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boilerhorn

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  1. Based on the comments here, I started this yesterday - and finished it in one sitting. It was fantastic. Highly recommend Death By Lightning.
  2. "banger" is either (1) an excellent or memorable song with an energetic beat or (2) a sausage. Is it memorable w/ an energetic beat? Maybe. A sausage? Maybe. Definitely not excellent. The post is foolish, as only 13 of the ~53 people mentioned in the song were alive when it was released in 1989. 36 years later, it's amazing that 3 remain. Bob Dylan (84), Chubby Checker (84), and Bernard Goetz. (78)
  3. Oddly specific.
  4. I think I found the rankings article from "Covers" (whatever that is). Texas A&M is #7 nationally. I think I understand ASU and UCLA and maybe UCF, FIU, and UF. Lots of attractive humans. Harvard because, "Hey look, I am at Harvard!" All of the others seem to be in the "we have a lot of students and alumni who overuse instagram" category. Edited to add: MSU is touting this as proof of a "picture perfect campus."
  5. Saw both Nuremburg and Song Sung Blue in the past week. Enjoyed both of them. Both had Rotten Tomatoes scores of ~75% from the professionals and over 95% from the audience. Jackman and Hudson were fantastic in Song Sung Blue. Great acting, really pulled you in, and the singing was stellar. The chemistry between Crowe and Malek in Nuremburg was compelling. Great acting all around, as one would expect from this cast. Actual concentration camp footage shown at the trials was also showed in the movie. While I have seen it before, it is never easy to see it. Recommend both.
  6. My goodness, this postgame crew is bad. It is amazing (and impressive, I guess) that they are able to get paid for it. We could take 3 random people from this thread and there would be more insightful and interesting commentary.
  7. Bigg Poggi will be avaialble.
  8. Of course. My snide comment was assuming they'd get one of those "play no one worth a damn (except tosu) in 2026" Big 10 schedules. And I was wrong - in 2026-2027, they drew all 3 of those top teams - in addition to OU in 2026 and Texas in 2027. So - w/ or w/o Sherrone, they looked to have many losses in those years. 2028 will feature a more favorable schedule and the turnaround will be complete.
  9. Did not score a TD. We're screwed.
  10. What is awesome about music is that each song can impact each person in a unique and personal way. Nostalgia, chord progression, vocals, lyrical relation, virtuosity, mix, production, etc. As such, "this band is better than that band" kinds of comparisons are very personal. There are some songs by each of these bands that resonate with me. Some because of the stories they tell; some because of the vocals; some because they allow me to just let go...
  11. True. You have to sign a guy to at least 4 years to convince recruits, etc. that there will be some level of coaching stability, though. His deal is 75% guaranteed - 3.75 years. He's there for the cleanup and transition, which is a 3-4 year plan, IMO. If they dump him after 2 years (which I doubt will happen), they'll owe him another $14mm or so. Decent deal for both sides.
  12. You do know that Michigan is in the Big10? He'll be fine there.
  13. My experience so far... Far better experience on mobile phone. Night and day improvement for general rendering, scrolling, etc. It seems that links from Xitter are a bit slower to render than previously.
  14. Good lord, that is so gaudy that it almost has style. $7mm plus another $1800 per month in HOA fees. The The photos are amazing. I love the one with the portraits of daughters/granddaughters from ~1980s-1990s (shown previously). Here are two of my favorites. The statue of a maid serving takes the cake, for me.
  15. Oh, our sideline reporter is the person who leaked the "Sark to the NFL" rumors. Dianna Russini.
  16. I just started watching. Minn has -7 net yards in the passing game. 41 yards passing. 48 yards lost to sacks. wow.
  17. Ok - do not pillory me for the use of AI, but this took about 3 seconds of my time.
  18. Of the overall total drafted for a specific school. The first table has total numbers. The 2nd table is %-age of that number vs. all-time drafted numbers. For example, 48.2% of ALL UND players ever drafted into the NFL occurred prior to 1970. Specific to your question... Texas has had 406 total players ever drafted (2nd column, first chart). In the 1970s, Texas had 37 players drafted (4rd column, first chart). 37/406 is 9.1% (4th column, 2nd chart).
  19. My wise high school government teacher once said, "The goal of the two party political system is the survival of the two party political system."
  20. Pro Football Reference compiles all of the players *drafted* from each school into the NFL. I had a little spare time and decided to curate some of the data Notre Dame getting a playoff auto-bid for a top-12 finish would have made more sense in the 1990s or earlier. However, it makes less sense today. Here is the same data, with %-age of overall picks per decade... The pre-1970s %-ages for Texas surprised me, but we've had some lean years in there.... Note that the NFL draft shrunk to 7 rounds in 1994. Fwiw.
  21. From his wikipedia: Early years Don Martindale was born on May 19, 1963, in Dayton, Ohio. Martindale attended Trotwood-Madison High School where he played linebacker for the Trotwood-Madison Rams and was an All-State selection his senior year.[3] He is an alumnus of Defiance College, where he played on the football team. He got his nickname during his freshman year, when one of his teammates called him "Wink" after the longtime TV game show host, Wink Martindale.[4] Right after college, Martindale took a job with his family's trucking company, hauling brake parts every day from Dayton, Ohio, to Detroit. It was a grueling six hour drive round-trip and he hated it, so he quit after a year to pursue his passion for coaching football.[5]
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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]
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