madmaxvol
| Favorite team: | East Tennessee St. |
| Location: | Infinity + 1 Posts |
| Biography: | Ilewminati Archbishop of Shenanigans |
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| Occupation: | Working for the man...every night and day. |
| Number of Posts: | 22288 |
| Registered on: | 10/5/2011 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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6. Tennessee: Ric Flair
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Eh.
Sorry...had to include him...he used to have a houseboat on Norris Lake and I would see him there all the time. So, that's the "Homer" pick in mye.
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Arkansas: Bear Bryant ?
Good catch...it does say "best sports figure", but I was thinking "Best Athlete" when I was looking at the lists.
re: 5 of 8 schools in the CWS are from the SEC
Posted by madmaxvol on 6/9/26 at 10:47 am to hawgfaninc
They had to load up one side, to eliminate the chance of an All SEC final 4.
Below is my list for the best athlete/figure from each SEC State
1. Alabama: Jesse Owens or Carl Lewis
2. Arkansas: Scotty Pippen, Sonny Liston or Don Hutson
3. Georgia: Jim Brown or Herschel Walker
4. Louisiana: Armand Duplantis or Bill Russell
5. Mississippi: Walter Payton, Jerry Rice or Floyd Mayweather
6. Tennessee: Reggie White, Ric Flair , Oscar Robertson or Doug Atkins
7. South Carolina: Kevin Garnett or Joe Frazier
8. Kentucky: Muhammad Ali :bow:
9. Florida: Deion Sanders or David Robinson or Ray Lewis
10. Oklahoma: Jim Thorpe or Mickey Mantle
11. Texas: Earl Campbell or Lance Armstrong or George Foreman
12. Missouri: Michael Spinks or Bill Bradley
1. Alabama: Jesse Owens or Carl Lewis
2. Arkansas: Scotty Pippen, Sonny Liston or Don Hutson
3. Georgia: Jim Brown or Herschel Walker
4. Louisiana: Armand Duplantis or Bill Russell
5. Mississippi: Walter Payton, Jerry Rice or Floyd Mayweather
6. Tennessee: Reggie White, Ric Flair , Oscar Robertson or Doug Atkins
7. South Carolina: Kevin Garnett or Joe Frazier
8. Kentucky: Muhammad Ali :bow:
9. Florida: Deion Sanders or David Robinson or Ray Lewis
10. Oklahoma: Jim Thorpe or Mickey Mantle
11. Texas: Earl Campbell or Lance Armstrong or George Foreman
12. Missouri: Michael Spinks or Bill Bradley
re: When you own family deceives you.
Posted by madmaxvol on 6/8/26 at 1:11 pm to magildachunks
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So a step sister can come put a house right there and enjoy a beautiful pond and clean land all around...
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whose property was it that she gets a claim on it? Why would someone who is not blood get the same claiming rights as you had?
Something is not adding up here.
Reading between the lines...I'm guessing that the father passed and it went to the step-mother, and she passed it on to the step-sister.
re: Mike Leach will be on the 2027 ballot for CFB HOF
Posted by madmaxvol on 6/8/26 at 1:07 pm to gladchiefisgone
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I have zero issues if Leach gets in...He was great for the game. But also if he's in it then Johnny Majors deserves to be in it.
I'd love to see Majors in there...there are damn few that are there as both a player and a coach.
He's got a higher winning percentage than Hayden Fry (inducted in 2003), and he won a NC, where Fry didn't.
It's Johnny's time at Iowa State that screwed him. He took over a program that won a total of 10 games in the prior 4 seasons, and got them to an 8-win season before he left ( 1971). Their most recent season with 8 or more wins prior to that was 1906. Actually...if you list Iowa State's winningest seasons in the first 100 years of their program, it would be:
1903 - 8-1 - AW Ristine
1906 - 9-1 - AW Ristine
1971 - 8-4 - Johnny Majors
1976 - 8-3 - Earle Bruce
1977 - 8-4 - Earle Bruce
1978 - 8-4 - Earle Bruce
Earle Bruce was inducted in 2002. At Iowa State, he was 36-32 over 6 seasons. Bruce had the advantage of taking over after Majors, who won 13 games in the prior 2 years, instead of taking over from Stapleton (who preceded Majors) who won 4 games in the prior 2 years.
I'll add. that while Majors lost both bowl games they played in when he coached Iowa State...the 20 Head Coaches who preceded him there had a record of 0-0. Iowa State had never been to a bowl game, prior to Johnny Majors taking over the reigns.
re: Mike Leach will be on the 2027 ballot for CFB HOF
Posted by madmaxvol on 6/8/26 at 12:45 pm to MoarKilometers
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Well deserved.
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They lowered the standard just for him. That's the opposite of well deserved.
They dropped the minimum percentage down to .595 last May (2025).
Exactly...if you let Leach in with a .596 winning percentage in, then who else would you have to let in? People like:
Tess McLaugry - .490 - Inducted 1962
Edward Mylin - .509 - Inducted 1974
Len Casanova - .534 - Inducted 1977
Grant Teaff - .529 - Inducted 2001
Scrappy Moore - .535 - Inducted 1980
Ray Morrison - .537 - Inducted 1954
Lou Little - .539 - Inducted 1960
Jess Neely - .539 - Inducted 1971
John Ralston - .544 - Inducted 1992
Ted Wieman - .544 - Inducted in 1956
Clark Shaughnessy - .562 - Inducted in 1968
Hayden Fry - .564 - Inducted in 2003
Harvey Harmon - .565 - Inducted in 1981
Dutch Meyer - .575 - Inducted in 1956
Dick Romney - .579 - Inducted in 1951
Bill Alexander - .580 - Inducted in 1951
Frank Howard - .580 - Inducted in 1989
Lloyd Jordan - .580 - Inducted in 1978
Bob Higgins - .582 - Inducted in 1954
Doug Porter - .583 - Inducted in 2008
Bill Ingram - .585 - Inducted in 1973
Buck Shaw - .586 - Inducted in 1972
Willie Jeffries - .587 - Inducted in 2010
George Welsh - .588 - Inducted in 2001
Marcelino Huerta - .589 - Inducted in 2002
Jerry Claiborne - .591 - Inducted in 1999
Jack Harding - .592 - Inducted in 1980
Andy Gustafson - .594 - Inducted in 1985
Bill Yeoman - .594 - Inducted in 2001
Greasy Neale - .595 - Inducted in 1967
Mike Leach - .596 - (On Ballot for Induction in 2027)
Bob Blackman - .598 - Inducted in 1987
Carmen Cozza - .599 - Inducted in 2002
I would note that the current requirement is also that a coach must have coached at least 100 games. Currently there are 9 coaches in the HOF who did not coach 100 games. One coach (Tad Wieman) coached a total of 57 games and only won .544 of them.
Edward Hall, did win .600 of is games...because his overall coaching record finished at 10-6-4, so with ties counting at 1/2, he is at 60%.
If/when inducted...Leach certainly will not be the only coach in the CFB HOF under .600.
re: Mike Leach will be on the 2027 ballot for CFB HOF
Posted by madmaxvol on 6/8/26 at 12:12 pm to ParkRanger
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What’s his biggest accomplishment?
He took Texas Tech to the highest AP ranking they have ever achieved (#2 in 2008).
Texas Tech has been in the AP Post Season Top 25 12t times in the history of the school. 5 of those (42%) were with Leach at the helm.
He took Washington State to the 3rd and 4th highest AP rankings they've ever achieved (#7 in 2018 and #8 in 2017).
He led Washington State to the only 11-win season in the history of the program (2018).
Washington State has made the CFP top 25 rankings 5 times. Leach was head coach in 4 of those 5 seasons.
Washington State has been in the Post-Season CFP polls twice...both times under Leach.
In the history of Washington State football, they have won 8 bowl games. 3 of those Bowl wins were under Leach.
It would be interesting to see how many times attendance records were broken at schools with Leach as HC.
World of Coca Cola is pretty awesome. Took my kids there when they were little and they loved it.
Flock of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song
Good song...but my favorites would be between Paul Revere and Sabotage.
Who could possibly take issue with someone taking their family to Normandy near the anniversary of D-Day? Honoring the sacrifices of those lost in battle to free others from oppression...surely there is something better the press could spend their time and energy on addressing.
re: When you graduated HS did you go with your parents on a “ Senior Trip”?
Posted by madmaxvol on 6/8/26 at 10:02 am to BowDownToLSU
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We all went to Panama City Beach for a week I’m old almost 60 but we partied it up for a week. Hell I went to PCB my junior and senior year.
We went to PCB as well...no way in Hell would I have wanted my parents down there with us. Mine was June '87, so probably not too long after you were there.
Heck...before I drove down, my brother gave me a case of beer as his graduation present to me. He even loaded into my car with a bow on it.
re: What vehicle do you wish was 10-15K cheaper so you can buy it?
Posted by madmaxvol on 6/8/26 at 9:49 am to Yewkindewit
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Had a ‘96 LS400 for about 10 years. That was a fine, beautiful, and powerful sedan. It was white! Sold it to BIL.
Finest engineered sedan, ever. That car was so far ahead of its time.
re: Favorite song with no lyrics
Posted by madmaxvol on 6/8/26 at 8:03 am to justaniceguy
re: Interesting look at fair play sq footage, fair territory in SEC Baseball Stadiums
Posted by madmaxvol on 6/8/26 at 7:09 am to lewis and herschel
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Tennessee — Lindsey Nelson
320 / 385 / 390 / 365 / 320
101,900 sq ft
Not true. Everyone from tRant knows that Tennessee's field dimensions are significantly smaller than anyone else in the SEC. Center field is actually in front of 2nd base, and right field his halfway between the plate and 1st.
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College baseball. We have uniform standards for the basketball court and for the football field. Give each NCAA team 2 years to complete.
Why don't they just enforce the minimums recommended by the NCAA?
Location: Minimum/Preferred
Left Field Line: 320 feet/330 feet
Center Field: 380 feet/400 feet
Right Field Line: 320 feet/330 feet
Fence Height: 6 feet minimum/8 feet preferred
Warning Track Width: 10-15 feet/15 feet
College Baseball Field Dimensions: Official Measurements
re: "Justified" is a better show than"Breaking Bad"
Posted by madmaxvol on 6/8/26 at 6:50 am to LoveThatMoney
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frick It, I’ll go to the Devil’s House with you and agree.
Justified is phenomenal. I’ll even go so far as to say Raylan is a better character than Walt. frick the down votes.
I'll join in, as well. Band of Brothers is the only thing I've watched on TV that I would put above Justified.
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A 2000 Lexus LS400 so it would be free.
I park my '03 LX470 next to a '92 LS400 at work. Our vehicles are older than a lot of the people we work with .
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Coal ash is desired to solidify sludge to be disposed of in a landfill. The ash is mixed into it so it can pass a paint filter test required.
The landfill would have been much better than Watts Bar Lake for this Coal Ash.
re: Is Jefferey Wright’s “Commisioner Gordon” been the only acceptable DEI/woke hire?
Posted by madmaxvol on 6/5/26 at 12:07 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington. Pick a role.
Denzel Washington as Scott Creasy in Man on Fire. In the original version (1987) Creasy was played by Scott Glenn.
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