TheTastyGreek

If anyone who doesn't have the last name Jones loves that coach more than me, I've yet to meet them. And even I think that the only way Ross Hodge doesn't get this job next is if he decides for some reason to go be an assistant wherever McCasland ends up someday. And even then, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Andrew to get us some sort of Supreme Court exemption to the 13th amendment to keep Hodge from leaving with him, at least until he gets someone else established and up to speed as his first assistant.

Seems like a promising international import/export opportunity for an enterprising young man.

Details matter.

Hey, Monkeypox!

Richard is actually my favorite Marx. Maybe the band could re-work an uptempo version of Hold On To The Nights for game action?

Certainly feels historically significant.

Got any family in the mid-cities?

Any thoughts on gas prices you care to share? Outside links encouraged.

I just don't understand what it's going to take for some people to move on and get past the Kendal Briles stuff. For crying out loud, the guy had to spend years months weeks days hours absolutely no time outside of Division 1 football, and had to go work in another industry step back and volunteer start over from a lesser job keep working as an offensive coordinator and/or associate head coach ever since getting fired resigning leaving Baylor for another Division 1 job immediately. He apologized immediately apologized eventually reached out to the victims to try and take responsibility for institutional failures that included him spent a lot of time working with victimized women to better understand the gravity of what went wrong at Baylor did extensive training to confront his own flaws and biases so this would never happen again gave a half-assed obligatory apology through a PR statement went on social media months after Briles was fired to post a statement defending/denying/diminishing what happened at Baylor. I mean, hasn't he suffered enough? What more consequences must the man endure to earn forgiveness? What do you people want him to do, crawl over broken glass?

This is just one more bit of proof that we need a solid, experienced defensive coordinator to help this man out.

Damn, Cooley beat me to it. I don't think this guy is football Shanice. I'm sure he's fine. If it wasn't him, it would have been someone else. Wish him the best, hoping for the best in return.

This Kenny Perry news has me more disgusted than back when we hired Jeff Bower a few years ago, and Mark Mangino after that.

This is what happens when you open the door to paying administrators. Frankly, he ought to respect his commitment, show some gratitude for the school that gave him the opportunity, and be grateful for the education he got here.

When you get a free moving van to one of the two best states with "Virginia" in their name, you can't hesitate. Gotta lock it down.

Nobody respects a commitment anymore, and nobody wants to work through adversity. The transfer portal is killing college sports.

I got a downvote once. Years later, my therapist has a very nice lake house, but I'm no closer to feeling whole again.

If it's not Billy Gillispie, it damn well better be Rusty Greer.

We stopped doing that years ago. Even before the whole Kaepernick thing.

It once seemed we'd reach great new heights Through unlimited private jet flights Perhaps our organizational chart Should instead all depart With pitchforked escorts by torchlight

Wren Baker, it pains me to mention Once again can't resolve bad coach tension He can't help our institution With his standard solution: A multi-year head coach extension.

Our fans would alas and alack... "THE SUN BELT IS HOLDING US BACK!!!!1!1!!" But they're beating ranked teams And living our dreams While Littrell weekly stomps on our sacks.

Hey guys! Haven't posted in a while. But, read about an alarming trend and wanted to see if anyone else is a little concerned. Research from Universidade Santo Amaro shows a troubling trend in human transmission vectors for the potentially fatal Brazilian Spotted Fever. Obviously, it's a long way from Brazil to Texas. But, when a study finds serological and molecular evidence of widespread incidence, it's probably a good idea to stay informed and on guard. From ticks, to dogs, to humans... It's a pathway to potentially deadly illness that's as easy to visualize here as it is there. Mods, please feel free to move if there's any issue with discussion of São Paulo ticks.

Budget, mostly. National reputation allowing for non-conference scheduling on relatively equal footing with power conference schools, to a lesser extent. There used to be a site that defined mid-major very precisely, primarily by conference but with a handful of standout schools (Gonzaga, Memphis, etc.) that spent on basketball at or above the level of a power conference school. They called the annual basketball budget cutoff the "red line," and anyone below it was a mid-major according to their measure. Basically, if you're in the West Coast Conference and you're not Gonzaga, you're at a disadvantageous position in negotiating OOC games with power conference schools, and you're spending more like a CUSA school than like an ACC school. If you're Gonzaga, back in 2017 you spent triple what Saint Mary's spend on their basketball program, and in 2020 you spent more on your basketball team than any school in the Pac 12 other than UCLA. Those aren't meant to be cherry-picked figures, just the most recent years from which I could quickly find the numbers side by side. Saint Mary's best home non-conference game this year was Yale or Missouri State. They had one nice multi-team tournament in Hawaii, on a neutral court with Notre Dame, Oregon, and Wisconsin. Meanwhile, Gonzaga, because of sustained reputation and budget, had a legit home game with Texas, and another with Washington that was cancelled due to COVID issues. They played in four multi-team events, with games against ranked teams in Duke, Alabama, Texas Tech, and UCLA. Gonzaga and Saint Mary's are in the same conference, but they're not in the same league. If they spent like the rest of their conference, or went on a 4-5 year bad run that killed their ability to headline in-season tournaments and get home-and-homes with traditional basketball powerhouses? Gonzaga would be a mid-major.