The Fake Lonnie Finch

We all need to go ahead and say this: It's not that the players aren't talented; it's that they are human. By the tail end of the season, week after week of giving up that much weight to the guys you are battling wears the guys out. It think it was Charles Browns' dad who eluded to that after Dodge moved his son from TE to DT. He played on there at 250-260 and it took a toll on his body. It's not just having bodies. It's having bodies built for that position and depth as well. There's no question these guys might have good motors. But, the guys across from them have motors as well. And, we can speak of Booger Kennedy lack of height...but, he didn't have lack of bulk/weight. Besides that, you are talking the exception rather than the rule with Booger. You can't expect every undersized DT to do what he did. And, you surely can't have it be the modus operendi year in and year out on an FBS defensive line.

Look, they can in no way kick Abbe off the squad. As bad as the situation is, that makes it even worse. This is one of those times where you look at ethics versus what gives us at least a chance of competing. If he keeps his nose clean through the summer, let him stay. Now...multiply that by 1,000 and you have the type of pressure the coaches at Texas, Michigan, USC, OU, Bama, etc. have in these situations.

For the hard of hearing, that means I think it's all on 2013. So, have the player have their "It's All On" t-shirts to wear beneath their jerseys in 2013.

No. And, this is where we find out whether McCarney cares more about winning or long term friendships. If we have another losing season, and another recruiting period where we do not get DTs, and no coaches are let go...we'll have our answer as to whether this will change. My vote is rapidly becoming this: -If we have another losing season and... a. McCarney stays - changes to the staff would be expected. b. McCarney is fired - we hire a young coach, preferrably a defensive coordinator, with experience in 3-DL defensive formations. People can talk all they want about giving more money, etc. But, money doesn't win ball games. I saw on one of Harry's posts that Boise State's athletic budgets was just over $21 million dollars - about 2/3rds of SMU, less than TCU, etc. At some point you do what other programs have done: take your lemons (lack of money and the perceptions it causes) and make lemonade (wins) anyway. Put it this way - Question: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Answer: I don't f*cking know, but I can eat either one of them. Moral of the story: quit making excuses and win. (NOTE: By the way, this doesn't mean I'm ungrateful for RV rolling the dice on McCarney. No one was louder and more persistent about hiring experience than I was after Dodge was canned. But, look...at some point you have to look at what the dice roll is and admit the gamble didn't work out for us, here are some nice parting gifts...NEXT!)

Thank you. I've posted something similar in the past. Here's a clip I"ve posted before about BYU's 3-3-5. If we can't get enough servicable DTs, maybe a scheme change is in order: http://www.ksl.com/?nid=272&sid=12785897

Look, if they'd committed to us, we'd have been saying, "Look who we beat for this guy!" Okay. We understand it isn't perfect. The point is, I think, low-on-the-totem-pole outfits like Rice and Texas State are going ahead and getting commitments. We are not. And, whatever faith you do or do not put into those things, I, for one, thought McCarney would be more of a draw at this point.

Can we wait until his career is over before we compare him to Bird, Wilt, Russell, Jordan, Kobe, Karl, World B. Free, and Oliver Miller?

Well, I'm married to a real Mexican...not an American Hispanic...so, I'm not sure how much more melted in the pot our family can get. As far as education, what difference does it make? The community doesn't raise my child, my wife and I do. We filter what comes home from the school and supplement with our own math, science, and reading. It doesn't matter what color you are, if you ignore your children's education, you have no one to blame but yourself.

Yes. We live in Frisco...TX.

Louisiana Tech - Their logo. Rice - Logo. Southern Miss - Nothing. Bad logo. Stupid for firing Jeff Bower. Deserve every bad thing that happenes to them. I hope they end up in the Southland Conference. Southern Miss, in my eyes, smells of soot and poo. Tulsa - Rolled the dice with the Kragthorpe hire a decade ago, and it made a huge difference in the long run. Nice logo as well. Although, I do hate their "uniform of the week" kick they've been on for the past couple of years. Still...that comes from having the money to do it, which brings us back to...rolling the dice on Kragthorpe. UTEP - Logo. Enticing a bowl game for decades to their far flung, out of the way, yet friendly, corner of the world. UTSA - Hiring Larry Coker. 85% on board with the logo. They should drop the word "Roadrunners" from it. Having the Roadrunner head above the letters "UTSA" is fine. Imagine if Texas had the words "Longhorns" underneath the Longhorn head. It is redudndant. Kill it, UTSA. Kill it, now.

Yes to all of it. It wasn't until recently that my wife's home country, Mexico, made education compulsary past what we consider junior high. Here, if a kid stops showing up, someone is knocking at the parents' door to find out where they went. Not so for many decades in Mexico. And,what do we have here in Texas? A bunch of Mexicans. And, what is thought about education burned into first generation immigrants - wasn't important at home, probably not going to be important here. You need to go ahead and throw in huge misconceptions. We know a family where none of the kids went to college, although they all graudated high school and were quite bright. The parents told me colleges were racist against Mexicans. I told them nothing was further from the truth - colleges fall all over themselves to get Mexicans admitted, even having quotas! There is much ignorance in the Mexican community about education. Some of it is understandable because of the parents' language barrier. But, some of it is just down right ignorance about how the system works. And, here is where high school guidance counselors really need to pick up the ball and run with it. As far as whites and blacks...if their American, English speaking parents are not educating them at home as well as keeping as close eye on what they are doing at school, then their kids' failure is their fault. Not Rick Perry's or any other government official. There are so many opportuities for parents to get involved with their kids' lives, there are no excuses. Number 1: YOUR KIDS LIVE IN YOUR HOUSE WITH YOU EVERY DAY! Pay attention to their schooling! As to Asians...yes. They do it right. We're talking about many people forced to come here due to wars and things in the mother countries, yet succeeding in spite of language barriers. It's why when politicians say, "Minorities" they are never talking about the smallest percentage of "Minorities" - Asian, Indians, Middle Easterners. They really only mean American Hispanics, Mexicans, and Blacks. The politicians who represent the American Hispanics, Mexicans, and Blacks want to hear nothing of Asians, Indians, and Middle Easterners (and, throw in Eastern Europeans) coming here and succeeding academically in spite of language and cultural differences. Those success stories screw up their narrative about the RIck Perrys of the world not giving them enough money and so forth.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/footballrecruiting/football/recruiting/commitments/2014/olddominion-649 They're not doing too poorly. I'll never understand why our fans don't just admit that we aren't getting the athletes we thought we would (or, many of us thought we would) under McCarney. It is impressive that Old Dominion, which isn't even playing FBS ball yet, is able to land a three-star recruit. Their coach has never had a losing record, led them to the FCS playoffs the past two years. This isn't a school that will come into the C-USun Belt laying down. We pooh-poohed UTSA, and they are equal to us. Larry Coker knows what he is doing and always has. I suspect that if the Roadrunners beat us this year, some will still find ways to pooh-pooh UTSA and Coker. Franchione down at Texas State has a couple of recuits. He built TCU on no-name guys. Can McCarney do the same here? I don't know what to think about McCarney anymore. I love his experience. But, a 2013 with 3 to 4 wins...that would have me really worried. Sorry, but I've got to be honest. I was honest about what I thought Todd Dodge's shortcomings were; I've got to be honest about McCarney as well. I have been disappointed with the way the recruiting has gone. I really thought it would have gone up a notch by now. We've all said it thousands of time already, but...a whole lot is riding on this season's outcome. If we cannot win more than four this year, do we go ahead and bring someone else in for a try?

Picked up an offer from Purdue in May and accepted it at their camp over the weekend. On Rivals...and, text from his mom. Crazy. Offers from Memphis and Purdue. They have ties up there. Grandad was from Illinois, played basketball in college at Carleton in Minnesota, and got a Master's at U Chicago. They stayed in Chicago for many years (most of his mom's young life) before moving to Dallas. So, they've got family and friends up there. Purdue is about 120 miles from Chicago. WARNING TO DARRELL DICKEY HATERS: It was Dickey who recruited him for Memphis - http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1508525 Recruiting for Purdue, former NFL QB coach John Shoop, currently the Boilermakers' OC/QB coach. Good kid from a good family. It'll be fun to see him develop over the next four or five years. Wish it was going to be in Denton: https://twitter.com/David_Blough10

I have bias for Tulsa because my parents are from there and I went to grad school at TU. Living in Tulsa was okay for three years, but I was ready to come back to Dallas. Tulsa, for sure, has many unique eating establishments. If you like non-chain food, Tulsa is about the Non-Chain Capital of Good Food in America, Tulsa is about as safe as you can get on the crime side, as long as you stay South. The west (of 75) and north sides (of 244) are no-gos. I know I've posted all of this before, but here is an off-the-top of my head list of unqie eating places in Tulsa: Bar-B-Que: Elmer's, home of the Badwich Seafood: Bodean (51st Street) Cajun: S&J Oyster Co (Detroit and 1st? Near downtown) American: Coney-I-Lander (several locations in Tulsa) American: Bill & Ruth's Subs (several locations in and around Tulsa) American: Ron's Hamburgers and Chili (two or three locations around Tulsa) American: Ike's Chili (downtown) American: The Brook (South Peoria) American: Weber's Root Beer (still make their own Root Beer, grill great Burgers...S Peoria) Lebanese: Jamil's Steakhouse (still on 51st, but now on the east side of Harvard) Breakfast: Brookside By Day (South Peoria...the also a BBD II "The Duece" up near Jenks at 81st and Harvard. I lived at 81st and Yale back in the day, so The Duece was a good breakfast/brunch option) Tex-Mex: Senor Tequila (original on 51st, close to Jamil's...look, if you're absolutely jonesing for Tex-Mex try this place. But, really, we're from Texas and it's not going to be any better than the Tex-Mex you find around DFW. I never had outstanding Italian in Tulsa. Like Tex-Mex, you've probably had better here in DFW. South Peoria/Brookside area (roughly E 15th north up Peoria to 51st) has many restaurants and bars: The Brook, Kilkenny's Irish Pub, Webers, Elmer's, one of the Ron's, one of the Coney-I-Landers...hit Brookside, for sure, on a Friday night. Utica Square is an upscale shopping area in Tulsa. Not an enclosed mall. Not a totally planned thing like the new set of retails in Allen or Firewheel. It's an outdoor store-to-store that has been there since the indoor mall was the thing; so, it's kid of ahead of its time. Maybe a little Highland Park Village feel, but Tulsa-sized and speed. Polo Grill is worth checking out there if you're a sit down and drink wine-type. it's kind of a date place. Or, at least, I used it as a date place. You can see that most of the stuff is American. But, that's kind of to be expected. You're in the middle of the country in the heart of old Route 66. It's unique and I wish to hell TU were staying in C-USA with us. I've got plenty of relatives up there to visit. But, you know how it is - once you get your own wife, kids, and whatnot, you see cousins less and less. UNT-TU was always a good excuse to get back up there.

The graph has a lifetime transferable warranty to any panic scenario leftist enviromentalists want to create from generation to generation. Cooling. Warming. It's handy.

I don't think the greenies even know how much of a "carbon footprint" they make. Nor do I think most of them really care. I think they are mainly driven by the desire to simply oppose oil companies for the sake of opposing them. The majority of them have no idea how many petroleum-based products they use daily. I don't think even a tenth of them realize how many petroleum-based products they use daily. And, it benefits them greatly. I still see them driving cars. I still see them living in asphalt shingled houses. They wear shoes and permanent press clothing. They - some of them - still use hygiene products. And, on and on and on, on, and on. The beat don't stop until the break of dawn. I'll take them seriously when the streets are flooded with bicyclers and pedestrians, and they are living in hovels and caves, hunched over campfires eating the food they killed or harvested themselves. Otherwise, they are just silly people consuming and using many petroluem products daily while railing against them. Here's something all greenies should do: go to Nicaragua or some other third world country without strong oil companies producing life enhancing products for them. Go down there and live with a minimal "carbon footprint" and other such nonsense. Hypocrisy. That's all it is with these greenies. There is no way any of them, in spite of all of their spit and vemon, will ever abandon the petroleum product in America that make their lives easier. Shut up until you live in a cave, live with fire as your main source of energy, and are sustaining yourself on what you kill and grow. Buttholes. Ted Nugent is leaving less of a "carbon footprint" than most of the greenies and lefties who rail against him. Ding dongs. (P.S. - Speaking of Ted, guitar strings are made with petroleum-based products. So...all of those protest singers...they are using petroleum based products to oppose petroleum producers. Yes, it's that laughable. Beardo the Weirdo ranting on the corner with his beat up guitar has his hands all over petroleum products.)

Come on, O, Prophets of Green Doomsday...save us! Save yourselves first. Stop being hypocrites. If you live in a structure topped by these, tear them off or move out, if not today as soon as possible to prove your commitment to the cause: And, then, pull these things off your car: Come on, O, Prophets of Green...lead the way!

If the people who preach that we should stop using carbon-based stuff would stop using carbon-based stuff to set the example I might follow. Here...here's a list. And, it's a list right on PBS.org so you'll know it's not a church or Sara Palin preaching to you about what you'll be giving up...if you ever put your money where your green mouth is: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/classroom/wwo/petroleum.pdf Go ahead, greenies...start with the "Building and Home" list. I'll come over and help you pull all of that stuff out of and off your house, so that you can really show the world how serious you are about being "green." Next, we'll go out to the driveway and remove the stuff listed under automotive out of and off your car. It's always nice to get a good laugh at "green" folks who preach ditching carbon, yet still drive cars and live in structures like houses. apartments, duplexes, condos, and whatnot. Practice what you preach, greenies. The list is right there on your favorite television station, PBS. Go ahead, live carbon free, carbon-free bangers!

Yes. This would be an awesome get for us.

Here's a common problem I've seen just in Frisco ISD. We get to the second half of the year and the teachers are all up in yang about supply shortages. This year, it was glue sticks. Now, last August, every kid had on his school supply list to bring five glue sticks. There are 20 kids in my son's class, that's 100 glue sticks. Just over half way through the year, they are out of glue sticks. They tell my wife one day after she picks him up. She's incredulous because they started with 100, plus we pay school taxes out the wazoo in Frisco. So, it was her, not me, who said, "Hell, no! Buy your own glue sticks." My problem is, what in the hell do glue sticks have to do with math, science, and reading? Are you out of glue sticks? Aw. Well, get on to your multiplication tables. You don't have to glue one damn thing memorize multiplication tables. Get into fractions. Do something to help better my son and his classmates besides all these damn crafts they have them doing all the time. When I was in elementary school in the 70s, we had one bottle of Elmer's glue, and somehow it lasted all year long. Somehow. And, the somehow was because from as early as I can remember, we were kept busy with worksheets. Worksheets of math. Worksheets of spelling. Worksheets of grammar. Worksheets of science that kids can relate to like weather. Worksheets of simple American history. Our education system has been hijacked long ago by educators who confuse school with preschool. They are worried about the kids' "feelings" and "self-esteem." And, so they've got all of these stupid activities disguised as lessons that, in our part of Frisco, seem to require lots and lots of glue stick. Quit your f-ing crafting of every lesson and make the kids use their brains. The whole reason we frequent places like Mardel is for extra work to keep our son and daughter busy. If the Frisco ISD were doing its job, we wouldn't have to have night homeschool. The thing is, when you become a parent, you have to understand that your local public ISD is full of mush headed teachers. After paying taxes, buying everything on an increasingly long school supply list, and going to teachers meetings with the automation-like educators that inhabit the schools, you just resign yourself to the fact that you yourself have to be the foundation of your children's education. Your kids' teachers are too busy worrying about unnecessary glue stick supply agendas to teach.

Baloney. If money were the problem, it would have long ago been solved. Remember, the lottery was supposed to take care of all education funding woes. The most important thing the government does is make sure there is a competitive business environment. Homeschoolers have more than proven that the government isn't doing the best job educating. If parents are not going to get in the game for their own children's education, that isn't my problem. It's their kids' problem. My kids will be able to get into good colleges, and they will be able to get jobs and have careers. Some of you have these vivid imaginations that other people are responsbile for your children. My kids are my responsibility. Whatever information is fed them by the Frisco ISD, we filter at home, and augment as necessary. If you are too lazy to keep up with your kids' education, that is not my problem. You either make your kids' education your own priority or you don't. It is not a problem for me. Abe Lincoln sat in the floor of a dirt cabin. Some kids just got paid $1.1 billion for Tumblr after his own mother realized school was a waste of time for his talents. You don't need piles of money to educate kids. You yourself need to follow what they are doing, fill in, and recognize what their strengths are and champion them. Running around trying to blame politicians for kids' failure is the height of lazy thinking. The success or failure of a child begins and ends at home. If you expect Hillary Clinton's village to raise your kids, then you gamble on what you get. We don't gamble on our kids' future; we are helping make it a success for them every day.

Houston was what, 5-7 last year, and had their asses handed to them by Texas State? So.... Never mind. You can't fix delusional.

I'll go ahead a address education: If you do not work on study habits with your own kids when they are young, no amount of money will make them better students. The reality is that many, many kids' parents do not work with them academically at home, with extra work beyond what the kid is doing at school. We choose to give our kids extra work. And, because we have done it since they were preschoolers, it doesn't seem extra to them. I'm too old to worry about what is happening in the lives of others. I have two kids and am responsible for them no matter what is happening at their schools. In my opinion, we overpay for what we get in Frisco, so I'm happy to be teaching them at home as well. If other parents - for whatever reason - do not work with their own kids, that isn't my problem. And, it isn't Rick Perry's problem either. I hope that someday America will again be filled with people who will be personally responsible for their kids. You look at what has happened to the education system and it's nothing but a picture of parental give up - the amount of free meals given, the inability to enforce discipline, the teaching of time wasting subjects instead of math, reading, and writing. If I ever were to register to vote again, I'd gladly vote for a politician like Rick Perry who doesn't cave to the whining education establishment. My kids belong to me and their education is my responsibility, not the responsibility of the local ISD or state government. Whatever the local ISD feeds them, we filter and augment when necessary. People need to get off their butts and do the same.

Oh...so his presence only effects education, but not business? Hmmm. What a magical man.