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  1. Many of you believe I am an idiot because i was among the last off the Charlie boat. Fucking Vance Bedford himself has told me I am an idiot on that score. (Not in so many words, but that was his gist.) We all have our blind spots and that was one of mine. However, I have rarely felt more vindicated than last night. I was saying Card needed to be pulled after just a few series. Sark waits way too long, and then Thompson does exactly what i saw he could do from watching the same game Sark was watching -- he saw giant running lanes and exploited them and the offense finally started to click. By then it was far too late though. The D was gassed and demoralized. Had it started a quarter or more earlier, we would have at least had a game. Sark is showing a Herman-like propensity for running inferior personnel out there because his ego needs his guys and his schemes to succeed. I've seen this over and over and over again as a youth and HS player and at other colleges and i've come to realize how powerful go can be, in that it can operate 100 percent against your own success and you will still go with it even at risk of your job.
  2. No, but it's the same principle. I mean why bother subbing out Card if you are going to force Casey into a square peg.
  3. I really, really hate this idiotic idea that a new coach has to force "his offense" on to another coach's players. It's just really stupid to try it in one fell swoop. Ease into it over a few years if you are that stuck on "your" fucking offense or build a program to fit around the players you inherited and run someone else's offense. Mack is a glaring example of the failure of this approach. If he did not give up on his precious offense after 12-0, he would not have survived to see 2006, at the latest, and he would have Jeff Fishered VY.
  4. FIFY, and VY rounds out his career at UT with more hollow ten-win seasons.
  5. The slow vanishing of dynasty inner city football programs in favor of suburban / exurban football factories where a ton of the kids A) don't need football to make a life for themeselves; they have fallback. They might be kinda dull, but their fallbacks are not apartment complexes in the hood. B) could be forgiven for kinda dialing it back in college. How much more thrilling can it be in front of larger crowds? Do you really want to put the work in to make it to the NFL, where best case scenario, you play ten years, make a fortune, but trade that for mushy knees and a smooth brain? How much hotter can your college GF be over the tail you were already pulling in HS? I think North Shore might be the closest thing left to a Yates or a Carter from back in the day, and guess who is putting the most players in the league? It ain't Southlake Carroll or Stephenville. And when I was in HS, it wasn't just Yates in Houston, it was also Madison, Sterling, Worthing, Washington and later Willowridge. Aldine Eisenhower was the Acres Homes juggernaut and won a USA Today NC. Now those players get dispersed into the suburban football factories and I think they get spoiled there, same as the White kids. Or, and this is much sadder, the kids left behind in the old neighborhoods are in such hell zones football can't succeed. I believe there is a sweet spot where you can have a drive to succeed brought on by the desperation of poverty, but that poverty can't be too terrible, or India would win everything at the Olympics. There needs to be social order, safe places to play and practice, adequate nutrition. You had that in the '80s in Third Ward but now that much of the Black middle class has moved to Pearland and Missouri City, not so much. Yeah the Strong era was a failure but one of his minor successes was in bringing out of state kids. Quite a number of times when the D would make a play, it would be a dude from SC blowing up the middle, two dudes from Florida in the backfield causing a fumble, and then another from Louisiana scooping it up or another Floridian picking off a pass. Where would we have been without Poona Ford, to name one? It's similar to baseball -- suburbanites have taken the sport and made it almost cost-prohibitive for any kid to play whose parents are pulling in $200k ....And so MLB gets ever more international as the number of hungry Americans is choked off at the little league level with rare exception. You've got to be a true prodigy and pick up some street agent types, I imagine. Seems like California is going through the same shit....It's a national issue having much to do with gentrification and football is just one of the symptoms.
  6. Offense held in check but defense steps up in 68-3 win over Ft Lauderdale. Actually it looks like Kelley chewed clock, treated this like a practice. Ft Lauderdale is a new school with an even newer program. Next week the Blue Hose head to Buie's Creek, NC to take on the 0-2 Campbell Fighting Camels.
  7. Looks like a whisper campaign that Thompson has an attitude problem has started....Last week he was a locker room cancer, this week he's showing up late and 'doing himself no favors" off the field.
  8. I don't watch the practices but all the smart money said Card was clearly better than Thompson...I never bought it -- you play the guy with experience unless he has demonstrated that he sucks on the field. Thompson had done the fucking opposite -- he was electric.
  9. Westlake and Lake Travis are the curse of our program. There is no way Card should have been starting over Thompson from kickoff this year; I don't care about practice. Thompson earned the start through experience and showing out on the field vs Colorado when the last Westlake QB was underperforming.
  10. Gotta put Thompson in. Huge running lanes Card can't or won't exploit.
  11. This will seem pollyanna-ish, and it was in a different state, but my two youngest half-sisters ended up in foster care in Tennessee. I guess they lucked out because our mom was so fucked up and their dad had gone temporarily nuts that it was a life-saver for them -- they got out of the ghetto in Nashville and saw that some families were different than ours. Both of them are doing very, very well now. (This is all really complex -- when my mom and dad divorced, she spiraled down from middle class into heroin addiction, and my dad stayed the same. So until the state awarded my dad full custody of me, I had this half-ghetto, half middle class existence, depending on who I was staying with. My half-brother and two half-sisters got the full immersive ghetto experience.) So I guess I am saying there are success stories. Surely, Tennessee's system can't be worse than ours, right? On the other hand, I do wonder if there is something to be said for orphanages, provided they are well funded and inspected (lol to both, probably).
  12. Fucking kickoff and first pitch are at about the same instant. CDC needs to do something about this.
  13. He didn't but the younger brother did. I hope -- he kind of fades away off the Internet about five years ago.
  14. Not exactly -- you could also go the route of seeking Congressional approval for each slave you wanted to free. Texas did not "allow" importation of slaves but was either incapable or unwilling to enforce the law against it, which was primarily a British initiative, and because Britannia ruled the waves, other nations reluctantly signed on and only enforced it in fits and starts. Slave ships were sneaking into isolated Texas bays as late as 1850, I think, when what was long believed* to be the last African slave ship landed just inside the mouth of the San Bernard River in Brazoria County. There and up the coast to Louisiana the practice went back to before the Revolution. (The law specified African slaves -- you could bring in them in from other countries in the Americas, so you really once you made it to somewhere like Cuba you were homefree. It served as sort of a slave-laundering point; after they were landed there, they became Cuban and no longer African, even if they knew not a word of Spanish.) Dudes like Bowie, Travis and Fannin were up to their eyeballs in this trade. Look up "Monroe Edwards' -- by all accounts, wokesters of today and his contemporaries, he was one of the most titanic scuzzballs in Texas history. He became so infamous he was name-dropped in one of Herman Melville's books. *The last slave ship to arrive in America was brought in by some rich Mobile asshole on a bet in 1860....Despite the fact that theoretically this was a capital offense for both the shipper and the ship's captain, southern papers openly bragged about this feat, as the country was falling apart. Some of these editorials were hoping this would just be the first of many, many more...Anyway, those slaves were freed rapidly enough after being taken that they were able to all find each other again and establish "Africatown" outside of Mobile where they kept a bunch of their customs and languages into the 20th Century.
  15. I pretty much exclusively listen to games and that homer tonight was the most obvious off the crack of the bat of any I've heard all season.
  16. Sadly, he passed away back in the '90s. tip one out
  17. Glad to see the nightlife go, but it needs a real-ass pub like the Gingerman was. You can't replace that history. I was more of a rum n coke dude myself....we called it "chasing the Brown Dragon" -- trying to attain that perfect level of alcohol / citrus / sugar high.
  18. Like it or not UT is not considered racially enlightened by any mean by Black people at all. And Black people I know do not fall for this whole idea that Texas is not a Southern state. Shoot the messenger all you want but it doesn't change the fact that we blew the chance to lead the way to integrate the SWC in the '60s, were too slow to do it in a big enough way in the '70s to prevent Switzer and Yeoman and other coaches to erode what should have been our continued dominance of the state in the '70s and '80s, and only somewhat stabilized with Mack in the 90s and the 2000s. Then came the Charlie experiment, which, believe it or not, is not seen as simply a matter of a terrible coach being hired and fired in three years by the Black community. Nor is Austin a shangri-la destination for a young Black athlete -- it's a big city, and so strange to rural East Texas kids. It's extremely White and getting Whiter by any metric -- percentage, real numbers, whatever. And then we old redasses dig in about this damn song. I can guarantee y'all that almost none of you have as long a family relationship with the University as i do. it began ten years before this song even existed. And I love the song. i sang it to my children in the crib the way my parents and grandparents sang it to me. And you know what -- that can continue, even if its never played in a football stadium ever again. What we are doing with this song right now is...we are choosing to be Ole Miss with Ole Man Rebel instead of Alabama. Do you think we win a single Black recruit because of the singing of the Eyes? Now, can you imagine how it could conceivably, theoretically, maybe just possibly be used in negative recruiting against us? Yes aggy and Sul Ross what the fuck ever. I can't figure that shit out either. But fucking take the Eyes home with you. It has become a goddamn albatross.
  19. Cajun LA is not the worst part of LA. That would be the entire northern half.
  20. When are the mistresses and insurance policies coming on the scene? If there's one thing I've learned from millions of hours of true crime shows, it's always a mistress and an insurance policy.
  21. My parents were friends with Rodney Crowell, Guy, Townes, Steve Earle and that whole bunch arrived in Nashville over the course of a couple of years in the early and mid '70s. Coe came in there and at first they thought he was cool -- you know, except for Rodney, all of those guys were more or less middle class rebels, and here was this *authentic* ex-con who could play and write a little. They quickly found out that: A) he was not that talented as a writer and started to come across as a try-hard weirdo and B) worse, he was a song thief. Another of my parents' friends at that time was a Houston songwriter named Richard Dobson. Coe flat out stole his song "Piece of Wood and Steel." That was one of the best songs Dobson ever would write but it's credited to Coe and he had a hit with it on country radio. Dobson never had a hit under his own name but wrote a bunch of songs that ended up on more famous artists' albums. He co-wrote "Old Friends" with Guy...that's probably the one song most on these boards would know. anyway....for some reason Coe was not ballsy enough to swipe Townes's "If I Needed You" words and music both so he just stole the melody note-for-note for "his" song "Would You Lay With Me in a Field of Stone." IIRC that was a sizable hit both for him and later Tanya Tucker in one of her lil' jailbait anthems. Before my mom had everybody pissing on his album cover, that's what he was doing. He was hanging out at their all-night jams (believe it or not he's always been a mostly sober person) and stealing their tunes. so if you are ever wondering wtf Coe is doing in that movie Heartworn Highways with all those great songwriters, it's because the filmmaker caught them all right at that moment when they still thought Coe was cool.
  22. DeAndre McCullough, who played one of Brother Mouzon's bodyguards, also died of an overdose. He was one of the primary subjects of David Simon / Ed Burns's book The Corner, which was kind of one half of the research that went into The Wire. They embedded themselves with a family in West Baltimore and DeAndre was the oldest son, and over the course of that year first he started dealing and then using...no more spoilers. Anyway his mom Fran Boyd also had a bit part on The Wire and she wound up marrying one of the heavies who protected Omar in jail and on the outside...I forget that dude's name but he was "the real Omar." And he's dead too, but he was in his late 50s or 60s at least and I don't think he OD'd.
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