaches?  I'm assuming its 3rd and 4th behind Osborne and Devaney.

    IU basketball is definitely NU football.  

    yeah @Prepuce of Doom is right, when you do it by total wins it slants towards the modern 30+ game season, but I was still surprised Davis and especially Miller were that high on IU's list.

    Tom Herman is in a three-way tie for 7th at UT in football wins (I guess he'd be higher if not for the truncated 2020 season). John Mackovic is 6th. To give you some idea. 

    Indiana blew it by firing cheatin' ass Kevbo Sampson. They should have just shrugged and said "so fucking what". They'd probably have a national title since, at least a couple Final Fours. At this point, programs should probably just ignore any rule breaking related to amateurism. If the coach is covering up a murder or double-digit rapes or pederasty that's different, and so is SMU style institutional payrolla, but caring about "we broke NCAA rules" is completely jejune in the era of AAU and player handlers. Maybe it always was, who knows. 

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