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boilerhorn

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  1. I laughed out loud at Martindale's repsonse. Martindale started coaching the same year Moore was born. in that 39 years, he coached 21 in the NFL, where he clearly understood talent. Was he the best NFL coach? No, but I do think he knows what he's doing.
  2. Fwiw - the Ohio coach was also dating an undergraduate student. His attorney claims that it is not a violation of the employee handbook for the coach to date a student. That may be true, and I can certainly see the appeal of a college student, but it's really fucking stupid when you are the head football coach and (likely) highest paid employee. Combine that with being drunk in public and I conclude he was fired for cause for being a dumbass.
  3. I find Poggi entertaining and interesting. Some more info - from Wikipedia. Early life and playing career Poggi grew up in Baltimore's Little Italy neighborhood as a son of a pharmacist.[3] Poggi graduated in 1979 from Gilman School in Baltimore.[5] He played for the Pitt Panthers in 1979 and later transferred to Duke where he graduated in 1985.[6] He started out as an assistant with various college programs, working with future NFL coach Bruce Arians, before leaving college coaching after his mother was diagnosed with cancer.[3] High school coaching career Poggi entered high school coaching as a volunteer with his alma mater, the Gilman School, while working a day job in finance.[3] In 1996 he was promoted to head coach until he left to begin as an analyst at Michigan. As head coach of Gilman he won 13 conference championships and was the winningest coach in school history.[3] After one year at Michigan, he returned to Baltimore as the head football coach of Saint Frances, where he also donated equipment, provided scholarships, and paid tutors and cooks for the team.[7]
  4. Looks like he listened to you. Flexing your insider status, I see.
  5. Of course. And I have posted exactly that in either this thread or the Muschamp thread. I am not defending what was said in the press conference. I am supporting his decision to make what he (and most of us) believe is an upgrade at DC.
  6. It is Sarkisian's coaching staff and he owns it. He had the opportunity to upgrade at DC and he took it. The only sales job would be to make sure he could spend the extra $2mm on his contract. In the last 5 games of the season, Texas gave up 38, 31, 35, 37, and 17 points while surrendering 382, 365, and 324 passing yards in 3 of those games. And the same defense gave up nearly 300 passing yards to Lagway - his best passing performance of the season. It's not crazy to think Sark had to worry about the defense more than he would have preferred.
  7. To points made by @Saint Tacky and @6th Street - Texas A&M has changed mightily in the past few decades. Because they are not land-locked, they are free to grow enrollment. Does that impact student quality? Perhaps, and it may also impact student outcomes. aTm remains a highly ranked engineering school. #15 overall. ECE is top-20. Aero top 10; civil top 10; industrial top 10. Etc. It is doing its job at educating engineers. Is it better than Texas? No, but it is not bad, by any stretch. In 1992, Texas A&M was almost 80% white. Now it is around 48%. The gender enrollment gap has closed, with around 47% female. The percentage of in-state students seems to be about the same - over 90%. Today it is 95% in undergraduate and 86% overall. aTm has more women and more non-whites attending. It is going to change whether the old guys want it or not. Edited to add (no need for another post) - yes, this is rap. And yes, this is music.
  8. I’ve been drinking a tad - 14 team playoff. 12 picked by the old fuckers who are picking now. 2 with 6+ wins and based purely on viewer opportunity. is it 4-13, 3-14 or play-in? Should’ve been play in. Texas @ JMU and ND at Tulane (or vice versa). Texas and UND get at least 2 games in the above format. Better teams win. If either sucks, so it goes.
  9. The Tulanes and JMUs of the world make it into the playoffs because the NCAA/Big10/SEC lawyers do not want to have to deal with accusations using the words cartel, anti-trust, collusion, etc. At 12 teams, it is safer to include them and hear the cries and moans of the fans rather than deal with some hypothetical lawsuit. That said, we have seen 8 teams in the past 2 days. Texas has already beaten 2 of them and would easily handle 4 more. The other 2 (Oregon and OleMiss) might put up a fight, but Texas is in those games. As noted, last year’s 12-team playoff yielded #5, #6, #7 and #8 in the final 4, with #8 winning. It worked. So far this year, we have #6, #10, and #11 advancing with #5 a virtual certainty.
  10. "And add 3 oz of bourbon" and proceeds to pour about 10oz. Which of us sends it back and screams, "I wanted an old fashioned with the proper pour of bourbon?"
  11. I thought this was pretty obvious. PK being terminated is actually far better for him financially. His $2mm contract runs through 2026, so he's due over $2mm and has access to whatever medical, dental, etc. benefits he had at Texas (through COBRA or otherwise). If he's dumb enough to say, "Fuck you, Sark! You cannot fire me! I quit!" or the like, then we really do not want him around. I probably would not have commented about his performance and/or the need for oversight in a press conference. "I decided to make a change to a defensive style and philosophy more aligned with my preferences. I thank PK for his contributions and please join me in welcoming Will Mushcamp back to Texas." It is great that Sark was transparent, but "was distracted by the defense and could not focus on Arch" (paraphrased) is not a great look. Edited to add - this is a great change and upgrade.
  12. I must admit I guffawed at Sandell's miss. That's what they get for following Herbstreit's strategery.
  13. The clock was gonna stop at 2:00 anyway. Dumb to throw there still. Agree. Prob worried about another -4 or the like, but take the safe path to victory. Run.
  14. Good lord. Williams almost drops another there. Herbstreit is so much better in the NFL. Why? He talks about 30% as much as he does on college games. Fowler is a beating. STFU every once in a while.
  15. One of the great pickups in the portal this year. Wide left.
  16. OU has been getting away with that all game. So it is not a penalty to this crew.
  17. Replying to my own message. That did not age well.
  18. The OU coaching staff is really bad - and I am all for it! When they encounter any duress, esp. defense, Venables loses his composure. And the players follow suit. Fatty Arbuckle decides now down 27-17 is the time to use Mateer as a bludgeon. Just moronic. And - I am all for it! Extensions for everyone!
  19. She'd like to speak with the manager. And now!
  20. PK was connected to Nansen in the past. Nansen worked with Akina at Arizona. What happens to Nansen?
  21. The composite is an aggregation (mean?) of many different computer rankings. IMO, that the composite ratings have UND at #6 is an indictment against many of them. Or evidence that not enough games "cross-pollinated" conference to conference or conference to independent. UND is getting credit for close "quality losses" against aTm (8) and Miami (9). And strong wins against opponents like Purdue (98), NC State (43), Arkansas (78), Boise (42), USC (15), BC (107) Navy (39), Pitt (37), Stanford (87), and Syracuse (106) helps, esp. with high margins. (all rankings are massey composite) Texas: Wins: SJSU (121), UTEP (132), SHSU (136), OU (10), UK (62), MSU (60), Vandy (14), Ark (79), aTm (8) Losses: tosu (2), UF (54), UGA (5) Margin of victory is definitely helping UND, while Texas' loss to UF is not that great.
  22. I think the cost of doing business went down a little after portaling the girlfriend
  23. Let he whose 21 year old version of yourself would not follow this young lady to her next college destination cast the first stone.
  24. That might be the best picture of Ashley Dupree in all of the internets. L -> R :: Alix Earle, Cheryl Burke and Ashley Dupré, respectively. Now she's removed a letter and added an accent after retiring from her high dollar escort job. Earle is Dupre's stepdaughter. Earle's father (Dupre's husband) is a "wealthy construction executive" in New Jersey. I suspect he provides concrete for Tony Soprano.
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