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Generation Z, maybe? If so, it doesn't seem to have caught on.

Good post, but I think, by consensus, anyone 23 and under (which would presumably be almost all of any current NCAA team roster) would be considered too young to be a millennial.

Great series, OSU. That was nerve wracking as hell.

Well hey, that looks like shit.

Great win for Tech. This shit is exciting.

Duly noted.

And then, just a few short hours later, they got eliminated from the tournament.

Electronic communications made public Tuesday show Gov. Greg Abbott’s office was a driving force in the state’s program to purge nearly 100,000 suspected non-U.S. citizens from Texas’ voter rolls. The program was scrapped in April after the state settled lawsuits challenging it, and after Secretary of State officials publicly admitted they included flawed data showing tens of thousands of naturalized citizens were on the purge list. The emails were made public Tuesday by the League of United Latin American Citizens and the Washington, D.C.-based Campaign Legal Center, which represented plaintiffs who sued the state. In an August 2018 email from John Crawford, a top official of the driver’s license division at the Texas Department of Public Safety, to an employee, Crawford said DPS had run data of licensed drivers to compare to state voter rolls before, and “we have an urgent request from the governor’s office to do it again.” At a three-day hearing in federal court in San Antonio, none of the state’s witnesses ever mentioned that Abbott had pushed for the program when questioning turned to the origins of the program, which some officials called “routine.” But the emails show Abbott applied pressure to officials at DPS to provide data that the Secretary of State could use for voter list maintenance. From the emails, it appears employees from DPS and the Secretary of State’s office had been working on voter purge information since March 2018. On Jan. 25, the Texas Secretary of State’s office sent out an advisory warning county election officials that more than 95,000 registered voters were believed to be non-citizens and that 58,000 of them had cast ballots in elections. The advisory directed county officials to request proof of citizenship from those voters. Attorney General Ken Paxton touted the news in a “VOTER FRAUD ALERT” on Twitter, and Abbott thanked Paxton and Secretary of State David Whitley “for uncovering and investigating this illegal vote registration.” The governor added: “I support prosecution where appropriate.” Secretary of State officials admitted at the San Antonio court hearings that the data used for the numbers wrongly included information from legal permanent residents who went on to become naturalized U.S. citizens. The fracas snagged the confirmation of David Whitley, Abbott’s pick to be secretary of state, and Whitley ultimately withdrew from consideration. DPS Secretary Steve McCraw in March took “full responsibility” for data errors in the citizenship review. But critics of the program say the true source is now clear. “The bottom line is this was the governor’s program,” said Luis Vera, LULAC’s national general counsel. “He threw Whitley and the DPS secretary under the bus. All along it was the governor pushing for (the program).” A message seeking comment was left with Abbott’s office.

He is, but Tech moved him over to short towards the end of this season. He's still playing there as of last weekend.

Yeah, this bears repeating. I ain't skeered, but it's shitty that the committee set it up that only one of the two clearcut best teams in the Big 12 could possibly make it to Omaha.

Not guaranteeing it, by any means, but I think Tech can handle either team.

What now?

If a team's entire run to the CWS is only aired on espn 3 (i.e. online) did it even happen? This is a philosophical question, of course.

They also have some of the most racist frat boys in the US.

It's not "whataboutism". She and everything she says is held under a microscope, and the amount of scrutiny she receives from the conservative propaganda media in particular is totally disproportionate to the scope of her errors (when she makes them) and to her general importance in Congress. Of course, a major bit of this is just a tactical long game smear, but as in most GOP PR strategies, they pursue this particular line with her as they know it doesn't take much to convince white males in flyover states that a young Puerto Rican woman is crazy or doesn't have common sense or whatever it is. They already believe this about all young women and Latina women; no evidence required. If she spouted even one thing as bizarre as one of Trump's crazy old man absurdities that would be embarrassing coming out of the mouth of the crazy uncle no one wants to sit next to at Thanksgiving much less the president, Fox News would explode.

And it's miniscule and highly exaggerated in comparison to any number of prominent Republicans, including but not limited to Trump, Rick Perry, and Carson.

It just means, pretty much for the first time I can remember for a major Tech sport outside of maybe baseball in the last few years, the media is not writing us off as needing to massively rebuild after a really good year. Considering that we are losing a lot of productivity off last year's team, this boils down to mad respect for our coach. It's mad respect from a pretty inconsequential group of people who are often wrong, but it is something different, if nothing else.

Comparing AOC to Ben Carson, or Trump for that matter, pretty much proves her point.

lol

I always think it's gonna be funny going in, but I usually just feel depressed after working through a few threads.

I just ventured over to texags and learned that the selection committee was totally dominated by Del Conte whose only goals were to undercut the SEC in general and aggy specifically and to glorify the "very weak" Big 12. I don't know why I subject myself to that shit.

You're right. 2 of 3

Again, I really don't get why anyone thinks the conference tournament title is more important than the regular season title. I think if the roles were reversed, OSU fans would scoff at this logic. I do agree that OSU should've gotten a top 8 seed, though, and pairing us as the 8 and 9 is just stupid.

I'm not running down OSU at all. I just don't get why people, mostly Tech fans, think Tech had a lackluster season, or lackluster end of the season.

They of course did sweep OK State during OSU's amazing month of unstoppable awesomeness. I'm not guaranteeing Tech will do anything in particular, but I'm not sure why people have lost sight of the fact that Tech finished the regular season by winning 13 out of 16, including taking 5 out of 6 from the 2nd and 3rd place teams in the league (and including sweeping TCU who also made it in to postseason). The Big 12 tournament suddenly became a lot more important in the eyes of a lot of people this year, and I don't quite get it. IIRC, Tech didn't do well in the league tournament in any of the years they've made the CWS.