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Frank Drebin

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  1. I was in Whitefish June and most of July. Aspen last week of July and first week of August. My days of spending summers in Texas are winding down. Over the last 15 years I have spent more and more of summer in the mountains and now have a place in Whitefish. Had to get back last week due to kids' school starting. Once there is no more school (5 more years), I will be in Montana May to October. Remote work FTW.
  2. There were other issues also that were mentioned. USC had beaten Auburn the previous season 23-0 at Auburn. And Auburn played a pathetic nonconference of ULM, The Citadel, and La Tech. While USC played #9 Virginia Tech in DC (winning by 11), BYU, and Bowling Green. They had one common opponent. Auburn beat Va Tech in Sugar Bowl by 3. USC beat same team by 11 in DC.
  3. Kirby much preferred the day when a Dodge Challenger and $50k to a street agent could get the top guy in state.
  4. Are they selling Elko’s moo moo?
  5. I used to be relatively quick. And since I replaced booze addiction with a working out addiction four years ago, I am in good shape. My 14 year old daughter is fast -- runs track and is good at it. I still thought I could beat her in a 100 yard dash so we raced a couple months ago on a track. Nope. She smoked my ass easily. Was humbling.
  6. Nussmeier at 3? He's JAG.
  7. He was everyone's favorite. One of the funniest men I ever met. He loved drinking his warm Lone Star beer.
  8. I bet I knew him. The staff was pretty small and most were NCOs. One of the reasons the school got into some trouble in the late 90s. Not enough adult supervision. Yeah, none of them talked about killing. Though most probably did as every Marine is a rifleman. They talked about the history. And they talked about the tough conditions. But not about blood and gore stuff. There was a black vet there named Sgt Major Lee, who was kind of in charge of security. Rumor was he had a massive kill count in Viet Nam. But that may have just been rumors made up by high school kids.
  9. It's more than that. We only have rivalries with three teams. In the Big 12, even when we sucked, every school wanted to kick sand in our face more than any other opponent (well Okie State would rather beat OU, but that's the only one).
  10. Yep. The SEC in 2004 was not the SEC of today. Not even close. Meyer and Saban made the conference the force it is with those Florida (briefly before Meyer burned up) and Alabama teams. The SEC had four ranked teams in 2004. Auburn barely beat #10 Virginia Tech in their bowl game. USC handled Va Tech with ease on the road. Auburn played a joke nonconference schedule. Louisiana Tech, Citadel, Louisiana Monroe. No one at the time thought anything other than OU and USC were the two titans of college football that year. This idea the SEC was some juggernaut in 2004 is just false and revisionist history. Auburn has two real titles, right? 2010 and one in the 50s? National titles since AP came out in 1936 are really simple. AP/UPI #1 prior to BCS = national title WInning BCS title game = national title Winning playoff = national title.
  11. CTJ needs to challenge Lehman to a foot race
  12. I went to military school for a couple years in high school (early 90s in Harlingen). My freshman English teacher was an old German who was in the Hitler youth. Mr. Graf. He had some interesting stories. He said pretty much every German teen had to join the Hitler Youth (boys -- the girls had a companion organization. Listening to him talk about pre-war rise of Nazis, war, and post-war Germany was very interesting. He lived in a rural town in Bavaria. He was not commissioned to fight like some Hitler youth were at the end because he worked on his family farm in the countryside of southern Germany. Almost all the Marines who ran the place were combat veterans. Mostly Korea and Vietnam. We had several older staff who were World War II vets and fought all over the Pacific. I loved talking to them about the war. They were proud of their service and would talk in detail about the campaigns they fought, without getting into the nightmarish parts. They all faced very tough battle conditions regardless of war. One was a vet of both WWII and Korea. He said Guadalcanal and Chosin reservoir were the worst conditions imaginable. The old Marines taught us history and it was very heavy on Marine Corps battles.
  13. One of the best things about the move to the sec is now we have only three conference teams who want to beat us more than any other team on their schedule and will focus and prepare accordingly. In the Big 12 it was 9 teams a year. And it made our schedule more difficult than it appeared on paper.
  14. Yep. I was in the south end suite area for Kentucky game. He was there. He isn’t near big enough. He needs time to cook.
  15. Mostly meant OU and Florida will have much better QBs this year.
  16. Only caveat about defense I can think of is we played a lot of shitty QBs last year. We should play better ones this year, overall.
  17. Did he cuddle with you after?
  18. His numbers per play were pretty mediocre between that injury and VY taking over at QB and opening the run game.
  19. Be nice in year 4 of Flood recruiting and developing we had more confidence in the OL. He needs to do better.
  20. Pretty sure the Stanford loss and the UNT embarrassment were different years. UNT was 2002. Our running game sucked that year. Cedric really was not the same guy until 2003 due to, IMO, that injury he suffered against Colorado in the Big 12 title game. Our O-line was a joke. I remember UNT's 5'10" DT kicking Jason Glynn's ass all night long. You beat me to it. Correct.
  21. I am no expert, but this looks like the best back we’ve recruited since Bijan.
  22. I was at the game — took my 14 year old daughter and her friends. Chubb looked better than expected. OL looked decent. Can’t tell much from preseason. But those were my two observations
  23. I think reed is decent and better than what they usually have. I think he is high risk to get hurt if Klein tries to run him a bunch given his slight build. If Klein doesn’t run him much, he’s not much of a threat. Kind of a catch 22.
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