A choice for the well-sauced: Hal Mumme

What in the actual frick is going on here

If you want an innovative offense, go hire Brennan Marion from Pitt as the OC.

He runs something called the GoGo offense.

Mumme is a mummy at this point.

It’s time for bed Paw Paw

Mother of God.

Post is shite.

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What in the actual frick is going on here

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An old geezer reminisces about the coaching search / replacement at his nearby alma mater nearly 3 decades ago and asks fellow Coaching Change board viewers if they have any recollection of the said hiring/firing.

The aforesaid old geezer only makes a passing reference to the referenced coach as a potential candidate based upon the sheer lunacy of the notion.

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It’s time for bed Paw Paw

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Again, only because the OP is firmly anchored, I just wanted to respond, with all due humbleness and sincerity, that you can kindly GFY.

It was a goddamn question about a former Louisiana coach's hiring/firing. Yeah, I probably went overboard with the details, but how/why is a question about a prior Coaching Change in Louisiana worthy of all the animosity?

We figured out yesterday on tOT that my 5 decades is pretty damn close to the board's average age, so y'all remember HM as well as me. I figured someone may have an actual frigging answer or insight.

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I was wondering if any of you experts recall anything about the Mumme experiment at SELU

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I'm still having my own little anchor party back here. Kind of nice in all honesty.

Still frankly befuddled at how anyone could read that question--particularly when preceded by a litany of reasons HM was an awful, terrible coach--and reach the conclusion that Ole FCP was suggesting him as a hire.

I think my mistake was using a subject that was too pithy and mentioned the word "sauce." That, along with the last line's meager attempt at a joke, was apparently all that anyone read. And, frankly, upon giving it a period of reflection, I must now concede that I absolutely should have seen that possibility in the post's first pre-production meeting.

It actually presents a writing phenomenon that I've used to my benefit in the past. Fundamentally, most readers will skip over blocks of text and attempt to ascertain a writing's meaning by focusing on smaller amounts of text that they can easily digest. It's something that comes naturally with a reader's proficiency/skill, and electronic text makes the problem even more pronounced. Since folks will do that, it is possible to put something in writing right under their nose, and they will skim over it if they believe they are picking up the intended meaning from nearby sentences. It always amazed me what I could push right past fellow lawyers back in the day. Form letters were the best: Standard introduction, body, conclusion, and there was always a place to sneak in a waiver of service or some other nonsense, and they'd rarely catch it. The key is to utilize the wonkiest, most arcane vocabulary possible for the "hidden" message and then surround it with low-density, short words. And, no, that's not happening here. It was just an observation that I made upon reflecting that, in fact, I have studied the science of document production/layout, I've contributed to the research in that field, and the error I made was assuming the remainder of the world views writing through the same autistic lens that I use.

Obviously, that is not the case.

Still posting over here in the anchor.

24 hours later, and I'm still perplexed at how folks were not able to comprehend my question about HM's tenure at Slow Learners U.

I'll get over it. Regardless, what I do know is the following: Astros are straight arse tonight. FODB. #FODB.

And also, "Let's Go Brandon!"