BillyGoatHill

Cool to hear about y'all's kids. My daughter had a similar experience. She was Business major also(2011 class), and she had five well paying job offers prior to graduating... Her dream job was with Oracle but she was going to need to wait 6 months to get that one as they didn't have openings at the time of her graduating. She took her second choice and when Oracle contacted her 6 months later, she passed on it as she really like where she was and the people that she worked with and for. If you did well for the company, you got a paid vacation to Cancun for around 5 days every year. She missed the first year by less than 10k in commission so that put a fire under her butt to never let that happen again. After her 5th or 6th time going there, she let the GM of one of the restaurants there sweep her off her feet. They have since moved and she has been living in Cabo now for the last 3 years working remote. Not a bad gig for her (and us!) as it really sucks having to go there to visit...😂

Though he drinks as much or MORE than many on here, I'm pretty sure he is not a poster on the site.

Yep. They pair you off the first day. Usually with someone you don't even know or have even met. That person is your dive buddy both in and out of the water. If an instructor gets between you and him on deck or in the water at any time, it could mean being dropped from the course or at the very least, extra flutter kicks with your rocket fins on at the edge of the pool. Not a very pleasant experience. As far as the harassment, you're paired up and only so many pairs can fit in the deep end of the pool while the others watch from the shallow end. Swim in a circle as the instructors (on a snorkel only) dive down the 18' and proceed to steal one or both of y'all's gear. Masks are pulled off first. At least one pair of tanks are taken and they try their best to separate you and ALL of your gear, fins, masks, snorkels, dive harnesses fouled along with regulators wrapped between tanks. You lock legs with your dive partner and breathe off the twins passing them back and forth while buddy breathing. It's an eye opener at first as to how the instructors can take so much shit off of you and your buddy while doing it on one breath. Sharks were used as the term for them cuz that is what it looks like. Getting hit, mass spinning, lots of bubbles, and equipment strewn across the bottom of the pool. Keep calm and recover, or be dropped. Many guys panic first off and jet to the surface (which can get you a trip to the decompression chamber. Saw that right off from another class) and possibly a swift exit from the course. My first two dive buddies were gone in day one and two. Both panicked and went to the surface, then refused to go back down. They were dropped immediately. BOTH were Navy RESCUE SWIMMERS and had already completed a pretty hard course prior to dive school. On the first, I went up with him and received a pretty good mouthful of obscenities from the instructor as to why I was up by the deck with him. Luckily an answer of " you told me to stay with my dive buddy" sufficed.... My third swim buddy in three days was the answer. He was a independent duty Corpsman that was assigned to a Marine Recon team. There were five Recon in the class (two of them became pretty good friends) and they had just come off rotation from Beirut. The Corpsman's name was Gus and we immediately were thrown into the deep end after being paired off. It was a great pairing and we didn't have any trouble from then on out. At one point, due to dropouts and failures, we landed up with an extra person and he was paired with us due to us not having any difficulty with the harassment, we were now a 3 person dive team. During our next time in the deep end, the tanks we were sharing were this 3rd person's, and buddy breathing with 3 is a little bit harder and longer than with two. He took his breath and then proceeded to go up to the surface,...with his tanks! Gus and I sat there on the bottom of the pool staring at each other. The safety diver (instructor) was there watching and waiting for us to see what we would do. Neither of us was going to surface. Just when things were getting fuzzy and about to turn black (meeting The Wizard) a pair of tanks came down (dude that had taken them with him apparently jettisoned them once getting to the surface), we were able to start buddy breathing again and never had to worry about harassment after that. We still had weeks to go before getting our dive bubble but getting through that first week was huge. About a year or two later back at my team, we had a scuba PT at the pool and at the very end you are to do an underwater for distance. Slick, no fins and just mask or swim goggles. The pool was 33 meters and most just do the one length. Challenged by a teammate and feeling froggy at the end of the first length, I felt good about completing back to the starting wall. Things are going well and I get back to the deep end, come off the bottom just a bit, and next thing I know, I'm up on the pool deck looking up at 5-6 guys standing above me, asking me how I feel. Yep,... met The Wizard at around 60 meters, shallow water blackout. Buddy that challenged me was one of two that pulled me out of the pool. Just another reason why you don't swim alone. Edit: Our class graduated mid November '83. Weekends were free as classes were M-F, so those days were used for recovery and partying. But Sunday morning, October 23, everyone was glued to to the TV in the dorm's dayroom. The Marine barracks in Beirut had been blown up earlier that day with 241 dead. Having just coming off of rotation from there, Gus and the Marines in our class knew many of those killed. Sad day. RIP bros 🇺🇸

"When in doubt, Charlie Out". That is pretty much SOP for almost EVERY military test or exam 😜 when not knowing the answer ( no wonder they were all contacting you) CSB/??? I guess I took the ASVAB sometime in my Senior yr or maybe freshman yr of college. My Dad (Tin Can Officer) had my older brother take it also. We both laughed when we got our results back as both the Army and Marines kept wanting us both because "our mechanical section scores were great" !!! Yeah right we thought, ...we both knew at that time we were the most un-mechanical brothers around when we were growing up. We spent most of our time dodging thrown wrenches from Dad when working on the family cars...😂 Wasn't all bad though as I finally did decide to join and Dad talked me out of the Marines, telling me first to look into the Navy or Air Force (pay is all the same but better standard of living & food with both of them). He was of course right, and even though I joined the Air Force, I worked closely with ALL of the services (especially the Army and Marines). I also got a slot to the Navy SCUBA school in Panama City where a majority of my class were sub dudes (some more stranger than others, but ALL smart as hell). Instructors damn near drowned me (and others) more than once during the course but that school was pretty damn cool and not too much then (or now) compares to it. The Sharks (instructors) had a speaker that they dropped into the pool during water confidence (harassment) that played the main musical theme from JAWS and then they proceeded to definitely go after the fishes (weak students/swimmers) and weed them out. They could never get away with that now, but back then.....Good times. Always Try to not meet The Wizard.

My daughter ( no pics) is a graduate of the Business school. She loved going to school there. And that is saying quite a lot considering the circumstances of her going /finishing up school here in Texas (she grew up in Cali). She had 5 great job offers prior to graduating and still loves going back to campus when she visits us. Iv'e got too many friends and family that went to and graduated from SWT/ TXST. Heck, I would have gone there myself but at the time , they didn't have a baseball program. I think they started it two years later. A couple of my nieces (twins and sorry no pics of them either), their dad ( though he dropped out and became a Kiowa pilot for the Army, and his best friend from High school both went to school there. His best friend and another roommate were on the National Championship team under Wacker. That view is still there. When I would stop by to see my daughter to take her to lunch, Sewell was a mandatory drive by for me before picking her up. This summer she wanted me to tag along with her as she showed the campus to her younger brother. The first place she took him to was Sewell Park and of course there was more than one stunner there in very small bikinis. As my daughter didn't use all of my Hazlewood credits, I almost went right then to admissions and enrolled myself.

Feliz Navidad assholes...

This was posted in the Championship game thread....not too shabby. 🤘 https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2023/12/ncaa-volleyball-final-record-audience-texas-nebraska-abc/

Short, quick, 3rd party article discussing Karen (John) Cook's post game remarks/shade towards UT. EDIT: (ends with a certain player being named. Not trying to bring up/flogg a dead horse)

Shouldn't have meant to imply she went to Nebraska, just her announcing. She came out from the get go spewing all big red. It seems to be her norm when calling our games, as WAS yesterday. She almost orgasmed when Murray dove onto the table. You could hear her disappointment when we landed up getting the point.

Yes. Lyle was play by play with Holly and the blonde doing color. Lyle has done our games before and has shown some bias, but yesterday was worse. Hope she choked on a fat cob last night.

I am by no means a volleyball expert but I have watched the girls for years either live or on LHN and while watching the game on tv yesterday, I thought that maybe I had missed a rule change somewhere. That was RIDICULOUS that it wasn't called by ANYONE, Official (3 ft away) or that corn homer play by play announcer Courtney Lyle. That lead to the net violation and then of course they have no clue on NU's rotation. That damn near blew the 1st set for us.

Oh yeah? Or.... maybe we beat them by three sets...

Corn owned by HORNS AGAIN !!!

LIGHT THE TOWER!!!! BACK TO BACK!!! 🤘🤘

Wow. Great call. But I think we have something similar in our playbook.

NFSIAP.... This was made for the Big12 Championship game and though it may have been posted on that thread, I didn't see it. I think it still applies. 🤘 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0UiHaHRjlV/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Still can't believe that Him and his used car salesman antics were hired. Jet pack man was the worst.

What was the number of that bus?

Maybe we should change the jerseys to black? Maybe ALL black uniforms! Including our trademark helmets!! ( kidding.... for those on here that don't obviously understand SARCASM)

Darryl Royal disagrees with you.

Would be great to give Jonathon another (Victory Formation) carry...🤘

Didn't read or see the other posts answering you before I replied. 🤘

Horns had the option being higher seed. We CHOSE the whites.

Lower seed against UDub in Sugar Bowl? Hope that means...Icy Whites AGAIN? 🙂 🤘

That was good. 😂