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  1. I expected more from the downfield passing game after all of the talk about how it was a focus. That said, three guys caught a TD pass and 8 (?) receivers caught a ball, though not all from Ewers. I wonder if recruits will notice that?

    I get that the deep ball failures are frustrating. I also get that you can’t just abandon it. I don’t know how you solve the problem or I’d be game planning for my team’s next game. Maybe you have to go more toward Mitchell and Neyor and just let them be better than the defender until something else clicks. Maybe you have to make the D pay with YAC in crossing routes to squeeze them more. Dunno. 

  2. 27 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

    Sark said our 3rd down conversion rate was shit yesterday. Yesterday Quinn couldn’t hit a WR over 20 yards. Yes, 3rd and long is never a glorious place to be but if it shakes out like that against Bama they way it did yesterday we might get buried. I hope not. If our defense can get those turnovers…we have the talent on both sides to get a win. I don’t know how much Sark appreciates how much firepower he failed to harness with Rojo and Bijan. We have to spread the ball around bc we know they’ll have guys on Worthy and JTS (favorite targets.) I am hoping we will see Spider-Man (Juan Davis) in an X factor role. Getting to meet all the TE’s at the surly Burnt Ends event in May this year was awesome. Hearing both Gunner and JT talk about Juan and how spidey man like fast and elusive he can be I hope that’s what gets unveiled next Saturday. Like to see them use more of the TEs. That’s all I got. Quinn at least protected the ball yesterday. The long ball is a glaring issue that needs to be addressed. No need to waste downs on that shit if he can’t make the throw next Saturday. 

    Yes, any team consistently in third and long against Alabama is going to get worked. 

    I’m sure we all understand how useful and versatile Bijan and Roschon were much more than Sarkisian did and also how much he wasted them. 

  3. Just now, dcar00 said:

    well that could be good news.  there was no reason to bring him back but I was assuming shoulder/collar bone based on reports.

    It looked like a broken collarbone to my completely untrained and ignorant eye. If it is “just” ribs, that might be a bonus, though hurt ribs are miserable even for people who aren’t D1 running backs. 

  4. 2 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    Haven't heard anything, but there's no way he's not out for awhile after landing on his shoulder like that.  He broke his clavicle or hurt his shoulder.

    Blue doesn't have his size though.  He looks like every good Alabama running back of the last decade.

    Sarkisian, perhaps BSing, said ribs when he landed on the ball and they didn’t yet know how serious. 

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  5. 7 hours ago, dcar00 said:

    PK's charges were ready to go today.  Good on him and his staff.

    it absolutely would have been a shutout if Sark didn't give them a FG.

    Sarkisian didn’t throw an ankle-level pass to Sanders when he’d easily have converted the fourth down with even an average pass. 

    The defense looked like they knew what they were doing and did it well. 

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  6. 10 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

    My fridge died after 12 years so I bought a new one last week. Not high end cause I don’t give a shit but I was happy to find out that they now make fridges with two ice makers. One in the door and large one in the lower freezer. It’s the simple things like never running out of ice that make me happy.

    Mine — not high end and also a brand oft-maligned here for refrigerators — also has two ice makers: one that makes largish “cubes” and one that makes smaller ones. Combined with my countertop nugget ice maker, we definitely have enough ice and none of them are in-door. 

  7. 2 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

    Oh my gosh you mentioned WoW. I played that game like it was a job for a long time. Good memories and whatnot, but man it was addictive. Service industry jobs can teach better communication skills. We sorely need that as a worldwide society. Staring at phones all day in public has killed communication.
     

    I think your example is a good one. You did something that helped someone else out. I think that’s great. I have to say that I probably would have laughed if someone had confronted you and you went full Deebo on them. 

    Communication skills, I have. Self-control with using them with people who won’t listen or who say silly things, not so much. 

    I could play WoW for 12 hours and it seemed like nothing. I still remember the first time I went to Thunder Bluff at night. Or to Stranglethorn Vale. Or logging in on my priest sitting in Dalaran and having all the tanks on my friends list messaging to run stuff. IMO, WotLK was peak WoW. Every so often, I’ll listen to the Grizzly Hills ambient music and decide to play again and, for a while, it’s 2008 again. 

    As far as the purse, I suppose they figured that anyone willing to carry a purse in that situation is probably able, or at least willing to try, to make the encounter go very poorly for them.

  8. 20 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

    This is not from a society wide perspective, but only my own experiences. One of the best ways to understand society around you, as well as making a positive contribution to it, is to be engaged with people. One of the things I feel is important is that everyone should at some point in their existence is to work in a service industry job. Learn to communicate with your fellow humans. Learn how to be compassionate and care for others. While self-care is extremely important so is how you relate and show care and compassion to the world outside of your bubble.

    I can also say that this does not come natural to me. Being able to be around people for hours at a time takes a mental toll on me that causes me to just go home and say and do nothing. The wear on an autistic mind from constant people interactions is a lot for me at times and is way more mentally draining than it is for a neurotypical person, but I do it. I am content to just hangout with my two dogs after a long day. However, when I am around people I make the effort to now communicate even when I am not working. Just simple interactions and conversations that will remind you that you are just one of several billion people on the road of life. Last week I helped a woman carry luggage up the subway stairs. I could have hurried up and left her to do it on her own. Taking the time to help this elderly woman made for a pleasant interaction between us and made both our days better. I talked a few minutes after to a guy while I was waiting for some fresh coffee at a bodega on my way to church. We talked about his car being side-swiped a couple of hours before by a likely drunk driver (Hit three total parked cars). I said that perhaps he should be thankful this happened because what if he had gotten in his car and something else had happened while he was driving. His car was damaged, but he was okay. That perspective helped him feel better about what transpired. 
     

    Have those conversations with people. The smallest of interactions can be the most beneficial thing you do in someone else’s day. Make doing this everyday be a permanent part of who you are. You’ll be doing your small part to be kind.  

    People, in general, drain the holy hell out of me in a way that would make Colin Robinson blush. Unless we’re talking about something that I find hella engaging — Texas football, economics, maybe WoW back in the day — I just can’t for very long. I can do it for short periods and I’m polite to those in service industry jobs — and no one wants me in a service industry job, though some of my calls when I did computer tech support were legendary within the company — but it’s not my forte. 

    Back when I went to more Texas away games, there was an older couple who were almost always there, too, and the wife carried an expensive and heavy as fuck purse. So I carried her purse from the tailgates into the stadiums. I’m gigantic. I’m wearing burnt orange. I’m walking into stadiums in Stillwater, Columbus, Colombia, Manhattan, Lawrence, etc. carrying a purse. And hoping a bitch would. It wasn’t as altruistic as helping with luggage, I suppose, but it was a pretty cool ritual for a while. 

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  9. 10 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Fuck every single one of you dipshits insisting on discussing the intricacies of NIL on the fucking 2024 thread when there is a good NIL thread for that boring shit elsewhere. All negged on this page. Hopefully others will follow suit. 

    Hell, doesn’t look like it can be deleted so maybe get someone who has the power to delete the intrusions into the crazy mid-August recruiting news to do so. 

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  10. 14 minutes ago, Bodacious Bevo said:

    FWIW, as someone studying public administration and policy, I think the best way forward with NIL is through interstate compacts or uniform state laws. Interstate compacts are the most legally binding form of cooperation between states. It's basically a contract between states in which they agree to work together on an issue. It be a common set of laws that each state must follow or the compact forms a governing body (agency or commission) that governs the issue between the states. The states cannot unilaterally decide to leave the compact. Uniform state laws allow states to opt in to a set of uniform standards. 

    A compact would be ideal but it might be too hard to bring a state like Missouri on board. The dynamics around inducements are different in states with a single university compared to those that have competing interests for recruits. 

    The problem with a compact, imo, is that it essentially requires states where the issue is more important or where more resources can be brought to bear to give up those advantages. It’s asking them to shackle themselves without necessarily the kind of upside that might be present in a more typical trade scenario. That seems pretty unlikely short of the entire sport — and this is mostly about football pretty much everywhere — being at risk.

     

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  11. If you’re someone who goes balls to the wall and reps to failure or one-ish in the tank, creatine might get you another couple of reps per set, especially the second or third set. That’ll add up if you can maintain that over time. 

    I want to be that motivated, but I’m going to have to prove it to myself before I believe me. 

    For someone in a structured setting or with serious goals, it pretty much can’t hurt. For almost everyone else, it’s a way to lose money and gain water. Imo. 

    Also, yeah, another doctor. 

  12. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    You seem to agree with that premise and fail to address the role of community institutions in overcoming that "shitty parenting."  I just happen to agree with him that the experience of community that comes from things like church, scouts, and a lot of other institutions that are discredited now, sometimes for very good reason, leaves a bit of a hole in the "moral education" of children and people in general.

    It's a complex problem and the absence of community is but one aspect of it and I think Brooks touches on and acknowldges those other things.

    I can’t really address much my opinion of the role of community institutions, or society at large, without getting into CR territory. A fundamental issue there, imo, is the “you’re not the boss of me” aspect of the situation along with a general tendency of society these days to apply “who are you to judge” and “you don’t know his situation” to the point that you are probably a bigot of some sort if you presume that moral education can even be a thing.

    I also think, though, there’s a little bit of a chicken and egg problem with whether the hole in the moral education of children and people in general is due to the “abandonment,” for lack of a better word, of those institutions or whether the hole led to that abandonment. 

    When so much seems to turn on which smaller and smaller boxes one wants to use to define oneself, community gets harder and harder, imo. I’m sure a lot of people here have some relatively recent examples of being cast out by friends or even family as unclean due to disagreement about some political, medical, social, moral, or other issue that really doesn’t define whether a person is worth having around.

    This ties back to my earlier point that people seem to be increasingly rigid in their own views and less tolerant of other views to the point where malice is often used as an explanation for differing opinions rather than just having different opinions. I don’t know where you’d even start with broad, community-based moral education in that environment… or whether such a discussion would belong anywhere outside CR, in general, or in this thread, in particular.

    I’ll just say that I think the current lack of moral education is a case of the people knowing what they want and deserving to get it good and hard. I’ve probably veered outside the purpose of this thread, though I do think finding more common ground with others would ease some of the stress and anxiety people seem to be feeling, even if there’s not complete overlap in beliefs  

     

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  13. 2 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    Preschool graduations are to blame for America getting so cruel again?  Okay. I am going to take my 4.5yo to pre school today.  First day and all.  God willing, just us and maybe her grandparents will attend her little graduation ceremony in nine months time.  We won’t send out announcements or even post photos.  Just a moment for her and her surviving grandparents to enjoy.  
     

    if I have to listen to losers whine about an event for three fucking years, then I can sure as shit tolerate positive talk about an event for three hours.  
     

    we were always mean.  But we tried to get better and did a more inspiring job at it than most countries.  Our problem now is we suddenly decided being stupid was the cool part.  

    It’s not the event. It’s the mindset that every. fucking. thing. a kid does is an event. 

    And, as I readily acknowledged, it’s very reductionist but when you lionize all the things you, imo, get overly self-centered kids. Who often turn into overly self-centered adults. Who tend to be narcissistic and mean. 

  14. 11 minutes ago, linux said:

    You don't need to prove much, just catch them in a lie and they go to prison.

    In a world that heavily regulates CFB Bag men would not exist, SEC dominance has come as a result of the defanging of the NCAA by the courts and university presidents. Instead we have the www that can blow up at any moment.
     

    The good ones will be smarter than Martha Stewart and simply refuse to answer questions. 

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