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In Don Jimotes world he is out to revive chivalry, right wrongs and bring justice to the world because he thinks he is a knight errant.
In the real world he's a crazy fucker who dresses funny and runs himself into windmills.
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Who is Dulcinea in this scenario? And its not Sophia Loren from the movie, more like the toothless old hag described in the book.
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When you're supposed to dress up for the ceremony but you really love your workout clothes / do anything to keep people interested in things besides your record.
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At what point (e.g. how many 3rd place/3 loss seasons) does his "quirkiness" become more than just that?
In SF, it was one .500 season.
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Trevi
Hall of Fame
Not quite there yet, but the expectations are starting to ramp up:
http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/ind...ers_rabid_consistency.html#incart_river_index
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He loses 3-4 games this year with one being The Game and he's going to start wearing out his welcome.
They won't all completely turn on him of course but the goofy dick thing just can't be forgiven forever with no hardware to show for enduring it.
They won't all completely turn on him of course but the goofy dick thing just can't be forgiven forever with no hardware to show for enduring it.
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It'll be interesting to watch. They have ridiculous roster turnover this year on both sides of the ball. The one big position they do have experience (QB), it sounds like he isn't sold on the guy because he said it was a "three way tie" for the starting job. That's never a good sign for an incumbent starter. In reality, he should be given a bit of a pass for this season, but I don't think he will as he is now dealing with a roster largely of his own building, even if it is relatively inexperienced. If he wins 11 games this year, it will be a feat. If he goes anywhere from 8-4 to 10-3 with another loss to tOSU, I think some of the bloom will start to fall off the rose.
I've never felt that Harbaugh was a bad coach. In fact, I feel he is a very good coach. Great is another story. Taking over the dumpster-fire that Hoke left and turning it into a 10 win team (even against a Charmin-soft schedule) wasn't a dismissible accomplishment. But the way they wilted down the stretch last year after a strong start against another pretty soft slate should initiate some concern. That was a roster loaded in experience and with players that are heading to the NFL. Harbaugh built his "legend" on a good final two years at Stanford in a pretty weak conference with a generational talent at QB. He continued it in SF with a pretty impressive rebuild/culture change in SF and turning around (relatively speaking) a scUM program that was a total dumpster fire. But much of that success isn't without subtle chinks in the armor.
First of all, both in SF and at scUM he walked into situations where the rosters were stocked with a good amount of talent. Hoke, for his many faults, he did recruit quite well. He just sucked at developing players. Same thing in SF. He walked into a situation with a pretty talented roster, he just needed to get them to play to their potential. Now, my primary criticism of the Harbrau, in SF and at scUM, is that his defective psyche is wired to self-destruct in pressure situations. And his teams often mirror that as they play very tight in pressure situations. The most glaring examples of that are in the SuperBowl against Baltimore and in last year's tOSU game. In the SB, the Niners looked totally overwhelmed over the first 3+ quarters before mounting a furious comeback. And they might have pulled it off had he not totally spit the bit calling four straight pass plays (including the dreaded fade) with the ball on the goal line as time ran out. Keep in mind, he had one of the league's very best OL's and a RB who excelled throughout his career at grinding out tough yards. That was a monumentally stupid sequence that I will NEVER understand. Then of course, last November, scUM were in a position to really wipe the floor with us, but they were clearly playing incredibly tight over the last 1+ quarters and allowed a tOSU team, that was essentially handing them the game, win a game they had no right winning. Those two games are the perfect microcosms of the harbrau.
You have to take the good with the bad with him. He will not field a team that will outright embarrass you as a fan, like dickrod and hoke did regularly. BUT, I just don't think he's wired to win at an elite level. If scUM fan is happy winning ten games a year and being consistently competitive, they have their guy. Hell, when the stars align, he'll probably win a couple conference titles. However, if their goal is to mirror tOSU over the last 15 years, where they are consistently competing for, and occasionally winning NC's, I'm not sure the harbrau is the guy.
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Tanner
Legend
Agreed with a lot of what you're saying here, NF. He's undeniably a very good head football coach. But he has clear flaws. It used to drive me crazy with how conservative he'd get when the 9ers would get a lead. When he gets a 10 point lead he basically shuts it down and tries to hold on for dear life. I also never understood how and why they had so much trouble getting plays in on time INCLUDING ON 2ND AND GOAL WITH 2 MINUTES TO GO IN THE DADGUM SUPER BOWL. But I digress. And to his credit I guess it seems like he's cleaned up that part of his play calling operation at tsun.
I just think ultimately he's too conservative and old school to ever win a championship...unless he complies a team like one of the vintage Lil Nicky Saban Bama teams that just has an overwhelming talent advantage, especially in the trenches. I doubt he can put together one of those kind of teams at tsun but we'll see.
I'll admit it though. I'll miss him when he leaves tsun for the NFL. He's a pretty great villain.
I just think ultimately he's too conservative and old school to ever win a championship...unless he complies a team like one of the vintage Lil Nicky Saban Bama teams that just has an overwhelming talent advantage, especially in the trenches. I doubt he can put together one of those kind of teams at tsun but we'll see.
I'll admit it though. I'll miss him when he leaves tsun for the NFL. He's a pretty great villain.
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I don't want him to go to the NFL because they will be able to tell themselves they were cheated, robbed, he left them etc etc etc
I want them to have to deal with their savior failing. Completely and utterly. The DBFIA equivalent of a kid seeing Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny die in an accident together on the front lawn while his parents tell him he's adopted, Dad is gay and the woman he thought was Mom is leaving because she never loved him anyway.
I want that level of disillusionment and soul crushing loss of faith in their savior
I want suicide hotline calls to go unanswered from high call volumes
I want to see my enemy driven before me and hear the lamentation of their women
Until they quit the fucking sport, folks.
Until they quit the fucking sport.
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