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Dbeasy

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  1. Good grief, you people were giving me a heart attack. I don’t know whether you happened to notice that Texas also has a Baker on staff. Maybe throw in a first initial every once and awhile!
  2. Junior actually said his daughter was really really excited to go to New York! And see the Rockettes! That was the most ridiculous segment he’s ever done. I’ve parented and grand-parented several 4 year olds. I can tell you with certainty that a 4 year old has no idea what New York or the Rockettes really even means. She’s just reacting to her parents being so excited, just like a Labrador Retriever. Junior was ridiculous. Both were insufferable pricks yesterday. I just want to see Texas get in the playoffs so Corby’s head will explode.
  3. I just put in a $1M bet on “No”.
  4. Some of y’all are delusional mf’rs.
  5. The post about how both opinions on Texas are right fascinates me. The arguments for and against Texas are both valid, but I think what really annoys me about the whole situation is how the entire coaches poll and AP poll pretty much ignore strength of schedule and head to head results. Instead both just count up wins and losses. If something doesn’t change on that front somehow, the Texas problem is going to keep happening over and over. Of course, an expanded playoff will be the solution they implement, with 4 more slots. If they had that this year, it would pretty much resolve the issue. I was firmly anti-playoff expansion, but given what’s happened this year, I’m now for it. My previous logic was that 3 loss teams had missed their opportunity by losing too many games. But I failed to think about a scenario where a team played 4-5 top 10 games. Really, Miami and ND should have been behind Texas on this week’s poll due to their terrible schedules. I’m shocked at how low Texas stayed. Made no sense to me.
  6. Kiffin at LSU is a problem, because Louisiana has some of the best talent per capita of anywhere in the country and almost all of it wants to end up at LSU. A nutless monkey could coach that incredible talent to a national championship, and Sark had made good inroads into Louisiana because Kelly was such a bad fit for LSU.
  7. What if they put little Cheese It samples on your seat, so that when you arrive for the game you have a tasty treat to enjoy before the game starts?
  8. Of course Satya posts the LSU recruiting Armageddon story. Come on Satya. Cheer up.
  9. After catching up on this thread, @Brian Fantana has produced what might be the biggest series of “punk ass bitch” posts from a surly regular ever. What a giant pussy. And on top of all that, his whole “logic” is ridiculous: “I’m confident Texas wouldn’t be favored, and I’m right because you can’t produce an actual betting line that proves me wrong.” Never mind he has zero proof for his view. What an idiot. It’s some of the dumbest logic I’ve ever seen, and that’s saying something because I’ve read a lot of his cloak room posts.
  10. Omenihu was very big and a grinder on the line who was under appreciated at Texas.
  11. My wife and kids love Polar Express. I was out after 20 minutes. I don’t get it.
  12. I’m so much happier with Rantanen this year than last year. He’s passing more and is more dynamic with the puck. Makes me wonder whether Deboer was just trying to use him only as a scoring machine. Or maybe he’s getting more comfortable playing with these guys.
  13. Dudes. Texas is out. Accept it. They are one of the best 12 teams in the country, and probably one of the top 5, but it doesn’t matter. The cosmic tumblers of the universe didnt align.
  14. they should do like olmpic voting and throw out the extreme few votes. That would address some of the homerism, or hidden agendas
  15. agree, as I had indicated. Well, as a very senior exec who has done it myself, and having seen other critical senior execs do it, that doesn't always happen. But yes, most of the time they are walked out immediately. But your point about the HC being the whole team is why I'm arguing that they should have let him do it. When a normal company senior exec is leaving, there is plenty of infrastructure and resources in place to go on without significant risk of having a terrible near-term result. A head coach leaving most of the time torpedoes a team's chances, except for Michigan basketball Fab Five. However, all of this may be a moot point. Given that Ole Miss just announced Golding as the permanent head coach, then it is now completely clear why they couldn't let Kiffin coach. They've got their permanent new coach and they immediately now need to go to war with Kiffin to keep as many players and coaches as possible. I totally get Ole Miss's move now.
  16. Wow. I always laugh at people complaining about the polls because usually the views are biased. But Texas being at 14 while OU is at 8 and Vandy is at 12/13, is ridiculous. Something's up.
  17. Again, I'm not necessarily defending Kiffin, because I don't even really like him, but I haven't interpreted the recent events as Kiffin handling it poorly. Maybe I don't have all the information, but from my perspective he had to decide by the end of the regular season because that is what LSU required. He was respectful yesterday by not muddying up the final game of the season by Ole Miss with his employment status. He's in an impossible position and has offered the best possible soluiton to Ole Miss, coach thru the playoffs to try and win it all. And having his family fly to Baton Rouge on a booster jet is unneccesary drama? Please. That's ridiculous. Is there some other drama I've missed?
  18. Are you saying this because of the supposed ultimatum? Or because he is leaving at all. Employees leave jobs all the time and have a notice period to finish up their work. There’s no bitch move in that. Now if you are saying it’s because of the ultimatum then I agree. But why was there an ultimatum in the first place? Because Ole Miss wouldn’t let him coach. Now he has 100% of his time to devote to LSU. It would have been significantly less than 100%. Agreed
  19. It seems like Kiffin is in the wrong here. But, here’s a bit of a half-ass thought. I know an employer wants an exiting employee gone asap, especially when they are going to one of your main rivals. But in this one instance, Ole Miss has a chance to win it all for the first time in a long time. And tying up your ex-coach for the next month working on the playoffs, instead of devoting all his time on LSU could benefit Ole Miss both ways. And maybe Kiffin really wants to try and win it all and do it for himself and his players, and Ole Miss not budging on the issue led to what’s happening now. I have to admit I would almost never consider letting a coach stay, but in this situation I might have. Kiffin is taking players and coaches anyway. If you can keep them together for a playoff run, it might be worth it. Ha that’s what I’m thinking. See above.
  20. because he could care less about drugs. He just wants oil fields for the oil companies that have bribed him.
  21. you're right. it's not a difficult concept. You're making a comparison that has no value or point.
  22. Why is so much talent leaving, and is there something the staff should have done differently? One thing I have wondered about is why they go get upper classmen transfers like Mosley, who’s been good but not great, while leaving several 4/5 star freshmen on the bench. Both transfers and freshmen have to learn the new offense. Is it just too unrealistic to rely on freshmen? Or, is WR development really that dramatic? Or, did they just find these 4/5 star freshmen WR’s just didn’t live up to their rating? The situation doesn’t seem to make much sense.
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