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  1. Eternity is one of the best movies I have seen this year. Just a beautiful movie like this one. We need more films like each of them.
  2. I would think the team he is on is absolutely his biggest detriment to being successful. He pulls off bei go good there long-term that’s awesome. That place has been a QB graveyard since their return to the NFL. I do not watch much pro football, but I hope he can break the trend there and make Cleveland good enough to at least contend for a playoff spot if they give him enough time to grow into the role as well as give him some good linemen up front. His line will probably tell the tale of whether he succeeds or not.
  3. Over the last decade he has said some truly vile things. The comment about Mexican immigrants, the making fun of a disabled reporter, every single flattering thing he says about Russia’s dictator, the comments that led directly to several thousand people storming Congress on January 6th, his recent Thanksgiving trash, but this one is the one that will stick with me. A couple is brutally murdered and this is what he says. To hell with him. I sincerely hope that when TFG keels over that the line to piss on his grave stretches from sea to shining sea and that we give immigrants citizenship if they’ll take a piss on his grave. Let foreigners get an all expenses paid trip to do the same to really drive home the point what a piece of human trash TFG is. He deserves no less than that from all of those he vilified with hateful words and actions. Also if you support this monster or have family members that do to hell with you and them. I have family members that are Teumpers so to hell with them. I consider myself fairly even keeled and I enjoy helping people do better. I show kindness to everyone I possibly can, but I would not care one iota if my cousin who went off the deep end because of this idiot kicked the bucket tomorrow. I am so sick and tired of the hate he stokes and the horrible things he says and does. If Pam Bondi wants to put me on their anti-American list call me directly and I’ll gladly get put on something opposing these fascist clowns. I am tired of the entire American fascist experience and while all we can do is claw our way through it until it ends it doesn’t mean we just have to sit here and take it. Screw this guy and the apparatus supporting him.
  4. The whole thing just sucks. Getting all of the details will take time and it will probably make it more heart-wrenching for the family to see what led to this. Senseless violence like this is, well, don’t have the words to say how sad it is.
  5. No, just do not find OSU to be relevant right now. I say exactly what I think. I always have. OSU football is now on one of the bottom rungs. Again I find that people do not like what they are emotionally invested in to hear someone say something they do not like. I have just never cared about things like this. We’re good right now and five years from now we might not have Dillingham and we might get to go back to being everyone’s homecoming opponent like you are at the moment. You have a deeper emotional and likely monetary investment than I do on this stuff. You look at the current landscape and see it differently than me and that’s okay.
  6. Okie State is now just a team on the schedule. Just how it goes. You had your turn at being good. It doesn’t last forever. ASU will be well-positioned for a good while, but not forever. I have found people do not like when you say things as straightforward as that about something they are emotionally invested in, but it is what it is.
  7. I loved watching him. I wish he had a better line in front of him. I know this era is dominated by QB’s and WR’s, but a good back doing their thing is still cool to witness no matter who they suit up for.
  8. Playing six of the top nine in a conference where basketball is the thing does not really matter. They had two games against an elite team. They put up 14 points combined in two games. They are not good at football. They’re a school that will surprise you sometimes, but not all the time. The conference is just not good overall at football and that’s something ASU can take advantage of. Maybe not to Tech’s extent, but being below 3rd would be a disappointing season. I’d put that label on this season, but I’ll qualify that getting 8 wins from a team with no one playing QB for half the year made 8 or possibly 9 wins fine this year.
  9. Past performance is no longer indicative of what should be expected. If past performance or reputation played a role in whether you SHOULD be good or not the we should be down there with Coach Prime in the gutter. Pre-NIL is what it is. ASU was a non-factor. ASU has benefitted most from Dillingham being an alum, but, and this is important, there is no UT or OU standing there to beat you up. It’s now just Tech. I hope they spend a ton of money and one day win the whole thing. I think in an era where money is out in the open that ASU should never be below 2nd or 3rd. If we were in the SEC we’re toast, but we’re not. This is a conference we can and should be good in football-wise. It’d be nice if basketball could be good, but not so much with Hurley and also because this is a basketball-driven league and there are schools who put their money on that sport instead which is fine. I’m all for handing as much money to the players as possible at every school.
  10. I wouldn’t want that mess, but I’m not a football coach. I enjoy having a normal life. You take that job then you better be ready to deal with craziness every single day.
  11. I’d also posit that if he stays long-term that the road to a playoff berth is significantly easier in the BIG XII. Tech will be good every year and we’re good for one school having a weak schedule and winning more than they should(BYU this year and aggy in the SEC are examples of this). ASU should never be below 2nd or 3rd so long as there is competent play at QB. This is like being in the WCC in basketball all those years where it was just Gonzaga or St. Mary’s winning the conference. The rest of the schools were just kinda there for the most part. The Big XII, in football at least, is close to that. It’d be great if Cougar High or TCU could consistently get it together. It’s still a basketball conference first and that’s okay. I guess for now I’m good with it being Tech, ASU and some jags on the football side of things until other schools take the sport seriously.
  12. This part is something I am not certain really matters anymore and I’m not really saying this in regards to Dillingham. There is a sea change with NIL and more schools can compete right now if they spend money or at least spend it wisely. Do I think he has gotten what his agent asked the administration for? Sure. He probably got more than he asked for when it comes to assistant pay and facilities being modernized. It’s all a process though and were I him right now I’d just be surveying the landscape and taking bits and pieces from how similar schools with very little in the way of football success are conducting themselves. I’d guess he’s already doing that. Rome wasn’t built in a day, but yes being in Phoenix is a big help. The school having a reputation of being fun as far as the student experience helps. I’m content to just watch him do his thing. He keeps winning? Awesome. He doesn’t? That’s okay too. At least he’ll have tried if he stays long-term and makes ASU into a playoff team annually, especially as the bracket gets bigger and easier to make. And that players name? You guessed it. Frank Stallone
  13. My best retort to folks thinking a mid-term election matters in a fascist form of government would be to go and look at history and use it as a guide. A single election isn’t ending this. You have e to fight and claw your way through fascism until the eventual collapsing upon itself happens. That’s when you need to be prepared to step in and retake the government and start anew with a democracy. There is no magic cure here. You just resist and do your small part to reverse things. Once enough folks are doing that actively, meaning not just in opposing it mentally, then you can reclaim sanity and get out of this. Until then you just get up each day and do your best.
  14. I think the last number I read was a little under 6 million. It seems he’s good with that along with better assistant pay and facilities upgrades. I guess that’s alright and his family live in his neighborhood. If that is what brings him happiness good on Dillingham. I obviously would like him to stick around and make ASU into a top 15 team each year. That seems doable if there is money to be spent on, oh I don’t know, GOOD OFFENSIVE LINEMEN. Not sure how Raleek Brown did as well as he did this past season with that line in front of him.
  15. Just pay the man. He cares about the school and spending on the football program could get the school closer to being financially solvent with the athletic program. Breaking even overall would be an accomplishment and keeping Dillingham should be the top priority for the administration on the athletic side of things.
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