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MaybeACoordinator

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  1. Photoshop Phriday was awesome....I'd click through them all and then bring my son in if there were none too raw for him...He'd sit on me knee and we would laugh our asses off at the movie posters and shit...Was SA the home of that archive of terrible band PR pics with the hilarious captions?
  2. I think the problem was we waited two-three years too long in easing Mack out the door. Because we didn't he was able to create systemic, chronic problems that have ruined the last two coaches and could ruin a third. If you let the offensive line rot to the extent he did, you can ruin a program for a decade.
  3. The small but perhaps increasing number of posters saying firing Mack was a huge mistake has grown to the point where Scipio mocked them on his podcast this week.
  4. A csb from my great-grandfather, shortly before his ship hit a mine off Anzio. He was captain of the poorly-named minesweeper Portent, built in Beaumont. Born in Sabine Pass, my great-grandfather ran away from home to enlist in the Navy in WW1, almost certainly with his father's tacit approval. They were from a long line of mariners. On his return, he became a Sabine / Neches / Galveston ship's pilot, and when the WW2 came along, such men with ship-handling skills were made captains of warships, though not often or ever combat ships..... anyway, here is his letter: My Darling- We are to arrive about noon in Naples. Our trip has been exciting to some extent, so far we haven't had any air attack, but as we were leaving Oran (Harbor) a Convoy bound for Gibraltar was attacked by a boat and got a ship out of the Convoy. It was a tremendous explosion- this ship was about eight miles away. Two of our destroyers went to the scenes and after a few hours search got the Sub with Survivors, So one more Sub out of way. This trip has been a very thrilling one have had many reconnaissance planes flying reports of the E Boat which is more dreaded than the U-Boat. they are the first boat like our PT armed with Torpedoes -rush in and right out after launching a torpedo. We have six ships loaded with American Troops bound for the front have made good time, they really keep us on the ball keeping (statewise?) and we have to maintain a very fast speed which I like. I just thought I would write a line or so and have a nice long chat with my darling that's why I'm writing to you this lovely evening. Its a beautiful day, wind chilly and sun bright, just the kind of day that makes one feel good. I expect Dorothy and Ed (Green) are packing as this is the 19th and he has only four more days to do and then off. I expect to Miami Fla., to school again. Be sure my darling to let me know where he is going. Hope he doesn't come over here. I wish you could see what I have, how it works- we bought some lighters over in Oran for ship service and I bought one, mine works perfect. Am so proud of myself. You know that lighter Ed Bular gave me never did work and always wanted one and now mine works and I am happy as can be. We won't have but ten hours here in Naples and then leave for Oran again. These troop ships are like tankers, run the soldiers off and dump the baggage then sail. This old news you hear and that I hear comes over the radio is just a bunch of Bunk. Since Thanksgiving I know of five ships that went down and two subs never have I heard that over the radio. It's always peaches and cream. But they never tell how it is, for instance fifty miles from me just got word of an air attack you have to be on the look out all the time for hell might pop any minute. - "Later" we arrived here went ashore and its like the rest if the places being Sunday all places are closed. Bars not open until 4:30pm and we had to be back aboard at 5:00pm. Soldiers every where, Army trucks going and coming the place has been bombed terribly, the people look like the Arab 4. Dirty, Filthy and more childhood beggaring so that is what I saw in Naples. Walked about the city and right in the heart of the City the army is assembling guns to take to the front. I am so damn disgusted wish old Vesuvius would clean the place up. Its interesting to see the old volcano still shooting out smoke after centuries of Burning. One wonders whats down there to make it burn so long- Don't expect Wallace will be with us on the way back- he has to take another Convoy back. Expect I'll just stick around with the destroyers until they get rid of me some place down the line. In fact Fannie I don't care what port - they all look alike and I would give anything I possess to get back to you and Susie. All I can say is this other part of the world is in one Hell of a fix. More is being blown to Hell every day. You should have seen some of the damages to Naples alone. It will be years upon years before it can be rebuilt like it was before the war, then the poverty we will have to feed the world just as sure as can be, expect conditions in Germany, Poland and Russia are awful. I have been told by our officers from the British Army that they haven't had an air raid here now in two weeks and then they got thirteen planes- pretty good shooting don't you think? This part of the World is grand for ones nerves - wish Aunt Blanche was over here , would do her heart good. Honey, when I pulled into Bigerton I found two of my old men from the Cardinal here, one was the tall boy whose people were Mormons. He lived in Texas some place - a fine boy. Then old Cash ,y Gunners wrote, both are fine, Old Cash has a brand new machine gun never been fired with about two thousand rounds of ammunition for one boy am I going to take it. Pretty good play. Pretty for Ed Green to bite his teeth on what say? This gun was taken from one of the Danish outside of Bigerton Will write some more tomorrow you see my love I can honestly say that you are constantly on my feeble mind, Oh how I wish I could see you and tell you instead of writing that I love you. Good night Darling- pleasant dreams Love Your, Howard Sunday 19th December X-Mas is just around the Corner- I hope you have a nice X-Mas. I won't.
  5. My son has been back from Casey and Carroll for about a year now. Served his term honorably and gtfo but man, I am so grateful for what the army did for him. I wish I'd had the balls to do the same.
  6. Hey, son, you look a little too young to be drinking that beer. Could I see some ID real quick? Not apples to apples but pretty close, and I guess we should just do away with state gun laws if they will not be enforced except at criminal trials. Why don't we just sweep away all these state laws and go federal?
  7. If the cops had been out checking the IDs of the armed attendees, KR would have been busted for carrying across state lines. Not pointing fingers, but suggesting that as a tactic for the cops in future situations. Just make damned sure that your own state laws are being adhered to.
  8. How much elite linebacker play do you remember at UT? I am getting old, and all I can recall is Derrick Johnson. It's important for a defense to have good linebackers. Are we not recruiting the right ones? Are HS coaches sticking them at RB? Does 7-on-7 render them useless? Our absence of LB creation is every bit as howlingly bad as that of OT.
  9. what's so grim about that? if they were turned away for being poor, that would be grim.
  10. I think the difference here is CDC put more weight on Sark's rep among former players and guys he coached with, rather than a Korn Ferry type outfit. The story was "brilliant, brilliant football mind, great guy, great recruiter, worked with 11 future NFL QBs, but....also went into Leaving Las Vegas mode for a year or two." It's a roll of the dice for sure. Traylor also would have been a roll of the dice, but for some reason, according to the prevailing wisdom in the world of coach hiring, a guy like Sark is a better bet than a guy like Traylor, who has done nothing but excel wherever he's been, um, I guess because he has a proven track record of going 7-5? Experience is extremely overvalued when compared to untapped potential.
  11. Write this check to whom, exactly? Sark for the buyout? Then what?
  12. Yeah I didn't mean to seem to pick on you, as I regard you as a sage poster with good taste. (I've read every word CB published while alive and some of the posthumous stuff. And most of the authors he told me to read and so on.)
  13. Twitters etc Fickell to USC / Herman to Cincinnati
  14. Rumor mill: Fickell to USC, Herman to Cincinnati
  15. Along with some other posters with knowledge on such matters, I think Herman gives every indication of being an active alcoholic. So...we fire the guy who's still drinking and hire the guy who has it licked...Kind of follows the pattern in replacing coaches -- you always hire the opposite of the last guy. (Sort of kidding, but I would not be surprised if Herman comes clean about some kind of substance abuse issue.) Mack also seemed to be hitting the sour mash hard in those last few years, based on waistline alone.
  16. I guess y'all weren't listening to the radio interviews....I've said on here before, the Houston media bears some of the blame. They never held his feet to the fire after inexplicable losses or his periodic tantrums. After he lost to Navy he was on one of the local shows throwing his players under the bus right and left and the host were barely even listening, because they wanted to talk about the Rockets or some shit and get him and his cute little program off the air. His ace recruiting is a myth built solely on Ed Oliver's mama ordering him to play with his brother at UH. Oliver wanted to go to LSU and said as much after he was drafted.
  17. You (by your posting history) are a dumbass. Therefore, any opinion you have about coaches is irrelevant and can be discarded (immediately and righteously) out of hand.
  18. Traylor was right there on the staff but I realize that schools like Texas don't promote assistants. We leave that to shit programs like OU.
  19. The Herman hire is the most mystifying to me. You can look back on the old site and early on in Strong's second year, the whole mob locked in on Herman as the Messiah and continued to believe in him as he shit the bed two, three, four times on the field at UH and embarrassed himself off of it with the local media and all those missteps were ignored, along also with the fact the he was unproven as a recruiter and as the coach of a team without an elite QB. We had 18 months to figure out Strong's replacement but the whole community seemed to regard Herman as some kind of Star Child, sent from heaven to rescue UT football, while not bothering to even give the time of day to any of the other coaches hired over that time span. How his obvious personality flaws went undetected during that whole process is also mind-bottling. Didn't any of our BMDs get drunk with the guy? I can guarantee you there is zero chance Herman would not say something or do something really weird when shitfaced. I know the type. But maybe our BMDs are like that, too.
  20. We did allow Mack to stretch our squeaky clean image during our peak years.....We were pretty well up there in the Fulmer Cup standings back when VY could honestly tell USC to STFU because our guys were gangsta too. Lord knows how much Joe Jamail was able to quash before it hit the headlines but it seems like every year we four or five guys getting in hot water over weed, guns, DWI, fights on Dirty Sixth, robbing drug dealers, or getting a Playstation back by extralegal means, or whatever that was with Ced (RIP). Part of me thinks Mack got tired of the headaches after the Robert Joseph debacle -- after that, he quit going after the kind of kids who would have played for the U back in the day and settled for the nice kids. So long as they were (bogus) four stars, who would notice (at first)?
  21. Yeah Churchill and FDR sat it out for a year or so while Stalin and Hitler knocked the shit out of each other in the East and only then opened up the southern and western fronts. Stalin knew what was up, too, and that colored our "alliance" afterwards.
  22. It would have been even worse. Go look at the recruits Charlie ran off and who Mack had in the pipeline for the next couple years. We were headed toward four-win territory and not even with good kids who graduate, but punks who suck at football and life.
  23. Well, they already have me on file from all those times I'd send in scoreboard pics of my fuckstompings of Stoops on PS2. Why they didn't just adopt my strategy of running a 4-1-6 D with Derrick Johnson blitzing up the middle on every down is just one of things we will have to wonder about until we die.
  24. HS player rankings suck. Yes, they are good at pointing the elite 5-star guys, but after that it's just a jumble. Look at an NFL roster. You'd think most of it would be guys from a few elite schools, and every team's roster is studded with dudes from Bama and Ohio State and such. But then look at any NFL roster. That is not the case. At least half of every roster is made up of dudes who went to second- or third-tier FBS schools or played FCS or even lower. You'd have to assume the vast majority of those guys were not wanted by the bigger schools coming out HS, and there might have been good reasons for that. 18 year-olds are still developing as athletes and humans. That probably about half of all NFL rosters are composed of dudes who went to places like Humboldt State, UAB, Temple, and Boston College, the MAC, and a slew of Florida Directionals, shows us how far the recruiting rankings are from predicting eventual success. The services should be held accountable. It would be interesting to see five-year-reviews of their ratings and include people they didn't rate at all. I am not sure if any of them is better than the next.
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