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Observations from today's Alabama-Tennessee game (and the SEC):
Posted by iglass on 10/17/26 at 6:17 pm
1. Kudos to Tennessee. They clearly wanted the win more than Alabama and played like it.
2. Alabama is young. It really showed on the offensive and defensive lines. Tennessee manhandled us all day long.
3. With that in mind, one of the keys to wins in the SEC this year is to find the other team's youth and bring pressure. And then some more pressure on top of that. For some reason, we inexplicably never did this with TN's QB the way they attacked us at the line of scrimmage.
4. Granted, he was under a lot of pressure, but Russell never really threw down the field. Except for that last INT. We MUST mix it up more in order to have a chance to win.
5. The lack of quality in the SEC officiating is plainly evident. I saw this on both side, both in pettiness and obviously missed calls. Of course, as a Bama fan, the worst two to me were the missed facemask and the 1st qtr failure to call offsides when the TN left defensive end lined up with his entire head across the line of scrimmage. But, it was bad on both sides.
6. There is simply so much parity in the SEC this year. Almost any team can win on any given Saturday. With the possible exception of Arkansas.
Enjoy your cigars, Vols. You earned it.
2. Alabama is young. It really showed on the offensive and defensive lines. Tennessee manhandled us all day long.
3. With that in mind, one of the keys to wins in the SEC this year is to find the other team's youth and bring pressure. And then some more pressure on top of that. For some reason, we inexplicably never did this with TN's QB the way they attacked us at the line of scrimmage.
4. Granted, he was under a lot of pressure, but Russell never really threw down the field. Except for that last INT. We MUST mix it up more in order to have a chance to win.
5. The lack of quality in the SEC officiating is plainly evident. I saw this on both side, both in pettiness and obviously missed calls. Of course, as a Bama fan, the worst two to me were the missed facemask and the 1st qtr failure to call offsides when the TN left defensive end lined up with his entire head across the line of scrimmage. But, it was bad on both sides.
6. There is simply so much parity in the SEC this year. Almost any team can win on any given Saturday. With the possible exception of Arkansas.
Enjoy your cigars, Vols. You earned it.
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re: What would a truly class segregated society look like?
Posted by iglass on 10/7/26 at 3:59 pm to theliontamer
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What would a truly class segregated society look like?
re: What is a NAME that sounds ugly but you love it? -From Fiction
Posted by iglass on 9/20/26 at 2:07 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
re: Legit WYHI: Big Holly Rowe
Posted by iglass on 9/20/26 at 1:51 pm to Allthatfades
I had a short conversation with her on the sideline one game. It was during a timeout during a very slow part of the game.
Maybe she was preoccupied. Maybe she was thinking about potential questions. All I can say is that I was not impressed with her personality. It was a combination of superiority and arrogance.
Maybe she is a different person today. But still, my answer would be an absolute NO.
Maybe she was preoccupied. Maybe she was thinking about potential questions. All I can say is that I was not impressed with her personality. It was a combination of superiority and arrogance.
Maybe she is a different person today. But still, my answer would be an absolute NO.
Mama's decisions will trump Dad's decisions 95% of the time. Unless Dad become mad furious for some reason. Then all bets are off.
Because rule #1 is "got to keep mama happy", with the corollary "if Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy". I learned that from my parents even before "life ain't fair".
Because rule #1 is "got to keep mama happy", with the corollary "if Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy". I learned that from my parents even before "life ain't fair".
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Cops could have used a lot more discretion, empathy and kindness in this situation, IMO.
Yeah, right up until the point where she went and smacked one.
re: What’s the smartest financial decision you’ve ever made?
Posted by iglass on 8/5/26 at 6:58 am to FlyingTigerBo
Smartest decision: Bought $10k worth of Apple stock in 2007, a few months before the iPhone came out.
Dumbest decision: When it reached $20k value, I sold half of it for dollar cost averaging.
Smartest decision part II: Some time later, I sold $140k worth of Apple stock because they pissed me off for some reason, and bought Google. They pissed me off for some reason and sold it, bought Amazon. They pissed me off for some reason and sold it, bought Costco and Dollar General. Rinse and repeat.
Now, I have had some dogs along the way but have actually done well overall with individual stocks versus mutual funds.
Dumbest decision: When it reached $20k value, I sold half of it for dollar cost averaging.
Smartest decision part II: Some time later, I sold $140k worth of Apple stock because they pissed me off for some reason, and bought Google. They pissed me off for some reason and sold it, bought Amazon. They pissed me off for some reason and sold it, bought Costco and Dollar General. Rinse and repeat.
Now, I have had some dogs along the way but have actually done well overall with individual stocks versus mutual funds.
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Pitbulls are like Muslims Comedy Routine
I love Arynne Wexler. Spot on!
(And obviously, a great set of legs.)
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Do they serve coffee at these imaginary meetings?
"Dammit, the intern forgot to stop by Krispy Kreme again!"
There should be a doggy style joke in here somewhere.
Just sayin'.
Just sayin'.
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What a time to be alive
You might even say...
re: Comprehending The Incomprehensible
Posted by iglass on 7/31/26 at 6:35 am to NotoriousFSU
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Suppose a single cell moves at 10 micrometers per second.
My sperm cells travel MUCH faster than that.
Allegedly.
re: Icebergs doing flips in Greenland
Posted by iglass on 7/31/26 at 6:18 am to redstick13
My first thought was... "That must be some kind of deep water VERY close to the shore".
Sounds like a bad Fetzer valve.
re: Will Alabama have more than 4 losses this year?
Posted by iglass on 7/11/26 at 7:55 pm to BigAL Golesh
Will you have more than 4 decent posts this year?
:wha:
:wha:
re: Favorite SEC football coach you have met
Posted by iglass on 7/7/26 at 1:46 am to TigerTiger12914
SEC Football coaches:
Gene Stallings - was an incredibly nice guy. Just as warm and as personable a person as you could ever meet. I met him at a charity event where I was the event photographer. A couple with an autistic child was introduced to him and Gene made that kid the center of his universe for a few minutes despite all the schedule pressure and other people around him.
Nick Saban - a lot more personable than you might think. Out of football season, that is. A lot of people who think he is a jerk don't realize that when he is in that mode, he is just all focused 100% on football with not much time for friendship building.
Pat Dye - congenial but something made my spine crawl about the guy. Yeah. I know, "Auburn!" but that's really not it at all, I have met other Auburn coaches I liked (see below). Something just set my spidey-sense off for some reason. I kept the conversation as short as I politely could.
Houston Nutt - exchanged a hello with him in Fayetteville one year- but not much beyond that. Seemed like a player's coach just listening to him, though.
A bit off topic but sort of related:
Wimp Sanderson - nice enough but that was a long time ago.
Dale Brown - Also a long time ago but I just remember that he was cutting up with Joe Dean courtside during warmups at the time and it was non-stop fun and laughter. Super friendly to me as was Joe Dean. I think Joe was tickled when I told him I loved the old TVS broadcasts of SEC basketball.
Joe B. Hall - was cussing like a sailor on the elevator ride I shared with him one year at the SEC tournament.
Sonny Smith - very friendly to a young kid (me) who had no shot whatsoever at playing basketball. I really liked the guy.
Mark Gottfried - meh. Didn't seem to have much personality to me. I actually met his ex-wife several times before they married, she was a tutor to some guys in the dorm I lived in. She was a smokeshow back then and his model daughter took after her mom, thankfully.
Final off-topic:
Had a 30 minute conversation with Bart Starr once. Much like Gene Stallings, just a kind and wonderful man. Could not have been any nicer to me and shared his time, all in a circumstance where the crowd we were in was getting highly frustrated. One of my prouder "coaching photos" I have ever had taken. The planet is a worse place for his leaving us.
Gene Stallings - was an incredibly nice guy. Just as warm and as personable a person as you could ever meet. I met him at a charity event where I was the event photographer. A couple with an autistic child was introduced to him and Gene made that kid the center of his universe for a few minutes despite all the schedule pressure and other people around him.
Nick Saban - a lot more personable than you might think. Out of football season, that is. A lot of people who think he is a jerk don't realize that when he is in that mode, he is just all focused 100% on football with not much time for friendship building.
Pat Dye - congenial but something made my spine crawl about the guy. Yeah. I know, "Auburn!" but that's really not it at all, I have met other Auburn coaches I liked (see below). Something just set my spidey-sense off for some reason. I kept the conversation as short as I politely could.
Houston Nutt - exchanged a hello with him in Fayetteville one year- but not much beyond that. Seemed like a player's coach just listening to him, though.
A bit off topic but sort of related:
Wimp Sanderson - nice enough but that was a long time ago.
Dale Brown - Also a long time ago but I just remember that he was cutting up with Joe Dean courtside during warmups at the time and it was non-stop fun and laughter. Super friendly to me as was Joe Dean. I think Joe was tickled when I told him I loved the old TVS broadcasts of SEC basketball.
Joe B. Hall - was cussing like a sailor on the elevator ride I shared with him one year at the SEC tournament.
Sonny Smith - very friendly to a young kid (me) who had no shot whatsoever at playing basketball. I really liked the guy.
Mark Gottfried - meh. Didn't seem to have much personality to me. I actually met his ex-wife several times before they married, she was a tutor to some guys in the dorm I lived in. She was a smokeshow back then and his model daughter took after her mom, thankfully.
Final off-topic:
Had a 30 minute conversation with Bart Starr once. Much like Gene Stallings, just a kind and wonderful man. Could not have been any nicer to me and shared his time, all in a circumstance where the crowd we were in was getting highly frustrated. One of my prouder "coaching photos" I have ever had taken. The planet is a worse place for his leaving us.
re: 2010 Bama vs 2007 Florida.. Who wins?
Posted by iglass on 7/5/26 at 4:07 pm to LSU Patrick
I just ran the Monte Carlo simulation 10 times at WhatIfSports. Bama won 7 out of 10 games. All with the same conditions. Only three or four were even close.
Note that you can set home/away teams, weather, style of play, etc and the results can come out dramatically different. It is interesting to run a few scenarios. Your runs may turn out totally different than mine.
Note that you can set home/away teams, weather, style of play, etc and the results can come out dramatically different. It is interesting to run a few scenarios. Your runs may turn out totally different than mine.
re: 2010 Bama vs 2007 Florida.. Who wins?
Posted by iglass on 7/5/26 at 3:52 pm to cajuntiger1010
That's easy enough to do over at WhatIfSports. Neutral field, warm conditions:
re: Chips are down: Is there a fired coach you once hated but look back more fondly now?
Posted by iglass on 7/3/26 at 9:45 am to LSU713Tiger
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LSU713Tiger
LOL, no... but they COULD'VE been. You can just HEAR him saying that stuff in your head, amirite? :lol:
re: July 2, 1977: Oakland, CA: Free Bird
Posted by iglass on 7/2/26 at 8:11 pm to Darth_Vader
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IMO, this was the single greatest live musical performance in the history of mankind. Keep in mind what you hear in that video comes from nothing more than musical instruments, microphones, amplifiers, and pure God-given musical talent.
It's an absolute shame that Collins is never mentioned among the great guitarists... despite being able to see this video. I also like the fact that his guitar used in that video is one of only a handful ever made in the combination of that style and wood. That particular guitar should be worth millions today.
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