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Metaloctopus
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Louisiana |
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| Interests: | All things LSU, drums, guitar, shooting pool and other random things that aren't worth listing. |
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| Number of Posts: | 6733 |
| Registered on: | 11/1/2018 |
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re: Umanmielen Second Update | “All Options On Table”
Posted by Metaloctopus on 1/17/26 at 2:24 am to GaryHobson
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the only people who think this version of college football is better was born after 2005. It's like saying Covid was the best time in our lifetime. Makes zero sense
Yeah, it clearly makes no sense. And yet, like I said, there are plenty who think it's great. We're in a world where lots of things people say or believe don't make sense. So when someone says something outrageous, I can no longer assume it's satirical or sarcastic, unless it's written in a way that makes it obvious.
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re: Umanmielen Second Update | “All Options On Table”
Posted by Metaloctopus on 1/17/26 at 2:16 am to GaryHobson
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don't argue with him. That was just rage bait
Well I'm not enraged, I just don't agree. And if he's only looking for a reaction, I have no way of knowing if that's what he's doing. There are plenty of fans that think every new thing is great for college football.
re: Umanmielen Second Update | “All Options On Table”
Posted by Metaloctopus on 1/17/26 at 2:13 am to Burt Reynolds
I don't agree. This is free agency, but the players become free agents every off season, and have to be re-signed. That's a horrible model.
I'm pulling for us to get all the best players in this wacky market, because everyone is in the same boat, and it's what you have to do to compete. But this isn't sustainable. At the VERY least, it needs to go back to the one free transfer rule. If you want to be a TJ Finley and play for seven different schools, you'll be in your 30's, and still in college. But with this unlimited free transfer era, and the NIL driving up the market every year, it's killing the sport.
I'm pulling for us to get all the best players in this wacky market, because everyone is in the same boat, and it's what you have to do to compete. But this isn't sustainable. At the VERY least, it needs to go back to the one free transfer rule. If you want to be a TJ Finley and play for seven different schools, you'll be in your 30's, and still in college. But with this unlimited free transfer era, and the NIL driving up the market every year, it's killing the sport.
re: More trash reporting from Ole Miss “Media”
Posted by Metaloctopus on 1/17/26 at 12:27 am to Tigernomics
Expert journalism. Cites the Ole Miss Locked On guy as a source, who is too emotionally immature to handle himself like an adult on his show.
Yeah... That's definitely the guy who's gonna tell the truth.
Yeah... That's definitely the guy who's gonna tell the truth.
re: Midnight Dottery Boom
Posted by Metaloctopus on 1/17/26 at 12:15 am to Henry Jones Jr
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Im not coping when I say this. He wasn’t very good in coverage at all. He has issues with missed tackles and needs to get that cleaned up.
That being said, I would rather have him than not. If he can get the missed tackles cleaned up, he’s an All-SEC linebacker. Plus he was a good leader on defense. He’s a guy you can build around.
Just don’t let him have a camera phone in the locker room :lol.
His scouting grades seem to back up your statement. I'm hoping Blake Baker can get all that cleaned up for him like he did with Damone Clark a few years ago.
re: I like the renewed interest in men's basketball
Posted by Metaloctopus on 1/15/26 at 11:03 am to Barkbowwow
I've been concerned about the state of the basketball program for a long time. But I have pretty much entirely stopped posting about said program, because I don't like repeating the same points over and over. There just isn't much else to say about it. Until there is change in leadership, the results aren't likely to surprise me one way or another. It's just always the same.
re: Wake Forest LT Melvin Siani enters Portal (allowed 0 sacks)
Posted by Metaloctopus on 1/15/26 at 10:54 am to Tank77
I didn't allow any sacks this year, either.
Don't even think about contacting me. I entered the wrong portal, and now I have no idea where I am.
Don't even think about contacting me. I entered the wrong portal, and now I have no idea where I am.
re: Landen Clark is that dude. Love his attitude
Posted by Metaloctopus on 1/15/26 at 7:42 am to BearCrocs
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Carter does decent film analysis. Not trying to hate on the dude but he’s a journalist not a football analyst, so he makes lots of assumptions when he’s breaking plays down.
His mannerisms make his channel unwatchable for me
Nobody who isn't associated with the team they are trying to analyze, can do any analysis without making some assumptions, to be fair. He often admits that he doesn't know how certain plays may have been coached up, and that he's making an assumption based on how it looks like it should have played out.
He's more interesting to watch than some of these people who have channels that just react to game film, and don't really have any idea what's going on schematically.
re: Landen Clark is that dude. Love his attitude
Posted by Metaloctopus on 1/15/26 at 7:16 am to Lester Earl
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his "agent" is loving the attention , that is for sure
He's supposedly Clark's "QB doctor", whatever that is. But he comes across as quite clearly something else entirely.
re: Landen Clark is that dude. Love his attitude
Posted by Metaloctopus on 1/15/26 at 7:14 am to Tiger328
It's Carter Bryant. He does film studies, and sometimes interviews players and all that good stuff. Been around a while. He's a little eccentric, but usually not over the top. He was clearly getting excited there.
As for the other guy, I don't know if I should believe him or see him as a promoter. Whether or not what he said is true, he is definitely doing some hard promoting for his guy.
As for the other guy, I don't know if I should believe him or see him as a promoter. Whether or not what he said is true, he is definitely doing some hard promoting for his guy.
re: I didn't know that #29 was this fast! (Pic)!
Posted by Metaloctopus on 1/12/26 at 8:16 pm to chadr07
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Wish we could witness that 4.2 speed with him in an LSU uniform at least once. He’s the fastest slowest player LSU has ever fielded I believe.
I saw plenty of that speed in his freshman season. Then came the injuries. Gotta get him healthy, and give him some lanes to actually run through.
re: Look at this throw! Could he be QB 1?
Posted by Metaloctopus on 1/12/26 at 6:54 am to jgriffith
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Who the hell thought he’d be quarterback 2 !?
Lots of people, myself included, unless he ends up being the only guy we bring in. He has talent, and I'm glad he's in the building, but you guys are watching highlights. Everyone's highlights look good. He struggled to complete 50% of his passes, while playing poor competition. He was a big play, little consistency guy all year. That's why a lot of us don't see him starting next year. But the good thing about him is that he's got plenty of eligibility left to improve and, under Kiffin, it's not hard to imagine him taking over the following season.
At worst, he could hopefully improve enough this off season to at least be a competent QB1 if needed next year.
re: Elon Musk says don't go to medical school as surgeons will be obsolete in 48 months.
Posted by Metaloctopus on 1/11/26 at 8:22 am to ChatGPT of LA
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Oh boy....always that guy
I dont think u grasp what's going on with Ai and other advanced methods.
His mind runs so far in advance of what you think.
When he says free...hes basically saying no more 100k doctors bills to get the best care. He's saying the equivalent of a phone booth will diagnose, take vitals, labs, etc...on the spot with better knowledge than the very best in the world.
Sure, the making of the phone booth, etc will have a cost...but the knowledge, and most execution of surgery, will be by computer advanced products.
El9ns mind is moving at a pace beyond comparison. So when he says free, sure its glossing over general costs. He means the knowledge that we pay for.
A cardiologist of 50 years, doesn't know half of what Ai can calculate in 1 second, with all information accessible
It's funny how you call me "that guy", but here you are being "that guy" who just believes whatever Musk says, and you rattle off a bunch of nonsense off the top of your head that is nothing more than a hopeful guess.
Something is either free or it isn't. Advancements in technology do not equal lower costs to the consumer. It would only mean lower cost to the provider. Why do I have a 1,600 dollar bill just for taking a pee test and getting an antibiotic? You think they did anything that was actually worth that much money, just for that? Of course not. Hospitals will always overcharge, no matter what technology you put in front of them.
That's the real world, friend. I live there. You're living in fantasy land.
re: Could 2019 LSU beat Indiana?
Posted by Metaloctopus on 1/11/26 at 8:00 am to LSUPHILLY72
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I don't think so. What do you say?
Did you watch the 2019 LSU team? They weren't playing 3 loss teams in the playoffs, or having a team hand them three free touchdowns. They just bulldozed right over teams with no help, and they did it all season.
They also did it in an era when teams weren't watered down by the portal. Indiana is taking advantage of pure mediocrity. Good for them.
re: Elon Musk says don't go to medical school as surgeons will be obsolete in 48 months.
Posted by Metaloctopus on 1/11/26 at 7:54 am to SaintsTiger
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Decent medical care is already free for a lot of people around the world.
We’re entering the age of abundance. A lot of things will be very close to free or very affordable.
So you actually believe that there is such a thing as free health care? Are you familiar with what socialism is? It is a system of handouts, with the verbiage that it is "free". But nothing is produced for free. Things don't simply pay for themselves. The government pays for it. but who pays the government? The tax payers. So, if we just use our brains a little bit, and stop and think for one second... What do you suppose will happen when/if "free" healthcare is given out here, and what do you suppose is already happening in the countries who claim to have it? Sky high taxes. You won't be able to own anything, but at least you'll have that "free" healthcare, right?
re: Elon Musk says don't go to medical school as surgeons will be obsolete in 48 months.
Posted by Metaloctopus on 1/11/26 at 7:14 am to SaintsTiger
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Airplane flights and car ownership used to be only for the very rich. Now they’re ubiquitous.
Same with libraries, computers, and so on.
Accessible to everyone for relatively cheap.
With continuous and accelerating technological advancements, great medical care will be there too. For cheap. It’s already on the way.
That's all fine and well. But what does it have to do with the issue I raised, which was with his comment that the "best medicine in the world" would be "free"? Are cars free? Are flights free? Why would the best medicine become free?
He just says things, and never thinks about why he's saying it. Such an outrageous declaration demands explanation.
re: Elon Musk says don't go to medical school as surgeons will be obsolete in 48 months.
Posted by Metaloctopus on 1/11/26 at 5:30 am to MrLSU
Best medicine in the world will be free? So it's just going to produce itself and give itself away?
I don't know why anyone listens to this guy.
I don't know why anyone listens to this guy.
re: I'm done listening to ESPN radio & Unsportmanlike show
Posted by Metaloctopus on 1/5/26 at 6:36 am to 18handicap
I rarely listen to sports talk radio anymore, and especially a show that starts before the roosters even wake up. But i was up one morning several weeks ago, just after we hired Lane, and I flipped on the radio. Canty sounded like Lane stole his wife, kids, house, car, job, and identity. He could not stop ranting about what a horrible thing Lane had done.
I just don't get it. I'm not blind to what Ole Miss fans are dealing with. We've been there. And to make matters worse, is the obvious crazy timing of it all. I get being upset, in general. But this whole idea of 'abandoning" his team is just wildly off base. The only reason this hasn't happened many times before, is because the schedule has never been this dumb. Coaches always leave for better jobs. If you don't realize, or don't think that LSU is a better job than Ole Miss, you are either clueless or you're not an honest person. So of course he wanted to take advantage of that opportunity, but if he waited too long, someone else would have gotten the job. Ole Miss knew that, and knew that he was going to have a decision to make, so they decided to force his hand.
They could have let him coach the playoffs, like those two other coaches who were leaving got to do, but they kicked him out of the building. So How is that on Lane? Why aren't the other coaches being called bad people, and being shamed for "abandonment"? Just because they were allowed to finish the season? So Lane's a bad guy because Ole Miss was too mad to let him finish the season?
I just don't get it. I'm not blind to what Ole Miss fans are dealing with. We've been there. And to make matters worse, is the obvious crazy timing of it all. I get being upset, in general. But this whole idea of 'abandoning" his team is just wildly off base. The only reason this hasn't happened many times before, is because the schedule has never been this dumb. Coaches always leave for better jobs. If you don't realize, or don't think that LSU is a better job than Ole Miss, you are either clueless or you're not an honest person. So of course he wanted to take advantage of that opportunity, but if he waited too long, someone else would have gotten the job. Ole Miss knew that, and knew that he was going to have a decision to make, so they decided to force his hand.
They could have let him coach the playoffs, like those two other coaches who were leaving got to do, but they kicked him out of the building. So How is that on Lane? Why aren't the other coaches being called bad people, and being shamed for "abandonment"? Just because they were allowed to finish the season? So Lane's a bad guy because Ole Miss was too mad to let him finish the season?
re: The sportswriters love affair with Kim
Posted by Metaloctopus on 1/5/26 at 5:51 am to geauxbrown
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You would have had to be an idiot to look at that schedule and believe they would be prepared for SEC play.
And someone on here posted a couple weeks back that this was her most talented team at LSU.
People have short memories. They played a pre-conference schedule every bit this bad in the year they won the national championship, and only lost two games the whole year once they started playing real teams.
The problem isn't that the schedule didn't prepare them. The problem is that they are playing with a lack of either effort (as was the problem against Kentucky, when they just stood around and let Kentucky get to nearly every rebound) or focus (as was the issue in this game, where they made repeated unforced mistakes, just throwing the ball wildly into heavy traffic areas). When they actually lock in with effort and stop making mental mistakes, they can beat anyone. I mean, you're talking about being unprepared, and yet they've lost two games by a combined 6 points to teams ranked just outside of the top 10, who will both probably be in the top 10 now.
So let's stop acting like they started league play, and now they're getting their teeth kicked in. They've played two bad games, relative to what they are capable of, and could have easily won both games.
I'm irritated at the lack of effort, and the repeated mental mistakes. I'm making no excuses for them, because there is no excuse. But I'm also not buying into this "not ready" narrative. You can play a schedule of nothing but ranked teams, and it means nothing if you don't commit to showing up and playing the right way. Why was Fulwiley so bad against Kentucky? Why was Flau'jae so bad against Vandy? Aren't those two national championship winning players who have been on multiple deep NCAA tournament runs? Are they not tested? Are we really going to blame the schedule for their struggles?
re: Tucker Carlson needs to be marginalized
Posted by Metaloctopus on 12/26/25 at 3:37 pm to tyler925
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I’ll give you the Qatar love is weird, but they are an ally at least.
Qatar is not an Ally. You people know nothing but how to hate Israel, anymore. There is no discernment.
re: A South Carolina podcast. On their coach leaving and Stewart
Posted by Metaloctopus on 12/20/25 at 8:39 am to LSUPilot07
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He isn’t coming here or anywhere. As long as he plays decently for SCar next year he will be a 1st round pick lock.
It doesn't really matter where he goes in the draft next year. He has another year to play college ball before then, and why not do it for a team that has a decent chance to win, and more money to play there than he'll get at South Carolina?
I don't know if he'll come here, but I don't think his draft status is going to have anything to do with his decision.
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