Globetrotter747

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If you aren't a fan of your local NFL team, who is it and why?

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In both the NFL and college, who I favor can change week to week depending on which players or coaches I prefer or what scenarios will stir up the most shite.

It’s all a soap opera to me.

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Your “wow” vacation

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Probably Iceland in May 2021 for two unique reasons:

1. The world was just starting to open up again with the pandemic nonsense, so there were few people around.

2. Fagradalsfjall eruption. This was arguably the best eruption in modern history that could be safely viewed by tourists on the ground.

There are a lot of great spectacles in the world, but you can see almost all of them at any time - or at least seasonally. So I am going with Iceland due to the entirety of the island itself, the low crowds due to the aftermath of the pandemic, and the good fortune of seeing Fagradalsfjall at its peak.

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Not all players respond to a certain type of coaching the same way. Tell me you realize that right?

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Switzer coached a Heisman RB four years prior and didn’t have any problems getting the best out of Lydell Carr, Patrick Collins, and Spencer Tillman en route to a national title two years after Dupree.

Switzer wasn’t a hard arse. Dupree was just soft, lazy, and undisciplined.

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You're legit arguing that Switzer did nothing wrong with Dupree and it was all on Dupree while Barry Switzer himself admits he did things wrong with Dupree. Literally no one is saying that Dupree didn't create issues for himself but I think I'm going to believe Barry Switzer made mistakes when Barry Switzer said he made mistakes.

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What are these horrible things Switzer did?

In his book, he regrets publicly criticizing Dupree following the Fiesta Bowl loss for being out of shape - and he was. You got anything worse than that? Is that something worth pouting over, especially way back in the early ‘80s when society was tougher?

Friends, family, mentors, etc., often have “regrets” when someone around them fails majorly in some way. We often think, “Well, if I had done X, Y, or Z, maybe that wouldn’t have happened.” But it’s ultimately the individual’s responsibility.

As far as I know, Switzer’s mistakes were minor, and Dupree being undisciplined and associated with a crook back home were the major catalysts.

I bet if you asked him today, Dupree would tell you he should have stayed at OU and listened to Switzer. I seem to vaguely remember him saying as much in the 30 for 30.

Switzer developed too many studs at OU and is too beloved by former Sooner players to be someone difficult to play for. The fatal flaw was in Dupree.

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College Football- Just not have Rankings to Begin the Season

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Noooo.

The controversy is what makes CFB fun. You gotta have preseason rankings. With the playoff system, the teams that deserve to be there in the end will be there in the end.

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This has nothing to do with Marcus Dupree

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Well, maybe it should - since this thread is about Marcus Dupree.

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All I was say saying is Switzer is a scumbag....

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Lots of people in power positions are scumbags. Switzer’s affair with his DC’s wife several years prior has nothing to do with how he handled Dupree.

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Sorry you didn't get that...

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Oh, I got it. It’s just irrelevant.

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You know any players that played for Bryant, Switzer or any other great Coach from that era?

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Saban chews out A.J. McCarron and slaps the hell out of him on the arse on national TV over one poor play in garbage time?

A.J. McCarron goes on the win two national titles.

Switzer criticizes Dupree for spending December eating fried chicken in Mississippi and not being in shape for the bowl, which cost them the game?

That mean ole Switzer.

Dupree was a head case and had bad influences back home, notably Ken Fairley. Very little real blame lies with Switzer. No coach, teacher, counselor, etc., can reach them all no matter how hard they try.

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The Best That Never Was. Myall time favorite 30 for 30. Sad story. I used to like Barry Switzer up until that documentary what a POS he was with Dupree.

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How’s that?

Switzer switched from the wishbone to the I to accommodate Dupree’s physical skills as a freshman in 1982. Dupree gained a bunch of weight as the season progressed, especially in the period before the bowl game. That carried over into 1983, and he left the program around midseason without saying a word after a concussion against Texas.

Every coach has regrets when things don’t work out with a special talent, but Marcus Dupree’s biggest problem was Marcus Dupree.

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I work with a guy who is 70 and has never been outside the state of Louisiana.

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I get not traveling internationally. I get not going out west. But it’s hard to imagine someone being 70 years old and having never left their home state.

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Indians are sub 2% in both TX and the US.

Are you REALLY trying to make a "changing demographics" with such an incredibly small population?

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1. That shite will change rapidly if we allow it.

2. This is a much broader issue than Indians. We all have seen problems with immigration from Muslim countries in Michigan and Minnesota, Latin Americans running across the southern border, birthright citizenship abuses, etc.

Today is my 48th birthday. When I was born, the percentage of non-Hispanic whites was 79%. Today it is 56%.

The white men who built the modern world are going to be run off the stage politically through suicidal tolerance. None of these people are going to do shite for whites as they take over power positions.

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Do you feel the same way about LSU's 2019 title since they didn't have to beat #2 in a title game?

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This question makes no sense.

Penn State and Michigan were both undefeated. #2 OSU lost to #3 Clemson in the semifinals in 2019. If there had been a poll between the semifinals and finals, Clemson would have been #2.

I don’t question the legitimacy of any national title in the playoff era - and not too many outside of it. I may question if the team that won it was actually the best team, but I don’t necessarily question the title.

For example, I don’t think 1986 PSU was as good as Miami and probably not as good as Oklahoma either, but I don’t question that they deserved the championship. They might have lost to Miami the next nine times, but they didn’t lose the only one that mattered.

But split titles like 1997 and years when a major undefeated team (1994 PSU, 2004 Auburn, etc.) didn’t get a shot or maybe had a comparable resume to #1, I may question those to varying degrees.

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How would you do when those assistants got poached away to be someone else's HC after a year?

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Can I throw the same salaries at their replacements as Saban could at Bama? Because that would help.

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Part of what made Saban great was his ability to consistently identify elite OCs when the ones he had kept getting hired away.

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1. He won four national titles with Jim McElwain, Doug Nussmeier, and Brian Daboll. I’m not saying they were bad coaches, but I wouldn’t call them offensive savants either.

2. The one thing all of Saban’s assistants had in common is this: they all had great talent to work with. Defensive staff too.

I would take Thompson High School’s staff with Alabama’s players over Alabama’s staff with an average college team any day of the week.