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Want Hyppolite way more as he has actually played the LB position.

How many times are we going to try the **** HS DE to college LB experiment?

MRob - Nope
McCord - Nope
McCray - Nope
Wilder - Nope
Smith - finally became a serviceable back Sr year
Joyner - TBD
Brooks - TBD (I like him the most off this list)

Wingo can stick with the turds, or hopefully flips away from them, but I would much rather have Hyppolite than Wingo.

IMO Wingo would be better as a 3-4 OLB which is pretty much a glorified DE.
 
NicKane said:
Couldn’t disagree with you more! A basketball brand has no place in college football. That Jumpman on football jerseys look so stupid it’s right up there with the gators gator 🐊 skin jerseys. Think about it, it’s a basketball player jumping in the air with a ball in his hand about to dunk the ball on a football jersey, if that’s not stupid and I don’t know what is! And on top of that adidas is kicking Nike’s @ss all over the world. We’re good!
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You do understand Nike started out as a running show and Adidas started as a soccer cleat?
 
Finally a recruit said it
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tyrn said:
Want Hyppolite way more as he has actually played the LB position.

How many times are we going to try the **** HS DE to college LB experiment?

MRob - Nope
McCord - Nope
McCray - Nope
Wilder - Nope
Smith - finally became a serviceable back Sr year
Joyner - TBD
Brooks - TBD (I like him the most off this list)

Wingo can stick with the turds, or hopefully flips away from them, but I would much rather have Hyppolite than Wingo.

IMO Wingo would be better as a 3-4 OLB which is pretty much a glorified DE.
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2.0 said:
You do understand Nike started out as a running show and Adidas started as a soccer cleat?
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Wrong again. Adidas was created by the Dassler brothers in 1924 and specialized in spiked running shoes. Jesse Owens wore their shoes in the 1936 Olympics.

After WWII, Rudolph Dassler formed his own company (originally called Ruda, later changed the name to Puma), and Adolph "Adi" Dassler changed the name of the original company to Adidas.

Adidas started out making running shoes.
 
2.0 said:
You do understand Nike started out as a running show and Adidas started as a soccer cleat?
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Yeah I do know that but I don’t see Adidas putting a soccer ball or Nike putting a track shoe on their football jerseys! If or when Adidas starts doing that, I’ll be the first one to say that it’s time for a jersey switch. But I’m pretty sure adidas isn’t that stupid to put a picture of Pele kicking a soccer ⚽ ball on a football jersey. Apparently Nike/jumpman is dumb enough to put a basketball player on ther football jerseys. So I guess Nike isn’t to far off adding a track runner as there logo next. Lol smh
 
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This one is hilarious:

pascoe
  • (347)
  • 7 months
3 hours agovia Mobile
Give them a brake, *******. They can’t read any articles due to their 2nd grade reading level. And they can’t remember what happened yesterday, much less last football season. It’s not their fault... We just need to be the better people and replace the sticky notes on their bathroom mirrors that say, “Five Rangz” with something that says, “No QB, new coach, crap program.”




So, pascoe insults our "2nd grade reading level" with his 2nd grade spelling level. The idiot can't even differentiate between "brake" and "break".
 
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TheOriginalCane said:
This one is hilarious:

pascoe
  • (347)
  • 7 months
3 hours agovia Mobile
Give them a brake, *******. They can’t read any articles due to their 2nd grade reading level. And they can’t remember what happened yesterday, much less last football season. It’s not their fault... We just need to be the better people and replace the sticky notes on their bathroom mirrors that say, “Five Rangz” with something that says, “No QB, new coach, crap program.”




So, pascoe insults our "2nd grade reading level" with his 2nd grade spelling level. The idiot can't even differentiate between "brake" and "break".
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#paulfinebaumcaller
 
2.0 said:
You do understand Nike started out as a running show and Adidas started as a soccer cleat?
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TheOriginalCane said:
Wrong again. Adidas was created by the Dassler brothers in 1924 and specialized in spiked running shoes. Jesse Owens wore their shoes in the 1936 Olympics.

After WWII, Rudolph Dassler formed his own company (originally called Ruda, later changed the name to Puma), and Adolph "Adi" Dassler changed the name of the original company to Adidas.

Adidas started out making running shoes.
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2.0 is right, Adidas and Puma (the companies founded by the Dassler brothers) got their start in soccer cleats. You are right that spikes were their innovation, but it was the fact they were replaceable/customizeable for whatever pitch conditions soccer players found. Specifically, Adidas eventually won over the coach for the German National Soccer team.

While Owens did wear Adidas, it was because they were just good shoes, not because they were known as track and field specialists. Nike would later use the lack of focus on those sports to get their own foothold, using the running craze in the 70s/80s to find their niche and break into athletic shoes.
 
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And on another Swamp 247 thread...


WestlakeGator
  • 54 months
20 hours ago
Marks had a pretty large jump on his test score so don't be surprised if his score gets flagged by the NCAA and doesn't make it in. There was no reason to take this many high risk guys. Mullen's reasoning on this is not very good. The reason many of these guys "wanted to be Gators" is because other schools had backed off due to their grade issues and they were left with few good options -- so that line of argument is not very compelling. This looks more and more like we were simply struggling with the 2019 class (and we were) and we closed with several guys (like Henderson, Hammond and Black) to boost our recruiting ranking and give us momentum but were never likely to enroll them. Mullen sounds naive talking about how the guys can "still go to JUCO" as very few of those guys (with the exception of Reggie Nelson) ever make it back to UF. There was no need to take a risk on a player like Marks or Hammond -- they just aren't that good.




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WestlakeGator
  • 54 months
20 hours ago
My "experience" is following Gator recruiting for 30 years since I graduated in 1991. If you follow anything for 30 years, you'll see some patterns. My prediction is that one of the WRs doesn't make it in. If it's TRUE that Marks had a 300 point increase in his test score (someone else reported that and I don't know if that's true) I guarantee you that his score will be flagged. I hope that I am wrong and all 3 of the remaining recruits make it in I will gladly fall on my sword if they do. But the 2019 class is already a **** show and should never happen in UF coach's bump class. If you disagree that's fine -- you're entitled to your opinion and I promise that I will not attack you personally but I absolutely stand by my opinion that we shouldn't be in this position. In addition, Mullen was "surprised" by Wilson's VISA issue -- Mullen should not have been surprised by that issue. You need to have someone on your staff that keeps a list of all of your signees and flags everything about that recruit that might possibly be an issue to being admitted to UF -- if you do that there are no surprises. To me, it's another sign of our disorganization. By the way, Black committed in August of 2018, so not a year prior (6 months) but it's fair to say we didn't exactly close with him. However, Black committed at a time when our 2019 class was struggling mightily in the rankings
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So maybe, just maybe, the story isn't over yet.

I will say this, I used to teach SAT test prep for Princeton Review, and 300 point score increases are, indeed, rare and often flagged, particularly when it is a low (NCAA non-qualifying) score that jumps. It's more believable to go from a 1300 to a 1600 (statistically) than it is to go from a 600 to a 900.

And, with the current post-Aunt-Becky college admissions world, this is a much hotter topic than it might have been 5 years ago.
 
brcane1 said:
2.0 is right, Adidas and Puma (the companies founded by the Dassler brothers) got their start in soccer cleats. You are right that spikes were their innovation, but it was the fact they were replaceable/customizeable for whatever pitch conditions soccer players found. Specifically, Adidas eventually won over the coach for the German National Soccer team.

While Owens did where Adidas, it was because they were just good shoes, not because they were known as track and field specialists. Nike would later use the lack of focus on those sports to get their own foothold, using the running craze in the 70s/80s to find their niche and break into athletic shoes.
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You AND 2.0 (which is likely your burner account) are both wrong, as usual.

The Samba (the soccer shoe that Adidas is known for) was not created until 1950.

The first spiked leather "boot" that Adidas created in the 1920s was for bobsledders, not soccer players.

And there is this:

"In 1920, at the age of 20, avid soccer player Adolph (Adi) Dassler, son of a cobbler, invented spiked shoes for track and field. Four years later Adi and his brother Rudolph (Rudi) founded the German sports shoe company Gebrüder Dassler OHG—later known as Adidas. T

By 1925 the Dasslers were making leather shoes with nailed studs and track shoes with hand-forged spikes.

Beginning with the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, Adi's uniquely designed shoes began to gain a worldwide reputation. Jesse Owens was wearing a pair of Dassler's track shoes when he won four gold medals for the US at the 1936 Berlin Olympics."

And this:

1900–1940: During this period the style of football boots stayed very basic. They remained so during the inter-war years, despite many famous football boot producers, such as Gola, Hummel and Valsport becoming evermore popular.

1940–1960: After the Second World War, the designs of the football boot changed dramatically. The South Americans[specify] designed a lighter and more flexible boot. This design was focused on increasing good control and better kicking power rather than a more protective boot. In 1954 Adi Dassler introduced *****-in studs which gave the German team a tangible advantage during a rain-lashed World Cup that year. That Dassler was the first to come up with *****-in studs is disputed by his older brother, Rudolf Dassler, founder of Puma.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
You AND 2.0 (which is likely your burner account) are both wrong, as usual.
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Making things up, and thinking the whole world is out to get you. I hope you have someone to talk to about all this.

You also actually make my point in the last paragraph of your diatribe. After WW2 they went all in on soccer, which led Nike to establish their Niche via running shoes in the 1970s and 1980s.

I alway appreciate when people do the heavy lifting for me, thanks!
 
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