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  1. Not sure if this is the best thread for it, but Dana Dimel died today, age 62. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/42757313/dana-dimel-illinois-assistant-former-head-coach-dies-62
  2. I have not followed TXN very closely since my father worked there when I was in MS and HS, which was fairly long ago. I recall the 99/4 and Professional Computer from that era What did Templeton do that made them more lean and targeted? Also, when Intel announced 15k layoffs in August, several folks in my network wondered if Gelsinger wasn't significantly undercalling the required streamlining. Many large companies have cultures that prefer # of people over quality of people and everyone believes they need more people - not more highly skilled people.
  3. Gelsinger is by far the most technical CEO Intel has had in some time. Key architect of the 386 - which bailed out the 432 failure, post 286 Chief architect of the 486 Key technical leader of the CPU group, then company CTO, until they pushed him out during the Larrabee program When he returned, he wanted to recreate a Grove-ian culture, which is good prima facie, but ignores many past realities that no longer exist. Intel was one of about 4 groups developing CPUs in the 80s and 90s: Intel, IBM, DEC, Motorola. Now, Apple, Arm, Amazon, AMD, nVidia, Google, MIPs, and a bevy of RISC-V startups all compete for CPU design talent. Each are "sexier" than Intel in some form or fashion, In the late 1990s to around 2014, Intel was 1.5-2 generations ahead of all other companies in process technology. That allowed them to develop higher performing, lower power, lower area CPUs than any of the competitors. Intel had superior microarchitectures to all competitors - and this is largely due to #1 and #2. Intel played hardball with the box movers (Dell, HP, etc.) when those companies entertained alternatives (AMD, VIA, Transmeta, Cyrix). None of those advantages exist today. I suggest that Intel succeeded despite Grove's approaches and processes, not because of them. Or his approaches helped manage a complex and growing organization that benefitted from competitive advantages. Bringing back Grove's OKR approach to program and people management was not going to solve the problems, but it sounded good. IMO, focusing on fixing the FABs/process was the right approach. Client market share was eroding to AMD and Apple. Server share was eroding to AMD, Arm, and the vertical integrators. GPU has always been second and third tier (to nVidia, AMD/ATI, imagination, S3). Some of that market erosion is b/c of FAB problems. Get that fixed, get external customers to the fab, AND get subsidies for on-shoring of semiconductor supply chain. Profit. I think they planned as if 2021 levels of revenue would persist through 2024 - and the CFO often noted "this was not in our models" in quarterly earnings discussions - not good. I believe Gelsinger was pushed out once the CHIPs check cleared. The market has punished this decision to the tune of $10B since an intraday high of $25 yesterday, closing at $22.47 today.
  4. Caserio makes a good point about team contact with a suspended player. Azeez may indeed need some support, etc. and the Texans can do that. That said, he's not in such a bad situation if he (1) did not have a history of this type of play (4 fines in the recent past) and (2) he did not go bananas afterwards.
  5. Guilty. Cliff Gustafson's phone number was also in the book. I recall a middle-school friend calling it asking for an opportunity to be a batboy. Cliff asked him to call the UT baseball office the next day.
  6. Rex makes a lot of sense here. I also agree there needs to be an augmentation to the rule that allows the running-oriented QBs to exploit the rule (Allen and Mahomes are some of the examples). Rex looks tan and rested. I wonder if he has been retread too many times to be considered again as a coach - not likely in the offense-oriented hiring that's been going on, but pairing him with a young up-and-coming OC might be interesting.
  7. Including the INT return yardage and TDs, he threw for 668 yards and 6 TDs. I know it does not work that way, but he had quite the night. Already been said, but that is the Jameis Winston experience.
  8. Reddit (the font of all knowledge) person following Utah indicates Arbuckle and Mateer were a package deal. UU was outbid. Could be wrong, but it smells like a good story
  9. Not sure what to think of this other than it seems to be a reach. As WKU co-OC/QB in 2022, he had QB Austin Reed, now a backup w/ the Bears. Reed ended the season with 4744 passing yards across 14 games and the team had a total of 7000 yards of offense. There was a notable dropoff in 2023 - Reed remained the QB. As WSU OC in 2023, he had QB Cam Ward (now at Miami). Ward had 3700 yards passing and the team had 5000 total yards across 12 games. As WSU OC in 2024, he had QB John Mateer. Mateer threw for 3200 yards and the team had 5200 yards across 12 games - and weaker schedule. There are indications that Mateer will enter the transfer portal. ESPN reports it is a 3 year contract.
  10. I disagree. Purdue is one of the 20 or so athletic departments that do not take subsidies from the university. In the past 35 years, they've had some uncompetitive eras (Akers, Colletto, Hazell, Walters) and some competitive eras (Tiller, Hope, Brohm). Purdue was 8-6 in 2022 and 9-4 in 2021. That includes wins over #2 Iowa, #3 Michigan State, and two more top-25 upsets - and that was not very long ago. I attended both the UND and Nebraska games this year. Both were sold out. Northwestern also sold out. The other home games were within 4k of capacity. The support is there. The product this year was bad - and they took a step toward fixing it today. The right coaching staff (see Indiana) can turn around a perennial doormat rather quickly these days. They lost Scourton (10 sacks in 2023) to aTm (6 tackles last night) and several other players to the likes of Aggy, Vandy, and MSU. Deion Burks (top WR) left for OU. To me that was a sign that Walters was in trouble: top players leaving. It may be supporting your point of NIL, though, but we shall see. A competent coaching staff gets at least 5 wins out of the roster there. And a competent coaching staff also recruits better and builds a program.
  11. Ryan Walters out at Purdue. $9mm buyout. 1-11 this year. 0-9 in conference. Lost 66-0 to Indiana yesterday. I predicted around 50+ earlier in the year. Other losses of note: Notre Dame: 66-7 Nebraska: 28-10 (had more penalty yards than offense yards mid of 4th) Wisconsin: 52-6 Oregon: 35-0 tOSU: 45-0 PSU: 49-10
  12. Average: 8.1-4.5 Median: 8-5 Best: 11-2 (2012 - Sumlin) Worst: 5-7 (2022 - Jimbo)
  13. @StassneyHorn posted it on the previous page. I'll include again. Also - a couple of clicks at ESPN will yield the same result https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/splits/_/id/4889929/quinn-ewers
  14. Kind of reminds me of the old saying, "Rufus transferred from Duke to Texas A&M and the collective intelligence of both places went up." Here - Elko moved from Duke to Texas A&M - and the records improved in both places.
  15. *cachet pedantically....
  16. Not sure he understands the meaning of carnage. Mayhem? Maybe. Carnage? Hell no.
  17. Kalel Mullings interview at the end was great. "Players need to learn how to lose."
  18. Everyone who threw a punch will be suspended for the Big10 championship game. Oh, wait...
  19. Beat me to the punch. John Cooper has been reincarnated as Ryan Day.
  20. Want to see Michigan win today. Vandy is losing, UK looks like shit, and the weather has conspired for a miserable game for Arkansas.
  21. Hudson Card says, "Hi!"
  22. ESPN's "sources": Quinn Ewers set to start despite high-ankle sprain https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/42694548/sources-quinn-ewers-set-start-high-ankle-sprain
  23. Tessitore is garbage
  24. ESPN is complicit. I cannot believe one of these morons did not mention it.
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