Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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UTK said:
I almost think you could put 9 of the teams in a hat and draw at this point. Don’t see Boise, Indiana or SMU/Bama capable of winning it all. All the other ones, who knows. ASU is better than people think I believe. Who gets hot?
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Yep. Good parity this year. I really have no clue who will win it all.
 
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jordan4vols said:
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No way they drop that far in a close game with UGA. Committee was only able to get away with OSU/Vols BS because our conference commissioner doesn't have our back. He will raise hell for UTjr and probably didn't even try to stand up for us because he expected to need to fight for Tejas and is saving his ammo for them and getting an undeserving Bama in over SMU. Love the playoff but the committee, seeding and integrity is already a joke.
 
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For those of you who said a little prayer last night:



My old girl Bonnie was a little better this morning once I got her into the pasture with the others. She didn't sleep any last night, didn't even lay down. My wife and I are exhausted with no sleep last night....... But in positive news:

Guinness extra stout at room temp is a solid choice. My old goat Bonnie and I just shared a bottle. She enjoyed the warmer weather today. Ate a little feed and caught her grazing with the herd for a while today. It's going to be difficult this winter. I'll bring her in when it gets really cold. And if her quality of life suffers I'll do right by her. But so far so good.

Thank you everyone! Your thoughts and wishes are gold!
 
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gainesvol82 said:
Thanks for sharing...that was beautiful and kudos on what a great father you are. Made my eyes water a bit. I wish I had thought of something like that to get my kids to give up their pacis. It was tough. I too had the viewpoint that I didn't want to lie to my kids about fairies, etc. but you did the right thing and got the benefit of seeing your daughter's naturally beautiful, sweet heart. Truly amazing and brought a tear to my eye. I miss those days but love how cool my kids have become as little mini "grownups".

My son didn't believe in Santa from a very young age because his mother's answers made no sense to him (I didn't really get involved). I will never forget the Christmas when he was 3 and his mom was giving him the "naughty/nice" Santa spiel. He waited for her to leave the room and came crawling up into my lap and whispered "Daddy....Santa's not real is he?"

I asked him what made him think so and he rattled off a list of very well thought out reasons of how it was impossible and how Santa couldn't know whether to give his little 1 year old baby sister presents since "babies can't be naughty or nice, they're just babies". He also couldn't justify that kids in places that don't celebrate Christmas might not get gifts. He was so intelligent and rational and looking to me for truth that I couldn't bring myself to lie to his face with those big blue eyes looking at me with total trust so I just shook my head no and smiled.

Before I could explain his mother's story, he then said quietly, "I knew the presents were from you but don't tell Mommy because she believes in Santa and I don't want her to be sad." Absolutely melted my heart to see his capacity for love and to think of others feelings. Lol, his mom wasn't so happy when he told his sister that Santa wasn't real a couple years later but I doubt she would have believed long. Made me a little sad that they didn't experience the same magic of Christmas that I did but it's different now anyway and FL doesn't have the same feel as the holidays in TN.

Being a father is the best (other than seeing my wife be a mother). Boys are sweet up to a certain age when aggression takes over more but little girls.....man, they are such sweet little angels for much longer. My son is 14 now and is my pride, my buddy and a huge headache when he's being stubborn. But his 12 year old sister is my heart and I love that she is so close to me. She has really gotten into reading fantasy authors this year and she makes me guess every day how many pages she read at at school....usually 75-100. I just gave her Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson and that's all she wants to talk about the minute I walk in the door from work. He is her new favorite author....at least until I buy her The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan.

I hope your family, especially your daughter, has a magical Christmas and childhood. Protect that angel with your life, my man. I know you will. TL;DR.
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Man, that was awesome. Thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas to y'all. Sounds like you got some highly intelligent kids!! Mine also makes me read to her constantly. Fascinated by books. She's 2.5 and has memorized a couple of kids books and will read them to herself. When she sees familiar words on other things she will call them out and will try to sound out the other words and ask what they are. It's so exciting to watch them figure things out and get smarter and more character/personality every day
 
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