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1 year 17 weeks ago	Thanks	Thanks for adding to the conversation and negging me.  Clearly I don't care, as I have more integrity than to capitulate in the face of idiocy.  Please go back to "f....ing hating people" and rooting for a baseball team that happily tore down its own legacy to make more dollar bills.
1 year 17 weeks ago	you say	You say that you hate people for expressing an opinion, and that is somehow supposed to be better than me stating I hated watching Sheridan throw rainbows.  I don't get that, but since you are a Yankee fan I guess you don't have to make sense. Napoleon said he would rather have a lucky general than a good one.  I would rather have a coach who can retain gifted athletes (whether it is his fault or not) than one who believes that Sheridan was the appropriate choice to start as QB. Rodriguez's failings were nobody's fault but his.
1 year 17 weeks ago	If	If you say it, it must be so.  Not sure why everyone here is on board with the historical revisionism (must be the influence of WLA).   As I remember it (from when I was a student at the time): Mallett and Carr were on the outs, Rodriguez came in, Mallett looked like he would give the new non-carr staff a shot.  Rodriguez proceeded to fire loeffler and make backhanded comments that made Mallett feel he was unwanted. Mallett was not retained.  Whether it was his fault or not, the CEO gets blamed for that.  RichRod could have done more to retain Mallett.  He did not.  Mallett left.   Because of this. we had to watch Sheridan and Threet for an entire year.  It was the worst year of my life.  For putting me through that, Rodriguez should have to spend the rest of his life in hill country. TTWNIDGAS
1 year 17 weeks ago	but but	Rodriguez was unable to convince Mallet that he would adapt his scheme to fit the personnel.  Hoke, apparently, was able to convince Denard of that same thing.  End of story.  The players believe, why don't you? While it is true that human coaches* are not fully in control of, and therefore not solely responsible for, players' decisions to stay or leave, but it is already clear to me that Hoke has been much better at sweet talking the current players - something that Rodriguez was not able to do.  This is the reason why articles will be written comparing Hoke's first year to Rodriguez's.   *unlike the great satan: Tressel
3 years 26 weeks ago	Into the Breach	Or, er... Unto it. Anyway, Henry V, Act 3, Scene 1: Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English. Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof! Fathers that, like so many Alexanders, Have in these parts from morn till even fought And sheathed their swords for lack of argument: Dishonour not your mothers; now attest That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you. Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot: Follow your spirit, and upon this charge Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!' Like, was there really greyhound racing in 1415? Perhaps not, but the metaphor is apt... for McGuffie!
3 years 44 weeks ago	Color	Will this shirt have the same terrible Florida Gators blue?
3 years 45 weeks ago	MGoBlog linked to by Wall Street Journal	Just wanted to give Brian a congrats on getting linked to by one of the worlds most influential papers. The link comes from WSJ's "Daily Fix" sports blog: http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2008/07/11/why-cristiano-ronaldo-isnt-a-sl... ($) Quote: "In the interest of equal time, here’s a reasonable rebuttal from Mgoblog’s Brian Cook to a column the Fix linked to yesterday about Rich Rodriguez and his lawsuit against the University of West Virginia."
3 years 45 weeks ago	MGoBlog Linked to by Wall Street Journal	Just wanted to give Brian a congrats on getting linked to by one of the worlds most influential papers. The link comes from WSJ's "Daily Fix" sports blog: http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2008/07/11/why-cristiano-ronaldo-isnt-a-sl... ($) Quote: "In the interest of equal time, here’s a reasonable rebuttal from Mgoblog’s Brian Cook to a column the Fix linked to yesterday about Rich Rodriguez and his lawsuit against the University of West Virginia."