Recruiting Forum Football Talk VI

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I watched a replay of the game and tried my best to take off my orange glasses. I still just don't see what the big deal is about how that game was officiated. Saying it wasn't basketball, but rather football?!?! I just don't see that. It was basically a glimpse of what basketball would be like if they didn't call every single meaningless and non-impactful ticky tack foul. On the flip side, I watched and re-watched every play that was called a foul and think they got almost all of them right. Maybe one or two that were borderline? I guess that feels like a completely different sport to Duke fans.
It was the flopping that Jay was using to support his whine.
 
You just said an Elite 8 is a "huge accomplishment."

It is. That's why it cannot be the "expectation." It cannot be both of those things. An expectation by definition cannot be something that is a huge accomplishment.

My boss expects me to be at work on time and work 8 hours. Therefore, being at work on time and working a full 8 hours is not a huge accomplishment. That's the standard.

The floor expectation has to be something that should, by any reasonable condition, be accomplishable. The standard should be a solid result.

And each season can and should be different. If you're a Top 8 seed, it's reasonable to expect a Top 8 finish.

I expect to make the tourney just like my boss expects me on time. A successful season should be a Top 16 seed and/or a Top 16 finish. I expect Barnes to maintain us as a Top 16 program. But if my car blows a tire on the interstate, it's reasonable for my boss to not expect me to be on time.

I personally call a season a success if 1. SEC season title 2. SEC tournament title 3. Sweet 16

The expectation is 1. Top 4 SEC regular season 2. Top 16 seed.

Not all of them have to happen simultaneously. For example, we finished 5th but made the Sweet 16. Still a successful season.

If we were a 1 or 2 seed, I'd move "success" from Sweet 16 to Elite 8.

It's just totally irrational to EXPECT something every year that the program has only accomplished once in 114 seasons.
Well said.
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Or he thought he could outrun them and keep it. 😏
That player made like 10 massive mistakes in that whole situation. Another one is that if you're riding with a guy who carries a gun and distributes drugs, and tells you to "punch it" to escape from the police, you probably don't want to tell the police all that.
 
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This started because the first thing you said was that a basketball season is a "failure" if we don't make an Elite 8.

It's not. It's just a huge accomplishment. And a failure, by most people's rational standard, is the NIT.
To me, a failure as a program is being invited to the NIT and turning it down…
 
There is one customer that we meet with an hour every week. This customer employs a consultant who has a very small piece of what we need to discuss but completely monopolizes the meeting. I want to smack her so hard.
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If I'm looking at it from "best fit" for HH I'd say Vikings, Denver, Seahawks, and 49ers could all be great spots to land.

Vikings = weapons for days and they play indoors
Denver = Sean Payton
49ers = weapons, warm weather
Seahawks = Pete can build a team and takes care of his QB Wilson looked like a completely different QB in Denver
 
If I'm looking at it from "best fit" for HH I'd say Vikings, Denver, Seahawks, and 49ers could all be great spots to land.

Vikings = weapons for days and they play indoors
Denver = Sean Payton
49ers = weapons, warm weather
Seahawks = Pete can build a team and takes care of his QB Wilson looked like a completely different QB in Denver
Dolphins would be his best fit. Offense and wideouts match him perfectly. That and tua is trash.
 
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