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Park Gothic

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  1. It doesn't help that in Surly's standard font the capital "I" and lowercase "l" look identical. One of the few situations where a serif font is useful.
  2. I think he was saying "Al" as in short for Alfred, not "AI" as in artificial intelligence. Which I assume is a reference to @Al_4_ISU, who does make some good points. But perhaps I've misunderstood.
  3. Brennan Marion hoovered them all up. I guess they like his brand of bullshit. He does run a fun offense, though. Without commenting on any of the political elements (or even whether they are political), his description of the golf cart rednecks fits my personal experiences at Crystal Beach to the letter. I could instantly visualize what he was talking about, having seen it many times.
  4. Prolix, but usually worth the time
  5. I'm beginning to think there's an undercurrent to this conversation that originally went over my head.
  6. Teach a man how to fish yada yada yada
  7. JFC Codaxx, you have to open the image in a new tab and copy/paste the URL into your comment. That way this: https://media.tenor.com/gJzBjWlzPVcAAAAj/still-going-energizer-bunny.gif Gets displayed as this:
  8. I love that this is an "argument" entirely manufactured by talking heads who have nothing to do with Texas. Just top-tier clickfarming by masters of the art. And fucking morons nationwide will eat it up because it feeds their need to feel outraged and vindicated in their outrage. Cowherd can kick rocks but I used to respect Russo.
  9. I honestly appreciate CTJ playing the part of the heel. It has been a fun dynamic on the board. And while I understand it's largely a joke, I am really going to enjoy everyone crowing at him whenever Livingstone does anything of note.
  10. The Casis library had a shocking amount of Stephen King available for gradeschool children.
  11. That's awful and I'm sorry, but your explanation of how you reacted to the situation is hilarious. It reminds me of a buddy I had in college, whose parents split up when he was about 10. His dad was a huge asshole and an egomaniac. I met the man several times - he was fun, he liked to party, and he paid for everything, but he was a massive dickhead. As a 20 year old, he kicked me out of his house one time for wearing a Pink Floyd shirt. I wouldn't take it off so he said go sleep in your car. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anyway, my buddy told us that back when his parents were married, his mom and dad would have these massive fights. His mom was a really pleasant woman but she wasn't a pushover. The boys all idolized their dad but felt like they had to defend their mom. Anyway, they are driving to church and the dad is fired up about something. He's screaming at the mom, screaming at his sons, telling them how they make him miserable. Finally he tells his wife to pull the car over and that he's walking back to their house. As he's leaving he looks in the car and shouts "YOU'RE ALL ASSHOLES AND I CAN PROVE IT!" If that happened to me at 10, I would be bawling. It would be a core memory. But my buddy was so used to it that he just looked at his mom and asked "How is he going to prove we're assholes?" It's just amazing to me how unphased COD are about shit.
  12. Nice clips, but my enthusiasm was damped a bit when I saw the quote in the tweet is from Finebaum. The dwarves were cool. The witch was creepy. There's the ever-present threat of murder. I can kinda get it.
  13. Couldn't he? The only inarguable fact about Ewers' tenure is that the team made the semifinals twice with him under center. That the team won the Big 12 and made the SEC championship game. Those are good results for a team that went 5-7 and lost to Kansas before Ewers showed up. And I'm not saying that Ewers is the only (or even main) reason those things happened, or that he deserves credit for those outcomes. I'm saying that it's inarguable that those things happened because they did happen as a matter of fact. However good or bad Ewers was, those results were achieved with him as QB and Sark calling plays. If one's position is that Ewers was bad, then Sark must be an insane playcaller to have gotten what we did out of that offense. All the NFL talent at WR and OL doesn't matter if the QB can't do his job. And if the point is that Sark couldn't coach around those flaws in the sense that it limited our ceiling to "just" making the CFP semifinals, then we're back to where we started. There is no counterfactual where we can prove that Sark made the wrong call or the right one. Because the question isn't how good was Ewers in an objective sense, but whether Ewers was a better choice than Manning (and I guess Trey Owens). Even with all his flaws (that you've listed out and that I'm accepting as true), if Ewers gave us a better chance to win, then Sark made the right decision and called the best plays he could given who he had at QB. Perhaps I should have said that having a different opinion doesn't necessarily mean the other person is malicious, arbitrary, or stupid. This thread is pretty good evidence that many people with different opinions are, in fact, unreasonable shitheads.
  14. I understand not having your mouthguard in sometimes. Even most of the time. That shit gets annoying when you are winded. But why does he have two mouthguards? Why is one attached to his mask and tangling while he actually has another in his mouth? Is the one on his facemask a backup? Or is it just to look cool?
  15. Hell yeah, that's what I love to hear.
  16. He also has us beating UGA and the axis of evil. I think we're going 12-0, but if we have to lose an SEC game I would rather it be Florida than any other team on our schedule. My eyes tell me that @DigglerontheHoof is right but man, do you make a compelling argument. It's interesting to see those numbers laid out. As an aside, do you find PFF reliable? I know they're good for the NFL, but I've always heard that their CFB analysis is somewhat superficial / lacking.
  17. I'm agnostic on whether I personally think Manning should have replaced Ewers. I can see reasonable arguments for and against. What I am not agnostic on is whether or not I think Sark is in a better position to make that decision than I am (or anyone else on this thread). He knows more about football than we do, he knows more about the players than we do, he knows more about the locker room than we do. He's not under any meaningful outside pressure to make a decision that is detrimental to the team as a whole. Sark isn't perfect, but I think he's at least earned a little trust in how he manages his roster and his team culture. We can speculate all day about why Sark stuck with Ewers, but we won't know. It could be misplaced loyalty or concern about Sark's image as a QB developer, and I can't definitely say it isn't, but it could be a million other real and substantive concerns indicating that Ewers was the better choice. And there's no counterfactual for us to use in order to prove the issue one way or the other - we can't go back in time, have Sark start Manning, then compare how the season went. To be clear, I'm happy to speculate and I'm happy to talk about Ewers' level of play. But the conversation loses all value when you become dug in to a position and are unwilling to keep in mind what I've just said - we can't know one way or the other what the right choice was, and that reasonable people can have different opinions. Having a different opinion doesn't make the other person malicious, arbitrary, or stupid. For my bit of speculation, I also am surprised at how few people have mentioned a very basic reason that Sark may have gone with Ewers - coaches play the players they trust, and people tend to trust someone they know well. In other words, not only is Ewers more experienced than Manning, but Sark is has more experience with Ewers. As I've noted several times, Ewers has his flaws but Sark knows those flaws. He can coach around them. That's not just a Sark thing, that's most coaches. Saban going to Tua over Hurts is so remarkable because it was so unusual. I'm just never surprised when a coach goes with a veteran. There usually has to be a compelling reason to switch to the younger guy.
  18. You're arguing with a brick wall and you will get nothing of value out of the conversation. That dude has some friends on this site and I'm glad they all enjoy talking to each other, but there will be no upside for you talking to him on this thread. Him and a few others are absolutely myopic on this issue. To be clear, there are people in the pro-Quinn group who are equally myopic, but they don't drop this "woe is me" self pitying bullshit all over the thread. Quinn was a good QB. He had many flaws. Most of us appreciate what he did for the program while acknowledging his limitations. Anyone judging Sark's decisions about who should start at QB is doing so with imperfect information, even if we have the benefit of hindsight. I also don't think Ewers' performance as a rookie in a preseason game - for the fucking Dolphins - means as much about him as a player as people on this board seem to think. Either way, the binary thinking that many people seem to apply to this topic is useless. Football doesn't work like that. This topic is cooked. I keep coming back only to satisfy my morbid curiosity and because I enjoy watching some of y'all hoot at each other like retards. But don't come to this thread hoping for productive conversation.
  19. For me, I tend to focus on what's going well. When we suck on the field but are still getting recruiting wins, I focus a lot more on recruiting. When we're winning, I pay less attention to who we pick up from high school. Both are obviously important, I'm just talking about where my focus goes personally and why. Recruiting is great, but the games are everything. These are the kinds of comparisons I don't like. I know Russo is trying to give us a compliment, but we are not the new Alabama. We're Texas. Manjack and Golden were killing our DBs. It was so weird how that game turned on a dime. We were killing Houston right until we weren't. Holgerson is a sloppy asshole, but the man can call plays.
  20. For everyone heading up to Columbus, this is the type of people you'll be hanging with: 12-year-old girl struck by sex toy thrown at WNBA game in Brooklyn; suspect sought by NYPD The NYPD on Friday released a photo and a short video clip of a man wearing a "Beavis and Butt-Head" T-shirt and an Ohio State cap at the New York Liberty-Dallas Wings game last week at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/12-year-old-girl-struck-sex-toy-thrown-wnba-game-brooklyn-suspect-soug-rcna224292
  21. It has to be intentional, right? I just cannot fathom that statement being made unironically.
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