>Squid: Coach is getting the
>credit for "seducing" Cochran over
>to Upolu. Cochran received no
>credit, so does that mean
>that Cochran as winner's stock
>goes down, and Coach's goes
>up?

Bingo. And there was also the comment from Jim that Cochran is "playing the greatest 3rd place game ever." A very telling statement, in my mind.

>But, point to make, Coach quoted
>that I need to be
>humble not arrogant strong not
>weak, I think I have
>a strong shot of going
>all of the way.....Coach spells
>out what he has to
>do to win, be humble,
>not arrogant.
>
>I saw Coach being quite arrogant
>tonight. At the challenge when
>he was eating and Coach
>was asked by Jiffy, Do
>you still wish you were
>competing in the challenge? and
>Coach was seen bursting out
>laughing in response, and Jiffy
>replied, Yeah, I thought so...
>
>Also, he was very arrogant at
>TC as well, and with
>the smiling as they leave
>and waving good bye....I don't
>know, I think this is
>going to spell trouble for
>Coach down the road....

That was my take as well - Coach is being shown as contradicting his own words and coming off unnecessarily arrogant - I don't think he wins, either.

>I agree, Sophie is the one
>that is keeping CALM, as
>Ozzy suggested what "they" need
>to do to win....just stay
>calm. Sophie does seem to
>be the voice of reason....she'
>has noted the hypocrisy of
>Coach and his religion when
>he chose not to reveal
>to HII to Brandon right
>away, and now she doesn't
>agree with Albert to vote
>of Dawn first...I do like
>Sophie, she's shown alot of
>strength and wisdom and definitely
>kept a cool head in
>that bunch...

Agreed. I would have liked to see more strategy from Sophie to fit in with her long term prospects, though. Is she a serious contender to go all the way? Let's see more.

>Edited to add: Ozzy is
>getting a shining edit on
>redemption island....looks like he's set
>to pull a "MATT"...

I'm not so sure. He appeared awfully arrogant and cocky about going to RI - and we saw what happened earlier when Coach commented that Ozzy was all cocky and swaggering before suddenly seeing his tribe decimated by the switched vote to Keith the previous episode. Might we see the same kind of karma on RI? The edit and preview of Ozzy we saw could go either way - a domination of RI culminating in his return to the game at F5 ... or a repeat of the two times where he was shown to be very overconfident (the episode where Elyse was booted, he was shown mocking Cochran with how to spell his name; plus last week before Cochran changed his vote) before karma bit him.