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  1. Nebraska asked to reschedule due to planned stadium renovations. An extra home game was intended to make up for lost revenue due to reduced seating capacity. The series was originally slated for 2016-2017, but Tennessee requested similar rescheduling to allow them to participate in the Battle at Bristol against Virginia Tech in 2016, a high-profile game held at Bristol Motor Speedway. Nebraska accommodated. In this case, Tennessee would not agree to moving the games so the series was cancelled. That makes Tennessee the bitch in my book.
  2. Man, put them eggs on the pancakes, break those yolks and let them run all over, mmmmmmm.
  3. My daughter went to an IB high school. No discernable difference in opportunities it provided, from what we could see.
  4. "No" is "less", but "less" isn't necessarily "no".
  5. Followup, we really enjoyed it. MUCH better than an ocean cruise in our opinions. We are mid-late 50's, and were in the younger half of passengers. Although, there were a few younger than us, with the youngest couple in their 30's. That was never an issue at all. We found a few couples that we enjoyed spending time with, eating meals with, etc. Food was great, drinks were good (if not great), and all inclusive. We have booked a Christmas Market cruise (Danube river, Budapest-Munich) with them in December 2024.
  6. My son was a swimmer for Bowman at ASU. Part of Bowman’s second class at ASU. Prior to and even during/after his time at ASU, my son was a huge fan of UT swimming and Eddie Reese in particular. Would have been his first choice destination, but admittedly he wasn’t a big enough recruit for UT, and even getting onto the ASU team (non-scholarship) sort of surprised us. Let’s just say that after our experience, we are not fans of Bowman’s “style” and how he deals with people. When we went on the visit, he told us that my son is now “one of HIS guys, and he will always take care of him and treat him right.” As Bowman recruited at a higher and higher level, my son ended up “cut without being cut” from the team going into his senior year. Not the courage to actually cut him, but just sort of treat him poorly and try and make him quit (I know, not that uncommon, lots of coaches are assholes like that). My son is not a quitter, and kept working his ass off to contribute. He (and we as parents) could handle him being cut as long as it was done in a respectful and honest way; that’s just life sometimes. The way it actually happened made it even worse than what would be a difficult thing no matter what (among other things, accusing my son of not taking care of an injured shoulder summer after junior year when in fact the trainers on the team denied him that treatment when he repeatedly requested it, then just saying “oops, guess I was given wrong information”.) From what my kid tells me based on what he’s learned from friends in the swimming world, pretty much the opposite of Reese in most ways (he does know swimming, and obviously made ASU much better). He’s not sure this style will work as well at a place like UT that isn’t looking for a huge turnaround. I guess time will tell. I can tell you we are not rooting for his success because of our experience.
  7. SurlyORama

    Getting old sucks

    full
  8. SurlyORama

    Getting old sucks

    A client of my brother (who owns a gym) had a knee replacement called a "Jiffy Knee". Avoids cutting through a lot of the muscles and tendons of a "traditional" replacement (the pic attached is him, you can see the incision is more to the side than the ones I'm used to seeing). He was walking with a cane and almost no apparent pain the day after the surgery. Played golf two weeks later. He was a former CEO for an insurance company you've heard of, so I tend to think this wasn't some fly-by-night experimental surgery. If I ever need a knee replaced, I know I'll at least look into it.
  9. Team chopped up bacon here.
  10. Loved that game.
  11. Here's a shot of the muffins being cooked, didn't take one with the PB. Next time.
  12. I went back to the thing that started this whole thread. Toasted english muffin with peanut butter. Made the english muffins (sourdough) from scratch. Was great.
  13. Oh we have, and continue to do so. I'm not worried his approach will change significantly (his work so far has reflected that it hasn't), but it was crushing to him for a while.
  14. A&M. In my experience as a hiring manager for CS students, not significantly worse. But ratings-wise it’s a decent bit lower (#41 vs #8 in most recent US News rankings). Perhaps didn’t mention on this particular forum because reasons. [emoji12]
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