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Some filling out the class discussion with what we know right now. First, the positions that will almost certainly be filled, and later positions we may or may not take depending on who we can land. Players are listed more or less in order of likelihood of landing, or likely preference on the big board, but not necessarily predicted to be in this class. QB: Roschon RB: Cain, Major, Glass WR: Whittington WR: Smith WR: Wright WR: Higgins TE: Liebrock TE: Wiley OL: Johnson OL: Shepherd OL: TBD- probably another tackle OL: TBD- probably a swing guy who is most likely a guard with good length but can play tackle in a pinch OL: TBD- a stud center we can groom for the future DB: Watson DB: Catalon DB: Adimora DB: Cine DB: Caldwell LB: Floyd LB: Gbenda, TBD. Not sure what's going on with Gbenda. Orlando appears to be looking everywhere for more linebackers. I have Tongue in a different group, because you shouldn't count on him contributing at LB anytime soon. B-backer: Davis. Not sure who the backup play is here, and maybe we'd just punt the position if we miss on him DL: Sweat DL: Mpagi DL: Carter DL: TBD. Leal and Jermaine Johnson appear to be top options, but both will be tough pulls. There are about a dozen fungible in-state options who could blow up, so we can probably afford to wait here and see who materializes in-state while fishing out of state That's 25 spots, or maybe 24 if we miss on b-backer. The following fit into the class if we can land them in no particular order as best available players, we can probably go up to 28 or 29 DB: Carter, Stingley, Pola-Gates, Richardson RB: TBD. We know the staff is looking for a second RB per quotes from Noah Cain, but is it more of an APB/slot type ala Sqwirl Williams, or is it a 2nd every down back who is primarily an outside runner like Toenail (King Doerue?) WR: Wilson, Lewis, Powell, Ellis, Anderson, TQ Jackson, OOS, late bloomer. Keep working on Wilson to see if landing his buddy Higgins, better play on the field, and proximity can change his mind, while seeing which of the third tier guys blows up, seeing of any OOS studs reciprocate interest, and looking under rocks for a late bloomer like Tev Hunt. DL: If a stud wants on board, we can certainly fit a fifth DL into the class ATH: McCoy, Tongue. If Bru is listening, you keep a spot open for him until he shuts down his recruitment, although he's unlikely. You take Tongue as a long term option at Rover with him starting out at WR, but that needs to be in addition to another Rover you can hopefully count on earlier.

As I understand it, the Central American refugee crisis that started in 2014 has flooded our system, both for illegal entrants and asylum seekers. For families, Obama tried to use family detention to hold them while the immigration/deportation process was followed, but court decisions interpreting federal law and previous court decisions ruled that kids cannot be held in that situation for more than 20 days (look up Flores for more details). As a result, there are three options for families apprehended at the border: (1) Congress overriding Flores by passing a simple law, (2) the president not prosecuting the misdemeanor offense of "illegal entry" through the criminal justice system, instead processing the families through the civil immigration and deportation process, and in the meantime releasing the families with the expectation that the parents will show up for their immigration hearing (which they often don't), or (3) charging the parents criminally with the misdemeanor of illegal entry, putting them in jail, separating their kids, and throwing the kids into the Office of Refugee Resettlement system, which is using massive prison camps to handle the influx. After trying family detention, Obama went with option 2, which the Rs mocked as "catch and release" while passing nothing to reinstate family detention or otherwise solve the problem. Obama's policy was "felons, not families," which had its own flaws, but was basically a policy intended to focus criminal resources on illegals who commit non-immigration crimes instead of mere illegal entrants. Trump and Sessions kept that going for awhile, despite their current claim that they have no choice but to follow their current policy, but a couple months ago, when border apprehensions increased, enacted a "zero tolerance" policy that required all illegal entrants to be charged with that misdemeanor (or the related felony for repeat offenders), which had the necessary consequence of separating them from their kids. This was by design to create a hostage situation to scare off future immigrants, gain leverage for the wall and other policy concessions, and satisfy a bloody-thirsty base of deplorables. Also, legal asylum seekers (as opposed to illegal immigrants) have been thrown into this system as well by Trump and Sessions. The law permits them to apply at a port of entry, but the port of entries are now wrongfully turning them away, saying come back later because we're too overloaded. These asylum seekers then try to cross into the country rather than hanging out with their kids in Drugmurderville, Mexico across the border, and are apprehended and treated as illegal entrants. Sessions has also greatly narrowed the grounds on which asylum can be sought. That is my full understanding. Any errors are unintentional, and I'll gladly take accurate corrections if I got any of that wrong.

The problem with Realtor Hamm is when he tells you about a 3 bed / 2.5 bath with a yard and you show up to a one bedroom apartment with a roommate.

Pretty sure the same thing would happen if my wife saw my browsing history.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/bbq/bucks-barbeque-co-2018/

Nice ride, you over achieving pencil dick assholes!! Sorry you had to lose two games to Aggy though, but them's the breaks. We all 'gon lose to those assholes from Mississippi State eventually! They have a lucky horseshoe up their ass it seems. Or a Skoal can. But something. Great season Horns.

Hey, we just had a conversation if Harrison Barnes was worth the 4th pick in the draft.... Nothing is out of bounds in this thread. It's the stupid season.

It’s piss

I know Horns hate to ever have anything but a Championship. But Damn, have to be somewhat happy with the results of the year.. In year 2 of your new coach. Let him keeping working things out and they will be back in OMAHA next year. Great season Horns.

A friend shared this with me. Take it as you will. I'm sure that many will disagree with it, nevermind that it's a real-world observation of EXACTLY how this shit happened, in an enlightened western nation, not very long ago.

It’s unpatriotic to kneel before the flag, but it’s American as apple pie to dry-hump it.

When you go to piss an hour or two after blowing your load, and there's a little bit of jizz still hanging out in the tip of your dick, causing your piss stream to split multiple directions.

Good stuff. Unsurprisingly, this is a very comprehensive and thorough list. The only name I'd add is Zach Williams as a target at DL. Things have been quiet with him. We offered him early and he visited in April. After the visit, we were considered his leader but he's gotten a lot of offers taken some OVs since then. Looks like he's OV'd to Louisville, Oregon State, and TCU. I like that he's using up his OVs before some of the big programs come after him hard. Hopefully one of those two remaining OVs is for us. Looks like he visited TCU on 6/15 and liked it. Maybe @angelos's frog knows something about him. Looks like the highlight of the trip was Mrs. P's tour of the Fort Worth Zoo. lulz. (https://247sports.com/college/tcu/Article/Four-star-defensive-end-Zach-Williams-recaps-his-official-visit-to-TCU-119127913/ ). The article says he could be deciding soon. If we get Williams, he'd immediately be my favorite DL prospect by a good bit. He's got a high upside similar to Mpagi but he's about two years ahead on the development curve. Neonmoon got me thinking more about the DL recruiting (so you can blame him) and the more I think about it, the more underwhelmed I am. Sweat, Mpagi, and Carter are probably all takes but they seem like they should all be the last guy in a 4 man DL class. Mpagi has a high ceiling and could become a high NFL pick but someone with that much development needed always represents a higher bust rate because you can't just assume that the development is a given. I've liked Carter for a while, but he doesn't have a very high ceiling. He seems to have a small frame. He's 6'3, 260 with some not great weight and I'm not sure if he'll be able to add enough good weight to be a real force inside and I don't think he has the explosiveness for weakside DE. He could probably man the SDE spot, but that's also what Sweat is, so a little redundant and neither guy projects to be a game changer right now. Elite teams aren't taking classes like this, just look at the 2018 DL recruiting of the schools that made it to the CFP or any program that is routinely an elite program, like tOSU. I get that we need to get to 8, 9, 10 wins before worrying about the playoffs, but these are the guys who will be making up our DL in 4 years, not the next two. Anyways, there's still time, and landing Zach Williams and/or a late bloomer who shows up after senior film plus a big fish (like Leal, Hawaiian, or Johnson) would do a ton to change this class, and I'll happily eat crow if we can pull that off but it's not seeming likely. Maybe this staff can continuously identify and develop guys like TCU does year in and year out, but that's not a sustainable model for 99% of college programs and while Giles did well coaching up our guys last year, assuming he can accomplish this yearly is quite a jump. Tl;dr DL recruiting still not great and I'm sure people don't want to hear it, but at least I'm not talking about Giles' recruiting or the 2018 DL class. Same on Gbenda. Regarding Cine, I'm not sure he has the kind of frame. I think he'll be like Deshon Elliott, but with better coverage skills. In two years, I see him being a 6'2 200+ lb guy who can play centerfield, drop in the box for run support or go man up the slot. Cine has really good coverage skills for a S his size. The idea of him coming in a year after we got Foster, Sterns and Overshown is insane. Our options at Rover for 2019 will be Overshown and an EE De'Gabriel Floyd. Overshown coming at 215 is huge and I hope we dont' waste much time playing him at regular S. He needs to be training at the Jason Hall spot or just flat out as a Rover right away. No. PSU is still leading. The longer he gets established in Texas and stays uncommitted, the better for us. He can drive to our campus a hell of a lot more times than he can fly to PSU over the next 8 months. It's the same type of thing that's working against us in the Rian Davis recruitment.

I was a Republican in 2014 (as shameful as that is now to admit). I was outraged by what happened in 2014. It was a catastrophe for which the Obama Administration was wholly unprepared, as was true of so many catastrophes (e.g., Deepwater Horizon, Syria). They managed it in about the worst way possible. But it was a catastrophe not directly of their making. Those were unaccompanied minors who came north. They were spurred by the Central American rumor mill, which created some story that unaccompanied minors were being let in. One can argue that it had something to do with DACA, which was promulgated earlier in the year, but the wave of unaccompanied minors is so different from deferred action on children brought in by their parents years ago that one might speculate that the rumor would have come from something else. But regardless--it was the voluntary decision of the families to send the children to the border unaccompanied. That is wholly different from the discretionary decision made by the Trump Administration literally to tear children away form their mother's breast and throw them into cages. Obama suffered from a lack of competence and foresight. Trump suffers from an excess of evil.

I voted for W twice, McCain, and Romney. Trump and the Texas GOP flipped me to solid blue. Fuck trump, fuck Cruz, fuck Dan Patrick, and fuck htownaggy and his kid jails. Still conservative on plenty of issues but sometimes you have to see the bigger picture. Trump and all that he stands for is terrible for America and the world.

Congrats on a great season Horns...🤘

Aggy troll or just stupid?

LOL, go fuck yourself, douchebag...Trying to act like there's a right side of separating parents and their kids. So, because this happened every now and then before, it's ok to make it a policy now? Again, fuck you, piece of shit. Come find the inner city out here. You'll make it far. I promise.

I’m glad you guys see this as a gain for democrats but overall what Trump is doing is extremely harmful to society. It’s challenging to see this because the democrats benefit from Trump’s incompetence but we’re dealing with a guy that has never been held accountable for anything. Even if it’s a blue wave in November, Trump is still getting away with fortifying his base right now. His hardcore base is cheering his cruelty. Those people are not going away even if Trump is removed. The consequences of what Trump is currently doing will ring on for years after he’s gone.

Trump should pass an executive order that makes all of his misspellings the official correct spelling. Call it the Knew Whirled Order bill.

Welp. I just blessed out my own father for defending this garbage. Fucking 18 hours a day of Fox News has rotted the brain of a once free thinking man. Us Gen X kids need to file a class action suit against Fox News for ruining our parents.

Didn't see much about him, but Omari Thomas from Memphis was there with his QB who is 2019. I think Thomas has an offer. Friend of mine works at American and checked them through to Memphis. They were wearing their Texas ID tags so he hit them up a little bit. Said they were high on Texas, raving about the facilities. Said Tennessee was out. Also, looking at A&M, who they also visited, Georgia and 'bama. Anyway, thought that was nearly as good as Port a Poty girl, Uber driver, and 7-11 guy so I passed it along.

America can’t and shouldn’t participate in the UN Human Rights Council given this administration’s policies from targeting civilians in Yemen to the current separation policies at the border. Funny how Trump just coincidentally pushes policy like: leaving the Human Rights Council, attacking European allies like Merkel, and recommending Russia rejoin the G7 (G8), that just happens to align with Russian interests. Maybe someone should look into that.

Kid 20 years from now after attacking the US "They were not victims. I was a victim. When I was a child they tore me from my mother's arms and locked me in a cage where they mocked me. I never saw my parents again and ended up living in horrible conditions bouncing from place to place. They deserved to die." America is supposed to be the shining beacon to the world showing that you can prosper and rule with peace and dignity. We aren't supposed to be borrowing tactics from piece of shit 3rd world country dictators.

"Give me death!" -- Patrick Henry

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The Nazis never saw themselves as villains. You look at the horrible atrocities they committed and you think they MUST have known they were the monsters. But they didn't. Instead, the Nazis thought they themselves were the VICTIMS. That's how the Nazi party came to be in the first place, you know, how it rose to power. The Nazis convinced Germany that it had been victimized by the rest of the world. Had somehow lost its greatness, lost its place among nations. Disrespected. Treated unfairly. Nazis thought themselves victims, persecuted by elitism. By liberalism. By intellectualism. By foreign influence. By multiculturalism. By a loss of manly vigor. By dilution and/or contamination of racial purity. By unemployment and economic disadvantage. When they came to power, the Nazis didn't think of themselves as villains, rather they were convinced that they were heroes. They saw themselves as restoring the might of Germany, forging a new civilization that would last a thousand years. They firmly believed they were right. They believed that history would vindicate their actions. All the horror would be justified when they triumphed. Because THEN people would FINALLY understand. They believed that when the world looked upon the mighty works of Nazi engineering, the miracles of Nazi science, the purity and beauty and genetic superiority of the Aryan race, at the order and security of Nazi society, well, THEN the rest of the world would understand. They thought the rest of the world would admire them for what they had done. They wanted the world's fear and respect -- for in their minds fear and respect were the same thing. They were blind to the horror they created. Purposely so. The Nazis never saw themselves as villains. Villains never do. They told themselves they were making their country great again and the atrocities were necessary to that greatness and would be justified in the end. And little by little, bit by bit, they become monsters. Little by little, bit by bit, we become monsters. Our leaders tell us that we are losing our identity, our history, our rights and privileges, our security and we come to fear that they are right. This is how it goes. And little by little, bit by bit, we become monsters. Cages. They say it's not inaccurate. They say, well, yes, it may be cages, they may be putting children in cages, but they are not being treated like animals. In cages. Little by little, bit by bit, rationalized, normalized, we become monsters. They made us do it, you see. If they had not come seeking our mercy, why, we wouldn't have had to put their children into cages. We had to do it, to protect America. Little by little, bit by bit, we become the monsters. Some were already monsters. Little by little, bit by bit, it became normal for them to show themselves in public. To take pride in their monstrousness and raise up horror as a virtue. Little by little, bit by bit, the atrocities are justified in the name of law and order, in the name of security, because we had to, and we become the monsters. (From @stonekettle)

Okay, reeling a little bit here. In the past 24-36 hours: My wife has had to head to Houston to MD Anderson, to be with our friends who have been stationed overseas. Their son (who became fast friends with my boy on our last visit) broke his femur a week ago or so. While being surgically repaired, they found stuff in the bone that they didn’t like. He was medevaced here. We don’t have a full diagnosis yet (he goes in for an MRI in a couple of hours), but the signs seem to be pointing strongly towards osteosarcoma. Needless to say, his parents are a wreck. My wife is there to minister, and help hold them together. I, on the other hand, have stayed behind to work, take care of our son, and fret without pausing. Which is good, because… My children’s godfather, a firefighter, was rushed to emergency surgery last night here in Austin. He ended up getting a triple bypass and having an aorta that was on the verge of failing repaired. He’s in ICU, I’m awaiting enough details to let me know when I can go and help the family. They are, of course, scared to death. I truly don’t know if he’s out of the woods at all at this point, details remain sketchy. AND…. One of my dearest colleagues just had his adult daughter diagnosed with leukemia yesterday. Treatment is starting immediately. We’re still figuring out what we can do to help. Again, here in town. There is so much worry, and fear. And it’s goddamned heartbreaking, and seems overwhelming – I can only imagine how much more overwhelming it is to each of these families. The world is a fickle, cruel place sometimes. It reminds me that it’s that much more important to love each other and be there for each other. I’ll probably come back here with updates and details as they gel. I am praying quite hard that those updates are good. But meanwhile, I pray for strength, and perseverance, for those who need it. And if anyone of you wants to add a prayer or positive vibes their way, I imagine it would be appreciated.

These hot takes are always funny. They won the big 12 and made a CWS. Some of ya'll overreact like 5 year olds. Texas isn't national champion good but they are definitely good this year.

Fuck this. Fuck this right here. Pierce managed his ass off to get this shitty team to the CWS. It's all or nothing in an elimination game and Shugart wants the fucking ball so you give it to him. He walked a dude and Maldonado hit a fantastic 2 strike pitch to drive in a run, threw a meatball to India and paid the price for it but that's baseball. Pierce pushed all the right buttons to get here and simply doesn't have enough on the roster to compete with these teams that are much better. Fact.

Carrington de Bergerac has a nice ring to it

This was Trump in 2014: This is how fascists take total control, and Trump knows it. Hell, he slept with a book of Hitler's speeches by the side of the bed. They make shit worse, then blame it on an "other." Everything Trump has done since taking office is entirely consistent with what someone would do if they were intentionally following the fascist roadmap, though I still lean toward it simply being the natural result of his pathology. It doesn't really make a difference though if both roads run in parallel to the same place.

Every day is another step of shameless authoritarian playbook bullshit. Anastasis shits on us for calling it out, piece by piece. But that's what we HAVE to do. Anastasis wants us to wait for the "one great shocking occasion." That's folly. How do we know? Because we've seen this show before. Fight. Every. Single. Step. FIGHT. I won't go fucking quietly to where this regime is taking us. And if you have any fucking principles and fortitude, you won't either.

It is a death that is overdue.

So, in space, I'm guessing bone spurs won't be a problem.

San Francisco

If MS-13 thinks they can hide in space, they better think again!

man, the troll farms are going hard the last couple of days

This just makes me so angry because it reminds me how divisive Obama was.

I remember being sad that Hamm got fired from 247 because we were going to lose the comedy. I haven't looked at this thread in awhile, thinking it must be a bunch of rehashing of his greatest hits, but I'm catching up, still back on page 18, and I needed to respond to the thread to comment that I never should've ever doubted him. Hamm fucking delivers no matter his platform!

“They both going to need interpreters “- Tide fan

User name confuses me.

Just wait until she sees a tumbleweave.

Oh stewardess, I speak Daddy98 "Hamm eats Cheddar to the biggest Cheese supplier. It's not hard to figure out. Sometimes folks don't always know what's going on." This means Hamm gets his information from the biggest information supplier (aka the Footwoork King), the person invovled in Shepherd recruitment. It's not hard to figure out because Hamm's main sources are trainers (because he hangs out at their facilities all the time "supplying industry knowledge", talking them up to every player he ever encounters and in return they tell him recruiting knowledge that he sells to his facebook friends. His other sources are A&M players/commits/heavy aggy leans. Sometimes folks (aka the Footwork King) don't always know what's going on. So Daddy 98 is implying the Footwork King doesn't know where Shepherd wants to go or is leaning.

The man responsible for "Godwin's Law"...