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  1. 18 hours ago, Wanker Bob said:

    When the opportunity came about, there was really three reasons for me and Maya [my wife] that we felt this was an absolute slam dunk. Number one, this is a basketball crazy place. This is basketball-centric department. Number two, it’s clear that Marquette is about family and that goes beyond sports. Number three, the alignment… there’s a common vision and it’s a shared vision that I have,” Smart said.

    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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  2. 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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  3. 5 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    IT's "source" apparently missed the Beard Tech introductory news conference (the same one where he called out guest Gerald Myers for not having having his Hot Shot award from when he was 9ys old attending the Meyers basketball camp as a kid).  It get played non-stop.

    “This is exactly where I want to be,” Beard said. “This is my dream job. (It) always has been. Today is one of the best days of my life.”  

    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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  4. 1 hour ago, n64ra said:

    Will we ever see a crap team come out of the bottom and win nattys?

    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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  5. 1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    I watched that game last night, and the women put together a grittier, mentally tougher team performance than any Texas men's team in any sport since 2008. 

    guessing this is probably the fourteenth time you've made a post or remark like this since 2008

  6. 7 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

    At least one of the games was good today. The other 3 were snoozefests.

    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

  7. 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.

  8. 20 hours ago, pch said:

    the new guy who walks into the room for the first time without any idea of how to live life without alcohol.

    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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