Patrick Meyer

@KettchUK @SizweLo I saw Down Periscope when I was 8 years old and got the same message

@SizweLo If you've ever seen the Eastwood film Heartbreak Ridge, this mindset is so embedded a pro-military film had it in.

In 2002, the US conducted Millennium Challenge, the largest war games in its history. They split soldiers into two teams: 🔵Blue, which was America, and 🔴Red, an unnamed generic Middle Eastern country. The 🔴Red team was led by retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Paul K. Van Riper. The idea behind the games was to see how, not if, the 🔵Blue team would win. In other words, the 🔴Red team was supposed to lose, but General Van Riper didn’t want to lose. So he played to win. He used asymmetric tactics by doing things like using civilian boats instead of military ones, motorcycle couriers and coded messages in mosque towers because their cell phone networks had been hacked. He launched a massive preemptive strike using a swarm of small boats and cruise missiles, which overwhelmed the 🔵Blue Team’s Aegis defense system. In the simulation, this resulted in the “sinking” of 16 American warships, including an aircraft carrier. The exercise was supposed to take 14 days. Vin Riper and his team won after day one. Understandably, the US military was embarrassed because this was supposed to show off all its superior tactics and cutting edge technologies. So, they restarted the exercise and changed the rules to force everyone to follow a script so that the 🔴red team could not win. The exercise controllers brought the sunken ships back to life, and forced Van Riper to follow a scripted path that ensured a 🔵Blue Team victory. 🔴Red was ordered to turn off certain air defense systems and use regular cellular communications to allow 🔵Blue to destroy them. 🔴Red was also told exactly where to move certain units so 🔵Blue could pretend to find them and neutralise them according to a pre-planned timeline. Most crucially, Van Riper was forbidden from using the swarming tactics that had been so effective in the opening hours. The controllers argued that the reset was necessary because the goal of Millennium Challenge 2002 wasn’t just to see who would win, but to test new Network-Centric Warfare concepts. They felt that if the game ended on Day 2, they wouldn’t get to test the rest of their expensive toys. Van Riper, however, argued that testing those toys in a rigged environment provided a false sense of security. General Van Riper was so angry, he quit the exercise midway and wrote a 21-page recommendation on changes the military had to make to, get around his asymmetric tactics. They ignored the report and said the exercises were a huge success that proved the military doctrine was good. “It was no longer a free-play exercise... it was a scripted exercise. They had a desired outcome, and they were going to get it.” — Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper 24 years later, maybe Von Riper was onto something.

@Urbexmedic @SizweLo Its also the plot of Down Periscope

@SizweLo Sounds like a plot straight out of Heartbreak Ridge.

Remember people said all year Miami didn’t beat anyone and yet they beat Akron, Wright State (who gave Virginia a legit scare) and SMU People hate good stories for no reason

Proud of this team and everything they built this year. ❤️🏀 Undefeated regular season, MAC Regular Season Champions and so much more. We are proud and grateful for this season. Thank you, RedHawks. #RiseUpRedHawks #LoveAndHonor 🔗: bit.ly/3NeikHy

@BrianFulch @JoeFromStCloud @ChrisLongKSTP I only hate Bruce Pearl a little bit. If my son was coaching a D1 college basketball team, Id say the same thing. We proved him wrong

@ProjectCrazyEye @JoeFromStCloud @ChrisLongKSTP If I’m wrong I’m wrong. Zero Miami OH hate. Zero. Hope they are this years Cinderella. Just sticking up for my Tigers.

Seriously. They let 68 teams into this thing. If you go *undefeated* in a regular season - even against mid-major or lesser competition - and you're still on the bubble? What are we doing? Wouldn't we rather see 31-0 Miami get a go than a 7th place ACC or 10th place SEC team?

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@BrianFulch @JoeFromStCloud @ChrisLongKSTP You are just wrong. They did a FOIA request to find out who Miami asked to play this year. Ever single Power 5 school turned them down.

@JoeFromStCloud @ChrisLongKSTP Not sure that teams won’t play them. Completely agree with the last sentence. I have nothing against Miami OH. I just think a teams record and resume have context. Auburn’s record has context. And again, I’m biased. But no hate at Miami OH

@TButchermd @MattNorlander "Their NCSOS is 360 and their net SOS is... like 260. They are 70th in offficie .....They have a historically awful schedule with 0 q1 games and only 1 q2 win. 29-0 is not 29-0." Moving the goalposts as usual. I dont what the fuck NCSOS is but i know which team plays on Friday

@MattNorlander 60th ranked offense makes 40% of their 3’s in a home game against SMU without BJ Edwards. This is a lot like people justifying a CFB teams legitimacy based on a Bowl game.

One more time for everyone out there: it's MIAMI UNIVERSITY, not Miami (Ohio). And the Miami University RedHawks are flying into Friday. 32-1 and shut everyone up. That's a terrific college basketball team and even better NCAAT story. Tennessee awaits in Philadelphia.

@adamg1224 Impossible....there are thousands on Twitter explaining how Miami doesnt deserve to be in the tournament

I’m not the first to say it, but it rings true. No one gives a shit about mediocre P5 teams. The soul of college basketball is the little guy getting shot at the true powers. Fewer (ideally zero) teams that go under .500 in their leagues. That’s what literally everyone wants

@SteveR324 @OhioTate So you would agree that there is no reason Miami should have been playing a 11th place team in ACC that they beat the shit out of? I agree with you

@OhioTate Imagine taking victory lapse because you won the play game. Isn’t a 31-1 team supposed to do a lot make a lot more noise? I mean a trip to the Sweet 16 is only natural right

Are we supposed to dunk on everyone that said Miami doesn’t belong in the tournament now? Or when is the time to do that?

@GUnit_81 Too busy moving the goalposts....

So, where are all those people that said Miami OH would get destroyed by a quality team?

@ehannan73 @MattNorlander So you would agree that there is no reason Miami should have been playing a 11th place team in ACC that they beat the shit out of? I agree with you

@MattNorlander You really are gonna die on this hill when they got a team that lied to get in and got a game an hour from campus.

Didn't lose a regular season game. Should have never had to play a game in Dayton. Took advantage anyway in an awesome environment and beat a power-conference team by double digits. Lifetime memory for that fan base. Miami is legitimized, tonight and forever.

@Canedude08 @MattNorlander So you would agree that there is no reason Miami should have been playing a 11th place team in ACC that they beat the shit out of? I agree with you

@MattNorlander Because they won ONE glorified home game? You have to be kidding me. That's the part I don't understand, it's the ultimate "Play the results" scenario. If they lost, "They shouldn't have been in the First Four to begin with". Miami(OH) won, period. Leave it at that.

@sullymygoodname Miami beat the shit out of SMU. They belonged. Good Flyers fans know it. Bad Flyers fan screamed "sit down" as a team won their first NCAA game since 1999

I was truly scared of the online discourse about mid majors if Miami got taken to the woodshed wire to wire. Im glad we've gotten far enough into this one that it wont be a realistic outcome any longer. Whether they get the job done tonight or not, they belong on the floor w/ SMU

@brabant723 @RedditCFB So you would agree that there is no reason Miami should have been playing a 11th place team in ACC that they beat the shit out of? I agree with you

@RedditCFB It’s the first quad 1 win of their season not disrespecting them it’s facts. And they beat a bottom teir acc team

Miami Ohio Basketball has obviously been disrespected and made a lot of people look foolish. Fairly disrespectful to SMU as well to give them a 31-1 team in the first round lol.

@CBB_Central So you would agree that there is no reason Miami should have been playing a 11th place team in ACC that they beat the shit out of? I agree with you

Kudos to Miami. Just wish we knew what it'd look like if they'd play somebody 🤷‍♂️

@RedsInFour Im from Dayton and a Miami alum that was there tonight. It was up there with the big games like Pittsburgh 05 and some VCU games. No way close to the top. Two reasons... 1. No real student section 2. The Red Sweater crowd was still there yelling at everyone to sit down

I’ve lived in Dayton for a large majority of my life. This is not a slight at UD. This is the most electric game I’ve attended at UD Arena.

@MKSportsCards77 @barstoolsports Wow...changing the goalposts I see. Obviously Miami was better deserving of a seed than SMU. They just beat they shit out of them

@barstoolsports Need to pump the brakes with that narrative. SMU snuck in based on a lie about getting a top player back. A committee member literally said that’s why they were chosen. Talk to me when they beat or hang with Tennessee.

Miami (Ohio) Didn't Just Put On A Show, They Shut Up Every Moron Who Said They Didn't Belong In The NCAA Tournament s.barstool.link/c/article-3565…

@jet7111 @barstoolsports Thats okay and I get it. But are you saying the 11th best team in the ACC or the 10th best team in the SEC does??? Because Miami just beat the shit out of them

@barstoolsports Well clearly SMU didn't belong so we will see how they do aganist Tennessee. If they are bounced in the first round they weren't worth it. They won't be shooting those 3's with one of the best defenses in the country.

@MelSchwitz24677 @barstoolsports Bruce Pearl for one

@barstoolsports Who was saying they didn't belong exactly?