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Mitch Cumsteen

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  1. I'm on the bama athletic department email list. And this nugget came through a little while ago.
  2. Can any of the $9.95ers confirm whether karma is on an official or unofficial visit?
  3. Looks like the league was willing to let the authorities do the heavy lifting on this before doing anything. With the girl and her family not cooperating, the legal system unsurprisingly couldn't do shit. I'm not getting into the morality of all this, but it's not difficult to connect the dots if the family hired Gloria Allred. You don't do that if nothing happened. This looks like a classic shakedown, but the league has an obligation to look into it. What do they do if they find out that Giddey paid her off? Good times ahead with the players association.
  4. Would be nice to finally tap into that Alamo Heights pipeline.
  5. They killed off the only black guy on the entire show. And then adorned his tombstone with "Beloved Brother." That cracked me up. The way they shot the scenes during the raid with the intermittent black screens was fucking annoying as hell. I suppose it was to build up suspense, but I thought it was super distracting and killed the pacing. Even a fade in/out would have worked better if they wanted to go for something like that. I was getting frustrated watching that. There were for sure some plot holes, but all in all, great show.
  6. So where does Bama roughly rank in the SEC when it comes to NIL? They are certainly well behind Texas, Georgia, and A&M. I would assume they are also behind Florida, LSU, Mizzou, TN and Ole Miss. Probably OU and Auburn as well? Who is left? Arkansas, MSU, KY, Scar, and Vandy? Who are they actually outspending? And how on earth are they going to sell a guy who made his bones in NAIA, spent some time at fucking Indiana, and then two years at Fresno State plus two at UW with a 30 year old QB? All with a staff from a similar background plus Freddie Roach? They gonna get killed. I think Deboer is a really, really good coach. And well, he better be.
  7. Underestimate captains of industry like Phyllis from Mulga and Pee Wee from Grand Bay at your own peril, sir.
  8. Maybe the Celtics will get bored or their arms will get tired from making all these threes.
  9. Not only did he force his way out of Denver, he made the Knicks gut their roster to get him so he could sign a larger contract when he could have gone to NY as a free agent at the end of the season. He screwed both franchises. Is that considered a good return? I guess they both could have walked for nothing at the end of the season so it beats a bag full of nothing. Boy has the price of trading for talent taken a nose dive since the Rudy Gobert and Dejounte Murray trades. I suppose most of the contending teams are tapped out on picks and everybody else is hoarding them. Things are going to get really weird once the highest salary cap tier gets triggered.
  10. If Bama were to take a step back next year, I'm sure their fans will be very patient and understanding.
  11. I would actually take extra satisfaction winning with a bunch of Bama deflectors after all the kids they've bought from Texas over the past 15 years. It would be more effective Don't Mess with Texas advertising than the old Stevie Ray Vaughn ad.
  12. For one game for the future of the universe? Are you fucking kidding me? We have a literal head to head comparison on with the biggest stakes in basketball on the line, and Horry destroyed him. I'm taking Robert Horry and not touching Rasheed with a ten foot pole. Ironically, ten feet is about how far away Rasheed is when Horry rises up to drill the game winner.
  13. In your defense, the SEC championship game will likely be tougher than the Big 12 championship game last year. Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, the play was fantastic.
  14. I'm having a very, very difficult time separating Rasheed Wallace the dickhead from Rasheed Wallace the basketball player, precisely because his being a dickhead directly and profoundly diminished his impact as a basketball player. You can't polish a turd in any era. You do realize that Bill Russell won 4 MVPs while Wilt Chamberlain was in his prime, right? How exactly do you reconcile your stance on Wilt vs. your stance on Russell? You think a guy who shot 51% from the FT line and 54% from the field (with a huge physical advantage against his peers) for his career would dominate in a pace and space era where he would see 20x as many guys his size and face an uncountable number of dudes more athletic than his in-era competition?
  15. I don't want to say that the warriors are officially finished but they lost to Memphis who was playing without Ja, Bane, Smart, Adams, Brandon Clark and D Rose on a night where their only good player JJJ went 4-20.
  16. I didn't even see Russell play, but I don't need to. I definitely saw Rasheed. If I'm doing my top 10 all time, I'm only doing guys who I saw play. So that's essentially post-ABA merger. A cop out, I know. Jordan is number 1. It's not even a debate for me. I probably go Magic at 2. Nobody controlled a game like him. Lebron is 3, somewhat reluctantly. I could lean Kareem for 4, but I mostly remember him when he was old and bald so I think my memory of him is tainted. So gimme Bird at 4. I hated him but he was an absolute killer. I have no qualms admitting I'm a Spurs homer, but I have Duncan at 6 unapologetically. I'm putting Jokic at 7 and that's projecting a bit on the rest of his career since he's only 28. I think he wins MVP this year and probably rings again, and then the narrative on him goes through the roof. But what happens when he loses a step? Nothing, he never had a step to begin with. He probably plays at this level until he's close to 40 or just gets tired of the hassle and says "fuck it, I'm going bar hopping in Serbia for the rest of my days." I have such mixed emotions about Kobe but that fucker was amazing when he was on. I'd probably have him higher if he wasn't such a shitty teammate and ball hog. Curry changed the game. I'm not sure it's for the better, but he's the best shooter I've ever seen and a champion / winner. I throw Shaq in at 10. He could have been #1 if he cared half as much as Kobe. 1. MJ 2. Magic 3. Lebron 4. Bird 5. Kareem 6. Duncan 7. Jokic 8. Kobe 9. Curry 10. Shaq
  17. Poor, poor Alabama is all in their feelings because mean old Texas is poaching their players. "Texas just declared war on Alabama?" Uh, you started it buddy. Fucking hypocrites with their heads in the sand about how things went down pre-NIL. If only we could go back to the good old days when recruits were bought and sold under the table with a push from sleazebag street agents and uncles with their hands out. I think Deboer is a really good coach, but I am rooting hard for him to fail miserably and get crushed under the weight of Alabama expectations and weak NIL backing. https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2024/01/goodman-texas-declares-war-on-alabama.html
  18. Bill Russell was an 11 time champion, 5 time MVP, had his #6 retired by every NBA team, was inducted into the basketball hall of fame twice (once as a player and once as a coach), and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his role in the civil rights movement. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest leaders and winners in the history of sports, not just basketball. Rasheed Wallace came into training camp out of shape every year, holds the NBA record for technical fouls and ejections, once threw a towel in his teammates face, got busted for weed, challenged a referee to a fight on a loading dock, challenged his coach to a fight in the locker room and charged him, and once held a bitchy press conference where he answered every question with, "both teams played hard." I'm far from one of those, "back in the old days" guys, but Bill Russell was the ultimate winner and teammate. Rasheed Wallace was a jackass.
  19. That was a winable game. Vassell can't go 1-13 when Wemby is out and the spurs get the win. But they were game and they seem to be playing harder especially on defense. This group is gonna be alright.
  20. Your defensive line coach Freddie Roach was... not added. Please select another defensive line coach. Goodbye and good luck.
  21. Alabama and Georgia are both now officially farm teams for our wr room.
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