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I’ve crunched the numbers and OU sucks.

jesus get ahold of yourself you fucking whiny vagina

Motivation should not be a problem. There are national debates over ou vs osu that aren't mentioning this game at all. OU players have already started mouthing off about "have fun playing kyler." It's for the conference championship. It's for ou not winning the conference, again, and potentiality going to the playoff. It's for 10 wins. It's for every ou recruit who passed on TX bc they wanted to win championships, and every current recruit considering the same debate. It's to send that smug little bitch of a qb off to baseball never having won anything of importance in his college career. A nice thank you for his little recruiting stunt in Austin. It's for our seniors who have played through some of the worst years we've ever had, and been a part of turning it around. We'll be ready.

I'm 42 years old and I've watched football since I was a toddler. I've never seen anything like last night. The overturned interception was wrong; there was nothing conclusive on replay showing Mond's knee was actually down while he had the ball. The 4th down conversion was two feet short. The spike was an illegal formation. The catch and fumble was exactly that - he controlled it and took two steps then got it knocked out. All of the plays above when aggy had the ball were not even reviewed. The only one that was reviewed was to take a game-sealing interception away from LSU, and on inconclusive video at that. Oh, and before this shit storm started, aggy was called for one penalty the whole game. And of course they got a critical bullshit PI call in OT. No one will ever convince me that the SEC officials weren't ordered to do everything they could think of to help aggy win. The SEC knows damn well that Texas returning to prominence hurts the recruiting of several SEC schools and the best way to combat that is to help aggy get a leg up themselves. And they also helped turn a clunker of a game into "the most exciting clash evar, look how insane it is to play in the SEC, kids!!" Fucking ridiculous nonsense. SEC football is about as legit as the NBA playoffs.

Maybe we beat them by 7.5 points.

Have you haven't know English.

Yeah... in hindsight, I may have very slightly overreacted last night. I blame tequila.

And we'd finally have someone that believes in tasteful limitations for gold accessories.

Eat your heart out, Surly.

So since this seems like it's going to be a year with a bunch of head-to-head battles with aggy in-state, I took a look at the in-state top 30 and decided to see how things stand with each recruit atm. I'll also add a couple of other guys that we may both be in on. Feel free to add on or correct anything I may have messed up on with a recruit. #1 Zach Evans - Probably comes down to Texas/aggy. Has visited Texas more and blown off aggy several times. Brother seems to be pro Texas. Will go all the way to NSD2. #2 Jase McClellan - OUsucks commit #3 Demond Demas - Aggy commit, but will go down to the end. Has visited Texas a bunch. #4 Dwight McGlothern - Supposed aggy lean with some influence from "Uncle Ro". Twitter is very pro Texas lately. Probably have to say aggy atm. #5 RJ Mickens - Aggy legacy. Doesn't have a Texas offer. Has some picks to tOSU. #6 Ja'Quinden Jackson - Seems like Texas's to lose. Haven't seen him associated with aggy any. #7 Branard Wright - Doesn't have a Texas offer. Seems SEC bound ( LSU, Bama', aggy ). #8 Lorando Johnson - Doesn't have a Texas offer. Has an aggy offer but aggy mod Sayles says he has no interest in them. #9 Drew Sanders - OUsucks commit. No Texas offer. #10 Chad Lindberg - Heavy Texas lean. Doesn't seem like aggy is really in this one. #11 Troy Omeire - Supposed aggy lean ( has 100% CB picks ). Has visited Texas several times recently and likes what the big WR's are doing in our offense. #12 Seth McGowen - Haven't really heard much with him and aggy. #13 EJ Smith - Doesn't have a Texas offer. #14 Malik Hornsby - Supposedly gave aggy a silent after the Clemson moral victory. Has since backed off and will make the SEC rounds. Texas has it's QB who is just as good minus the entourage and Uncle's. #15 Chris Thompson - Will be a big battle with aggy. He's been Fong'd to aggy after the Clemson moral victory. Recently visited Texas and things may be turning in this recruitment. #16 Hudson Card - Texas commit #17 Darius Snow - Haven't seen him mentioned with aggy. Texas or OOS. #18 Logan Parr - Texas commit #19 Bryson Washington - Texas looks good. Haven't really seen him mentioned with aggy. #20 Marvin Mims - I honestly know nothing with this kid. #21 - Alec Bryant - Wants a Texas offer. Still TBD. No aggy offer ( I don't think? ). #22 - Courtland Ford - LSU commit. #23 - Jaylon Jones - One of the biggest battles with aggy we'll have this cycle. Supposed aggy lean after the Clemson moral victory, this recruitment has shifted towards Texas, including a Wiltfong pick to Texas. Was at aggy for LSU game though. #24 DJ Graham - Another recruitment I really know nothing about. #25 James Sylvester - Heavy aggy lean, but loves Texas and would be a change in his recruitment if we offer. Still TBD. #26 - Vernon Broughton - Looks like we are in a good spot here. Has visited a couple of times. Was at aggy for the LSU game though. Must get IMO. #27 Akinola Ogunbiyi - Aggy commit. Not sure how much we are pressing. #28 Collin Sullivan - Doesn't look like either is a factor here. #29 Prince Dorbah - Texas looks good here and he doesn't hold an aggy offer. #30 Damien George - Not sure how much of a priority he is for aggy with 4 OL commits. Also not sure where he stands on the Texas board. Other recruits of note: Jaylen Garth - Looks good for Texas, should be able to land him. He was at the LSU game. Alfred Collins - Was Fong'd to aggy after the Clemson moral victory, but has since been offered by Texas and seems like ours to lose.

Y'all go ahead and pray to baby Jesus, I will cover the other bases. The bad motherfuckers on defense need to get to that midget pussy wannabee heisman contender and hit him, hard. Make him second guess every second of the game thereafter. Fuck ou.

So based on your last two posts this is day one on the internet for you....what do you think so far?

As an LSU fan I’m disgusted with the way the game played out but despite the repeated rigging by the refs, our team played poorly too. We missed our first FG and muffed a punt which resulted in an aggy TD early in the game. There were plenty of other missed opportunities we had to win the game but failed to capitalize. I give credit to the aggy players for pulling it out, they had no control over the officiating either but managed to get it done. I expected LSU to suck this season, I realistically thought we’d go 7-5 but we actually overachieved, all things considered. As far as this game hurting, eh not really. We were headed to a bullshit bowl game anyway and getting a win over aggy seemed almost perfunctory for LSU. The loss sucks but we really didn’t lose that much. This game also highlights how fucking absurd college overtime rules are. College overtime is a fucking joke that isn’t even really football. Things like field position and clock management get completely taken out of the game while player safety isn’t even factored in. The NCAA should adopt the NFL overtime rules instead of this abomination of OT they’re currently using.

Just to be on the safe side, I think everyone should panic.

Texas 45 OU 35

Gotta love twitter. What was missing from that tweet is that the tear gas was fired AFTER 500 of the migrants tried to storm the US border and cross illegally. Migrant caravan: Mexico to deport group which stormed US border - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46339085 Whether you agree with the process for asylum or not, there is a legal process you have to go through. These people who tried to storm the border just did more harm than good and will now be deported by Mexico.

And a white surrender flag in the glove box

Why would North Carolina hire a 67 year old man who hasn't coached for 13 years?

1) Panera is chick food. It's okay, but nothing special. That said, when I am traveling with female colleagues, and there is a Panera in the airport, or near our destination, we often end up in one. I much prefer Jason's deli. 2) BUT, I think the thesis of the article is spot-on, and it addresses a much bigger problem we have -- the false dichotomy that is often boiled down to "that sucks, it's socialism, capitalism rules!" Which, in its application, actually means "anything that doesn't favor immediate yield/profit should be disdained as anti-capitalism!" As I've aged, and gotten a lot more real-world experience and perspective, I've become a lot more critical of Milton Friedman and what turned out to be simplistic views. A business and its place in an economy is a complex system. Reducing it to two simple measures - max money yield in minimum time - is not just simplistic, it's WRONG if your overall goal is actually a high-functioning economy. In simple metaphor terms, the short-term approach demands that all businesses plant crops that can be harvested in 60-90 days, so there's the shortest interval of time before you realize profits. That approach does not allow for anyone to plant trees, which will take 25 years to mature. That's folly, for several reasons (let's keep with the metaphor): on an annualized basis, the timber crop can yield profits greater than the short-term crops; the timber crop does far less damage to an important asset of any farm: the land; the long growth period of the timber crop allows the business to turn its attention to other things that may be profitable (leasing the land for hunting, maybe acquiring more land for different crops that can be grown on a shorter time-frame, thus diversifying the business, etc.). There are dozens of things that a business or society does that seem to be shouted down with "socialism!" simply because they don't yield an immediate profit. That leaves little room for long-term investment, which is necessary for a healthy, functioning economy. I remember as a kid, reading the economic cautionary tales of the Soviet Union, where they could grow great potato crops, but they'd rot in the barns because the Soviets hadn't invested in the necessary infrastructure to get the crops from farms to cities/market. Highways and bridges are a GREAT example of a long-term investment that costs money and doesn't yield direct profits. Yet, they are the lubricant that helps the rest of the economy flow, and are a force multiplier. Of course I haven't done the math, but it seems obvious that we end up with something that looks like "for every $1 spent on roads, $100 in commercial activity travels on that road over its lifetime." Simple public health measures have a similar calculus -- $1 to vaccinate a kid yields $100 in productivity that we don't lose because a parent has to stay home with a sick kid. Sure, it seems like a feel-good socialism thing to do, but it is actually a no-brainer economic move. Wages are another "investment." If you look at our "golden age" (around 1945 to 1975), you'll see steady wage growth. That allowed an American consumer class to grow, with real purchasing power, which pumped those wages back into the economy, leading to unprecedented growth in the American consumer goods industry (cars, tvs, etc.). An economy that invests in workers is an economy that creates consumers, which are the fuel for production. It's a long-term, collective benefit. It's like maintenance on property, a real-world economic activity (and man, do we see short-term investors cut corners on that). It costs money to do regular roof maintenance, but it keeps me from suffering interior structural rot. It costs money to replace worn out plumbing, but it keeps me from suffering a devastating flood. In the short term, by reducing the expense side of the ledger, I can show high profits from rental income. But the value of my core asset will actually be depreciating -- but what do I care, I increased profts by 7% this quarter, I got my bonus, and I'll be gone when the music stops and someone is stuck with a broken-down property that's worth far less than it would have been had it been maintained (in fact, the long-term investment yield of a well-maintained property can exceed the short term profits on an annualized basis). And we could go on, and on, and on with different examples and thoughts. Bottom line, we need to plant more trees. We need to invest in the things that yield long-term benefits, and contribute to the economy across the board. Will those things often make things better for people in general in the short term? Sure. But just because it's good for people doesn't mean it's socialism. We need to realize that good things are also good for business, if you take the long-term view of things. So, not socialism, but actually the opposite -- responsible and wise capitalism. I'm interested in reading more about Shaich's movement.

only aggy could win "the greatest game ever" and be laughed at

Fuck off, aggy

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Nope. I am actually the person behind this. We had plenty of funny shit about tarmacs in the works. But just the act of flying a fucking plane over USC is so goddamn provocative for this school that we realized we would have totally lost any credibility with anything other than a polite, straightforward message. Btw, I am a woman and my husband went to UT. Only reason I know about this thread. But yes. we are trying our best to stage a revolt to oust Helton. Swann wants to keep him apparently. I guess I win the “cool wife” award for the week flying a plane over my alma mater trying to oust the coach.

https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-founder-of-panera-bread-explains-the-economic-forces-that-led-to-trump?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&mbid=social_twitter&utm_brand=tny The North American sandwich chain Panera Bread began as a single cookie shop called the Cookie Jar, which opened in downtown Boston in 1981. The next year, the shop’s founder, Ron Shaich, merged the Cookie Jar with a struggling French bakery called Au Bon Pain. In 1985, the combined restaurants started selling homemade soups and sandwiches made with freshly baked baguettes. At the time, the weekday-lunch landscape was limited mainly to fast-food chains such as McDonald’s, and formal sit-down restaurants. Shaich’s elevated-sandwich concept fit right in the middle, serving office workers who were in a rush, but also increasingly health conscious. By the nineteen-nineties, the company had expanded to include four different divisions, including a new bakery-café franchise called Panera Bread. At the time, the food industry, which had previously been dominated by mass-market brands such as Coca-Cola, Budweiser, and Maxwell House, was being taken over by companies like Vitamin Water, Sam Adams, and Starbucks. Shaich believed that the burgeoning category of higher-end restaurant chains, which came to be known as fast casual, was about to explode. “When the world is changing, you need to transform,” Shaich, who is sixty-four and bright-eyed, told me recently, over coffee in Manhattan. “But transformation doesn’t occur in thirty minutes.” The company went public in 1991 and continued expanding at a brisk pace. In 1999, Shaich decided to sell Au Bon Pain to focus on Panera, which he felt was best positioned to take advantage of the direction in which the industry was moving. His goal was to build a chain of restaurants that served food that customers could eat without guilt, in cozy cafés where they could hold meetings or Bible-study groups. “They wanted food that they felt good about, they wanted environments that engaged them, they wanted people that cared,” Shaich said. “Basically, they wanted to feel respected by their food. And what fast food had become was a commodity. It had become nutritional cocaine.” Shaich said that when he told people what he was trying to do, they were skeptical, “because whenever you’re going through transformation, nothing is proven until it’s done.” By 2010, Panera was opening a new store approximately every three days, and had more than a billion dollars in annual sales. But the financial crisis had made consumers more cautious with their spending. To keep them coming, Shaich developed a system for digital ordering, a catering and delivery service, and a loyalty program. These programs required significant investment, but they paid off. By 2017, Panera had become one of the most successful restaurant chains in the United States, and much of the industry adopted its innovations. It now has more than two thousand locations, and more than a hundred thousand employees. It also has one of the industry’s best-performing stocks. “I made an awful lot of money, personally,” Shaich told me. Ron Shaich believes that the fixation on short-term profits is jeopardizing the future of American business. Photograph by Peter Foley / Bloomberg / Getty Over the last few years, however, Shaich has come to believe that the current business environment is far less amenable to the process of building companies like his. Wall Street has embraced the idea that companies exist solely to serve the holders of their stock. Under this way of thinking, managers of companies should focus their actions on driving short-term value for their shareholders, and should pay far less (or no) regard to other constituents who may have a stake in the business, such as employees, customers, or members of the community. Shaich partly blames activist hedge funds, many of which buy shares in companies with the aim of pushing their management to make decisions that drive their stock prices up within a few months. According to Shaich, this makes it more difficult to invest in long-term projects, and create sustainable jobs. Panera had its own encounters with activist investors. In 2007, the Shamrock Activist Value Fund bought a stake in the company, and, in 2015, Luxor Capital did the same thing. “I had activists twice—I almost lost this company,” Shaich told me. Panera was still in the midst of its transformation, and was spending a hundred and fifty million dollars to develop new technology for online and mobile ordering. The efforts hadn’t shown results yet, but the investors wanted him to outsource the project or shut it down. They also wanted him to step down as C.E.O. “When you have activists attacking you, the very things you’re sworn to protect—the vision, the organization, other shareholders—your ability to protect them, like your children, are at risk.” Almost all public companies now face similar pressure, though Shaich points out that the most successful new businesses, such as Facebook and Amazon, have stock structures that make it difficult for hedge-fund investors to buy shares and tell the managers what to do. In 2017, Shaich took Panera private to protect it from short-term pressures, and sold it to a European fund called JAB Holding Company, which also owns Pret A Manger, Krispy Kreme, and Keurig Dr Pepper. He believes that the fixation on short-term profits is jeopardizing the future of American business, and creating social instability that has contributed to our current state of political polarization. In the summer of 2017, Lynn Paine and Joseph Bower, two Harvard Business School professors, published a piece in the Harvard Business Review arguing that the idea that profits are all that should matter to a company’s leadership is a relatively new one. They trace it to an essay by the free-market economist Milton Friedman, which ran in the Times Magazine in 1970. In the piece, Friedman outlined what he called the “Friedman business doctrine,” which holds that ideas of corporate social responsibility, which had become popular in the business world, were undermining the American way of life. “The businessmen believe that they are defending free enterprise when they declaim that business is not concerned ‘merely’ with profit but also with promoting desirable ‘social’ ends; that business has a ‘social conscience’ and takes seriously its responsibilities for providing employment, eliminating discrimination, avoiding pollution and whatever else may be the catchwords of the contemporary crop of reformers,” he wrote. Instead, he went on, “They are preaching pure and unadulterated socialism. Businessmen who talk this way are unwitting puppets of the intellectual forces that have been undermining the basis of a free society these last decades.” The article caused a sensation, and Friedman’s idea that managers of companies were nothing more than “agents” of shareholders was taken up by economists and business school professors, who helped build it into the dominant attitude in the United States and beyond. In their article, Paine and Bower argue that this theory is “rife with moral hazard.” Stock owners have no public accountability for what the company does, and no responsibility, as executives do, to place the company’s interests above their own. The costs of prioritizing shareholders’ interests are borne by the company, and by society as a whole, which is robbed of innovations, jobs, and tax revenue. The tension between long-term and short-term economic interests has become a favorite topic in policy circles in recent years, but the election of Donald Trump, in 2016, brought the implications into clearer focus. Much of Trump’s base is made up of white, rural voters; many of them have seen jobs disappear from their communities, while wages have stagnated for those still working. In the midterm elections, Democrats won at least thirty-eight additional seats in the House of Representatives (as of Wednesday), gaining a majority, but Republicans performed better than many people expected; high-school-educated voters came out, once again, strongly in favor of the party of Trump. According to Shaich, the resentment that these voters feel is a direct result of the quick-profits-over-all ethos that dominates economic thinking. “When we live in a world where we view value creation as the end, and not as a by-product, which is what short-term thinking lends itself to, we end up doing great damage to every other constituency, and that’s what ultimately drives back to the kind of ‘let’s rip down the establishment’ nihilism that in my view is at the core of Trumpism,” he said. “Trump is, ‘Hey, this isn’t serving me. I’ve been sitting here in Michigan and Wisconsin and Ohio, I thought I’d have a middle-class life if I went to work, and my kids can’t pay their student debt. I lost my manufacturing job and I’m making twelve dollars an hour in a service job. And these guys are closing every plant and squeezing every nickel out of the thing, and Wall Street gets rich. And I’m still living a tough life.’ ” He added, “Trump is a human hand grenade to blow up a society that isn’t working for big swatches of America.” Last year, when Shaich took Panera private, he also stepped down as the C.E.O. (he is still the chairman of the board), to focus on a pet cause: warning the world about the dangers of short-term thinking. He has been travelling the country, giving speeches and talking to business leaders and policymakers, about the urgent need to return to the tradition of investing for the future. Some people are starting to listen. Tech titans including Reid Hoffman and Marc Andreessen have financially backed the creation of a new investment framework called the Long-Term Stock Exchange, which would give shareholders greater influence over a company the longer they hold shares. “We all believe the system is bigger than us, and we can’t fix it,” Shaich said. “But, if we don’t take control of that system, it’s misserving us in powerful ways.” He also founded an investment fund called Act III Holdings, which offers capital, with fewer time constraints, to entrepreneurs in the restaurant industry. (The Mediterranean chain cava is one of his investments.) “We’ve ended up in a situation, to the detriment of all of us, where our public companies are not able to do the things we want in the economy,” he said. “We say we want G.D.P. growth, but G.D.P. doesn’t come simply from a sugar high of tax cuts. G.D.P. growth only comes from innovation and productivity increases. And innovation and productivity increases occur because people make commitments and they make transformative events.” He added, “This system doesn’t serve the American people. There is an opportunity to ask ourselves, is this what we want?”

eat shit aggy. mississippi st pushed your shit in for the 4th time in 5 years, and one game literally stolen in 8 tries against LSU does not indicate dominance ...quite the opposite

It’s shit like this that makes me think Tom will one day be a legend at Texas. The mf’er is ALWAYS looking for an edge and is ALWAYS willing to think outside of the box to get there. Just an incredibly focused human being.

Well being an Aussie and rarely being able to see Texas play and knowing only very little about this game I can tell you that I think OU Sux

You’re in luck. As we are the 2 seed, we will be in white.

I chose to go to Tech after spending three semesters at a high level academic school in the Northeast when I realized that I wasn't going to set the College Football world on fire back in 1982. I contribute to the school financially and in any other way I can. I have strong feelings for my school and the region from which I came. When I saw the announcement by the University of Cincinnati that they had hired Tommy Tuberville, I was ecstatic. I was as happy as could be to see that jackass son of bitch leave. But not with Kliff This one hurts. Not because I didn't want to see him fired. His record was not good enough for Tech to keep him another season. But because he represented the school so well, with professionalism and integrity. I really wanted him to succeed. I only had one personal interaction with him. My dad and I were sitting in the stands, watching the spring game in, I think, 2005. He was a few rows behind us and was being hounded by little kids and teenage girls wanting his autograph and pictures. He looked down a few rows, saw us, and I guess figured we'd be the least invasive people in the area and a good escape. So he sat down and just asked us how we were doing. We had a really nice 15 minute conversation with him. A very funny, smart charming guy. (I wanted to ask him just how great it was to hold Jessica Simpson's sweet, unleashed rack, but my dad and all) Talked about his New England experience and you could tell then, even from that short conversation, that he wanted to coach or do something teaching football And yes, CSB

aggy "beats" #6 LSU and doesn't move from last week. I am okay with that.

So, after beating the cock-gobbling dirt burglars a second time, should be about 7 or so heading to the Sugar Bowl. Looks like that will be the marquee non-playoff bowl game. And yes, I am from the future.

Per Perroni, Shepherd no-showed aggy

fify

Well, he knew something because the kid told him it happened. Jimbo’s a used car salesman of a coach. Probably smells like little trees air fresheners. And sadness.

Look at THIS idiot, underestimating the power of official home cooking.

The committee is full of shit.

aggy misery is a staple of my Thanksgiving Week menu. I feel robbed and cheated.

Can we seriously just get faster on banning obvious aggy trolls? From the moment this account showed up a few days ago with suspicious timing given the games this weekend, every post has been clear trolling (go look) . Yeah, crowdsourcing will get the job done eventually, but do we even need to wait for the inevitable?

Oberyn Martell was the better prospect until the injury.

We are playing in a conference championship game in 7 days

You better believe the big 12 is preparing to one up secsecsec on Saturday with a shot at the CFP on the line.

I guess we now know why Aggy was inexplicably favored in this game.

Refs appear to have been purchased by aggy. 7 OTs. aggy punched a man with Parkinson’s Disease. aggy proclaims it to be greatest game ever played.

Naturally the NCAA is completely ignorant to this issue, but they have a REAL problem with officiating. Everyone hates every conferences officials, and while I know refs are never going to be the toast of the town, but this feels worse then its ever been and by a damn large margin. ALL the officials suck. And bad. And in an age where they have more angles and technology to het it right than anytime in history, and yet there is no real push for officials to just “get it right.” The NCAA needs to invest serious time and money in training a new group of officials because the current crop are wildly incompetent and it seems like no one cares.

Yea too bad we're just doing stupid shit like going to conference championships.

Panera Bread sucks