Everything posted by SwanderedTalent
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College basketball coaching carousel: 2025 edition
Just read something truly fascinating about Indiana basketball. Of its top six winningest coaches, three are Hall of Famers (Everett Dean, Branch McCracken, Bob Knight). The other three? Tom Crean, Mike Davis, and fuckin Archie Miller! Three guys they've fired in the last twenty years. . That shocked me.
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UT's next basketball coach - discussion/debate [Sean Miller Hired]
those poor bastards, they could already be done with their stupid season!
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Shaka Smart - Out at UT In at Marquette
who fucking cares? I want us to garner a nation wide reputation for winning too much, and that was never going to happen with Shaka Smart or Tom Herman here
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Shaka Smart - Out at UT In at Marquette
OK so it's really just two reasons. Just more corporate HR training word salad. Same shit he peddled for six years here. All talk and no results. That, to me, is not in any way likeable, but maybe I've been around these types of parasitic pseudointellectual glad-handing douchebags in corporate America more than some of you.
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UT's next basketball coach - discussion/debate [Sean Miller Hired]
There's no way it announces today, but a leak the day before isn't really surprising. We may have reached the fabled "agreement in principle".
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2021 NCAA Tournament - Meta thread
I'm sure glad he gets 48 fewer hours than normal to treat it! That won't make a difference in a soft tissue injury I am certain!!!
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UT's next basketball coach - discussion/debate [Sean Miller Hired]
you know God can watch ANYBODY in the bathroom anytime He wants, right?
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America is in a sex recession
I'm naming my next band "Sex Recession"
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A Year In The Life of Derka- a short film by me, Derka "The Shark" Derka
I'm a little surprised you drove around the ghetto that many times and didn't get shot once but even so I liked the video
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Texas commit Tamar Bates- our hope for the future
everything about this is LOL good luck, dude!
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Your unpopular music opinions
I think the Beatles are a lot more hit and miss than people admit-- they have a TON more unlistenable songs than most bands with their approximate reputation. I might say "I love the White Album" but what I mean is, "I LOVE about eleven songs on that record and the rest are worthless". I might say "I love Rubber Soul" but I wouldn't listen to Michelle or Girl on a bet, I fucking hate those songs. Octopus' Garden, Long and Winding Road, Yellow Submarine, Within You Without You.... I could go on and on. Led Zeppelin's not like that for me-- there are probably five Zeppelin songs total I wouldn't listen to spread across their entire discography including Coda. The Stones, admittedly I've always limited myself to their absolute peak era, but within those six records I don't think there's a single track I skip.
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UT's next basketball coach - discussion/debate [Sean Miller Hired]
Do me a favor and find me a coach's introductory press conference, any coach, where he hedged and said or even implied "this is a pretty good job until one I want more comes along".
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UT's next basketball coach - discussion/debate [Sean Miller Hired]
let's be totally honest, to the average alumnus we're about ten percent of the way to that goal if football and MBB aren't there
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RIP Howard Schnellenberger
There are a lot more barriers to entry now than there were when winning one required a team to go pretty much (but not entirely) undefeated, perhaps convince a bowl's committee to invite you, and convince 35-40 sportswriters they were the best team, which back then mostly required you to go undefeated. In my lifetime, here are the programs that have won "wow, I can't believe that program won a national title" national titles (emphasis on PROGRAM, not a given team or winning an upset MNC/bowl game): * Pittsburgh, 1976 * Clemson, 1981 * Miami in 1983 * BYU in 1984 * Colorado and Georgia Tech in 1990 That's it. Any other national title won over that time period, going back into the mid-70s, was won by a program whose name wouldn't have looked out of place against all the other national title winners of that era or earlier--- Alabama, Texas, USC, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Nebraska. Even Michigan or Tennessee, who'd each gone roughly 5 decades between MNCs, were blueblood type programs when they won. Notice that there aren't any seasons on there since 1990. The Bowl Coalition started with the 1992 season (which is around the time the independents all joined conferences), and the BCS started in 1998, at which time it got really hard for the small-time programs to get invited to the party. And that's just the invitation. BYU was atop the polls after the regular season in 1984 and all it had to do was beat a 6-5 Michigan team in the Holiday Bowl. In 2021, a G5 team would have to get invited to the playoff and then beat two NFL talent factories like Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson, etc. I really don't think we'll ever see anything like the 80s again. It is a much more closed system than what existed at that time.
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Shaka Smart - Out at UT In at Marquette
guessing this is probably the fourteenth time you've made a post or remark like this since 2008
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2021 NCAA Tournament - Meta thread
the tournament has been a snoozefest so far-- the clear overseeding of Big Ten teams was a problem, but the empty arenas and the asinine decision to move the schedule off its traditional alignment has made it basically felt like trying to pay attention to the women's tournament
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PSA: Texas vs Ohio State - 2005 (LHN)
Yes he did. That play pisses me off to no end when I see it.
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RIP Howard Schnellenberger
The funniest thing about Schnellenberger's time at Miami was that he quit to go to the USFL and then his USFL job vaporized. Kind of surprising he chose to return at Louisville. I have to think there were other jobs out there he could have taken that would have gotten him closer to the pinnacle of CFB again.
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I'm An Alcoholic
your whole post was beautiful but this in particular, the idea of sharing with someone who's new and raw and scared, is such an incredible thing to be a part of. Such an incredible gift. A normal/non-drinker would never understand the sentiment of "I'm really sorry for all the hurt I caused, but I'm grateful for my life and wouldn't change a thing", but what we're enabled to do today via all the terrible shit in the past and our recovery from it.... it's a truly incredible thing. also breakfast tacos
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Shaka Smart - Out at UT In at Marquette
low bar
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2021 NCAA Tournament - Meta thread
some level of upsets are good and fun then there's when you have Oregon State-Loyola in the Sweet 16
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2021 NCAA Tournament - Meta thread
well, some of them
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Shaka Smart - Out at UT In at Marquette
it gets worse-- if he takes two jobs, we owe the fucker $14m I hear he's interviewing at Indiana
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UAP Pentagon Report (UFOs, Foo Fighters, Commie Drones)
bigger than your mom's ass
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Surly Horns Podcast Season 2 Episode 11 - Featuring Jeffrey "The Shark" McCulloch
half the people here would get kicked out of a crack house