Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

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AM64 said:
Looks like people who built on "outer banks", reefs, sandbars, or whatever you call them around Cape Coral are going to take a big hit. According to Zoom Earth, that's where the eye is, and wind around the eye is like 155 mph.
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Anybody that did this is an absolute idiot. They probably built a second home straddling the San Andreas fault in California.
 
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McDad said:
Son2 is going with us to UT LSU. BIL bought two tix from the season ticket holder who sits in front of him. He had to buy both seats. We have 1 extra.

Anybody wanna go to the game?
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Contact Dave..Houston is close..but I suspect would want to bring his wife
Plus you will get a joy ride in a 911 and it would covert you
 
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AM64 said:
Speaking of which. Whatever happened to half backs and full backs?
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We actually lined up in the "I" formation for 1 snap versus flarduh and i screamed lol!! These days the lead back is usually a TE...very few programs use a fullback or the "I" formation anymore outside the service academies. It is cool to see for a change of pace....but other than a couple Nebraska teams in the 1990s, a wishbone offense has never really been able to keep up scoring 40 plus every game with the spread offenses that everyone runs now. The clock never stops running much when its "4 yards and a cloud of dust."

We run the ball plenty tho...the quick screen passes we throw to small on the edge are running plays too...because we throw the ball slightly backwards by a yard or so.... i read where Small got 22 touches against flarduh...and Wright probably had 10 or so.

I admit freely that i wish we could line up in the "I" formation on all these 4th and 1 or 2s that we go for...and actually make em. On the other side of the coin....on our last real posession against flarduh where we ran Smart off tackle (right at their 439lb DT? /think he was in ) running 3 times off tackle was dumb IMO....our little option pitch play with Hooker and Small has yet to be stopped this season from picking up a 1st down or scoring a TD. We should have tried that IMO...but hindsight is always 20/20 and CJH has forgotten more about football than i will ever know...so i will defer to him. GO VOLS
 
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Saying the hurricane is coming straight at Charlotte lmao...supposed to just be windy wirh heavy rains here tho. In 1988 or 89 we had just moved to Charlotte. My aunt and her family lived in Wilmington NC on the coast...they evacuated Wilmington because the eye of the storm was supposed to hit there after passing thru Charleston. They drove about 220 miles inland to Charlotte to come stay with us for 3 or 4 days til the storm passed.... the eye hit Charleston and wrecked it....then the hurricane made a Beeline directly for Charlotte proper. Winds were still 110 to 120Mph when it hit our neighborhood about midnight maybe? I remember the eye passing over the house...TV, power etc was knocked out...but it got almost completely quiet for maybe 10 or 15 minutes? Then back to 110 plus... we always rag my Aunt about bringing that hurricane with her, and all the damage it did. We were out of school for 2 weeks!!! Didnt have power for over a week despite living less than 10 miles from Catawba nuclear station. Couldn't drive anywhere....couldn't buy gas for chainsaws etc bc the pumps were down or there wasnt a path to drive to gas station without trees blocking the road. It was awesome to a 12yo me lol. Everybodies food in their freezers was gonna go bad if we didnt cook it...so there were block parties every night til that stuff was mostly gone. We had a natural gas grill on our back patio in working order so we let anyone who wanted to come over and grill out their chicken, steaks, burgers etc. It was a really good time. Hope this storm is just rain this time. Too old for the drama...
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
Saying the hurricane is coming straight at Charlotte lmao...supposed to just be windy wirh heavy rains here tho. In 1988 or 89 we had just moved to Charlotte. My aunt and her family lived in Wilmington NC on the coast...they evacuated Wilmington because the eye of the storm was supposed to hit there after passing thru Charleston. They drove about 220 miles inland to Charlotte to come stay with us for 3 or 4 days til the storm passed.... the eye hit Charleston and wrecked it....then the hurricane made a Beeline directly for Charlotte proper. Winds were still 110 to 120Mph when it hit our neighborhood about midnight maybe? I remember the eye passing over the house...TV, power etc was knocked out...but it got almost completely quiet for maybe 10 or 15 minutes? Then back to 110 plus... we always rag my Aunt about bringing that hurricane with her, and all the damage it did. We were out of school for 2 weeks!!! Didnt have power for over a week despite living less than 10 miles from Catawba nuclear station. Couldn't drive anywhere....couldn't buy gas for chainsaws etc bc the pumps were down or there wasnt a path to drive to gas station without trees blocking the road. It was awesome to a 12yo me lol. Everybodies food in their freezers was gonna go bad if we didnt cook it...so there were block parties every night til that stuff was mostly gone. We had a natural gas grill on our back patio in working order so we let anyone who wanted to come over and grill out their chicken, steaks, burgers etc. It was a really good time. Hope this storm is just rain this time. Too old for the drama...
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The good thing for you is that the storm is coming your direction by land and not by sea.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
We actually lined up in the "I" formation for 1 snap versus flarduh and i screamed lol!! These days the lead back is usually a TE...very few programs use a fullback or the "I" formation anymore outside the service academies. It is cool to see for a change of pace....but other than a couple Nebraska teams in the 1990s, a wishbone offense has never really been able to keep up scoring 40 plus every game with the spread offenses that everyone runs now. The clock never stops running much when its "4 yards and a cloud of dust."

We run the ball plenty tho...the quick screen passes we throw to small on the edge are running plays too...because we throw the ball slightly backwards by a yard or so.... i read where Small got 22 touches against flarduh...and Wright probably had 10 or so.

I admit freely that i wish we could line up in the "I" formation on all these 4th and 1 or 2s that we go for...and actually make em. On the other side of the coin....on our last real posession against flarduh where we ran Smart off tackle (right at their 439lb DT? /think he was in ) running 3 times off tackle was dumb IMO....our little option pitch play with Hooker and Small has yet to be stopped this season from picking up a 1st down or scoring a TD. We should have tried that IMO...but hindsight is always 20/20 and CJH has forgotten more about football than i will ever know...so i will defer to him. GO VOLS
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I've seen the comment that we don't use a direct snap even for short yardage because we never use a direct snap, and it's a bad idea to do something you don't use. Kinda makes sense if you don't think about it. I get the thought, but starting back 5 yards or so to gain an inch just seems like a different recipe for disaster.
 
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