joannes3000

Beast mode for the Hawks right now.

With the impending drop of UGA in Rockne, I'm going to have a little more time to blog about Duke. Every good story starts with an attention-grabber, so let's go with this: From: John Baxter To: Coach joannes3000 Subject: Congratulations, Coach! Sent: 8/16/08 2:52PM I just got off the phone with the organizers of the WIS Championship Game and I've accepted their invitation. Great job this year, Coach. I think the exposure we will get playing in this game will really help out the program, not to mention recruiting next season. Keep up the good work! John Baxter Athletic Director Duke University -------- New blog can be found here.

Quick update. After working hard to build a contender at Temple and then promptly leaving it for the UGA position, I have decided to drop the Rockne world altogether. I thought at first that the new recruiting schedule would help me - a Saturday start rather than a midweek one. I quickly realized going into my 2nd season that it just wasn't going to work, however. Too much stuff going on at home with my family to recruit and keep up with my dream school, so I made the easy choice in dropping it.

After some research, I did a little editing in the registry and I think I've solved the problem. Increased the TCP window size and that seems to have done the trick for now.

Agreed. I got so incredibly bored with the movie that I turned it off halfway through.

Imagine that. :Thinking: Comcrap was decent for the first month of service, but for the past month I've had intermittent signal - at best. At first I thought it was my router causing issues for some crazy reason but running a direct connection from the modem (freebie from Comcrap) to my tower makes no difference. My ethernet port is the stock one that came with my motherboard. I'm tempted to go ahead and buy a new modem to see if that will remedy the problem. I was going to do this any way, since I've burned through my fair share of Comcrap-provided modems in the past. I'm looking at getting a Motorola SB5101, but wanted to pose the question here first. Comcrap says everything is coming up fine on their end so I'm assuming it's something on my end, although they've said everything is "fine" as I've run a latency test while on the phone with them and seen otherwise. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated. It's like pulling teeth waiting for pages to load, and more importantly I'm unable to pull the necessary data for my GD world previews because it keeps timing out. :banghead:

The Mullet - business in the front, party in the back.

I thought Kung Fu Hustle was hilarious. And if you haven't watched The Protector, it's completely worth it just to witness the absolute beatdown that Jaa administers toward the end of the movie.

Quote: Has any of you gotten your wisdom teeth removed? I am 22 and I never had a problem with mine. My doctor wants me to remove mine because they are impacted. I have plenty of room in my mouth for my wisdom teeth, and I can brush them, and my guns are not vulnerable at all. I think they are trying to scam me. I am pretty sure some of yall still have your wisdom teeth and are fine right? I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth removed when I was 18. I remember staggering out of the office and then spending the first few hours at home trying to play video games while in a complete haze. I have a pretty high pain tolerance, so I was actually eating semi-solid food (advice be damned) that night. And despite the amount of blood that I was spitting out during the process, I managed to smoke a cigarette after I was able to stand myself up. I didn't have any major swelling, and had pain meds if needed. I think the most important thing to do is keep the area clean to prevent dry socket.

Quote: Well that sucks I enjoyed reading your write ups Joannes I'm pretty sure I'll start up a blog somewhere. If/when I do, I'll post a link here for those that are interested.

Well, I lost my bowl game; a triple-OT affair against Minnesota which was one of the teams that I didn't like my chances against. I waited two days until I got the dreaded email from my AD. But rather than saying to have my things packed, it was a congratulatory one! Apparently I had defied the odds (or I helped CS see the error in their ways) and didn't have what the sim typically views as a down season. It didn't matter, however. With my job security having been bumped up a notch to "little or no jeopardy", Temple was set to continue their ascent in the Big East. I, however, had my heart set elsewhere. The UGA job opened up after they fired their coach and there was no way I wasn't going to apply. I got the following email about half a day later: From: Bruno Hood To: Coach joannes3000 Subject: Congratulations, Coach! Sent: 6/26/08 5:31AM Welcome to Georgia, Coach! We are thrilled to have you leading our program and we are sure that you can lead us to great success. Bruno Hood President University of Georgia Martin English Athletic Director University of Georgia ---------- When the home team finally opened up and I was finally qualified, I more than willingly jumped ship from a top 25 team in terms of talent in order to take a job that is in possibly the most brutal conference in all of GD. Florida and Tennessee are both elites and share our division. Alabama is an elite in the other division, bringing the total to three elites within the conference. So while I had to face UConn, Syracuse, and Pitt within my division in the Big East, they didn't have the inherent elite recruiting advantage that FLA and TENN have over me. Plus, one of the game's best coaches ever is at the helm of Alabama and one of the games elite coaches is at Florida. On top of that, there is a perennial DIAA winner at Tennessee. Yeah, we have our work cut out for us in between the hedges all right. But you know what? We had the same problem at Temple and we did ok there. -------- This is going to be my last post here on the squawk. I'm thinking of setting up a blogspace for my adventures as the UGA head coach, but I'm not sure yet.

All I've been hearing the past few days is that the Blazers are interested in TJ Ford and David Lee. With Ford off the market, makes me wonder who else they are targeting at PG. They have a dearth of draft picks so it's not like they won't have a lot of options. I'm still holding out and hoping that we're one of them.

He looks like a guy that could pull down 20/10 in the NBA back in the day. He was working out for a good hour before he left later in the morning.

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