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The problem is that when you talk about frugality you get labeled as out of touch and a stupid Boomer (and I am not even a Boomer).

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People are underwater because of the cost of education, insurance, and housing along with declining wages.

It's fine to talk about frugality but it seems like it inevitably leads to unserious people derailing the thread with arguments about how the path to economic security is buying Walmart brand coffee and cancelling Netflix. That's like a 400 pound person taking the stairs instead of the elevator and changing nothing else and expecting to lose 250 pounds in a year. Not only does the math not add up, it's so far off it almost doesn't even matter.

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I'm sure it was. There's been a lot of weirdness with this entire era of LSU football. If the reports are true though, and Kelly was bringing in top 10 high school classes and a #1 portal class without trying, then it only shows how desirable LSU really is.

Much greater risk. Drinkwitz is in his 7th season as a HC, 6th at the P5 level, has an obvious upward trajectory at Missouri where he's going for his third straight 10+ win season at a second-tier school in the SEC. Drinkwitz has proven that he's at least a good coach.

Dillingham is only in his third season as a HC with one awful season, one good season (so far), and one great season where he rode Cam Skattebo to the playoffs in a weak conference. It's much more of a coin flip with that resumé.

Daboll has been a disaster as a HC. No two ways about it. He and Kafka have been playing hot-potato with the play-calling for like two seasons now to no effect. At no point during his tenure has the offensive line been even somewhat serviceable. Drove Martindale out to get "his guy" in at DC and the defense immediately went from meh to horrendous. Special teams are a dumpster fire. Jones got out of there, immediately started taking shots at Daboll, and then backed it up by playing far better in year one with the Colts than he ever did under the "QB whisperer." Have started each of the last three seasons looking like the entire team met each other for the first time 30 minutes before kickoff. The Cowboys and Broncos games this year are textbook examples of a badly led, badly coached team finding ways to lose.

Maybe he's a good OC and he admittedly has not been given a lot of talent to work with but the Giants are 11-33 since the 2022 season. No aspect of the team other than their rookie QB is currently functioning at even a competent level.

Says the billionaire from New York with a bachelor's in philosophy who's running a multi-billion dollar tech company solely because of the connections he gained by attending Stanford law school.

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Kelly made the BCS national championship along with the 4-team CFP twice, neither of which Freeman would have accomplished so far. Freeman also got handled in the national championship last year by an Ohio State team that would not have kept it within 3 scores of 2012 Alabama, 2018 Clemson, or 2020 Alabama.

Notre Dame is objectively not doing better than they were with Kelly.