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For coaches, maybe. Not for players who can transfer to another school immediately after the season's over. So it's not even a full year. You can enroll in August and leave in December. It's like four months.

Like, physically? Cuz that tracks....

Ya think that game was good for recruiting? Holy shit that was fun.

Apparently you do. No one missed your point. It's just that everyone else accepted this inevitability a long fucking time ago and stopped bitching about it. Like it or not, this is the new reality, and thread-shitting about it isn't productive and is tiresome for everyone else on this site. You're posturing like you're the smartest person in the room, when in reality you're the only person that doesn't seem to understand or accept the way things work now. We get it. NIL is a thinly-veiled construct for Universities and supporters of those Universities to pay college athletes to play sportsball at that University, and does not correlate to their actual promotional value. You also myopically view NIL through the narrow lens of endorsements, and do not take into consideration charitable causes and community-event contributions athletes from the University can make through NIL funds like Texas One. There is no established "market rate" for that. Each University can set that rate at whatever they deem appropriate. It's not fucking capitalism. And you're not mad about NIL. You're mad about the transfer portal. Paying athletes for their time and public profile isn't creating a semi-pro league. It's that athletes can transfer to any school they want whenever they want (yes, I understand that under current rules you only get one transfer without having to sit out, but that's going away too, so prepare your vagina for that inevitable shit show) and those transfers are largely being driven by how much NIL money a player can get in an "open market". Lastly, accepting this new reality, wouldn't you rather be a supporter of one of the richest Universities and alumni-bases in the college sports landscape? To me, this new reality seems to be a competitive advantage for Texas. That's a good thing. What if you were a supporter of a school like Nebraska? You're not pointing out anything that every single person on this board already understands (Football board, not so much). Hold on to your butts. It's gonna be a wild ride.

Thread title should be changed to "The best female singer NOT named Aretha Franklin" and every single one of you knows this.

I gotta admit, this is an impressive display of wishcasting, even for Aggy. Wow.

Oh, I agree with you. It would be absurd and untenable. I was really just pointing out that they're in similarly desperate situations which might make both parties think about it for a moment. I don't think it's really gonna happen.

When I lived in Chicago we would get wasted and play a game called "Shut the Fuck Up, Motherfucker" where a participant could pick any cable music channel, turn his back to the screen, and try to guess the artist of the song that came on. Anyone could wager against that person. When people would give hints or say "this one's easy" everyone in the room would scream "Shut the fuck up, motherfucker!" It was fun.

A few other thoughts. I think I prefer the previous version I made with red japs and habaneros. The brine really brings out the sugars in the peppers without sacrificing any of the heat and it's got a very dynamic flavor. The green is great, but the red was better. Plus the combo of red jalapenos, which are not super spicy, with the intense sweet/heat of the habaneros gives you a lot of flexibility to control how hot/sweet you want the sauce to be. I like a hint of the sweetness and the heat from the habaneros but have the red japs be the base flavor profile. The green has a pretty intense kick. I forgot to mention I ended up adding a few tablespoons of simple syrup on the last blend to sweeten up the green sauce a bit and try to dull some of the intensity of the spice. I think next time instead of throwing the garlic in with the brine I'm going to make a garlic confit and throw that into the blender. Also, I need to get some hot sauce bottles off of Amazon. The strained jars will stay good in the fridge for a year, and I think the unstrained one will be good for like 6 months.

I'm saying they fire Jimbo and hire Briles to be the HC. No fucking way Briles is gonna join that staff as OC and have Jimbo be the meddling fuck that he is. That ain't ever gonna happen.

Necro-bumping this thread. I watched a video on fermenting chilis and making homemade table sauce. I did a batch of red jalapenos and habaneros last week (but didn't document). This week I did a batch of green sauce with jalapenos, serranos, anaheim, tomatillos, and garlic. First your ferment the chilis, garlic and tomatillos. I did a basic salt-water brine of four tablespoons of pickling salt per half-gallon of water. Cut up the peppers into small pieces, half the tomatillos, and throw in the garlic whole. In this case, after about 4 days of brining the peppers soften up so I added more tomatillos to the brine on day 4. If you don't have a fermenting jar, you have to burp it every day to release the CO2. When you burp the jar it's carbonated, and you can see all of the CO2 bubbles rushing to the surface. You also need to put a weight at the top to make sure all of the vegetables are submerged in the brine. I also did a jar of pickled red onions, but I did that separate because I didn't want to use a whole onion in this sauce, and also wanted to have some on hand for tacos and to garnish other shit. Let that shit sit in the pantry out of the sunlight for a week. Drain it but reserve some of the brine. Then blend it with the brine and a little white vinegar. I used a cup and a half of the brine and half a cup of white vinegar for this batch. I added a handful of cilantro and juiced three limes. You can blend it and jar it and throw it right in the fridge at that point, which will slow down the fermentation, but won't stop it so you have to continue to burp the jars. Otherwise you can simmer it over low heat for a few minutes to stop the fermentation, which I did in this case. After blending and simmering, you can either jar it for a chunkier sauce, or you can strain it through a sieve. If you want you can save the solids and dehydrate them to make chili flake or a chili crisp that's sorta like dehydrated sea weed. I just threw them away because that sounds like a pain in the ass. I made a big batch so I made one jar of unstrained, and then strained the rest to make almost two jars of a green table sauce. Walla! Now you've got a shit ton of super spicy and delicious hot sauce.

Briles makes sense. They're both desperate. And no good coach or agent will entertain A&M if they weasel out of their guaranteed contract to Jimbo. I'm also guessing that every single other agent and coach in America will be in Jimbo/Sexton's ear telling them that they cannot settle for anything less than the full guaranteed amount. It's akin to players in free agency feeling that they need to accept the best offer because offering a home-town discount lowers the compensation floor for every other player throughout the league, and doing so may fuck another player out of their money.

if there ain't mold on it, it ain't expired. 15 seconds in the microwave will bring that hot dog bun back to life.

Are you in NYC or SF? But also stealing "bringer" because it sounds like finger. And that's funny...

That’s about as likely as Jimbo hiring a “real” OC

Harold Perkins is fucking good at football

Shirt is mildly amusing. Sydney getting absolutely roasted is wildly amusing. A+ thread.

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Why would you order a burrito or sammich when you could have that? Sounds like you already know what you should do..... Or wait. Why not order the latke sammich AND the burger?

This was posted in the Burgers thread, but it's apt here as well. Highland Lanes might be bought and demo'd. https://austin.towers.net/with-dart-bowl-bound-for-demolition-highland-lanes-could-redevelop-next/ I'm a bowler. I've been in bowling leagues for nearly 20 years. This is really bad for people that like bowling. This means Westgate Lanes will be the last real bowling alley in Austin. If you're a league bowler at Highland, it might be tough to find a place at any of the leagues at Westgate. And that means that Westgate is going to have to make the decision to expand their leagues and basically leave no open lanes for casual bowlers during the evenings, or reduce leagues so they can make more money off casual bowlers. To be honest, I'm not sure what brings in more money. I would think leagues because league bowlers because they have leagues every night but Saturdays. And league bowlers tend to drink much more than casual bowlers. But casual bowlers pay a shit load more to bowl than league bowlers. who knows. I guess people can bowl at shitty family-fun places like Main Event, or "adult entertainment" joints like Punch Bowl Social. But it's really not the same. I'm worries that the old-school bowling alley's days are numbered.

Tortilla, jack cheese, ham, and some homemade red sauce. Thrown in a microwave. After bowling league night. Delish.

Shannon isn't going anywhere for the reasons articulated above. We can't nudge out Randle for obvious reasons. I have no idea who the staff might try to nudge elsewhere. Walton? Wouldn't think so given MM is kinda looking around. Goosby? Can't imagine them processing out OL.

That's just ludicrous revisionist history. Bijan was never considering OU. They had a commitment from McClellan and they were happy about that. But McClellan said fuck all that and bolted for Bama two days before signing day and they were left with their dicks in their hands (as a snack for Lincoln Riley). Bijan never visited OU.

Maybe I'm wrong, but this seems to be less about QB1, RB1, etc. Those guys are gonna get theirs through private deals with Lambo or the NFT thing that Quinn's got. They have opportunity. This is about ensuring everyone else will be taken care of. I mean, I'm sure it's great for your superstars too. But this establishes a floor that can be clearly contextualized (rather than shady promises of bags that never materialize) for student athletes in all sports. That's fucking huge.