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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. I believe Lewis and Tuohy are high school classmates from some high school in New Orleans. In fact, it may be the same high school that all of the Mannings went to. Not reading Liars Poker before I finished college is a life long regret of mine. I remember reading an interview with Lewis where he related how he wrote it as some sort of exhortatory tome on the ills of Wall Street, but after reading letters from fans of the book he realized it had the exact opposite effect on everyone who read it.
  2. I believe the conservatorship specified controlling the rights concerning his "life story". So I'm guessing it's not all encompassing like I imagine most conservatorships are.
  3. I think Herman is a better overall game manager than Sark, but his hubris and personality would've prevented him from ever being the recruiting juggernaut that Sark looks to be capable of and his stubbornness (and again hubris) led to some poor player evaluations especially in areas he considered himself as being an expert on (ie WR, OL, etc) Herman also seemed adverse to the chase when going after elite recruits deep into the cycle. Of course some could argue that Sark's penchant for doing that is more or less a byproduct of the NIL/portal environment and our move towards the SEC.
  4. Not to mention he was only there for 18 games total and dealt with the after effects of NCAA probation. .
  5. Amobi Okoye
  6. Thank you for saying this. The people who want Sark gone in the middle of the build after watching the clear and substantive roster changes he's made the last 2 years are children with a child-like need for gratification without enduring any sacrifice. I don't give a fuck what his record in the past was, but even if you do you're basically saying that his sole full season at USC and his 5 years spent turning around a down trodden Washington program are totally determinative of his capabilities. This guy came in here and within 3 offseasons has not only identified our chronic roster issues, but he's given us clear evidence that he's well on his way towards solving them and making them sustainable for the long term. Gone are the days of fictitious top 5 recruiting classes built on 5 safeties and 6 WRs. Now we have well rounded roster building. And his strength and conditioning program is demonstrably better than anything we've seen here in the last decade. Not only is it specified towards the needs of the individual players (Malik Agbo dropping 40lbs of bad weight, Maalik Muhammed gaining 13lbs and getting faster while doing so), but it's yielding immediate improvement. I havent seen this much across the board player development in the last 15 years. Yeah his game day coaching and overall feel for the game at hand needs improving, but given all the other areas he excels in I'm certain that will come or at the very least the talent will be so overwhelming that it wont matter in the end.
  7. JT Daniels agrees.
  8. Pretty sure Bruenig was an employment/labor attorney prior to joining a think tank/becoming a podcaster.
  9. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/12/03/248515217/why-chaucer-said-ax-instead-of-ask-and-why-some-still-do @bolverk beat me to it.
  10. That 2009 Georgia game was the first time I realized how much brand management work ESPN was set on doing for the SEC. Oklahoma St beat Georgia by 2 touchdowns yet the entire game all I heard was how Oklahoma St was playing SEC defense and demonstrating SEC speed in route to beating the breaks off an SEC team. Back then the difference in talent between conferences wasn't that vast, but every 13 year old watching games on ESPN got drummed into their heads how the SEC was the best and had the best of everything even though only 2 schools in the conference at the time deserved that level of intrigue. Now after 15 years of kids hearing that nonsense Kentucky routinely sends first rounders to the NFL.
  11. I doubt Jake was making "big money". If he made more than 150K I'd be surprised. Dan, on the other hand, probably made well over 300K.
  12. Totally wasted this guy. https://www.instagram.com/p/CvIywQDuaon/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
  13. Such an unbelievably vapid and inch deep way of offering examples of the resiliency of the enslaved. If that was truly the objective there are a myriad of stories to use as narrative devices, not this laughable "John Henry was a blacksmith therefore he was not a victim" even though he couldn't monetize that blacksmithing skill in any way whatsoever nor did he have any autonomy in exercising said skill. And another thing, can we talk about this childish bastardization of the concept of victimhood and this incessant need to not refer to actual victims of atrocities, as victims. Where is the virtue in this?
  14. The performance based pay pool that Domonique refers to in the tweet up above has no effect on the salary cap. Therefore changing the terms or benchmarks for players gaining extra pay from this pool won't have to be part of a CBA.
  15. This seems like a reasonable solution to the RB problem that I haven't seen brought up elsewhere.
  16. Turns out the entire list is trash. Just a list of random black people with skills, most who weren't even enslaved. Oh and inexplicably they added George Washington's sister on their list of random black people with skills. A state's purported AP equivalent curriculum is based on trash like this.
  17. How did Jake get away with doing IJB all these years and all of a sudden it being a nogo if Dan joined him in doing a podcast as well? Is it all because IJB predates Jake becoming a host?
  18. I believe IJB has around 800 to 1000 patrons they maintain. I'm guessing Dan and Jake can do better than that.
  19. There's some irony here vis a vi how all the host cynically view athletes who always go and on on about their "haters" and how nobody believed in them.
  20. You gotta feel like Bob was always the one to talk Dan into coming back when they were on the verge of leaving a couple years ago. I remember Bob mentioning having a long talk with George which did a lot to persuade dissuade him from leaving. If my inclinations are true and it was really Bob who prevented them from leaving you've gotta wonder how Dan reflected back on that time after Bob left for the Hardline only a few years later.
  21. In hindsight, Dan has often spoke admiringly of his "brother in law" Clay Travis risking it all, branching out on his own, and leaving his local Nashville station. And judging from some of the topics that Dan routinely hit on during his "Business Tuesday" segments he's at least thought a little about ways to go about monetizing a show independently from media company like Cumulus.
  22. Totally agree. The best high school teams today move the ball around much more than we did when I was in high school back in the early to mid 90s. The 3pt shot changed the way to the game is played today on that level. There's a lot less pound the ball dribbling and a lot more ball and player movement by the better high school teams. This viewpoint reminds me of people who still claim they don't watch NBA because there's too much isolation, which is a totally anachronistic observation to make about today's NBA.
  23. Conversely a disproportionate number of African Americans with PhDs went to HBCUs for undergrad even though the majority of black undergraduates go to predominantly white universities.
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