It does not have to be but it seems that a couple of AA women have been identified in that regard, Del Jennifer Carroll Foy and Sen. Jennifer McClellan. Both seem to be very solid picks.
My peeps are being pragmatic in Va. From all accounts, Northam had been a pretty good and effective governor. He pushed and steered the Medicaid expansion among other things. If Justin Fairfax was still an alternative, I am sure the % of AA who don't want Northam to resign would have been much lower. The way things are now, we can't take the risk of having a conservative trumpian republican at the helm of the state.Hell no.... Keep Northam until we figure something out is the way to go now.
Maybe making assumption that many Southern crackers of that vintage have similar racist issues in closet. Or right out in open in an old yearbook. Man - way to go all Mississippi on us, Virginia. We thought you had changed.
Wondering a bit if the future, maybe in 10 years or so, all the Dem Govs will come from NoVa and all the Rep Govs will come from Southern/Southeast VA.
The Sun Belt, etc, are young conferences. Every program we're talking about has been around longer than the Sun Belt. Tulane got out of the old Southern Conference (I think ) before it became the SEC, and Vandy should have as well. But they didn't. And FWIW, Bama hasn't dominated the conference like this, ever. All the guys we're talking about have had a chance to win something fairly recently. MIss. St won the 1998 West but lost to Tee Martin's Vols. Arkansas has won it twice, I think. I know they won it in 2002. Mizzou has (already) won the East twice, for all your criticism of them. Wow, your hate for TAMU is showing with every post. You guys are one superior athlete from not having a natty yourselves for over 40 years. I do kind of laugh with you, tho, when they do all their faux military school shit like The Citadel and VMI.
Okay, that's totally different than what your post left me thinking. They have solid POC choices to replace Fairfax and they happen to be female. No problem at all there. You really did make it sound like they were looking for gender as well as color.
Yeah, I can see holding my nose for Northam in this case, despite his conservative actions in the yearbook.
No hate, just truth-telling. And when one of your historic rivals plays themselves in a way that they've never before played themselves, you gotta speak that truth. Sure, but we were in the national championship game in 2009, and were #1 or #2 coming into bowl season in 1977 and 1983. Still, VY saved us from being Georgia, I guess. I'm a little conflicted on it. The Corps of Cadets is pretty much their last link to their history as a military college, so I respect it from the standpoint of tradition. Plus, if the Corps went away, those of us affiliated with Texas' flagship public university would lose so much material. On the other hand, it is a relic, it comprises less than 10% of A&M's students, and only 40% of the Corps' membership actually become active-duty officers upon graduation, so the fact that those clowns occupy such an outsized part of A&M student life and causes other Aggies to act like their alma mater is such a unique place is hilarious.
But what were they going to do staying in the Big XII? Maybe match you all, maybe not, but they'd never catch Oklahoma in a zillion years. I cheered for y'all in '09. If Mack Brown hadn't tried that trick play before halftime, Texas might have completed the comeback. I just have to stifle a laugh whenever I think of places with "a military tradition". The US has real service academies. If you can't get into one of those, go to your state school and STFU is all I can say. None of this Washington & Lee/Citadel/VMI leftover noise from losing peckerwood Confederates.
In the last 10 seasons, the following non-Oklahoma schools have won the Big 12: Texas (2009), Oklahoma State (2011), Kansas State (2012), Baylor (2013), Baylor/TCU (2014). Yes, OU has won the last five Big 12 championships, but let's not act like they're some sort of insurmountable obstacle. A&M is a huge state school with lots of money and lots of alumni with money. The one thing that OU has that they don't is an administration that has patience and vision and that doesn't abdicate the direction of its athletic department to a bunch of red-assed alumni with money. So often, A&M will start rolling in a good direction, but said alumni will lose patience and will get the administration to start firing people. Case in point: In their last Big 12 season, 2011, they finished 7-6 under Mike Sherman, who was subsequently fired after four seasons. But here's the deal: Five of those six losses were by one score or less. Sherman had built a good foundation (like a fabulous offensive line), which Kevin Sumlin inherited the following season, his best season in College Station. And if they had had stuck around in the conference for one more season, they would've won the conference with Johnny Manziel at QB playing behind that fabulous O-line. A&M was the best Big 12 team in 2012, but their misfortune was playing in the SEC West. So instead of being the Big 12's representative in the BCS, they got to play OU (and beat OU) in the Cotton Bowl. Another case in point: Spending huge amounts of money to buy out Jimbo Fisher's contract in Tallahassee and paying him $7.5 million a year for the next 10 years. Seriously, what is that going to accomplish? Nothing that wasn't being accomplished by Sumlin. If they don't like the results, maybe they should look at the fact that they signed up to be in the SEC West, not at the guy wearing the headset on the sideline. But sure, money-whip Jimbo Fisher. Meanwhile, Lincoln Riley was in the playoff and Tom Herman was in a NY6 bowl. Here's the greatest thing holding A&M back: The fact that they constantly attribute their shortfalls to external factors, most notably the University of Texas, trying to hold them back, when they are world champions in self-sabotage. Nah. When all was said and done, we were still trying to beat Bama with a true freshman QB who hadn't had any game action all season. Now, I think that we could've and probably would've beaten Bama if Colt McCoy hadn't gotten hurt, but them's the breaks.
Is it so hard to stay on topic. Or start an appropriate thread. What next. Chigago pizza is best....again.
Fair enough. But they were gonna have to spend some money to get a name coach. Texas hasn't had a name coach since Royal, but Texas is a name in and of itself. TAMU doesn't have that same name. It was the true freshman who brought them almost all the way back. I can't remember when McCoy got hurt, but it was pretty early. Mack Brown seald y'all's doom with that bogus-ass call late in the second quarter.
You're just pithed cuz Man City nudged you out of 1st....again! Ps...you're also right that Chicago pizza is best....avoided!
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So a Republican (who looks like the exact stereotype of a what you might picture a "Toothless inbred from West Virginia" to look like) compared gay people to the KKK? What really surprises me is that in his mind and his base's minds, that they'd be OK with such a "positive" portrayal of the "homosexual agenda."