Ketch's 10 Thoughts From the Weekend
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Yes, sir. I deserved to be banished for violating Article I of the man card code. The shame is unbearable.
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Hmmm...
Was it stout vs. BYU? Or Iowa State? Or TCU?
There were too many non-stout performances mixed in there for me to call it stout.
Thanks Geoff. I was confident y'all hadn't noticed it. Takes a sick person to post that.
I'm not sure I'd agree that
Pacino I > Pacino II
Two different transitions. Michael changes in both movies. Both are remarkable performances. That final closing shot of Michael in Part II - those black, lost, dead eyes, just get me every time I see it.
I'll concede Brando being more memorable as Don Vito.
I dunno. The evolution that takes place in the first film is his best work, slightly over II.
I think they're too different to judge one better than the other, though Part I has more obvious changes and turning points, but the subtleties at work in Part II are no less impressive in my view. I can't really choose one over the other. Both are indispensable. Two incredible performances. Two incredible films.
Good points, Craben.
Prior to realignment, the conferences were fairly equitable in strength and money...you could argue UT could do fine in any of them. The difference now is the SEC and B1G strengthened their conferences, are generating the best tv ratings, and are starting to pull away from the other P5's monetarily and in getting the best time slots on the best networks.
UT had all of the power to influence what happened in 2010, and as you said, leveraged that to get the LHN (which has frankly been a dud). In 2025, UT won't have that kind of leverage and will have to adjust its expectations on what it can do. I doubt the B1G, SEC or ACC will allow any other Texas schools to join, whereas the PAC could allow it.
I see this as the biggest decision our brass will have to decide...do we join the best 2 conferences (B1G or SEC) with perhaps OU, do we go ACC alone (OU won't go to the ACC), or do we try to keep some buddies with us (Texoma to PAC). The LHN allowed the brass to avoid that decision in 2010...hopefully we'll have some leaders with brass balls in 2025 so we can finally join a conference full of strong, nationally regarded, like-minded institutions.
As someone that been around soccer all my life as a player, coach, executive and employee of US Soccer, there is nothing wrong with Ketchum's soccer rants. It's not like he is trying to speak from a former player's POV. I appreciate that he has embraced the sport and encourages discussion on this board!
Cmon man. The Baylor game was almost as bad as Manny's BYU game.
Baylor was running a version of the highly inventive 1908 "hike it to the running back" offense.
And we really had no answer.
And worse yet, didn't even try anything.
When you get more complaints about your soccer insights than you do the picture of half naked Yankees, something has gone terribly wrong.
I'm glad that nobody took the bait on the half naked Yankees. Who wants to talk about that?
