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I think we should let all the retards like you from both sides fight it out til the death and we can go from there.

I love when stuff like this happens, like a free show during your dinner. Meatball idea is a really good one. Since I’ve made that post I’ve decided I like coltivare more than enough to go back. Great spot.

It’s crazy what has happened to these two programs.

Thanks bud.

Any recs for duck guides near Houston? Or maybe even duck clubs?

I don't know the specifics, but I know we are very competitive. I have a friend that gets a decent amount of FaceTime w/ Kirby Smart and Smart told him Herman does a great job utilizing Austin for visits and is a great recruiter. I think its a much more controlled game so Herman hits it hard.

Our visits are competitive with any program in the country. Might be what Herman does best.

This university is segmented by BMDs that don’t really like each other that much. Obv between Houston and Dallas, but San Antonio, Austin, and Midland are well represented. Then you can throw in a good mix of very wealthy alums that don’t fit into these groups. UT is a shitshow. We have had extremely poor leadership for a long time. Fenves lacks respect and has very slowly alienated donors with his politics. I personally think he’s really sharp but the wrong guy for the job. He should be doing the same deal somewhere on the west coast.

Went to Coltivare tonight. Really great. Started with the Focaccia and Burrata. Both were really good but the Focaccia may have been the best thing we had all night. Im eating a leftover piece right now. The Caccio e pepe was very good. Certainly no complaints, but we both agreed we like Vespaio's version slightly better. The Cauliflower w/ raisins and pine nuts was pretty much perfect. The pepperoni revival pizza was special. I went to Italy last year and when I got back I tried every Neapolitan pizza I could find in the city. There's some decent stuff here but Coltivare wins. The place lived up to the hype for us.

So fucking Rhyner bailed on me and the usave.it app is no longer recording the Top 10? Not great Bob!

Hilarious. He’s gonna troll aggy to the max.

OU is going to blow this conference up. Football and all that goes with it is their main priority. What that will mean for us I’m not sure. However, I’m fairly certain it’s going to be a shitshow. This program is marred by regional factions that simply don’t get along. The only real hope is that we have an AD that starts to lay multi year groundwork that gets most of the squabbling out of the way, but frankly I’m not convinced CDC is that guy like everyone else who is gargling his balls.

God this thread title made me laugh. What a complete mess.

Dont fuck with cats was fantastic.

Fun movie if you're a mob film junkie. Overall meh and way too long.

I suspect the Mormons are letting these kids soak on their visits. Just wait til the butt stuff starts.

I got rah-paid by the fats at the ADPi house. Their alpha fat sat on me while the other sumos had their way with me. Probably happened over a dozen times to me.

Girls used to gather around the trash cans and chug everclear punch like they were Lawrence of Arabia just coming out of the desert.

Yea Herman was using HUNH concepts that Meyer coveted. No clue on special teams. Tom must’ve been in the film room with the qbs during that stuff.

Yea we got completely taken, me as much as anyone else. I kept trying to tell people Charlie was a dead man walking after TCU. There was little doubt in my mind, and it really didnt have as much to do with Charlie as it did with a real majority amount of support for hiring Herman within our donor group. The Dallas group started to murmur after that SMU loss but the momentum was already in force by then. Plus, Perrin did a good job with the group overall in just stopping the bleeding from the Patterson fallout. Those were dark days and in a way I think we kind of felt lucky Herman "fell into our lap."

MICHELLE WILL U MARRY MEEEEEE?

I mean it wasn't really a panic, it had been like a year in the making. Dud hire though and I suspect that Houston crowd is pretty quiet at the moment.

I still believe he was a good hire, in that the information available to the college football world pointed to the very reasonable possibility for big success. Here was the thinking as I understood it by the men that were arguably most responsible for hiring him (Mike Perrin and his support system of donors, many from Houston): 1. He (in our eyes) successfully translated Urban Meyer's program to his first job at U of H. 2. Urban Meyer legitimately learned certain power spread concepts from Tom Herman, but more importantly Tom Herman learned Urban's whole philosophy and successfully forged the two together, resulting in national championship level success using two different QBs. 3. Tom Herman showed a deep understanding of the modern recruiting landscape, especially in the field of engaging 7 on 7 teams and creating unique and impressive environments for recruit visits but especially official visits. 4. Herman had clear and very positive ties to both the state and the school. 5. Herman communicated very specific program changes he felt were needed at Texas to interested alums while at U of H. He basically told us well before he got hired that we were wayyy behind in the facilities and infrastructure race. He had the same type of communication with U of H and Fertitta that was well received before he was hired there. By all accounts, Herman implemented the changes he suggested at U if H successfully. He backed his talk up when he told Fertitta they're wasting their time unless they do certain things. 6. The timing was very good for it all to come together. We had trouble hiring someone during the previous search and it was a rough spot to be in. As a result, we got bent over by Charlie fucking Strong on the contract. 7. D/FW donors weren't as influential during that period, as they were largely responsible for both the debacle with Mack at the end and the Steve Patterson. They basically had to sit that round out and just support the decision. Those two groups don't play that nice and the D/FW crowd had recently blown it big time in multiple ways. Fwiw, I don't really know where other areas of the state fall into this dynamic (I'm getting all of this from the houston side, and a tiny amount from the dallas side.) Also, I'm not saying D/FW folks didnt want Herman, a FW guy was super involved in the whole process. Just saying I think it's relevant that Houston was kind of on serve. 8. I've realized this is way too long and Im just trying to make myself feel better, and no one is going to read this.

There’s also no use in being ashamed for getting bucked off of a horse you’re still trying to break.

Which is probably a good time to remind everyone that dealing with this stuff is truly something to be proud of, no matter how many times you have to get back on the horse.