Think of it like current diesel-electric locomotives, where a smaller-displacement, turbodiesel engine drives a high-voltage generator to electrify every component of the tank, including drive systems. Applying current hybrid-automotive systems might allow the tank to perform limited maneuvers on battery-cells, removing heat signatures from the tank under standstill operation.
Somewhat related, this video popped up on my feed earlier today. It sparked a thought about Sark keeping his eye on Saban's roster and leveraging the portal + prior season results to continue poaching receiver & TE talent out of Tuscaloosa. Seems additional opportunity may be brewing for the offseason that we could take advantage of.
Disagree with Lincoln "continually given Sark headaches." He's as offense-minded as Sark is, without a few key bits of experience under Saban to recruit and tailor said offense around the LoS. Lincoln might be more crafty about identifying unique strengths of players under his roster, then exploiting them, but he follows a pretty straight playbook that can be blown up once his OL and a key receiver are overmatched.
I wished we had a couple more years to play him heads up, or at the very minimum, we didn't get fucked over with that call last year when Mims stepped out of bounds. It took more than that for OU to mount their comeback, but it certainly swayed momentum and it would have been fun to see Sark pour offensive gasoline on the fire of which only Lincoln used to play with.
We'll get that chance again, I'm looking forward to it.
Riley will never recruit an OL or DL that won't consistently get trucked outside of the PAC. He'll remain a one-trick wonder.
I'm also ready for us to play USC again soon. We may get our wish.
Related, following article was just revised and is buried within a reply-thread:
https://snyder.substack.com/p/how-does-the-russo-ukrainian-war?utm_campaign=auto_share
Never before have I thought an in-line video ad placement for a VPN service was more apropos. We're going to have to wait for two generations of 'lost' Russians to die off while the younger generation suffers.
It's not even about the "attack" but all the economic and strategic pain our allies would bring about, with an economic game of chicken to brew and wait for China to break first-- because they well. Naval blockades and denial of access to food, energy, and rare earths imports would break them in a matter of weeks. Yes, that will all hurt us too, but I hope our lazy and naive politicians have realized enough that the CCP's butt-fumbles (cargo, manufacturing, Covid-19) are severe enough to diversify and onshore.
Julia should spend more effort chastising the absolute shitheels over at Meta, not those having fun with alt-translated videos.
Then again, if you get your "news" from Facebook, I'm not sure what to tell you...
I'm still struggling with theories beyond false-flag ops or energy price manipulation. Gazprom is still making deliveries to the EU via the Yamal-Europe pipeline, yanno, the big one that runs through Ukraine in which Gazprom pays transit fees to Ukraine for. The 42.4mcm sold through the pipeline is considered normal demand under contract, with deliveries to Poland and Germany.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/eastward-gas-flows-via-yamal-europe-pipeline-rise-2022-09-27/
Dagestan is already popping off as their populace sacrificed their sons over the first rounds of conscription, never to be heard from agian. Announcement of mobilization was the step too far.
If Sark is that stubborn and fixed on his system, was his hire of coach Marion all for naught? I assumed the two would be working together to incorporate Rojo and Bijan in the Go-Go, and not some weakcat on 4th down.
I'm even more pissed that Jamison didn't return the favor to Bryce, if that's the way Bama's defense wanted to play all game. Yes, not classy or smart to levy a hit like that and draw flags in critical territory, but let's share desserts and the scoreboard could have remained the same.
All that Taco-Bell-Gigatron, Jetpack-dude-kitcsh and he couldn't even serve us up a home-and-home with ASU, whom he bolted for Bellmont, where we could have at least scored an OOC Tempe tour of Sun Devil lass-ass.
Edit: After the 2007 Holiday Bowl (one of the more fun ones under Mack), how the fuck were we left with a home-home with Berkeley and not ASU?
Their offense reminds me a lot of 2019-era OUsux, right down to their guard play. Bryce Young = Jalen Hurts lite, with the same amount of panic (when flushed from the pocket) and locked on his first read, but with a quicker release. Gibbs = Sermon; McClellan = Brooks; Holden = CeeDee; Burton = Hazelwood.
I wouldn't be surprised with an eventual box score where Bryce has more yards than his backs, but that assumes the secondary is locked in and not giving cushion. His intent will be to distribute the ball to the flat and use the WRs to dink and dunk down the field.