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Richard Kimball

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  1. Can't believe you're making fun of those poor people. How low can you sink?
  2. NSIAP, here's Josh Pate on the Longhorn Network and the failed PAC16. He bangs on DeLoss Dodds and UT for killing the deal, but his projections about what could have happened are worth a watch.
  3. Dittos on the guys suggesting AA. You meet some good people, and you're not alone. On your girl leaving you, you dodged a bullet. Half the people on this planet have a pussy.
  4. Their superintendent got kicked out of a football game last year. He walked out to the middle of the field to argue a call on a two point attempt. Ref talked to him, told him to go to sidelines, then finally threw a flag. He kept arguing, ref threw another flag. He started shouting. Ref threw his hat, and coaches had to come out and escort him off the field. Marlin had to kick off from their own five. Marlin's a different kind of town.
  5. American Graffiti wasn't a 50s movie. The tag line was "Where were you in '62?" Both are fun movies, but American Graffiti had a more serious undertone. George Lucas did it as an homage to the world in which he grew up. It was the year before the Kennedy assassination and before the Viet Nam war, the last gasp of innocence of the post WWII baby boomers. The closing screen, showing what happened to the four main characters, showed two of them dying within a few years (I know, More American Graffiti made the Terry character a deserter, rather than a combat casualty, but that was stupid.) The characters in American Graffiti were character types, representing the average high schoolers, and the John character, who was a holdover from the fifties that feared the changes of the 1960s.
  6. I copied this from Facebook. January 1, 1949: Texas fullback Tom Landry scores on a 14 yard touchdown run to help the Longhorns defeat Georgia 41-28 in the 1949 Orange Bowl. Landry carried 17 times for 119 yards. If the name sounds familiar, yes that's the same Tom Landry who went on to become a hall of fame coach with the Dallas Cowboys. Landry was 24 years old during the 1949 Orange Bowl. His college career had been interrupted by World War II, where he served as a B-17 pilot. Landry completed a combat tour of 30 missions, and survived a crash landing in Belgium after his bomber ran out of fuel.
  7. I know she's gone now, but the correct answer is Olivia Newton-John, I changed my Siri voice to Australian female cause of her, but Siri sounds older, and I think she weighs more. Emma Watson sounds like Olivia Newton-John with a nasal infection.
  8. Not everything ages well. There's a reason Kelly McGillis wasn't asked to be in Top Gun Maverick. Kelly then and now: Seventy-five years ago, traveling all over the country was harder, and most of the football money came from the gate. It made sense that colleges should play schools within driving distance for both the teams and the fans. Travel distance was more important than the quality of the opponent. The schools were wildly different, though, and there were a lot of massacres, cause some schools emphasized athletics, others didn't care. When the real money started rolling in, some of the schools were happy to be the Washington Generals for the marquee schools. Those days are gone. The world I grew up in no longer exists. Today, the opponent is more important than the travel distance. Money alone won't buy championships, but it's no longer possible to compete at a high level without a lot of money. Some schools, because of fan base or school size can't keep up. It may suck, but that's the way it is. Texas doesn't want to play Kelly McGillis anymore. The Horns want to play Jennifer Connelly.
  9. "You said SMU twice." "I like SMU."
  10. Yeah, I used to listen to him for the entertainment value, not because he really knew anything. Found out after he died from one of the other sports bloggers that he had a chronic long term disease, and had lost a child. His life was college football, that basement and his youtube channel. Wish I'd sent the son of a bitch a helmet.
  11. Josh Pate says if he could go back in time to see any football game it would be this one. He also mentions that this was the last great game when everyone was fully engaged, and half the people weren't goofing on their smart phones.
  12. At least someone has their fucking priorities straight.
  13. It's the rules. The player can say anything he wants. The coaching staff can't even confirm that the player exists until they're officially a signee. That's why you see players announcing they're committed to a school, but you don't see the school even mention their names on social media until they have the commitment signed and in hand. Late edit: There was a little kerfuffle at Baylor a few years ago when a high school kid tweeted he'd committed to Baylor and Baylor hadn't offered. They couldn't say anything on social media, so had to suggest to a couple of recruiting analysts to ask the kid straight up if he'd received an offer.
  14. I believe that. Prior to Knight opening up the money cannons, Oregon had never been Bo or Diddly. @Hagbard Celine summed it up well. Some of the old guard PAC schools were in a state of denial. They thought they were too superior to even consider the possibility of affiliating with those flyover country schools. And no, Oregon doesn't have any friends. Knight's dumped a BILLION dollars into Oregon. He raised their profile, but there's not much higher for them to climb. Washington is, forgive me, invisible. Now, the remaining PAC is coming close to having to make a real choice. See which schools the B12 throws a life line to (never thought I'd be typing that) or band together like the irate 8, take the best of what they can find, and start trying to rebuild their reputation. The irate 8 had no love for each other, but recognized they were in the same bunker and nobody else loved them enough to throw them a life line. What they had going for them that the remaining PAC doesn't is that their egos were never allowed to get overinflated, anyway.
  15. Yeah, Carolina. Once you get east of Texas, all those states look the same to me.
  16. Rhule isn't a criminal guy. Briles was, but I covered Rhule his first year, and he kicked a bunch of guys off the team. I also used to check arrest reports monthly, and it wasn't a problem. Briles? Yeah, I broke a couple of stories on his players getting arrested. Rhule recruits measurables. He runs a bread and butter offense and defense. He's one of the best at getting the most out of his talent. Jalen Pitre was a three star, and got picked #1 in the second round of the draft. His players come out of the college game with full preparation for the NFL. Nice guy in front of the camera, tyrant behind it. One of the reasons he had problems at Jacksonville was the pros didn't like his military type attitude. Remains to be seen how he'll fare in the era of NIL and transfer portal, but make no mistake, he encouraged a lot of people to, in his words, "be successful somewhere else." Agree with you that Nebraska will probably suck in year 1. That's Rhule's MO. He establishes his system, and come hell or high water, that's what's going to happen. First year at Temple sucked. First year at Baylor sucked.
  17. I'm the same way on gifts, so I do this for my girls. When it's getting close to gift time, I pick out something in their price range and drop some hints about it. Last year, a little before Father's day, we were out at an antique shop, and they had one of those Flintstones coffee cups McDonald's gave out 20 years ago. I picked it up, and said, "Wow! I used to have one of these. I always liked that cup. No idea what happened to it." Father's day, I had the cup, and my girl was thrilled she'd found something I liked.
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