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Oh, no, sorry, my bad. I just mean when I get angry, I am animatedly angry. My instinct when I get mad about something is to go somewhere by myself specifically so I don't take it out on other people.
Another great offer list. Hell, let's just make it all three.
I dunno. Psychologically speaking, anger is a means of stress release. It's an emotional response to something that frustrates us. Anger can be therapeutic and even beneficial in our lives if used as a motivation. A lot of positive social change has come about from movements begun in anger over a perceived injustice. Anger itself is just an emotion.
Sustained anger is concerning to me. In general, an anger response should have an identifiable trigger. The anger response should happen in close proximity (in terms of time, distance or both), and should either dissipate or give way to other reactions. Those movements I referenced above didn't happen by a bunch of angry people sitting around being angry. Anger became a catalyst to organize. It was a motivational factor to altering behavior. Anger should be a temporary or transitory emotion, in other words.
Sustained answer frightens me because you can't point to an external cause. Someone with sustained anger might give a reason for being angry, but it was something that occurred after they were already angry. But more often than not, someone with sustained anger will debt they're angry at all. Usually that means the source of the anger is an unaddressed, often unacknowledged internal conflict. Those people worry me, because you never know what they're dealing with, and you never know what they're capable of.
I'd like to land both Ellis and Eric Kumah.
Welllllllllll... I was kind of hoping people would assume I meant opinions that don't violate the community guidelines. I mean opinions on the coaching staff or the program. But yes, your point is absolutely valid and I tend to down vote personal attacks or offensive language. Probably more than I should, because I have a hair trigger on some issues that probably make me seen way more PC than I'm trying to be.
if you check the past threads before starting a new one with the same old topic.
This is easier now that the search function is improved, but still not the easiest. The search function here lumps all articles in with the forum posts. It would be easier if there were a forum-specific search function.
I dunno. I think you and I have done our fair share of Beamer-criticism. Although I've been pretty chill since the Loeffler hire, I'm probably the most vocal critic of the coaching staff I can think of, and I've always felt welcome here.
I'll say this, down voting opinions is for chumps. It shouldn't be allowed, and VTGuitarMan should be able to remove down votes for opinion, especially for low-leg commenters.
But I'll also say, I've witnessed people who are stating a critical/negative opinion get really defensive if someone with a high leg count starts debating them. And I mean debating, not calling out, ridiculing or harassing. HokieBengal or whatever his name is comes to mind. He went apoplectic when people started disagreeing with him, which resulted in a community ban, and his original point wasn't even controversial.
So it's a fine line. Down voting opinion should never be okay, but some people just can't handle civil debate.
I hear you. Twitter has its limits. But beyond the constraints of social media, it's obvious Phreak came into the conversation with a chip on his shoulder. There wasn't even a desire for real communication, because as soon as Bill said yeah, would you like credit in the description, Phreak lost his damn mind. He had an ulterior motive from the get go, and that's the part I don't understand. Why couldn't he consider that it might be an honest mistake?
So in addition to choosing the proper medium, I'd say another object lesson to take away from this is, don't be a dick.
I've already admitted that they owned the latter half of the BCS era, and I was very clear in my post that I was looking at the SEC post-expansion. Their performance post-expansion just doesn't have them lording over all the other conferences. They remain a very good conference, one of the best, but specifically one of the best.
You're also now putting words in my mouth. I said the SEC seems to be standing pat to slightly regressing. I'm arguing more that other conferences/programs are closing the gap, not so much that the SEC is dovetailing.
My knee jerk response to this was, "Oh noooooooooes!" But then I thought, could you go to any program in the country and not find some technical issues with the starting tackles? Every O line is going to have its weaknesses, and Loeffler clearly knows what his line's weaknesses are since he schemes to mitigate them.
I think your title nails it. We have to continue to improve. I don't think Wade Hansen is going to be all ACC, but he looks a lot better than he did last season. I'm sure Coach Searels has made him well aware of his technical flaws, and hopefully he continues to work on them.
The way the stats have been trending lately, there just isn't much to support your argument. Preseason polls are beauty pageants, and the SEC is certainly still reaping the PR benefits of their dominant BCS run. But their top three teams all lost their bowls. If that trend continues, the media love affair with the conference will start to fade.
The SEC is a very good conference, but their days of owning the sport may have already passed.
Oops. Double post. Drinkies.
Again, we are taking about today, not history. And today, there's plenty to question the SEC's dominance of the sport.
New mike is the biggest concern, IMO. If the safety is Chuck Clark, we have nothing to worry about, and Reavis appears to have been manufactured in a government facility specifically to play rover.
To me, it's definitely better. It's one thing to blow the fuck up and rave like a lunatic for a few minutes. I have the stereotypical Irish temper, and I can go ballistic from time to time. Then, five minutes later, I am completely fine. If he had been frothing at the mouth for hours on end, that's a sustained rage, a way more concerning trait.
That finish just encapsulated what this series has been. I went from "GREAT SAVE!" to "SON OF A FUCK!" literally faster than I could say the words. Whichever team advances, they'll be so physically and emotionally drained I don't know how they'll continue.
I imagine when you get to the microphone at one of these deals, the coaches hear your question and think to themselves, thank god.
Are you going, French? If so, what are you going to ask Coach Searels about?
Am I the only person on here who genuinely does not give a fuck what we wear? The amount of time and emotion invested in uniform/helmet conversations here kind of blows my mind.
I also recall him saying something about game winning field goals being factored out because they were boring.
I think maybe this had something to do with the fact that the power hour thread got bumped to the top after a really long time, and maybe Phreak noticed it for the first time and thought it was new? What was bizarre though was how, for a guy who asks for some professional courtesy (citing his videos), be gave none. How easy would a quick email or DM to Bill or Joe saying, hey, I think maybe some of my videos were used in the power hour video, could you please add something citing me as a source? But instead he went about this about the most immature way he possibly could have. It makes me wonder if either this is just the way he approaches things, or if something is going on with him that has him on edge.
The whole thing is just bizzare.
players drafted, national championships, bowl success during that stretch. It's unquestioned which conference was best.
head-to-head bowl records etc. are good indicators but they don't tell the whole story either
Which is it? If I use metrics you suggest, you can't then just pull the metrics and say they're invalid. I'm working within the framework you provided.
It is easily questioned. They aren't the juggernaut they were. Other programs have closed the gap with the SEC's best programs, and other conferences have closed the gap with the conference as a whole. The SEC owned the majority of the BCS era. But that era is over. The way the numbers are trending, so too are the days of SEC dominance being a given.
Well, okay.
Let's look at the SEC in its current form, since the 2011 expansion to 14 teams.
Players drafted. SEC has had an impressive 166 players taken in the draft. 63 in the 2013 draft, 49 in 2014 and 54 in 2015. Compared to the PAC-12 at 101 players drafted over the same period, the SEC seems to be winning in a walk. However, the SEC has 14 programs compared to the PAC-12's 12. In this most recent draft, the SEC averaged 3.86 players drafted per member program, compared to the PAC-12'S 3.25.
Also notable, the PAC-12's total number of players drafted has increased year over year since expansion. The SEC's dipped from 63 in 2013 to 49 in 2014, then rebounded to 54 this past season. Over the same stretch, the PAC-12 went from 28 drafted, to 34, to 39. The PAC-12'S draft stock is on the rise, while the SEC's seems to be holding steady.
National championships. Since expansion, the SEC is 1-1 in championship game appearances, with Alabama trouncing Notre Dame in the 2013 BCS Championship Game and Auburn losing to Florida State in the 2014 game. The PAC-12 is 0-1, with Oregon being roughed up by Ohio State in the inaugural College Football Playoff Championship Game.
Overall bowl record, the SEC is 19-11 since expansion, a 0.633 win percentage. The PAC-12 IS 16-9 over the same period, a 0.640 win percentage.
Head to head since expansion, the SEC enjoys a 3-1 advantage over the PAC-12. The SEC went 2-0 against the PAC-12 in 2012, 1-1 in 2013, and the two conferences never faced each other in 2014.
There was a period of time in the heart of the BCS era when the SEC was the king of college football. But since expansion to its current form, the numbers just don't support the assertion that you can't even question the conference's dominance. By most observable metrics, the ascendant conference among the P5 is the PAC-12, while the SEC seems to be standing pat to slightly regressing.
Again, we are taking abouttoday, not history. And today, there's plenty to question the SEC's dominance of the support.
Do you mean last season or during spring?