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As long as WB and JB remain employed or even associated with VT I fear they

will compromise the hiring or success of whoever the next coach is. The fact they are still employed tells me we are still not fully committed to having a successful program.

I try to keep in perspective his age and his earnest efforts but it

frustrates and irritates me we are spending the type of money suggested and this is the return we are receiving.

The Lounge 1 y ago

I agree on the importance of Vicksburg. It was also a campaign as much as a

simple seige. Grant had to defeat two armies and was always at risk to being attacked from two directions. In my opinion his most brilliant and audacious part of his Civil War generalship.

The Lounge 1 y ago

A World Undone is a great book on WWI. I have read it twice

including in preparation for visiting WWI battlefields las summer (Verdun and Ypres). If you are unfamiliar with the daily Last Post at Ypres you should check it out.

The Lounge 1 y ago

I would argue Grant’s Vicksburg campaign was more akin to the first modern

campaign. What you describe Sherman incorporated was learned from the battles leading up to the Seige of Vicksburg.

The Lounge 2 y ago

He took up arms against his country to fight for a group whose sole purpose

was to maintain slavery. He no doubt had positive qualities but he does not deserve to be honored for his role in the Civil War. If we want to speak positively of his service in the Mexican War, battlefield tactics or his role in reconciling the wounds after the war I am happy to listen.

I am giving him a pass because we do not have a choice. Time will tell. The

first steps are improving the talent, learning to be the head coach and do head coach tasks during the game and developing a competent offense. I am very cautiously hopeful.

I sympathetic to NIL in principle and believe players should share in the

financial bounty their efforts produce (in addition to what they already receive from their scholarships), but I also feared and suspected that it would legalize and launder the buying of players that has been done for generations. Now it is metastasizing and morphing into a horror that all but only a few schools can utilize to their benefit. I am to the point that I hope NCAAF splits and we are in the lower league where we can have a good chance of success and not have to play teams where we know will destroy us because they are better financed.

What you describe for the future is likely going to be very true. The

decline of the print media was likely inevitable with the rise of the internet and social media. I rarely read newspapers or magazines anymore. The online content offered has many excellent, informative options that donÒ€ℒt take much effort to find. Rather sad.