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God bless her, my mom left this world yesterday. Not totally unexpected, she was 88, but was in generally good health. The latest episode started with a fall (she wasn't hurt at all and up to very recently never fell nor was anything but 100% self-sufficient). She went into the hospital last week and we thought great, she can be stubborn and avoid getting a thing or two checked out medically, she'll get looked over and come out better. But man, in one of the great mysteries of advanced age, stuff just started shutting down, and within 2 days she was pretty much hospice level. They found she was anemic, had a weak heart, and other assorted stuff that to us, even though we knew some of that was there, never exhibited itself whatsoever in symptoms, etc. She was mentally sharp as a tack, etc. But her kidneys shut down and we made the decision not to run dialysis since they said she was pretty much going to not make it. Nevetheless, she made it to almost 89 years, was never unable to fend for herself, and (fortunately for the kinfolk) avoided that often-terrible long, slow, painful slide where family has to deal with the ENORMOUS stress of dealing with an infirm elderly relative, and figure out nursing homes, managed care facilities, hospice, etc. So she did us a favor, I guess. Anyway, I'll be tooling off to D.C. Monday and doing all that funeral stuff, back a week from Monday (we're going by car, for several reason, 4 travel days within a week, hoo boy). Weather 'round here should be good almost all of next week after today, so no weather reports needed. Otherwise I'll probably check in to relieve stress/sadness, but it's all good in the long run. What, no more "your mom" jokes? Say it ain't so! Ma was a great lady, tough, resolute. Not the "loving, sweet mom" (which is also great) but more of a whip cracker and kept my ass in line when needed. She done good in her life. Thatssit.

Can you guys please take this shit to the football board?

I know this is obviously nothing new, but reading his statements before boarding AF1 this morning has my blood boiling. His complete disregard for facts, or even just the superficial appearance of being truthful is insulting to his office and this country. He thrives in creating chaos and spreading disinformation, and we are all suffering for it. When he finally dies, whether that is next month, next year, or a decade from now, it will be one of this country's finest days. Fuck him, fuck his family, and fuck all of you fuckers who still support this piece of shit. Happy Friday.

Finished the rig. The bullet loops ended up being a pretty tight, so I had to carefully set just the loops and insert cartridges to stretch them out. When the leather dries its thickness shrinks a bit, loosening them up. Even then I had to take a round file to thin out some of them so that I can easily remove a cartridge with one hand. Getting it wet and stretching it like that means you have to dye it again and it wont be quite the same color as before. But it's all lessons learned. I think I spent about five hours stitching up the loops.

None of this shit is recruiting related. Take this crap somewhere else and leave this thread for recruiting related information.

JFC ... I come onto this board after a 5 hour hiatus and see 3 new pages. I think: "Wow - some serious shit must have happened" ... Nope. Just a bunch of bitching, worrying and complaining.

If only every selfie was followed by a bear mauling

I appreciate your candor and insight on things, but goddamn man, your posts this offseason have been a fucking roller coaster.

Jimbo is gonna have to sit back and watch. He’s used to it.

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NGD!!! Needs a little truss adjustment and some setup, but she plays nice. The neck is great.

It's a fucking beating wading through 3 pages of the same idiots rehashing the same tired arguments.

How is last years class going to hurt? We signed arguably, and IMO, the 3 best DL in-state. I don't care if Brown and Wright were rated higher than Ossai and/or Ojomo, Brown has bust written all over him and looks lazy and seems to have more interest in kneeling during the anthem than playing football. And Wright has already blown out both knees and we've seen how that worked out for Justin Dunning. And the 2 OOS guys are solid prospects as well with Carson being one of our earliest offers. Now I'm not giving Giles all the credit for getting these guys, but I don't think last years DL class is going to set us back.

Gotta disagree with idea that Herm isn’t managing his coaching staff to the benefit of the team. 1) he kept the entire defensive staff intact. That is half the staff and by all metrics they performed great and should maintain that level next season. 2) the offensive staff turnover over the last several years has been insane. Herm identified a need for players to get consistency. 3) the primary weakness with the offense was the offensive line’s inability run block and pass protect. So he brought in herb hand. That is exactly what this team needs - consistency and better oline play. However, the apparent preference to some fans is for complete turnover on the offensive side of the ball.

I think he meant the old old wooden ship that the founders of Notre Dame came to America on.

Finance degree here. Done plenty of shit associated with dealing with the IBs and VCs of the world and the premise that ND has some sort of advantage over UT in that arena is laughable. They’re both up there alongside the Ivys, Michigan, UVA, Stanford and a handful of others. No one has to justify a fucking thing from one of those schools to anyone and none of them get to sneer at the others. The fucking ND guys claiming otherwise are flat out full of shit.

Take it to the football board, damn. Where's BL with the ban hammer.

Well, to be fair, for a lot of them this is the first time they've ever actually watched baseball in May.

My preference is to find a Delorean, travel back to Bellaire in late November of 2016, and shake Herman vigorously until he agrees not to hire a terrible offensive staff in the first place. But I don’t have one of those, so I’m stuck with your weak ass strategy of crossing my fingers and mumbling things like “but consistency” and “i’m not a corchez!?!”, so yeah, man, you nailed it.

Friday vibes, like:

The problem isn't that enough money isn't spent on them, its that the parents do not give a fuck about their own kids. Even with twice the amount of money poured into those schools would mean nothing if nobody cares once those kids leave school.

The KING....

Dallas Warmack announced he's grad transferring from Bama. Herb Hand started following. I'll be surprised if Hand is done with the OL class this cycle. It seems fairly obvious to me that Hand is interested in adding another OL before the season starts. Also, Warmack has 2 years of eligibility left.

potatoe

Trump’s so broke! How broke is he? He had to set up a payment plan to pay off a porn star he never slept with.

What were they going to do? Fix the bear's computer?

You are not wrong Walter, you're just an asshole.

When I check my mail I prefer to gallivant to the mailbox rather than just walk. On very rare occasions I shuffle with a hitch kick, jazz hands combo, but I prefer to be gallivanting.

That's exactly what I said. Also, the most obvious option is to use the 10th assistant spot on a second DL coach who can recruit, rather htan wasting 3 spots to coach TEs and WRs. Keeping the dead weight of Mehringer and Warehime is absolutely affecting this team and the "consistency" argument is a joke. They both had their jobs changed over the offseason.

After reading this shit you would think we hired Bo Pellini as head coach.

Of course we'll see improvement due to better personnel, but this offense could improve a decent bit and still be really bad. No one doubts there were personnel issues last year, but the staff did nothing to help with that. They ran 11 personnel without a decent TE all year. Beck called plays that everyone knows we couldn't execute over and over, and while there were limited plays we could execute, there were some. But instead of sticking to stuff our offense could run, Beck called for plays over and over everyone know we couldn't, like expecting Garret Grey to block a TE or Tristan Nickelson to be able to block outside zone. The reality is Beck has underperformed everywhere he's been as an OC and he did the same last year. There's not reason to expect he quits doing that now. There's no reason this year has to be make or break for him. It's been break for Beck for many years now. Beck will always hold this team back, regardless of whether our personnel improves. There's plenty of evidence to make that conclusion. One more year isn't necessary. It's cool that he's recruited well, but when you're talking about a coordinator, coaching trumps recruiting every time.

Thx all, again. Ma wasn't actually a big drinker (now Dad, well shit he could hold more beer than a Fort Worth distribution center, ex-weighlifter, couldn't fuck widdim, but he was generally a nice guy, actually 20 years ago almost exactly he existed this plane... will be in the same church, same suit.. which if you've been following the weight loss thread at all, I was too fat to get into from about a year after (1999) up to last year. Now I can get back into it again, holla!)... I have a funny story about the last time I sassed with my dad, I was 17, basically told him to fuggoff (not that lingo, even I wasn't stupid enough to use that)... dad never lost his temper.. much... but when he did... 1) he got quiet and shuddered, face turning red as a Valley Tomato, then 2) fucking run for the hills, you're fucking dead... anyway he silently took a step toward me, grabbed my 200 lb. body with one beefy arm, then kind of just chucked me against the wall, I hit and sagged down like someone splatting a tomato on the wall... no abuse or shit, I was fine and he didn't toss hard, but one fucking arm lifted me up like Mike Myers hanging a soon-to-be-victim on the wall, then said simply, "Don't you ever smart mouth me again." I didn't. Last time I think he ever "spanked" me (which most of the time as kids, we just got a "lickin", 1-2 splats on the ass, he was never an abuser or anything, just strong as shit)... Anyway, ma wasn't a big drinker, but once she drank a glass or two of wine, she fucking became hysterical, had people in stitches. She was funny as shit. And she could work a room like a politician. But yeah we tried to get her overserved a few times just for the comedy. But she really didn't drink all that much.

Most people agree that Herman was a good OC at Ohio State therefore one would assume that he knows how to evaluate an OC. If this is true and if he still keeps Beck then that means he thinks that Beck has what it takes to succeed and likely thinks that the offensive ineptitude is due to the players and not the play calling.

I don’t see any inconsistencies in there. I think they win in spite of idiocy with staff personnel on offense because of familiarity between the staff and players in year 2; a weaker conference slate; and an excellent defensive coaching staff. Likewise, I think Texas signs a great class because: they’ll win 9-11; they recruit at Texas; and there are some great recruiters on this staff and Herman has an excellent recruiting plan. None of that changes the facts that Herman has made horrible staff decisions; didn’t read his team when he showed up; and we have some terrible recruiters.

"We take our responsibility as stewards of public dollars extremely seriously," Susswein said.

He Prabhubly regretted that decision.

let us pray.

I would stab all of you in the face for five minutes with Susanna Hoffs. I know it isn't germane to the thread. Just putting you all on notice.

Also - for those of you using baitcasting reels. My number one suggestion if you ever have 30 minutes. Open up the side plate on the left and take off the spool tension knob off the right side (under the star drag) There are small pentagon shaped clips holding the bearings in place. Take both of those spool bearings out, drop them into a bearing cleaning solvent (I use Zippo lighter fluid in a shot glass.) Give them a stir and let them sit for a little while. This will remove all of the factory packed grease they have been filled with which actually hurts their performance but increases their longevity for lazy asses who dont rinse their reels after salt. Once you pull them out, pat dry and put them on the end of a Qtip and give them a spin. If they only spin 3-4x, put them back in the solvent. Eventually, they will spin for 10-20 seconds or longer. Once that happens - leave them to dry and put a single drop of high speed reel oil in between the body and the shield and reinstall in your reel. You will be blown away at how much better your reel will cast and how you have actually lowered your chances of backlashing because your spool is spinning more efficiently. Will easily add 10-20ft to an already good cast. Just make sure you keep them oiled.

Did you expect the DL to be among the best in the conference last year, after what we saw in 2016?

“Fuck y’all” - - Fred G. Sanford The G stands for greatest fucking intro of all time.

It's because he is comfortable in prison. Spent some time in Shawshank back in the day.

Sorry for the shitty playing and iPhone video but this is the Washburn my brother bought me in 8th grade https://youtu.be/T2iNMHRYNG4

A good friend set me up with a (now married so no pics) fox. Maybe irritable bowel, Crohn's, but when she spasmed in orgasm, yellow shit water came out her ass and stunk to high heaven. There's the drawback. How do you tell your bud she's a stink squirter?

Yeah masculine men pretend to be cowboys, load their dog into the truck then sit in their driveway in suburbia and shoot Facebook videos of themselves rambling about topics that appeal to low IQ aggy types. That guy probably goes back into his house after he films his clips, puts on khakis and a polo then goes to work installing DirecTV.

“Real fans” don’t get stadiums built. Rich people do