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NonDawg Jim Donnan's favorite play call

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The Athletic has a fun article up where different playcallers share their all time favorite play call.

Coach Donnan was featured, though his contribution came from his Oklahoma days.

Jim Donnan​

Donnan was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2009 for his work as the head coach at Marshall and Georgia, but the favorite play call of his career occurred in 1985, his first season as the offensive coordinator at Oklahoma.

The Sooners were ranked No. 5 and hosting No. 2 Nebraska in the latest edition of one of the sport’s great rivalries. OU had become more of a throwing team that season, playing to the strengths of talented sophomore quarterback Troy Aikman. But Aikman was out with a broken leg he suffered in a Week 4 loss against Miami.

The Sooners turned to freshman Jamelle Holieway and went back to the wishbone. The problem for Donnan was that star tight end Keith Jackson wasn’t getting the ball as much because Oklahoma had become so heavy in the run game.

Donnan was trying to find ways to get Jackson the ball. His solution: “15 Y Reverse Right”; 14 and 15 were the Sooners’ calls for their fullback inside veer; 15 went to the left, 14 to the right. Jackson, a 240-pound sophomore who was fast enough that he also was OU’s backup punt returner, was the wrinkle off that play.

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Donnan: “We put this in for Colorado (the previous week’s opponent), but we saved it and held it for Nebraska. And it worked perfectly. You could see (Jackson) waited and waited (looking like he was blocking on the play) right till the last second. He came around. We got that first block.

“He was a great actor. We fiddled with the timing part of how long he would block because we wanted to get as much misdirection as we could. Early on, he was coming around a little bit too quickly. We worked it hard, and it worked against our defense, so we knew it would be pretty good. We had (Brian) Bosworth, (Tony) Casillas and all those guys.

“This was my one invention for college football. In the Colorado game, he kept asking me, ‘When you gonna run it, coach?’ I said, ‘We will. We will!’ I almost ran it in that game, but (coach Barry) Switzer said, ‘Save it for Nebraska.’ I’m glad we did.”

OU’s No. 88 went for 88 yards on a second-and-7 from the Sooners 12-yard line on their second series to kickstart a 27-7 Sooners romp.
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Reader warning, Rich-Rod's favorite play call from the Sugar Bowl debacle.

www.nytimes.com

College coaches describe the favorite play call of their careers: ‘I’m pretty sure it’s gonna work’

Some offensive coordinators have as many 100 plays at their disposal. The best of the best know what to call at the right time.
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White House to seek just $9B in spending cuts from Congress out of $175B in claimed savings found by Musk’s DOGE.....

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Dirty Hairy Dawg said:
Let's see if we can agree on these facts.

1. Lower income people pay their 12.4% on every dollar they earn.
2. Lower income people are less likely to save for retirement.
3. If a couple both work and one passes, the survivor is only entitled to the benes from one account.
4. If you pass at age 64, your surviving children aren't entitled to your account.

So, if you are worried about the lower income people, the SS scam hits them the hardest. They pay a larger share of their gross income, they are more likely to depend on SS, their SS income will be less than higher wage earners, their life expectancy is generally lower and since SS took a higher percentage of their income and reduced the likelihood of retirement contributions, they leave a spouse that takes a big loss in benes and have very little to pass on if they pass at a younger age.

I know it's controversial to some but the Galveston plan is similar to how I would like our SS system to evolve. It just seems to me that if you pay in for 30 yrs, you should be able to expect more than a small payment for your remaining yrs with nothing to pass on if you die before you draw your benes.

https://www.ipi.org/ipi_issues/deta...texas-counties-pioneer-social-security-reform
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1. No, lower income people pay 6.2%. Yes, their employer pays an additional 6.2%, but that statement is a little misleading and not literally true. It's not literally coming out of their salary.
2. No disagreement at all.
3. True, but not sure what point that makes. Anything else would require more money. If a single (always) person dies before collecting benefits, no retirement benefit is needed by anyone and that money goes (essentially) to pay more to others.
4. No. If you had worked enough to earn a benefit (basically 10 years) then a child under 18 is entitled to a benefit (there are other provisions).

Everyone pays the 6.2% on the first $176,100 of income so they don't pay a larger share of their income than most people. Of course their SS income will be less than higher wage earners - the benefits are related to wages (they will be a larger % though because of the benefit formula). Do you have any statistics showing their life expectancy would be lower? The financial strength of the system is based on not paying benefits if you die; it's not intended strictly as a death benefit. I think it would make more sense if they removed the $255 benefit since it's useless (but then again we're dealing with Congress).

You can expect whatever you want from the Social Security system but it has to be financially viable (there are rules). If they would pay people more (in whatever form) it would cost more money.

I don't know how the Galveston plan has done recently. The discussion you linked talks about certain interest rates but I wonder what they have been earning in recent years of overall low interest rates. In theory Congress can design whatever they want for a Social Security program. The Galveston plan is privatized, but it's a relatively small group of people and there would be a lot of practical questions, especially in regard to investments, trying to do it for the whole country (plus what do you do with the existing system). There are a number of things that the Federal Gov't doesn't do well, but I think this needs to stay a Federal program. Unfortunately, it's such a "hot potato" for Congress.
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Trade Deficit Narrows

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Dawgdocindosta said:
If we assume these numbers are slanted by 20% (like Biden did with the jobs created numbers) then at worst we are still improving the export/import deficit by significant amounts. This is welcomed news and hopefully the market will feel good about this.
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ANd hopefully the Fed Chair might reduce interest rates or we sure hope he does.....
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