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Oh please. Everyone out here is now saying Smith is all UT. All I provide is what we hear at the moment out here. He loved Austin, loved the college town feel, that doesn't negate what I posted earlier, that USC was a dream school, kids say that stuff all the time, wear their team gear, then fall in love with another program. Kids out here are falling in love with UT. That's why there is no such thing as a lock. the last thing I worry about is skilled player recruitment for USC, this early in the game, as in previous years, USC always start slow to end top 5. i have zero animosity, or ill wishes toward UT, USC will get who they're meant to get, as you will. Both programs will end with top 5 recruiting classes.

Who do you want respect from? Frankly, you won't get it from the simple minded, uninformed fans of other programs with no sense of history and tradition, and what that means. You've always had it from fellow Blue Blood (except maybe the Okies) programs that are smart enough to know that CFB success is cyclical, but the blue bloods have an almost guaranteed chance to come back to championship level. How did we treat the Texas fans and players in L.A.? With respect, because we know it's just a matter of time before Texas is Texas again. wouldn't give the clowns another thought.

I appreciate the work TFB does. I think they're the best of the $9.95ers and I'd consider subscribing when I have time for another board again. That considered, I really don't like to see non-scientific thinking applying correlation to a disparate set of facts. It creates a narrative that isn't correct. Mack Brown didn't go out of state in part because he woke a sleeping giant, sure, and in part because he got very lazy, very early, and harmed the program accordingly. I'll argue he was lazy-ish about his recruiting approach from the moment he realized he could fill an entire class of Texans and legacy UT people. By the time even 2005 rolled around, he'd cemented the premise that if someone wanted to come to Texas from OOS, they were going to have to recruit Texas aggressively, versus the other way around. As a result, Texas signed virtually no one from OOS for years. Mack Brown failed to exploit the national reach of the UT program out of sheer sloth and hubris, and then he bragged about it, and the press coverage rewarded his idiocy by lavishing him with praise. The program would have been stronger and deeper if Brown had taken a sweeping approach to recruiting the best players available after setting a Texas foundation in each class. Had he done so, Texas would have never run into QB, TB, WR, DL, or LB depth issues during his tenure. UT has been at or near the top in global merchandise sales and viewership from 2000 forward and Brown did little to exploit that national reach. I view it as a sin. Now consider Tom Herman's approach. What he's doing now is nothing different in landscape view than Meyer at OSU or Florida, Saban at Bama, Fulmer at Tennessee, ND ever, Miami under Johnson, Erickson, and Davis, and particularly Bowden at FSU and Carroll at USC. Bowden and Carroll are the best analogs to me because they'd created national programs, or took over national programs, inside a recruiting hotbed. They built every class with a foundation of local talent that could compete at their level and continue to keep the program elite. Then they went out and went hunting for the best of the best at either positions of weakness within their own local realm, or simply because they could and felt they needed to in order to win titles. Herman's approach appears to be similar and I hope that continues to develop as he achieves higher levels of performance success at the helm of Texas. So, I agree that Strong did what he felt he had to do out of necessity. I disagree that Mack Brown stayed largely within the Texas border merely because he soundly could. He could have done more, and he didn't. I disagree that Herman is a) doing something OOS out of semi-desperate necessity and b) will change his current approach once he's in a spot to dictate his class with Texas talent alone. If he does get lazy or myopic about his recruiting needs/reach, history dictates that we should know better, unite as recruitniks, storm the Belmont fortress, and cast him and his minions over the top of the upper westside deck.

Ms. Bechard is deeply distressed that someone has revealed that she allowed a gelatinous, half-amphibian half-man thing caterpillar across the bedroom on its belly like a walrus, bellowing like a dying elk, and then awkwardly mount her while his greasy jowls swung back and forth like a pendulum that had a pink bag of pus attached to the end while his wheezing sounds steadily rose to a high pitch and the pores on his back released misty steam and flatulence sounds while the room filled with an aroma that seemed like a fetid mixture of old ham, warm milk and feet. Respect for her privacy would be appreciated.

I think it's pretty cute that you guys just accept at face value that Jimbo is the father.

Another story: I was about 7 or 8, and Townes was living in that tin-roofed shack in that holler south of Nashville. I am not sure if it had lights (other than lanterns), and I think there was a sink, but I know it was heated by a stove and you had to shit in an outhouse. People just pissed wherever. At the time, he was with his teenaged bride Cynthia, who was closer in age to me than he was her, and I was even more in love with her than I had been with Susanna, and she kind of saw me as a little brother / ally. She had fallen in love with Colorado Townes: sober, mystical, horse-riding traveler...But she ended up with Tennessee Townes who was surly, cynical and very rarely sober. Like most posters here. Anyway, he had a few neighbors. One of them was a half-Japanese, half American Indian maniac named Bobby Iwa. That dude made Townes look like Billy Graham when it came to chemicals. He lived in the shack nearest to Townes, and oddly enough it was more technologically advanced. I think it had a toilet. Anyway, I viewed him about the same way Huck Finn did Injun Joe. I was convinced he was gonna throw a Bowie knife at me and kill me some day. And there were always lots of visitors out there. Guy. Richard Dobson, criminally unknown and recently departed. And Steve Earle, who around that time was like a big brother to me. My dad has said that after he left my heroin-addicted mom, and couldn't get custody of me, he engineered it so that Steve would move in to his former home as a day to day positive influence on me. Yes. Steve fucking Earle was viewed as a stabilizing influence on me...And to be fair, his addictions at that time were far less advanced that my mom's, and he was a good influence. He is about 15 years older than me and I can remember him treating me like a pesky little brother. We'd even wrestle and shit, and I remember him pinning me and giving me what he called "Texas titty twisters." He was only mildly sadistic. And he had that cackling laugh. Nobody has a laugh exactly like Steve's...He lived in our treehouse for a while and then moved in to the regular house when the weather got cold. And my mom hooked up with one of his San Antonio runnin' buddies, got knocked up, and eventually married him, and had a total of three kids with him before her life spiraled out of control again decades later. Getting ahead of myself...Like Cynthia and me, Steve and I had a borderline sibling relationship and sometimes the craziness of the older crowd out at Townes's shack would make us both want to take a breather. Guy and Townes would haze him unmercifully sometimes, and if I was around, he would take me on a walk like a pet dog. And one day he brought his pistol with him. Or one of his pistols. He had a mess of them in those days. I think this was the replica cap n' ball Colt he sings about in "Devil's Right Hand." And he told me he was gonna let me shoot it. Fuckin' A right, Bubba. I was gonna get to toss some lead. I'd never even shot a BB gun up to that point. So we got a safe distance from the vodka and heroin party roiling up at Chez Van Zandt and went down the holler where even my second-grade ass couldn't do much damage. He told me about the safety and the chamber and all that shit and handed me the gun, and it was so much heavier than any of the toy pistols I'd ever held. The grip sure did feel good though. He put a can on top of a fencepost and then told me how to sight and aim. I nodded solemnly, raised the pistol, and pulled the trigger. FUCKING KA BOOM. I'd never heard anything so loud. The recoil jerked the gun past my right ear. That can sat up there, unmoved. Steve was over there cackling like a hyena. "Dirty Harry you ain't, boy," he said. And he was right.

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It’s bizarro world. I never dreamed we’d see such moral gymnastics from white “Christians.” You’d have a hard time inventing a less Christ-like figure than Trump. He brags, he insults, he is utterly divorced from facts or truth. He mocks disabled people. He loves violence. He really, really loves violence against Brown people. He cheats at business. He is obsessed with money, especially as a substitute for morality to keep score and assign human beings value and worth. His mouth is a constant stream of insults and threats. He lives to bully and belittle He brags about serially sexually assaulting women, and passes it off as locker room talk as though he said it as a 15-year old kid and not a 60-something year old grandfather with a pregnant wife back home. He repeatedly sexualizes his own daughter, speaking of her sexually starting even when she was a child He breaks the vows of marriage without the tiniest hint of guilt or shame. He seeks out pornstars and playmates for serial affairs and then sends goons to intimidate them into silence. He says kind things about actual, uniform-wearing, flag-waving, hate-filled Nazis days after one of them used a car to murder a civilian. He knows fucking ZERO about Christianity He doesn’t know how to pronounce “Two Corinthians.” He repeatedly fails in interviews to name a favorite bible verse... and in one interview, he referred to “the one about bending to envy,” which, not surprisingly, does not exist His actions are in every way the exact opposite of what Christ taught - humility, kindness, integrity, and service to your fellow man

I don't think the Democratic Party as an institution is pro-Christian. Nor do I think it is anti-Christian or anti-religion. I think there are Democrats who may be anti-religion, but that isn't reflected either in the party's platform or in its officeholders. And there are a lot more Democrats who are practicing Christians. The conclusion that the Democratic Party is "anti-Christian," however, reflects an idiosyncrasy of modern evangelical Christianity--they honestly think that anything other than total obsequiousness to their goals constitutes persecution. If you're not 100% in agreement with their agenda--many aspects of which most people in America find odious--then you're "anti-Christian." So from that weird point of view that has nothing to do with reality, ok--yeah, maybe the Democratic Party is "anti-Christian."

There have been multiple studies showing the correlation between support for Trump and white racial grievance. And there is plenty of obvious correlation between support for Trump and white evangelical Christians. And with a number of high-profile white evangelical Trump supporters (e.g., Robert Jeffress), their white nationalism is manifest. And let's be real honest here--most of the mainline protestant churches split over the issue of race/civil rights/slavery. Along the way, the "southern" brand of those churches--whether it be Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist--became far more "evangelical" (at least as we understand the term in common parlance). So the notion that evangelical churches are closely tied to racism has a serious historical foundation. So while there are plenty of people who go to evangelical churches who don't have a racist bone in their body, I think it's absurd to ignore the correlation.

Work, newish house with work needed, kid due in about 5 weeks. F the offseason.

Sweet Christ. You buttfuckers are going to chase this guy and his family screaming back out of his commitment if you're not careful.

OU has always drawn from the part of California - like the Fresno area, referred to as "Fresneck" or guys with character issues. Parts of California no one wants to live. You'll be competing directly with us...smart kids that want a good education and a class program. Okies lose on both.

OK- lots of thoughts here, and they may not be linear. What else is new. "Evangelical" has become synonymous with "religious right" or "moral majority" in the common nomenclature. This is due, in part, to oversimplification on the part of the media. I don't see this as a "lubral conspiraceee", but as a way to talk about an issue or a group of people in a soundbite culture. We do the same with "Catholics" and "Muslims" and "Aggies" (although that latter one is probably dead on). Doing so, though, denies that a good number of persons of color who are Christians hold to a faith that would meet all of the markers of "Evangelicalism". And, many Latino, Asian, and African American Christians that I know would have called themselves evangelical prior to 2016. The post-election discussion of evangelical voting rates, though, pushed many of these people away from doing this. First, media reports conflated "evangelical" with "white evangelical" and disregarded these other voices. Additionally, Christians of color looked at their white "family" and have said "Nope", and moved away from the label that personified both. Rightfully so. As has been mentioned here, there are a lot of people who would consider themselves liberal/left/progressive/democrats and also evangelicals (although they too are stepping away from that nomenclature). This includes a number of prominent Christian authors and speakers, including white folks (Shane Claiborne, Jim Wallis, Rachel Held Evans). Here's an interesting book on this discussion. While the 2016 election has obviously been a significant event in this process, I would also highlight that the 2000 election (hanging chads and all) led to some of the foundations for the current state of affairs. W's "Compassionate Conservatism" and evangelical faith became a target for people frustrated with the election's results. The events of 9/11 also exacerbated this: the anti-muslim sentiment and the seeming hypocrisy of "compassionate conservatism" rushing the nation into War certainly didn't help. Finally, I think it's important to point out that while "evangelicalism" (as it means "religious right") may not be synonymous with white nationalism, there's an enormous legacy of racism at the core of the evangelical engagement with politics. This article is a great summary: Real Origins of the Religious Right. The "pro-life" plank that everyone points to was a secondary element to this political move... the primary motivators were segregation and money. 'Merica. That's all I've got... I'll go back to my regularly scheduled non-sequiturs over in the Lulz forum now.

Looks like he'll OV here for the USC game: In a recent interview with 247Sports, Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei five-star athlete recruit Bru McCoyraved about his April unofficial visit to Texas. The Longhorns were already a contender coming into the visit. Tom Herman and company are one of the favorites coming out. "The Texas visit was great," McCoy's father Horace told 247Sports this week as the trip made a lasting impression. "We are just taking everything all in, in hopes of making an informed decision and not an emotional one. Texas made it compelling and special for sure. They are definitely serious about their football down there." McCoy is looking at returning to Austin for the USC game the weekend of Sept. 15. That would be an official visit. The other contenders for the 6-foot-3, 215-pound McCoy include USC, UCLA, Oklahoma, Oregon, Colorado and Washington. He'd like to take all five officials before announcing a college decision in early January. The industry-generated 247Sports Composite ranks McCoy as the nation's No. 2 athlete and No. 17 prospect overall. The 247Sports Top247 Player Rankings slots him higher, as the No. 1 athlete and No. 4 recruit in the land. McCoy could play receiver or linebacker on the next level.

That was one of my favorites. Look, I have to acknowledge this -- over the last couple of years, is there any place in the world MORE fun to be than a Russian troll farm? I think not. Seriously, the guys get to sit around, drinking vodka, and coming up with absolutely OUTLANDISH bullshit....all of which ends up believed. "Oh yeah, Yuri? You've got them believing the US Army is invading....the US? I'll do one even better -- I'll tell them there are secret jails, ummm....underneath their Wal-Mart stores!" "Sure, Oleg, that's good. But how about this -- I"ll tell them that their precious Blue Bell ice cream trucks are going to carry all of the dead bodies!" [lots of Russian laughter, vodka glasses klinking, and stupid fucking Americans believing every outlandish fucking word the trolls can type] Our country is too stupid to survive.

Inaction is condoning and giving him a pass. "Yet they did not listen or incline their ears, but stiffened their necks in order not to listen or take correction" - Jeremiah 17:23 "You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you. "You shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God or accept correction; truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth" - Jeremiah 7:27 Even your own holy book you pay no attention to is calling you on your bullshit.

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That equals a winning percentage of over 1600 percent. Amazing Sent from my SM-G920T using Tapatalk

I assume they are. I mean, they are all black.

Jordan Shipley initials JS Jaxson Shipley initials JS Jake Smith initials JS Coincidence? I think not.

This is the real reason they left. So they could talk shit without remaining our bitch. Like a yappy dog behind a closed door.

As someone who grew up Baptist, I'll weight in on this. You have to understand that their outlook on the world is an extension of their view on the Bible, which is a melodrama going back and forth between good and evil that will culminate in an apocalyptic event where the good guys win. There is no nuance. It's black and white with no gray. So, as they see the world, it's a drama in constant conflict. (They're drama queens.) The end game is the other side isn't simply the "other side," they're actually evil. It really doesn't matter if it's Hillary Clinton or Obama. They'd say the same about Biden when you take away the race and gender angles. It also doesn't matter who is on their team. Every election has the balance of the universe in question. They voted for a child molester in Alabama because babies might die! Also, it keeps them entertained, if you think about it. There's drama everywhere not unlike a teenager with a video game. Just turn on TV and you'll hear how city council elections are a battle for America or something. On a larger scale, though, they're not the dominant political force of yesteryear and it's not close. They're more of a transactional voting block now and by that I mean if a candidate can get them theirs, that's all they need. They're like the unions in that regard. Just get me what I can and the details of the candidate don't matter. The only difference is they've been draping themselves in morality for decades. The truth is they've always been the most pliable voting block in America. They were against divorce until Reagan, against draft dodging until Bush, against fun babies until Palin, thought Mormons were a cult until Romney, and against everything until Trump. They'll believe whatever they're told. (If only Wulaw and Escriva were still here to tell us how principled they are.) All you really have to do is merely say you're pro-choice and they give you a pass for everything else. On the subject of abortion, you're right in that it's a little more complex but it's not. They say that issue is their deal breaker but would they vote for a pro-life Democrat? Most of them would decidedly not. So, they say it's what makes them Republicans but there are certainly other factors. The Democrats know this, too. They know by running a pro life Democrat, they'd lose far more voters than they'd gain. The evangelicals will just want to vote Republican but they need some issue to dial up the melodrama (see Paragraph One). It makes them think they're fighting some cosmic battle.

Apparently math is hard for you considering 30 years would be 1988

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Can’t see shit brah

The only point on which you can argue the modern DNC platform is anti-Christian is its stance on abortion. The only point on which you can argue the modern RNC is pro-Christian is its stance on abortion

Oh goody. Here comes the broad brush on a hijacked term and the usual triggered responses from the usual posters about faith and religion.

If you are caught running a robocall phone operation, you receive the death penalty.

Are evangelicals just now code word for white nationalists? Given the complete abandonment of their principles to justify their support of Trump, I wonder what is really behind this voting coherent. I grew up in small town America where Christianity was rule of law but never met a true evangelical so don’t understand if this group actually exist outside of politics.

That's overly nihilistic. We may as well just all kill ourselves now in that case. Every baby born is certainly going to die. That doesn't mean people should stop having them. Life is both beautiful and finite. Eventually the universe itself will end. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be the best stewards we can be for our tiny part of it. The only real purpose of life is to survive, both as a species and as an individual. Make this planet as good as it can be. Colonize other planets and other solar systems. When we go extinct, we'll at least have done the best we could.

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If they can sneak into the GS locker room and replace his shoes without anyone noticing, it would create a significant advantage. Just need Capella to create a distraction....

USC game going to be huge. Pretty much pencil in all the main in-state guys and looking like a lot of OOS recruits will visit as well.

I've related this before, but might as well relate it again. I grew up Catholic and went to Catholic schools until I went to college. My wife and I visited and spent time at several protestant congregations before settling on a denomination that we're both heavily involved with nowadays. I grew up in a heavily Jewish part of town, and ran around with a bunch of Jewish families. I grew up in multicultural Houston, and spent a good amount of time with people from an even broader swath of cultures and faith. Without question, the MEANEST people I have ever had to deal with in my life have been the showy type of "evangelical Christians." And I don't just mean once or twice, I mean consistently. From nearly 50 years of data-gathering, if you were to ask me which cultural and faith demographic in this country is just plain the meanest, I wouldn't hesitate to tell you 'fundagelicals." And now, we see the culmination of the marriage of that "faith" and politics in a political movement that CELEBRATES meanness, name-calling, etc. If Christianity was a "product," then the folks who have most loudly claimed the "brand" have all but destroyed its reputation among all of the kind of folks we'd like to see consuming it. In short, if you're a kind, decent person, living "the way" that the Gospels teach (because that's what Christianity is -- it's a WAY -- it's not a magic ticket where you just shout "I love Jesus!" and you're in)....then you want NOTHING to do with the current brand. And now, I think that might be okay. Christianity destroyed itself by becoming a cult of worship of self, and its institutions. If they all fall and burn, let them. The Gospel will survive. The way will survive. And we'll start over.

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If there is anything we know about Candi, it's that she is unbelievably accommodating.

There’s a hell of a lot of room between ignoring a correlation and blanket application of the term also fuck Robert Jeffress

I’ve posted before about my coworker who owns Southland Guitars. He recently restored this from pieces: 1943 Banner J-45 Sounds good too but I can’t figure out how to share a .m4a file.

I guess I roughly fall under the term if we're talking theology. I didn't vote for trump and consider his election a great moral failing by our country. He's morally unfit for office, corrupt, and generally a disaster. I also greatly dislike the politicization of the church. As bad as it's been for the country, it's much worse for the church. The anti-faith zealots should be rooting for a slow burn of politicized religion; not so much that we turn into the Taliban but enough that we're too busy marginalizing ourselves seeking worldly power to actually be the church. That said, the mental games you have to play to get from evangelicals largely supported trump to evangelicals are white supremists is pretty substantial. But hey, we all need a good enemy and it's easier if our enemies are somehow less than us.

43 PGA wins (9th all time) 10 European tour wins 5 majors Won 3 of 4 majors and 2nd place a record 6 times at the us open Already inducted in the golf of hall of fame Won Haskins Award for best college golfer three times, and won ncaa individual championship a record three times along with Crenshaw. Was only the second collegiate golfer to win first team all American honors four years and of course win a PGA Tour event as an amateur. Yeah, big choker and underachiever...now you can leave again

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I was a rugrat underfoot of Townes, Steve, and Guy...My dad was good friends with all of them, and my mom was a drug buddy of theirs. She named my little half-brother after Steve and Uncle Seymour, the old black man from Clarksville in the video weeping with Townes. I knew them as people with all their flaws but their music still stands up even if my childhood was kinda horrific because of those hellions.

They're gonna lose a game like 69-3 this year.

It must be a real beating for Tahoe to go through life as such a level-headed, rational objectivist and yet be constantly misunderstood.

I hope so. My dad was awesome and I miss him.