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Non sports/OSU question

I personally think streaming services the future of TV/movies/on demand stuff. But when are YouTube Live TV, Hulu, etc going to move out of the 19th century with their guide interfaces? How can they make it as simple as cable and sat to find a channel, move to another channel, scroll thru a guide etc. Maybe someone can shed some light on this??? Thanks for any insight.

NS--LBJ

Former President Lyndon B Johnson died 49 years ago this morning at his ranch in the Texas Hill Country. There was no internet in 1973 and no cell phones. The first cell phone, which hit the market in 1983, weighed in at 2 pounds and was called "the brick." It offered a half-hour of talk per battery charge and was priced at #3,995.

Any of you old-timers care to guess what he's doing in this picture?

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Why Derek Mason would extend an OSU football trend with Mike Gundy

Tramel's ScissorTales: Why Derek Mason would extend an OSU football trend with Mike Gundy​

Berry Tramel
Oklahoman

Mike Gundy has been OSU’s head coach for 17 seasons. That’s a long time. Almost two decades.

During that time, Gundy has hired 37 assistant coaches. Only two had head-coaching experience.

Those two were Glenn Spencer and Jim Knowles. And those two are Gundy’s most recent defensive coordinators.

Derek Mason would continue the trend. According to reports, the Auburn defensive coordinator has emerged as the front-runner to succeed Knowles, who left for the same job at Ohio State.

The Friday ScissorTales include a look at the Big 12’s best freshmen basketball players and a potential all-rookie Thunder lineup. But we start with Derek Mason, potentially OSU football’s next defensive coordinator.

Mason was head coach at Vanderbilt for seven seasons, 2014-20, during which his Commodores went 27-55. That seems like a bad record, which it is, unless you apply Vandy standards.

Vanderbilt has employed 11 head coaches since 1974. That’s a half century. Mason’s winning percentage of .329 ranks third on that list, behind only James Franklin (.615, in three seasons) and Gerry DiNardo (.409 in four years).

Vanderbilt is not a place you win. Just ask Fred Pancoast (13-31), George MacIntyre (25-52-1), Watson Brown (10-45), Rod Dowhower (4-18), Woody Widenhofer (14-50), Bobby Johnson (29-66), Robbie Caldwell (2-10) and Clark Lea (2-10), the Commodores’ other head coaches since Steve Sloan departed for Texas Tech after the 1974 season.

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Mason, of course, has more coaching chops than just Vanderbilt. He was/is defensive coordinator at both Stanford and Auburn, two successful but wildly-different schools and conferences.

That kind of background seems to appeal to Gundy, who likes to bring in coordinators from out-of-the-box places. Gundy has hired offensive coordinators and/or quarterback coaches from the National Football League (Tim Rattay, Todd Monken), Princeton (Sean Gleeson), Division II Shippensburg (Mike Yurcich), Houston U. (Dana Holgorsen) and Florida (Larry Fedora).


Knowles certainly fit that description. Knowles was defensive coordinator at Duke when Gundy hired him away four years ago.

But Knowles had been head coach at Cornell of the Ivy League, where Knowles’ teams went 26-34 in six seasons, from 2004-09.

Spencer had been on Gundy’s staff for five seasons when he was elevated to defensive coordinator in 2013, but long before his Stillwater days, Spencer was head coach at Division II West Georgia, where from 1998-2000 Spencer’s teams went 28-7.

Assistants with head-coaching experience should be a plus to any staff. Gundy’s been at this a long time, and he mostly knows what he wants and how he wants things to run, but it never hurts to have colleagues who have been in the decision-making chair.

Assistants with head-coaching experience can offer their boss a sounding board, on everything from discipline to staff makeup to team morale. A head coach has a bunch of pots on the stove. Never hurts to have sous chefs helping in the kitchen.

Mason would provide that. Coaching at Vanderbilt is a lot different than coaching at OSU. Southeastern Conference vs. Big 12. Private school vs. public. Major metropolis vs. college town. Losing tradition vs. winning tradition.

But head coaches everywhere – from high school to the pros – have similar issues no matter the environment.

Gundy has mostly been on target with his defensive coordinator hires. Vance Bedford didn’t work out, but since then, Tim Beckman was fine, Bill Young and Spencer were good, and Knowles was great.

No reason to think Mason wouldn’t be a good hire, too. And his head-coaching experience would only help.
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"What about the Russia Hoax?"

Scarborough is on, discussing his family and friends in Florida that he tries to talk to about vaccines. First it was abortion, they were against using dead babies. No, he explains this all comes from a line of cells from the 60's, same as ibuprofen and lots of other drugs.

Then they come up with something started in China as a bioweapon, or Fauci helped create it, or its experimental. Then it's not FDA approved, while they're taking Ivermectin and hoping for the monoclonal antibody if they get sick. The "wack-a-mole" from their disinformation is wild, they're not consistent, but it's always some conservative website or social media. You look and it's click bait or "send me money to fight the libs or pay our legal bills."

The last step? When the facts have been raised and there's no way out? "What about the russia hoax?" So he sends them a link to the Mueller Report and that's it.

LMFAO you guys got that from conservative social media!!!! I've wondered where such a stupid, misinformed lie comes from, like the Mueller Report doesn't exist. It's pure GIGO!

Bill Self Sr. passes

Bill Self Sr. passes...yes, the father to Bill Self jr.

Longtime OSSAA official Self Sr. dies at 82

Bill Self Sr., a former Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association executive director and state championship basketball coach , died Thursday. He was 82.

Self Sr. is also the father of Kansas men’s basketball head coach Bill Self Jr.

A spokesperson with the OSSAA confirmed Self Sr.’s passing.

Self Sr. won a Class B girls state championship at State Fair Arena, the first season the venue was used for high school championships, in 1966 leading the Morris girls. It was his only state title in four years as a coach. He was also Morris’ superintendent at the time.

Morris is a small community near Okmulgee, where Self Jr. was born.

Self Sr. stepped down after the season and eventually left Morris to open a school supply business in Stillwater. He again became a superintendent before joining the OSSAA in 1972.

He worked for the association until 1999, including a five-year stint from 1991-96 as the executive director.

Self Sr. also inducted his son into the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame in 2013.

Funeral services are pending.
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