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I mean everything anyone does in life is an achievement, I’d rather have ones that other people not on the list would want to have.

No I’d rather ignore that list entirely and focus on being top 50 which is an actual achievement

That’s a view I can get behind, really can’t understand the other approach though of only being happy being number one no matter what that list actually is. I guess that’s the same reason I don’t get I don’t care who we beat as long as it’s w’s. Aim for the stars and you may at least hit the moon but aim for the end of the block and celebrating making it out the driveway? Profit?

That does sound much better, if we frame ourselves in that context that’s valuable. Being number one on this list is nothing to celebrate because being on this list is the problem.

Everything truly is a matter of perspective but if you look at the list as going down, while others look at moving up the list if you go to 30k ft and look at everything are we really moving at all?

One man’s great to be atop the list is another man’s **** what an embarrassing list

Not everything can be as real as personal injury attorneys

A record that will never be surpassed, may he always be properly remembered as reigning supreme for that glorious day and atop our record books.

It’s hard to crawl through **** without getting some on you and if you live In **** for a decade it becomes really hard to tell where the **** ends and you begin

That’s a good trio of fans, have fun

not today, much like Andy sitting up on the roof top drinking beers with the inmates on this glorious day we are back in the Beast.

I rewarded this with a hiatus, I felt heard

Anything worth doing is worth doing well. My suggestion is to find the biggest issues facing the program. Find all possible solutions to the problems. Project costs to solution and impact of them. Figure out the budget and possible budget. Force rank the solutions and do those. This is the single least impactful solution for the single highest cost, that means every other idea that any idiot can imagine is better than this one. Companies fold under this vision.

Money for us ain’t been no crystal stair. When you are the navigator or the ship you set the course and what you set your mind to you need to be able to bring those people with you and sell them on the right way. Let’s take our airwaves for example, how many time do we get to sell those? The money people are leaving in their estate planning, how many times do they get to bequeath their estates? The credit union could have bought the street in front of the marshal center and been just as happy. The most important part is this is a zero sum distraction who’s timing seems more likely to lead to destruction.

Sorry on my way to Pittsburgh, if we got the Hawaii bowl I would have pivoted. That being said I think this is a perfect matchup.

He is definitely an unconnected aggregator of internet rumors but he didn’t say anything about New Year’s Eve in that tweet

The idea of building your way to improvement is dated, we cannot go back 20 years ago simply because we think we missed out and need to focus on what is working in the times in which we exist. My biggest issue is it feels like we are trying to build our brand via Ken Blanchard instead of utilizing the unprecedented times in which we live that amazingly let you change your fortunes immediately. Unfortunately for us fortuna favors the bold and allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous and not the cautious; we are ruled by the cautious.

Almost all teams in college football at any level have an OCS but the distribution does not seem to be any worse for off campus in the power conferences than in G5 conferences which would seem to indicate that no conference cares about such things. I think most of my disagreements with anyone is timing, college football is in flux and we are stuck at an impasse. In 2005 this is a great idea and when we are able to not be in flux it can be a great idea again. Right now it seems to be who is in the best locations (we got that one in spades), who is able to take the least money and who has the splashiest name recognition. Every effort should be towards taking care of that until we move up or are completely positive that is not going to happen. If you have nothing to lose are you more likely to bet on yourself and couch surf for lower pay knowing that will pay off in less than a decade or are you more likely to do that while holding a mortgage? Someone posted about NIL possibly becoming more direct with Universities now, is that easier to come up with money from shaking the trees still flush with fruit or the ones you just shook and did not have the first fruit even hit the ground yet? Let's say Nick Saban wants to retire in Florida but he needs $15 million a year, is it easier now than it would have been a year ago. We were untethered we should have been able to pivot on a dime and raising cash from these people was obviously quite possible, find the things of consequence and do those. When the chips fall as they may you then decide what you are going to commit yourself to for pretty close to forever and not before. This is only a thing because clueless people panicked when we were left behind, again and instead of making any effort to deal with any problems they decided they had to let UCF write their narrative for them, its sad.

I have already answered this. The answer is at best a push (being super generous because people are excited and it is the holidays), which is why this is not what you waste your last strike on. No one has made anything that can be marginally interpreted as a tangible way this positively impacts anything actually important. The entire thing is I go to every game, I don't care who we play, no additional people are going to come with me to the games but I wanted an OCS back when there was a coherent argument so the thought of doing this no matter how stupid it undeniably is will compel me to pretend this is somehow great.

Except students have no problem making it to Ray Jay, far greater make it to the stadium to tailgate than make it inside and none have an issue getting there for Taylor Swift, the issue is that no one wants to go into the games. Moving locations solves that problem for one year (as people like to check out new things) but after that we need to solve for what people actually have a problem with and that is AAC football. If we don't have a solution for that committing to 40 years of this nonsense doesn't seem like the best idea and the games can easily be handled at Corbett. Did the Sundome move when we remodeled and rebranded because it used to get way more student attendance and yet for some reason it doesn't .

You solve for the issues of no one wanting to go to the games, the proper solution isn’t to spend millions to make the problem look marginally less bad.

I think the thing you are missing is that if the money does not get you much, the thing you are spending the money on would not do much for realignment even if the money did get you much now and the stadium is only more appealing fan wise to people that are already the most invested fans then you don't waste your time and money right now on this. Find what does have an impact and target those things while making it very clear to everyone the return on investment lies there.

Imagine if we stayed nimble and lean…

And no one is going to actually address that because deep down everyone knows the idea is absurd and that’s beyond the fact anyone with eyes can see the stadium is actually a $350 million vacuum- it sucks (the perfect blend of basic and expensive that one has come to expect from a VPMK athletics regime). It’s part time to stop pretending and to do something to change our direction. They showed us these renderings with a $150 million price tag and we said no way that’s too cheap and we handed them back, they then took out a sharpie changed the one to a 3 and Mike said it’s perfect we’ll take it as long as you can make it take longer.