BradInATX

I don't always spend hours posting novels worth of content on threads about mass murderers, but when I do, I make sure that I focus on important things like making sure nobody thinks he's a racist.

Spends paragraphs discrediting everything under the sun, but totally trusts what the mass murderer says.

All of it. All the ones you and bolverk said as well. It's all shit.

Damn. "Saying the quiet part out loud" gets overused a bit here, but damn. Legitimately saying the quiet part out loud, that Cornyn and his base see treating people humanely as a negative. Of course anyone paying attention already knows that. But to see the cards on the table on social media that brazenly is stunning.

The whole Frisco/Plano/Allen area is the epicenter of nouveau-middle-class white trash and their Karen wives who drive $150k worth of SUV and Truck that they'll never take offroad or put anything heavier than a few Cabela's bags into. Wearing shirts that tell everyone how country they are as they sit in the Starbucks drive-through with their little Brayden, Kayleigh, Tucker, and Ashlynn's. It is one of the worst places in the world. On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being "not surprised at all that it was a sedition hotspot" and 10 being total surprise, this is about a negative thirty seven. I'd be more surprised by a Shaka Smart team underperforming its talent level.

You know why.

Yeah, and the cops don't GAF either, especially in the quarter. You have to do something amazingly stupid to get the attention of NOLA police in the CBD area. They know not to mess with the cash cow.

It's not even that level, though. If he had just sort of wimpily put his hand in to block it, he would have never made contact with the arm. Essentially you're saying that you can't violently block a guy, which is shitty. There's a lot of space between letting Bill Laimbeer go full thug on guys in the paint and banning violent blocks. I doubt that'd be a foul in the 2021 NBA playoffs - probably regular season though.

Shaka too is a great guy. Careful buddy, you're going to have to give a ten paragraph dissertation as to why you think he's a good guy.

It shouldn't be. He didn't "demolish" him, he caught his arm on the way through the ball. The arm was never relevant to the play. I'm not disagreeing that it's a foul by rule in college basketball, but I dislike it.

I don't care what the NCAA rulebook says, that's not even a foul, much less a flagrant. Dude just got packed. That was a great defensive play.

Jay Wright, Mark Few, Izzo, Pitino, Self, Calipari, Huggins, Williams, Kryzewsky. Thanks that'll be a few million dollars. Hope you have another job lined up after you get shitcanned in year 1 for wasting a ton of time, money and opportunity cost chasing guys that the University would never consider (Pitino, Huggins, Cal) or that would never consider coming here (literally everyone on the list). Most of those guys wouldn't even pick up the phone. You might have a 5% chance of getting Wright or Few to answer, but they'd almost certainly just use us to get a raise at their current school. It might be worth calling Jay Wright. He's the only one on the list that makes sense. Izzo is a ridiculous fan fiction notion. He wouldn't even answer the phone for us. The notion that he would even give us the time of day is why people make memes about Texas entitlement. It's absurd.

That Oral Roberts watch party looks kinda lit, if they win they might drink some caffeine

Don't disagree, but the Texas athletic department doesn't always work like that. I don't like it, but I think it's a distinct possibility. Business is business. I'm preparing for another year of Shaka, and if he gets canned, all the better.

I'm sure the money is there if he wants it. I just think they're going to be looking at timing. Unless you can get whoever you think is the absolute home run hire (for me this would be Beard only), as an AD, waiting a year might make sense. You don't really want to saddle your new HC with the shit show that next year will be, because then you're going to go into the new stadium coming off a bad year and no coaching change to give people hope and re-invigorate the fans. Lots of moving pieces to that though. Who they think are the home run hires, our chances of getting them, and how secure CDC feels in his job. But I don't think it's at all a foregone conclusion that Shaka is gone. There's certainly the possibility they write it off to a weird Covid year and bad luck and hype the B12 "title". The die-hards won't like it but the general public will shrug and continue to not watch Texas Basketball and it won't much matter.

And if that doesn't work out? Call Gregg Popovich.

I thought that was a pretty good game between two damned good teams, even with self-destruction at the end by TTU.

Wow. How do you miss that?

Both of these teams throwing up nasty ass shots and getting miracle makes off of the glass is giving me horrible flashbacks from last night.

Tech needs to come down with these offensive boards instead of trying to tip them in. Poor decision making. There's been a lot of that that I've seen this year. Lots of guys trying weak tips instead of coming down with balls that they easily had, then going back up strong.

Are you under the impression that the Daily Texan isn't a politics board? Literally every thread turns partisan.

I'm white af. I read the article. It creates a lot of questions. It definitely, and I personally haven't denied this on this thread, leaves the door open for it being not racially motivated. However, the only way you can come away thinking that there's no way it was racially motivated is if you already know what you want the answer to be. That article is nebulous, and it's been a week. There are lots of questions. He drove 30 miles from one to another. Have you ever driven in Atlanta? 30 miles is like 8 hours of driving. That doesn't add up if he was just randomly hitting massage parlors. I'll wait to learn more about it as we go rather than jumping to conclusions. My commentary was purely on the energy being put into defending this guy by the poor mistreated affluent white "minorities are so mean to us" crew. A ton of Americans were murdered in cold blood and you guys are worried about the murderer being unfairly labeled a racist. Your priorities are fucked up.

No, because it doesn't happen. You know why it doesn't happen?

Do you know why being perceived as a racist isn't something I'm worried about or something that riles me up?

Nope. I don't really care that much about this story. It's just pretty eye-opening, albeit not surprising, to see some of you spending more time worried about a mass murderer being unfairly called a racist than the huge number of people he killed. In my experience most racists associate with other racists, his buddies saying he was a great guy doesn't mean anything.