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boilerhorn

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  1. EDIT: Ah Crap... @Born Burnt and I replied at the same time. FIGHT!!!
  2. Indiana has ~15 seniors and ~20 transfers on its 2-deep. 9 of those transfers are from JMU, and most of those are seniors. Other transfers are from Ohio (not St), Wake Forest, Old Dominion, Texas Tech. He's put together a good team and he's a good coach. Can he do that in another place?
  3. For some strange reason, I decided to look at the box score from that game. Hudson Card's statline in that game resembles many of his Purdue stat lines this year. Arkansas rushed for 333 yards. The top 6 rushers (QB included) all transferred from Arkansas at some point: Trelon Smith - UTSA KJ Jefferson - UCF AJ Green - Okie State Raheim Sanders - South Carolina Dominique Johnson - TCU Malik Hornsby - ArkSt That's an epic level of turnover.
  4. It can be chalked up to arrogance and immaturity, but his approach was flawed both tactically and strategically. Players tend to have really strong relationships with position coaches and the rest of the position room. Given that, the *obvious* first step is to talk to the position coach. "Hey, I am not getting reps. What can I do? What am I missing?" etc. Second steps are to work your ass off relative to the feedback from the coach. Support your team; support your teammates. Wait for the end of year assessment and make your decisions then. If the assessment is, "Hey, you are WR5 on a team who has 4 1st or 2nd round NFL players. It's looking the same next year. What do you think?" If the answer is, "I am going to stay and work my ass off" you likely are not processed. If you decide to seek a place for more PT, there is a strong likelihood that you will get help from WR coach, OC, and possibly even HC to find a landing spot. That's what good managers do: "Hey, Johntay's a team player; he works hard; he's inquisitive; we just have too many folks right now."
  5. I have watched Indiana a bunch this year. They are a very good football team: well coached, very disciplined, very experienced. They have 15 or so senior starters on offense and defense. They have 20 transfer players in the 2-deep. Last season is irrelevant to this IU team, fwiw (not that you are saying that). I believe the spread will be tOSU -14. I alluded to this earlier, but I have a gut feel that tOSU will beat the spread, because of difference in athleticism and home-field. Perhaps I am giving too mich credit to that. Now - after thinking about it more, I can see it being closer and/or seeing an IU win. First, Cignetti is a very good coach; IMO better than Day. Second, IU does not make a lot of mistakes - they have 7 turnovers all year. 3rd, the discipline and experience should pay off. 4th, you can always count on Will Howard to shoot himself in the foot against good competition. I want an IU win, and big, btw.
  6. I think Indiana can name its score against Purdue. I've watched almost all Purdue games this year (2 in person) and Purdue is horribad. The game is at IU and I suspect they'll want to show something on 11/30 after tOSU crushes them the week before. I'm guessing tOSU will be a 14 point favorite and will win by around 20. IU will be a 27 point favorite over Purdue and will win by whatever score they want.
  7. Did he blame Bobo for all of the INTs?
  8. He did not play against Oregon or Illinois, so he'll only be 0-7. Picking nits, I am
  9. Per 247 - Black was 4*. #60 nationally. #7 CB, #9 overall in TX (2024) McDonald: 4*, #51 nationally, #2 Ath, #7 overall in TX (2023)
  10. Iron Maiden in SA on Sun seems interesting. Never seen them. Recommend?
  11. Personification of a vintage Ags symbol.
  12. The Janitor made me laugh.
  13. NSIAP - Burr's open
  14. Looked at a couple of Mr Commonsense’s posts and - dusty.
  15. Good thing they play two halves of football
  16. Up by 40 in the SEC, especially as a newcomer, you were going to get no calls.
  17. They seem to be missing all of the Florida holding.
  18. Late to the party, but this. Big tech, with some exceptions, does not want to spend, because they really do not know how to spend. Innovation, nimble architecture and design, small teams, low latency feedback, etc. are anathema to these folks. Every idea that is reasonably sound is then assessed by the bureaucracy, inevitibly leading to the conclusion that the company will need to invest 8-9 figures, 4 years, and 500 people to get a product. And that the product cannot interfere with the existing roadmap, etc. Many really good ideas are dead on the vine. No one wants to challenge the status quo, etc. AND - if there is some internal seed funding - the existing players spend a decent amount of their time trying to derail these new programs. They think it's existential for them, which is mostly false. @immamac's example of large results in a short time is exactly what I have seen in small teams and small companies in my career. LOTS of shit can get done in a very short amount of time. First, the team is small, so the overall communication network is small (fwiw, it is a function of the square of the # of channels - people in this case). Second, selection approach is rigorous. You cannot afford to add mediocre people to the fray. 3rd, each person MUST produce at least 1/n of the output for the company - or should have that mindset at a minimum. In a 10 person company, knowing that you need to produce at least 10% of the ouput is convicting AND motivating. Now convert that to a 300, 1000, or 10000 person company or team with a shitload of "here's how we've always done it" mindset from middle management, 'cuz that's the only thing they know.
  19. That 2023 draft was abysmal for Dallas. Picked a random, well-run organization to asses their 2023 draft: Pittsburgh 1: Broderick Jones, OT, Georgia; Starting RT (struggles at times) 2: Joey Porter, Jr, CB, Penn St; Starting CB 2: Keeanu Benton, NT, Wisconsin; Starting NT 3: Darnell Washington, TE, Georgia; TE2, strong blocker, plays a ton in 12 personnel. 4: Nick Herbig, LB, Wisconsin; WLB2 - backs up Watt 7: Corey Trice, CB, Purdue; on Roster - IR 7: Spencer Anderson, OL, Maryland; on roster - backup G 100% of that draft is on the team. And this team is 6-2.
  20. TDs surrendered by defense: (CSU, ULM, OU scored 0 TDs) Mich: 8-78 1:54 left in 4th Quarter. Texas was already up 31-6. UTSA: 2-75 11:07 left in 2nd. Texas won 56-7. MSU: 7-75, 6:12 left in 4th. Texas was up 28-6 at the time. UGA: 4-13, 0:06 left in 1st. UGA: 3-34, 8:30 left in 2nd. UGA: 11-89, 12:04 left in 4th. Vandy: 5-31, 9:40 left in 1st Vandy: 8-38, 3:11 left in 3rd Vandy: 8-75, 0:46 left in 4th. So - 9 TDs total. 4 given up in under 40 yard drives post turnover. Mich, UTSA, and MSU drives were meaningless.
  21. @statsman - wrong thread?
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