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  1. Need an old-fashioned there point play now.
  2. good grief! Refs heard me and like three calls against Florida ,but Tech can't make a free throw?
  3. Hard to beat Harlan.
  4. critical possession here for Tech. Ram it down their throats, go up by 9, under 4:00 minutes? omg! A call on Florida?
  5. I picked Tech to win at the beginning of the game, but man, no ref calls for Tech. If this continues the rest of the way, I can see Florida coming back.
  6. Here to post I may be one of the few who is glad to get out from under the Gideon curse. Reversing his mistakes would have most likely resulted in 2 national championships for us, instead of 0. Sure, the obvious drop everyone remembers, against Tech in 2008. But who remembers well as I that incredible effort the next year against Alabama, when Blake makes tremendous effort and holds on to the ball. Only one problem. It was fourth down and the ball sailing through the air was a fake punt thrown on 4th down. Seems Nick Saban had a brain fart of epic proportions, throwing a fake punt from about his own 15 or 20 yard line. Blake's catch bailed Nick out, and about three plays later Colt's shoulder was injured, effectively ending the game unless a miracle occurred. No miracle coming, and the Saban dynasty had begun.
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    My dog died

    Just read all replies....Thanks so much everyone. I just recently read about the Rainbow bridge also. There will never be another Buddy for me. 16 years! He certainly outlived all his peers.
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    My dog died

    Wednesday afternoon Buddy went to the vet for the last time. Buddy was a sixteen year old terrier mix who had been in pain since he spent two nights in the animal hospital in January. Only 2nd time I have put a dog down, and this was much worse than the first time. Favorite recent memory of Buddy was the other night, his last night, he went to the dog park, was taken off the leash, roamed around the park for a bit and walked back to the apartment off the leash. Blindness didn't stop him from knowing how to get back home. Admittedly a short walk, still impressive for a dog who couldn't get up with 100% consistency. Also a fond memory is that when my dad came to visit recently Buddy got really close to my dad, sat next to him on the couch and was totally enamored with him. I called my dad to tell him and cried again on the phone with my dad. Buddy was ours since my younger son picked him out in 4th grade. We had 15 years and four months with Buddy. My son will be 27 years old next month. The son came over Tuesday night to say goodbye. Buddy was a good traveler, he went from McKinney to Alaska for three years to Euless and finally San Antonio. He couldn't get up by himself anymore,etc. and was in a lot of pain. No more pain Buddy. Go chase those squirrels in heaven Buddy.
  9. seems rather easy to see the biggest mismatch is Spags vs. Kellen Moore. Hurts already appears to have a one-read or run directive. I don't see Philly offense hanging with KC D.
  10. Yes, and Spagnuolo is the difference on that side of the ball.
  11. Fourth and five, but still with 3 timeouts, so if Buffalo fails, they can stop KC and get the ball back with 60 seconds.
  12. Bills look completely frazzled.
  13. can't believe refs aren't balling out eagles this time. next time they probably will.
  14. Hurts is showing his best attribute, throwing the ball away and avoiding a sack.
  15. post of the day. How in the hell did THIS Washington team show up this week but not last week?
  16. all eagles appears to be open on that last play before the TD. I think Eagles will be favored to win the Super Bowl.
  17. Yep. Fried fish was nothing compared to the really good stuff. Seafood tempura, stuffed shrimp, shrimp etoufee, grilled catfish with dill sauce, Grilled Haddock with provencale sauce. Provencale sauce included wine. Speaking of cooking with wine, Burgundy Beef Ragout, and sautéed mushrooms. Other favorites included chicken livers topped with French dressing and onions, and the occasional USDA choice ribeye steak. I didn't care much for our filet. Luby's Special Chopped steak was served only by the Walzem Road location in SA. Mr. Copeland at Walzem Road was the strangest of all managers I worked for. We bought two kinds of wine, both by the gallon. Sherry and Burgundy. Two of my favorites to cook and eat were stuffed baked potatoes and soft beef tacos. I developed and made other varieties of stuffed baked potatoes, using leftover spinach and leftover mushrooms. I liked the spinach in the stuffed baked potatoes, but there wasn't a whole lot I didn't like to eat. My all-time favorite dessert to eat that I never cooked was the eclair, stuffed with cream filling and topped with chocolate sauce. Was only served at store openings. "The crew" consisted of the ladies who traveled to all new stores and showed new employees how to cook. I got to work at a new store opening in SA one year and that is when I tasted that eclair. I had to learn to cook basically everything else. One time we had an asst mgr. meeting and were challenged to come up with a new food item, so I took a standard lemon cake recipe and asked the pastry lady to top it with cream cheese filling instead of the usual lemon drizzle. beyond delicious! I developed a couple of kinds of entrees, my favorite being chicken-fried ribeye. I took a leftover ribeye steak, ran it through the tenderizer, battered it with the usual, flour, batter, crushed crackers, and deep fried it. Delicious does not begin to describe the taste. Imagine you are a late 20s single man working around made from scratch food 14.5 hours per day, with no energy left at the end of a shift to exercise. Some locations, especially in San Antonio, senior mgrs. let everyone stop down for breakfast about 9:30 or so....some of the best breakfast tacos ever. When I started in 92 I probably weighed 180 pounds and left in 2001, only weighing about 217. I can promise you, about 90% of managers who worked that length of time gained a similar amount of weight.
  18. Thanks for this answer. you are the first person I've read who says Ohio St. definitely had better players. Earlier today I watched the last two minutes or so of our loss to Washington, and noticed one position group that had problems, similar to this year and that was offensive line.
  19. nothing good can come from this biased "reporting", but hopefully Sark and CDC can ignore it and he will go away. Surely Mack can find something to do other than try to stick his opinions in where they are not asked. Maybe Tulane can offer a part-time gig.
  20. I think I hit the wrong emoji. I agree with the above.
  21. Who is the other older man? I imagine he works for UT? Facilitating Mack's greeting?
  22. yep, and he left behind three young children and a beautiful wife. He was due to attend his first board meeting at Luby's as CEO in Arizona I think. His predecessor, Mr. Erben, I think, allegedly told him to "blame me" if there are any uncomfortable questions. Since he missed the trip, all of us in management assumed the stress was work-related, but like I said, we didn't jump and down getting upset. We just kept on coming to work.
  23. As a nearly retired educator who loves college football, I have all of these off-season questions that make me think..hmmm. Analogy- I worked for what used to be a very well known cafeteria for 8.5 years, in the 1990s.. It was a total beating, but I learned to cook and run a business in 3-4 years. I stayed too long, ate too much delicious food. During that time asst. mgrs and assoc. mgrs worked 70+ hours per week, totally oblivious to the outside world. GM's for the most part worked 35-40 hours per week and made big $. When our CEO checked into a Motel 6 in San Antonio one year and cut his own throat to kill himself in the early morning hours, mgrs. did not flee the company like crazy. We kept on working. Why? We were too tired to leave or were totally brainwashed to ignore the outside world? I finally left years later after family events made it happen. Do the assistant coaches have much of a say in what the gameplan will be? Iow, assume they are working 80+ hour weeks, similar to my mgt. job. Example, flashback to November 1983, and Coach Fred Akers has been tinkering with the QB lineup all season. It comes down to the Aggy game and Akers decides on the golden-armed Rick McIvor. Rick throws 4 TD passes, totally surprising aggy, and we win 45-13 to finish 11-0. We're on the verge of a NC, after we win against Georgia in the CB. Pretend there is a meeting after the game and If an asst. coach said something like, "You know Georgia's probably working on nothing but McIvor for the next five weeks," would that have gained any traction with any of the top coaches? I don't think anybody would have given it a second thought, but we will never know. For younger people, McIvor was still accurate passing on a very blustery, windy, day at the CB, which is known for tough winds, Ward missed two FGs, and we dropped probably 7+ passes. Had Akers come out with the running QB, Rob Moerschell, in the 2nd half, Georgia would have been totally surprised, we would have scored at least a TD to go ahead by a comfortable margin, and we would never have to endure the nightmare of the dropped punt. One national championship missed. There are plenty of other examples of what ifs that would lead us to many more national championships. Go to the recent one, of course. Ohio St. knew the play that was coming at the 2 yard line. How? Why were we at a coaching disadvantage at the 2 yard line, but we were at a coaching advantage the entire game against their wide receivers? Are defensive coaches just smarter than offensive coaches? Do we not scout ourselves? Or is that even a thing? Same scenario of questions - our OL vs. OhioSt. DL. Are we always going to be at a coaching disadvantage, or is this just one game when Ohio St. had better coaches? Does anybody think Ohio St. just had better players? I think we are exactly where we need to be wrt NIL and players. We just need to improve our coaching. I'm not keeping track exactly but I bet the tush-push has about a 99% accuracy rating for getting one yard. We just need someone to run it.
  24. We're not PU without Dickson. I think the question could be "which position has the most players playing five years in the league?" My guess is DB. We're not PKU without Justin.
  25. In the great, famous words of Billy Packer, "This game is ovah!"
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