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Rye, I’ve had it all over too, and it takes a LOT to impress me cuisine wise (my avatar matches me well and well as the Yogi Bear persona). Take in the Dinner at Dusk special at Washington Duke. Three courses and the desserts are impressive too. That place went to the top of our list for THE dinner place to go in the triangle for special occasions. Oak Leaf in Pittsboro is pretty good too. I promise you that you’ll be impressed from the first bite.
Capt Stanley’s ain’t bad for a cheap meal of seafood. I grew up 20 miles from Calabash and the state of all the restaurants down there is pitiful now days. Time was (50s/60s/70s) that Calabash was known for fresh seafood straight off the boats that pulled up to the dock around 3 PM everyday. 99 % of all seafood places now serve from frozen. YUCK!
I still love oyster roasts because frozen is impossible there. That being said Horry’s on highway 9 at the Waccamaw River Bridge going into North Myrtle is pretty good. For really good east coast oysters head down to McClennanville (between Georgetown and Mt. Pleasant) on Highway 17. Pick up a bushel or two and roast ’em yourself. Many a day I rode 100 miles to home on my way back from the College of Charleston with 2 bushels in the back of my car. I can still remember that smell like it was yesterday. YUM!
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As one who’s favorite dish, bar none, is Shrimp & grits, and I have spent a great deal of time in Charleston (was stationed there in the Navy), I’ve tried just about all of the incarnations of said crustacean and corn purveyed in the Holy City (local jargon for the city of Charleston). Some better than others of course.
At almost 64 I’ve had many years of travel to taste that dish in many a place, and in most places I eat that have it on the menu I’ll try it. To my surprise the shrimp & grits at the Washington Duke Inn topped them all. The other surprise that happened on our first visit there was my wife claiming the chicken breast she ordered had a sauce that made it the best she had ever had. Add to it outstanding service and it’s a recipe for a top notch dinning out experience.
Husk does it pretty darned good, but you don’t have to travel 4 hours to get what I think is the top of the heap for that dish.
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Oh, almost forgot, flying fish ceviche on the island of Barbados. Take your pick of the restaurants. Flying fish is good stuff!
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Question: is that dump, The (Un)Sanitary Fish Market still open in Morehead City?
Yes it is, and still catering to the uninformed.
If you’re looking for something upscale for an anniversary or special occasion last spring we discovered the Fairview Dining Room at the Washington Duke Inn. They have special pricing for their Dinner at Dusk. It’s a bit pricy but the food is excellent and the atmosphere is top notch. It takes a lot for an eatery to really impress me, This place did it.
BOTB, I know what you mean about whipping up food you taste somewhere else. I have friends that have been after my best friend from high school and I to open a restaurant for over 40 years. My first job was working in a restaurant that my friend’s dad had opened. I learned early on that wasn’t my cut of life. He and I still break bread often and always try to one up each other with a dish. My winner from a little over a year ago was zucchini, yellow squash, asparagus and quinoa. It’s pretty tasty.
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^I’m not sure Bama would fire Nicky, nor would Bama have enough money to buy out Nicky and pay Dabo more than Clemson could. The Iptay club could amass a BIG sum of money to hold on to Dabo. He is the proverbial cash cow (pun intended..agri school) in those parts.
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FB68, Leary had a ton of offers from almost all of the top programs in the mid atlantic up to the north east. We should hope that he could redshirt next year and be ready for 2019.
We have 10 NC commits. This class has a lot of good to great kids.
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If you look at their schedule, other than their loss, no one, even Auburn, got as close to them as we did. No team put up as many points as we did. A couple of breaks and it could have been State playing in that game last night. And there is no way to know but my feeling is we could have beaten Da U. We have a pretty good class coming in. The Wilson kid could be really good and Person and Pennix could very well be the running back additions we really need to bookend with Hines. Also I cannot remember any class that has as many 4 stars and 3 stars in it. And yes, we are losing a lot of senior talent, but I can remember just 3 years ago when we didn’t even know who our #2s were much less #3s. That is a much different story now. Falloff year next year, maybe, but the offensive side of the ball will be more experienced. It could be a fun season.
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Now its flipped, we don’t develop players as well, but we recruit better players.
Not sure I agree with that. With TOB he was lucky to get 2s and 3s, and the first 3 seasons DD didn’t fare much better primarily because of negative stigmas. That has changed in the last 2 classes somewhat BUT this years team has quite a bit of player development especially from the perspective of S&C. Both the D and O Lines are much better than the day they showed up. And LBs too. And a great deal of that is owed to coaching (assistants).
Granted improved recruiting helped because the upperclassmen were competing in practice against better opposition. From where I sit it is two pronged, both recruiting and coaching are much better now. One could argue that the top three could be better (lot’s of discussion of that already). Maybe we do fall off a bit next year simply because we are senior heavy. I’m not quite as concerned about that because what will be left after that class leaves is tons better than what DD inherited in his first year.
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We also lost Nichols early on. He was a capable RB who could have filled in when Hines went down.
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pack1997, I think he sorta ‘poked the bear’ of those who have never cared much for him in the first place. He could have easily been PR friendly, to quote tractor, and still accomplished the same thing. To State fans it would have appeared that he didn’t seriously consider the offer and was loyal to State it would have scored him brownie points. He stated that he nor his family wanted to leave, but to some those words ring hollow in the light of how the deal went down.
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My question is to the Greys of the world. Do you still love all things DD? I pretty much view him the same as I did before.
I take it you included me in that roster. I think he could have handled it much differently. I’m sure Tenn didn’t call him directly at first but rather went through his agent. And I’m also sure he could have had his agent bring him a number without him being in direct contact. Then he could have not acknowledged anything until he had worked out things with DY. As the old saying goes “perception overrides truth”. In this case the perception would have been that he was determined to stay at State from the beginning rather than playing the ends against the middle. The old squeeze play brings a degree of dirt with it. You may be safe at home plate and still get called out. Too much risk vs. reward. The other side effect is those who were not overly fond of him in the first place have more ammunition.
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Could someone help me out with what it was that Coach Dave Doreen said that would mean he talked the talk but did not walk the walk if he takes the Tennessee job?
He HAS a contract. Granted that don’t mean squat anymore to way too large a number of people, but from my side of the fence it does. 99.9999% of us (we’uns) that sign a contract fulfill that contract. For instance car loans, mortgages, you know REAL LIFE. Your word. I also had 4 contracts with the Navy. Bad juju if you break that one. DD’s talk from day 1 has been that he was here to build a program, and he got a contract, i.e. walk the walk. The truly honorable thing to do would be to say “no thanks UT”. It sure as heck would win him brownie points both with the administration AND the fans. Honor, Duty, Loyalty go a long way to instilling bonds. Just one of them things I learned early on in life from a man that lived all 3 every day he took a breath. And there are no shortcuts to any one of them.
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Loyalty is a double edged sword.
Trust me FB, i know that all too well. Had a career in the Navy and then worked for the same company for 16 years until they decided they needed to improve the bottom line and let 200 senior people go. They wound up having to hire back over 100 of them. When they asked me if I’d come back I said “Not only NO but
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NO!”. But loyalty IS loyalty and it does go both ways.
Last year DY stuck with DD but was firm in that certain expectations were in place. Nothing wrong with that whatsoever. It’s the bosses job to convey performance expectations. Did we catch some bad breaks, yep, but that goes with the job. Above all the rest the inability to find a place kicker drives me nuts. But this year has been better, the best in quite some time. But by the same token the thing that drives a faction of State’s fan base nuts will be exponential at Rocky top. That bunch was stoopid to let Fulmer go and they have done very little close to that since he left. Long suffering is not a trait for almost all of the fan bases in the SEC. How many coaches in the SEC other than Nicky have been on the same job for over 4 years? And as a football conference they are the best from top to bottom. If you don’t believe it just ask them. Only one coach has been there at least 4 years other than Nicky, and some of the schools have had 2 coaches in that 4 ywears. DD better take a long hard look before jumping into that frying pan.
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As usual I’m with Grey on this. And I believe CD is in that same category. He talked the talk but isn’t walking the walk that goes with it. IF he had won the Clemson and Wake games he could have written his own contract. Rocky top won’t be so forgiving of losing the close ones, or going oh fer in conference. If that bunch had a brain they’d get Fulmer back in there.
Time to cut him lose. Loyalty is one of the top 3 traits of a great employee. Above all else I thought that’s what Dave was, obviously I was wrong. And to be totally honest I’m p1ssed I was wrong. Yow should put a contract in front of him with a big buyout clause and say “Sign it”. If he doesn’t then pack all his crap up in boxes and sit them in front of the Murphy Center and change the lock on his office, TODAY. Loyalty goes both ways.
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Is that what we used to call cOck cheese in the 60’s or the football coach at EweNC, Larry Fumunda?
Yes… to both questions.
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Tennessee should hire Adazzio from BC.
this gets my vote…AND don’t schedule Smokey.
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Saturday it was a joy to see those last 3 TDs. The really funny part of the second one was 2 DBs thought they had him and yet it was strangely like the coyote and the roadrunner. Hines gave ’em the beep beep and they were grabbing at a vapor trail.
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Tell you what 1997, pony up a couple of mill and tell Yow who you want to hire in DD’s place, and oh yeah, while you’re at it add a couple more for the the buyout for DD’s contract too. Do I hear crickets? CTC had a hall of fame caliber QB and some pretty good talent to go along with it and still didn’t get to 6 league wins. The line to a tie for the best record in the league was razor thin. You know it comes down to this, if you don’t like the product on the field do what a lot of people are doing to the NFL these days, just don’t watch or go to games. It’s pretty simple.
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Half y’all act like your mother just died.
^ You don’t read much.Laughing, you have a strangle hold on the obvious CD! WE WON! Get over it. I remember many who gave us at best a chance to go 7 – 5. Bad breaks from the refs in multiple cases could have meant a better result. We have the best conference record in a VERY long time. We are 3rd overall out of 14. One mishap less and we would have been in a 3 way tie for #1. Gees guys, if we had beat Bama yesterday some would still be fussin’. Enjoy the best we’ve done in a long while! Speaking of heads exploding, go read some of those Bama idiots comments. You’d think Sabin went 4 – 8.
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Sorry CD, I had you pegged for that Horvance kid. A little too far to the west, huh? No matter, you were pretty stellar too!
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Mark Heniford was the guy I spoke of. He played catcher for Clemson in 73, not first string though, mostly pinch hit. He never made the traveling squad so he stuck with football. Undersized LB but would take your head off if he caught you blindsided (I know this from personal experience in practice). He ascribed to the Jack Lambert school of thought that QBs should wear a dress. His disdain for running backs was almost as intense. Also played right guard in HS. His comment last night was that you and he locked horns more than once in the 75 game, and that the Pack killed them that day.
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CD, loved reading that once again. This time though I came away with a new tidbit of info. The data digger in me kicked in and I’m pretty sure I’ve nailed down who is behind the nom de plume, and I came away with a whole new level of respect. There is a large difference of supposing who someone might be and actually knowing.
Graduating from HS in 72 I had two teammates that played for Clemson and one that played for the Gamecocks. I gave one of them a call last night to reminisce and when I called your name his reaction was “what a tough SOB that guy was”. High praise from a guy who had creosote on the sides of his helmet from slamming into a light pole to get warmed up for practice. My favorite play was fake 34, 21 cause I knew when I hit that hole it was going to be open.
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