January 14, 2022 · 11:55 AM

Recruiting metaphor of the day

Have not:

Have:

That’s how one team caps off its postseason with a national championship and the other loses a bowl game to Army.

49 Comments

Filed under Recruiting

49 responses to “Recruiting metaphor of the day”

  1. kdawg05
    January 14, 2022 at 11:59 AM

    Maybe the dump truck is a metaphor for: “Hey, this paving company has NIL cash to share with you if you sign with Mizzou.”

    Liked by 1 person

  2. frozendawg
    January 14, 2022 at 12:01 PM

    I hope that Seal-O-Matic is nothing like the old Bass-O-Matic or that could get messy

    Give me Kirby and Apocalypse Now for the win…cue Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries

    Liked by 5 people

  3. benco04
    January 14, 2022 at 12:09 PM

    It’s 53 miles from BM to North Gwinnett High School on Google maps. An hour in the car as long as it’s not a bad traffic time.

    Fling-winging it saves maybe 30-40 minutes each way.

    All that to say, Kirby don’t play.

    Liked by 1 person

  4. ben
    January 14, 2022 at 12:16 PM

    Man, I know I sound like a scaredy-cat ninny, but I hope his chopper pilot knows what the hell he’s doing.

    Liked by 1 person

    • spur21
      January 14, 2022 at 12:32 PM

      Looked like it from my seat 🙂

      Liked by 3 people

    • Ben Dukes (@BenDukes)
      January 14, 2022 at 1:41 PM

      Don’t like Copters at all. I know life in general is a constant struggle between danger and good fortune… but baiting fate in a rotary-propelled death can?

      Couldn’t be me.

      Liked by 1 person

      • originaluglydawg
        January 14, 2022 at 1:59 PM

        Chopperphobia since ’72.

        Liked by 2 people

      • RangerRuss
        January 15, 2022 at 2:57 AM

        Beats the hell out of walking there and back humping 100+lb ruck. Much safer than driving too.

        Like

      • spur21
        January 15, 2022 at 5:42 AM

        LOL I baited fate over 1,000 times and I’m still here staring fate down 🙂

        Liked by 1 person

        • RangerRuss
          January 15, 2022 at 11:04 AM

          Spur21, I took a hop down to Eglin on a Huey for a “Hey you” mission with a young 3rd Batt fire team as fellow passengers. The pilot was an older CW4 whose safety briefing consisted of, “You Rangers start farting and I’ll take us up to 10,000 feet and open the doors and freeze your ass off. It won’t bother me because I got on this flight suit.”
          We stopped for fuel, coffee and donuts at Anniston, I think. The Troops were talking shit about having to “Putter around with grandpa in his jalopy. We’re used to cruising high speed in Blackhawks.” The Crew Chief heard all that. He and the pilot had a conversation before we took off on the last leg of our journey.
          Upon approaching Eglin AFB/Camp Rudder “Grandpa” took us nap-of-the-earth on the Yellow river. I mean wide the fuck open with the skids almost water level, trees zipping by on either side, twisting and turning. Scared the shit out of me. I’m thinking this guy lost his fuckn mind. We popped up out the river basin and just like that the old Chief sat us down smooth as silk on Biancur Field. The young Rangers were exuberant.
          “Alriiiiiiight! That’s what I’m talking about!”
          I thanked the Pilot for the ride.
          “You know where the latrines are don’t you, sir?”
          “The whole damn world’s a latrine, Chief, including your bird.” SMFH.

          I took a C-130 home a couple weeks later. Jumping in seemed much less stimulating.

          Liked by 2 people

          • spur21
            January 15, 2022 at 4:07 PM

            Sorry in advance Senator for cluttering your blog with a war story but this still makes me smile.
            Sometimes ignorance is bliss. We were asked to insert our rifle platoon into a little FSB. Lots of hostility from the Indians around the perimeter. I might add I had only been in country about a month and was promoted to AC because I had been through IP school and we were really short of experienced pilots.
            Being cocky and young I had an idea how to get in from up high. It was raining so the guys were sitting inside. As I approached the FSB I slowed to almost a hover then nosed over about 60 degrees. All the guys slid forward stacked up behind the cockpit seats – CG was bad wrong.
            As we hurtled toward the ground I tried to flare – opps – we were going to end up as a smoking hole in the ground. I pulled pitch like a madman with full aft cyclic. I bet the blades coned so much they looked like a funnel.
            Somehow I got level and plopped down as soft as a feather. Scared me shitless. The next morning all the grunts were around my aircraft wanting to fly in my bird saying – hey – we heard you were the best pilot in all of the Cav. If they only knew this FNG nearly killed everybody.
            I repeat – Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

            Liked by 2 people

    • classiccitycanine
      January 14, 2022 at 2:51 PM

      Yeah, I think of Kobe Bryant every time I see the Kirby copter.

      Like

  5. PatinDC
    January 14, 2022 at 12:18 PM

    Not gonna lie. If I am a kid that Kirby drops in on a helicopter to visit, Dayum. I am goning to be impressed.

    Liked by 5 people

  6. JaxDawg
    January 14, 2022 at 12:55 PM

    And now that Kirby has that ring to show off, recruiting is going to get even better.

    The dynasty begins!

    Liked by 5 people

  7. fisheriesdawg
    January 14, 2022 at 1:16 PM

    Damned if we’re gonna lose another Mitch Hyatt or Barrett Carter.

    -NGHS c/o 2000

    Liked by 1 person

  8. pansythedawg
    January 14, 2022 at 1:17 PM

    It’s crazy how one seems allowed to park a helicopter pretty much anywhere.

    Like

  9. Bulldawg Bill
    January 14, 2022 at 1:37 PM

    Reminds me of Jim Donnan and the steam roller!

    Like

  10. iusedtopostasmikecooley
    January 14, 2022 at 1:42 PM

    🤣The dump truck has a Booch quality to it.

    Liked by 2 people

  11. Jared S.
    January 14, 2022 at 1:57 PM

    Glad ol’ Kirbs finally got hold of a red chopper. Seems like first several years he was making recruiting visits in a YELLOW one…. I kept thinking it was odd that he couldn’t get something in school colors to use….

    Liked by 4 people

    • Harold Miller
      January 14, 2022 at 2:20 PM

      With a Natty under our belt now, I’m thinking the he needs to arrive in one with a G on the side.

      Liked by 6 people

      • eethomaswfnc
        January 15, 2022 at 8:09 AM

        They aren’t going to buy, staff and maintain a helicopter. One of the big donors is providing the helicopter services directly to the AA at a discounted rate if I’m a betting man.

        The university has a plane, but it’s used by more than the football coach.

        Like

  12. Harold Miller
    January 14, 2022 at 2:39 PM

    One question. When do we back up the Brinks truck for CKS, contract extension and sizable raise. I’m thinking he going to 8 figures.

    Like

  13. godawgs1701
    January 14, 2022 at 3:11 PM

    it’s REALLY got to chap Dan Mullen’s ass that this is the guy who got him fired. LOL

    Liked by 2 people

  14. dawgxian
    January 14, 2022 at 3:12 PM

    That dump truck is filled with money and you know it

    Like

  15. muckbeast
    January 14, 2022 at 5:16 PM

    Whenever I see these videos, I wonder how much it hurts the field to have a helicopter land on it.

    Like

  16. FlyingPeakDawg
    January 14, 2022 at 5:39 PM

    Kirby Kopter…the New Georgia Way.

    Like