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  1. Dysfunctional redneck schools that care too much about football are less advantaged now. Their upside was always: 1. They paid too much money for football coaches and their accoutrements. 2. They’d look the other way or actively help boosters cheat. Everyone pays stupid money for coaches now. And there’s no reason to cheat. It’s all in the open and on the level. A place like Notre Dame is a serious, well-managed institution. They are are very good at legally making and spending money. Assuming the money is the same and the legal salary pool is the same, where do you have the best support to run a complex sports enterprise? Notre Dame, or LSU where Governor Bobby Boucher is dicking around in the football corch search and your top men are all just car dealers?
  2. I think now Notre Dame is a fantastic situation. Freeman is paid very highly, ND’s media rights ensure enough revenue to keep pace on facilities and infrastructure. I am not an NIL insider but ND recruits around the top 5 and does decently well in the portal both directions. They book marquee opponents each year and put players in the NFL, and their administration seems committed to winning and appropriately involved; probably more patient than other jobs with similar ingredients. I think right now the ingredients are there to make ND a really attractive job, and I think they will keep Freeman.
  3. Saturday situation: grilled lamb shoulder chop with a horseradish-anchovy marinade, crispy roast taters, cucumber yogurt salad, and horseradish cream sauce.
  4. I agree that Lashlee could have shopped around and likely gotten a helmet school job or at least a place like VT or OSU that have long been seen as better than SMU. And that means that right now, SMU is a good job. But I think you can’t rank institutions anymore, it’s more like the NFL. The best job is where you find the right infrastructure, surrounding personal, and money. Some schools, like some franchises, will manage to be consistently well-run. Some won’t. But like the pros, all of it can change in a hurry and it will be more personnel/administration dependent than in the past. The coach will have less to do with the direction of a program.
  5. Reminds me I need to watch more women’s soccer. I see no problems with this packaging.
  6. These tiers don’t really exist anymore for coaches at least. Coaches have always decided on: how much am I paid and where can I win. Everything else is noise. Historically there’s been close but not perfect overlap. In the portal and NIL era, stuff like winning tradition and recruiting hotbeds take a big backseat to booster funding and competent administration of that funding. Some helmet schools will do it right, some won’t, some upstarts will do great. All the sports media and fans will argue over PSU vs. LSU vs. Florida. But Cignetti could have written his ticket at PSU and likely other places and stayed at IU. This shit is out the window: IU won the derby for hottest coach and thus its as “good” of a job as PSU is right now because of the pay and infrastructure to win.
  7. There’s a lot of money in HP, Lashlee is a solid coach, and you’re in a competitively open P5 conference. Lots of ingredients to maybe win a lot over the long haul. The statement was history though. SMU and Rice were the worst SWC programs by a longshot which is precisely why an illegal scheme to pay and recruit was set up in the governor’s office. Baylor was a perfectly competent SWC program for the better part of 20 years under Grant Teaff— they won conference championships and went to bowl games when that was a real metric of a good season. That’s why they got a Big XII invite where they struggled. While they struggled in a very tough conference, SMU was at the bottom of really weak ones. The landscape is upside down and now typically futile programs like Indiana and SMU can compete.
  8. Kate Hudson vs. Sydney Sweeney discourse.
  9. Gonna start telling my wife that I’m not sleeping well cause I keep having this awful , realistic sensation of an old hag in the room with me.
  10. TCU and Baylor are closer. You can say the peaks are higher and the valleys are lower with TCU and Baylor while Tech consistently is a plus .500 team and sometimes much better aside from the Kingsbury/Wells hiccups. SMU is a historically sub-.500 team. Aside from Doak Walker and the Pony Express years their post-war history is pretty bleak and that was reflected in the interest conferences showed them. I think they’re doing interesting and positive things now but it’s just not true that Tech hasn’t been a much better and relevant program for the past 75 years or so.
  11. While this is true, admins likely buy themselves a bit of time from impatient fans by hiring a big name instead of rolling the dice on an unknown.
  12. May @atomheartbevo be haunted by nuts unbusted. I had classic sleep paralysis in my late teens-early twenties. Wake up, unable to move and feeling like I couldn’t breathe or speak. Feeling of “something” out of my direct line of sight causing it. Maybe 2 times a year, truly scary when it happened.
  13. Spooky small dog supremacy.
  14. “My faith and my relationship with my wife is deeply personal and important. Too personal and important to talk about publicly. I know anyone with a spouse or partner can understand that some things are between two people.”
  15. Also, it’s *reek of* not “wreak of.” Grade inflation at Yale Law, it seems.
  16. If you genuinely subscribe to most small-o orthodox versions of Christianity then hoping/praying for people close to you to share that faith is unsurprising and in fact it would be strange and uncaring not to. It’s hard to see how talking about it from the second-highest office in world reflects a genuine belief in either the faith or hope that your spouse would join you. It comes off as a manipulative way to explain away a spouse that has become politically inconvenient.
  17. Also very upset to learn that the White House had ordinary shitters like you might dump in at an IHOP or Dennys or some other peasant jakes.
  18. Maybe if the Kennedy Center would bring back Cats like he told them.
  19. What unfinished business is keeping him on this plane? Wants another serving of undercooked mammoth? Hoping someone will uncover who bashed his head with a hand-axe? Ridiculous. Implausible.
  20. Spinning back down to the second tier open jobs— some noise surrounding Franklin to VaTech. Assuming the PSU thing hasn’t just wrecked him I think that might be the hire of the cycle. Same recruiting field, less pressure to win it all, and an ACC that is pretty wide open. I think he’d turn them into a regular playoff contender and that place can cook pretty well when the team is good.
  21. There is for sure a lot of racism in this debate. I do think that you have two very different things at play. Fundamentally, I do not think that the extension or withholding of rights to other citizens based on race or immutable characteristics is an issue that should be up to a vote. I do think that a nation’s immigration policy— who, how, how many, what means, what benefits— is rightfully a topic for democratic debate and processes. And on those lines, a few propositions almost anyone can agree on: 1. Our current immigration regime has not been democratically tackled for close to 50 years even as the fundamentals— who, how many, what means— of immigration to the country have changed tremendously. 2. America has the highest proportion of foreign born residents since the turn of the century. Rapid demographic change driven by migration causes anxieties, debates, and reactions across time and space in every society that is confronted with them. Americans are not uniquely good or bad in this respect. 3. American voters consistently show contradictory and complicated views on immigration (illegal or otherwise) and that has created an incentive for elected officials to duck open debate and passage of legislation to avoid confronting tough choices and inevitably taking sides in a debate that will leave lots of people unhappy. 4. Legislation that responds to current facts has been substituted with technocratic implementation by the executive in ways that undermine democratic credibility: namely, the same codified laws are implemented to dramatically different ends and effect depending on the executive. That corrodes public confidence in the idea that the legal underpinnings are sound. I don’t see the underlying issue as unique to immigration. Elected reps have punted big questions time and time again in favor of letting the executive decide by administrative practice and interpretation. All this is kind of coming to a head all at once and Congress has been mostly content to continue to duck responsibility when they fear the resolution will upset voters.
  22. I don’t ever think I’ve seen a serious attempt to quantify this that wasn’t coming from a ideologically aligned think-tank of one bent or another, with some being more serious than others. Nearly all of the analysis falls apart over what and how you count that an honest observer has to admit is going to be a judgment call (example: public education costs for citizen children in illegal-headed households). This argument has long been an argument about deeper, more fundamental questions and anxieties disguised as a money argument because that’s a more polite argument.
  23. Would really love it if DJT does suggest Bill Parcells or something and then Landry has to soft shoe his way out of doing it.
  24. Love that incident, so core to what a horrible person Tony is. Would cost him nothing to keep his friend out— he knew deep down how it would end up and all the stops along the way were just Tony giving himself permission to destroy the guy’s life for Tony’s benefit.
  25. Ghosts are always in a specific time window, oldest are Indian warriors (America) or tragic princesses (Europe) and youngest are from maybe the sock hop era. Never cavemen ghosts or girls in Ugg boots looking for a pumpkin spice latte.
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