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"The former first lady stated it was a position she has held for years, but has been reinforced by getting to know Eric and Don, Jr."

Says the guy who doesn't even know how 'meat' is spelled.

Fuck her. She's a horrible person too.

username checks out.

Imagine raising daughters and thinking that Texas protects them. LMAO

I'm a PhD student in a social science. I've mentioned before that I might do some write-ups on organizational culture and there was some interest in that. Sark made some comments during his Hail State presser that perfectly fit with one of the topics I've been thinking about: authority. So, I finally took some time to put some words down. I hope y'all enjoy it. Player-led teams are great. Old guys telling the new guys how things are done. Leadership councils. Colt McCoy driving around in his truck to pick up teammates for players-only practices in the summer. It's something we yearned for during our decade of wandering the college football desert. In this post I'd like to look at the idea of player-led teams a little bit more critically. Specifically, I want to look at the reason why it's a good thing for a bunch of 18-22 year olds to be leading a team. Because that's not a great idea at face value. Sark's comments All social theory starts with a 19th century german guy Back to Texas Being Back Let's summarize and bring this back to the present. It's year 4. Texas is the reigning Big 12 champ, undefeated, and ranked #2. Sark showed the players that his leadership is good for their interests. If they follow him, they'll develop and win games. Individual players bought in, then most of the team, and now the team as a collective has voluntarily accepted Sark's authority. They believe in his vision and created social dynamics that enforce it. Individual players feel an obligation that requires them to accept his judgement above their own. Player leadership has coalesced around him. I said at the beginning of this post that I wanted to critically examine player-led teams and to ask why it is good for 18-22 year olds to lead a team. My answer is that player-led teams are a misnomer (or a myth, for clickbait title purposes). When someone says a team is player-led, what they mean is that the players have accepted the coach's authority and player leadership is aligned in enforcing it. The true benefit of player-led teams is how well they follow their coach.

👀 👀 👀 SUMMARY - Sark, Joseph seeing Dorian Brew Friday AM - Source 1: Texas within striking distance; Source 2: Brew locked in w/ Oregon - If he flips, Texas in best position; if it happen, Nov/Dec - Trying to get him to UOV for a game (GA?); OV done - Ben Wells co-DC at Conroe Amen. Steve Sarkisian, Terry Joseph scheduled to see priority flip prospect on Friday morning Jordan Scruggs (Horns 247)

Medium? Fuck you.

Few things are more boring than reading about a bunch of idiots' eating preferences and personal cooking techniques for steaks/stuff. Here's a recruiting update from Bobby Burton:

And here's more from Gerry. If this doesn't redirect you fucking idiots into more interesting dialogue, @immamac should just delete the fucking thread and subforum and finish the process of turning this site into a food and travel site.

I think the fact that I am both the closest to this issue for one side of the debate and I have also outlined in three posts reasonable positions on this and I’ve received almost zero engagement from the no males in female sports crowd is pretty fucking telling. People like this as a wedge issue, they like having an existential threat to latch on to, they like having a crusade against others. It’s the human way. Like I said, not enough good faith here to find a reasonable solution. It makes me sad. Makes me want to take a break from humanity and this place, again.

If only we could pinpoint what's different about this year. Alas, we can never know.

This is why I said you don't have athletes. If your volleyball player was any good AT ALL they would be playing on a travel club team and thus playing tournaments all over the country. At the very least they would be playing tournaments in Texas that also had teams that traveled to Texas to compete. This whole "I don't have to worry about it because Texas" shit is laughable. You don't have to worry because there are only 3 trans players in the entire US out of 5k D1 players. Last year my kid played Tour of Texas 1&2(Dallas &Austin), Triple Crown(Kansas City), Pacific NW qualifier(Spokane), Red Rock Rave(Vegas), Far Western qualifier(Reno), Windy City Qualifier(Chicago), Lone Star Classic(Dallas) and Girls Junior Nationals. You know what we didn't see or care about? Trans players. But at each one of those tournaments there will be teams from out of state. Most kids don't really care about this. The parents do and usually are using it as a political wedge issue. No one cared about this girl until it was an election year. She's been around 4 years now. Also, 15 kills is hard to have when you are an outside hitter(the person that gets the ball the most) in a 5 set match. Even if you say most matches go 4 sets that works out to be less than 4 kills a set. The girl has won player of the week yet and doesn't even have the highest hitting percentage at her position on her own team much less the conference. Do better.

What a perfect description of the Maga cultists: "I have squandered my resistance For a pocketful of mumbles Such are promises All lies and jest Still a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest."

Lulz

So Biden doing nothing was exactly the right call.

MIL went to the ER twice in Italy and was amazed at how well it was run and that it was all free. Had nothing but praise. She's going to yank the R lever like she's starting a mower.

There's enough going on and to talk about not to have tangential discussions in this thread. Next off topic gets a vacation.

I think we have some idea of its success

Yep. Glad your daughters don't have access to necessary medical care so that you can be protected from an issue that has a .0001% of affecting your life or the life of your family in any meaningful way. Total win by you. Oh, and you get to demonize some poor college student for shits and grins too. Your children should be proud.

I wonder if Team Harris is working on getting a Melania endorsement.

My daughter is a 4X Jr Olympian T&F athlete and runs for a competitive 5A Texas high school. My son has been going to USA Swimming ladder meets all over the state since he was 8 and swims for the same high school. I've never seen a trans athlete in 10 years of track and swim meets, but I have had numerous people who have never been to a meet telling me what a huge problem it is.

Imagine going to prison for 9 years because of turnip. Couldn’t be me

Aside from anything else, this alone makes him completely unfit for VP. Edit: And these aren't exactly gotcha questions, or trick questions. Who won the last election, and will you concede the election if you lose. Vance laughs him off and insults him.

Imagine holding the thought in your head that humans couldn't possibly be heating the atmosphere while simultaneously believing humans, in fact, could gin up a Cat-4 hurricane on a whim.

Goddamnit Herman was such a clown.

Crossover strikes! Syria TV: Israel bombed Russia's Hmeimim airbase an hour after the arrival of an Iranian plane belonging to "Qeshm" Airlines. The Israeli strike did not target the runways or towers at Hmeimim Airbase and Latakia's civilian airport. The bombing targeted other military sites in Latakia province simultaneously with hitting the warehouse inside Hmeimim Airbase. The Israeli bombardment began at 3:55 AM and ended at 4:41 AM, involving thirty missiles launched from naval ships. A Russian air patrol hovered over Latakia after the Israeli strike ended.

DYK: Mackovic pulled Arch's pop's offer and basically cancelled his visit sight unseen? Obligatory:

Hook 'em Horns AOC with the burnt orange.

I'm 49 and a late transitioner and I fit squarely within female athletics parameters, from my hormone levels and physical strength, all the way down to my red blood cell count, red blood cell size, hemoglobin concentrations which are down the middle female range (some folks claim O2 carrying capacity is a reason why trans athletes shouldn't be allowed to compete). there is a way for everyone to win here (which does require more stringent requirements on trans athletes (thank you Lia Thomas grrrr), but nah, let's make it a south park skit and a wedge issue for voters, that makes sense.

Anyone still saying shit like this or "I'm voting for the policies, not the person" should be forced to acknowledge that they would vote for Satan if he had an (R) next to his name. That's all that matters now.

Yes sir

The true definition of an asshat.

This may surprise you but I agree the forfeiture doesn’t fucking matter and no one including me would even know about it but for a known confirmed hater posting click bait here. but make no mistake about it, the media campaign and the political strategy end game is full eradication of my people from polite society. They started with bathroom, moved to healthcare for kids, and athletic bans, but they want it all. And I’m not going to stand for that as we actively are looking for places in another state to spend at least half the year to protect my existence from the political end game here in Texas. I need you to know that no one is more tired of these discussions than me. I’ve spent the better part of my time on this board since 2015 advocating for my people, because I’m an advocate it’s just what I am. And in doing so I know I have gained the attention, respect, understanding and even agreement of many posters here. So I simply cannot let the haters occupy this space without speaking up.

Check out Jon Stewart's piece on his supporters from earlier this week. It is genuinely a cult, a very large percentage of them have created an alternate Trump in their head that they believe supports things he explicitly does not support. This is the end result of social media algorithms and a major news network lying and covering up reality with impunity.

Good, I was worried some people on here wouldn’t be able to get tampons for their bleeding gashes over this and how it was going to torpedo Harris

I don't like this development at all. Pig will thrown the kitchen sink at him, NIL-wise. There's too much at steak.

Marburg has had the easiest fucking strength of schedule, THAT'S the only reason they're #1.

"When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy," -- Half-French Englishman James Goldsmith (1933-97)

All of the sudden everyone gives a shit about this? No one gives a shit about this.