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Tbh, more than once Saban's qb half-assery ended up with us being stuck with the worse option

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Going with Milroe in 2023 instead of just suffering the growing pains with Ty is the only time I can think of that Saban's reluctance to be decisive with the QB position early in the season probably cost us. Then it spilled over into DeBoer's first season and cost us again. He should have pulled the trigger on Tua over Jalen earlier than he did in 2017, but not in August. I can't think of another season where the obviously better option was on the bench though.

The Mormon cult is one of the most financially successful in history. They make Scientology look broke.

Very solid award. They did good.

The jury should light them up with punitives. Even if they had gotten the passenger's identity right they ran with that information for the sole purpose of impugning his reputation without any other information to suggest he was involved in or even had knowledge of anything.

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Basically, if people are stupid enough to listen to and fall for this bullshite then we were already cooked.

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I mean part of that plays into the persistent assault on public education from certain groups, but that's another discussion.

That said, a lot of those people get trapped in media ecosystems that mostly exist to use disinformation to reinforce the beliefs they already have. The tech bros have created the real world equivalent of a comic book villain's mass mind control device.

One of my more controversial opinions is that Ted Kaczynski was, from purely philosophical standpoint, on the right track, but just a few decades before his time. Industrialisation isn't what has damaged humanity. The digital revolution, and government's inability to respond to it appropriately, is what has damaged humanity. Social media gives the dumbest and least credible among us a far reaching platform from which they can shout down those who should be listened to. The owners of social media platforms literally control what you are exposed to. They intentionally design their platforms to be addictive to children. We have now seen the rise of "influencer" culture, which is goddamn awful in every conceivable way. Not to mention all this AI and surveillance bullshite being forced on us now. Our brains are not capable of handling this stuff. The change from existing in small, close knit hunter gatherer tribes to dwelling in towns and cities occurred over thousands of years. The change from existing in the community of your neighborhood, town, or city to being connected to a global network of people 24/7/365 occurred over a decade. Humanity needs to be less connected, and my hope is that we are rapidly approaching the modern equivalent of the backlash against industry in the early 20th century.

To who? None of the players on this roster have achieved anything. They don't deserve the benefit of the doubt based on the reputation of a program that no longer exists.

The rest of them were at least adequate pass protectors though. RT was just a turnstile unless Carroll was out there, in which case RG became the turnstile instead. We had 3-4 guys who could pass protect OK and maybe 1 who could run block. That's why they tried like 17 different combinations last year. As has been pointed out though, there is a distinct possibility that they don't get any better at run blocking and regress at pass protection due to inexperience.

Just one guesswork opinion, but I think a lot of the run blocking issue is just that our S&C program is great when it comes to presenting massive amounts of data in a positive way but fricking sucks at improving strength and conditioning. Ballou is basically a corporate VP of nothing whose primary skill is in making compelling power points that make his bosses think he's amazing.

Again, let's all say it together: Traeshawn Brown, Freshman All-American. Manifestation everyone.

The report I got from my REC sauce was similar, but far more critical of the OL and QBs, all of whom he described in....less than positive terms. He's a glass half empty kind of guy though.

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That's pretty much every successful program. If you don't have those 2 things you're not going to be successful, generally.

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Ohio State has won them recently with Will Howard and Cardale Jones. UGA with Stetson Bennett. Us with McElroy and McCarron + 95% of 2017 with Hurts. Michigan with JJ McCarthy (and some cheating). That's just the last not even 20 years. Dabo has been unable to create anything special with that tier of QB though. He has only really been able to make it work with a 1st round talent at QB.