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Mikey4

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  1. Finished Fairy Tale yesterday and loved it. King is the GOAT storyteller, and I like how he merges themes found in so many classic fantasy novels. Here are some of the themes and the books of which they reminded me:

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    Finding a portal to another world in an old shed - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe or 11/22/63 (technically our world, but same idea)

    Bloodsport among captives in deep maleen - Hunger Games

    The journey to the deep well and gogmagog - IT (traveling deep underground to confront the creature from another dimension)

    And the whole crusading through a foreign land meeting friends and fighting foes reminded me a bit of Tolkien.

    Great book, would recommend.

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  2. The situation with Saban will force a change, but not in the rules. It will change the timing of firings and retirements so that a school is less likely to get worked over like this. The problem is not with allowing transfers after a coaching change. The problem is Saban retiring as the portal window was closing.

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  3. 5 minutes ago, DanTheHorn said:

    They were doing the average before losing McKinley but now they are doing the ranking on the transfer portal. Lets just say there are 11 teams ahead of them on average and Texas is #2 on that list.

    They're also conveniently ignoring on3's transfer rankings, which balance outgoing transfers against incoming ones. On that metric, they've been decimated by having to recruit bread to replace blue chip talent.

  4. 23 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

    "Texas just declared war on Alabama?" Uh, you started it buddy. Fucking hypocrites with their heads in the sand about how things went down pre-NIL. If only we could go back to the good old days when recruits were bought and sold under the table with a push from sleazebag street agents and uncles with their hands out.

    This wink cracks me up at 3:06

     

     

     

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