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Richard Kimball

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  1. Hmmm... that also brings up the question of if someone could or would make a player sign a "no transfer" clause when they take the money. Can they add incentive clauses and outs, like if the player doesn't start so many games, they lose their endorsement deal? The current system has been in place for years, and the one thing we know for sure is that things will change, but we have no clue what the ramifications of those changes will be. I do think you're probably right that there will be a "gold rush" and then a lot of companies falling by the wayside.
  2. There are guys with clout that make a lot of money doing nothing but wearing ugly, bowl specific sport coats and going around watching football games and extending invitations to teams. Combined with the TV contracts, the bowls are pretty ingrained in the system. They won't go away without a hard push. Particularly on the lower bowls, I think a lot of colleges actually lose money going to a bowl game after spending for team travel expenses and having to buy an allotment of tickets that nobody will buy because they have to sell them at face value. As I've posted before, I'm open to a lot of options (like anyone that makes the decisions cares what I think,) BUT there are two things that really aren't negotiable if you want an actual playoff. 1. Entrants shouldn't be decided by a committee. 2. Every team should have a path to the playoffs by winning.
  3. As was the writing. You telling me Jesus Christ can't hit a curve ball? Nice catch Hayes. Don't ever fucking do it again. We shoulda got a live chicken.
  4. Miss: Glen Campbell in True Grit
  5. Some of the photos have gone bye bye, but I don't think this one has been listed, and I expected it on the first page. You're a daisy if you do. That's a hit, BTW.
  6. The Highlander next to MCC will kick your butt. Hale Bopp and Thor over the Bat Cave for me. Thor is a killer whether you're going up or down. On your way back, cut across the Pecan Bottoms and take Jacobs Ladder up, then the road back to UParks. Jacob's Ladder always makes my thighs feel like champagne bottles. There's not a bad path out there.
  7. Boise State has beaten Oklahoma and Arizona. UCF has beaten Auburn and Baylor. Alabama's lost something like twelve games total in the last ten years. I guess nobody should be in the playoffs except Alabama.
  8. It's not a playoff unless the rules for entry are determined before the season starts. There shouldn't be committees deciding, "Well, LSU didn't win their half of the conference, but they're really good," or "Well, Georgia lost in the SEC championship, but they deserve a mulligan." If all the P5 champions are included, the P5 championships become playoff games. That means ten of the 65 teams in the P5 would already be in the playoffs. None of the losers of the conference championship games should get in. Let the G5s & Independents compete for the other three slots. On the P5 championship weekends, the G5s could play each other and the highest ranked team that isn't already playing. That would leave a total of eight teams still in contention, and give the independents an opportunity. It would create Cinderella stories, underdog stories, and most important, it would be a real playoff, where at the start of the season, you could get to the playoffs by winning. It won't ever happen because the P5s will never let a system exist where a G5 could advance in the playoffs.
  9. I don't think the NCAA has the power to control this, and they're scared to touch it. There was never any law that prohibited college players from making money. It was always the NCAA rules that prohibited athletes from profiting off their college careers. These new laws being passed aren't aimed as much at making paying players legal as they are letting the NCAA know who's really the boss. Schools will not want to limit the practice, because it will put them at a competitive disadvantage. We're heading for an arms race.
  10. On the sideline going to the 20s, as a photographer, that removes another ten yards of real estate on either side of the field. I expect most schools will have to do some adjustments. Big money donors, photographers, cheerleaders, security and video crews all currently have sideline access. It already gets crowded. I'm betting they remove some of the photographer sideline passes. BMD is a BMD, but I've been to several games where BMD, trophy wife, and a couple of tween girls are on the sidelines. BMD is glad handing, trophy wife and tweens texting on their phones and none of them paying attention to the game. Always worries me that a play's going to come out of bounds and nail one of them and put them in the hospital. Taunting and uniform violations, meh, they were already enforcing those enough in my opinion. Coaches leaving the sidelines will get interesting when they penalize one of the hot head coaches. Penalizing faking injuries has to be a priority, but doing it is going to be tough. Referees can't be expected to make a decision about whether or not someone's faking an injury. Only solution I could see is charging a time out anytime an injury stops play. If a team is out of time outs, it could be a delay of game. It's not fair, but neither is expecting a referee to be a diagnostic physician.
  11. TCU has natural turf, and it adds to their home field advantage. I know Patterson watered the shit out of it when Baylor had fast teams. Wouldn't have surprised me to see him standing out there with the hose. With the new turf (not at UT, at some other colleges I've covered,) I've heard players complain about blowing those granules out of their noses days after the game.
  12. Troof. Also, like Maryanne, she didn't seem high maintenance, and could probably cook. For further research, check out Jan Smithers and Loni Anderson.
  13. Oh, watching something on someone else's phone is a beating. Your post reminded me of "That guy who thinks he can tell a joke." He goes all "John Henry Faulk" and strings it out into a ten minute tale, and tries to be folksy. Worst part is when he finally delivers the punch line, and you phased out four minutes ago, didn't realize it was time to laugh, and he either gets all butt hurt or starts telling it again.
  14. It took me five years to get this pun.
  15. You're just gonna have to wait until she's old enough to get her learner's permit.
  16. Comedy has trouble standing up over time, cause what we find funny is constantly changing, and comedy timing is also changing. When I was a kid, everybody talked about how fast paced Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In was. Watch one now, and it feels really slow. Steve Martin's movies, The Jerk and The Man With Two Brains can feel kinda cringy, but they still have their moments. I can still watch them anytime, cause Kathleen Turner and Bernadette Peters in their primes. Also, a caution. This is why you don't marry for looks alone...
  17. I was gonna make a joke about sodium, but then I was like, "Na."
  18. Ahem, speaking as a person who has made many emergency medical calls on citizens, I can state categorically that every time I went on a call where someone had something stuck up their ass, alcohol was involved.
  19. Maybe the wife was a cougar?
  20. The guy who acts like you're stupid because you don't understand his special area of expertise. Just went through this installing some propane powered equipment. I don't know dick about propane beyond hooking up the cylinders for grills and stuff. The equipment got delivered except for the propane hook up, and the guy was coming down to do training, so this was all over the phone. He told me to order two hundred pound tanks. I do that, then he told me to get the equipment to hook the tanks together and run them into the common connection. "Oh, hell yes you need to get a regulator. Also you need a gauge. Just get a common hookup." So I start asking questions about the regulator. How much pressure does it need to be able to handle? Dittos for the gauge. What thread do these systems use? I tell him I don't know anything about these types of hookups and that's why we're paying them $67,000 for this equipment is because they're supposed to be the experts. Do the large tanks have a different type connection from the small tanks? What diameter pipe do I need? Should I teflon tape the connections? Guy acted like I was stupid cause I didn't come out of my mother's womb understanding how to build a propane manifold out of parts from Home Depot. Oh, and when he shows up, he's like, "these tanks are too small." "You said two hundred pound tanks." "Oh, I meant two hundred gallon tanks." I tell him, "Propane's sold by the pound and the gallon. There's a lot of difference between a pound and a gallon."
  21. The "Karen" theme song, 1960s sitcom, was done by the Beach Boys
  22. Entire Jetsons theme song: Meet George Jetson. His boy, Elroy. Daughter Judy. Jane, his wife. Somewhere, someone is still getting paid royalties for that.
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