Everything posted by SydneyCarton
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2024 Texas GameDay Stadium Experience Thread
I'll line up all the ignorance in one post. First, to those fucking idiots bitching about empty seats, is your position that we shouldn't have built the entire south endzone project because we wouldn't be able to force season ticket holders to show up to make the stadium look full for shitty opponents in shitty weather? We should have just scrapped the entire thing, because in retrospect the optics look "terrible?" I'm guessing most of you haven't had a tour of the SEZ complex, your knowledge probably is limited to what you've seen briefly on social media posts. It's a sprawling complex, with the weight and performance center, the new locker rooms, new meeting rooms for the team and position groups, nutrition area, player lounge and recreation area, as well as the medical training center as well as recovery facilities, which include water rehab, sleep pods, etc. It's pretty fucking impressive, and my brief description in no way does it any justice. Anyway, my point is, that this entire facility, which is a boon to recruiting and the football arms race, was paid for entirely by the donors you're bitching at for not showing up in those gray seats! So because you're worried about the "optics" of empty gray seats, we probably should have done...I dunno...none of that for the team. Good idea, that South Endzone is so embarrassing! I believe the SEZ project cost 125 million dollars, and was built with bonds using the fundraising and guarantees for the people who promised to buy those seats. Somewhat akin to a seat license, all of those people either cut huge checks, or made legally binding financial promises, to pay six figures or more (the suites were 10 million a pop, I think the gray seats were 100k, I could be mistaken) and they cut those checks JUST FOR THE RIGHT to be able to ALSO pay thousands of dollars each year to buy the same season tickets. That's right, it's not just a one time expense, it's a one time expense so they can keep spending thousands of dollars every season to buy those tickets. And you know what part of the sales pitch was? Hey, we're going to throw in access to a club where you can have A/C, be covered if it rains, and cater some food for y'all...and still let you buy extremely overpriced drinks. Now imagine that I'd paid all of the above, and the AD comes back and says "Hey, that thing you bought, we're going to take away those tickets and just let you have this little club." That's y'all's idea. My response, personally, would be to tell you to go fuck yourself. And if you told me I had to go back up in inclement weather just because some whiny internet shitbirds who've contributed, maybe, 1 part of 1 million to what I had contributed to the athletic department, because THEY didn't like the TV optics, well, I'd laugh in their face and then tell them to go fuck themselves. And then I'd probably pull my NIL money. Because, you know, these are some of the same people that are supporting our NIL budget. Best to alienate them. And my favorite part is, no one gives a fuck if some season ticket holder anywhere else in the stadium doesn't show up in shitty weather, or at all, because those seats don't get a lot of coverage on TV. But because it's the SEZ, THOSE people should be SO embarrassed. Fuck right off. If you don't like it, step up and spend the fucking money to support the athletic department the way those people have, and stop being fucking poor. Signed, Someone with Season Tickets In the South End Zone.
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Las Vegas go hard or go home thread
The articles of the sale were from June. I'm somewhat optimistic that they haven't fucked things up too badly in around 6 months. But this might be the last voyage of the demeter, so to speak.
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Tell me about Texas Tech
Of course. But that's not what Slorch said. He said, and I quote "in the REAL WORLD degrees doesn't make a fuck." The quote is direct, the emphasis is mine. Of course fields matter. And in theory, sure, once you're some amount of time out of college and several jobs into your life and career, no one probably gives a fuck where you went to college. But to sit there and say my degree didn't "make a fuck" in regards to my life and career is fucking stupid, and wrong. I illustrated exactly why it's wrong. And I'm not the only person. Maybe the real fucking lesson here is that slorch should learn to stop speaking in fucking absolutes, and maybe he won't end up posting back to back shit like "I don't remember where anyone ever went to school" and "I almost always remember where people went to school" in back to back posts. Guy has to be the worst, most ineffectual Sith of all time.
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Tell me about Texas Tech
Sure, but that's not what you said. You said the opposite of that: When someone says contradictory things in almost back to back posts, it's kind of hard to take anything they say at face value. Are you just an easy liar? Is it a communication issue, where you simply struggle to say what you mean? If it's that last one, I bet a better education could have helped out with that...
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SEC Catch-all Thread
The FilmGuy guy his start as a Georgia 995er, so...He's from Georiga, went to a small college in Georgia, and worked for a GA based sports website for awhile. He's fine to watch, but at the same time, the guy is also a biased fan.
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Tell me about Texas Tech
A degree doesn't need to be critical to remember things from conversations folks have with each other. Does one need a degree to remember that my neighbor has 2 kids? Does one need a degree to remember Thursday is trash day? You know, it's almost like behavior is demonstrating intelligence here.
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Tell me about Texas Tech
I find it weird that you have conversations with people, assuming you haven't also HIRED people, and can't/don't remember important facts in their life, like where they matriculated. I also love the nice little attempt at a dig there, like I or anyone else doesn't actually work in a results driven field. Outside of government and general bureaucracy, I'd argue that most fucking fields are results driven.
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Tell me about Texas Tech
Unfortunately, Slorch, we know. We all know. As for the degree, I dunno, I can draw a direct line from the University of Texas to exactly where I am in life, starting with using the UT job board for new graduates to land my first real job, to the people (other UT alum) I met at that job, to their businesses I've invested in, to my business they've invested in, which has allowed me to provide for my family and have a pretty good life. And that doesn't include the shared joy of UT sports as a great complimentary aspect of my life. I would say the degree I have, and specifically where it came from, made almost all the fucks. The only thing my degree hasn't facilitated is meeting my wife at a bar.
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Driving between Dallas and Houston
I don’t care if there’s zero construction and 8 lanes in each direction existing, it’ll still suck.
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Tell me about ou
I really appreciate the publisher's innate understanding of the target audience. "PICTURES INSIDE GUYS"
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Tell me about Texas Tech
I can find a hundred posters who feel the same way about you, without breaking a sweat, Slorch. You've had to change handles and then come back and get outed for your obvious behavior.
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Tell me about ou
I appreciate every reminder I see that Toby Keith is fucking dead.
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Las Vegas go hard or go home thread
- Las Vegas go hard or go home thread
So basically it’s a microcosm of the rest of America? hopefully they haven’t found a way to ruin sports gambling and Pieros.- Summer Migration From Texas
That tree in the forefront looks cool AF.- Summer Migration From Texas
OP should by this place. Outskirts of the Denver area. You'd need to build a new house or invest heavily in a renovation, but 22 acres of land with those views as well as river access, backing up to a national forest, is a good deal. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/24676-River-Meadow-Dr-Buffalo-Creek-CO-80425/295313986_zpid- Driving between Dallas and Houston
Driving Between Houston and Dallas - Don't Do It.- Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Eh, I think he's pretty accurate in that statement: https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/texas/2024/gamelog/ UT's Rushing in the following games against "better" opponents: GA 1: 27 for 29 yards, average 1.1 GA 2: 28 for 31 for, average 1.1 Arizona St: 30 for 53, average 1.8 Ohio State: 29 for 58, average 2.0 "Good" teams we ran the fuck over: Clemson, Michigan, OU, Texas A&M. Except we all know those were not all that fucking great.- Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Gimme Cruz at center and shuffle the rest around accordingly.- OU Football 2025 - Cheated Its Way To a Backdoor CFP Appearance
Did you just call his wife an It? Brutal man.- What new UT gear are you looking to buy this year?
Based on the color of those blue jeans maybe 1984.- Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
It’s Spider2yBanana.- What is your biggest business regret?
I had like 1k in cash from my HS job. At the time, Apple Stock was at $1, and Steve Jobs had just returned. I thought about buying 1k in apple stock. Instead, I spent 500 on a receiver and speakers for music and watching movies. Good choice, Sydney.- Do you FIRE? Financial Independence, Retire Early
You and I are on similar timelines, although I'm nowhere near close to my required goal to be able to retire at 55. I've got 10 more years, and some things need to go right for me to get there, but I'm optimistic. Additionally, I want to be able to have a retirement nest egg and income large enough to be able to help our kid out. It seems to be a pretty shitty world he's going to inherit, so being able to send him to school debt free, and if necessary, help him get his first house early and help him into that, or help him weather whatever the job market looks like is on my list of priorities. Every plan I have is to be able to live solely off the retirement interest and still save some amount per year without touching the principle. So if my nest egg profit/dividends/whatever are 300k a year, after taxes, we'd better be able to live off 200k, for example. How're you going to get around the citizenship thing? She French?- 2025 Tailgate Thread - Let's Party
Even more insufferable, then. It's not like there's some kind of cap or top-out on egotism. For fuck's sake, look at the guy. He already thinks he can rock "disheveled hobo" as an adult male outside of Silicon Valley. The fucking hubris. - Las Vegas go hard or go home thread
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