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RugbyBuck said:
I was on a philosophy teaching fellowship from '91-'93, then bailed and went to law school. Taught ethics and logic, which is ironic as I'm frequently unethical and illogical. Was my first job and I think it paid $18K a year plus my grad tuition and student football tix. Lived in what could best be described as a housing project behind the McDonald's at 16th when you could get burgers for $.25 on Monday nights. and you could get a burrito a few doors down that was like three meals worth. Best fcuking time.
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Those were good days, remember them well. I had an intro philosophy class thought by some really old but great guy. IIRC he was somewhere in Bertrand Russell’s lineage. Closer to Russell than further… he was old.

Also had an ethics class at tOSU. The guy was too old to be a grad student and had a bit of an accent. African maybe? Either way, one day we were discussing the ethics of dating and this guy used to call on people randomly to keep the class on its toes. I forgot the prompt a long time ago but once, when called upon in that discussion, I made reference to ‘coyote ugly.’ Probably related to ‘do you call her back’ type of question. The prof either was not familiar with the term or felt like putting me on the spot, so I had to explain to the class that sometimes you wake up next to someone and rather than waking them you’d rather gnaw your arm off… like a coyote in a trap. Ahh… good times.

For as much set theory as I deal with in data science, I always wished that I had taken a formal logic class. I always loved the topic, but alas… there were math and stats classes to take!
 
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And, opinions are like a**holes, everyone's got one....amazing how we look back at the 'lean times', with some fondness. Wife and I looked back at our salad days, where she would make some chicken veronique, (that's chicken salad with sliced grapes, folks) go up the Santa Cruz mountains, suck down some free wine from a winery up there, have a picnic, and look out over Silicon Valley, as our main week end entertainment. Today, we spend a whole lot more, and cannot really say the times are better.
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
For as much set theory as I deal with in data science, I always wished that I had taken a formal logic class. I always loved the topic, but alas… there were match and stats classes to take!
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The grad symbolic logic classes were a significant contributing factor to my pulling the rip cord and coming back to ATL for law school. There was just no way to maintain the tOSU undergrad (both my roommates were) lifestyle to which I’d become accustomed as the classes got more advanced. :)
 
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Bestbuck36 said:
Is this guy going to be able to recruit or do we care about that anymore?
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I don't think we care about that anymore, now that we can have unlimited assistants. The only issue is if the kids will care that the OC isn't the one talking to them or not. Who knows. Seems like the strategy is to go get guys who know stuff and ignore if they hate recruiting or not (the good ones usually do).....then let the younger positional coaches who can relate to the kids better do all the recruiting.

Strategy is sound....as long as the kids don't care that we aren't sending the OC or DC.
 
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I really don't get the hate. He did well enough as Mike Vrabel's OC to get an NFL head coaching job, and was more successful than Patricia in his time with Detroit. He dealt with garbage talent with the Steelers the past 2 years, yet still went to the playoffs both years there. I haven't heard anyone who has worked with him say anything bad, and most of the good sounds pretty similar to what people are saying about MP. I would be terrified about going this hard against the hire out of fear that he does for the offense what Patricia did for the defense. I stand with Day. If he's good with it, I'm good with it.
 
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exhawg said:
I really don't get the hate. He did well enough as Mike Vrabel's OC to get an NFL head coaching job, and was more successful than Patricia in his time with Detroit. He dealt with garbage talent with the Steelers the past 2 years, yet still went to the playoffs both years there. I haven't heard anyone who has worked with him say anything bad, and most of the good sounds pretty similar to what people are saying about MP. I would be terrified about going this hard against the hire out of fear that he does for the offense what Patricia did for the defense. I stand with Day. If he's good with it, I'm good with it.
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Why did he have to deal with shitty Pittsburgh talent? Why weren't teams clamoring for his TE brilliance?
 
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jwinslow said:
With a masterful, best in class QB who is an unfair comparison to Julian due to age.

That IU offense had so much experience, consistency, and surprisingly decent talent in 12 personnel.

The result?
- limped past Iowa
- played okay vs Oregon
- played okay vs PSU
- limped past OSU
- Narrowly beat Miami, despite being gifted 7 points on special teams.

That's not to undermine their effort, or how dominant they were at other times. But if OSU looked like Indiana most of the year, and then played like that against IU & Miami, the fans would not be pleased.

Winning cures all.
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the ONLY thing that the Hoosiers had on Ohio State was experience.

no one is saying that the standard of Ohio State is Indiana, even with their best season ever.

the standard at Ohio State is Ohio State.

winning DOESN'T cure all. it clouds your vision and tricks you into thinking that you're better than you actually are.

"Nothing cleanses the soul like getting the hell kicked out of you." -Wayne Woodrow Hayes
 
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lvbuckeye said:
the standard at Ohio State is Ohio State.
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The standard is absurd and awfully close to perfection.
lvbuckeye said:
winning DOESN'T cure all. it clouds your vision and tricks you into thinking that you're better than you actually are.
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Which is why Will Howard and Craig Krenzel are beloved.
 
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osuvictory1 said:
Will Howard was actually very solid. Krenzel was a serviceable game manager.
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Will earned and deserves his legendary status, but winning rewrote his story. As did a system that let him fail twice (once with a big injury), before he was granted a third chance as a play-in game before the quarterfinals.

Stroud or Fields would have loved that redemption offer. Barrett would be debatable how it would go, because if he was not hit in the head 795 times by switching to a Ryan Day offense, it would be intriguing if he could match Will Howard's playoff run with that talent around him.
 
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