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I bet Aaron Hernandez feels pretty stupid right about now.

Happy NGD everyone. Finally assembled after many many moons:

It does illustrate that everyone is facing his own crises. And when you have a mental illness, those crises can overwhelm. It's weird--a lot of people say that they would commit suicide if they had a terminal painful physical illness, both to end the pain and to spare their loved ones from watching their decline. And somehow that is viewed as a rational decision. It may not be the decision that you would make for yourself, but most people view it as rational. But when it's a mental illness--whoa, that's "selfish" or "irrational." But it sure doesn't seem that way to the sufferer. To him, it appears to be a rational decision to end the pain and spare his loved ones from being further impacted. To them, it's not selfish, it's selfless; it's not irrational; it's the only rational decision. That's what mental illness does to you. It's tragic. But it's an illness all the same. He died of an illness just the same as if he'd have died of cancer.

How bad does Trump want to host a reality show called The Pardon, where various black folks come and grovel at his feet asking for pardons. At the end of the season he picks a winner.

Then I don’t think you actually “get” mental illness then. But yes, terribly tragic for his kid.

FIFY ... and Jimbo really was riding a tiny pony in that previous picture. /nobert

I have been thru this myself, being married for 14 years. I can help. By "support", she wants you to make her feel good about herself. Try this - when watching TV, and you see a hot actress, tell her "She reminds me of you when we met and you were skinnier. Now, there is just a lot more of you to love and looks don't really matter to me anyway".

Holy shit people pay for this stuff? I think I will start a recruiting page with subscribers for my "inside scoop". I already have a business plan with key strategic dynamics. I will start my posts with "Working to Confirm". Ready? "Working to confirm. I have been hearing that Leal still really loves UT and his family is telling him that he pulled the trigger too quickly. We all know he was blown away early by Herman and after things have settled out, he is thinking about decommitting. I happen to know that Leal was with his cousin today looking at UT T-shirts and burnt orange backpacks at Academy. Maybe for an UOV to Austin? WIll pass along more info going forward."

We are a conference with 9 baseball teams, the SEC has 14. Based on sheer numbers alone, the fact that you have 5 more teams, I would hope that you consistently have more teams advancing. In order for the Big 12 to get 6 teams into a Super Regional, we wouldn't just have to get at least 66% of our conference into the tournament, but all 6 would have to advance. Not to mention who cares. No disrespect to Florida baseball as y'all finally broke through the glass ceiling, but this is the last place to be chanting the conference rah rah crap. The reason people get sick and tired of hearing about the SEC bs is because your successes are glorified into this untouchable stratosphere where y'all are considered a step under Triple A, and then in years like 2016 where the Big 12 gets 3 teams into Omaha and the SEC gets 1 (Florida) and goes 0 and barbeque, nobody bats an eyelash. Up until 1990, nobody gave 2 shits about SEC baseball. Texas has consistently run through the SEC in the postseason with it's fair share of losses to LSU in '09 and Vanderbilt in '14. Since the tournament expanded to 64 teams and adopted the Super Regional format Texas is 14-6 against the SEC in the tournament. Then off the top of my head Greg Swindell, Dennis Cook and the 1985 team sent Rafael Palmeiro, Will Clark, and the so called "Greatest Mississippi State team ever" packing. 35 CWS appearances and 6 National Titles. Leave us, LSU, Cal State, Arizona State, Arizona, Miami etc... out of that conference rah rah crap. Duke could spank Tech this weekend and you wouldn't find a Texas fan that could give two shits unless they had some family connection and even then they probably wouldn't care.

Do you think any of us needed you to waste space on this thread with this take? Your view on things like this are a fucking given.

CDC just came out with a report that suicides are up in almost every state since 1999 and up over 30% in half of states. People who attack those who commit suicide or argue that this isn't a serious problem are wrong and should shut the fuck up, imo. https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/suicide/

Why couldn't it have been Flavortown's own, Guy Fieri?!?!?!?

Her best days--as ineffective as they were--are long behind her. Her name is a dog whistle for the Fox News crowd. She needs to get out of Dodge and make way for a younger, inspired "leader".

I find it amusing that pretty much everyone on this board (sans Satyanash, probably) is chomping at the bit to welcome USC, which is absolutely loaded with talent and experience at every position (except for experience at QB) to DKR this September, but even the hypothetical of playing Stanford in a neutral site game sends us into the fetal position.

Some of you are far more obsessed with Hugo than any aggy is with Texas. We get it, you don't like his posts. Attack the content, not the messenger. You can't do that, so you choose ad hominem. Ironically, you chose an aggy metaphor that far better describes your own actions.

Yeah, I don't think another indictment against Manafort qualifies as a validation of your prediction that there would be a bunch of new indictments by June 1st. (God, imagine how you would've stroked yourself if that had actually happened.) Take a chill pill. Please. I do appreciate your rare tweet-free post.

This site is full of hypocrites. Jokes a puns when a fashion designer commits suicide, but don’t dare make light if the situation when their favorite food writer takes his own life.

Jesus This one actually effects me hard. I believed so strongly in his work that travel and exploration has become an ethos for me. I have tried and experienced so much more in life because of the influence of his writings and shows. I felt his narration was brilliant and his storytelling was only getting better. This really really sucks.

This forum is mostly men. not THAT interesting, really. Bourdain was very much a man's man and had stories and adventures that would outshine many posters on here. RIP my boot wearing brother who influenced me to be more comfortable with the grey hairs and not giving a fuck

Maybe it's a poor choice of words, I don't really think so, but when my medicine is working I know that those thoughts were nonsense. It's when I'm stressed and those thoughts take over that I can't see how nonsensical they are. Bourdain has been a favorite of mine for many years. This one hurts. Fuck mental illness. @cactusflinthead started a thread about this shit that helps a lot of us. I welcome anybody that is struggling to find it and join in the discussion. http://www.surlyhorns.com/board/index.php?/topic/280-depression-ocd-and-whatever-else-ails-you-between-the-ears/

I think that makes a very big assumption that people that get to the point where taking their own life makes sense are capable of making rational decisions. That’s a really, really big assumption. Most people (most, not all) who get to that point can’t see any other solution to their issues.

Giles has no fucking idea who we just offered because he doesn’t recruit. He’s too busy developing players all day

Whoa whoa whoa--I get a lot of the criticism of Nancy Pelosi. From a policy standpoint, she is too liberal for my taste. She is haughty and arrogant, which is remarkable that it stands out among the haughty and arrogant denizens of Washington. And from a House-management perspective, she is only ever concerned with that 218th vote--she never looks for broad agreement (because that would probably result in a narrower bill, which also conforms to my preferred style of governance). But "ineffective"? Really? That's your critique? She held her caucus together to push through a trillion-dollar stimulus, Dodd-Frank, and Obamacare. She held that caucus together despite the complete and total incompetence of the White House's legislative affairs department in those years. No Democratic speaker has ever been able to get healthcare done. None--not Jim Wright, not Tip O'Neill, not even Sam Rayburn. And they all tried. But only she was able to hold together the Democratic caucus. "Ineffective"? You've got to be out of your mind.

I finished off my EH Taylor set.

It's called a "reputation." And you have one. You have no one else to blame for the fact that when people think "Cowering in a dark corner and rubbing their pussy while muttering that Texas will never get another elite recruit or win another game" people think Satanyash.

I am so pumped for this weekend. Flying in from FL with my son to take him to his first Longhorn baseball game. Kicker is he is wearing my Cliff Gustafson Longhorn Baseball Camp shirt I got when I was 8. Special day. Go horns!

That's not materially different than Donald Trump playing a role in our country's policies. The only real difference among them at the time he became president is that Kim Kardashian had better business credentials and Rodman had more international diplomatic experience.

Since Luke Duke refuses to update us on his A5 Wagyu, I decided to take matters into my own hands

Hey...another Tahoe post complaining about faux Democrat obstruction that doesn't acknowledge the utter shittastic nominees the ass-clown-in-chief is appointing. Another post, that once again, fails to note that the GOP also control both houses of Congress and is obstructing themselves with their own incompetence.

this has got me thinking deeply today. you never really know what the guy next to you is carrying with him. that goes for the grocery store line, the stoplight, whatever. but you can be an agent of change for people you know. you can reach out and make that phone call to see how things are going. you can have a relationship that goes beyond social media or text message. call a friend today. call a friend every day. talk to people. i have not been doing enough of that, i think.

I've thought a lot about this in sobriety. When I was in active alcoholism, I wanted to die. I did not want to kill myself but consciously wished for an external source to end my suffering and that of my family. I'd drive 71 or 29 on the way through the hill country and wish for a truck to swerve into my lane and take me out. Fuck, a meteorite or bolt of lighting would have been just as good. I'd be gone, my family would be financially secure, and not have the burden of suicide survivor-ship layered on top of their general grief. I'm not sure if that made me suicidal in a clinical sense, but I am now much more empathetic and sympathetic to those in that state. In general a key factor at play here is the confluence of increased mental illness coupled with a general shift toward self-seeking and selfishness in society as a whole. Medical community aside, I think social media and other forces that are at play in how we interact with and view each other puts those at risk in a constant state of comparing their insides to the appearance of others' outsides if you will. Couple that with a general callous attitude from those with whom the ill interact and we are left with a situation that more gas is thrown on a fire that's always been there for some segment of out society. I have no answers and my thoughts are clearly just my musings, but I don't think this is going to get better until we have a shift in the societal attitudes toward kindness and empathy that we seem to desperately lack in general human interactions.

It’s almost as if your birthday was the earliest excuse for her to go to a restaurant that she wants to go to.

aggy is Hudson in Aliens to every single year

Since CTJ has retired SLX, I figured I"d do my best SLX impersonation and give y'all a good old fashioned recruiting analysis tl;dr post. As y'all know, probably much better than you'd like to, I'm not shy in criticizing the staff for perceived mistakes in recruiting strategy, but I'm not really tracking with Nahlin on this one, for CB or WR. Someone asked about this a couple days ago, but I forget who it was now, I like Caldwell better than Banks straight up and I'm not really sure why the staff had Banks higher to begin with. I've never been a fan of Banks and I had a conversation with Fud about it roughly a month ago when UT was thought to be the leader. I just don't see it with him. At the time I watched his hudl and Rivals camp footage and he looked small and stiff in his breaks. I noticed he's going to the Opening Finals, so I figured maybe he looked a lot better there. He measured at 5'11, 166 lbs and he doesn't appear to have the frame to put on a ton of weight. He ran a 4.54, which was actually pretty good for that camp as only one guy ran a sub 4.5, however his shuttle time was a horrid 4.46, which matches up with how stiff he looks on film. I also watched the Houston regional dbs v. wrs (embedded below), I only saw him get two reps (around 8:00 and 8:45) and he didn't do well in either rep. His SPARQ score wasn't great either. I'm not sure how he got invited to the Opening. Also, as a side note, Bobby Wolfe got 4 reps and got burned every time, just like in the Rivals camp video. I don't get his ranking at all. He's a CB who can't cover. He better hope he can transition to safety, because he certainly aint gonna fix aggy's CB issues. Anyways, I like Caldwell. His film reminds me of Davante Davis. He's got a big frame, he's a fluid athlete, and he's really good in run support and with the short wr screen game. He probably won't be a guy you put on an island without any help deep, but he can be a good player. Similar to Davante, I"m not sure that he wouldn't be better off as a safety. Also, 247 says he's 6'1, 171 but that was from the 2017 opening regional, so it's safe to say he's likely grown some since then. Regarding WR, I view the Jaylen Ellis as the Garret Wilson replacement. I don't think it's premature to 1) move on from Wilson or 2) offer Ellis. Maybe Wilson has a change of heart late in the cycle, but I doubt it and you'd fit him in the class anyways. Also, Ellis has gotten at on of offers, including tOSU, since we offered him, and I think we offered at the right time before he became another guy who resented his dream school for waiting too long. I view Langston Anderson and Payton Powell as backups to Higgins. I'm not a huge fan of the Powell offer but I also haven't seen a ton of him. I like Langston Anderson a lot. I like Higgins more just because of his size and unique potential. I think there's a chance that Higgins keeps growing while maintaining his mobility and he could end up being used similar to how the Saints used Jimmy Graham. I'd prefer him over Anderson just because of that hybrid TE possibility. However, if Higgins were to stay at WR (something he's been pretty adamant about), I don't see much of a difference between him and Anderson.

Not ones who are top ranked offensive linemen.

Next pardon: Benedict Arnold. The original WITCH HUNT!

His "no reservations" Iran was brilliantly done....

***Cool story alert*** The wife (no pics) did her undergrad at Arky but her grad work at UT. Her dad is an old school Arky fan from the SWC. Loves everything Arky and (like all Arky fans) hates Texas with a white hot passion of a thousand suns but really can't tell you why. Anyway, there they were at the wife's graduation. There was a wall of burnt orange in the stands only to have one red dot in the middle. Yes, he wore Arky colors to the UT graduation. As the crowd sang the Eyes of Texas, she looked up there to see what he was doing. There he was, standing with his arms crossed with a red assed look on his face. ***Cool story over*** That being said, the Northwest corner of that state doesn't suck. It makes literally every Best Places to Live list that comes out. The rest of the state is what you think it is. I laughed at the "Winters Bone" reference. That's pretty accurate, unless you get into the rest of the state and it's the "Deep South" and all that entails. It's also correct that there's a bunch of Texas kids there at this point. Something like 20% of the student body. It's an OK school but its main selling point is the business school is basically a feeder for WMT and the WMT supplier community. You can easily slide into a good gig after college there. As for the fan base, they have a large collection of deranged T-shirt fans that have no affiliation to the school. (Think West Virginia.) They're from some butt fuck town in rural Arky and they like the team even though they've never been to the town, let alone went to school there. A lot of them think they're a legitimate big time program, too, despite never having won anything of substance in my life time.

Bill McClinton.

It's ok. They buried the baby where he can see the scoreboard.

You should've just pulled back and run your fingers through you hair and said "You're too slow!"

How could it take you four minutes to cook your pizza when it takes the entire pizza-eating world twenty minutes? Were these magic pizzas? Did you buy them from the same guy that sold Jack his beanstalk beans?

I work on a Navy base in San Diego, and they were filming crazy low altitude take offs over the harbor last week. Super bad ass. Also, spoiler alert, I can confirm with certainty that there will be a motorcycle ride alongside an active runway. In.

Yep. That shit's gonna stick in my craw til I die. What happened to VY in the NFL at the hands of that POS oughtta be punishable with prison time. VY changed the NFL game. He just didn't get to enjoy it by playing that way himself in the NFL. Our sorta adopted/mentored third "son" is a RB at Anderson and hadn't really been exposed to VY's on-field exploits all that much (just as Bomani refers to in the video), so I started showing him some highlight reels a couple days ago. His jaw dropped on the first play, and kept dropping over and over and over. He just stared in shocked disbelief at what he was seeing a 6'5" 240# man do to guys who were supposed to be faster, stronger, or more explosive than him. Then he said he wanted to see his HS clips, and googled em up. He was even more blown away. VY is the best football player I've ever seen play the game. Watching it hasn't been the same for me since he stopped playing. Esp the NFL. When I see players half as good at what VY did, running the kind of offenses VY was put on this earth to run, it just makes me sick that he never got that chance. A league that had no place or way for him to show what he could do isn't much of a league imho.

Maybe he's afraid George Teague will be there.