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Football game either beating some small town ms private school or getting our brains beat in by the big schools in Jackson (prep,ja) then a party at one of my friends family’s hunting camps or barns. If I was staying at my house I’d come early around 11 or so but sometimes I’d spend the night with a friend whose parents didn’t care what time we came home

In regards to OP I think he’s properly rated. Good, not great but would’ve been interesting to see him lead a force with a well oiled logistical train behind him.

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Why though? The baseball coach he hired did seem like a good one the first 3 years or so, and won a National Championship. Leach was a good hire.

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Lemonis fell in his lap. He touted hiring a top 5 coach in the game and fumbled the bag with a couple big names then McDonnell at Louisville told him to hire his buddy Lemonis. I will give Cohen and Cannizzaro credit for building that roster. That program was tailor made to win big immediately and Lemonis couldn’t really screw it up. He did make some good moves during our natty run then the wheels fell off once he started recruiting his own players and building his culture. He was fired last year

There’s a lot of context and nuance with the Leach hire. Yes, he is a great coach and everyone loves him but that program and our talent profile were about to plummet even if he doesn’t tragically pass away. Leach was not built for this era of college football. He despised recruiting and NIL. I’m not placing all the blame of our bad football team the last few years on Leach by any means as it can be shared plenty but there is a reason we had one of the least talented rosters in power 5 the couple years after he passed. Cohen also hired Joe Moorehead who was gifted a top 3 defense in CFB and proceeded to go 8-4/7-5 with some horrific losses.

The number 1 issue Cohen had though is fundraising. He completely set us behind everyone with how he initially handled NIL. Our AD now has raised triple if not quadruple the amount of NIL funds that Cohen did and at least has us somewhat competitive in that space. That’s one of Zac Selmons strong points is connecting with the donor base and raising money. At a school like Mississippi State that is of utmost importance and Cohen was awful at that

There’s other small things Cohen did like the hump renovation that angered people. Not too mention his wife was pushing the university to embrace all the trans/LGBQ stuff and they basically told her to F off.

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I'm a huge Lexus GX and LX fan. Formerly had a GX460 and Currently have the new LX. I love them both. But, if you need a third row to use regularly i would avoid them. The third row isn't great and you lose all your storage space when they're up.

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The new GX550 is a good looking SUV. Wish they would’ve put the 5.7 V8 in it but they are selling like crazy still

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What’s wrong with the new Sequoias?

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Toyota is surprisingly having some major issues with their new engine lineup across the board. I think the new sequoia engine has a couple of recalls already.

I’ll be in a similar boat later this year except my wife has a smaller SUV and we will need three rows with another kid on the way.

We really liked the Buick Enclave redesign but I’m weary of a 4 banger turbo engine

Grand highlander was also on the list but neither of us liked it on the test drive and it’s fairly pricey. I also do not believe new Toyotas are as reliable as the older models so I don’t like paying a Toyota premium when it’s not as bulletproof as older ones.

I would love to say f it and spend the money on a used LX570 or Land Cruiser with the V8 but my wife doesn’t like those. I dk what we will do but if you are wanting something bulletproof get a Lexus/toyota with the V8 (pre 2021) tbh you’re explorer should be fine for a few years if you’ve done regular maintenance like oil changes every 5-7k miles and it’s probably due for a transmission fluid change

Most anticipated opening day we’ve had in quite a while.

Heading over to dudy noble tomorrow afternoon! Hopefully the weather holds up

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I’m not sure we can compete with NIL now, we just can’t get the players.

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Money isn’t the problem. We are paying this current roster top 20-25 money in the country. Jans and staff just misevaluated. It’s sickening how much we paid Ballard and he is a terrible

Sending food may have been the most important one. Especially once Germany took their bread basket ie ukraine

An army runs on its stomach. Sure, the red army had the numbers but that’s a lot of mouths to feed and they wouldn’t have had the ability to do so if we aren’t supplying them.

Iirc the Soviet’s also had trouble producing the high octane fuel for their planes and we sent them a ton of that which freed their refineries up

The Russians had the numbers for sure but we supplied them to be able to use their numbers advantage to full effect

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Other vehicle is a 1998 Chevy z71 1500. It was my grandpa’s that I’ve had since he had a stroke in 2015. He passed away last year but it also still runs great and only has 115k miles on it. It’s primarily my hunting truck, but will drive it around every so often to keep the engine hot.

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Keep it forever. Great truck.

To answer OP no I do not have a 2nd vehicle but would love to one day. Preferably an SUV/Truck and then a nice fast car that’s fun to drive