I think they had 1 stars for like a year super early on and then they dropped them - super weird system overall

Yeah I don’t necessarily disagree there’s a bit more crime etc post COVID than before but it’s a city so the deal has always been to use common sense and pay attention. I’d still take some lines on the El at night (eg brown line) and others like the Red line have always been kinda sketchy...

It’s the city so anything is possible but that’s pretty safe area overall, I used to walk after dark regularly without much concern.

I think this is a more accurate description of the SEC of late - ESPN hypes up their teams so the SoS looks better and then any time they lose it gets blamed on their gauntlet of a schedule or their disinterest in playing for anything other than a championship.

Aaron Green was also a five star on Rivals up until like the very last update when he ended up a high four star

That Texas game was beyond devastating

We are paying him anyway so no real downside to letting him coach TEs where I think he’s actually fairly qualified.

They’re for the defensive starters - if you show up and start, I don’t see how that’s less worthy than someone less skilled that takes two years to crack the line up.

I don’t think they were great hires but I also don’t think that hiring coaches that Rhule is less comfortable with in Year 1 would have helped / mattered. It’s almost better to get guys who know the drill in terms of culture etc. and then upgrade after a year or two once that is established...

I don’t know how anyone can look at his stat line in 2009 and reach the conclusion that he was remotely less consistent than he should have been.

Isn’t Day 3 round 4 and on? If he’s top 100 that would be 3rd round + so that’s not much of a margin for error, I could see him being Day 3 pretty easily

You’d rather have a 3 loss Alabama team? This is way more interesting.

They have a couple pretty big boosters including one who footed Mel Tucker’s contract IIRC….

Omaha drivers are the absolute worst and I say that after having spent multiple years driving in Chicago traffic. Omahans take personal offense to people trying to merge in - it’s a very weird mindset.

I mean, Mickey brought in Tre Palmer and he has a pretty good year