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    Is Dabo gone too?

    He's trying to pick fights with everyone for some reason the last couple of weeks. I dunno, maybe someone stole his GI Joe or something? I'd have reported him and asked for some gentle moderation, but decided that nothing would be done and it was best to just use the ignore button.
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    Can we stay competitive in the NIL era?

    If someone can find a buyer for a local brewery willing to pony up say...$10B...then I can personally commit to funding a nice $150k/player deal. Otherwise, would $150 be enough? :)
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    Transfer Portal: Who's Coming and Going (2022 Roster)

    Oh, that's right...because it's part of a contract with a union then the equal employment opportunity laws can just be ignored! I'd forgotten about that lovely detail of American politics. Sigh.
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    Transfer Portal: Who's Coming and Going (2022 Roster)

    Some of these kids should just sue the NFL for age discrimination. There's no legitimate legal reason that the NFL doesn't allow 18 year old athletes to be drafted. That would break this thing up in a hurry and totally remove the need for the semi-pro nature of college football.
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    GT hires Chip Long as new OC/QBs Coach

    I just struggle to understand how our OL is really worse than, say, Coastal Carolina's after three years of uber recruiting.
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    Current Environment

    Lol. I work at home and start at 6am almost every day. WFH has just shifted my commute time to more work time. I wish the GTAA would be more customer focused instead of blaming their customers for the GTAA's failings. They want people to show up? Then they need to figure out why people aren't...
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    GT hires Chip Long as new OC/QBs Coach

    Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Wilnik and Leif Babin. I can't recommend it enough. My whole organization has gone through it together and it has made a palpable difference in the last three years. No more blaming others, no more victim thinking...we own, fix it and...
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    GT hires Chip Long as new OC/QBs Coach

    I get it with the O-Line woes and the need to 'get old and stay old.' But that's not I see a lot of smaller G5 schools who have done well with much less talent than even we have. What's up with that? I'm sure to compete with the Bama's or even Auburn's of the world we'll need big and experienced...
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    Venable to Oklahoma as new HC

    I actually like TStan's approach to making connection with the startup-scene at GT. If we can get one passionate fan who is running a start-up that Unicorns, then we are set... It's a bit like playing the lottery or investing in a new digital currency...low investment with an extremely low...
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    GT hires Chip Long as new OC/QBs Coach

    He's got a 'circle the wagons' mentality where he sees the people reporting to him (coaches and players) as "his team" and all the other stakeholders (alumni, press, real fans) as 'them'. I struggled with that myself during a bit of my career, and it took some good coaching (and a good book) to...
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    GT hires Chip Long as new OC/QBs Coach

    I choose to see it as a positive. What we had hadn't worked yet. A change was needed. No one, and I do mean no one, really knows how this will turn out. A lot of people have got their guess, and some might be better informed than others...but no one knows. So in the face of uncertainty I'll...
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    Final season rankings 1-130

    With the #33 ranked composite talent no less....let that sink in.
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    GT hires Chip Long as new OC/QBs Coach

    If it can't, then he won't be here for long.
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    SECCG - Ambivalence, I have arrived - my hate rant

    I agree. When we try to put a lick on people it looks like we are trying hard (and sometimes gets a penalty because of it.) Bama just hit hard without looking like they were over-extending. The drove through the hit and it was just a different level.
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    OC and DC replacement thoughts!!

    I'll come do it for free as long as I don't have to recruit. Okay, not me. But I bet we could get a volunteer "Graduate Assistant" whose only job was to focus on game management. If GCG doesn't want to give up the decisions then he should have some 'go-to' person on the side whose job it is to...
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    SECCG - Ambivalence, I have arrived - my hate rant

    At least we contributed in some small way! ;)
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    Harrison Bailey

    True. And everyone on here knows that. There's really no reason at this point in wallowing in it. It's in the past. Time to turn the page. I can be as snarky as anyone, so I get the momentary endorphin release we get by venting our frustration. But it's not changing anything and it just makes...
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    Transfer Portal: Who's Coming and Going (2022 Roster)

    Kinda hard to be less than "Zero", right?
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    Transfer Portal: Who's Coming and Going (2022 Roster)

    Well, to be honest I have to admit that it's highly unlikely the results could have been any worse the last two games...
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    Just asking after watching GT for my entire life.

    I've decided to switch my GT fandom primarily to Baseball, where most of the student-athletes are still...well...students. NIL and the Portal have made college football a semi-pro sport without the parity-driving controls that all good pro sports use (drafts, salary caps, etc.) There's too much...
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