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mdmost

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  1. No shit. Just because you spend a shitload of money doesn't mean you're going to destroy the league. Look at Chelsea or City last year. Hell City this year. Hugo has been about the best addition. Frimpong is good but has been injured twice now. Kerkez is struggling but he's still new to the system but he could be a bust. Isak is incomplete and might be not worth what we paid but he's still getting up to speed. Grav being out hurts. He's the glue. Having to rely on Bradley to bring the ball up is going to be an issue. He's not up to the task but there's no other options. Shit takes time and we just won the f'ing league. You don't even think about sacking Slot when he gave you something so out of left field and as we've seen incredibly rare for this club. Ali is out. Konate is having bad games. The full backs are weak. Yeah it sucks to not repeat but this was possibly always in the cards. No one thought Mo would only have 2 goals right now.
  2. I told you to speak your mind, Pancho, but Jesus....
  3. So we're going to say something when it happens because it's fairly pathetic. If that's something you enjoy, then great.
  4. Fair. They did say on the tour that they put in the long water feature and magnolia trees in the middle of the campus because the campus was once voted the ugliest in Texas. It struck me as similar to a lot of UT affiliate schools like UTA and UTSA. UTEP at least feels like an actual college campus.
  5. Sure but you people take it to the next level, bordering on obsession. That stupid Athletic thread is proof of that. Dumb shit like saying Sark looks nervous or coming off a bender. Stupid, petty bullshit that strikes of massive junior high school mentalities.
  6. He seemed exactly the same as he has ever single press conference I've watched and I've missed very few of these. You guys need to stop trying to see something that isn't there that you apparently desperately want to be the case.
  7. Correct. They can get all 4 years easily from their incoming freshman. I was fairly impressed with the campus. They've made an effort to modernize and beautify the campus. Lots of construction going on. I'd imagine they've become a good alternative for the kids in the top 7-10% that can't get into UT or aggy for engineering and pre-med. Plus the area has more than enough kids to fill it. The only issue I would have with my daughter going there is she would lose the true college experience and we talked about how she'd have to get more involved in groups and research since the natural options to meet people wouldn't be as easy there.
  8. We're Texas! We almost got a coach that other people also did not get but at least we got close!
  9. I always chuckle when people get on here expecting something that these press conferences will never give you.
  10. Remember the last year we had to find a coach when LSU also was trying to find a coach? That was fun.
  11. No, he doesn't seem nervous at all. And they always throw him easy questions. The Austin media isn't antagonistic with him.
  12. Maybe the person who handles the mic has his agent seeking NFL options?
  13. Wouldn't It Be Nice...if we could beat Vandy easily? God Only Knows.
  14. Yes, the Common app is pretty easy at figuring out who needs what. We sent her scores out a couple weeks ago through the College Board site even though a lot are test optional. There's a checklist the Common app gives on what you need to turn in and what's optional. Though it feels like optional is not really optional unless it's not going to help their application. Our guy said to send her scores to all but two of the colleges she wants to apply to. One was a head scratcher because that school is test neutral and said a score would not be counted against you if you submitted it. He said her school would be on the low end of what they get which is still funny to me as her score is better than 92% of the people who took the SAT. We plan to apply to these Nov 1st schools by Thursday. We had planned on applying early to UT but when we took the tour on Columbus Day they said don't apply early unless you are completely done and ready because applying early had no bearing on getting in or not it just meant you'd get a decision faster. We did an open house of UT-Dallas on Saturday. She has a direct admission offer from them through Common and it would save us some money if she lived at home for the first year. I really want her to go out of the city though, just for her to grow as a person. We are facing the very real possibility that maybe she's just not ready. She's applied to North Texas and was accepted already. I think she just wanted that as a backup. UTD would be fine for her as she could double major in psychology and child development. They told her it would just be one additional course since both are under the Psychology department and share most of the same coursework. She wants to be a child/teen therapist. The direct admission offer is confusing. She's not admitted if she applies. She just doesn't have to turn in the personal essay, counselor recommendation, and teacher evaluations/other recommendations. The admissions person we talked to said they'll just flag her application when it comes in so she's put in the highly considered pile.
  15. It's interesting that the personal essay was not that hard for my kid to write after our guy gave her some help but these supplemental essay questions for a few of these are very difficult for her to complete. Some of them are fairly simple and it's not been too difficult like "why did you choose the major you want to take here" but then there's other ones for some of the smaller colleges that are just throwing her for a loop. It's down to the wire as two of them have early decision deadlines of this Saturday. We'd like her to go ahead because she'll know if it's a yes or no earlier and you can get access to more financial aid with them if you're already accepted. She's also applied to some of her safety schools since a few didn't require her to submit much based I guess on her GPA and SAT scores. She had an in-person interview at a local coffee shop with an admissions counselor from Trinity yesterday. She thought it went well. That's one I could see being a great fit for her.
  16. mdmost

    Brian Kelly to L$U

  17. So we're going to sack the guy that just won us the league out of nowhere in his first year because he can't put it together with a bunch of possibly massively overpriced pieces that seem utterly clueless on how to play in his system? We're in 7th place. We're not near the relegation zone or midtable, for Christ's sake. We're also missing Alisson which is a pretty big deal. We're not winning the league again but nothing is completely fucked enough yet to decide to even think about Slot being out.
  18. DId you look 5 posts up?
  19. I think it came down to not highlighting Vandy two straight weeks. This is also a make-good since they didn't go to Holy War a few weeks ago. Lots of online whining about how they only feature SEC games. So instead they'll pick a boring Big 12 game. It's not a great week regardless.
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