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  1. I understand that. The article also infers that a number of people across the college football landscape believe the number is at least close to accurate. You didn't answer my question.
  2. Why is it bullshit? And why do you seem to take it as a slight? If you've got it, flaunt it, and you guys clearly have. Do you really believe that all your football players are there for the love of UT? I don't believe you're actually that delusional. It's not likely an exact figure will ever be known, but it doesn't seem like he's the only person that thinks Texas is spending big. And it's not like there's anything wrong with that, it just is what it is.
  3. Seems like a legitimate sampling and not at all biased in any way.
  4. I would add on the flip side even on Heisman, defending the run is way too easy.
  5. Didn't have stanning for Schumer on my bingo card today, but we all know why 956 is doing it.
  6. I mean that's all fair, but it's perfectly fine for a late teen/early 20s guy. I wouldn't want to live there now, but I had a great time as a college student and so does pretty much everyone else that goes there. Pretending DFW is some kind of massive upgrade for a college student that only cares about playing football and fucking is silly.
  7. See, what you're not understanding here is that our positions are not at odds here. What I mean is, you're not wrong at all that Tech has never known shit about having a winning football program, and I don't personally think the Tech AD was ever serious about having a good football team (and I've held that position in my head for literally decades) until very recently. The proof was in the pudding for a long time. To begin with, our facilities were subpar as hell for a long, long time and nobody seemed to give a shit. Jones Stadium was always pretty loud and rowdy, but in reality it was a total piece of shit with fucking astroturf and crappy seating that would fall apart every game with the students jumping on them and shit and the football facility and practice facilities were total bullshit and high schoolish, straight up. They actually got serious at some point about renovating it and attaching a state-of-the-art football facility to it and now it's actually quite nice. I got to tour the Womble football center and it really is second to none, they spared no expense, it's incredible. It had better be for all the money they spent on it. Even after all that, the program really was just treading water the same as it did before, with maybe some superficial/marginal improvements in recruiting etc. under McGuire. Cody Campbell, of course, had also revamped the Matador Club, put in place the "base salary" or whatever you want to call it for all players, and all that jazz. But, of course, it wasn't nearly enough. The real "turning point", I guess you could call it, was when the BMDs got fed up and sat down with the head coach, James Blanchard (GM) and Cody Campbell and were like "seriously, what the fuck do you guys need to compete, if you can present us with a comprehensive plan for the next X years, you'll have all the money and resources you need". From what I understand, all of this was very recent, as in toward the end of last season recent, and the idea is to follow the same model that Ohio State/Texas/etc are following from a recruiting/NIL standpoint. They know it's going to cost a lot of money, and they don't care. So basically, yeah, you're not wrong. Tech has never been serious about football until now. That's just the plain truth, as you stated. And of course, there's no guarantee it will work out how we want in the long run, I think everyone knows that, Hell, I don't think any Tech fan is sure about McGuire, but the alternative is to just sit back and continue not really trying at all and hoping to eke out upsets here and there like we have done for the past 900 years or whatever, but that seems to have become an untenable position for the money men. Considering how well we have turned around the basketball program from what it was less than 10 years ago, I have at least a little hope that things will improve on the football front to a point where I can actually get excited about football again, which hasn't been the case for quite some time now. We shall see.
  8. Ok but who cares? The answer is: not our donors. Like, of fucking course we're going to have to pay more to get a top recruit, that's obvious. We don't have the history or brand recognition. That shit takes time and wins. Time is free, but how do you get the wins? You need to get players. How do you get players? You pay them. Everyone pays. If we have to pay a bit more then we'll do it because we have the money. It's a really simple calculus that any GM could make in his sleep, and given how many times much bigger brands have tried to poach Blanchard just in the last couple of years, it seems like he's doing something right. Do you think it's an accident that Texas seems to be paying the most football NIL out of anyone? That's how Ohio State won a title, and Texas wants to do the same. It seems like a good idea to me. If you really, actually want to win, you have to do all the things Tech has been doing. Invest in great facilities, pay your players, the only aspect that the jury's still out on is the coach. If he can't produce, we'll pay someone else, and I guarantee you we won't make the same mistakes aggy did. It's like I said earlier, we're very obviously trying to follow the Texas model because it's a good model, and of course there's going to be a lot of catch-up involved. You can't close a gap like that overnight, and hell maybe you can't close it period, but you can definitely get a lot closer. Either way it'll be fun to watch it all play out.
  9. You don't recognize Kevin Hart and Will Ferrell? Fuck you stole my joke.
  10. There's a best buy too
  11. This is exceptionally hilarious considering my post history but go off king
  12. I don't know what changed, but it seems lately no matter how much I dominate a game in the first half, I'll be up like 42-0 and have 6-7 sacks, in the second half the CPU becomes completely unstoppable and has the perfect call for any defense I call, no matter how shitty the team I'm against is. I never end up losing, but it's beyond frustrating because the CPU just drives down the field, suddenly you can't get any pressure at all, your DBs are miles away from every receiver, and the CPU QB has an insanely unrealistic completion rate in the 2nd half. It makes the game really unfun because it's obviously the game scripting CPU drives to try and force closer games for "realism", but it actually makes the game feel less realistic.
  13. Well you see they're not kids and/or black so it's fine.
  14. Are we talking about Israel, where it's estimated one in five women have been raped, where there is rampant gender segregation, where there is heavy discrimination against women in the religious courts that govern marriage and divorce that make it extremely difficult for women to get out of abusive marriages, where "modesty guards" often publicly use violence and intimidation against women they target for any number of made up reasons, and where there are no women in senior decision-making positions in either the government or military? I'm not saying things are any better for women in Gaza specifically, but let's not throw stones from glass houses, what do you say? Nice try, though. Don't worry, I'll be here in a couple days when you come up with your next line of bullshit.
  15. Not everyone has the means to do shit about fuck, and people that don't have means certainly don't have time for political advocacy. Even getting themselves/their families moved anywhere is close to impossible unless they have disposable income. And some (you could argue, a lot) of those people belong to classes of people that are actively under attack by this admin. If you don't need to be hypervigilant, you're lucky. I'm lucky. You're lucky. Probably most of the people that post here are above the median level of privilege in this country, so we're lucky. But not all of us. What do you think is going through the mind of, say, a Latino trans person that's the child of first-gen immigrants right now? They have to be shitting their pants and rightfully so. Telling them to suck it up and enjoy the fact that your football team might be pretty good this year is not really something you should be saying to them if you have any sort of empathy rolling around between your ears.
  16. Goddamn it's amazing how many brand new accounts just happen to find this thread
  17. Well school is starting back up...
  18. I think my favorite films of his are Cool Runnings and Wagons East! Not what would be considered the "best" movies in his portfolio, but I love 'em
  19. You can say a lot about Derka but dude fucking knows ball. And the dumbass vultures that follow him around just to be adversarial like @MotownHorn got embarrassed and can't handle being taken to the woodshed by having their receipts pulled up. Eat shit! Bitch!!
  20. This is just another example in a long list of examples of mainstream Democrats who are considered "good messengers" that are just completely unable or unwilling to read the room. This mealy-mouthed garbage that comes out of Buttigieg's mouth when asked about Gaza should be an immediate disqualifier, considering the overwhelming support for the Democrat base on the side of Palestinians. The question is posed at 41:28
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