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Posts posted by ImissWallyPryor
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This just goes to prove that a UT degree is twice as valuable as an A&M degree.Â
âWalker has strong ties to the two universities, having earned a bachelorâs degree and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M and a masterâs degree in mechanical engineering from UT Austin.â
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Itâs easier to ask you people than to read the article. Did the effect of state and local taxes make it into their analysis?
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25 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:
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It reads like someone voiced it into their iPhone.Â
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Blake Brockermeyer's kid was a PWO at OLB. He was committed to Rice.
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2 minutes ago, ztejas said:
I disagree on this "organic" bullshit if only on a section by section basis.Â
If you are in good health and every other Horns fan in your section is standing then stand the fuck up. If people in your section are standing that are in equal or worse health than you, I would hope that rubs off and you stand as well.Â
If some are sitting some are standing wev.Â
If you don't want to stand, buy a ticket in the upper deck or shell out $500 for a chair-back or suite.Â
I mean for fuck's sake I stand up and yell at home if I'm super into the game...
I donât think you got my point.Â
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23 hours ago, HouTex said:
I'm thinking it changed during the Mack Brown years for a variety of reasons.  In the early 80's we (the Greeks) pretty much got a date for every game because there would be a pre- or post-game party at the frat house and everyone, especially the pledges, had a date. You got a group of 2-4 friends and you gathered everyone's (including your date's) UT id and took them to Bellmont to draw your tickets--OU was a different process. So on the east side (100% students back then with no upper deck) it was a bunch of people in groups of 4-8 people including dates watching the game, but also socializing. It was like a cocktail party up in the stands with a game down below on the field. Many of the non-Greeks would be in groups of 4-8 friends watching the game. Of course, you'd stand up for big plays and at key times, but you mostly sat. Dating stopped being such a thing around the Mack Brown years (I could be off a few years) and people started going to games in larger groups. Standing in a large group makes more sense irrespective of what is happening on the field.Â
A lot more non-Greeks took dates to games back then, too. Mrs. ImWP and I had our first date at the Texas vs UMiami (Jim Kelly @ QB) game in 1981.Â
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23 hours ago, Armybrat said:
No offense taken.
When the action dictates it, I'm standing and cheering like everybody else. But like I said standing the whole game is a recent thing. We used to make fun of aggy for yelling at their fellow turds to stand up all the time. Don't know when all that changed.
As for the young ones on the east side who think they are hot shit now, someday they will most likely eat their words when their balls are sagging in the terlet water like any other old fart. lol
At least I'm at the games showing as much support as I can, unlike half the younger crowd in our section with their faces stuck in their gottdam cellphones.
Standing is fine when itâs organic, but not when itâs a command from der FĂŒhrer.Â
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On 9/24/2018 at 9:11 PM, UTEX_ME said:
The eyes sure don't sound like this anymore.Â
52.5 seconds sounds like a perfect tempo to me.Â
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1 minute ago, TrashMaster G said:
Are you raising your hand or pointing at me?
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On 9/24/2018 at 9:34 AM, ClubWhatever said:
Yeah I'm going to have to disagree with the Bob Cole act like a fan thing. We don't need a radio personality or a joe fan doing the announcements. Just get a no-nonsense sounding guy and tell him to STFU except for down and distance and yardline and who made the play.
What kind of college would do that? Â What kind of fan would appreciate that?
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1 hour ago, Butch Had Not said:
Seriously convenient for them on the timing.Â
Yet those were the same years we played Nebraska.Â
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Ha! My Aunt Mabel taught at Omaha Central in the early-to-mid 70s. She may have taught there in the 60s, too. All I recall is that she took a year or two off for family reasons before ending up at Omaha Central. She didnât like it there (the students were very disrespectful is what I remember), and it may have been a deal she struck with the school district to make her years of service âuninterrupted.â
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On 9/22/2018 at 2:18 PM, Royalfan5 said:
You also have to look at the sharp drop in kids playing football in Nebraska too. Weâve lost close a quarter of the football programs in the state the last 30 odd years. And the remaining donât have nearly the participation either. Thereâs just not that many kids in Nebraska either.Â
https://dataomaha.com/media/sports/high-schools/football/the-disappearance-of-high-school-football/
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Thatâs interesting (no sarcasm) because SI wrote an article in the 90s about the drop off in HS football participation nationwide. I recall Texas being the only state with more than 1-in-10 participation rate (something crazy like 1-in-7), and Nebraska being noted for having a particularly high participation rate right at that 1-in-10 level. I wondered at the time if that was the truly of NUâs decade+ of success.
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6 hours ago, DanRydell said:
They gave a guy who already fled prosecution once bail?
Didnât he flee based on fear (well-founded) that he was being investigated?
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Havenât seen feet that happy since Peter Gardere.Â
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4 hours ago, CTC2 said:
I had an opportunity to attend a team meeting with a speaker who was addressing the team. Â It was after Hand was hired. Â I was standing on the field watching the workouts minding my own business when Coach Hand walked right up to me and introduced himself. Â We spoke for ten minutes or so. Â Really nice guy and I was struck with how personable he was to a total nobody. Â He had no reason to approach me other than he is just a really nice guy. I have been pulling for him since then and I am glad that he was able to make such a good impact. Â
Have you always lacked self-esteem?
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On 8/1/2018 at 3:22 PM, LongestHorn said:
Grammar Nazi here fighting the fights that need fighting.  HEB changed their 15 items or less signs after years of mocking from assholes like me.  Sweet victory.  Full disclosure, I did not learn until later on that all time and distance nouns use less, not fewer, even if the are countable.  A more skilled grammar Nazi pointed it out my incorrect use.  It humbled me.
Less Miles always sounded goofy to me.Â
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4 hours ago, BigOrange1 said:
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Nope. Not a pre Madonna.Â
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On 9/16/2018 at 8:37 AM, SubliminalHorn said:
Of course Iâm biased, but the LHB when I was a student (early aughts) was best. I canât fucking stand the band now. That little ditty they do after a first down or really any positive yardage is horrible. Itâs bad.Â
I didnât see a game until after DiNino stepped aside as the LHB Director in 1975. But, there was a definite slide in several areas between my first game in 1976 (UH 30 UT 0 - lol) and my last football season as a student in â83 (Georgia Cotton Bowl game - no lol).
One was the move away from having a male flag corps to a mostly pudgy female corps. The gals simply arenât strong enough to snap the flags with the same precision.  Sorry, Donna Lopiano.
Another was the music selection. We were put to sleep one too many times by tributes to Broadway shows.Â
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And then itâs back to the flag corps  They went away from the traditional flags with the block letter TEXAS to some shiny modern art shit that was supposed to be the letter T.
The way the LHB used to enter the stadium as two completely separate bands was cool, but the NEZ remodel made that impossible.
Oh, and once-upon-a-time, the full LHB traveled to pretty much every away game.
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2 hours ago, Royalfan5 said:
Nebraska walk program slipped for a number of reasons. The Dakota schools moving up to FCS put a lot more scholarship money out there for kids that would have walked on at the same time as tuition increased. Out of the 29 in state kids that have made the NFL since 2004, 17 played out of state, mostly at Dakota schools or for Solich at Ohio.  Pelini especially just expected instate kids to walk on without much effort put into the program at the same time too hurt, especially since they werenât committed to getting kids reps like Osborne did. Nebraska used to run multiple stations at practices with all the kids that got players a lot of work in.  Hudl being started in Lincoln also got a lot of film out on Nebraska kids that wasnât happening before which sent more kids to different schools.Â
To expand the Conneally deal more, they have one of the most well known Angus purebred ranches in the world. Thereâs a ton of money there.Â
Sure there a lot of farmers Coop scholarships and such but those get used at any school in Nebraska too. I had Purina feed scholarships to Doane in Crete. I donât think you can really act like something that a ton of boys and girls got in Nebraska made a big difference.Â
Okay, I promise this will be my last comment on this county scholarship shitshow.
NDSU was the first of the Dakota schools to make the leap to FCS and the Great West Confrrence in 2004 before moving to Missouri Valley Conference in 2008. UND, USD and SDSU made the move to FCS a few years later. The number of football scholarships is increased incrementally along the way, but never up to the FBS level. NDSU raided (and continues to raid) Minnesota much much more than Nebraska.
The South Dakota schools recruit fairly equally from MN, IA, and NE, but they didnât start getting those 2 star projects in any significant numbers until the last 7-8 years. They even dip into WI some.  Iâm not sure where UND gets most of their regional OOS recruits. Iâll probably pay attention once they join the others in the Missouri Valley.
NUâs walk-on program collapsed almost 10 years before any of these schools could have had an serious impact.
Itâs possible that Wyoming, CU, Â ISU, and the Purple Wizard began grabbing a few in the late 90s, but I donât know that for a fact.
Listen, I donât begrudge NU for exploiting loopholes as I think most schools did the same, but on a smaller scale. They just took it to another level which created a competitive - many would say unfairly competitive  - advantage.  Schools in states with more than one D1 program would have a harder time exploiting those loopholes without the other instate schools crying foul.
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3 hours ago, Royalfan5 said:
So you have to believe this shadowy web of county scholarship and other scholarships paying the way of all these small town athletes to go to Nebraska and that was their secret adavantage, rather than the obvious explanation that it was cheap to go UNL back when the state actually supported higher education, and they had a staff that was willing to deal with the extra players and keep a freshman team around to see what they had in those players. Especially when there is only 1 D-1 school in the state and that was the only Ag school in an Ag State.Â
The reason I use Terry Conneally as an example, is that he was a full ride football signee out of a class D-2 school in the Sandhills with a grad class of about 15, if we had this elaborate way of paying for small town kids, theyâre not going to waste one of the regular scholarships on the one kid in the whole county that can play.
As someone who grew up in small town Nebraska, this county scholarship bullshit has always baffled me, because itâs not something I ever heard until getting on to non-Nebraska message boards much after Nebraska lost their way.Â
Regarding your first paragraph, Iâm sure the cheap tuition made it easier. And being the only D1 school in Nebraska had to help because some kids just want to stay close to home. Playing for the best team of the 90s made it an easy sell.
It sounds like Terry Connelly came from an area that probably had a $500 Farmers Co-op and a $300 Cattlemenâs Bank & Trust scholarship. Thatâs not much for Tom to work with. Perhaps Terry was good enough to have other offers and Tom thought he had legit talent. No one has ever said that Nebraska only gave âcountyâ scholarships to small town Nebraska kids.
I first heard of the county scholarships 25 years ago when I still lived in Texas and had no reason to hold a grudge. In fact, I thoroughly enjoyed Nebraskaâs beatdown of Florida.
i also think my sonâs coachâs Nebraska Rule comment didnât refer to Nebraska bring the only school that did this. Itâs more likely that Nebraska was just more aggressive in exploiting that loophole, and their success at doing so drew the spotlight of the NCAA. Â
Why do you think Nebraskaâs vaunted walk-on program became pedestrian so quickly?
BTW, this may be my last response on this subject. /crowd roars
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We own acreage with a creek running through it, and Iâve successfully  panned gold ther. What harm is a little exaggeration when it comes to how much Iâve found?  One gram, one kilogram, whatever. Iâve got this covered.
I do remember a story from the 70s or 80s where an old jeweler collected the dust from on and around his work bench. He separated the gold dust and flecks from the regular dust, and by the time he retired, he had gold worth many thousands. /csbÂ