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Richard Kimball

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  1. Coaching 4 and 5 stars is different. At a P5 college level, one of the toughest things is teaching players how to be teammates. Every one of them, when they were in high school, they were the team, and everyone else had to get along with them. A three star is fighting his butt off to get a P5 offer. Four and five stars can choose between twenty solid schools. After they get to their college, you don't have a star rating, anymore. You have a player. Additionally, a lot of them made it on pure talent, and didn't have to correct their weaknesses. Saban's big strength is getting four and five stars to play like they're thrilled to make the team and may get benched if they don't excel. Read an interview with a Saban player, and he talked about when he got to his dorm he hung up his all state plaque, put his trophies on display, etc. He said Saban walked in and said, "Take that shit down. Everyone here has that." Saban knows how to motivate these guys without alienating them. Recruiting IS important, but there's a reason schools like Iowa State, Baylor and TCU have frequently placed higher than their recruiting rankings say they should. SOME three stars are a lot hungrier than SOME four stars, and some coaching staffs spend all their time coaching them up. A coached up three star will put an unmotivated four star on his ass. And yeah, if a guy gets offered by Alabama, LSU, Ohio State and Notre Dame, his star rating will go up over the same player if he gets offers from Purdue, Rutgers and Mississippi State.
  2. I'm up for a truce. Always like your posts.
  3. OK, cool. Hook 'Em
  4. I forget the year, but it was at TCU when Ahmad Dixon laid out the TCU receiver and got ejected. After the game, I watched Patterson come running up to Briles. He stopped about five yards away, started shouting, then turned around and ran away shouting over his shoulder. Briles grinned and hollered, "Shake it off, coach." Patterson was physically scared of Briles, and he should have been. Briles was a workout beast, even in his fifties, and had just enough crazy in him to throw down in the middle of a game.
  5. I responded with a laugh cause you know how butt hurt Patterson always gets? He HATED Art Briles more than he hated any other coach. He was also physically scared of him. Nothing would make him crazier than being replaced by Briles. Briles would take the job, too.
  6. About the Texas tackling technique...
  7. Rogers looks like he wants to murder a hooker right now. He any relation to Craig James?
  8. Personal peeve when players wear those penalty flag colored shoes. Always looks like a ref threw the flag.
  9. It really would make a lot of sense for them to do that. The cost of broadcast quality equipment has gone down dramatically, and with the internet, distribution costs are lower. You'd think there'd be a market for good, actual amateur football, and with fewer commercials, games being three hours or less, instead of the 4 1/2 hour marathons some of them are now. They'd never make P5 money, but they could pocket some cash, and it would be terrific advertising for the individual colleges.
  10. Yeah, I know, been a month, BUT: Nothing good ever comes from talking to a reporter or a cop. Exception on reporters: If you're drumming up publicity for an event, or something like that, it's okay. If a reporter wants to talk to you about a case, there's no up side.
  11. None of the players were alive when this was a big rivalry, but damn, man, those kids DID see the first sell out in their stadium in forever, and saw the fans five times as pumped as they've been for any other game. After a COVID year of playing in empty stadiums and over a dozen years without a true rival, those Arkansas players were jacked as all get out.
  12. Not mentioned, that I noticed:
  13. Did Jessica Walter record her parts before passing away? She was one of the lynch pins of the series.
  14. The SWC died because it was based on previous economic sports realities. Media contracts didn't make much difference. School proximity was a big deal. Two or three teams could claim national championships in any given year. In the sixties, it was great for the Longhorns, cause they had lots more funding and students than anyone else in the conference. They could run the conference pretty easily, space out a couple of marquee out of conference games, and grab a natty. World changed. TV footprint was the reality of the 90s-00s. Texas saw the change and got the B12 off the ground. The other schools could have told Texas to FOAD and kept the SWC together without the Horns, but they knew nobody else in the conference would bring in TV contracts. I get the money aspect of it, but some of these schools are getting more embarrassing that when I showed up drunk at my ex-girlfriend's house at 2 AM. None of the other B12 schools, no matter how successful, are going to expand interest beyond their alumni and region. The new reality is that you have to bring the eyeballs with you.
  15. That's the first time I've ever heard Bowlsby referred to as being a good leader. I always thought of him more like this: Seriously, how can anyone call Bowlsby competent? All this conference has done is lose schools and hide under the table.
  16. Don't know if you've gotten a reply yet, but yes, the SEC is now more powerful than the NCAA. NCAA gets ass beaten every time someone takes them to court, and they lost a ton of power when NIL became legal. Their primary function was to keep players from getting paid. Somewhere, about 23rd on the list was academic integrity. First time they try to sanction an SEC school, the SEC tells them to FOAD, cause they're dropping NCAA affiliation. NCAA says NCAA schools can't play against SEC teams and the other major conferences drop out. Basically, that means they aren't going to sanction SEC teams, cause the NCAA is scared of the SEC now. Their primary function for the next five years is trying to see if they can still exist so they can pay the executives. They may still be able to carve out a niche sanctioning Bowling Green for handing out puffy stickers to prospects, but that's about it.
  17. Been thinking about the whole Texas hatred thing a lot. On this board, guys have been saying, "why does everybody hate Texas?" while simultaneously laughing about stealing Tech's coach and fucking over the B12. There are lots of reasons to hate Texas. So what? Texas is J. R. Ewing. Remember the old line by Ali, "I don't care if people pay to see me win, or pay to see me get whupped, as long as they pay to see me." Back when the Dallas Cowboys were actually good, they were both the most loved and hated team in the NFL, and their games always had the highest ratings. A lot of those people were watching, hoping the Cowboys would lose. The ONLY thing the Horns need to fix is to start knocking heads ON the field again. Embrace the hate.
  18. I have no respect for any of the talking heads, but the ESPN technical people are the best. Been covering B12 games for over ten years as a photographer, and the ESPN technical people are professional and polite. The FOX people are assholes. ESPN sideline sound and video people move into position efficiently, know what they're doing, and take care of business. Fucking FOX sound guys take that big bell and just walk in front of people lining up their shots and stand there blocking them. They come charging down the sidelines, hollering "Get out of the way!" Whenever I do a game, if FOX is the broadcast network, I know it's going to be a shitshow on the sidelines.
  19. Each conference wants one private school to exempt them from the open records act. Every other SEC school is a state school of some sort. Also, Vandy is like Flounder. They've been there forever, lose games to pad the stats for the rest of the conference, and don't make any waves.
  20. Don't know if this fits, but about 45 years ago, I was cruising up I-35 at the lead of a pack doing about 85 between Round Rock and Georgetown. Speed limit was 70. Top a hill and see DPS running radar on the side of the road. He pops his lights as soon as he sees me, but has to wait to pull out until the rest of the pack passes. I panic, then see an exit and a gas station. Take the exit, pull into the station and park at the pumps on the back side and start gassing up. See him fly by going about 90. Finish getting gas, go inside, get a drink, use the bathroom, go back out, and slowly pull back onto the interstate. About a mile down the road, I passed him, and he had a car just like mine pulled over, and was giving that driver hell.
  21. There are four stages of attitude towards meetings, depending on where you are in your career. 1. Why aren't I important enough to be invited to the meeting? 2. Oh boy! I get to go to the meeting! 3. I would commit a felony to get out of this meeting. 4. I'm the one calling the meeting. I'm currently in stage 3/4.
  22. Wendy Peffercorn knew exactly what she was doing.
  23. It's weird how many people will pay the toll to take 130 around Austin, where the speed limit is 80, and putter along at 60 or 65. Another thing I noticed when I took 130 last week is a lot of people don't realize the rubber on tires dries out after about five years. Apparently 80 mph is the speed where those treads separate from the rest of the tires. Probably about four tire treads per mile laying in the road.
  24. True, but with marketing, a lot more could have been sold. Totally agree with you that a bunch of these kids have unrealistic expectations. Listen to them in interviews. 3X the number of players that go to the NFL think they're going to the NFL.
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