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I have to share with people who will understand how much this means to me, because my folks are dead now and I don't have other family. I first attended Texas as a freshman in 2005, and it was a dream come true. Texas was the only school I applied to, the only school I wanted to go to. Most of college was straight forward for me, I didn't have much trouble passing classes. I originally started in one major which required two foreign language courses, which I decided to knock out in my early days. I have no fucking idea why, but I took Japanese as my foreign language, and it wound up being easily the hardest course I took. I barely passed JPN 1 and JPN 2 with Cs, my worst grades. Everything was going fine. Midway through college, I switched majors. This set me back, and I required a victory lap to complete my major requirements. I was sitting at 166 hours at this point, and thought I was ready to graduate that december, when I found out the major I switched to had a different foreign language requirement. Rather than 2 semesters of a foreign language, it required 3. At this point, I hadn't taken any japanese courses in 4 years, so I had completely forgotten everything. I essentially could not pass JPN3 if I tried, so I spoke with my councilor. She suggested I take JPN 1, 2, and 3 rapid fire at a community college. I could take JPN 1 during the next semester, then take JPN 2 and 3 during the minimester over the summer. Fair enough, not a big problem. I decided to enroll at HCC to take them while I worked an internship trying to pay off my student debt. Turns out HCC had a professor which made JPN a blow-off course. She didn't really teach. If you showed up, you got an A no matter what. I was elated, it meant my degree was basically on autopilot. Breezed through JPN1 and took JPN2 the first minimester of summer. However, after that minimester, she retired without giving us warning. A new professor came in, and she taught JPN like it was a real course. The two extra JPN refresher courses I took were worthless, I was going to have to start all over again, and I pretty much had no money. I reached out to my councilor at Texas, knowing they can pull strings and essentially do whatever they want. I figured she would help me out, but nope. She told me I was shit out of luck, basically, and that my degree would be waiting for me when I eventually passed JPN3. I was crushed. At this point, I couldn't afford more classes and decided to just work. My internship turned into a job and I figured I was set. For a couple of years, it was ok. However, my job suddenly dried up, and I had to look for a job for the first time. Now, I was not afraid to work on my own as I had confidence I could land a job with my skills and interviews. I was so naive. Were I ever able to actually get a sit down interview, I could have probably swayed someone, but I didn't realize how middlemen hiring agencies will basically gate-wall you off from an interview without your degree. What followed was 12 years of miserable work and feeling completely worthless. My degree at Texas felt like it kept slipping farther and farther away. I felt like I had blown my one and only chance, and with the way the world is turning being without a degree would be a lifelong handicap. I can't express the personal disappointment I felt in myself. I would have reoccurring nightmares, like every few days without fail. It was always the same theme, I'm at school and I've forgotten a class and it's test day and yadda yadda. I know everyone knows the dreams I'm talking about. But they were relentless and so frequent. My nightmares would sour my mood first thing in the morning and depress me. Two things would always happen in the dream: it would be late at night, with the city abandoned. I would be walking in a dreary depressed austin alone, desperately trying to enter the building to take my last exam. The building would always be closed and locked. I would pull on the door as hard as I could and it would never open. I would sometimes wake up crying from this dream. About a year ago my mom died and it took it poorly. I started seeing a therapist to help me with my extreme depression, and through therapy she explored other aspects of my life. This eventually came up. She encouraged me to reach out to the University and see what I could do about returning as a student. She told me to at least try, even if I couldn't afford it. So I did, I looked up the faculty of my old college and emailed the person I figured was right and told them my sob story. I got radio silence for a few weeks before someone finally emailed me back. They told me I was being assigned a special councilor for my case, essentially an advocate. She was going to help me find a way to get my degree. That all started in January, and we've been back and forth pretty much the whole year. Eventually we arrived at a compromise: I could take a cultural studies in japanese course at any school, even online schools, and it would satisfy my degree requirement with a waiver. Well, as it turns out, I took a blow off art appreciation course on Post-War japan during my time in college. I submitted it in October at the deadline for graduation applications to see if they would accept it. As soon as I submitted it, my status changed to conditional graduation. And thus I've been waiting on pins and needles ever since. It changed a few days ago. My application for graduation has been approved. I graduate in 2 weeks. Not next saturday, but the saturday after. The relief, the weight off my shoulders has been enormous. Immediately the nightmares vanished, I haven't had that reoccurring dream since. Last night, I had a dream about school again for the first time since having my application approved. This time it wasn't a dark depressing night, nor was I trying to get into a locked door. I was on the field at DKR. It was a bright and sunny day. We were waiting for commencement to begin. I was surrounded by people 20 years my prior but I didn't care. I was talking to some young woman next to me and I was telling her that I was graduating at 40. I was beaming with pride. I woke up in one of the best moods I've had in ages. Sometimes, it'll hit me, and tears will fall. The years spent lacking and wanting my degree have made me appreciate it so much more than I would have back then. They will let me walk in May. I dreamed of this for so long. I updated my resume a few days ago, and added that I graduated in 2025. Changing my credentials on sites like zip recruiter and indeed to reflect this. Immediately the sorts of job listings I was seeing changed, I'm able to apply now to jobs which I couldn't before. It's a literal dream come true. I love my university so much, and that's why this last 20 years has been so hard. It was a juxtaposition of having honest pride in my school, while acknowledging I had failed in my one goal. I could never tell my friends or family that I hadn't graduated, they all just assumed I had. It was a constant lie I had to tell everyone and myself. Not anymore. That I never had to take another class, that my original body of work from when I attended Texas was actually enough to get me over the goal line... it makes it so much sweeter. I don't look at my past as wasted time, upset at what could have been, but rather I'm looking forward. For the first time since... I can't even remember when, I am honestly more excited for tomorrow than the day before. I can wear my Texas cap again with pride. I'm so fucking happy. I wish I could bottle this stuff up and share it with everyone. This is the good stuff.35 points
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Need to ban social media for anyone over 16.23 points
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Time will tell, but part of the shift in the recruiting landscape has been an actual focus on grassroots evaluation. This has always been a fantasy for most recruitniks for big schools and a reality for developmental schools. Whether Sarkisian or Smart or Heupel or Riley or any other name at a big program, they all fall victim to starfucking and walled garden recruiting analysis among their staffs. They can claim to be turning over every rock, and that's bullshit. They're by and large fed names and film by the same sources every cycle, and that's the pool of players that they decide to choose from on the recruiting trail. Now, with an expanded payroll for staff, should someone desire, they could really start turning over rocks. Can't go everywhere on that front, so you start locally and tap your extended high school coaching network, should you have one. This is part of what Texas decided to do in this last cycle because the ground was continuing to shift on the recruiting landscape and prices/values kept escalating into the stratosphere. So, not only was Texas hamstrung out of the gate for 2026 because of Sarkisian's personal bullshit, which put them behind on a lot the 4 star talent that they'd normally build a class with, but the House Settlement created a flood of money for schools that previously didn't have much, and that began driving up everything. Texas made the choice to do what they had to do when it came to the highest priorities, continue to recruit guys they believed in who weren't interested in renegotiating throughout the process, and then dig into the hard part that schools like Texas often get to ignore. The outcome is barbelled. Texas signed multiple prized recruits that they believe to be best bets in panning out early. They also signed a bunch of guys that literally chose Texas for the free ride and otherwise old school recruiting things like staff, tradition, guys going to the NFL, etc. Not a ton of in between guys who have the rankings on paper but still represent a mixed bag of questions. Each player either has very few open questions or a shit ton of questions about their upside at Texas. Do we see more of this for Texas? I don't know. Texas isn't being dumb about just rev-share for NIL and they have a hell of a lot of corporate interest. They're not going to be cheap, but they cannot afford to be stupid. Does the market stay ridiculous? No clue. I guess I'm hopeful that the hard work side of things pays off, but we may not know that for a few years. Continuing that approach might be really smart or fail miserably. Texas isn't the only top 5/top 10 recruiting school that had to look at all of this and edit their way forward, btw. Ohio State tried to take the "we're Ohio State and only rev-share will supply our NIL" approach and they were castigated for months by their fans online for doing so. Georgia looked at things similar to Texas and stood on their business in multiple recruitments. While we mock Nagy's hype and bullshit, OU also pragmatically looked at their circumstances and made choices accordingly. Meanwhile, USC, Tennessee, Miami, Florida and LSU all kind of went nuts in various ways for various reasons. When Oregon or Michigan throw Knight and Ellison money around, that's sustainable. Is what USC is doing sustainable? It is whispered around the recruiting circles and allegedly by other coaching staffs that much of the almost $10M allocated for this incoming class is currently unfunded. That wouldn't be the first time Riley pulled that move and then had to scramble to make good on his deals. Florida and LSU were just flat out desperate to hang on to their talent and considering PSU as an alternative route, they probably made the right choices. I'm kind of just waiting for the bottom to fall out of Miami's NIL. It's not all coming from the same source, but they do not have the same resources across their base that many of the rest in the upper tier do.18 points
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Moore leaving ultimately to the portal instead of the NFL is what I've been arguing now for weeks. If he goes to the NFL end of things, he's an UDFA based off of what I have seen. He'll get a shitty grade or already has one. The agent will put out feelers and someone in college will be willing to throw $500k at him for another year. Good luck for everyone with that. That said, that's a significant clearance of payroll without taking a major roster hit. Either one of the younger guys is ready, or several are, or they can bring in someone elite or offering a more efficient spend with similar productivity. I'd take any of those outcomes over Moore getting his ask again from UT.17 points
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the thing killing this program right now are the mid 4-star types who think they are 5-star sure fire NFL first round picks, and act like it despite not having earned a damn thing. Most of these kids have agents and family members in their ears telling them to sit out, protect their draft stock, don't risk putting up bad film if less than 100%, don't risk injury playing against lesser teams. These are back ups, mind you. Texas has indulged this the last few years. It bit them in the ass this year and will continue to bite them in the ass if something doesn't change. I'm hopeful that it will. I'm increasingly of the mind that Texas should pay a premium for the no doubt unique talents and pay for proven production and avoid/be hyper selective for those upper mid tier high school recruits. Time will tell, but I'm growing in my belief that this new evolution of free transfers and 6/7 figure payments out of high school are hindering the development of a high proportion of these guys. Find the ones who are truly devoted to the craft and/or know how to handle the money and have a support system around them that is conducive to development. Otherwise, find the ones who form their work ethic at the G5/lower P4 level and have successfully developed and bring them in.16 points
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God damnit. The Ignore button was such a Godsend when I fucking used it to ignore Stassney. But yβall have to keep quoting him. Donβt!!! For fucks sakes, just respond to his post(s) without quoting them. Theyβre all the fucking same anyway. Itβs like Iβm playing cards with my brotherβs kids or something. Nerve racking sons of bitches.16 points
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Synergy? Ideation? Disruption of paradigms?15 points
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I am not sure i can trust our coaches and 9.95ers regarding their talent evaluation of OLs (primarly C, G, C) and RBs. The shit that was trotted out this year was fucking abysmal and yet they were all convinced of the opposite, that we had championship level line and run game. Even now as i reflecf on it, this shit was so absurd and comical it could have been source material for an episode of Seinfield or something.14 points
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I think Iβm in favor. I might even support under 18. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwy54q80gy9t10 points
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Strictly by the numbers that are supposed to matter (SOS, SOR) Texas, BYU and Vandy all have better claims than ND and Miami.10 points
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There is talk that USC wants out as well. Again, that's what I'm curious about in all of this. ND AD is blowing things up with the ACC like he has leverage, so either he's already cut a deal better than what he has or he's totally misreading his hand or acting overly emotional after a snub to appease boosters. I just don't see why either of the B1G or SEC wants anything to do with ND (absent full partnership in the B1G). I'm hoping ND misplays this and we look back at them like they are Blockbuster Video 10 years from now.10 points
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Texas: Go be fat somewhere else LSU: Go be fat somewhere else9 points
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The domers live in an alternate reality where it is still the 1960βs. βWeβre specialβ¦ independence is our turditionβ¦β. That was well and fine in the old days, but college football has evolved into NFL-lite. Conference affiliation matters (good and bad) in this new world. USC saw the writing on the wall and left the shit-show that was the PAC since the conference was barreling towards irrelevance (Texas did the same). You donβt see the NFL allow one team to bypass a conference to say β nah, weβre goodβ¦ weβll make our own schedule, cut our own TV dealβ¦ and by the way, we get to be in the playoffs just because weβre usβ. I hope this days are over and the major conferences tell them to pound sand, enjoy playing Directional State Technical University. USC is questioning whether playing ND late in the season is going to affect any CFP chances. The rivalry has been great for both schools, and Iβve had the chance to experience 4 games as a band member, but that was then and this is now. You want to be a part of the league, then play by the same rules as everyone elseβ¦ otherwise fuck right off.9 points
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But have you considered how tired white people are of being called racist for doing and saying racist things?9 points
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It goes further, there must have been a fundamental problem with how we practiced or chose to run practice that hid the issues. It wasnβt just the $9.95ers. Former players and guests who visited practice saw nothing wrong. Casey Studdard was telling anyone who could listen how mean and impressive the line looked. When your practice isnβt identifying what can go wrong, then you arenβt practicing the right way. I just hope thereβs some oversight or self-scouting system in place to correct these systematic issues, versus Sark just chalking everything up to bad luck and continuing to think he knows better than everyone while dmβing Dallas milfs on instagram.9 points
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I don't think he's capable of running. Maybe they rolled him off.8 points
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All hell is going to break loose when these conferences look at their bloated membership and start cutting the bottom feeders to maximize profits.8 points
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LOL this is the funniest shit ever ND football is not a member of the ACC. The ACC was attempting to get their member in, because Miami's CFP share goes to the ACC. ND's share goes to ND and nobody else. If ND's football team wants a conference apparatus to make their case for them, they have to join one and share for CFP money. They refuse, so the ACC, who is an ESPN partner, made their case for Miami.8 points
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They will install pay toilets or some shit at the stadium. The fan experience is about to plummet. Hope Utes enjoy another DraftKings FIRST DOWN!8 points
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Sorry but I hate hate it when people call it C-Stat. Its like they are trying to make College Station sound cool and hip like saying SoCo or NoDo. Don't fall to that lame-ass aggy branding. Want to use a term like Pyle Field? Sure. Otherwise...8 points
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Word of thanks to a couple of the above posters. One of our trio of cats has been battling kidney disease for years. It finally caught up to him. We were not looking forward to stressing him out at the vet to help him pass comfortably. I looked up in-home options in the area and found a few great companies. It was the most comfortable and peaceful way to care for him in his final moments. Thank you everyone!8 points
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Question about this farmer bailout that we all knew was coming. If this is being paid from tariff revenue doesnβt this mean we are paying it from paying higher prices he caused from this stupid shit? This is a double dipping of stupid.8 points
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I think I'm going to miss Ethan Burke the most. His ability to look unstoppable in big games will be missed. God speed at the next level.8 points
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