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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. Depends on how far you wanna go back. Prior to integration, when it came to football in the south, HBCUs are where the elite talent would reside.
  2. According to kenpom they rebounded 36.8% of their missed shots which is a season % that would place them as the 17th best offensive rebounding squad in the nation. Obviously a healthy Disu would've been a big help here, but the main problem with yesterday's loss is that it's one of only 3 good opportunities to build our resume in the nonconference. I'm confident that we'll improve immensely as the season progresses, but having not watched a lot of these guys play prior to this season I'm a bit surprised at how unathletic we are. I'm really curious as to what made Carr the #1 transfer in the portal. He's essentially a poorer shooting Ramey with a bit cleaner handle and more of a willingness to try to score in the lane.
  3. Our shitty nonconference schedule is going to be a giant monkey on our back working against us getting a 3-5 seed. If we don't finish with somewhere in the neighborhood of 12 to 14 conference wins I doubt we get a 5 seed or higher. Our schedule is really garbage this year.
  4. Mitchell got some low post moves for yo ass!!
  5. Fox entities suck at broadcasting college sports. They haven't even advanced to giving us a shot clock for chrissakes.
  6. Let's be honest, when it comes to roster building the entire Mark Cuban ownership run has consisted of trading away any and all serious efforts towards the draft, for shooting moon shots at top of the class free agents, trading for veterans, and signing mid tier free agents. While it's ok to utilize this strategy as PART of your roster building process Cuban seems to think it's the only tool in the tool belt. We never have worthwhile assets because worthwhile assets are usually young and acquired through the draft. I used to blame Donny for our futile draft efforts, but after reading the reporting on our front office and listening to the Haralabob podcast with Pablo Torre it's become more than clear that Cuban is the true culprit behind all our problems. Until he takes the draft (and in turn ceeding more power and input to the scouting process) seriously we will always struggle with this issue. Cuban is just lucky he's had 2 generational talents to cloak his inept roster building.
  7. The bigger misstep that offseason was trading away Seth. That was fucking stupid.
  8. Anybody else feel like Kirby is mimicking Saban's evolution and is currently in the Bama-Saban 1.0 phase of his head coaching career. He doesn't care enough about the offensive side of the ball and it will take a few more unanticipated losses before he finally gets serious about employing a modern offense or actual talent at the QB position. Bob Stoops seems to be the only defensive minded head coach over the last 25 years that I can think of who upon getting his 1st HC job was serious about fielding an explosive offense. He didn't lean towards the conservative inclinations most defensive minded head coaches have when they first get a job. And not only that he had a real keen sense of not only knowing when to change out OCs but picking new OCs when his offenses started to sputter. He went from Leach to Mangino to Long to Wilson to Heupel to Riley. Long and Heupel were the only ones who weren't super elite OCs under him and Heupel may prove to be a decent head coach despite that fact.
  9. Does Kirby think he gets an extra bonus if he wins a national championship with his arm tied behind his back? He reflexively chooses to start the lesser talent at QB every time he's faced with a decision.
  10. For the first time that I can ever remember The Ticket had a full on podcast for college football. Of course it's all due to Corby losing his coach.
  11. I dont understand this view that Brian Kelly is a bad hire. LSU won 2 national championships with a barely literate ogre and a guy whose idea of good offense was running dive tosses 30 times a game despite fielding a WRing core of Odell Beckham, Jarvis Landry, & Reuben Randle. They literally fall ass backwards into national championships with imbeciles leading the way. LSU is the only power 5 school in a state with more talent per capita than any state in the union. Kelly not only sends quality Olineman to the league more consistently than any coach in college even though that position group is the most difficult to evaluate, he wins everywhere he's been and has been to 2 playoffs and a national championship without ever having a difference making QB. I was really hoping LSU would fuck up this hire but they actually hired a high quality head coach. And beyond that, let me let my melanin deficient brothas in on a little secret about how LSU is viewed regionally within the African-American community. It carries a panache similar to how Miami was viewed back in the 80s. It's the only PWI that sort of has an HBCU vibe and atmosphere at their football games which is attractive and familiar to young black men. And dont even get me started with how wide eyed and tongue wagging these young men get when they visit southern Louisiana and come across the sea of creole women they'll suddenly be introduced to south of I-10. There's a reason why LSU can win national titles despite being led by sheer incompetence since Saban left. Brian Kelly showing up there is clearly not a good thing for us.
  12. **Wakeland kid****
  13. Yeah I was impressed by that Wakeland as well.
  14. He was my favorite recruit of the class and has shot up the rankings over the past 2 years. Uber athletic with a jaw dropping game. He doesn't have the vision of Ja Morant but he plays with a similar flair. His highlights from the Kimball vs Frisco Wakeland playoff game last year were ridiculous. Also look for the Kimball vs Lancaster playoff highlights.
  15. That's a good ass hire. His willingness to leave Notre Dame makes me wonder if he was available last year.
  16. Nah this was well known and was referenced on here a number of times. Bob's affinity for Aggy was never a secret. He routinely talked about going to Aggy games with the same family he attended the LSU game with, and he has gone to at least one aggy game a year with them for the past decade if not longer. He famously left the Aggy quintuple overtime win over LSU early because of his mother in-law. Some of us on here sort of talked ourselves into believing his daughter would pick UT to rebel against him, but it was clear through the frequent times they talked about Aggy on Bad Radio that the family he and his wife hang out with had done a pretty good job of making Aggies out of them.
  17. I'm glad he chose to go back to Kimball instead of playing for that made up school in Lewisville. I wonder whether he and Keyonte George had a falling out.
  18. Dak has looked off (especially when throwing on the run) since the calf injury. Judging by how long it took Gallup and now Gregory to get over their calf injuries I'm guessing it's still affecting Dak.
  19. You don't even have to go so far as fighting/bullied conflict resolution in school. Just everyday things like kids organically getting together in a neighborhood to play a game are a relic of the past. At least I don't see it near to the level that I experienced growing up. Parent organized pay dates have all but eliminated this. Neighborhood games among a big group of kids was the place where most of my conflict resolution experiences took place.
  20. Timme's struggles against size & athleticism will be a hurdle for him to get run in the NBA.
  21. Too bad that guy couldn't have been as calm prior to firing his gun. It's clear to me that he shot him out of anger and malice from being disrespected rather than any fear for his livelihood. But I'm sure others will argue the opposite.
  22. As a layman I always understood the rationale for hate crime legislation to be of the same vein as that for terrorism laws. Now the prosecution of hate crime laws may not always meet this standard, but the history of racial crimes in this country have always served at least 2 purposes. The crime itself is self evident, but the secondary purpose of these crimes was to induce fear in targeted communities. Now perhaps an argument could be made that legislation to combat that secondary purpose is unnecessary in this day and age, but why would it apply for terrorism in one case, but not for racism/hate in another case?
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