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Clemson has recruited so well that I don't see a huge drop-off, BUT--I do believe they will struggle at times without Chad Morris--this is where Dabo will have to prove his prowess. I think Chad was the driving force in that entire engine.
I think this was true until Venables got his defense installed. Now I think they only need an efficient offense to have success. They might actually look a lot like us this year.
How much you wanna bet I could throw a football over them mountains?
It isn't, under any conceivable circumstance, worth the risk.
I want a quarterback who plays like that every game. I want running backs who play way, way better than that. That game was the Michael Brewer show.
The Fedora experiment is failing, and TBH I don't think it's possible to have success in Miami with their structure and lack of athletic commitment post-Shalala.
I see my strategy is paying off.
This is a sliding scale. The better his grades, the lower his test scores need to be. So grades going up is a net positive even if the concern is/was test scores.
Welp. Moving right along, then.
And as an addendum, okay, so that game set back offense X number of years. You know what didn't? The BC game. I'd cut off my left pinky to get offensive production like that out of our QB every game.
My point is, it's not like the criticism is all encompassing. It's one game, and we saw really good offensive output in other games in the same season. I think you're right, ANY form of specific criticism, no matter how narrow in scope and justified, is so alien in our program that it really sticks out. I'd like to see more of it. You should be able to say "the offense really dropped the ball against Wake" or "the defense really laid an egg against BC" without it being an issue. It's accountability.
I see you misspelled "college football playoff." Perhaps I might recommend a spell checker.
Well, it's not like they pack up their college football section and go home during the off season. They still have to generate content, and post-spring and post-draft that means a number of fluff "way too early" pieces just the be putting something out there.
So when you break it down, they're saying the Atlantic will come down to Florida State and Clemson, and the Coastal will come down to Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech.
That's some insightful sports journalism right there.
I hope to have Kendall back as a senior, but if he projects as a first rounder after his junior year, he should leave. And Torian and Bud should use everything short of Indian burns and purple nurples to coerce him into it. That is once in a lifetime money, and he could lose millions just with a dropoff his senior year, not to mention the possibility of injury.
And, if we're honest, it's because the comics Marvel was shitting out during that era, late 80s and early 90s, were just simply awful. Meanwhile DC was doing fourth runs of their Death of Superman and Knightfall issues and making just obscene amounts of money. Marvel is decidedly the big dog on the porch for the moment, but people forget we were a gnat's eyelash from the comic wars being DC vs Image.
Yeah, I agree, that's where he was up through Iron Man 3. Then to me it felt like they contrived a way to dump him back into the suit to anchor the next Avengers movie. Felt very forced to me.
There is some credibility to what you say, but it was also NBA and NHL playoffs season when the first movie opened. Mayweather/Pacquiao wasn't until 11 pm. And ultimately what matters is, if this movie was seen by consumers as something as "must see" as the first Avengers movie, it would have broken its record.
Not saying Age of Ultron is a failure, but there are reasons Marvel could (should) walk away from this rethinking their focus moving forward.
It was also the most human thing they've done until Daredevil. I hope Marvel sees the connection.
Yeah, I get that. But Stark has been doing philanthropic non-military research since the resolution of the first movie. I'm just saying it neuters the emotional climactic scene of Iron Man 3 to have him get right back in the suit to drive the next Avengers film.
This is definitely possible.
However, with the table that Whit is setting, Shane could (should) also see the potential to take this program higher than his dad ever took it. The easiest way to get out of someone's shadow is to do better than they did at their own job.
Shane's not right or wrong either way, just saying that he's gonna make a good head coach one day, and at that point he's gonna need to look around and say, where gives me the best opportunity for success? With what Whit is doing, if the only reason he would say no is fear of his father's shadow, he is really handicapping himself. The next coach here is going to be poised to make a run.
I say there the whole time thinking, how does this advance the MCU? And honestly, beyond the obvious implications for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., it actually regressed, because, hey, Tony Stark is suddenly a-ok with being Iron Man again. Unless they were saying something very different at the end of Iron Man 3 than I thought they were saying, that's character regression.
I'd already put Age of Ultron squarely in the Ehh... category.
The movies are getting stale, as evidenced by the fact that Age of Ultron failed to beat The Avengers opening weekend. There's nothing really new here. The MCU is established; the geekgasm of OMFG I'M SEEING TONY STARK IN THE INCREDIBLE HULK MOVIE is over. Now if it's to continue, it will have to be driven by compelling storylines. Captain America seems to be doing very well at that. Iron Man and Thor not so much. The Hulk has basically been relegated to Black Widow/Hawkeye status, unable to anchor his own films.
Anyway, Age of Ultron was hackneyed and formulaic and, combined with the insane buzz around Daredevil, hopefully serves as a wakeup call to Marvel.
Anyone who looks at what Whit Babcock is doing to this program and doesn't want to be head coach here doesn't understand how to scout for job opportunities. Frank's successor will walk into a situation built for success.
Agreed, but it's where Marvel is. At one point, what Fox was doing with the X-Men was the pinnacle of comic book filmmaking, and Marvel jumped on their wagon hard and fast. It would still be years before anyone at Marvel thought they could do it better themselves, in a fully established cross-title universe, and years before they got bought by a parent company with the financials and know-how to make it happen. So now you've got your rights all jacked up across various studios as a hangover from the early days of the non-shitty comic book movie, and the effects suck. But at the same time, you can't fault Marvel. They fought tooth and nail for film adaptations by major studios, and like all book to movie adaptations they had to give up too many rights at first. But they'll eventually get them back. They're fucking Disney. It's like going against the mob.
The one thing that makes me hopeful about the DC cinematic universe is that they specifically have not made the same mistake, being content to adapt their platforms for television with agreements that say, yes, you have the right to do this, but you don't have the sole and exclusive right to do it. I think DC has better lawyers. The problem is, now DC has to play catch up. So it's like, hey, we're DC, we still have movie rights to all our characters, and HERE ARE ALL OF THEM IN TWO MOVIES!!!
Biggity bam! The stage is toast and we go smoke a bowl.