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Bennie Wylie sighting on NBC, guess he's a trainer in this show called Strong. He just tweaked his hammy in a challenge.
 
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jave36 said:
Or at all for any celebrity. Unless they've been some amazing humanitarian like mother Theresa, I can't stand all the mourning and weeping over someone just because they were famous.
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Mother Theresa barely got coverage because of the timing in proximity to Princess Di's death.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
Thieves, murderers, and rapists go to jail. They won't be playing on any team. If you're talking about "allegations" then thats all they are....allegations. I'm simply saying I don't care about what someone is alleged to do.

Like I said in another thread. These guys aren't asking to marry your daughter. They're playing football to entertain you. Their personal loves should not matter to you. The only thing that should matter is can he make my football team better.

And I'll take any football player that can make my team better that isn't going to jail.
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Our player's personal lives is currently the reason why our university is at the center of a Title IX lawsuit. So yeah, I'm not really in favor of fielding a team full of thugs.
 
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orangeblood79 said:
Our player's personal lives is currently the reason why our university is at the center of a Title IX lawsuit. So yeah, I'm not really in favor of fielding a team full of thugs.
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While I get where you're coming from it is obvious you haven't played college sports. There are a big mix of bad dudes on every winning program. Just the way it is.
 
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VolinArizona said:
Bet you the people fine with taking Alexis Johnson gave Alabama hell for signing a known woman beater as a transfer last year.
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Not me. I'm consistent on this issue. I don't care about what a guy does off the field. All I care about is can he ball. If he can then let him play unless he's going to jail.

The kid should have never been suspended in the first place.
 
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orangeblood79 said:
Our player's personal lives is currently the reason why our university is at the center of a Title IX lawsuit. So yeah, I'm not really in favor of fielding a team full of thugs.
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I'm in favor of a team full of good players. Don't care about anything else. And the lawsuit is about how the university handled those sexual assaults cases not a relitigation of the alleged assaults.

If the university doesn't break any rules, there is no lawsuit.
 
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It's a civil suit so it's completely possible that the university "doesn't break any rules" and still is found culpable.

Cutting Alexis Johnson loose based on his misdemeanor domestic violence rap would only benefit UTs standing in that particular lawsuit.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
Not me. I'm consistent on this issue. I don't care about what a guy does off the field. All I care about is can he ball. If he can then let him play unless he's going to jail.

The kid should have never been suspended in the first place.
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
I'm in favor of a team full of good players. Don't care about anything else. And the lawsuit is about how the university handled those sexual assaults cases not a relitigation of the alleged assaults.

If the university doesn't break any rules, there is no lawsuit.
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smh

UT should start recruiting thugs, not give a crap about discipline, make the program look like a dump and full of low class morons...but don't worry. We got the W so fans like Dobbs fanboy can be happy.
 
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Sorry (not really) to break up all the lawsuit talk and everything.

I'm rewatching the Orange &White Game and I think this staff has address most if not all the deficiencies we had last year.

1) Dobbs looked really good throwing it, and I can't help but to think a lot of that was Croom being back, and fresh tutelage under the Larry Scott. That, and...

2) Playmaking catches from both Preston and Jeff George.. I don't want to jinx it, but if these two are as reliable in the fall as they were in the OWG, we could be literally BigXII/'14 Oregon/'15 TCU-level unstoppable on offense. This is without any progression from the rest of our WR corps, hypothetically.

3) TKJr. looked seasoned. I mean, dude's a junior now, but he really looks the part. Speaking of the safety positions-- Last year, we couldn't create a takeaway to save our life. Having Gaulden back is going to bring MASSIVE improvement in creating TO's with Shoop's more aggressive defense.

4) Obviously serious playcalling doesn't exist in a scrimmage like this, but I hope seeing Dobbs throw like he did under simulated game conditions allows DeBord and company to call some consistent pass plays in actual games.

There's a lot more, but I've been coasting through some brews, and I'm getting, ahem, tired. But a parting thought: We still have Kongbo, Fils-Aime, Byrd, Warrior, and more valuable depth than we've had since Fulmer coming in over the summer.

This might be the year that even the optimistic among us could be underrating the team. Imagine that.
 
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SpringBokVol said:
Golf got in the way of the things he wanted to do. He was a man full of demons. Probably still is.
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If he would have tamed his desires of the military/SEALS stuff and the extramarital stuff, he would have blown Jack's record out of the water by now. Probably could have won 20-25 majors, and put that record so far out of reach that no one could touch it. The interesting and almost eerie thing that I remember his dad said some time before he died is that he thought Tiger would win 14 majors and would retire while he was still young. Earl thought Tiger had a bigger calling that he would want to give his time to, instead of golf into his older years. That's pretty weird when you think about where Tiger is now, and the speculation if he will ever play again. I'm almost wondering if this story was released as a prelude to his retirement. It's pretty clear that he prefers being a dad and living in solitude versus the rock star status he has a professional golfer.
 
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OGbabyaviVol said:
If he would have tamed his desires of the military/SEALS stuff and the extramarital stuff, he would have blown Jack's record out of the water by now. Probably could have won 20-25 majors, and put that record so far out of reach that no one could touch it. The interesting and almost eerie thing that I remember his dad said some time before he died is that he thought Tiger would win 14 majors and would retire while he was still young. Earl thought Tiger had a bigger calling that he would want to give his time to, instead of golf into his older years. That's pretty weird when you think about where Tiger is now, and the speculation if he will ever play again. I'm almost wondering if this story was released as a prelude to his retirement. It's pretty clear that he prefers being a dad and living in solitude versus the rock star status he has a professional golfer.
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That's a good point.

I think if it were truly up to him he would be done. He doesn't need it.

But he will give it one more go and then be done IMO.
 
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I'm quite sure Woods is burning with desire to be good again and win another major. The question is, will his body hold up? He's had a lot of serious injuries over the last several years. It's really a question of whether or not he can get fully healthy and stay that way long enough to sharpen his game. It's a tough road now, at age 40, but Nicklaus won the Master's at age 46. Tiger has still got time to make some noise--if he can stay healthy.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
Not me. I'm consistent on this issue. I don't care about what a guy does off the field. All I care about is can he ball. If he can then let him play unless he's going to jail.

The kid should have never been suspended in the first place.
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And yet another statement to invalidate anything you might say. I realize that there are some players on the fringe of being in trouble and that you can't recruit all "high character" players. You have to take some chances with players who may have been in trouble before, but to say that you don't care what a player does off the field, is simply just very lame.
 
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