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Duane Moore

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  1. Probably going to watch episode 4 tonight. I get it when a long running show like X-Files or Lost can’t figure out how to resolve its long story arcs and teased grand mystery. At least you got a lot of great standalone episodes along the way. But if you have a 6 episode limited series, you have to have known how you are going to tie up everything in a neat bow at the end, when you started it, right? Right?
  2. I didn’t think I was that old but I have no fucking clue who Ed Hardy is.
  3. The key person to watch here is Greg Sankey. Tennessee had a well-coordinated and planned counteroffensive ready to go once this story broke. You don’t just generate a 20 page federal anti-trust suit on ChatGPT in less than 24 hours, much less with an entirely different state joining in on it. This suggests to me that the SEC is ultimately going to be behind them, and there is message board chatter from posters who have connections that Plowman has Sankey’s backing in this effort. The reports are the NCAA has up to 20 similar NIL-related investigations against other schools in the works, which looks like a rear-guard, last ditch attempt to assert control that has been slipping away from them the last few years. At some point, Greg Sankey may sit down with Charlie Baker and say:
  4. We’re looking at the sports equivalent of a constitutional crisis. With the Jeremy Pruitt stuff, this same Tennessee administration self-reported and fully cooperated with the NCAA investigation because they knew Pruitt had broken all kinds of clear rules and did it badly. Now, they have apparently looked into these allegations and are confident they did nothing wrong. The NCAA may have picked a fight they don’t want to have if this works its way through the courts and some legal precedent gets established.
  5. I haven’t watched the 3rd episode yet, but how are they going to Scooby-Doo their way out of having a real supernatural element at this point? The reindeer engaged in a mass suicide at the beginning, and Ghost Travis led Rose Aguineau to the frozen bodies. Hallucinations from the drinking water would just be lame and wouldn’t explain how Rose found the bodies unless she was the one that put them there. I think at this point, after three prior seasons, the biggest swerve to viewers would actually be to have a supernatural explanation. Or at least some sort of sci-fi explanation like that Clark was so distraught over Annie K’s death that he tried to resurrect her from the tissue/DNA of her tongue using the genetic sequencing research they were doing at TSALAL, and what he produced was a horrible Frankenstein’s monster that killed everyone. That’s who he’s referring to when he says “She’s awake” right before they all disappeared.
  6. That’s a good point. It was before everything besides TV. All they had was RAT Net, which stood for Rural Alaskan Television Network.
  7. I spent a summer after graduating UT driving a forklift on a dock at a small fishing town in Alaska. Summer population was about 1000 people, like 300 lived there year-round, 90% of them in a high rise apartment residential building that had been built as an Army barracks during WW2. I obviously didn’t live through 30 days of night or the extreme cold, but this show really captures the dynamic in such a small place where everybody knows everybody’s business and the romantic liaisons intersect all over the place because there’s just not much else to do. The saying was “you don’t lose your girlfriend, you lose your turn.”
  8. It’s posts like these allowing us normal fans a glimpse behind the curtain that allow me to tolerate your terrible takes on the formative comedies of my childhood. Thanks for all you do.
  9. Agreed. “CKB” should be the preferred nomenclature, as befits an SEC message board. ChatGPT, please prepare a reaction to a new coaching hire in the style of Billy Liucci.
  10. Akina has become Ted Turner with less hair.
  11. I tend to agree with this and the assessment of Elko as well. His ceiling is probably RC Slocum level success and that’s probably true for the program as well. But when the Josh Pate’s of the world are out there telling people it’s a “top 4, maybe 3 job in America,” then that’s not good enough for them and hilarity ensues.
  12. You needed that punting job. But they had to give it to a Vegemite-eating player from down under because of an international student quota. Is that really fair?
  13. But you didn’t want to work at the goddamn mill!
  14. Bobby is going to be so impressed with the new Surly migrants once we start posting on his new site
  15. Wide right. Buffalo loves the classics.
  16. We’re apparently building a team to get out to big leads early and then have the NASCAR package on the DL to go after the QB when they are forced to pass by necessity. Or maybe with a better secondary we can commit more bodies to the box against the run.
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