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  1. 2 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    I think OTF's next evolution needs to be getting better all around mic quality and sound consistency for the guys who are consistently on such as Bobby, CJ, and Blake. There are some quality USB mics out there that don't require much setup such as Audio Technica AT 2020 and Shure USB. Those two models are cheap and have really good quality.

    Yes. Absolutely agree. If that is your main business now and not a side hustle to the website they need to improve their production quality. Backgrounds, lighting, microphones. Clean up the bottom third graphics (they're either huge or disproportionately small or insignificant looking. They basically need a graphics and production specialist. Hell, if I lived in Austin I'd probably volunteer to help them out.

  2. 3 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    She's been playing for two years (two seasons), just in middle school. 

    Needs to work on her coordination. She can jump, but needs to work on her timing. Also on her motivation. She likes playing and being part of a team, but she's not into training or conditioning. 

    We'll see. I'm not going to force anything. 

     

    Basically the same with my 12 yo. She has done a bunch of clinics and tried out for one club team, which we, as a family probably took for granted. She didn’t make that team but we’ve been going to private lessons with the money we “saved” from not doing club.

    Find a good private coach and you’ll see huge improvements quickly. My kid’s hitting is night and day better than a couple months ago and now probably better than some of her friends that got onto club teams.  She still has a way to go but the improvement is obvious and quick. 

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  3. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Having become a fan of women's volleyball, I have tried to watch some men's.

    While it is a fantastic display of athleticism, it is so high and fast as to be virtually unwatchable.  You can't tell what's going on .

    Shit, depending on the camera angle, women's can be hard to decipher at times, too.

    Yes. I was telling since friends I was watching with today that Volleyball is the only sport where the men’s version is less fun to watch than the women’s. Usually at best it’s a push like in tennis. 

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  4. 41 minutes ago, Billy Pilgrim said:

    These girls are amazing athletes, so incredibly fun to watch. If ESPN wants to hype women’s sports they would be wise to start showing women’s volleyball more frequently rather than the wnba.

    I’ve said this for a while. I’d ESPN invested as much in volleyball as they did in the WNBA they’d get much better return on their investment. Women’s basketball will ALWAYS be unfavorably compared to men’s basketball. 

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  5. 25 minutes ago, sunset87 said:

    The serve game tore Wiscy apart.  Their serve receive, as has been mentioned already, was their weakness, and we exploited it beautifully.  I was a bit surprised when watching the first set, that their serve receive seemed to be a little off.  In the 2nd set they passed better and were in system, which allowed them to play their style, which quite frankly we couldn't stop.  That set was how I thought they would play the entire match.  Stanford's serve receive was way better than Wiscy's. 

    Between our serve, Halter's D, and Madi terminating from the back row they were destroyed mentally and just kind of collapsed the last 2 sets.  Masterful execution and match by the team.

    Sounds like they should stay away from serving Corn's libero if at all possible.

    Seems like the early exhaustion of timeouts and challenges was a big factor as well. When we were getting on rolls with serves they just couldn’t catch their breath. Elliot poured it on and they were getting visibly flustered. 

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  6. 45 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

    What got them was what they say characterizes us: arrogance.

    They have been telling themselves since they joined the SEC that they are now elite. Unsurpassed facilities (had y'all heard about those?) and all the money spent on the new stadium and the Hall of Tampons Champions was like buying an Oscars dress before ever getting a role in a movie. They beat Alabama their first year and assumed that put them at Alabama's level.

    Still, though they were sure they were elite, they needed to find a coach to "return" them to their destiny. Jimbo was it. He knows how to win a national championship. A&M is now the greatest school in the country scaring the fuck out of everyone. Their walk-on part in an indy film is about to become the movie's lead.

    Think of Citizen Kane who poored money after money into his wife's opera career. Teachers, facilities, costumes, supporting cast, bookings in the great stadiums. All a shocking flo

    Still, they couldn't let go of their arrogantly absurd self-opinion. No more sweet deals like for Jimbo, coaches would have to earn the right to date this movie star. They are not a B-Movie operation even though all they produce are B movies. Even so, the biggest stars and directors will naturally want to work with them.

    They hold a casting call. Nobody comes.

    On r/CFB I was asking an Okie Light fan if they were upset about Gundy running off so much of their team during the last offseason. A couple of them both replied that they aren’t going to get the 5-stars that Texas or OU gets or the NIL of those schools either so they’re happy that he got them back to the B12 CG.

    It was shocking to hear a fan of a ”little brother“ school actually being realistic about their position relative to Bluebloods and specifically their own state flagship. So used to Ags and their ridiculous presumption of greatness. 

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  7. 10 minutes ago, Gut Wagon said:

    Great friend is an avid volleyballer in Wisconsin. Told me he'd seen nearly every Wiscy match this year, and that if they'd played their usual game they'd have beaten us 25-15 or worse in a sweep. I asked him why they didn't...no good response. 

    Tell him they should maybe try to successfully receive a serve from Skinner every so often. Hard to win points with the ball on the ground. 

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  8. 29 minutes ago, ousux said:
    8 hours ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:
    This guy makes 7 figures a year and lives in a low COL shit hole, yet still can't get a properly tailored suit? And a 1990s Paisley tie straight out of a Sears catalog? Fucking embarrassing. 

    Properly tailored? The latest aggy multi-millionaire corch says hold all my beers.

    Well they couldn’t get the guy who sews together Family-Sized tents for Academy to town in time. 

  9. 5 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    One thing the aggies are trying to do in their new NIL agreements is a notion of a grant of rights. Even if a player goes elsewhere and makes NIL money, the money goes to the Aggie United shit. If the player doesn’t transfer the money, the aggie NIL fund is telling the players they’ll sue. 

    So someone somewhere is supplying Hamm with some legit info about the idiotic and desperate shit the aggies are trying to do in order to plug holes in the leaking dam. 

    Something something negative recruiting yourself.

  10. 3 hours ago, RollingPresidential said:

    I cancelled my IT sub but I have checked in (since it won't not renew until January) to follow the secession crisis, and it seems like Gerry leaving has galvanized the others to pump more articles and do their jobs. 

    Maybe it's just a perceptual thing but it seems like even the Moderator thread titles instantly became really boring and uninteresting. I also canceled starting January.

  11. 3 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    Believe it or not facial expressions in thumbnails actually draws views in algorithm 

    Thus 90% of videos having thumbnails of the host with arms spread wide and their mouth agape in inoffensive amazement.

  12. On 12/7/2023 at 10:49 AM, mchookem said:

    The Elk?

    really??

    🤣

    Great nickname. Best know for being killed by hunters. Two words instead of one for his last name. Same number of syllables for his nickname as his actual name. I’ve never seen people so desperate to coin nicknames as Texags. It’s actually crazy. 

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  13. 50 minutes ago, NoName said:

    don't forget the Titan's "exotic smashmouth" hahaha

    the "creatively get your best athletes in space and then let them cook" style of play calling is both more efficient and much more successful currently than everything required to grind your opponents to a paste by running it a million times. it's also way easier to find those athletes than to find a full OL + RB + specific QB needed to make that happen.

    You could even come up with a splashy line like “#FeedTheStuds”.

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