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  1. 8 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

    he does play fucked up mind games with his players heads, he did bench his team captain and then went against holland’s direct wishes by sharing holland’s personal family info with the media, all as an excuse to bench holland (seriously that’s human piece of shit behavior, jeff fisher behavior- holland would have been within his rights to beat shaka’s ass), and yeah, according to people who know him he resents and distrusts white people and largely avoids recruiting white kids. he’s a pipe hitting member of the tribe. did you have some fucking point in repeating what i’ve said? jesus you’re just as immature as you claim i am.

    also thanks for outing demarcus holland just now, that was really upstanding of you. what a great guy you are for that one. way to prove you’re a i’ve it all. 

    You've said his name repeatedly before. Do you even keep up with all of your "Shaka is evil" takes? 

  2. 13 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

    yeah i shouldn’t have brought it up, i’ve said as much. i was drunk, and i was tired of hearing people extol the virtues of shaka’s sainthood. that said, i can’t exactly give all of the nitty gritty details without betraying my sources, can i? all i can really point to is what i already said- he recruited one single white guy in six seasons at Texas, and the way he treated his black players was wildly different than the way he did his white players, as we all saw on the LHN. 

    you don’t have to believe me, and you can dislike what i’ve said all you want, but this stuff comes from direct sources who were in his program at Texas, some of the same sources who’ve given me who-knows-how-much info which i’ve shared here countless times throughout the years. so disagree with it, get mad it, rage against the machine all you want,  but don’t sit here and tell me that i’m just making shit up out of thin air simply because you don’t like what i said. if you’ve never questioned shit that i’ve revealed here on the board before, don’t start accusing me of just making shit up now.

    I guess Brock Cunningham, Dylan Osetkowski, Will Baker = one white guy. Not to mention the guys who turned him down. It's interesting to see the vulnerabilities and fragility that comes into play when some white people deal with a black person in authority. Suddenly the paranoia about said black person's actions relative to race come under close scrutiny. It's probably akin to the same sort of psychological mechanism that causes some white people to comment repeatedly and take notice when they're the only white person in a room. 

  3. "Oh no, people don't realize Shaka is the devil. Well I've got news for them. He plays mental games with is players, and he told reporters Demarcus Hollands grandmother died and he hates white people.  That should do it. Now they'll know what type of devil we were dealing with."

     

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  4. 20 hours ago, 59 Burst said:

    The minute football players are officially recognized as employees and the universities are recognized as employers the sport as we know it dies.

    I can just imagine wage and hour showing up at the local university. 

    In my eyes this sort of thinking is wrong headed. Part of the problem is college football is trying to serve 2 masters at once. On one hand they want to hold on to all the collegial and amateurism of yester year while simultaneously attempting to make every single dollar available to them under the sun. You simply cant do both without causing issues in the sport. If you want to limit player movement you're going to have to put them under contracts and make them employees. You can't restrict player movement without having contracts. The NCAA has lost every case recently where this issue was in contention. Another problem with college football is they need to get away from the decentralized organizing forces of the sport. It needs to be governed under a single set of rules and have someone, or some committee looking out for a the greater good of the sport as whole as opposed to conference entities working as competitors sabotaging each other at every turn in an effort to gain more power. You simply can't reap billions of dollars on one end and then on the other end pretend this isn't a big business and the players aren't due any of that largess. That sort of cognitive dissonance doesn't work anymore. 

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  5. 4 minutes ago, Stringer said:


    Yeah, I saw his stats seemed fine for a college starter. He just seemed like the same guy today, lost and a step behind, so I was a little confused. I just assume he got his stats this year beating up on early non-conference games.

    Oh he definitely did, but his early foul trouble really exacerbated things for him. Honestly we should've been a team he matched up well against. We're not overly athletic in the frontcourt outside of Mitchel, so he shouldve been able to stay on the court. He's a player who needs tremendous guard play to bring out the best him, something LSU has none of. 

  6. 11 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

    He didn't suddenly become a terrible defender.  Makes you question the staff's scouting ability   

    The problem is who we play Horton alongside of. We cant have him, Abmas, and Hunter on the court at the same time. That just makes your backcourt absolutely atrocious defensively. Hunter isn't a bad defender, but often times when playing alongside Abmas and Horton he's guarding the biggest wing and that diminishes his defensive strengths. 

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  7. 20 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

    Where is this supposed SEC meatgrinder we were all told about in which every game is the football equivalent of Verdun?

    Apart from Georgia, this is a schedule that is pretty comparable to your average Big12 schedule in terms of difficulty.  Playing aggy at College Station is roughly equivalent to playing Tech in Lubbock.  Playing Arkansas in Fayettenam is roughly equivalent to a trip to Ames.  But Kentucky, Mississippi State, Vanderbilt?  Don't those match up pretty evenly with Kansas, TCU, and Baylor?

    Of course, we could completely shit the bed.  We routinely did that in the Big12 over the past decade.  But if that happens, it won't be because the schedule is so much more difficult than what we faced this year.

    But if we don't shit the bed, we'll get the benefit of having played an [hushed and awe-struck voice] SEC Schedule [/hushed and awe-struck voice] when the playoff rankings come out.

    So much of this. That vaunted SEC gauntlet has always been bullshit, especially when you consider they've always played only 8 games. Half of the teams went 6 or 7 or years without playing each other. I'm not sure how one can even refer to them as conference mates when they play each other so infrequently. How many years has Georgia gone without playing Bama or A&M? If anything, the schedule for SEC East teams will actually begin to approach the difficulty they've spent the last 15 years crowing about now that OU joined them alongside of us. 

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  8. 3 hours ago, Helobious said:

    Should’ve clarified not an FBS talent currently. That’s my bad. You can’t teach that arm strength he has. He’ll probably never be a mobile threat, but if he can improve his ability to actually read a defense and his accuracy he has a very high ceiling. He does have a long way to go, not to knock him or anything but it’s just the current reality.

    Reading defenses wasn't MM's issue. Consistent accuracy and composure when under duress was the issue.

  9. 2 hours ago, UThomas said:

    Good article.  Some spin by ESPN staffers, but I loved that it started w how it was offered to ATM first and they turned it down

    This little note just earned the article a read from me. I'm sick and tired of the low hanging fruit that gets grabbed anytime LHN is discussed and the fact that A&M and prior to that Nebraska was offered a Big 12 conference network which both of them turned down. I forget the name of the conference commish who was especially focused on starting a conference network and eventually left for the Big 10 to start their network once our Big 12 compatriots turned him down. This never gets mentioned when realignment talk gets going and it predictably devolves into how we are the catalysts for all that is bad in college football. I believe he tried to get the ball going early in the conference's formation. Just think about a world where the conference has it's own network in the late 90s and early 00s. Back when the Big 12 south was thought to be formidable. This was before ESPN started their brand management work for the SEC, maybe the Big 12s success during that time would've ignited something and allowed Nebraska, Colorado, and even Kansas St to further develop and maintain some prominence.  

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  10. 1 hour ago, shadow_operative said:

    best game of his career so far against UCONN. seeing him knock down jumpers gives me real hope for a breakout year. his hustle and effort is on point too. excited to watch him grow this year.

    Mitchell's improved play to begin the season gives RT and company a template for developing athletes like him and showing prospective recruits that they can improve their stock by staying an extra year.

  11. 3 hours ago, CTC2 said:

    I just don’t like his offense so far but acknowledge that they are trying to find lineups that work and injuries. 
    Seems like rec league.

    Sat behind the bench last night and other than making substitutions there wasn’t any real offensive coaching going on. 

    A father of one of the players was screaming last night for more passes and less chucking. I agreed with him. 


     

    I disagree, but I understand why you might feel that way. We're playing way faster to start this season than we did last year so it seems more erratic,. Through 5 games we have 87 assists total on 58% of our field goals compared with 77 assists through 5 games last season.  It would be nice if I could find a stat database that tracks passes per game and player movement like NBA.com does because I bet our rate of passes/gm is a little less this season due to our pace of play and time of possession numbers being less than what it was last year, but I've noticed our sets are much more spread out than what we had over the past 2 years with Beard.  Last season, especially when Beard was here,  most of our movement was below the free throw line (this was done to exploit Carr and Tiimmy Allen's midrange game). This year our movement is spread out as far as the 28' line). Man if we can get DIsu playing anywhere near the level he ended last season this team is going to score a shit ton of points.  

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  12. 30 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

    @shadow_operativewhat's your ideal starting 5? 

    I'm now starting to think we can't play this 3 guard lineup with Abmas, Hunter, and Horton. There's just not enough rebounding or perimeter defense. 

    I really enjoyed the minutes Weaver gave us tonight. He was out on the floor pretty much every time we made a run. He needs to be mixed in more so that we can reduce the minutes where all 3 of Abmas, Hunter, and Horton are on the floor together. 

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  13. 2 minutes ago, Spider2YBanana said:

    No. It's obvious. For 3 straight years it happens over and over and over, and they will not adjust. They're dumb, like all coaches

     

    It's Kietkowski. Another DC in love with his calls over the athletes he recruits. Bring in top flight athletes and neuter them for 4 years only for them to go to the league and be deprogrammed. 

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  14. I'll never understand why our dbs play with so much outside leverage.  What's the point of recruiting athletes on the outside if you're going to completely neuter them with your coverage calls? Not to mention allowing every QB we face to get into a rhythm completing easy passes in front of their face. 

  15. 3 hours ago, Acropora said:

    Huge get!  From what I understand, he's much, much more likely to end up at Texas than the others... Please correct me if wrong.  

    There's a significant family connection so I don't think we get leveraged like Holland. . But who can really know...

     

    Holland's situation is a little atypical in that in his last year of high school his profile shot up exponentially and the gleague wasn't really thought of as an option initially. By the time the McDonald's All-Americans practice week finished many people thought he was the best player in the class(he's currently thought to be the #1 pick). That sudden change in profile amped up the money Hollabd could command and in turn the gleague offer. Guys like Tre Johnson and Cooper Flagg have been the top of their class the entire time they've been recruited.  There isn't going to be a sudden spike in the money coming their way that causes them to make sudden decisions. And on top of that Johnson and Terry have a much better relationship so we won't be in the dark if Tre changes his mind. 

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