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Post by utchuckd on Nov 3, 2008 14:06:11 GMT -6
question now is..... will cutcliffe come back from duke? Odds are against that it seems.
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Post by utchuckd on Nov 3, 2008 10:38:56 GMT -6
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Post by utchuckd on Nov 1, 2008 16:03:02 GMT -6
personally was never that impressed with it, compared to other triple systems, (ex Veer). How is the flex different than the veer?
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Post by utchuckd on Oct 30, 2008 21:32:07 GMT -6
Georgia Southern won a couple with Paul Johnson. They won some before that with Erk Russell and Tim Stowers, not sure if they were flexbone then or not but I would assume so.
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Post by utchuckd on Oct 12, 2008 15:10:19 GMT -6
On Johnny Majors and Fulmer, the story I remember (and I apologize is I'm at all inaccurate) is that Majors got sick (cancer, I think?) and had to take some time off, and during that time Fulmer, then an assistant coach, lobbied hard that he should be given the head coaching job, that Majors couldn't handle it anymore, and in any event was too sick to return. Before Majors had a chance to return, the University fired Majors and replaced him with Fulmer. Majors of course returned to being a head coach elsewhere. (For full disclosure, I will also admit that I am a big Johnny Majors fan. My grandfather was friends with him and I went to a number of Pitt games (the second time he was there) and Majors is just a really great guy. I do not personally know Phil Fulmer.) In 1992 Johnny Majors had a heart attack (or at least heart problems) and went into the hospital in preseason. Fulmer took the reins as interim and proceeded to win the first 3 games, including wins over Georgia and Florida. He was allegedly lobbying behind the scenes that he was gone to Clemson if they didn't get rid of Johnny and hire him. He had the clout to pull this cause he was a hot shot OC at the time and had some leverage. Majors came back, probably too soon, but he felt he was forced to to keep his job, and after a couple of games back lost to Arkansas, Alabama, and South Carolina (Steve Tanneyhill, anyone?) in consecutive weeks, Alabama of course being THE rivalry of the day and Arky and SC were first year SEC members that year. Well pressure increased, and Johnny, again allegedly, being the no BS kinda guy he was, ruffled some feathers with the big wigs and eventually was canned in favor of Fulmer who was allegedly placing the proverbial knife in his boss's back. I say the allegedlys because I have no first hand knowledge, but there is a large faction that believes this is how it went down. Thankee.
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Post by utchuckd on Sept 11, 2008 9:39:44 GMT -6
I had a former coach on the school board, one on the radio (local community AM show, and he did the color for the games), one as the grandparent of a couple of players, and one as the principal. Nothing like small town politics! They did me a favor by firing me last year.
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Post by utchuckd on Sept 6, 2008 10:09:19 GMT -6
Can he use 2 hands? Idk. Just trying to think.
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NASCAR
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Post by utchuckd on Sept 3, 2008 11:04:50 GMT -6
How about gun veer? 3 plays in one!
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 28, 2008 21:54:16 GMT -6
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 27, 2008 7:13:57 GMT -6
Excellent article Spread! Again.
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 19, 2008 7:52:21 GMT -6
I tried to put a playlist together once, but my mind races so much on game day I couldn't sit and listen to it. About my only pre-game ritual is to get in a bad mood sometime after lunch.
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 19, 2008 6:54:59 GMT -6
I guess we need to write the manufacturers and ask them to print 'to be worn on the wrist or the belt' on the packaging. Geez. It's not an adornment it's a functional piece of equipment.
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 18, 2008 14:45:50 GMT -6
At our state rules meeting we were told that wearing them on the belt IS ILLEGAL this season What's the rationale behind this?
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 16, 2008 22:15:10 GMT -6
Yep.
6' 5". Freak.
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 16, 2008 21:46:04 GMT -6
Did you see the 100m finals? 9.69 and he pulled up 15 meters early!
That's ridiculous!
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 13, 2008 20:34:37 GMT -6
We played a team a couple years ago that used "Bring 'Em Out". Thought it was good.
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 4, 2008 19:53:12 GMT -6
So one of my best friends is the sports editor of the local paper. This is his column from yesterday. I thought it was pretty good so I thought I'd share...
Rising Above the Average By Rob Nunley
As you read this, chances are you’re an average American.
I’m willing to bet that the majority of you fine subscribers and purchasers out there come from average American families, have average American homes, average American cars and average American jobs.
Being average Americans, you probably work a 40-hour week, head home a little dirty or a little tired (or both), enjoy time with the wife and 2.5 kids, then retire to your own bed to rest up before doing it again the next day.
But imagine if your average American job went something like this:
-You wake up in a strange bed, in a strange building, hours earlier than you woke up just the week before. -You’re greeted with a healthy breakfast, but only after you’ve run at least a mile. When you’re granted permission to eat, you have to do so with the same group of 59 or so people you spent the previous night sleeping beside. -From breakfast to lunch, you’re forced to learn complicated maneuvers and schemes, then go through those maneuvers while your breakfast partners attempt –with all their might- to physically destroy you. Meanwhile, your bossed tell you -and everyone within a quarter-mile radius- how much you did it wrong. -And after lunch, you do it all again. More teaching, more memorization, more critiques and more being physically assaulted by people you later embrace not only as friends and co-workers, but as a surrogate family.
But this time, you’re exhausted from your morning run and all the people trying to drive you into the ground from earlier in the day. Still, you struggle onward, stopping only when you’re allowed and running wherever you’re sent to do whatever you’re told.
By the way, did I mention you’re doing all this carrying 20 pounds of equipment, in temperatures nearing the triple digit mark? Did I mention that if you begin to falter in your job, there’s someone else ready and willing to step in and take it from you? And did I mention it’s supposed to be fun?
Not much of an average American life, is it? But it’s exactly what you go through when you’re a high school football player during camp week.
I’ve watched the Pioneers prepare for the past eight seasons, and every year I find myself impressed by those kids who forego the X-box, the TV and the air conditioning to come out for camp. They know what they’re getting into; they have to, since their predecessors have given them the horror stories about it. And yet, they still come out and give their all.
And what do we do? We sit on the sidelines and around the water coolers talking a lot about these high school athletes, and how they should’ve done this or ought to be able to do that.
But when it gets right down to brass tacks, there aren’t very many of us –especially those, like me, who are of the older and less physically-fit persuasion- who could walk a tenth of a mile in those boys’ cleats.
So I ask you, Pioneer fans, if you’re an average American, then what are these kids? You’re working your average American job, making your (hopefully) average American wage so you can support your average American family, and they’re getting beaten up, beaten down and run over just for the love of the sport they’ve chosen and the pride of representing their school.
Sure, there’s minimal glory if they win on a few Friday nights. But it’s outmatched greatly by the scorn of the so-called experts if heaven forbid they fail.
So I guess you’d have to say they’re above average, now aren’t they?
Win or lose, there’s something to admire about that. And I hope I, you and the rest of us average Americans can do exactly that once the season rolls around.
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Post by utchuckd on Jul 29, 2008 21:39:56 GMT -6
Printed them off the computer.
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Post by utchuckd on Jul 29, 2008 19:08:25 GMT -6
Yeah, the ones for the machine are cheaper.
The pvc isn't really important. I just had the frame and brought a piece down from the bottom as a stand. It was 4 numbers across so it could get kinda heavy if you had 2 stand there and hold it all night. We had one guy on the first 2 numbers and a guy on the second 2 and it made it easier to handle.
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Post by utchuckd on Jul 29, 2008 18:20:48 GMT -6
They are regular 8.5 x 11 sheets. I did cut off about an inch at the top so the holes would just be through plastic and not the paper too, in case of rain. Don't know if that would matter or not, but I'm kinda picky like that.
We got a laminator at Wal Mart for around $30. Another $10 or so for a pack of plastic sheets and you're set.
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Post by utchuckd on Jul 29, 2008 16:17:44 GMT -6
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Post by utchuckd on Jul 29, 2008 15:38:25 GMT -6
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Post by utchuckd on Jul 28, 2008 7:38:42 GMT -6
Next Man Up is very good, A Civil War is great.
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Post by utchuckd on Jul 6, 2008 12:20:13 GMT -6
Surely there's some kind of bonding primer that would work? I would go to somewhere like Sherwin Williams and see what they say.
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Post by utchuckd on Jul 1, 2008 10:51:17 GMT -6
We made one. Used some white plastic peg board we found at lowes for the main board. Then printed out our numbers about 8" tall, laminated those sheets, and punched holes in the top corners. Then stacked 'em up in order and fastened 'em to the peg board with plastic zip ties.
Heck, with the second generation I even figured out how to put tabs at the bottom with the numbers on it so you could flip right to the number you wanted.
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Post by utchuckd on Jun 28, 2008 8:02:35 GMT -6
I'm beginning to think running the same thing is a bit over rated as a means of teaching the kids football and your system. I mean when the get to the high school they are still going to have a year of freshman ball and a year of jv to learn your system aren't they?
However, I think running the same system could be an indication of the relationship between the MS and HS. If everybody is on the same page working towards the same goal it would probably show by both programs running the same stuff. At least in terminology and base philosophy. Kind of like the chapter in Freakonomics that said children with certain names are more successful than kids with other names, not because their name made any difference, but because it was an indication of what their parents and home life was like.
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Post by utchuckd on Jun 28, 2008 7:48:38 GMT -6
Excellent point!
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Post by utchuckd on May 12, 2008 6:07:04 GMT -6
To the QB- 'He's so open he's catching a cold!'
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Post by utchuckd on May 9, 2008 16:29:54 GMT -6
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Post by utchuckd on Apr 23, 2008 7:31:15 GMT -6
I like it! Depending on how heavy duty they are you could make some dip and pull up stations too.
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