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thank god the boomers have figured out how to solve our fan problems by giving the kids a blues clues game on their phone so they can pay more attention to the team going 3-9. the fan support is saved!

I learned when I woke up at 3p today that the game was at noon

On 11/3/2022 at 2:37 PM, nic said:

Newspapers were part of free speech back in the day.

This wasn't posted in this thread but figured it's worth highlighting anyways.

Newspapers have nothing to do with free speech and never have.

4 hours ago, corncraze said:

aTm had the #1 ranked recruiting class in the country last year. They are top 15 this year and will probably finish higher. With the talent they are pulling in, I’d be shocked if they finished outside of the top 10 in the next 2 years. 

Their classes from 2019-2021 were #4, #6 and #8, and they lost to Appalachain State and are 3-5. 

23 minutes ago, corncraze said:

Bama, Clemson and Ohio state aren’t regretting sparing no expense for their staffs… 

On the other hand, Texas A&M and Michigan State are.

2 hours ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

I also remember talk about some kind of threshold: you could come up with a lowball number for your new salary, but if you went really in-your-face lowball some kind of legal oversight kicked in. 

This is language from Mike Riley's contract:

"...within a reasonably brief period following termination, Coach shall use his or her best efforts to seek and secure substantially comparable employment including the customary and reasonable terms and conditions of compensation at the new employment, without structuring or timing compensation to avoid mitigation.”

re: us paying him less because of the panthers buyout

That just won't happen. It's begging for a lawsuit if you clearly aren't offering market rate for a job. 95% chance his contract had language preventing something like that built in, it's just something for radio guys to waste time talking about.

2 hours ago, Loebarth said:

Everyone stating MJ hasn't wowed you .. for Pete's sake... His job right now is to keep afloat a sinking ship and hold together a recruiting class that is potentially better than past years.

Yeah. And keeping a sinking ship afloat for a while doesn't wow me. No big deal.

3 minutes ago, sho said:

 

I don't think you understand how many players and recruits bailed during the Briles downfall.   Not sure I would say they had plenty of talent.  School had facilities, but a lot of funding was shifted to legal funds, not a lot left for the programs.   The program was in shambles, talks of shutting it down completely, had less than 10 recruits for the season, most of the players, if they had the talent, transferred.  It was a dumpster fire of epic proportions.   Navigating that, and being successful as quickly as they were, is a testament to how good of a coach Rhule is.

I'm not claiming Rhule isn't a great coach. He very well might be. I'm cautioning against attributing the turnaround solely to Matt Rhule being a miracle man, similar to UCF's turnaround not being only attributable to Scott Frost being a great coach. 

Bad coaches have great early turnaround success stories pretty often.

27 minutes ago, huskerpower22 said:

 

From one USA today article among many that crush this opinion. There was no winning culture there, in fact people wanted Baylor football to be eliminated during this time.

 

"Matt Rhule, the coach who cleaned up the toxic culture left by Briles and spent much of his first two years trying to fix the program’s public image. And while nobody will forget how badly the university failed young women who were raped and assaulted, Baylor has basically done what it needed to do with a new administration, new athletics personnel and a legitimate Title IX reporting structure..

 

But for a lot of people watching Saturday night, it will be difficult to get past the name Baylor. And perhaps that’s fair. Even though the school has seemingly taken the right steps since 2016, maybe it’s too soon to look at this merely as the story of an ascendant football team"

I'm talking about the psychology of winning football games. The rape scandal and toxic atmosphere in that regard is beyond appalling. I'm not commenting on that.

All I'm saying is that Rhule didn't inherit something even in the same universe as say a Bill Snyder or Lance Leipold type in terms of a losing culture - the school still had the resources, the taste of winning, and plenty of talent that had won big already.

4 minutes ago, huskerpower22 said:

 

This is completely inaccurate. There was not a winning infrastructure in place and the culture was awful. Wowza. 

They went 39-13 in the four years before he got there, with two conference championships and two NY6 bowls. 

1 hour ago, nic said:

It’s very interesting to me that people on the left (not necessarily you) are referring to this as free speech platform now. 

Anyone keeping a running tally of how many people don't seem to understand how quotation marks work? 

This is quality self-own comedy. 

Rhule's success at Baylor should be looked at, at least a little bit, similarly to Frost's success at UCF. Yes, the rapegate fallout was a real thing and what he did was impressive, but it should also not be given too much stock because that program had a winning infrastructure and culture in place - he did not have to build it from the ground up. 

He's got a lot of pros and he's got a good amount of cons as well. I'm pretty agnostic about him as a candidate but I really trust Trev.

4 hours ago, NM11046 said:

Love how you think calling her a "bartender" takes away from the fact that she went to Boston College where the average GPA to get in is 3.9 and she graduated with both Economics and International Relations degrees cum laude.  Then she was elected by a group of gritty, no bs New Yorkers to a seat in the house at age 29.

 

If you don't like someones policy positions that's fair.  But it's a huge sign of your allegiance and admiration of the former guy that you think the best way to speak about a someone you disagree with it to try to belittle them and call them names.  

 

That $hit says far more about the poster/accuser than the person they're focused on.

The funniest part is the namecalling of bartender followed up by...

not knowing how quotation marks work

4 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

AOC thinks that it’s infringing on free speech for Elon to charge $8 for a blue check.

No, she doesn't. She's mocking the folks (like Musk and many of his fanboys) who routinely have a poor comprehension of what free speech is. 

2 hours ago, Born N Bled Red said:

1) I don't see a single coach with a proven track record of success and the ability to pull in great recruits available.

who. the. f***. cares?

Ignoring this year's too-early-to-tell hires (Riley and Kelly), in the last three years there have been exactly three proven experienced sure thing coaching hires who were hired and then succeeded. Saban, Meyer, Harbaugh. That's it. Everyone else was either a gamble that worked or didn't, or a perceived non-gamble that didn't.

Jimbo Fisher has a proven track record of success and recruiting powerhouse. You want him? 

Rich Rod had a proven track record of success and was making huge recruiting splashes at Michigan. You want him? 

Les Miles had those qualities when he was hired at Kansas. You want him? 

Now here's a list of just a few of the non-proven/gamble hires...

Lincoln Riley

Ryan Day

Dabo Swinney

Kirby Smart

Lane Kiffen

Josh Huepel

Dan Lanning

Sonny Dykes

Mike Gundy

Bob Stoops

Chris Klein

Finally someone found a single actual legitimate example. 

I don't know anything about Tlaib, honestly in my head was only thinking of Omar, but yeah that's a condemnable statement.

1 hour ago, Archy1221 said:

Please explain how free speech is going to cost $8 per month subscription?  Can’t wait to hear the pretzel logic on this one.  

Please explain how you are unable to intuit that AOC using quotation marks around "free speech" is in reference to a faulty definition of free speech used by folks like Musk.

I'll try to give you a critical thinking problem using different nouns in the same format and see if you can get it:

lmao at an activist news channel earnestly trying to sell people on the idea that “fair and balanced” is actually right-wing ideological outrage porn

4 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

The bartender weighs in on free speech.  Me thinks she doesn’t understand this concept.  
 

 

It's you that doesn't understand the tweet.

2 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

I'm not a fan of Omar.  But, reading this, I don't see what she said that was horrible.  Can you explain?

It's been two days and there have been plenty of requests for evidence from the people claiming they're anti-semitic. Those people have also been plenty active in other threads. 

Feels like we'll be waiting a while.

Whip's performance on Saturday was very akin to Bill Callahan trying to throw with Beau Davis against TT in '04, or throwing 50 times when we had four great runningbacks in 0 degree weather against OU in '06.

On 10/28/2022 at 3:41 PM, nic said:

I remember when my daughter was younger, maybe 5 or 6, and wanted to go as Moana on Halloween. Around that time, people started posting about avoiding Halloween costumes that could be considered cultural appropriation. (I had to look up what that even meant)  At the same time, a friend of my wife had commented how wonderful it was that little girls admired the Moana character because it was a great story that empowered women. We let our little girl dress as Moana despite being Polynesian. At the Halloween event, she befriended a little black girl dressed as Wonder Women and a Hispanic girl dressed as Elsa from frozen while in line waiting for an event. I thought that was awesome and took a picture. 

 

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has a webpage dedicated to "Halloween cultural awareness" which states that students should avoid "racist, crude, or culturally insensitive" costumes.

"When somebody adopts aspects of a culture that’s not their own, it is often viewed as disrespectful when cultural elements are copied from a marginalized culture by members of the dominant culture and used outside of their cultural context," the webpage states.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison said even pop star Katy Perry is guilty of cultural appropriation as "several" of her music videos appropriate other cultures and use "stereotyped costumes." UW-Madison did not specify which music videos culturally appropriate, however. 

 

I remember when I was 5 or 6 and I realized that the rules and recommendations for adults and for little kids are different.

41 minutes ago, Red Silk Smoking Jacket said:

Little late there brah. Asked and answered.

Didn't figure I was late since you never actually acknowledged that your assumption was a baseless one.

6 hours ago, Red Silk Smoking Jacket said:

 

So, just so we're clear, you think Mickey has more experience at running a successful program as a head coach than Deion?

Nobody made that claim chief. 

4 hours ago, B.B. Hemingway said:

So, covert racism doesn’t apply when it’s the other way around? Noted.

You just agreed and affirmed that being anti-semitic and being critical of the nation of Israel aren't the same thing.

@funhusker tried finding examples of being anti-semitic and has so far only found examples of being critical of the nation of Israel. I also just spent some time looking for examples of the former and only finding examples of the latter. 

So I and others are curious what is leading you to attribute statements seemingly related to the nation state to instead be secretly referring to Jewish people in a racist way?