header pic

Perhaps the BEST B1G Forum anywhere, here at College Football Fan Site, CFB51!!!

The 'Old' CFN/Scout Crowd- Enjoy Civil discussion, game analytics, in depth player and coaching 'takes' and discussing topics surrounding the game. You can even have your own free board, all you have to do is ask!!!

Anyone is welcomed and encouraged to join our FREE site and to take part in our community- a community with you- the user, the fan, -and the person- will be protected from intrusive actions and with a clean place to interact.


Author

Topic: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes

 (Read 3066401 times)

847badgerfan

  • Administrator
  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 31270
  • Liked:
Re: OT-Catch all thread - Personal attacks will result in a time out
« Reply #38206 on: October 20, 2024, 09:33:24 AM »
if ya suck, ya suck
As a coach you just can't say that. Great way to lose a team. Now ALL the players know the coach doesn't have their backs.


U RAH RAH! WIS CON SIN!

847badgerfan

  • Administrator
  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 31270
  • Liked:
Re: OT-Catch all thread - Personal attacks will result in a time out
« Reply #38207 on: October 20, 2024, 09:34:52 AM »
"I would like to apologize in my postgame press conference I talked about our kicking game like I do offense / defense," he wrote. "However the kicking game is always directed at one player. I should not have done that and I apologize. This team's losses will always 100% fall on myself."
Dillingham acknowledged an open tryout won't necessarily lead to a change, in which case the team will stick with the status quo.
"If somebody is [good enough], then, you know, welcome to the team and we'll rock and roll from there," Dillingham said.
Too late now.
U RAH RAH! WIS CON SIN!

Cincydawg

  • Oracle of Piedmont Park
  • Global Moderator
  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 83278
  • Oracle of Piedmont Park
  • Liked:
Re: OT-Catch all thread - Personal attacks will result in a time out
« Reply #38208 on: October 20, 2024, 09:38:16 AM »
At least he did try and apologize, but I agree, the team would have noticed.  Coaches need to stay with coach speak.  It starts with "This loss is on me."

FearlessF

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 45748
  • Liked:
Re: OT-Catch all thread - Personal attacks will result in a time out
« Reply #38209 on: October 20, 2024, 09:39:58 AM »
As a coach you just can't say that. Great way to lose a team. Now ALL the players know the coach doesn't have their backs.


agreed
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

Cincydawg

  • Oracle of Piedmont Park
  • Global Moderator
  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 83278
  • Oracle of Piedmont Park
  • Liked:
Re: OT-Catch all thread - Personal attacks will result in a time out
« Reply #38210 on: October 20, 2024, 09:48:35 AM »
The UGA AD:

"However, I will challenge the conference office on what happened and how it happened in the manner it did. Thankfully this did not cost our young men a hard fought win. Disagreeing with a singular call is natural and will happen several times in every football game. I can accept that. What I cannot accept is the manner in which this specific call was reversed. The official claimed he erred in the call. My question is when did he realize the error? If it was before the delay that occurred due to fans throwing objects on the field, what stopped him before the head official made the announcement and spotted the ball? I have faith we, as a conference, will learn from this and get better. We must, because in the SEC it just means more."

Smart was very animated after the decision, waving his finger at the refs after what seemed to be unprecedented action taken by the refs. Quinn Ewers threw a touchdown pass two plays later, making it 23-15. That huge turn of events allowed the Longhorns to creep back into the game after being down 23-0 at halftime.


Cincydawg

  • Oracle of Piedmont Park
  • Global Moderator
  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 83278
  • Oracle of Piedmont Park
  • Liked:
Re: OT-Catch all thread - Personal attacks will result in a time out
« Reply #38211 on: October 20, 2024, 09:56:09 AM »
BREAKING NEWS: According to Uga XI's handler, Charles Seiler, the mascot will not attend this Saturday's Texas-Georgia game in Austin. Uga XI was reportedly impounded Thursday evening following a DUI incident leaving a local dog park in Athens, where he also allegedly bit a chihuahua and peed on 3 pedestrian's legs. Stay tuned for more details. 🤯

Cincydawg

  • Oracle of Piedmont Park
  • Global Moderator
  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 83278
  • Oracle of Piedmont Park
  • Liked:
Re: OT-Catch all thread - Personal attacks will result in a time out
« Reply #38212 on: October 20, 2024, 10:17:49 AM »
This may have been photoshopped, not sure ...


Gigem

  • All Star
  • ******
  • Posts: 3434
  • Liked:
Re: OT-Catch all thread - Personal attacks will result in a time out
« Reply #38213 on: October 20, 2024, 11:35:40 AM »
Great game for sure. Georgia looked like their usual self, it’s still crazy how they lost to Alabama earlier this year. 

For a minute I thought Texas was going to mount a comeback. 

Cincydawg

  • Oracle of Piedmont Park
  • Global Moderator
  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 83278
  • Oracle of Piedmont Park
  • Liked:
Re: OT-Catch all thread - Personal attacks will result in a time out
« Reply #38214 on: October 20, 2024, 11:39:40 AM »
I was at a game in 2008, I think, UGA hosted Bama and wore black jerseys, the crowd was wild, and then Bama put up 31 points in the first half.  The Dawgs tried a comeback that fell short, I think it ended 41-30.  Sound familiar?  That first half everything went wrong, they had Stafford at QB then.

Dont fall behind 28-0 and your odds are better.  Duh.

betarhoalphadelta

  • Global Moderator
  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 14599
  • Liked:
Re: OT-Catch all thread - Personal attacks will result in a time out
« Reply #38215 on: October 20, 2024, 12:50:01 PM »
If I own a McDonalds, my demand is as high as pre-COVID and perhaps a little higher, as perhaps some people got out of the habit of eating in a restaurant.  My prices increased when demand was down, but with demand back up and my business being sort of an institution (people are going to McDonald as long as it stays consistent), why the hell would I lower my prices? 
To its credit, they came out with a $5 meal, but it's less to ease costs to customers and more to compete with other fast-food places' low-dollar meals. 
Paragraph #1: If I'm McDonalds nothing I ever do will reduce my sales volume, so I can basically set whatever prices I want and the public is forced to pay it. What are they gonna do, not eat at McDonalds? Ha! That'll never happen.

Paragraph #2: If I'm McDonalds, I have to price my product competitively with other fast food chains or I'll lose business to them.

You literally undercut your own argument all by yourself.

----------

I know how you feel about anecdotal evidence, but I'm an example of someone who has stopped eating fast food except when I absolutely have to--with the exception of In n Out which I eat maybe 4 times a year--due to the insane prices, and not feeling like I get value out of it. Now, I'm not exactly the most target demographic for most fast food places, but I'm going to guess that I'm not the ONLY person who has changed my behavior due to the prices. 

Businesses have to compete. Sometimes a business like McDonalds isn't just competing with BK and Wendy's and Taco Bell. For someone like me, they have to compete with eating at home or with mixing up to more fast-casual or full service restaurants. If McDonalds gets too expensive, I am part of the demographic that will skip McDonalds for a more expensive dining option, but one which I think offers more value.  

Gigem

  • All Star
  • ******
  • Posts: 3434
  • Liked:
Re: OT-Catch all thread - Personal attacks will result in a time out
« Reply #38216 on: October 20, 2024, 01:04:12 PM »
Paragraph #1: If I'm McDonalds nothing I ever do will reduce my sales volume, so I can basically set whatever prices I want and the public is forced to pay it. What are they gonna do, not eat at McDonalds? Ha! That'll never happen.

Paragraph #2: If I'm McDonalds, I have to price my product competitively with other fast food chains or I'll lose business to them.

You literally undercut your own argument all by yourself.

----------

I know how you feel about anecdotal evidence, but I'm an example of someone who has stopped eating fast food except when I absolutely have to--with the exception of In n Out which I eat maybe 4 times a year--due to the insane prices, and not feeling like I get value out of it. Now, I'm not exactly the most target demographic for most fast food places, but I'm going to guess that I'm not the ONLY person who has changed my behavior due to the prices.

Businesses have to compete. Sometimes a business like McDonalds isn't just competing with BK and Wendy's and Taco Bell. For someone like me, they have to compete with eating at home or with mixing up to more fast-casual or full service restaurants. If McDonalds gets too expensive, I am part of the demographic that will skip McDonalds for a more expensive dining option, but one which I think offers more value. 
Here is a chart of McDonalds sales going back a decade.  They actually declined in revenue for several years in the mid-teens, and even now they are not back up to what they were 10 years ago.  


betarhoalphadelta

  • Global Moderator
  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 14599
  • Liked:
Re: OT-Catch all thread - Personal attacks will result in a time out
« Reply #38217 on: October 20, 2024, 01:08:26 PM »
Here is a chart of McDonalds sales going back a decade.  They actually declined in revenue for several years in the mid-teens, and even now they are not back up to what they were 10 years ago. 



Thanks. And if they're still below the revenue from a decade ago despite higher prices, they must be doing it on a fair bit less volume. 

betarhoalphadelta

  • Global Moderator
  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 14599
  • Liked:
Re: OT-Catch all thread - Personal attacks will result in a time out
« Reply #38218 on: October 20, 2024, 01:12:00 PM »
It also appears they're down about 900 locations in the US from what they had in 2014. That's a 6.2% drop. 

https://www.statista.com/statistics/256040/mcdonalds-restaurants-in-north-america/

But OAM says they're an institution. They can just price however they want. 

OrangeAfroMan

  • Stats Porn
  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 21840
  • Liked:
Re: OT-Catch all thread - Personal attacks will result in a time out
« Reply #38219 on: October 20, 2024, 01:46:32 PM »
Paragraph #1: If I'm McDonalds nothing I ever do will reduce my sales volume, so I can basically set whatever prices I want and the public is forced to pay it. What are they gonna do, not eat at McDonalds? Ha! That'll never happen.

Paragraph #2: If I'm McDonalds, I have to price my product competitively with other fast food chains or I'll lose business to them.  No, they don't have to, but they can.  They have the option to.  

You literally undercut your own argument all by yourself.

----------

I know how you feel about anecdotal evidence, but I'm an example of someone who has stopped eating fast food except when I absolutely have to--with the exception of In n Out which I eat maybe 4 times a year--due to the insane prices, and not feeling like I get value out of it. Now, I'm not exactly the most target demographic for most fast food places, but I'm going to guess that I'm not the ONLY person who has changed my behavior due to the prices.

Businesses have to compete. Sometimes a business like McDonalds isn't just competing with BK and Wendy's and Taco Bell. For someone like me, they have to compete with eating at home or with mixing up to more fast-casual or full service restaurants. If McDonalds gets too expensive, I am part of the demographic that will skip McDonalds for a more expensive dining option, but one which I think offers more value. 

That's fine, but I'd wager the average McDonalds customer doesn't have that option.
“The Swamp is where Gators live.  We feel comfortable there, but we hope our opponents feel tentative. A swamp is hot and sticky and can be dangerous." - Steve Spurrier

 

Support the Site!
Purchase of every item listed here DIRECTLY supports the site.