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Z06VolinWV said:
Yep. They’ll wait at the door on delivery days and come in asking for this or that.
WV abc use to have a public accessible website that showed what stores are getting, and people would show up demanding we sell them X bc the “website” said we were getting it.
I, and come other owners lobbied to have it taken down and they finally did.
We have actually had to call the cops on folks raising hell bc our employees wouldn’t search through the 100+ cases during store hours to find them a bottle.
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volinbama256 said:
Read an article about Tank Bigsby maybe looking at the transfer portal- would be a home run, day one starter with Evans leaving… hell, at this point he’d be a day one starter even if Evans stays because he can’t stay healthy… would be a huge get…
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oh my god if we got Tank Bigsby that would be incredible. he's elite
 
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InVOLuntary said:
You realize the shoulder and butt are basically referring to the same part of the animal? The butt of the pig would actually be the ham.

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I do now. Lol.
 
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#1Volfaninmo said:
Pork butts are easy. I smoke mine at around 225 degrees until the internal temp is 160ish. Then I run the cooking temp up to 300-350 and raise the internal temp to 195-200. This is the temp required to make the pork easy to pull. Find whatever rub you like to put on it.
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drvenner said:
OK, Morans. I have a brand spanking new PitBoss electric smoker. I have never smoked anything in my life, except for a few cigarettes that David Ubben peddled to me when I was 11.

I am thinking of starting with a pork shoulder or pork butt (can't type without laughing) but am open to other options. I want it to be as easy as possible and not waste too terribly much money in case I mess it up.

TIA.
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I’m excited for you to be learning how to smoke your own meats. Trust me you will get carried away with it! I like to follow Malcom Reed just search How to BBQ Right and you will find him. His website has some great recipes as well as how-to videos and he goes into great detail and explanation of what he does and why. Also has a lot of good rubs.

Pork butt is the easiest and safest meat to start with. Smoke until you reach the stall temp (usually ~160 *F) and then wrap it in either butcher paper or aluminum foil. I also like to add at this point a special made vinegar-based sauce that helps bring a good apple vinegar taste to the meat as well as break the muscle fibers down further helping with moistness as well as tenderness. Once you hit 198*F (this temp depends on who you talk to) pull the butt off the smoker and keep it wrapped for another 30-60 minutes. Then, pull apart the butt and enjoy.

Pro too: go buy some nitrile gloves and gardening gloves. This will help your hands with handling the meat when it’s hot.
 
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BigSteve09 said:
There are multiple paths to success, though.

Is it recruiting fertile ground?
Is it your own school/leadership are enabling the program?
Is it your conference?
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USC sits smack dab in the middle of at least one of the top 5 most talent rich areas in the country, and any other program within a 12 hour drive basically has to settle for the players they don’t want.

You just said it yourself that USC upgraded at AD. Florida has fired its last 2 coaches one year removed from winning the SEC East, and that program seems to have slipped into a little bit of dysfunction (and I’m here for it). LSU may have a slight edge as far as admin is concerned, maybe. But has the new USC admin even been around long enough to say for sure?

LSU is in the toughest division of the toughest conference in all of college football. Oregon is literally the only team in USC’s conference that should even give them a run year in and year out.

For all these reasons, I still say USC is the better job.
 
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utvols83 said:
Dropped every deer I ever shot at with one shot. Just a great, reliable, and accurate rifle. Not ideal for hunting wide open spaces with long shots, but perfect for the deep woods I hunted.
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I used a Remington 700 30-06 when hunting out in wide open places in Texas when I was a teenager, but when I moved to Georgia I never had a shot over 100 yrds and it was always brushy. That .35 200 grain is a big ol heavy slow mauler...it puts them down.
 
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MrVolton said:
USC sits smack dab in the middle of at least one of the top 5 most talent rich areas in the country, and any other program within a 12 hour drive basically has to settle for the players they don’t want.

You just said it yourself that USC upgraded at AD. Florida has fired its last 2 coaches one year removed from winning the SEC East, and that program seems to have slipped into a little bit of dysfunction (and I’m here for it). LSU may have a slight edge as far as admin is concerned, maybe. But has the new USC admin even been around long enough to say for sure?

LSU is in the toughest division of the toughest conference in all of college football. Oregon is literally the only team in USC’s conference that should even give them a run year in and year out.

For all these reasons, I still say USC is the better job.
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Good points, and you aren't wrong, but Florida and LSU are still better jobs.

Regarding recruiting - LSU and Florida have just as much access to elite recruits. You could even argue that LSU has greater access to recruits because they are THE program in the state of Louisiana, which is a football talent hotbed.

USC upgraded at AD, sure. But a scarecrow wearing a USC polo would be an upgrade from Lynn Swann.

What has changed since USC was last elite in football? Los Angeles has two pro football teams now. USC is no longer the big show. In Los Angeles you are competing with the Rams, the Chargers, the Lakers, Angels, Dodgers, UCLA, the beach, major city entertainment and attractions.

I think the argument could be made to put USC in the same tier as Florida (probably with Texas too). But that tier is squarely underneath Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia, and LSU.

Three different coaches have won a championship at LSU in the past 2 decades. This proves that everything is in place to win there.
 
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If the "path to the championship" is so much easier in the Pac 12 and ACC, then why are all of the elite coaches grouping together in the Big Ten and SEC?

Big time jobs pay more, sure, but if it really is all about championships, wouldn't all the ACC and Pac12 jobs fill up with the best coaches right away? Wouldn't everyone be scared off of Big Ten East and SEC West jobs?

Lack of conference competition is not the same thing as easiest path to the championship.

The thing that makes the SEC the toughest is also what makes it the best - the best players want to play in the SEC. The best coaches want to coach in the SEC. The best jobs are in the SEC.
 
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