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Dbeasy

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  1. My wife and kids love Polar Express. I was out after 20 minutes. I don’t get it.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. they should do like olmpic voting and throw out the extreme few votes. That would address some of the homerism, or hidden agendas
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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?
  8. 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
  9. 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.
  10. because he could care less about drugs. He just wants oil fields for the oil companies that have bribed him.
  11. you're right. it's not a difficult concept. You're making a comparison that has no value or point.
  12. 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.
  13. Burke was great last night and I’m stoked that I was completely wrong about him as a recruit.
  14. I may be oversimplifying this but I think all Texas needs is for lsu to upset OU and we are in, as long as the expected win occurs (OSU over Michigan). Texas will jump Miami, Utah, and Vanderbilt after beating a@m and that will make Texas one of five sec teams in (Georgia, bama, A&M, ole Miss)
  15. The defense played great considering they didn’t have Ant Hill. I don’t think some people realize how really good he is. He’s one of the best LB’s to step onto the 40 acres, and was a critical piece of their strong defensive showing this year.
  16. I just don’t see how that 49 year old man is going to play OL for Texas.
  17. Everyone sees that. I’m talking about things like playing Missouri without their QB, the fact that ND is over-rated, etc.
  18. Sanity has been restored in the universe. Sark in the second half was way better than Elko. While I’m still frustrated with Sark for not getting the full value out of his talent this year, I thought I was taking crazy pills seeing Elko in the first half look better than Sark. Elko is a decent DC, but he just can’t be as good as A&M’a record this year. They had a sneaky easy schedule.
  19. It’s just frustrating to watch. Almost every game. He just can’t get his teams to step on an opponents throat, and it will ultimately lead to his failure to succeed at Texas.
  20. Nope. The Texas WR talent is wayyy better, but being completely wasted. People think it’s the WR but it’s the terrible OL and bad route trees by Sark.
  21. He’s just a terrible OC. He’s totally wasting a very very good QB, just like he wasted Ewers. And to the question of talent, those saying Texas doesn’t have better talent aren’t very involved with the recruiting board. A&M does NOT have better talent.
  22. Sark getting outcoached in the first half. He has better talent, home field advantage, and isn’t doing well. I never thought Elko would be a better coach than Sark.
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