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  1. 3 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

    just spoke to some teammates of KJ Adams and Will Baker. Take this for what it's worth, as it's simply the musings of some guys who are close to the situation, but who don't necessarily know what's going to happen in the end. 

     

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    fwiw these guys said they think that kj wants to go to texas, which again is encouraging to me since his mom hooped at a&m. however, they said they think that will baker will end up at unc for two reasons: first, they said that he and brock cunningham don't exactly get along, and second, they said that unc has been recruiting him longer, and that roy williams showing up to a game in westlake really left an impression on him. so take that for what it's worth!

    How does all that jibe with Will's list of schools?

    https://twitter.com/thrillbaker/status/1034908591503953922?s=19

     

  2. 11 hours ago, oSuJeff97 said:

    This issue came up during the "People vs. OJ" series when Sarah Paulson dropped the F-bomb.  Seipenwall addressed it... The interesting thing is that all cable networks could basically do what HBO does -- F-bombs, boobs, etc.; they don't have to obey any FCC "standards" because they aren't governed by the FCC in that way like the traditional over-the-air broadcast networks are.  Essentially they've always just shied away from profanity, nudity, etc., because their advertisers didn't want them to do it.

    HBO obviously has no advertiser concerns so they've never worried about it.  I guess what happens now is that a lot of the "prestige" shows can do it because the advertisers don't mind because they know that the audience for those shows is largely older, more affluent, etc.

    I wouldn't be surprised if one of these shows goes the nudity route at some point. 

    Exactly, cable shows have always had the ability to do what they want if they aren't  concerned with pissing off advertisers.  I remember we saw some glorious boobs in the first season of The Americans.  Nip Tuck was the first standard cable show I remember to breach this imaginary line. 

  3. 3 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said:

    Short article about Connor..... I think it reinforces the thoughts that this year is going to be a standard rookie campaign with some good, some bad, and some ugly.  He's very young to come out and he's being forced into a new position which generally is required to be very strong at the POA, his clear weakness coming out.  I still feel they should have flipped La'el and Connor to start out but they seem all in on making him a guard at this point.  Both guys were sub-par, to say the least, vs Carolina.  The OL, overall, was terrible.... If the Cowboys are going to do anything this year, it has to start up front.  They have to be better.... a lot better.

    https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/dallas-cowboys/cowboys/2018/09/12/cowboys-rookie-connor-williams-debut-didnt-best-wanted

     

    Totally agree about flipping Collins and Williams. There were times during Collins' rookie year where he looked dominant in the run game. He was admittedly inconsistent in pass pro, but those inconsistencies come with being a rookie.  I really think Collins could've developed into an all-pro guard had he stayed there. He's a JAG as an RT and Williams is totally out of position as a guard. 

  4. 6 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

    The whole thing just screams crazy. It's not like black college-aged people would seem out of place at a Florida A&M student housing center. And it's not like he would think he's protecting a bunch of white kids living there from black intruders, I would think there's an extremely large percentage of black residents in a FAMU student apartment building.

    He just seems crazy and dumb.

    Edited to add:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_A%26M_University#Demographics

    FAMU student body is 83.4% black.

    I believe Fla St and FAMU students share some facilities such as student apartments and a few other things in Tallahassee. Similar to how UT students and Huston Tillotson students share aparments along  Riverside, albeit Huston Tillotson is much smaller than FAMU. 

  5. 11 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

    Yep the Ticket is terrible at discussing college football. In fact, I have yet to find any show discuss it real well on the local market. The guy I remember who did it the best and easily the most knowledge of the game was Brian Estridge on ESPN Radio. He does a national show now on ESPN Radio and I think he is the voice of the TCU football team.

    Cooperstein was pretty good with college sports back in the day when he had a show.

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  6. This thread got me thinking about how we all tend to romanticizing things or otherwise misremember and forget a few details that are uncomfortable. I have a hard time believing that so many of you who are anywhere from 5 to 40 years older than me saw less racial strife in your schools and neighborhoods than I did growing up in the 80s and 90s. 

    Kinda like how prevailing wisdom has always been that boomers were exceedingly anti-war when in reality according to Gallup, boomers were more supportive of the war than older groups. 

     

  7. 53 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Anything ever happen to the cop in Minneapolis who shot and killed the Australian woman who was coming up to their cruiser...to explain why she called them?

    Charged with murder:

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    MINNEAPOLIS — The Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Australian woman last summer, an incident that led to protests and the ouster of the city’s police chief, was jailed Tuesday on charges of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.

     

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/us/minneapolis-police-shooting-justine-damond.html

  8. On 9/9/2018 at 7:26 PM, ousux said:

    Hindsight is..10/15?

     

    Our offense sucked under Gilbert, it just looked better compared to the year before, nothing more, nothing less. Remember Kansas? Yeah, that was the Giblet/rapelor offense against that stout jayhawk D.

     

     

    We turned over the ball 6 times against Kansas in that loss. 6 fucking times. 

  9. My dad use the term "african american engineering" a few times when I was a kid.  So politically correct.
    Beyond that, I've heard very little blatantly racist stuff in decades.  Graduated HS in League City Texas in 1990 and its wasn't a common thing (at least the blatant stuff) at all.
    The most blatantly racist stuff I heard was from my uncle in Milwaukee.  
    Could sworn you were black. At the very least someone with a username similar to yours was black on the old forum.
  10. I don't think this thread was about diagnosing racism in all its form, but in regards to some of its casual existence.  Most specifically in the not to recent history.
    No doubt, and I don't want to derail the thread because it does help with the overarching view that Brisket noted up top, but my experience is that this is the terrain where white people feel most comfortable dealing with the the subject (ie on an individual/individual actions basis). How many times have we heard sentiments such as "all we need to do is wait for the old, racist, mean people to die and everything will be better"? All the while the beliefs, structures, and systems they built are left behind and the years that pass since they were first erected further obscure the impact they continue to have.
  11. Reading through this thread and many like it on message boards over the years it's clear that for many white people, racism is mostly seen as individual people being mean or evil to other individuals. Or they see it as the biggest issue. It's not, nor is the existence or disappearance of these individual acts a worthwhile indicator of overall racism in society.

     

     

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  12. Same here.  At the very least they'll always be competitive and vying for tourney bids from here on out. Basically like Baylor (and us for that matter). 

  13. 15 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

    Marvin Lewis is the only other coach I can think of that gets more of a pass from his owner than Garrett. Neither have did shit yet still are still employed with their original team as head coach. I don't get it and both fanbases are fed up with each respectively. 

    This team has shown it can win in spite of Garrett in 2014 and 2016. It will just take a very efficient offense. They have the pieces to do it. And no, this OL is not banged up. One guy is out with a disease illness. We have a competent backup (much better than Chaz replacing Tyron). The rest of our starters are good to go on the OL. No excuses from the offense this year.

    Garrett has reached higher heights in terms of peak regular season performances and fielding a team that seemed championship worthy,  however Lewis has gotten to the playoffs a lot more frequently and has had to deal with an all-time garbage organization in terms of scouting and front office departments. Not sure you can say one one is clearly better than the other. 

  14. 11 hours ago, Walden Ponderer said:

    Herman has proved that national recruiting for The University of Texas is doable. Swinney's recruiting classes at Clemson have not been appreciably better by any reasonable definition. It just takes, you know.... coaching. That's what has been missing. 

    Not all recruiting rankings are the same. Our high recruiting rankings over the past few years have mostly been due to highly ranked WRs, DBs, & LBs while Swinney's high level recruiting rankings have been based in the defensive trenches and WRs. Difference makers in the trenches don't need anything else to help them maximize their talent. Just add food and water. All of our highly ranked personnel like WRs and DBs require some other component on the team to help them be great. 

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  15. 12 hours ago, Snacks said:

    You are falling for the shitty attitude and words. Tom Herman is fucking lost right now. Our offense is fucked.

    Charlie knew he had shit at OL and QB and he tried to avoid talking about it.

    I'm really pissed that we didn't give the veer and shot a 2nd year to get rolling. We would have been much better last year and this year. It masks offensive player deficiencies that we have and makes the run game much easier.

    But we lost to Kansas, so I get it.

    I want us to run a real smashmouth spread if we're gonna run it. I don't know wtf we're running now.

    Yeah I prefer an aggressive run scheme out of the spread instead of the hesitant, read and react stuff we seem to be trying to employ. Part of the reason you rarely see blue blood teams run the spread in this soft ass manner is because it goes against the instincts of the big mammoths blue bloods typically have on their Oline. The deceptive, draw and delay run scheme is a necessary evil for teams without the Oline talent to just maul their opponents. 

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