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SwanderedTalent

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  1. well, he was born in '51, right? he turns 70 next year and that IS old
  2. fuckin' looks like Romeo Rose is back in the game
  3. I tried AA for the first time the year I turned 30. I hadn't lost nearly enough for it to stick. I didn't have desperation; I was way too willing to take it a la carte. I figured now that AA finally had somebody really smart doing its program, that person could sort of audit the thing and pick out the most important parts and just do those, to maximize efficiency and avoid uncomfortable stuff. yeah that didn't work Meetings are important but being in and around the meeting is equally important. If you're just a face that's there from 11:59 til 1:01, you're not really in the herd. It might seem hard to strike up conversations, God knows I think so, but a simple "I liked what you shared" after a meeting is enough to start forging the kind of simple friendships that make the meetings comfortable and even enjoyable. You will hear different things about sharing. Some people think newcomers should shut the fuck up and listen. That's partly true. I guess my advice would be, share often early on just so people know who you are and what you're going through. All your share has to be is how you're feeling that day. It doesn't have to illuminate anything about the program for anyone else, it doesn't have to generate applause or laughter or get you elected VP of AA because of its amazing insight. It took me a long time to learn that. Just sharing "I'm new, this kind of sucks" lets people know you're approachable.
  4. how do we know Yurcich wasn't one of the bad Oklahoma State coaches?
  5. in a passive aggressive post based on mind reading, you accused me of sublimating and being passive aggressive. Bravo. and double bravo for getting me to respond; I know better but I'm doing it anyway.
  6. that, or people are finally angry enough (and encouraged by the tolerance of politics on the football board slash the mantra of "WE MUST HAVE A DISCUSSION") to register and share their own emotional and uninformed opinion, just like they see everyone else doing
  7. "seemingly", he said, without a hint of irony
  8. the presumption is they're firing him for cause, so they don't owe him anything I really doubt they'd be able to win a case proving so, when Gundy sues, but the only way the hypothetical actually makes sense is if you assume the firing is for cause it's a pretty mean t-shirt, you never know
  9. he'll be out by noon tomorrow what upside is there to keeping him? He'll probably end up Alabama's OC next year
  10. Exactly up until "cherry on top"-- I think it's more like the pretext. But yes, Gundy pissed off some black players and blood is thicker than water, so this is their collective opportunity to exact revenge.
  11. And for all of you freaking out about Chuba "overreacting", well no shit, he's not "reacting" to the t-shirt at all. The t-shirt is an excuse to go public with a grudge but with Absolute Moral Authority.
  12. for entertainment purposes, and because Oklahoma State University is basically a football program with a college attached to it rather than an actual institute of higher learning, I really hope Gundy is not inclined to make a Drew Brees style Apology Tour why couldn't this have happened to LSU, though
  13. Well, there you go! If I were a football player presented with Yet Another Moral Crisis Which Requires Action, I wouldn't research the media outfit I'd never even heard of and say "hmmm let's see what a comedian thinks of it".
  14. you're talking a lot about yourself here. I don't know you, don't know anything about you. You say you stopped throwing the word "retard" around analogously to Tom Herman's loudly enlightened racial attitudes, in what I interpreted to be your attempt to say "see some people do change, I did". I mean, I don't really know what to tell you. I'm happy you're happy. If you think Herman's genuinely a racially woke social justice warrior down with the cause, that's fine. I personally wouldn't believe the guy if he told me he had orange juice in his fridge. In this specific case, where his $5m/yr salary is critically dependent on young black football players agreeing to come to UT and take instruction from him, and he thus has a vested financial and W-L interest in appearing as sympathetic as possible to their group racial dynamic, I really couldn't be any more skeptical of what he's saying publicly. Good for him if his conscience and his public statements are truly in alignment.
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