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  1. I don’t think he’ll leave Petrino in place but I have no special insight. His OC at Duke isn’t a guy he has a lot of history with. The issue is, as others have noted— he has less money to throw around. I don’t think we are going to see a new HC recruiting bump, some of the mercs Jimbo got to commit will be poached, maybe a few guys on the defensive side will be swayed our way. He’ll need to hit the portal to fill gaps and try to protect the skill position guys on campus, then hope a decent year next year helps him make headway.
  2. So, my semi-actual thoughts on this hire. My thoughts are…Elko’s OK? Which is good, because this was going to be the hire all along until Ross Bjork gave into the intrusive thoughts regarding Mike Stoops. There’s no doubt Elko can run a defense, as he’s shown at every stop he’s been at. And he is not a “Chief” type DC on the downswing. He took Duke to 22 PPG in 2022 and this year is second in the ACC at 19 PPG. HC chops, you have to give him an incomplete. Objectively, you have to say that anyone who gets Duke to a 9-4 record had a good year coaching. You’d have liked to see them hold or take a step forward this year to feel really good about him. He walked into a gift with Riley Leonard and you wonder how they’d be if he stayed healthy, Duke does not have a lot of depth. You can stay at Duke a long time at 7-5 and everyone is happy. From what he’s shown, he’s able to put a competitive team on the field, win most of the games he’s supposed to win, but there is a big step up to championship levels that most people don’t make and prior records at mid-tier schools aren’t a predictor. He hasn’t shown he can do that. I do think there is a sense of urgency to keep some of the talent on campus (more later) and so that’s why assistant hires will be key here. It’s a no-brainer to leave Robinson in place if he’ll stay. He can coach the DL, he can recruit, and hopefully Elko taps him as DC with a lot of oversight. After that….a lot of meh. Addazzio needed to be gone last year. Durkin plays a different style and is an awful person. Petrino was a step up from Jimbo calling plays, but Elko needs to change culture and does he want Petrino knocking around Bright? Likely not. The biggest issues that Elko faces is that he is walking into a worse situation than Jimbo in 2018. Less money. Lots of recent embarrassment. A toxic locker room culture. And Texas is coming with their dick swinging into the SEC instead of aimlessly floundering in a dying Big 12. Which means that if you want to get things past 8-4, you need to make some moves NOW before the narrative is written in stone. And a big part of that is, yes, keeping as much of the 2022 class around as you can. He’s fortunate the strength of the team will be on defense. His immediate job is to hit the portal for offensive linemen that can play now and for someone to fight with Henderson for QB2, and convince Weigman that he’s in better hands than he was with Jimbo. I think Evan Stewart is gone, but there will still be some good WR talent available. And then he needs to do a couple things with the 2024 season. First, he’s got to win games on the road, which was Jimbo’s undoing. No losing stinkers in Starkville or Columbia and ideally you win one of Auburn or Florida. And you can’t lose to Arkansas. The toughest games next season are at home. Second, he can’t get embarrassed at home. Aside from the cupcakes (no monster like App State looming), we get: Notre Dame, Mizzou, LSU, and Texas at home. We can easily go 0-4 against that slate, and if we do it’s going to be a big hole to climb out of because that means we likely also are taking some bad road losses. He really needs to get one good win from that group and can’t get blown out in the others. Ideally, he manages to take down Mizzou and one of LSU or Texas and then everyone will forget the growing pains with Notre Dame. I am not optimistic that happens. If he manages to get us to 9 wins including a bowl, I think that’s close to the ceiling and will give him some breathing room. But we can just as easily lose all four of those and drop a couple on the road and finish 6-6 and if that happens then he might never get the opening he needs to really build something.
  3. lol, this was the guy everyone knew we were going to hire. Expected if anti-climatic and likely the best real option out there. So of course we had to spend a couple days trying to put it in the wrong hole in front of the nation.
  4. Yesterday we had a magnificent Michigan vs. tOSU, Bama beat Auburn last second, and even UDub vs. Wazzou in the last PAC-12 Apple Cup was a hell of game. But what’s the CFB world talking about— our coaching search. That’s what it means to be big-time, dominating the news cycle. 3D chess y’all. It may look like we’re just fucking things up completely. Stepping on our dick. But that’s only cause it hangs so low and big to begin with. Yuk it up, we will laugh last when we hire a sitting SEC interim head coach who hung 38 on ACU.
  5. You can say that Israel needs to end the practice of military courts or administrative detention. But of course it’s sadly to be expected that dissemblers will try to draw an equivalence between Thai farm workers, grannies, and toddlers on the one hand and a pack of attempted murderers, muggers, bomb-throwers, gunmen and assorted teenage delinquents on the other hand.
  6. You can make a ton of money offering to consult and teach the government how to do things like a business and it’s a never ending grift because none of the processes you implement survive first contact with the stubborn fact that government isn’t a business.
  7. The IDF made a PR error by referring to it as the main command center. It’s clear that there was a significant Hamas presence and infrastructure there (closer to the graphic that Ana posted in his drive by than not), and it should have just been called a “significant” part of the infrastructure. The goalposts have been moving. Lots of laughable comments about how the hostages being dragged around by guys with weapons and cleavers were just there to get medical treatment, and some truly odd discourse about the appropriate number of RPGs to find inside a hospital. IMO, the international community has been embarrassing here and not because of Israeli support. The whole of Gaza receives all kinds of funding and support from international agencies and it’s clear that a lot of those resources went to covering up and supporting terror infrastructure.
  8. There’s a whole black-only version, the Moorish sovereign citizen. https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/rise-moors-group-affiliated-11-men-arrested-massachusetts/story?id=78731313 This story is long, but wild, a guy claiming he was the Moorish Consul to China and the US tried to take a lady’s house. Twice. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/26/nyregion/moors-newark.html
  9. Fucking LULZ. I can’t get enough of all the greatest hits here: “Help me bro.” “You don’t tell me what to do!”
  10. This stuff is spreading and it takes on local flavor which makes it even more delicious. When I was still there, a new “legal” theory had popped up that the Czechoslovak Federal Republic (successor to the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic) was not legally dissolved in 1993 during the Velvet Divorce and thus all Czech or Slovak laws and taxes were illegitimate. They had their own ID cards and everything, with similar results to sovereign citizens. They were also EU protesters and would make little stickers to cover up the EU symbol on the license plates (if they bothered to plate the car). I tried to get some of their ID documents as a souvenir, in a desultory manner, but a bit of sleuthing on the process convinced me I wouldn’t want to answer any potential questions about it from actual authorities.
  11. That video reminds me of the movie Event Horizon (terrible, but has moments) where they see the video of the crew all going nuts and killing each other.
  12. Some truth to this but there is a definite difference in the depth of the bench as you march east on the old continent. It peaks somewhere around Warsaw or Lviv.
  13. You have to do it outside of the country and pay a crazy fee. You can’t do it in America. It’s also usually a good idea to line up a second citizenship but some nuts don’t do that. The stuff your wife sees is just nutty sovereign citizen shit and they are all still citizens.
  14. I did not love it. It was nice to see a big Hollywood movie for grownups, but I agree that this was good and not great. I think part of it was the scope— it covered his career from the Revolution to Waterloo and a movie just can’t cover that much ground without getting muddled. The politics were complicated and so it helps to know a lot of the history first to keep track of why everyone is fighting. Austerlitz didn’t quite go down that way t but the visuals were amazing. When you go to the battlefield at Slavkov in Czech Republic, it’s underwhelming like many battlefields are. Borodino gets almost no screen time and that is battle that should have been the tent pole of the movie. There is a great novel by Joseph Roth called The Hundred Days that covers Bonaparte’s return from Elba to Waterloo and final exile. I think THAT could have been just the right size for an epic movie— start with the exile and show his return and army building and then final downfall.
  15. I can’t read Hebrew but this journalist claims most of the “women and children” Hamas is getting back shot/stabbed people or are in terrorist groups. No ten month old babies or four year olds.
  16. Here is a partial list of Israeli children to be released. Child war hostages, let that sink in. Striking how many of them have parents that will remain in captivity or who had parents murdered.
  17. One term (that probably existed I just didn’t know about it) that I heard a lot about is Europe is “visual smog.” And it’s just so perfect, so descriptive of the spaces we live in.
  18. Hawaii is also an interesting problem for Article 5.
  19. Today is the day that protests on the Maidan began to kick off the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine. Below is the tweet that started it, along with an identical Facebook post. “RT. We are meeting at 10:30 under the Independence Monument. Dress warm, bring umbrellas, tea, coffee, and friends.” Ukraine’s “Nazi” protests were kicked off by a man named Mustafa Nayeem writing in Russian. Incidentally, in 2018 I had the pleasure to meet him and get a tour and personal history of the Maidan sites. One of those people who was where they needed to be in history.
  20. Unpopular opinion: I don’t mine these intricately painted artwork helmets, though Navy’s are better than most. Details just don’t work at that scale and distance. The Navy anchor looks awesome enough and is visible. I do like airbrushed goalie masks so this all just a bit capricious.
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