Badge toting has-been. NA 216. Terminal degree was a function of will. Born in Hogtown. PKY lifer, Sewanee, Columbus State, Bammer. In that order.
Joined November 2012
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Every generation blames the one before. Nothing new under the sun. youtu.be/5hr64MxYpgk?is=K2zK…
There are a lot of great Boomers out there. But they didn't build this country into a superpower. They brought us the sexual revolution and the divorce epidemic and mass migration, and plunged the country into trillions of dollars of debt in the process. They will leave the country much poorer and less stable than it was when they inherited it. That's just a fact.
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I was a small college DL nearly five decades ago. Modern defenses are beyond me. Still, listening to UF coaches explain our pass coverage lapses for several weeks—lack of pressure, communication failures, bracketing lapses, not using known techniques, “it’s not just one guy” etc.—implies that whatever we are doing on the back end is too complicated. Either we can’t teach it or our players can’t learn it. These players were rated highly as recruits, so they likely have talent. I think we must simplify while rushing more than four. Risks? Sure. But what we are doing isn’t working and it is likely too late to force a scheme our team can’t run.
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Lots of folks don’t realize the origin is from the 1970s “Gators Got That Rama Jama” cheer. This is reggae, but it’s the only recording of it I could find. youtu.be/nKK8nA1Srh4?is=M0Y1…
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We all reach full emotional maturity at about age 14. After that some just can’t fake it as well as the rest of us.
Ten years ago, I committed an apparently unforgivable offense: I told my neighbor to stop throwing his grass clippings and tree debris into my yard.
A decade later, this grown man is still emotionally recovering.
Now whenever I do something on my own property, he apparently races for the phone like a hall monitor who just spotted someone chewing gum. Fire department. Water department. Whoever will listen.
His latest performance was claiming I was dumping “toxic chemicals” into the creek—serious enough to trigger a full response and investigation. They came out, investigated, and quickly discovered the toxic-chemical emergency existed primarily in his imagination.
Ten years of petty complaints because someone told you to keep your yard waste on your own property is genuinely impressive. At this point, I’m not living next to a neighbor—I’m living next to a middle-school tattletale with a property deed and a contact list. 🤡
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1997 FSU. Underdogs. Swapped QB’s each play. Mocked by FSU before the game. Mocked by them during the game. @JacquezGreen is behind the defense. Knocked them out of the national championship. Total storyline hasn’t been matched.
The Boy Scouts changed the required merit badges in the middle of my quest to attain Eagle. Some I had earned no longer counted and others were added. I had enough time to comply, but not everyone did. No griping. That’s just how it was.
Just my opinion, but I’m not sympathetic to this argument at all.
Sometimes you leave a company and your friends that stay behind get better benefits a year later. You don’t get to go back and get an extra 2% tacked onto your 401k.
The players got their chance to play college football and made enough out of it to garner NFL looks. Will those in favor of this move come back in a few years and rally in favor of extra years for the players who these 23 and 24 year old men steal snaps on tape from? Do those guys get a chance later? NONE of these fifth year guys should be playing, whether once on NFL rosters or not.
Rules change. Institutions adjust to the times. Sometimes you get a bad break. The so called advocates for these athletes are only setting them up for failure later.
And just so we’re clear, this same brand of thinking is why we are on the verge of a 24 team playoff that will cause a decrease in interest in the regular season. Nobody wants to say “you should have made more plays.” Or “you shouldn’t have lost that game”
Participation trophy culture has infected CFB from the highest levels down and we have nothing but a complete and total lack of leadership on many levels to blame for it.
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Reasonable doubt instructions typically distinguish between a reasonable doubt and concepts like a shadow of a doubt or any doubt. Seems more likely that a juror refusing to review that instruction is harboring unreasonable doubts.
Sounds like there is a single juror who has no doubt that Clancy is guilty of knowingly killing her children and is refusing to be bullied by the liberal progressive demented pink wearing women on the jury into saying she didn’t. If true, that juror is my hero.
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One change for sure—my lifetime refusal to boo a college football player. I still might not do it, but not because I think there’s anything wrong with it. Not anymore.
Here's the thing. When a sport becomes professionalized, the taxpayers start looking, rightfully so, at the value proposition. As will NARP students.
Why am I subsidizing pro sports?
Now taxpayers subsidize pro sports all the time. But they also sometimes choose not to.
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Collective bargaining sounds simple but how would the following difficulties be addressed, and how long would it take to resolve them?
1. Who is the employer?
2. Who represents which athletes, and how?
3. How are conflicting federal and state labor laws reconciled across governing jurisdictions?
History will not be kind to those who resisted collective bargaining as though it were the end of the world.
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Play along. The first thing to go is remembering what you told someone. The second thing to go is remembering what you didn’t do. The third thing to go is remembering what you told someone.
When a family member over 85 years old is telling you a story for the 28th time, should you say something or play along?
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