The man has not had a top-45 defense in a year where he did not have elite defender Ryan Kalkbrenner, who you could literally build any college defense around. That alone is a massive ding. Sure, his offenses are very good, but to be an elite X&O coach you gotta be good on both sides imho.

On McDermott - I put him as surprising because in Parrish & Norlander's "coaches confidential" poll he was the 2nd or 3rd highest rated Xs&Os coach by his peers. I thought that was overblown, but I'm far from an expert like the coaches polled. I for one am not surprised he missed this list...

Surprising omissions imho:

Greg McDermott (not to me, but may be to others)

Ben McCollum (too soon?)

Scott Drew (recency bias? Drew's teams have underperformed their pre-season ranking for 3 straight seasons now?)

Todd Golden (Dinged for a stacked roster last year?)

Dude's just trying to get high...

How so? Ukraine is not a NATO member.

...gain from any successes they have. We're still America. We still have all the hard power. Do what you want, but when you start to fuck with us, then we'll have a problem.

I don't think we really have an obligation to defend Ukraine either. Let Russia and China fuck around and over-extend their militaries taking and occupying largely irrelevant territories thousands of miles from US shores. I could care less about any influence or "soft power" China or Russia might...

Yeah man. I think there's 1 more long-ish layoff and it might only be 6 days?

Not defending Taiwan is a good thing. I hate Trump, and obviously invading countries is a fucking terrible idea. But the US has no reason to defend Taiwan. The only reason I've ever seen cited is that it's a military stronghold...to defend other allies in the region who should defend themselves...