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  1. hahahahaha I thought this might be good for some comedy and I was not wrong make him President of the university next
  2. you know, I'm not defending Greg Davis on anything else, but calling a shovel pass in that situation had to have been one of the most low-risk calls he could have made. It took a good play by Alabama and a colossally stupid fuckup on our part to turn it into a pick six. I don't think I've ever seen another turnover on a shovel pass before or since, and I've definitely never seen a defensive score on one.
  3. great win by Michigan at Ohio State yesterday, one of the best-played games I've seen in years I wouldn't feel right bumping Michigan over Gonzaga but they can have the overall #2 seed because fuck Baylor
  4. Michigan fans would beg to differ. Do not want.
  5. that's not fair, look at how many games we haven't lost-- OU, Kentucky, Iowa State, TCU, I mean that's a hell of an unbeaten streak
  6. uh, that's the one thing you didn't do
  7. I know he got his notoriety for his schtick, but he did understand the game and could break it down intelligently. He was the first color commentator I ever heard explain how to attack a matchup zone with dribble penetration instead of just saying stupid shit like "they gotta make some threes, shoot over the top of the zone!" He could also talk about what coaches could do to get and keep momentum in tangible ways, versus no-shit stuff like "if they start scoring and getting stops, they'll get momentum!" He went full schtick in the mid-90s, around the time the Dukie V persona emerged, which was right after Indiana exited the stage of regular national contenders and he couldn't barnacle onto Knight anymore.
  8. I thought I had read that Underwood is dug in pretty deep at Illinois. I don't think he'd be a candidate. Illinois is much more a basketball school than a football school in terms of what their fans care about. But even then, they're not really much of a basketball school based on what they're able/not able to accomplish. We should be emulating OU and trying to hire the most Lon Kruger-ish coach we can find. Kelvin Sampson is too old and too much of a crook, but he's in that same category. This isn't a rebuilding job, and it's not an audition for the big time. Given that I don't believe any of the Urban Meyer types are available (we are not getting Billy Donovan, we're not getting Jay Wright, we're not going to money whip anyone, etc etc), my first choice would be Greg McDermott at Creighton.
  9. you know who else did that back in the day when he was sick of North Carolina getting all the calls and his guys getting accused by Dean Smith of thuggish play was Rick Barnes now I've done it
  10. To some degree. We don't actually know how much time Smart puts into FT shooting during practice, if it's average, below average, a ton, etc. I know how much he would SAY he puts into it ("more than enough!") because I'm sure he sees this as the fault of the players. And even though I want to shove him off a bridge, he's not totally wrong. If you're a college basketball player and you have trouble with free throws, there aren't any NCAA regulations on how many practice free throws you're allowed to shoot outside of OTAs. If you're shooting a free throw in a game, you're the only one who has any real control over whether or not the ball goes in when you shoot it.
  11. Shaka isn't owed $10 million on the day we fire him. The termination fee is paid out over a period of time, in some instances a longer period than the contract itself would have lasted. So, as I was saying last spring, someone needs to answer for how a $225m/yr athletic department can't cushion a $3m/yr blow like firing him would be.
  12. Keep an eye/ear on the fan. We were out playing in the snow with our three year old a few days ago and noticed our elderly neighbor's unit was completely encased and had accumulated enough ice inside the unit to block the fan blades from spinning. It wasn't happy. I cleared all the ice off and out of the unit and unblocked the fan blade for him, and it resumed normal operation immediately, but if we hadn't been out playing on that particular side of the house, we'd have never noticed it.
  13. I would be shocked if he went from non-rapey to rapey in his early thirties because of football-related CTE.
  14. Might need to check with your HOA before getting that done, too, just to avoid hassle. Some HOAs have strict regulations about whether and how a whole-home generator can be installed. I think my Dad said his neighbor was getting pestered by the HOA because he'd put one in without checking first and (among other things) the modifications he had to make to his fence line/etc weren't to HOA regulation. It's not like he can easily change anything now that the work is done. Now, all of that sounds pretty stupid and I'd rather have a pissed off HOA and power than freeze my nuts off and remain in compliance, so none of that is my point. Just mentioning that you can head off some trouble by checking w/the HOA first.
  15. eh..... I guess. Do you have anything that can run a blender for longer than 7 hours?
  16. REX KWAN DO! You think anybody thinks I'm a failure because I go home to Starla at night? FORGET ABOUT IT!
  17. oh Bryce, no it's not for "no reason"
  18. shows how much attention I was paying to anything NBA related by then
  19. this isn't a heartbreak per se, but along those lines-- the fact that neither Vince Young nor Colt McCoy won a Heisman but OU's had four QBs win it in the past 15ish years and A&M had a freshman QB off a team that didn't even win its division win it completely killed the Heisman for me, and where I grew up that trophy was a big deal.
  20. Well, I'm sure, but three of those weren't particularly close. Hell, the last one, I doubt many Bills fans thought they'd win even when they were leading at halftime. The Scott Norwood game though, ouch. Even given that it was a 47-yarder and he wasn't Morten Andersen or anything in terms of accuracy, it has to hurt to miss a game winner for all the marbles like that.
  21. That's part of what was underpinning it for me-- I immediately thought of the '72 Olympics basketball gold medal game, but the US had won the gold medal every other Olympiad prior to that and won it again in '76, and in '84, and every time since '92, so you know... not the same as a franchise getting to within a strike of its first World Series title and blowing a two-run lead with two strikes TWICE in one game. I mean, fuck.
  22. that really might be the all-time, of any team, in any sport I'm not a Rangers fan but I'd put it up there against anything else you can name.
  23. That is possible. It is also the most charitably-inclined way to assess Smart's role. As a public service, let me posit the opposite, least-charitable assessment. Smart is fickle and capricious with players, so playing time and rotational space are in part determined by his whim. Some players see his Ubuntu corporate team-building bullshit as phony and maybe aren't great at hiding their feelings. Smart is also thin-skinned and takes anything less than credulous buy-in as a personal affront. Royce Hamm might think he made his bones helping save Smart's overrated ass with last year's late rally and is frustrated to find that he still has to accept all of Smart's midwit motivational garbage like a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed freshman in order to get playing time he's earned on the playing and practice court. It's a personality conflict and while I'm not normally inclined to assume some 20-yr old kid is the mature one in the equation, I carry a lot of doubts about Smart's authenticity. What makes more sense to me than "suddenly, Royce Hamm stopped working hard and the coaches didn't think he could contribute!" is "Royce Hamm feels like a grown man treated like a kid and he's bristling at it, and Smart is making an example of him". Like I said, that's the least charitable way to assess the situation. Which is way more fun!
  24. I am glad to not have a brain in active alcoholism barking orders to its subordinates about supply lines today.
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